#History

Who's up for a Sunday thread?I have an update on the origin of the term "game mechanics." When I did a piece last year on the etymology of various video
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Here’s last night’s segment about how U.S. history is taught, and not taught, in schools:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsxukOPEdgg If you want to fill in some of the gaps in your own knowledge of
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Ok, ok, fine. Why can’t an event usher a new historical period but it can belong to one or another. A thread on the ontology of the past. 1/
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Interesting. My studies into late medieval/early modern England show a very different story in which England was vaguely recognised by global powers as part of an obscure island off France
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If you hear a boom at 9pm it's colonialism.The "9 O'Clock Gun" in Stanley Park was used at one point to set chronometers on ships. Setting longitude by chronometer is
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Today in pulp... I homeschool with some classic programmes for schools and colleges!Wheel in the school TV... #FridayFeeling Both the BBC and ITV produced a range of TV programmes to
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Senator Rob Donaldson in the Judiciary Committee hearing with Judge Amy Barrett:"Mr. Chairman, I will ask no questions because there's no point in doing so. We all know this is
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Kellyanne Conway has been the chief propagandist for a White House that has inflicted enormous suffering and laid out a white supremacist worldview as a governing vision. She will go
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"Celine is a global Flop""she's irrelevant elsewhere in the planet""Celine was a Flop since her international career""Celine is a mediocre singer, bland, nasal"[A THREAD]: Let's begin with "Celine
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welcome to a short bad thread I’d like to call “the secret history x mulaney” everyone in the Greek class Henry Winter Richard Papen obviously Bunny that’s all I have
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And now for something almost completely different: Max Roser has a beautiful post about the Black Death. And no, that's not a contradiction 1/https://ourworldindata.org/breaking-the-malthusian-trap Roser points out and documents somethi
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7 Practical Steps For Practicing TawakulTawakul is often discussed as a theoretical concept. Most Muslims know that we need to have Tawakul (trust in Allah) but not many know how
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The Mali Empire is one of the most popular & well recorded empires in African history. At it's peak it span at-least 1,138,000 km. Its influence on world history, culture
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My $0.02:Yes, re-opening the country will cause more death. There’ll be more car wrecks, more industrial accidents, more fights, spills.. and yes, more virus transmissions.Life is risk, deal with it
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The Oscars sucks. It's a boring, stodgy, meaningless event. The Spectacle Of It All™ carries far less weight than it did 1,000 years ago. That's why the ratings continue to
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(1) Kamala Harris’ father revealed his family is descended from one of Jamaica’s largest slave planters. This means Kamala is descended not from slaves but from slaveowners. Two facts makes
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