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It’s National Poetry Day! A thread…We are sharing poems with our classes today to celebrate National Poetry Day. We have chosen some favourite poems – linked in this thread, along

1) Listening to Aoun speaking, analysts may question the poor PR work that lead to what will go down in history as one of the worst performances of leadership at

Tweeting Historians

The Byzantines often tried to assimilate barbarians by resettling groups of them in other parts of the empire. But this worked at cross-purposes to another desire: to use the barbarians’

One thing I would like to add to this thread is that Byzantine iconoclasm was not inherently religious, but was connected to the emperors inabilities to thwart the Arab attacks

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Breaking the Byzantine SystemThe arc-of-history narrative cites two disasters in particular that both reflected and precipitated Byzantine decline: the Battle of Manzikert and the 4th Crusade.The systems approach unambiguously fingers

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele

1) A thread on Constantinople, inaugurated by Constantine I #OTD 11 May 330.After his final victory over his last remaining imperial rivial Licinius in 324, Constantine chose the city of

حسن سجواني 🇦🇪 Hassan Sajwani

On 6-7th Sept 1965, marks the 65th anniversary of the #Pogrom of #Constantinople (Istanbul) when #Turkey launched ethnic cleansing and eliminated the #Greek #Orthodox Minority. The lethal #pogrom of September

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A thread about the Turks did not take the lands of armenians by force:The territory in which the armenians lived together for a time never was ruled by them as

Byzantine Emporia

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Surge Capacity and SurvivalByzantium was able to survive so many crises because its surge capacity: when the borders exploded, it had plenty of buffer to work with.Similar to any network

Today is #NationalColorDay, and colors are a vital element of icons. The natural pigments used in egg tempera icons are so rich that even after hundreds of years the colors

Hannah Kennedy Online™

I have yet to publish the majority of the art I contributed to @OuterWorlds , so I'll be slowly sharing/discussing some that work hereThe Outer Worlds Concept Art Thread: Medium

The continued wait for ETH's transition to PoS reminds me of this passage from @nntaleb's The Black Swan. Update:https://www.coindesk.com/metropolis-today-shifting-plans-ethereums-next-big-upgrade/ Update:https://www.coindesk.com/ethereums-by

So to pass the time in quarantine I'm gonna make a thread on all the builds I've done so far in my current MC world. All builds are directly based

One common lie spewed by "secular" Nehruvian historians is that the Rajputs and other Hindu / Buddhist kingdoms were divided and thus fell to the Mlecha Islamic armies. Let's address

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THREAD ON THE SLAVERY OF THE ROMA Did you know that Romani people were slaves to Wallachian and Moldavian nobility, the Orthodox monasteries, and the state from the 14th century

Sean W. Anthony

The earliest description of Europe (أروفى|urūfā, not أوروبا; from Εὐρώπη) in Arabic literature comes from a book called *Routes and Realms* by Ibn Khordāḏbeh (fl. 800s CE), by the caliph’s