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The Spread of Buddhism, Flemming, 1846

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes ‘If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with secondly.’ Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans and not with the arrival of the British and you have an entirely different story. Start the story with the failure of the African states and not with the colonial creation of the African state and you have an entirely different story.

Chimamanda Adichie (via stay-human)

Domains of the House of Saxe-Coburg, and Gotha.

Run the Jewels drop some major truth a year after Ferguson

“Riots work.” At least, that’s according to Run the Jewels. In a video exclusive to the BBC, Killer Mike discussed how the events that unfolded on the streets of Ferguson last year forever changed the city for the better. And Ferguson’s own law enforcement actually agrees.

Change in water availability by 2100

Urban Sprawl: Two Orlando houses with adjacent backyards are separated by 7 miles of roads

Imperial Possessions in the Far East, September 1939

Main directions of opiate traffic

All right then. Lets start this tumblr again from scratch.