#Century

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roselyrette

Tracing to ease the burden off artists is a technique as old as time. The picture shows an optical projection technique called camera obscura, and here in this link it

Phil Magness

PhilWMagness

Contrary to a popular myth, Abraham Lincoln never corresponded with Karl Marx.But Friedrich Engels absolutely was pen pals with Werner Sombart, later a principle philosophical architect of National Socialism and

Candela ✟☀️✟

gjrt888

Countries with folk tales about a bogeyman-like creature known as the "coco, cuco, cuca, cucu or cucuy"The Coco is a mythical ghost-monster, equivalent to the bogeyman, from Iberia & Latin

Kamala Kelkar

kkelkar

Obviously not the same, *but* @Radiolab did just report that Woodrow Wilson prob had the Spanish flu in 1919 during WW1 peace talks, w the 'extremely common' symptom of mental

Jimmer

JimJimsonJr

So i was outside doing yard work today, and i put on the Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Du Bois and i have some thoughts. 1) This book really

Pat Stedman

Pat_Stedman

The reason the content feels stale here - the reason it feels like twitter is dying - is because the era that birthed twitter is ending.We are past the time

AAbiodun 🇳🇬

AAbiodun_

Meet the 10 richest royals in the world right now. [A Thread]1. Saudi Arabia's royal family: $1.4 trillion (£1.1trn)The wealthiest royal family in the worl is the House of Saud, which

Eric Weinstein

EricRWeinstein

My personal & overly condensed view of mathematics and physics in the 20th century would be summarized like this. Mathematics began as a stool on the three legs of Algebra,

lori⁷

laughbts

a thread for @BTS_twt (for tagging) ily @BTS_twt i purple u @BTS_twt we stan the right group and we know it @BTS_twt if u aint stanning @BTS_twt ,, ure

David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel) 🏳️‍🌈

DavidOBowles

Nearly anywhere you go, a certain combination of trumpets & violins will elicit a similar response: listeners will immediately think of Mexico, feeling an urge to throw a hat onto

Eric Atcheson, champion of preaching and naps

RevEricAtcheson

"Patriot Church" is one of those religious brands that just oozes contempt for the rest of us in our Not-Patriot Churches.And in "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"-level news, I

problematic foc max

jokerhenchmen

Edgiest-RP Comedy Headlines: Slade Wilson Picks Up the Pieces of Dick Grayson Yet Again, Only to Reform Them In His Image Damian’s Virginity: A Wayne Watch Party Talia: Raped by

ALT-immigration 🛂

ALT_uscis

Here it is: THREADWhat do:The push for the Iraq war-the neocons-the project for the new American century and the Lincoln project have in i common?Well, allow me to retort (

Andy Arthur

cocteautriplets

Some thoughts/details on tartan trews from a couple of Osprey publications, with particular respect to them being pieces of military clothing.https://twitter.com/molach95/status/1325095405672140801 First up, some basic Highland military str

e. thorkelson

unambivalence

What is “dialectics”? (in 23 tweets)(obviously this is a hilariously implausible topic for twitter but i'm amused by the question.) Dialectics step 1: we're all defined by our Others.And our

Michael McFaul

McFaul

The deployment of the Cold War as a historical metaphor to explain our new "cold war" with China today needs to move beyond over-simplistic, black & white slogans. Its complex.