#HISTORY

When I was 5-6 years old, in Mallorca, I had to decide if I wanted to play Basketball or Tennis. My family has a history of being great Basketball players.
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COVID Update August 8: It’s not just that we have a distrust of experts, it’s also that the people who dismiss experts think they’re experts themselves. 1/ In the last
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Sianne Ngai is describing her choice of Jameson's The Political Unconscious as part of the "A Book That Changed My Mind" series.(I posted a screenshot and deleted because she's asked
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1895-1925 Electric Scooters, Bikes, Cars ...Say What?Autoped 1915 motorized(gas) scooter. 1918 Eveready Battery bought Autoped and made the scooter electric. Electric car and charging station. Howard Hughes as a boy
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In less than #24Hours, the @FlareNetworks snapshot will take place and put in motion a chain of events that will forever change $XRP history for the better.#FlareFinance will continue this
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Just like after Charlottesville, Canadians are asking if what happened in Washington DC could happen north of the border. The tragic part is we don’t need to wonder what extremism
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“Even semantics have conspired to make that which is black seem ugly and degrading. In Roget's Thesaurus there are some 120 synonyms for blackness and at least sixty of them
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It was perhaps the most important civil right achievement in US history. On #TDIDCH: July 26 1948, POTUS Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981 ending discrimination in the military. 1
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Do you want to know more about Twitter and how many tweets are sent per day? Read up.A THREAD The name for the social network was initially envisioned as "stat
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it makes me tear up every time i see keith haring's art out there in the world. you might recognize the yelling dog and dancing people from old animations on
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Campaigns are series of tough budget decisions. Despite the millions raised, all campaigns make incredibly difficult choices on where to spend, or not spend, money. Right now, @realDonaldTrump and team
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In 1990, a plane really did land whilst the pilot was hanging out of the window by his ankles.(THREAD. For non sweary version and sources see here: https://bit.ly/36IK7X1 ) As the
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tw// racism, beauty standards etc.a thread of how white colonialism affected southern asian countries' beauty standards: started because of this tweet by @/telanonwills DISCLAIMER: the knowledge i present to you
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The most trifling men in Black music history:A thread 10. The guy in Jodeci who’s trying to get you to “Stay”1st of all, he’s not sorry he left you crying,
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As an antirape advocate, Black woman, rape survivor and feminist theorist I think it's great! It's not objectification if they have autonomy. They are not objects. They are women expressing
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Currently reading "When Money Dies" the history of hyperinflation in Weimar Germany.One of the wildest aspects I never knew was that early on people all thought they were getting rich.They
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