#Eastern

A thread on the plague which gripped ancient Athens in the 430 BCE during the course of the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta. The Peloponnesian war which was fought
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1/IRI rejects anything coming out of DC...basing analysis on this lacks serous understanding of Iran's foreign policy.In this,I'm going to explain why Iran prefers Azerbaijan over Armenia,basing my argument on
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By popular demand. A thread on Nazi Germany and Nerve agents (1 of x) Nerve agents, as a category of weapon, were developed by Nazi Germany. Before the war, the
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Mam' Nomzamo was born on this day on 1936. She would have turned 84 today. Here she is with Zindzi and her sister-in-law umama uLieby Piliso. UmaNgutyana was born eMbizana
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Bishop McKnight, stop stoking racism.A thread http://showmecatholics.org/2021/04/24/bishop-mcknight-stop-stoking-racism/ Your Excellency: Your public response to the Derek Chauvin trial verdict has, perhaps unintentionally, served to advan
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I took a look back through the @WinnipegNews archives to see what life was like in Winnipeg during the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic. So much of it is strikingly familiar
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Nakshatra research thread on Bollywood What energies drive this glamourous industry?I collected this data about 2 yrs ago. I did it for my personal database & research. I included data
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TODAY at 2 PM (eastern; about 4 hours from now) @NIH_OITE is hosting a webinar on "Developing Feedback Resilience". Learning to take feedback without internalizing negative self-talk is a critical
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In celebration of #MHMday, a thread of some of the most exciting scholarship on menstruation to emerge in recent years: #Menstruationmatters Professor Sharra Vostral's book on the history of Toxic
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2021 MLB DEBUT THREADthrough 2020, only 19,902 players have ever appeared in an MLB game. no matter how a career ends up, reaching MLB for any amount of time is
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Hey #SharkWeek, my name is Melissa and I'm a shark scientist watching #MakoNation! Excited to fact-check, talk some #shark facts, and add some commentary! First, Riley is wrong- there are
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It's the perfect morning for a permafrost twitter-tour! So what is permafrost? Permafrost is frozen ground that remains in a frozen state for multiple years. But it's way more complicated
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THE TIME IS UPON US AGAIN!　 #FridayNightHistory is the thread, military engineering in the taking of Mino Province is the topic, and yes, folks, we're talking bridgeheads tonight! #FridayNightHistory is
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THREAD: After more than 6 months of watching people get scammed by the #QAnon phenomena, I'm going to make the below thread to explain to you exactly why it is
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I have been in DC for more than a year now and I'm struck by the soul searching going on in the US expert community regarding what to do in
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"Anthropology has had a long love affair with the primitive and has preferred to set its tent down among the African bushmen, rather than the heartland of African civilizations. The
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