It started with a rainy day. I wanted to get the kids off the sofa and stop watching TV.

So I searched rainy day activities on Tik-Tock. There were loads of hacks on there, but the kids really liked making a bird feeder.

It's amazing what you can do with a milk carton and a handful of seeds.

We hung it outside the window and the birds loved it almost as much as the kids.

Who knew a bird box could be this entertaining?

It starts on Tik-Tok. This is

the BSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Jeffrey Robertson of the University of College Cork, also emeritus professor of history at the college. College, Stalin's library, which is part archaeological discovery of these books written in or

duddled in or crossed out with Stalin's direction, his

pencil, his ever prominent pencil.

The library is scattered.

There are many questions about where the books are,

what he collected, what he didn't collect,

what's missing. We're right now in post-revolution

Glennon died of a series of strokes and he's gone in 1924 and Stalin who sees himself as the inheritor is not exactly

profoundly challenged because he was good as general secretary but he begins

his consolidation.

He has an opponent whose name is Leon Trotsky.

All of these players are vivid 20th century personalities.

We're following the library.

And the professor takes us to 1925. The woman who was

Lenin's librarian now becomes Stalin's librarian and professor this is a marvelous list of what Stalin wanted his library to look like.

How is there an organizing principle here why he why he detailed these subjects and then singled out these certain authors to be separate

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