#1930s

Municipal Dreams

MunicipalDreams

1/ East Tilbury is remarkable - a Czech modernist factory town built in rural Essex. Begun in 1933, it was built by the Bata Shoe Company led by Tomáš Baťa,

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monniemoonie

i’m starting chicago typewriter gal jisuk really be acting like bh looooooool dhhddhdhjdjdjdjsjsjsjs i alr love this it has a dog hm good reference for reincarnation stuff. hm. i like

Emily Rutherford

echomikeromeo

This year I have been teaching Columbia's Contemporary Civilization (CC), which claims to be the oldest continuously offered general education course in the United States and is this year celebrating

Sven Henrich

NorthmanTrader

What I worry about the most: Nobody, and I mean nobody, has a clue what the ramifications are of all this combined monetary/fiscal stimulus. They have not thought this through

Philip Butler

Artdecomagpie

As it’s the first #worldartdecoday I thought I’d tweet a little tour of Worcester’s surviving inter-war buildings (Worcester England that is). A thread..@artdecosocuk #worcester We’ll start off just outside Shrub

Philbrook Museum of Staying Home

Philbrook

THINGS YOU COULD DO INSTEAD OF INJECTING BLEACH (a thread of 1930s photographs by American-Latvian photographer Lusha Nelson): 1: Hold mysterious balls in one hand and a lit cigarette in

CryptoNephilim

cryptonephilim

LORDS OF FINANCEThe Bankers Who Broke the WorldBy Liaquat Ahamed•Sovereign Debt Bubbles•Wealth Gap & Unemployment•Long Debt Cycles•Monetary & Fiscal Policy•Leads Into World War IIA thread comparing the similarities and dif

Rob Gillezeau

robgillezeau

I'm seeing the claim that Victoria is at its "highest ever" level of unemployment. It struck me as wrong so I went back to the 1931 census and took at

Gareth Davies

bermicourt

Armoured or Tank; what's in a name? A short thread.The answer is that there is quite a lot in a name and the distinction between the two isn't taxonomical pedantry.

Vito Doria

VitoCDoria

THREADHi everyone, I hope you had a good Easter despite the circumstances. With this spare time, I have created @SerieA_EN Teams of the Decade from 1929/30. Let me know your

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jonsneyers

"Leftist infighting" can mean many things, from very bad things to very good things. A thread. When in Germany in the 1930s, the communists were fighting the 'social-fascists' (the socdem)

Carl Zha

CarlZha

Father of “East Turkestan”: Russian Sinologist Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin. He 1st invented the term “East Turkestan” to replace “Chinese Turkestan” in foreign language usage in 1829. coincided w Russian conquest

VictoryOfTheLight

KibBitzLaw

South America and it’s connection to UFOs/UAPs has always fascinated me for a few reasons. 1.) Inca, Maya, Aztec culture and empires all spoke of the “sky gods” in their

Suki's Mom

sammajammaz

In the early 1900s, after 400 years of Spanish colonization, Puerto Rico was claimed by a new power: the US. In 1914, PR unanimously voted for independence, but was ignored—three

Damian Zane

dized

This man was born in 1895 in Lagos and ended up as part of the Polish resistance fighting the Nazis more than 40 years later. He is thought to have

Kim Kavin

thekimkavin

1/11 Hey @EyalPress and @NewYorker, this is inaccurate:“In July, word leaked that the Labor Department was rushing to enact a new rule that would more broadly define the term ‘independent