#1920s

James

historyboy77

Vince Cable here following in the foolish footsteps of Lloyd George who maintained a knack for praising Stalin even whilst his own Foreign Affairs Adviser - a certain Gareth Jones,

Pytheas in Agartha 🛸

APytheas

LAKE SEYDOZERO: Hyperborea in the Kola Peninsula?Local Sami legends tell of an evil giant named Kuiva that terrified them in ancient times. Shamans went up to the sacred Seydozero to

val ♡’s lou & loki ⚯͛

WALLSOFFALLING

fine line album as decades - a thread Golden - the 1980s “i know that you’re scared because i’m so open” Watermelon sugar - 1990s“strawberries on a summer evenin’”

Michael Press

MichaelDPress

I see the auction houses aren't the only ones laundering things:The British press continues to launder the British Museum's reputation as a fighter against looted antiquities.https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/sep/27/ancient-s

pootoogoo

dott_pootoogoo

Picture of Bar Italia (@TheBaristas), 22 Frith Street, in 1985.Opened 1949, just few years before the London espresso craze... and certainly the only #Soho espresso bar from this golden age

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

Richard Ovenden

richove

Of all the accounts of destruction & preservation in #Burningthebooks the most moving to me is the account of the organisation known as @yivoinstitute. Formed in Vilnius (Vilna) in the

Marco Chitti

ChittiMarco

1/ A thread about the time when Milan seriously planned to make her own high-rise CBD and to build two cross-city freeways right in the middle of the city. To

Mike Hankins

Hankinstien

Col. Fred Vann Cherry was an Air Force fighter pilot in Korea and Vietnam; next month will mark the 55th anniversary of him getting shot down, the beginning of his

Une Plus Grande Guerre

UnePlusGrGuerre

Afternoon, all! @JackRaoul here, back for the #FWWandPopCulture takeover. This week, I'm talking about the influence of the first air war on sci-fi.Today, I'll explore how aerial warfare gets represented

Paul Patrick

PaulTyredagh81

Thread 1. #Belfast I took a dander around Donegall Square today. Took a few photos.Coming in from Chichester Street on which still stands a Georgian Terrace from 1804,where artist William

Foggy Anabasis

foggyanabasis

The problem with these mid-brow "we've always been at war with East Asia" takes is that some people have memory. After the 1920s, when the health establishment noticed that mask

Brad McCarty

BradMcCarty

Let's start off this morning with a history lesson, direct from Music City USA! There are lots of ultra-right MAGAts screaming "APPROPRIATION" when it comes to left-leaning folks who enjoy

Ray Esten

rea_esten

To uncover the history of a certain district, street names can be our best indicator. Nowhere is this more evident than in one of my favourite parts of the city.

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

It's not a secret how SA's richest person, Johann Rupert made his money: he was born into it, his daddy was a billionaire. What's rarely spoken about is how Anton

David Hirsh

DavidHirsh

1.[Thread] Jonathan Rosenhead, JVL and the antizionist Jews:He says: "The Jewish people in this country will come to regret [the Chief Rabbi's intervention] because we cannot have the quarter of