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10 hours ago · Jawaharlal Nehru ( / ˈneɪru / NAY-roo or / ˈnɛru / NEH-roo; [1] Hindi: [ˈdʒəʋɑːɦəɾˈlɑːl ˈneːɦɾuː] ⓘ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, statesman, secular humanist, social democrat, [2] and author who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a ...
10 hours ago · The medical superintendent’s residence inthe main building was replaced by a comfortable villa away from the bustle.This also freed space for patients: at Sussex Asylum accommodation for onedoctor was sufficient for a dormitory for sixty-one patients!95 In some asylumssemi-detached houses were constructed for the head attendant and matron ...
10 hours ago · Woolf is strongly attached to the quasi-talismanic houses still familiar to readers today—22 Hyde Park Gate, Talland House, 46 Gordon Square, Hogarth House, 52 Tavistock Square, and Monk’s House. While these do figure in my comments below, an unremarked spot pulls more strongly at my attention.
10 hours ago · “I think you would have a really good chance. Being an analyst or a tactician is a good job. It’s an important role. A proper plan can mean the difference between life or death.” It was beyond flattering. And being a hero analyst would be amazing, truly! But it wasn’t what he really wanted to do. “I agree!
10 hours ago · For Africa, to truly escape from the West presupposes an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from it; it presupposes knowing to what extent the West, perhaps insidiously, has drawn closer to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against the West, of all that remains Western; and a determination of the extent to which our recourse against ...
10 hours ago · A map as a colonial document implies an enduring authority to survey, codify, and know a place. Despite the many problems with actually representing place on paper (such as problems caused by the Earth’s spheroid shape and of detailing coastlines at the edges of constantly shifting land masses), a printed map presents stable, delineated land masses with unchanging characteristics.
10 hours ago · Newark lies in the transition between a humid subtropical and humid continental climate (Köppen Cfa/Dfa), with cold winters and hot humid summers. The January daily mean is 32.8 °F (0.4 °C), [71] and although temperatures below 10 °F (−12 °C) are to be expected in most years, [72] sub-0 °F (−18 °C) readings are rare; conversely, some ...
