#Fascinating

Pádraig Durnin

padraigfd

Saw this photo circulating online described as a photo of Éamon de Valera's visit to the Isle of Barra in 1947. I'm not sure of its provenance, but the visit

Gerard Farrell

gerrytastic

Writing a piece on the great Jimmy Dunne - this is the earliest photo I can find of him, from February 1926 just after he signed for Sheffield Utd. He

Ross

mcintyross

I'm starting a thread here of all the movies I'm watching while self-isolating because why notDETROIT ROCK CITY: This movie is absolutely insane and absolutely not good but I kind

Raza Kazmi

RazaKazmi17

A few weeks ago I read an intriguing 92 year old notice in an old bungalow register. It talked about Canning Benevolent Fund. Who was Canning? What was this fund?

The War on Cars

TheWarOnCars

This is actually a fascinating piece of @DCSuperman history...https://twitter.com/kurtbusiek/status/1247656033075380225 Action Comics No. 12. May, 1939. Clark Kent happens upon the aftermath of a car crash. A reckless driver has hit

Brandon Zhang

brandonthezhang

Recently have been reading through threads about people generating income from traditionally "unsexy" but fascinating business ventures. My favorite follows in this regard are: - @rohangilkes - @Harris_Bryan - @sweatystartup

Ashly Burch

ashly_burch

Hi everyone! Tomorrow is my birthday! But more importantly, it’s Juneteenth, a commemoration of the end of slavery in the US. So if you want to give me a birthday

Im Not a Witch Im Ya Wife

moderneyre

Okay so apparently some of y’all don’t know the genius behind the Arts & Crafts/Pre-Raphalite movement and one of the most under appreciated pre-raphalite artists - hold my beer https://twitter.com/moderneyre/status/1264987145732870

Eli Dourado

elidourado

This is a fascinating working paper by Taylor Jaworski and coauthors about the Interstate Highway System. http://eh.net/eha/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Kitschens.pdf Get ready for a few facts and findings. The Interstate Highway System is

Franita Tolson 💕💚

ProfTolson

I was reading about Hayes/Tilden and got depressed (thanks @nedfoley!!) so decided to write a quick thread about Josiah Walls, whose fascinating story I am writing about in my book.

Austin Goblinson

osutein

This is fascinating, but it also makes a brief argument I hate, which is that any irrational form of attachment to the obviously fictional is indistinguishable from religion:https://jezebel.com/consider-the-snapewife-1845247730 "And wh

Ed West

edwest

Morning. We have an absolutely brilliant line-up at UnHerd today. Firstly a fascinating @tomowolade piece on how prohibition has been completely mis-remembered by history, when it was a very progressive

Will Renwick

WillWalksWales

If you’re after a UK-based adventure this summer, I’d really, really recommend a long distance walk. More specifically I’d recommend one in Wales. Here are some of the best I’ve

black boy bulletin

theblackboyblog

The fact that HOMECOMING (2019) was the first time Beyoncé showed her face on album cover since 4 (2011) It's very fascinating to me. Because in pop (arguably more

Steve Joffe

SteveJoffe

1/ The history of human experimentation is endlessly fascinating (& troubling).I recently came across this 1932 study from Edvin Brusgaard demonstrating that the agent that causes herpes zoster (shingles) can

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

Autism researchers (who are frequently not in the slightest autistic) seem quite obsessed with the idea that a central component of #autism is a 'deficit' in what is known as