#History

Oppork!Ma davvero???Chi è a Londra in questo momento per verificare questo??https://twitter.com/FidelisQanon/status/1263539894238003200 Oh Lord!@Bossina8 @lhasadv @Bibibobibox @432wps Joseph Gregory Hallett è il discendente diretto del fi
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#Thread: I come across documents and images with captions that describe Black settlements as shanty towns or homes as shacks. Whenever I find these descriptions...after I jot “How dare you?”
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Today is the anniversary of Tommie Smith and John Carlos' famous Black power salute at the 1968 Olympics. The image of Smith and Carlos with fists raised is one of
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Taylor and Selena having the cutest friendship in history ; a thread
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100 years ago in June, Galveston, TX had an outbreak of bubonic plague.The "third pandemic" of plague started in Yunnan China in mid to late 1800's, and spread around the
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THREAD: I spent last week collecting the stories of New Yorkers at the epicenter, telling the story of their horrendous COVID-19 epidemic in their own words for @WIRED's living oral
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Western media keeps searching for the "Korean gov't made K-pop" and the "dark side of K-pop" storylines because they don't take K-pop seriously. It's inconceivable that K-pop is popular because
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Why are these brainlets so obsessed with China having free speech, do they think it'll actually result in some flourishing anti-CCP discourse and not just 500 books a week getting
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Archaic Chinese bronzes megathread:I have been wanting to do a twitter thread on this particular passion of mine for a while but wasn't quite sure how to start (and it
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Hello, I'm a #shashitharoor liberal. I google terms as you speak, have read 2 lines each of Ghalib, Rumi, Tennyson, love to reference my patron saint Fuckall Harari, I write
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Have been reading John Chester Miller's 1977 book on Jefferson and slavery and it is _fascinating_ to think about Miller's liberal anxieties and red-lines through the prism of the current
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A beautiful piece in our collection, is this silk drawstring bag. The bag is not just fashionable but quite personal, as inside was found reels of knitting silk and steel
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I’m not really “in” any Twitter circles, more orbiting the fringes of a few of them, and that makes for some really bizarre days sometimes.For instance, academia Twitter is currently
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The CIA and MarsA lost history thread Many of my lost history threads are taken with some skepticism which is understandable. The things which happened in the past are very
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shitposting and the dadaist movement: a thread that nobody asked for so i've been writing a paper on memes because liberal
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I think the debate over whether Hamilton is radical/transformative is basically identical to the debate over whether or not middlebrow media can be radical/transformative. Go with me here... Middlebrow media
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