#1890s

Abbie Bennett

AbbieRBennett

.@DeptVetAffairs Secretary Robert Wilkie, in interview with OANN, says President Donald Trump is "the first president since the 1890s who recognized the scourge of veteran suicide." Wilkie did not cite

Forrest Maready

forrestmaready

Where did the COVID-19 coronavirus come from?A lot of speculation about the origins of this outbreak. If you're curious, this isn't the first time something like this has happened. In

Charlie Stross

cstross

Compulsory mourning for a stranger sucks.Especially when it’s performative Victorian-style royal mourning, and the past century has seen a huge cultural flip-flop so that death and mourning are as inadmissible/peripheralized

Dan Hicks

profdanhicks

Reflecting on the Docklands news. Respect to @MuseumofLondon Front of House for handling a difficult situation. Respect to curators who it appears are permanently removing stolen African objects from the

Joaquim Campa

JoaquimCampa

3. Paris 1890s 4. Berlin 1902 5. San Sebastian / Donosti 1913 6. London 1923 7. La Habana 1930 8. Sarajevo 1914 9. Madrid 1910 10. Marseille 1900 11. Belfast

WikiVictorian

wikivictorian

Edith Lambelle Langerfeld (1883-1968), mostly known as La Sylphe, was an exotic American dancer who became a sensation while performing at the Folies Bergère in the 1890s. Langerfeld was taken

Eric

arkheia

This is a thread on the characteristics of Japanese grave markers in Hawaiʻi. Although Japanese grave markers vary in information and style, a large number from the 1890s-1930s share similarities

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IbrahimJafr

This man right here is King Leopold II of Belgium, he committed atrocities which led to the death of at least 15 million Congolese, the world doesn't remember him like

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Hmm. Can any long-arc extended universe type stuff be traced to the 1920s? Especially in genre fiction? Considering a hypothesis that it was a slump decade for EUs. There’s a

Detention Solidarity Network

detsolnet

From 1890, children from so-called “criminal tribes” were forcibly removed from their parents & institutionalised. The history of forced child removal in settler colonies (like Australia) is well known, but

David Lambert

DavidLambertArt

One of the things historians pick at in Tombstone is the Cowboy Gang wearing red sashes as an identifier, ala Crips and Bloods. This is not true of the Arizona

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SomaliBeautys

Somali Dance - A Thread 1. Starting of with NIIKO 2 -Buraanbur — is both a poetry form and dance that is performed wherever Somalis live. The ‘bootin’ or the

Young Daddy

Toure

Had a very unpleasant moment today with some disappointingly predictable white people when I tried to explain to them how the statue depicted below is insanely racist. It sits on

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

Protestors fighting for a new balance of power in America are calling for the removal of Confederate monuments. The same monuments were put up by protestors fighting for the same

Jordan Ryan

JordanRyanArch

I've been following the criticism of the @IndyMonthly porch party story and there's a central architectural theory talking point that was missed: porch placement design.Most homes built before the 1940s

Indu Makkal Katchi (Offl)

Indumakalktchi

Most youngsters born in the 21st century wouldn't even be aware of this brand, let alone trying or using it. But this is a legendary product which ruled the roost