#WWII

Mike Gibbs🏳️‍🌈

Mikeggibbs

People almost always remark that my grandmother was "smoking hot".You don't know the half of it.1. Correct.2. Grandpa was just one on a menu. Multiple boyfriends during WWII.3. She said

John B

johnb78

Something that I've been really getting into recently is reading about WWII in the Pacific from the point of view of the Japanese sailors and commanders involved. This is one

Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺

nicktolhurst

There was actually a way that Coronavirus could have helped Boris Johnson....and perhaps even partially hid the damage of Brexit - at least in the short term......but as I’ve been

Paul Siakaluk

psycprof_unbc

Thread: librarians are people too. #UNBCFAStrong Librarians provide many important services to the entire UNBC community. They are one of the groups in the @UNBCFA that we are collectively fighting

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

I'm so tired of the "big government" argument. For years, I have been working on an economic theory on why people hate "big gov't"—especially in the South.Here's the answer:"Small government"

Anupam Manur

anupammanur

Thread on Strategic Reserves: In a dramatic and unprecedented event, the price of crude oil [precisely, the price of the future contract for West Texas crude, expiry 21st Apr] fell

XVIII Airborne Corps

18airbornecorps

1 of 40:The Fifth Star: A Market Garden Story in 40 Tweets 2 of 40:It’s Tuesday! While we're not doing #TuesdayTrivia, as part of our Operation MARKET-GARDEN story, Tragic Ambition,

Josh Olszewicz

CarpeNoctom

Seeing lots of talk about what normalcy will look like now that most of us are several weeks into quarantineHere's a 1921 cartoon on the "return to normalcy" Some events

gaming disorder bun

roun_sa_ville

Today is the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States. This unprecedented act of violence killed an estimated 100,000 people. Irrefutable historical evidence proves that

Steve Schale 🇺🇸🥁

steveschale

Thread -I should be in Bradley, Illinois today celebrating my Nana Marge Ryan, on this, her 100th birthday. Remarkably, she’s still living independently, volunteering, healthy, and as strong willed as

Syed

gypsy_heart6

Japan waged biological warfare against China during WWII: "Between 1932 & 1945, the Japanese conducted an extensive program to study biological weapons, which they tested on Chinese prisoners. At a

Bojan Pancevski

bopanc

Short history thread: #OnThisDay Operation Retribution (Unternehmen Strafgericht) took place: Nazi Germany & its allies bombarded and then invaded Yugoslavia for refusing to side with them in WWII. 1/8 My

Scott Nuzum

rsnuzum

It’s a bit difficult to capture all my thoughts on the topic here (I’m working on another essay on the topic) but a few thoughts:- the relative stability we’ve enjoyed

gut reactions

gutreactions1

A hypothesis I've been mulling over for some time in thread form;The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Reichs - all of them... Archduke, Kaiser and Fuhrer - has

Dawn Leger

theflagsofdawn

There has been a lot of talk in the past couple of days about duty and service. They are spoken of with a kind of nostalgia, like these are values

☀️Arthos the Christmas Gnome🌙

francis_yockey

You have to go to estate sales of very old people if you want to find the Lindy stuff. A much smaller percent of new production items are Lindy. WWII