#Historical

Matt Levine

Matt_Levine_1

Quick thread highlighting a potentially hot take for fellow data nerds about the @FiveThirtyEight NFL Prediction Model (yes, they do much more than just electoral politics):I've long suspected that the

Rose Petals

Rosyrosepetalia

not gonna lie but im sick of how people can act delebritly obtuse in conversation around hijab and how traumatic it can be . (Thread) everybody can understand it when

Ruchika Sharma

tishasaroyan

The kind of destruction that never gets talked about in popular historical discourse in India is the temple destruction wrought by many rulers in the subcontinent much before Islam entered

Ian Bennie

Ian_Bennie_

All jokes aside, this attention Duggs is getting UT is so good for recruiting. These recruits are going to be able to get paid for their likeness, so social media

Irishmonk

castlvillageman

As January 2021 comes closer for the British . I am aware that at high levels in the EU there is a certain exasperation that "all countries are ... etc

SomaliVeteran 🇬🇷

SomaliVeteran

Was Alexander the Great Somali?Thread: Alexander the great is a well known historical figure, a great conquering king, and magnificent warrior, but what is not as well known are his

Nigel Fletcher

nigelfletcher

OK, enough of silence. Others have been braver and more honest. I’ve held off my direct criticism of Cummings for years, as I haven’t wanted to revisit the personal anguish

Ibn Maghreb

IbnMaghrebi

May start a regular thread where I share an interesting paper in full. Recently discovered the scholarship of Dr. Lipton after the recent publication of his Rethinking Ibn Arabi that

Maia Bittner 🚘☕️🍃💫

maiab

I'm part of two angel groups: one based in San Francisco and one in NYC. Our monthly meetings happened to be within 12 hours of each other this month, and

こつよせ

be_wormholed

fun fact: While some foreigners who brag about "knowledge" of Japanese history, learning from Kurosawa films, criticize portrait of "pride" samurai in Ghost of Tsushima, JP people jokingly dissatisfied with

Alex Andreou

sturdyAlex

Remember the 40% higher rule-of-thumb I explained a couple of weeks ago, based on other countries’ deaths in care homes and confirmed by Scottish data? Latest ONS data matches it

Madison Griffiths

madrgriffiths

The times I was a "failing university student" was because: (1) I was struggling trying to understand the mechanics of being at university, given I was the first person in

Zoe Baker

anarchopac

The vast majority of historical anarchist and Marxist theory was spread among workers by short articles in papers and pamphlets, rather than big books. Social movements always tried to make

katherine maría☽・⋆ .✫*ﾟ♥

rudimentl

i understand the beauty in being in community w one another but social distancing is not selective and to break it to take a pic w a settler state flag

Grudgerito Intanius

Intanius_V

Today we shall discuss an interesting Johnny Cash LP in the following thread. "Johnny Cash sings Ballads of the True West", as well as discussing some relevant historical info whenever

Robert Young Pelton

RYP__

Happy "White Grifter Sails to Wrong Continent and Shit Starts to Get Weird" Dayhttps://daily.jstor.org/when-native-americans-were-slaves/ In my ongoing writing of the Kony book I dug deeply into the ancient charts used