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Robert McNees

mcnees

Julius Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist best known for directing scientific work at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, was born #OTD in 1904. His important contributions to quantum mechanics, astrophysics,

Indradeep Khan

IndradeepKhan

Part 2 If you had to pick 3outstanding characters on the OPEC side, they wld beJavier Alfonso, Father of Opec(see above)Anwar Sadat, Egyptian PM& Ahmed YamaniSadat forced war on Israel

Municipal Dreams

MunicipalDreams

1/ THREAD: a bike ride through Islington to Canonbury, starting at the new Packington Estate, designed by Pollard Thomas Edwards for the Hyde Housing Association. It's a mixed development scheme

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

Michael Cox

Zonal_Marking

Here’s the start of a series on the history of shirt numbers. First: the number 1 shirt and goalkeepers, which you think would be straightforward, but is anything but...https://theathletic.com/1533318/2020/01/19/football-shirt-numbers-history/ Number

CSM

usacsmret

According to an author writing for @TheDailyBeast, the Soviet Union wasn't an evil empire after all. https://dailysign.al/2NGK9X5 via @JarrettStepman @DailySignal The collapse of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago was

Samuel West 💙

exitthelemming

Delighted to say that we started work on ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL this month. I’m playing Siegfried Farnon.For #Playground in 2020 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/all-creatures-great-small-casting-news/ Also cont

The Writer's Block Creative Studio

WriterBlockPro

Today we will talk briefly about the infamous Birkin bag by Hermès, how Hermès has amassed an multi-billion dollar empire built on exclusivity and anti-marketing, and how you can incorporate

Shematologist, MD

acweyand

Time for another heme #tweetorial Let’s talk about Racism in medicine. Sadly, sickle cell disease (SCD) highlights this issue all too well. 1/n SCD encompasses a group of diseases characterized

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belllaaax_

FALSIFICATION OF AZERBAIJANS “HISTORY” (a thread - this is gonna be long) #PeaceForArmenians #StopAliyev #StopAzerbaijaniAggression #StopAzeriLies 1. The Caucasian Turks proclaimed the state naming it ‘Azerbaijan’ - ‘Azerbaijan’

Feminist City

feminiscity

WOMEN + PUBLIC HOUSING: Women under Fire: Public Housing Activism in Los Angeles - Jacqueline Leavitt (1993) https://www.jstor.org/stable/3346732?seq=1 Resident Activism in Public Housing: a case study of women's invisible work

Heather Cherone

HeatherCherone

Things are very tense at the virtual meeting of the City Council's Transportation Committee, as a Deputy @ChicagoDOT commissioner introduces a new measure to rename Lake Shore Drive for Jean

martial 11

martialdeyforyo

Read This Mind Blowing Coincidence That Actually Happenedit's a thread The founder of the Ferrari company, Enzo Ferrari, died on August 14, 1988. Just a month later, on October

Jen!!! 🐙

polystyrenejen

Got Chipotle for dinner! I'm gonna eat and start watching Granting You A Dreamlike Life!I've heard it's kinda boring? And it's a romance. But it's 40 episodes of Zhu Yilong's

The Scorpion Philosopher

thescorpionphil

Charlie Munger on Investing (quotes from Charlie Munger).A thread.1.The desire to get rich fast is pretty dangerous.2.Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant. 3.People are trying

Mary Salcedo, PhD 🦗🐞🐝+🐍

MarySalcedo

My new paper w/Jake Socha (@snake_flyer) is out!In "Circulation in insect wings" we discuss why insect wings need active circulation, the current field, and a confusing historyRead here: https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa124@ICB_jou