#Alexander

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LiberalDespot

A trip to see recent bits of restoration at Alexander "Greek" Thomson's domestic Glasgow masterpiece, Holmwood House. Designed as an asymmetric collection of architectural forms that almost resemble an "acropolis"

Robert McNees

mcnees

Physicist and astronomer Georges Lemaître was born #OTD in 1894. In 1927 he proposed a model of an expanding Universe. Then, in 1931, he ran the clock backwards and hypothesized

EKG 🌳

einkuhnergott

Sketch of the history of social contexts of Greek philosophy: 1. Philosophy emerges from the confrontational political and legal practices of the archaic polis in the bustling trading city of

daisandconfused

daisandconfused

Alright kids, BUCKLE UP. This week everyone was rightfully talking about Drake's home being featured in Architectural Digest.https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/inside-rapper-drakes-hometown-manor-in-toronto But because I have more meaningl

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shai__mvp

Thunder Quote Thread: You can do all of these or just pick the ones you like. RT for a larger audience What is Lu Dorts ceiling? Are you confident in

Bennett's Phylactery

extradeadjcb

Time to re-up my DSM thread: The American Psychiatric Association has more raw, unchecked power than any organization on earth, second only to SCOTUSThey write the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual,

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samasmaar

thread of figures through history who were LGBTQ+ that you may or may not know about k, first and foremost, to make things clear:-spanish is my mother tongue so

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inari_season

「及川さんと岩泉さん、あの４番のレフトの人。あの二人は小学校のクラブチームから一緒らしいです。阿吽の呼吸ってやつです。」 “Oikawa-san and Iwaizumi-san – that number 4 on the lef

Tansy Kelly Robson

Artemisapphire

So... incoming Military History thread warning.WAS KHARTOUM A FAILURE! (no). You decide (it wasn't).I appreciate there are many deeper issues here, but this is Twitter and there isn't the time

Move Silent Sam

Move_Silent_Sam

Rynne Cowham is a neo-Nazi living in the Bend, Oregon area.She says she marched with the Nazis at the 2017 Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville.She provides IT support to

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LuluLemew

Um. That’s my neighborhoodhttps://twitter.com/RepsForBiden/status/1319401034406645770 Alexander Hillel Treisman, 19 —alias Alexander S. Theiss — is originally from Washington state. He was arrested at the end of May after investigator

The Fudgelist

thefudgelist

Scott Alexander also wrote a good piece on this over on SSC. A really important part of the picture for understanding the demise of New Atheism, it seems to me,

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

ALERT: PRESIDENTIAL MELTDOWN ON LIVE TV PS/ The CNN chryrons on this are fabulous and painfully accurate PS2/ The number of lies in this presidential rant is *staggering* and all

Jesse Walker

notjessewalker

1. I realized recently that the Free Press Association—the now-defunct group that gave out the Mencken Awards in the 1980s and '90s—wasn't memorialized on the web. So Michael Grossberg and

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sihamyom_

Okay I’m sooo bored and I have time on my hands. As a documentary fanatic I have decided to make a thread on my favourite docuseries/documentaries, lets goooo! So I

gnonymus bosch

gnonymus

hudson river school was america’s first true artistic fraternity--it characterizes the artistic body, its new york origins, its landscape subject matter, and often literally its subject. the school was influential