#HISTORY

Random thought: Nostalgia creates unfair standards for video games and their developers. Often, gamers look back to their favorite time in a games history and expect the game to โ€œget
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Much to say about yesterdayโ€™s pardons and commutations. Before getting to the updated chart, some general reflections. Trump has upended the traditional criteria for clemency: https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-140000-pardon-attorney#9-140.1
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#OTD 17:35 4th February 1944, Operation Whimsical, an attempt to insert a Special Operations Executive team into Crete. The mission: kidnap General Friedrich-Wilhelm Mรผller "the butcher of Crete", commander of
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When the sitting president doesn't accept his electoral defeat, & the Senate Majority Leader celebrates the legitimacy of newly-elected senators but doesn't accept the outcome of the presidential election... &
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So. @uniofleicester's managers will cut medieval literature and English lang because they want "to offer a suite of undergrad degrees that provide modules which students expect of an English degree".
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My greatest hope is that we stop using the labels centrist and progressive since painting mostly Black voters as centrists & mostly WP as progressive isn't close to factually or
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Not surprisingly, Hannan tries to rewrite history. He says that the UK and Ireland were quietly working out a border deal until the EU intervened after the 2017 election which
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THREAD: Troubled by many media reports & SM conversations where depression + mental health issues are assumed to be only causes of #suicide Of course, we need conversations on #Mentalhealth
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It's not a minor thing, really. It's yet another example of the Trumps' seeming need to stamp out every good and decent American legacy; every spec of grace, and replacing
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I'm revisiting Matsuda's 2016 biography of Suga. It's longer and with smaller type than Suga's book so I'm not going to tweet quite as much about it, but I'll try
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When we entered the 21st century Nigeria, the largest country in Africa was showing signs of coming into its own in the new century. With GDP expansion averaging over 6
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Re-upping this in-class activity to say: it's important, esp. in US, to teach Roman slavery in conversation with New World Slavery. In future years I hope to integrate the history
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Thread on some very underrated NBA players from the past 20 years Likes and retweets appreciated Hope everyone enjoys this, and i might make another thread like this soon, so
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This argument is highly flawed. Christians brought civilization destruction & genocide in the name of their religion. They destroyed our past, burned libraries, ran inquisitions, committed genocides, brought us the
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hello to everyone new who has followed me today. I wish we could have met under better circumstances for some of it! i'll do a brief little intro cause my
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Republican lawmakers in at least five states have introduced legislation that threatens to cut funding to schools that share curriculum about the award-winning 1619 Project.It previews new battles in states
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