#1950s

Patrick Radden Keefe

praddenkeefe

My book EMPIRE OF PAIN comes out today. It is an investigative chronicle of three generations of the Sackler family and the mark that they left on the world. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612861/empire-of-pain-by-patrick-radden-k

Open Ocean Exploration

RebeccaRHelm

Hi all, friendly neighborhood biologist here again. Going to repost this thread as a reminder that the science of human sex is incredibly complex. We the people must understand this

Parveen Atwal - #AllLivesMatter

ParveenAtwal3

1/ I'm pinning this in response to two private messages from two men telling me that I'm "encouraging" racism in my tweet about the misrepresentation of Britain's past in television

Lizanne Foster

LizanneFoster

Dear White Friends,Please, no more pledges to end racism.Do something. Please.Are there Black people or Indigenous People in positions of power where you work? Where you shop? Where you bank?1/

Fake History Hunter

fakehistoryhunt

I'm writing a bit about literacy in Medieval Europe and just wanted to share the lovely writings 7 year old Onfim who lived in the 13th century left behind.He wrote

Dublin Civic Trust

dubcivictrust

What is that elephant in the room, the curious rendered building amongst the (demolished) brick houses of Dublin's Hardwicke Street? It had a chequered historic as a house, a convent,

Clue

clue

How did menstruation become taboo? A thread There are over 5,000 euphemisms for the word 'period' dating back to old religious texts such as the Bible and the Quran. “…in

Tanvi Madan

tanvi_madan

Much concern in India (+elsewhere) today abt China's increasing influence & economic presence globally. Less known is that these concerns go back to the 1950s/1960s. Here's what USG called an

Marcel Dirsus

marceldirsus

I came across a collection of election posters for the German centre-right CDU (Merkel's party) starting in 1946 and they provide such an interesting window into modern history. A thread

Carl Zha

CarlZha

I don’t expect much of #Mulan but gf wants to see it so I will do a Thread on actual history of the legend of Mulan. Mulan is well

Sonal🇮🇳

Dharm_gatha

Mother Cow: An emblem of Vedic Culture part 3Nehru: The Pandit who supported cow slaughter.When the Britishers were in India they used to follow two policies, make the Indians ashamed

Lyn Alden

LynAldenContact

Broad money growth generally occurs in one of two ways: either banks lend and create deposits (and thus increase the money multiplier, M2/MB) or when bank lending seizes up, governments

Pádraig Ó Sé 🇪🇺

osheaucc

This story of the polio epidemic in Cork, which lead to the formation of Cork Poliomyelitis Association, which later became the ⁦@CopeFoundation⁩. Cope supports with over 2300 with intellectual disabilities

David B. Roueche

auburn_windengr

This failure mechanism is always remarkable, but is unfortunately quite common, and doesn't usually require very high wind speeds (relatively speaking) to occur. It happens when the weakest link in

Pedro Guertler

enfinnEU

'Why save energy?' - through the medium of public information films over the years - only in this thread. Hope to do other countries, and commercials, some other time.

#BreadBae

EatWithNia

Yall ret-ta talk about red velvet? https://twitter.com/EatWithNia/status/1320843175032987654 Hate it or love it red velvet cake is that girl. Always in the middle of a controversy, red velvet has a long