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[dreamer_easy]

A reminder to me to mend my Google Twitching snobbery: Twitter user leaves site after thousands ridicule question. That could've happened to anybody - even me.

ETA: A bizarre thing. Sir Philip Mitchell (upon whose 1955 essay "Africa and the West in historical perspective" I have drawn for Documentary) somehow managed to govern Uganda for five years and Kenya for eight without ever finding out that Africans had, in fact, used writing, woven textiles, built in stone, etc, before colonisation. And here I sit, never having set foot on the African continent, and yet able to contradict him at the touch of a button.

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[outsdr.livejournal.com]

Got to say - I didn't know the answer to that one. And I bet that a large number of people who retweeted the question didn't know the answer, either.

[dreamer-easy.livejournal.com]

I immediately thought of the America's Cup, once memorably held in Western Australia. :)