#CITY

A thread about wartime cruise ships (1/11): This is a Japanese passenger liner advertisement from April 1940 offering a 3 month "round-the-world luxury cruise." The Twin Sister Queens shown in
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Princess Sempavalam (Heo Hwang-ok), A thread~ The reference we get is from Korean work Samguk Yusa , written by a buddhist monk Ilyon in 13th century in chinese language ,
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2 years ago this weekend I found my birth mom! so I thought Id do a cute little thread about it. 1/ so mothers day is a weird weekend because
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#China makes big new move on #Hongkong #FreeSpeech #HumanRights THREAD#China routinely abuses its own national security framework to target #activists and crush dissent. The new law proposed for #Hongkong shows
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How, and why did a ger (yurt) develop into the largest and most important monastery in #Mongolia? Here’s my interview with Dr. Uranchimeg Tsultemin on her fabulous new book on
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This is going to be a long thread on how Arvind Kejriwal is deliberately fooling Common public and playing dirty politics amid the Covid-19 Pandemic. Please support this by RT.
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Ok. Im going to explain in detail why Churchill is a villain. For the 31% of you who voted as a positive just read this and tell me afterwards.https://twitter.com/ireland/status/954710289584480256 Well
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A lasting legacy of Pete's time at McKinsey was their consulting team's cost cutting moves, that were shortly followed by the creation of the low paying, non-career CCA position at
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(Thread) Found one of my old Sun-Times architecture columns. Sometimes the column was purely about a building, but the @Suntimes also let me use architecture as a backdrop to tell
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Late again for #NumisChat - sorry! But I want to share a story about how modern archaeology can shed new light on old coin finds. In June 1774 a hoard
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if true, this sheds on light on the scale and depth of a problematic decision-making process in Beijing that's probably outside the usual imagination of outsiderswhich is "fooled by own
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EVENT THREAD hey folks, we’re coming back at you with another thread of upcoming opportunities to show up throughout the city/virtually - these are events for the rest of this
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*THREAD*Lost River of LondonStarting in Whitestone Pond, Hampstead Heath, which is the highest point in London, the River Westbourne merges with the Kilbourne at the site of Kilburn Priory which
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Thread: Since 1258, when Baghdad — the preeminent city of the Abrahamic Greater West — was destroyed by the Mongol armies of Hülegü, Christian and Muslim alike have recognized the
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“Thread: Important events which led to the demolition of Babri Mosque in 1992”1. In Dec 1949, the idols of Ram and Sita (Ram's wife) were placed inside the Babri Masjid
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A protective cross against the plague, given the approbation of the Council of Trent + O Cross of Christ, save me.Z. May zeal for your house free me.+ The Cross
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