#HISTORY

What’s going on in Iowa? More Details on IOWA :Trump VISITS Iowa, PROMISES to support them & Declares an Emergency, FastTrump also gives us a Very Interesting FACT: ONE WEEK
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1/ An Independence Day Thread - Needed Now, More than Ever: @jaketapper labeled George Washington as merely a "slaveholder" in a tweet recently. This to those who honestly study history,
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Listened to a disinformation expert on the radio this morning asked about Republican lawmakers beginning to tell the truth to their constituents. Her response: “I don’t know if this can
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We need ambedkarite economists !(A thread) Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar was an economist. In fact, he was the first Indian to be awarded a PhD in economics & has extensively
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110 years ago today, a pivotal event in suffragette history occurred. Known as Black Friday, WSPU members marched to Parliament Square, clashing with police and anti-suffrage campaigners, leading to accusations
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Watched "Challenger" on Netflix (the story of the space shuttle tragedy in '86). Mind's been on this Fourth Turning idea lately (h/t @Bquittem). Fourth turning is all about chaos, institutions
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The first general election where women were allowed to vote was 100 years ago today. A record 93% of the 76k women registered to vote in Marion County went to
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I may be accused of being a local that has become desensitized to violence for saying this but I am frustrated with the international narrative associated with Lebanese wine. 1/9
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I was reading a popular account of the history of the Venetian Republic recently and I noticed that the author appeared to have mixed up Melaka and Maluku. They're really
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300 years ago France was on fire because of the Mississippi Bubble, an all-time financial mania. Speculation on the investment potential of the Louisiana Territory had created interest in new
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Every member of the Senate must realize that the vote he or she casts on "impeachment" is going to be the fulcrum of his or her next reelection campaign. >
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So, apparently Ireland has absolutely zero Flu cases at present. 1..https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/influenza/seasonalinfluenza/surveillance/influenzasurveillancereports/20202021season/Influenza_Surveillance_Report_Week%2050_1.0Final.pd
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In microtest TDD, we describe collaborations as "awkward" or "graceful". The distinction is critical to understanding how the Steering premise and the Pieces premise work together to make TDD a
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BW1/Starting 03/18/20, @UCSF's Chair of Dept of Medicine @Bob_Wachter began posting COVID Chronicles daily, credible, instructive reporting at one of our top medical schools.This thread gathers them in order, instructive
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Hey everyone. I just wanted to, like, introduce myself. I popped out of nowhere and started interacting which might’ve been weird. I’m Anna. Im not jewish, but I want to
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As both a @SamSeder guy and A History Guy I'd like to reiterate something he mentioned: monuments are ultimately unreliable representations of what they depict, but they nearly always reveal
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