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Natalie 🌿🏕️🍄🛐
Kiautschii
Crowns are expensive, unwieldy, usually gaudy and justify hereditary authoritarian power structures - in other words really cool, and Europe has loads, all with interesting histories and confusing origins, so
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Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir
TurkishFacade
With the recent discussions on changing #HagiaSophia's status from a museum to a mosque, I wanted to share with you a few articles I wrote over the years based on
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Virginia Heffernan
page88
Btw am I the only one who has this symbol in my head today and wonders if it’s circulating on 8chan or a Pyncheon subreddit in light of recent USPS
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"michael lutz?"
WarrenIsDead
let me just say that everyone who's responded to this with jokes about rise of skywalker or comments on star wars's problems with representation cannot even begin to comprehend what
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Tobi Lutke 🌳🌲🛒🕹
tobi
Hey Video game industry - we need to talk. I know it's hard to break with orthodoxy but you are playing a new role now in the world of social
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Francesca Tacchi 🫒 Italian history & shitposting
jackdaw_writes
It's time for my #ItalianHistory thread! On popular demand, I'll be talking aboutTHE GOTHIC WARaka the war between the Ostrogoths and the Byzantines for the control of the Italian peninsula,
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Pierre A. Colombier
PAColombier
The current state of greco-roman-byzantine vestiges in inland Anatolia.Everything is abandonned by Turkey (to be fair, even the cities are).@byzantinepower 1. Theatre of Nicaea/Nikaia (modern Iznik). 2. Walls of Nicaea/Nikaia
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Paul Gambles
PaulGambles2
Worst year in history?Not 2020-1070 Norman genocide killed 3/4 of the popn of Northern England1349 Black Death killed 1/2 popn of Europe1520 smallpox killed 60-90% of indigenous popn of the
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Gökçe
OddOneOut07
Finally had the time to make this thread.I'll start w/ a well-known Ottoman Sultan: Suleiman the Magnificent. His relief portrait is in the House Chamber in the U.S. CapitolHis father
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❄️❄️The Confessor ❄️❄️ #EndSARS
Kokuhaku_sha
The Fall of Constantinople - A Thread What were you doing at 18? At 21? Chances are, you weren't quite as baller as our Turkish prodigy here in Mehmed II,
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A Talking Abby Denton?!
mizabitha
It is grimly funny that Elizabeth Warren betrayed every single ideal she claimed to have in order to be Joe Biden's vice president and ended up losing to Amy Klobuchar,
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Dan Seeman
DantweetsCA
We have the dubious distinction of leading the feds on this in California with over 5,000 separate criminal provisions in our penal code. All of this byzantine complexity and over-criminalization
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Harmony
harmonyprotocol
Secure, Random State Sharding Harmony has transcended the blockchain trilemma by bringing the best research to production. Sharding is proven to scale blockchains without compromising #security and #decentralization. We divide
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🔱Solaryan Spartan🌋
SolarianSpartan
Thread on the Art of Joan Francesc OliverasJoan Oliveras is a Spanish digital artist who creates gorgeous detailed designs of cultures & characters from antiquity. He paints cultures from all
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Chris DeCicco
chris_decicco
As someone who grew up Catholic, I’ve always been used to religious imagery, including statues & other forms of religious artWalking into an old Gothic Cathedral is an experience involving
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ܠܒܢܢܝܐ 🇱🇧
lebanesefront
Beirut Port disasters throughout history (thread)1- Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon (c. 605 BC – c. 562 BC) destroyed Beirut port in 586 BC before invading Jerusalem. 2- The mercenaries
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