#Coastal

Keith Davidson

AnotherFineTwit

THREAD: Historian Simon Webb provides the history of the song ‘Rule Brittannia’.Referring to @BBC’s consideration of Rule Britannia as a Nationalistic song celebrating slavery, Simon said “It’s hard to explain

Adrianna Tan 陈丽珍

skinnylatte

China believes all ethnic Chinese people should take its side on.. everything. That you should also be subject to its laws, especially if you sell books. It doesn’t care what’s

Tess

penguin_tereza

1 #ISTC20 #Sesh9 Oystercatchers are a genus of globally distributed #waders with eleven extant species. Their morphologies and ecologies are so similar that their interspecific relationships and evolutionary history have

Libs and Museums

BoltonLMS

This week we are going #AroundTheWorld for #MuseumAtHome!What links North West England to deepest, darkest Peru?Clue: it’s not @paddingtonbear!(1/6) In 1895 William Smithies, a Warrington based textile worker, moved to

Africa Archives

Africa_Archives

The Partition of Africa #ThreadIt began in earnest with the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, and was the cause of most of Africa’s borders today. This conference was called by German

Financial Times

FinancialTimes

What’s going on in Jersey? The dispute between France and the UK has escalated on the island. Here is what you need to knowhttps://on.ft.com/3b5QoPH Boris Johnson has dispatched two Royal

manvir singh

mnvrsngh

People often assume that hunter-gatherers only lived in nomadic, egalitarian bands. But throughout history, HGs built societies as complex & stratified as those of many agriculturalists. My new favorite example

yunus emre açıkgönül

yeacikgonul

1. I posted a chain of tweets yesterday about Eastern Mediterranean maritime delimitation. Many positive feedbacks suggested me to connect these tweets. It will be a repeat, but I will

Sal Mercogliano 🚢⚓🧭🐪🚒

mercoglianos

1/Colonial Pipeline, key source of fuel for the eastern seaboard, closed due to cyberattack What is the alternative to the Colonial Pipeline, which opened in 1962? The pipeline was built

Trinh

Trinhnomics

The best way to see America's future is to look at increasingly stressed, depressed, and lonely Americans. They used to be fit, happy, and confident. Fast forward to 2020, they're

Yannick Veilleux-Lepage

YVeilleuxLepage

The arrest of an armed Manitoba Canadian Forces reservist comes in the immediate aftermath of a protest on Parliament Hill during #CanadaDay. Hundreds of far-right protesters descended on #Ottawa to

Colin Angus

VictimOfMaths

Today @ONS have published data on drug-related deaths in 2019 in England & Wales.This shows deaths at a record high, but for me the really interesting story is the age

𓂋𓂋𓂋

nidaaro

Did y’all know that black slaves was being legally sold in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (the holiest city in Islam) up until the 60s? Ok here’s a thread. Islam as a

fren

RamKiJanki

छान!We CLAIM to be a tribe of Jews? Then how come no chitpavan कुळवृत्तान्त (detailed directory of a clan) ever recorded such a thing?A thread on our ancestry.https://twitter.com/ashokkmrsingh/status/1290488765

Joe Barnes

Barnes_Joe

1/ Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen will speak about the latest in the Brexit talks later today. For the Brits, this isn't expected to deliver a breakthrough. Sticking

CBC British Columbia

cbcnewsbc

LIVE: B.C. health officials provide COVID-19 update for April 12, 2021 #covid19 #covid19bc https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1dRKZNgbpMVKB NEW: B.C. has recorded 3,289 new COVID-19 cases over a three-day period. Fri-Sat = 1,283Sat-Sun =