@sonnysehra Abdul Basir, the Rajah of Tambora, was exiled to the Cape Colony in 1690s. It is said that he produced the first complete Quran from memory in the Cape. Many South Africans descend from his family and retinue
I got thousands of rare Cultural Revolution-era photos from a historical archive here in China.
I believe some of these have never been posted online, or only exist behind extremely expensive licenses.
So here they are, for free. Open the thread for more.
The samurais were the “virgins” while the merchants were the “chads” in Edo Japan. This is probably why samurais made up bushido because they were tired of being mocked as nerdy bureaucrats.
Say what you want about millennials but if this was 2014 we would have found this girl’s name and address, sent her mom death threats and made her cry in front of Al Sharpton.
one of the most realistic films in italian cinema, “the working class goes to heaven,” is a political drama released in 1971. the film focuses on karl marx’s theory of alienation and the working conditions of factory workers.
“we are like machines!”
The problem with Hobsbawm is that he wasn’t enough of a defender of the Soviet Union is quite the take. He famously stayed with the CPGB in 1956 when other well known British Marxist historians like Hill, Thompson and Samuel joined the New Left.
He voted for Nixon 3 times before dying of congestive heart failure in 1974. She remains a lifelong Democrat at the age of 102. The baby joined the Weathermen in 1969 and spent 32 years in South Yemen and Nicaragua as an international fugitive. He endorsed Hillary in 2016