May 2012
6 posts
Toussaint L’Ouverture, the Genius Who Embodied the... →
aboriginalpressnews:
In 1789, the year of the French Revolution, Saint Domingue (now Haiti) was the richest colony in the world. The source of this wealth was the exploitation of half a million black slaves who furnished the labor for the sugar, indigo, cotton, cocoa, coffee, and tobacco extracted from over 2,000 plantations. In principle, a series of royal edicts called the code noir (slave...
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Mom Who Sent Adopted Russian Boy Back on One-Way Flight Must Pay $150K Plus Monthly $1K Support - News - ABA Journal
I'm not sure why I've been such a failure on...
The only followers I have here are ones who’ve followed me from other sites. I can’t pinpoint a single person who’s actually found me here. I used to think that was just because it was the last site I joined and most of the people who were into the sort of thing I shared had already found me. In other words I was making the assumption, I’d reached the limit of all the...
Forbes - Bitcoin Funded Debit Cards →
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bitcoinnews:
Jon Matonis (@JonMatonis) writes in Forbes about the ability to add funds to a credit card (just like what might happen when getting a refund from a merchant). Excerpts:
“[This feature] leverages a little-known type of transaction that is available on the VisaNet system called ‘Original Credit Transaction’. The other major card payment networks have a similar feature...
The best political Tumblrs - The Washington Post →
“The baby is cleaned off, examined and wrapped in a towel. Katie, the Australian...”
– MSF obstetrician-gynecologist, Veronica Ades, tells the story of delivering a baby for a patient who has already lost her first two and how women’s reactions to these traumatic experiences in South Sudan differ so massively from those in the U.S., where Veronica is from. (via doctorswithoutborders) 