#History

I've been thinking about writing a " I told you so" thread but let's just call it- Academics "on here" are more prepared for the post Pandemic future than their
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Want: board game ratings that rate the quality of the game mechanics, the complexity, BUT ALSO: how much the game is pro-colonialism.I love BGs but it is overwhelming how many
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Today’s column at @TheWeek, on a problem with authority in evangelicalism highlighted by the Falwell debacle:https://theweek.com/articles/933571/jerry-falwell-jr-reveals-evangelicalisms-authority-problem Every time Falwell gets up to some
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“Teddy Bear Picnic” is the most horrifying song in history, a thread: The spooky chords. Horrifying. The original Am to E7 should never be paired together. Plus it does this
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On Thursday, the University of Pretoria’s Department of Paediatrics held a webinar on COVID and its impact on children. A very interesting fact, is that children aren’t vectors for COVID,
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We are seeing an old phenomena take a new form during this crisis: #trolls. Also known as #zoombombers these last few weeks. In this thread I will share some history
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The Living Cat, The Dead Cat, and the Threads of Fate.Rest, rest in peace.My sweet love...... in peace.In the illusion that you have created,I have come to know love.#07threads #Umineko
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“The genetic record shows that it was mostly enslaved women who contributed to the present-day gene pool...Enslaved men often died before they had a chance to have children. Enslaved women
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You know what you should be asking? Why haven’t the media been covering modeling? Why haven’t they asked actually people doing the work (not x professor in slightly related field)
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Twilight from the Ground Up (A Name Generating Thread): using the vampires of the Twilight series as a blueprint to create characters with popular regional names. Toolshttps://twitter.com/ifithollers/status/1322053122982875141 So let's
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Apparently labor is supposed to take a few days and you’re supposed give birth in a squatting position. That all changed because a doctor had a fetish towards babies coming
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In 2016, I was writing about the return of flesh-eating screwworms in Florida, when I learned about a U.S. government program that sounded totally bonkers1/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-conta
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North and South, a thread. Now look...one Elizabeth Gaskell got there well before me in 1854 and wrote a beautiful novel about place and love in the two halves of
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Let's study this masterful scene from Bambi to learn about framing characters using foreground elements.What looks like random branches is carefully planned out to work for multiple character actions.A breakdown
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BREAKING: DOH confirms that COVID-19 B.1.617 variant, which was first detected in India, is now in the Philippines. | via @_katrinadomingo DOH Usec. Maria Rosario Vergeire on presence of COVID-19
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jisoo’s pretty mind, a necessary thread : before to start this thread, here a list of books jisoo had read and recommended it. quote this tweet with the number
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