Jonathan Quaade
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Jonathan Quaade
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THE PARLIAMENT that passed the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 was alive to the pressing need, in bomb-cratered Britain, for bricks and mortar. If the post-war governments, Labour and Tory, had a consistent north star, it was building homes. Winston Churchill, returned to office in 1951, listed his priorities as “houses, red meat and not
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Peter Thiel
“If you look at the original installation shots of 1939 through the ’40s, you’re looking at a picture that could have been taken yesterday,” McClellan said. “It’s really not changed much since then.”
Anecdote: its wise not to trust them unless you have checked an original source. All too often the story that you use to represent a situation in miniature was made up by a journalist in 1928 or an opera writer in 1782. See Friedman’s Law of Anecdotes for more details.
Nick Huber