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12 Nov, 6 tweets, 1 min read
How much do you think it cost Roald Amundsen to send a telegram to Norway (from Canada) in 1906? He had just successfully navigated the North West passage so he had a lot to say - 1,000 words to be precise but how much... in US dollars.
Answer. $755.28 Image
That's $23,211.35 in modern money.... for a telegram
And on that bombshell I'm opening a can of beans
Amundsen was an absolute legend by the way. I'm getting quite obsessed as I read more about him. Especially his early life.

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Long read on how British black propaganda and fake newsletters helped spark one of the worst atrocities in post war history. The events of 1965-66 in Indonesia and the purge against the PKI is little known here. Our part in them hardly known at all.
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Sounds impressive doesn't it. Cecil Rhodes the liberal who wanted to give "indigenous people" the same rights as white colonisers.

But take 30 seconds to fact check it and it falls apart like delicate tissue in a hot power shower.
Cecil Rhodes.... the reformer...
I went to school in Rhodes' hometown - Bishops Stortford - and they and we were all - then - very proud of him. The son of a small market town who had conquered Africa. I remember a very forthright teacher angrily lamenting the fact Rhodesia was being renamed Zimbabwe.
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This is so toe curlingly embarrassing.
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Seems he was offered the job so can't blame him for announcing it and updating his linked in.
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