English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" and can be understood as "any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice and often the only option".

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Give me your best Jon Bois articles /written material

Don't get a lawyer to win a mental health capacity hearing

[FWI] - What if he really meant it? President Trump Authorizes Special Border Operation into Canada - Near-future alternate history story line I'm working on, feedback appreciated

Lombardi's is a pizzeria in Manhattan, New York City. Opened in 1905, it has been recognized as the first pizzeria in the United States. In 1984, the original Lombardi's closed, but reopened 10 years later by Gennaro Lombardi III and John Brescio, a member of the Genovese crime family.

"Loss", sometimes referred to as "loss.jpg", is a strip published on June 2, 2008, by Tim Buckley for his gaming-related webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del. It has been adapted and parodied by numerous other creators and garnered a legacy as an Internet meme.

Commodity markets itself as anti-capitalist

Liquid Death has chosen their side in the class war

Humansville is a city in Polk County, Missouri, United States. Humansville was named after an American settler, James G. Human, who settled in the area in 1834.

Starfish Prime was a high-altitude nuclear test conducted on July 9th, 1962, and was the largest nuclear test conducted in outer space, one of five conducted by the US in space. A bright nuclear aurora was visible over Hawaii, and the EMP knocked out several streetlights and telephone lines.

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Designed by artist John Marcotte, the colors of the Free Speech Flag correspond to a cryptographic key which enabled users to copy Blu-ray Discs.

An illegal number is a number that represents information which is illegal to possess, utter, propagate, or otherwise transmit in some legal jurisdiction.

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Kwangmyong (광명) is a North Korean national intranet service opened in the early 2000s. Before 2006, North Koreans would use intranet chat rooms to organize meetups. Following an incident where around 300 North Korean intranet users organized a flash mob, all chat rooms were removed from Kwangmyong.

Solving chess consists of finding an optimal strategy for the game of chess; one by which one of the players can always force a victory, or either can force a draw. No complete solution for chess is known, nor is it expected that chess will be solved in the near future.

Victor Glushkov was a Soviet computer scientist and the primary architect of OGAS, a Soviet project to create a computer network that could manage the Soviet Union's centrally planned economy. It was opposed by many senior Party officials who felt it was a threat to Party control, and ended in 1970.

The French colony of Saint Pierre and Miquelon had sworn loyalty to the Vichy government of France, becoming the only Axis-aligned government in North America until it was recaptured by Free French forces in December 1941. The US Secretary of State condemned Free France for liberating the island.

Saint Nicholas of Myra was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent. His legendary habit of secret gift-giving gave rise to the folklore of Santa Claus ("Saint Nick") through Sinterklaas. He is the patron saint of children and toymakers.

A little girl having a tea party with a lobster and a hawk, 1938

The First Battle of the Marne was a battle of the First World War fought from the 5th to 12th of September 1914. The German Army pursued the retreating Franco/British forces to within 40 km (25 miles) from Paris. Analysts have described the battle as the most important of the 20th century.

Wilsonian Armenia was the unimplemented boundary configuration of the First Republic of Armenia in the Treaty of Sèvres, as drawn by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's Department of State. The United States Senate rejected the mandate for Armenia in 1920.

Wake up, babe, It's time to blame the fall of the Greatest Democracy on Earth to China and Russia, we will have time to blame women and minorities tomorrow

So predictable lmao

r/Europe try not to laud Nazi- ally challenge; Impossible