#History

Short thread/thoughts about Trump and suburban housing. For many decades, but let's say starting somewhere around the mid-1960s, suburban governments have moved toward using terms like "neighborhood character" as a
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Hi! I've been meaning to do this for a while. A thread about 19th-century Nova Scotian newspapers and what @smallhistory is about. I'm a historian and this account grew out
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A thread:I have not written this out ahead of time, I am writing as I go, so bear with me, this is just a musing. The Lord of the Flies
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Top 10 richest kings in Nigeria. [A Thread]1. Oba Obateru Akinrutan - Olugbo of Ugbo. (N108.2 Billion)Besides being the royal leader of Ugbo, he owns Obat Petroleum, one of the
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Okay, so, I'm almost done with my guide to Season 1 of Babylon 5 for newbies, complete with video excerpts of the stuff you need to see in most episodes
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Birthday boy @fireboydml RECORDS and ACHIEVEMENTS.•.The first and only African act to have two albums surpass 30M-stream on Boomplay•.Most streamed debut album in Afrobeat history• The only Nigeria Artiste to
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The Arsenal rebuild is not an easy one. It is a process- a long and tedious one , especially if you don't have the finances of City/PSG.The start that Arteta
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this is a telling & interesting storyupshot: lockdowns have caused a death spiral in cities like NYC. you cannot just "press pause" for 5 monthsthe restaurants, the theater, the city
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My latest article in Picturing PA, a short history of Pennsylvania Saloons. But I could only choose one photo to include, out of more than a dozen from the PA
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The MSM have lied to you about Virginia Roberts - because lies sell newspapers. Yet they're now reluctantly about to expose the truth. Here's a thread of some of the
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John Lewis RIP John Lewis inside the door of a restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee during a sit-in protest in 1960. Photo by .Jack Corn. #OTD #JohnLewisRIP John Lewis and James
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One of the odder people I follow asked me if I see myself as a victim because I have ADHD.I do not.Allow me to explain, you know, if you're interested
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The Most Definite Yasiin Bey album. A thread on The Ecstatic The Ecstatic is the 4th full-length solo studio album by rapper Yasiin Bey (formally known as Mos Def). It
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when i talk about current events, very little of my personal politics is involved. my views are not even in play for the loony third party options, much less the
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Good morning, guess I'll CW this with doomer posting, you've been warned............So I have some takeaways from the past couple days. I had a lot of hope for us, I
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[Thread] How should we assess the conceptual rigidity of our political labels? I'm talking labels like "conservative," "Marxist," "progressive," etc. On one side is the idea that these labels are
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