#Century

I went on the hunt for #womenstatues in London today. There really are very few - basically you have to be a queen or queen consort to be celebrated in
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A #thread on Mahatma Gandhi's relations with "pissfuls"An accident of history: In the year 1920, two books were distributed from all the mo$ques of India. One book was named "Krishna
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This was a weird year! I ended up taking about a quarter of 2020 off for family leave, dealing with kids and online school, etc. But I still wrote a
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In "The Feeling of Power" (Asimov, 1958), ubiquitous computation causes humanity to forget the fundamentals of math, including how to count. A technician rediscovers it by studying computer schematics, and
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THREAD: I had to be in Salt Lake City on Friday, June 19. Assumed flying w/mask was the only way. Watching “Midnight Run,” thought hit me: What about a sleeping
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1/ In 1939 at start of WW2, CW. Phillips posted hand-coloured copies of #SuttonHoo site plans & notes to Irish archaeologist Sean P. Ó Ríordáin explaining in a letter that
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Today’s #glasgowparkoftheweek is Springburn Park in the north of the city. Glasgow Corporation acquired the land for the park in 1892. At the time it was agricultural land, with the
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#GreatIndianWomen#RaniDurgavati#RealIcons Once upon a time there was a brave lady, Rani Durgavati. She's more revered than any other we ever had. She died while gallantly leading her troops in their
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*kicks door open*Hey guys I'm back with more tea on the Van Rensselaers Today I found out a main founder of the home ec movementwhich was, lbr, kind of a
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This Day in Labor History: January 29, 1834. President Andrew Jackson orders the U.S. military to suppress workers attacking each other over scarce jobs along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal.
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As a former doctoral candidate in New Testament/Early Christianity, the power and appeal of Q for the ultra religious right makes perfect sense to me. Let me explain why using
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In honor of passing 10k followers, how about a #MormonAmerica thread? (For those new: these are historical threads drawn from my current book project.)Tonight, let's talk about the rise &
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Thread:A lot of people messaged me to talk about Nagorno-Karabakh conflict so here's FAQ about Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Q: Where's Nagorno-Karabakh?Nagorno-Karabakh, also spelled Dağlıq Qarabağ in Azerbaijani, is a region of
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Searing essay by Daryl Michael Scott (History, Howard Univ.), "The Scandal of Thirteentherism,” in the 2nd issue of @readliberties:"At war with classical liberalism and 'neo-liberalism' alike, the progressives are busy
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Two steps forwards, one step back - a thread about #UTurn s In the early days of the Trump administration I saw many people warning that this was a technique
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It really should go without saying at this point, but nobody involved in this should ever be allowed to live this down.They should forever be known as the people who
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