#Historical

Today part of the @MuseumBuddy collab with @ShibdenHall & @BankfieldMuseum as we explore LGBTQ connections together - I want to explore how the diaries of our 19th c lesbian extraordinaire
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Australian iron ore producer Fortescue (FMG AU) is a great example of how value investing often works in practice. In 2018 the stock was trading for A$4. It was cheap
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"He went out looking for the Ark of the Covenant and came back with a completely different discovery"Haaretz's somewhat misleading headline on Israel Finkelstein's excavations at Kiriath-Jearim (Deir el-Azar) with
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If you're spending Christmas alone, here are some things that I learned & that helped me through all my 10 years celebrating on my lonesome: Make it your ownNo
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Thread on the massacre of Sindhi Hindus in Xinjiang by Uyghur Sunnis in 1933Sindhi Hindus were trading acriss Central Asia (Bukhara, Khiva) all the way to the Astrakhan Tatars in
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"There remains the historical truth, that this European structure, built upon the noble foundations of classical antiquity, was formed through... the Catholic Church. Europe will return to the faith, or
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The things one stumbles upon reading newspapers. Away from my office, I don't know whether account of a Repeal meeting I've read has been specifically covered by all of O'Connell's
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I've been disappointed that so much of the current conversation about whiteness has totally ignored the foundational work on the subject. The more recent works are of varying quality but
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I was looking through some old files this morning looking for some saved historical data and I came across this from 2013. I wrote it for a trader friend of
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1/Been thinking about this a lot.At age 10 you have no ability to earn money, aside from mowing lawns and such. 9pm bedtime.Can't pull "on the internet no one knows
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Was GW Bush more fascist than Trump?This good @michelleinbklyn column highlighted for me why I'm not the left.Because not only do I disagree with those who say Bush was worse
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On this day in 1922, the Ottoman Sultanate was abolished after ruling for 600 years. At its peak, it included what is now Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel,
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Yup, spread of literacy + invention of movable type meant language got written down, reproduced easily, and thus by necessity formalized in terms of spelling and grammar. We can still
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//Thread//Promoted teams' historical performancesLots of talk around Twitter and Reddit about Leeds being a great team and who will do well in the Prem, but looking back at the last
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Alright, I think it's time to get more ancient stuff on this twitter, so I'm going to start sharing some of my favorite ancient artifacts.Let's start with BM 2001,0501.1: The
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Warm thanks to @NBarreyre & N. Delalande for editing this book with so many contributions from outstanding scholars. I feel even prouder and luckier to have had the chance to
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