#Cultural

Lisha 🇮🇳

Lisha_Indian

The Chennakeshava temple is a testimony to the artistic, cultural & theological perspectives in 12th century South India & the Hoysala Empire rule. Chennakesava (handsome Kesava) is a form of

Champagne Papadopoulos 🍾🇬🇷

DIAS

Let’s talk about Bollywood’s influence on Greece !!!! (Thread)Stelios Kazantzidis , Giota Lydia (both pictured here) and many other Greek musicians recorded around 105 Greek versions of Indian

Anil Dash

anildash

25 years ago today, Microsoft released Windows 95. Lots of other people can talk about why it was technologically interesting, but I want to share a bit about why it

John Hayward

Doc_0

Legacy media looked like it was on the ropes during the Age of Blogging, but the transition of blogs to social media gave the legacy outlets a new niche as

Nico Minde 🇹🇿

decolanga

Simba versus Yanga is a cultural event in Tanzania. The jibes and name calling has a history. Now Simba refer to Yanga as Utopolo. #DarDerby [Small thread] Simba-Yanga rivalry has

Justin Searls

searls

One thing I've been meaning to share about our year in Japan and one of the most fascinating aspects of its bureaucracy: garbage collection.No, really! Garbage sorting is a massive

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shehnaazland

Shehnaaz kaur gill's most iconic looks — a very much needed thread Let's start with princess shehnaaz kaur gill cuz damn THIS PHOTOSHOOT REMAINS SUPERIOR she was looking like the

Stephen Barlow

SteB777

I'd just like to clarify this by defining the problem. I like to highlight the ecological crisis as it is misleading to purely talk about the climate crisis. However, it

Steve Byrne

byrnesong

This is a vital thread. It begs the question of what and who we think Scots is for, in the longer term. If we want it to be accessible to

Beyoncé FanPage

okyonce

The history of Notting hill carnival [a thread] since Americans clearly don’t know what it is In August 1958 there were riots in Notting Hill, believed to have been sparked

Xueting Christine Ni 倪雪亭

xuetingni

Many have been saying that there aren't any Chinese lit in translation that aren't from decades ago. That might have been true last century. It also depends on the tastes

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

Life is too “politicized” these days. I think most people sense this but it’s a frustration that goes nowhere, because the cultural language that creates it is incapable of formulating

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Hi from @_SimonLeese. This week I’ll be tweeting about Arabic literature and multilingualism in 18th/19th century North India. I’m interested in how Arabic writers imagine their place in a larger

Kass Minor [she/her/hers]

MsKass1

Gather round ya’ll, It’s time for class!This one is called "Stop Repeating History: Finding Solutions for Fall 2020 #Pandemic Schooling that are Rooted in Partnership and Humanity" (Note: It is

Jess Potter

DrJessPotter

I continue to hear a genetic relationship between ethnicity and #COVID19 invoked in both explicit and implicit ways among medical colleagues. In this thread I argue, in the race to

Institute of Gremlins 2 Studies

G2Institute

I have some thoughts on Gremlins 2, demonology, Oedipal robots, the Chthulucene, Jay-Z’s wardrobe, Hobbes’ Leviathan, commodity fetishism, the Leather Daddy Gremlin, Key and Peele, feedback loops, John Carpenter, Toy