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- They sold everything and said goodbye, to go to an unknown land
- They paid for transport and supplies, then staked their claim on condition they prove their worth
- They risked everything
And almost half lost it all
This is the foundation of the West
Paris debuts “Modest Fashion Week” highlighting hijabs.
Couture conquest.
The West has never looked so next.
Every weekend on earth started here. 🇬🇧
In the factory towns of Victorian England. 🏴
In the early 1800s there was no weekend.
Six days a week. From first light to last. Sunday the only day off and even that wasn't guaranteed.
So British workers invented their own.
They
After Sir John A. Macdonald resigned as Prime Minister over the Pacific Scandal, Alexander Mackenzie became Canada's second Prime Minister, and first Liberal Prime Minister.
A stone mason, he stayed true to his roots by always refusing a knighthood.
This is his story.
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This is where “uppercase” and “lowercase” came from. In the early days of printing, capital letters were kept in the upper compartments of the type case, while the smaller letters were placed below for easier access.
