#Century

HuffPost

HuffPost

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment – but we're still grappling with its fractured, incomplete outcomes.http://huffp.st/wlZdah1 The 19th Amendment wasn't a promise of enfranchisement

IUCN SharkSG

IUCNShark

The @IUCNRedList of Threatened Species has been updated today and includes recent assessments of 422 species of sharks and rays. One species in particular has a story that could serve

Dr. Kristina Killgrove

DrKillgrove

New today is an awesome book, “A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution,” edited by @desilva_jerry and pub’d by @PrincetonUPress. In

Dr. Sara L. Halpern

SaraLHalpern

1937-1943: The Japanese knew about Jews since the early 20th century when they traveled on the Siberian Railway. Using military intelligence in Manchuria, Tokyo, & Shanghai, the several Japanese officials

Zikhona Valela

valavoosh

Yesterday marked the 65th anniversary of the beginning of the end of District Six by way of forced removals, an area that was established in 1867 and home to a

14th Amendment, Section 3

ominousrabbit

I might be drunk. (def. drunk)I'm very sure I'm angry. And I want to parlay that anger to you. Because anger isn't useless. It's the rocket fuel for what we're

Merriam-Webster

MerriamWebster

Language change! It's a thing.For example, 'precipitation' originally meant “haste” and “the act of hurling or casting down”—it had no connection to water falling from the sky.https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-p

Ray🇰🇪

MCFC__RAY

Thread On Why Pep Guardiola deserves YOUR respect, rival fans and our own alike Myths in football are so common in football, some around Pep are "He is a fraud.""He

Charlotte Minsky

extrasolarchar

Many months ago, I promised a friend a tweetstorm on my senior thesis, so here it is, long overdue -Settler Colonialism and the Making of the Lick Observatory, 1846-1919: a

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD]1/12When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk dismantled the Ottoman Caliphate, Turkey was a social and ideological mess. The kind of mess you'd expect from a theocracy. The road to reforms wasn't going

Jason Hickel

jasonhickel

Since Boris Johnson is now so keen that we do not "photo shop" British history, I thought I would take a minute to tell the full, unedited story of that

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

Ethiopian bible is the oldest and most complete bible on earth.They were written on goat skin in the early Ethiopian language of Ge’ez. It is also World’s first illustrated Christian

James Felton

JimMFelton

I regret to inform you that chainsaws were originally invented for childbirth(close your legs and prepare ye for a thread, sources here: https://bit.ly/3jMoOdl ) When you see a chainsaw hacking down

Armine Yalnizyan

ArmineYalnizyan

Gig economy weighted against 'employee' relationship https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/gig-economy-weighted-against-employee-relationship-20200810-p55kex.html Australian inquiry (in Victoria) on the gig economy finds "P

Benjamin Chadwick

bchadwickfrance

#ClemmiesParisStories #4: Nicolas Flamel. 1/11 Nicolas Flamel was a scribe, born circa 1330 around Pontoise, near Paris. He was a commoner, but a wealthy one, thanks in large part to

Labeed Siddiqui

LabeedSpeaks

A legendary batsman - Inzamam-ul-HaqA thread Inzamam-ul-Haq made his ODI debut against West Indies on 22 November 1991 and made a good start by scoring 20 and 60 in

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