#History

I’d like to know if you as client or companion have a contingency plan in mind should you become ill (food poisoning, seizure, any major medical emergency) during an appointment?
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THREAD w/ highlights from Cindy Hyde-Smith's interview today. Yes, this is the trainwreck you think it is.The interview starts with asking Cindy why she refused to debate @MikeEspyMS and OMG
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The Nigerian govt has a history of deploying army soldiers, using excessive force against its civilians.The Nigerian Army has a history of denying this.1969, Asaba MassacreFederal Nigerian Army troops entered
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I am unable to can grasp nor comprehend how, when, where and why farting became a crime. Perhaps somewhere in history, somebody opened their valves of nature and masses died...Oh
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The women who made their mark this past century didn’t achieve despite adversity; they achieved because of it. This holds true for the 100 women we are recognizing as our
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It is interesting that when there was a civilizational collapse in the context of European culture in the early years of the 20th century, there were so many writers, intellectuals
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This Thanksgiving, open your eyes, and look within.So much of our History has been suppressed... so much of what we learn completely fabricated... fairy tales... all designed to hide from
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In light of @caleb_crain's excellent @NewYorker piece on the 1898 Wilmington coup & massacre, wanted to say a few things about that event & my favorite American novel (Charles Chesnutt's
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In the lead up to the release of our 2019 Annual Report, I would like to share with you a brief history on PNB, its structure, the different types of
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If I hear the term "Jewish privilege" one more time, I'm going to explode.Thread incoming Europeans stripped us away from our homeland, taught us that we had no history before
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Raise your voices. It is time for us to fight. Tell them that this is not right. The world will know. We demand change. Whether its the George Floyd incident,
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Unpopular opinion: Rami Malek playing a pharaoh is *still* racist. Egypt's history can be divided in 6 great periods. The 1st being the predynastic period (speaks for itself) and the
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Today is V-E Day, when we mark the defeat of the Nazis in WWII.It's also the day that the cost of our pact with Stalin became clear.We in the West
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Againβ€”we’re in this situation b/c our nation refuses to prioritize public health despite having resources & forewarning to prevent catastrophe. We’re allowing 400K+ ppl to die by early 2021 instead
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SFPA members: You received an important voting ballot via email this week. This ballot would make officer terms 4 years and voting occur in consecutive years so no officer is
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Shortly after 9am #OTD in 1536, Queen #AnneBoleyn was executed by a swordsman at the Tower of London. A Portugese witness reported "Never had the Queen looked so beautiful," and
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