This beautiful portrait of a Cambridge undergraduate oarsman is of David Louis Clemetson, one of the first young men to volunteer for the Great War in 1914, a black Jamaican from a wealthy family and one of a very few blacks accepted into the officer class. Here's the thing, though—in those days, you had to be white, or to pass as white, to get past the colour bar in the officers' mess. Other black British officers did just that, but Clemetson refused to lie about his black ancestry, which makes him unique.
Apologies if this has already been mentioned (I've been away for awhile) but does anyone else listen to the History of Rome podcasts? My family has gotten hooked on them.
Best wishes to everyone.
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The future is already here--it's just not very evenly distributed.
I'm not sure anyone lets an eagle do anything. Are you going to try to stop it?
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
Scholars of contemporary journalism will shake their heads in weary recognition at the near-ubiquitous carelessness with which sub-editors egregiously exchange the mildly hyperbolic but feasible description of 70 pages of handwriting as a "a draft for the King James Bible" into the utterly ludicrous "a draft of the King James Bible".
Okay, just skip past the moronic headline—of course London was ethnically diverse at its foundation as a garrison by invaders from the Roman Empire—and get straight to the facinating individual character studies. For instance:
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