#1950s

Lunch break femme thoughts:Butches look like teenage boys until all their hair turns gray overnight, and then they look like that one guy from Mad Men. If you can't tell
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Bethnal Green Huguenot culture, with its mathematical, history, recitation, musical, entomological, floricultural, and columbarian societies, survived into the 19th century. As the middle classes moved away, there was a decline
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Starting a massive Mad Men thread. The best TV show ever made. Rewatching it (again) and just want to give my thoughts. #MadMen I’ve always been fascinated with this show.
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Our system of selling ambassadorships has major 'empire in decline' energy.https://twitter.com/CarterRubin/status/1309187820003553281 I suppose I am a bit of a soulless technocrat but shouldn't the people who have dedicated thei
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Today, I'm going to start a tweet thread that re-picks the NBA's MVPs.I have two criteria: 1) The year's best player, based on stats, especially advanced stats.2) A player's TEAM's
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Fr the morning, I sit looking at the faces in this gorgeous photo from TIFR of 1952 - (Source: Vigyan Prasar's book on Dr Yashpal) ' It would not be
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I have collected some comments I've read from palaeontologists and amateurs regarding the movie Ammonite, and the portrayal of Mary Anning as queer. I am answering them here because I
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1/ Researchers:Help get background information on all names in these, please. I believe this is a #JohnBirchSociety or #CNP non-profit organization. Looks like they're getting a new #Kremlin member, #MichaelFlynn#Reagan
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From the 1950s to the 1980s, when people talked of 'manned' spaceflight and 'mankind' going to the stars, they meant men, not women. Women were not allowed or welcome in
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I'm watching "David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet" and as interesting and spectacular and thought provoking as the film is, he glibly skips over colonisation as the main driver
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On this day in 1993, our founder, Ivor Bulmer-Thomas died. Just days before, he was working on the repair of our church at Sutterby. A proud Welshman, Ivor changed the
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Remember, Trump's base doesn't hate rich people. It doesn't care about income inequality. It really doesn't even care that much about taxes or the cost of living. It cares about
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THE VITAL LIGHT OF NIKOLA TESLA: Healing Power of Ultraviolet Rayshttps://vitalitymagazine.com/article/the-vital-light-of-nikola-tesla-healing-power-of-ultraviolet-light/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6122858/Ultraviolet Irradiation of
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For a change, on this Labor Day weekend, I wanna talk about comics. Ostensibly the reason most of you follow me. Specifically, I want to talk about how a TV
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ok I will do it. thread of characters im attracted 2 but shouldnt be not even sure if ratchet counts as someone i "shouldnt" be attracted to cause just look
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Regarding the whole 'sunbathing in parks' thing. If that's the focus of your anger, shut the fuck up. You're wrong. ...in the 1940s and into the 1950s we but suburban
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