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Irish History Bitesize!

lorraineelizab6

#Otd 2000: An Post @Postvox officially launched a set of 4 30p postage #stamps in honour of poet & playwright #OscarWilde (1854-1900). Became one of London's most popular playwrights in

Rizoma Field School

RizomaSchool

We need to step out of the infrastructure as it is. Our routines, ways of thinking, patterns, are killing us and the planet. We need to break out of the

Till Grallert

tillgrallert

So the #DayofDH2021 has begun and before I retire to bed, I'll share a preview of a map I am preparing for a multilingual data set: #ProjectJaraid's bibliographic data for

Africa Archives

Africa_Archives

Ancient Walls of Benin were four times longer than Walls of China. Destroyed by British in 1897.#Thread The Benin Kingdom, dating back to the 11th century, was one of the

R.J. Lehmann

raylehmann

Some are understandably consumed with the court-packing issue right now. I'm much more interested in DC and Puerto Rican statehood. And specifically, the question of whether it is "rank politics"

Mori

moritheil

Correct. And all of this goes back to how people were called cranks for correctly foretelling in the 1910s that ice cream parlors would be the decay and ruin of

Loïc Frémond, Homo Politicus 🌐🏳️‍🌈

LoicTheStoic

On July 17th, 1986, during a televised talkshow between the USSR & USA, a Soviet woman famously exclaimed: "There is no sex in the Soviet Union!"If gays and sex were

NZ Parliament

NZParliament

From the @WgtnCC archives, circa 1959: 'Request from a lady visitor to Wgtn. "Does one have to wear a hat in Parliament?"'*deep breath* OK. Please remember that you asked for

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: August 23, 1927. Massachusetts executes Sacco & Vanzetti for the murder of two men in 1920. This trial and execution was the most grotesque combo

samantha

DECOUTURIZE

𝙏𝙃𝙍𝙀𝘼𝘿: 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙀𝙑𝙊𝙇𝙐𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 𝙊𝙁 𝘼𝙈𝙀𝙍𝙄𝘾𝘼𝙉 𝙑𝙊𝙂𝙐𝙀from its first issue under Arthur Baldwin Turnure in 1892 to the state of Anna Wintour's US vogue today. Founded in 1892 as a weekly

Hawd

Capo_Ainashe

The Habar yoonis Sultanate was a Kingdom that ruled parts of Waqooyi and Hawd during the 18th and 19th centuries. It mainly encompassed the territory of the Habar Yoonis clan

Ishi

idkyMeh

Women's Equality Day: Thread26 August, Women Equality Day is to celebrate the day on which women in the U.S. got equal right to vote due to the 19th Amendment of

Giacomo Bologna

GBolognaCL

A few months ago, I read a terrific book by @gangrey called "A Shot in the Moonlight." Ben pored over old court records, letters, and newspaper accounts to piece together

Nafees Ur Rehman Durrani

NafeesRehmanDr

A lesser known but important fact about Maulvi Rafiuddin is that he caused the first ever judicial inquiry to probe rigging/corruption in elections in the history of British-India.The man he

Heather

LitMoth

Kavanaugh tried to argue that because Indian Territory was 60% white by 1890 it was only "nominally" Indian territory. He is trying to use a history of violent, illegal settlement

IGNITE German Shepherds

ignite_GSD

WHY WE DO NOT SUPPORT CROSS BREEDING.This thread was supposed to have been shared a long time ago but there haven't been enough time and chance to put up a