#Historical

Fake History Hunter

fakehistoryhunt

Almost 2000 years ago Claudia Severa, wife of Aelius Brocchus, commander of an unidentified fort somewhere in northern England, wrote to Sulpicia Lepidina, wife of Flavius Cerialis, commander at Vindolanda.

Irette

Irette

I was gonna reply to this tweet but it was getting long and didn’t want to highjack OP’s thread.These are my opinions, okay? Gross generalizations ahead.Because of all the open

Nigeria Stories

NigeriaStories

All you need to know about The "Igbo Landing" story of 1803Retweet to educate someone p In May 1803, around 75 Igbo slaves who were being transported by sea revolted

Astrid

sel3nette

Predictions about #YouthofMay based on the real historical event (Gwangju Uprising) and what I read about it...The nurse Myunghee will nurse the wounded & the dead. Heetae will take part

c0nc0rdance

c0nc0rdance

Let's talk about contingency in the history of life on Earth. Stephen Jay Gould, in "Wonderful Life" asked the question: what if we could 'rewind' the tape of life to

ΑΛΔ

makadiwata

Tulog na ba ang mga ka-Pacific Islander? Dahil hindi mamatay-matay ang isyu na ito, gawan natin ng thread. (English ahead.) Are Filipinos Pacific Islander? NO. It's easy to mistake Pacific

Louise Milligan

Milliganreports

THREAD: 1. Man refuses interview with journalist fairly putting claims to him or to answer questions. Man’s lawyers instruct journalist to destroy their own letters to her. Journalist gobsmacked at

MARTEGRACIA

martegracia

Okay, you ready for a big thread? To talk about this page is to talk about my childhood in México in the 90's.I was 12 years old in 1992 and

Dominique Day

dominiqus

An interview on our fact-finding mission to Belgium (translation in the comments). #WGEPAD #fightracism https://twitter.com/mondiaalnieuws/status/1095756783392641025 1/Dominique Day gives a preliminary report on the UN panel: They do not shun the

Jacob F Kirkegaard

jfkirkegaard

As an early adopter of the "Hamiltonian Moment" description of what has recently happened in the EU with the new FR-DE proposal and now the EUR750bn @EU_Commission pplan that now

Adrian Lee Oliver

AdrianLeeOliver

In the same way that it is said that the Trump presidency has politically polarized every corner of discourse in America, it is clear that these national protests — largely

Dr Christian Hoggard

CSHoggard

It was a pleasure to lead a mega three-hour session on GMM to Japanese archaeologists, enthusiasts and researchers (w. @fujimicho, @benmarwick). Here is a mega-thread on GMM and Archaeology! 1/25

Problematic Naruto Fanfiction

wildheart1991

I'm seeing discourse about racism within fantasy coding especially as it concerns Orcs and Tolkein's writing, so I want to signpost people to Lindsay Ellis' video essay on Why Bright

Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa ✶

CDRosa

I'm here to tell you that preservation is at it's core anti-capitalist. To be a preservationist is to recognize that our built environment has value and importance beyond the value

Marina Amaral

marinamaral2

This is probably the only photograph of nine reigning kings gathered in the same room ever taken. They were in London for the funeral of King Edward VII. Windsor Castle,

Undercover Huber

JohnWHuber

A total of 61 SCOTUS justices have been nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court since the turn of the last century (1900)70% of these (43 Justices) were confirmed in