#HISTORY

Euripides L Evriviades 🇨🇾🇪🇺

eevriviades

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”George Orwell Born #OTD in 1903#GeorgeOrwell #Orwell #Orwellian #ThursdayThoughts #doubletalk #doublethink “In our age there is no such thing

John Ismay

johnismay

1/30/1991: first combat use of another failure-prone weapon system - FASCAM mines #gulfwar30 #desertstorm30 Developed in the 1970s, FASCAM, or Family of Scatterable Munitions, were artillery-delivered mines ejected from 155mm

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1) I think this very interesting piece in the Economist makes one important error. It says: “Some argued that structurally weak economic growth and the maldistribution of the spoils of

Levi Weaver

ThreeTwoEephus

short thread (Eric Nadel don’t read this)When I was a kid, we traveled all summer, every summer. My dad was a pro rodeo cowboy/itinerant preacher and summers were the busy

David “HINDSIGHT IS 2021” Walsh

DavidAstinWalsh

Hot take: Twitter banning Donald Trump is good and is in keeping with past media practice in American history. Yes, I'm aware of the dangers of large monopolies dictating what

Dan Rose

DanRose999

A few months after I joined Facebook in 2006, we shipped the 2 most important products in FB’s history: News Feed + Open Registration. A lot of smart people thought

Alex Deane

ajcdeane

This is the 19th instalment of #deanehistory.Die Hard is the best Christmas film. This truism is well known. But the phrase “Die Hard” actually has a much longer history. In

Elijah Rempe

elijahrempe

I keep thinking about Beirut, the senselessness of the blast and the ubiquity of the materials that caused it. An ammonia plant was nearly built on the Columbia to turn

Cloud Y. Leaf | 🍀

cloudyip

Since this is the end of Hong Kong. Let me tell you one thing that symbolised the HK I grew up in and familiar with.It is none other than this

Wagatwe Wanjuki 🇰🇪 🇧🇸

wagatwe

Men been socialized to find the act of dominance attractive rather than mutually satisfying sex between enthusiastic individuals.https://twitter.com/lilmiss_jordan/status/1291765969593995264 Changing how indigenous peoples value sex and gen

James Talarico

jamestalarico

I’m going viral in Brazil right now...Apparently “talarico” is Brazilian slang for “wife-stealer.” Olá, Brazil! I’m just making good public policy here in Texas — I promise I won’t

PuntitePundit

PuntitePundit

An important piece of Somali history that shall be preserved, a thread on one of the most prominent #Somali thinkers & scholars, Yaasiin Cismaan Kenaadid, the son of Cismaan Yusuf

Katie Holmes

RunYoung50

Why are we still having a conversation about equal distances in cross country? asks @tomwilliams1974 I'm not sure of the answer but here are some thoughts about the history: @run_equal

BATUHAN

batuhangcr

Finally:Hagia Sophia becoming a mosque again!Turkey passes a law to reopen Hagia Sophia Mosque! (Frustration guaranteed for Greeks) In 1453, immediately after Istanbul fell, people of the Byzantine took refuge

Angry Staff Officer

pptsapper

Logging into my military email today and seeing the unread emails that APPEAR TO BE FROM A REPLY ALL Ah, it begins with a simple "my Microsoft Teams doesn't work

Shane Smedley

ShaneSmedley

Listen! We have said for years... #PainIsComing. What is becoming clear is nobody will get through this coming moment in time unscathed. We are gonna have to choose the kind

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