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“Solon instituted a programme of reforms that transformed Athens’ political and legal systems, its society and economy, so that later generations referred to him as Solon the Lawgiver.”

Posted on April 24, 2023 by jgordon

Link. On my list. In Our Time.

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“The Ice Ages were cancelled permanently about 5,000 years ago. A few million extra cattle belching methane for 3,000 years put enough methane into the air to stop the cooling trend.”

Posted on April 24, 2023 by jgordon

Link. I’d like a science article on this. Dyer is usually pretty good though.

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Sudan: “By 2021, $3 billion of financial aid from Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia had duly arrived, and the senior military officer on the TMC pulled the plug on ‘power-sharing’ with the civilians.”

Posted on April 24, 2023 by jgordon

Link. A brief and clear explainer. “There are no democracies whatever in the Arab world, and military or monarchical tyrannies are the norm.”

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