#1920s

National Library of Scotland

natlibscot

Tomorrow marks the 90th anniversary of the evacuation of St Kilda, when the remaining 36 inhabitants left the island archipelago for the last time. This film was made two days

Dr Sophie Hay

pompei79

A very brief history of Pompeii in plans:Historically, the hill that covered the ancient city of #Pompeii was known as ‘La Civita’ – the settlement. Gaultier 1754https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/46570/Cratere_Maritimo_o_Parte_Del_Golfo_di_Napo

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) The GOP Death Cult (Part I)3 strands come together to create the GOP’s death-cult response to Covid-19:Economic policies that kill peopleA base of voters conditioned to believe lies, which

Oleg Benesch

OlegBenesch

Thread: Recent discussions of Abe's tenure reminded me of an episode following a G20 dinner in Osaka last year, when he came in for considerable criticism for comments about the

Bill Hanstock

sundownmotel

My book comes out next week! It was a long time of researching and writing and editing to get to this point, but I learned so much about the bizarre

BetterSts4Enfield

BetterSt4Enf

You often see the comment "all roads are for cars". This is the wrong way of looking at it - roads are designed for a certain purpose. Even in a

vasabjit banerjee

vasabjit_b

A thread on why the Rhodesia example is pertinent to current American politics. Rhodesia was a British settler colony in southern Africa. Its political status was below that of near

Philmonger

phillipmbailey

Analysis: Part of the #BreonnaTaylor fallout is a deeper questioniing of how (white) Democrats govern #Louisville.I can't escape this '18 interview @louisvillemayor Greg Fischer did w/ @GOVERNING about the foundation

Lint

Zeshankenzo

Been thinking about some of the stuff in this Ricky Bobby piece for a bit, and was related to the Famine Song being played at a Ibrox last Rangers v

Linda Howard

LindaDHoward

Do you know who the Aboriginal man who features on Australia’s $2 coin is? Gwoya Tjungurrayi 1895 – 28/3/1965A Walpiri-Anmatyerre man of the NT - how did Tjungurrayi be

If It Hollers

IfItHollers

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

Archie Henderson

archiehench

2000s - James Blunt, You're Beautiful 1990s - Lou Bega, Mambo No.5 1980s - Cher, If I Could Turn Back Time 1970s - The Beegees, Haaaah 1960s - Herbie Bonson,

John Hayward

Doc_0

The Cuomo horror is an example of what awaits the entire country under absolute Democrat rule. The media will spend its time attacking anyone who notices their blunders. Dissent will

Sandeep Parekh

SandeepParekh

The first stock market crash and probably the first financial regulation can be traced to a virus. A plant virus. No humans were harmed in the making of this tweet

Martin Johnes

martinjohnes

The 1927 FA Cup final. A Twitter Lecture.The early 1920s were a boomtime for football in south Wales. Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Merthyr and Aberdare all joined the Football League as

East Lothian Voices - a different person each week

EL_Voices

So, for today's late-night thread of oddities I want to talk about walls. Don't you dare scroll past. Stay with me!More precisely I'm going to talk about some interesting worked