#Soldiers

Peter_hopkirk_respecter ☝🏻🇬🇧

PHRespecter

OTD in 1857 Captain John Nicholson, the Lion of Punjab, was given command of a moveable column with the aim of reaching the besiged city of Delhi from Peshwar and

brown sugar.

MissKilahMarie

If we’re so steeped in our individual struggles as BM & as BW, that our defenses are sky high with one another, then there’s no way that we can HEAR

Allan Douglas

OldBill504

A short thread illustrating how you can gain an insight into the bigger picture with just a little internet browsing.My curiosity was started with these images of an original grave

anosognosic

anosognosically

A quick thread on the history of Brazilian nationalism, just as a reality check to Kantbot’s thread.Brazil gained independence from Portugal in the early 19th century, whereupon the Portuguese prince,

John Ahern

johnrahern

Judith M. Bennett's "Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World 1300-1600" is a fascinating exploration of the "by-industry" and commercial industry of brewing in late

Biggie Longs

ShawnTheDon8

A thread of Obama's vitriol & contempt for Black Americans... During Obama's 8 years in the Oval office, Black Americans were getting slaughtered like cattle by police officers/vigilantes with impunity

Astara 💫🎅🏼❤️🍿🇬🇧

angelsarehere88

Continuing here as comments invisiblehttps://www.soc.mil/SWCS/ That's the JFK school I also found the 2 murders interesting, I wonder psychological warfare involved drugs? The account of the family one it sounded like

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

The 90's called and it would like it's sneering depictions of "pathetic right wing rubes" back. I know it makes a certain segment of the educated classes (of which I'm

Peter Manseau

plmanseau

On Veterans Day it's worth noting that the military has often been years ahead of the rest of the US when it comes to religious diversity. This was a recurring

Sensible Politics (UK)

SensiblePolUK

[THREAD] Scottish History that sadly many of our countrymen won’t know anything about or will have been misled about, due to misconceptions or even deliberate misinformation from nationalists. Noticed a

David.Det

DavidDetten

Let‘s start a thread about the Somali Air Force.1/Hawker Hunter. Apparently this one saw use only after the war with Ethiopia was over, albeit details are murky. 2/SF-260, delivered from

Rohit Jindal 📚

rohit_jindal29

For each retweet, I will add another great influential photograph of all time.1/A missionary holds hands with a starving boy in Karamoja district, Uganda, 1980. 2/Thích Quảng Đức lights himself

Chris “Cal” Carnahan

xtrixcyclex

Faces of rage: Photos of an insurgency at the US Capitol and the protestors inflamed by Republican disinformation and rhetoric. I’ll add slowly to this thread over the evening. One

Alison Blunt

AlisonBlunt

1) "One of the many super-spreaders of disinformation, Karl Lauterbach, SPD, is an enthusiastic lockdown supporter. He escalates his announcements on a daily basis. He is not alone in this."

Taff

Taff_Gillingham

This wonderful account, by a former member of the Sheffield City Battalion, was written after the 40th anniversary in 1956.To me it always sums up the veterans’ view of returning

swarnim bharat

a_sandhan

Fear mongering 1: If India does Nuke test, USA will put sanctions n we will go to medieval ageIt worked for 10-15 yrs. Then a confident leader knowing inherent strength

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