TIL Leon Trotsky was the only notable absentee from Vladimir Lenin's funeral, which attended by tens of thousands despite the freezing, snowy weather in Moscow in late January. His claim that he was given the wrong date for the funeral turned out to be true. Stalin did so, on purpose [source, comments]

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The Israeli military has dropped more bombs on Gaza this week than the United States military dropped on all of Afghanistan in the years 2014-2016.

They have already killed more people in Gaza than the number of Israelis killed in the attacks of October 7. They have rendered hundreds of thousands of people homeless—in what was already one of the most crowded places on earth. With the exit routes blocked, those refugees have nowhere to go, and the bombing continues.

The casualties in Gaza include several hundred children who bear no responsibility for the events of October 7. Far more children will die in these bombings than died in the attacks of October 7.

Taking revenge in this way will not bring back the people killed on October 7, nor will it halt the decades-long cycle of bloodshed that led to this tragedy. It will only lead to more deaths and concentrate more power in the hands of militarists and bigots.

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TIL that in Roman Republic women were not given personal names. Rather their names would reflect their ancestry. Sisters would have the same names differentiated by a number (or if there are only two sisters they be called the older and the younger) and later in life by their husband's name [source, comments]

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