#WWII

Ben Smoke

bencsmoke

we've been building to this moment through successive conservative prime ministers. from cameron's vote for prisoners tantrum to may threatening to rip up the HRA every time someone exhaled, this

Alexandra Evans

AlexandraTEvans

After reading this thought provoking piece in @ForeignAffairs, I keep returning to one paragraph early in essay...https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2020-04-13/end-grand-strategy Alas, it's more than my allotted characters: I wonder if

Paddy Docherty 3.5%

paddydocherty

I’ve been researching female agency in anticolonial resistance and it’s an extremely interesting subject… I’ll be publishing on this in due course but can’t help sharing some pics here… (ongoing

Death, Sex & Money

deathsexmoney

It’s #NationalImmigrantsDay! THREAD: Spend some time today with our new episode, featuring listeners from immigrant families sharing how they’re talking with their relatives right now about identity, racism, and the

Wyatt, Austere Deplorable

Western2A

A little over two decades later, America’s entry into WWII came when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, killing over 2,400 American servicemen and civilians.https://twitter.com/Nimron6/status/1246911609903165444 But far from

James

jmrose71

1/39 Something personal this week.On 26th October 1944, @NavywingsUK Fleet Air Arm 1771 Squadron flew twice over Norway's Coast on an operation to search and destroy German U-boats and shipping,

JacksAngle

JacksAngle

Reasons why Swansea City is objectively better than Cardiff City - a thread: Cardiff City have never spent consecutive season in the EPL. Swansea City spent 7 consecutive seasons in

Help for Eros

MediocreDave

Huffington Post is reporting a soon to be announced government scheme to recruit furloughed workers and students to take up short term seasonal work picking fruit and veg to cover

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spammkin

✡︎ Dutch Jewry ✡︎A thread on the history of Dutch Jews because I’m bored and I am Dutch Jew. ✡︎ ORIGINS ✡︎It’s speculated the earliest Jews arrived in the Low

Mike

MikeyRocksLang

So @AaronRodgers12 makes this comment about stay at home orders being akin to “house arrest.” Look this is gonna be a thread so get ready. Hey Aaron in what world

Lucy

lucy_brownson

[thread] they say a picture’s worth 1000 words, & as naff as that expression may be, this one certainly is. this is a portrait of Evelyn Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of

Ludwig Fiehn

richardfiehn

#39CSustain @39CSustain #airpollutionLA #LAairhistory #carsThe air pollution in the Los Angeles area is not a new problem, as people have been suffering from dirty air there for over 80 yearshttps://www.aqmd.gov/home/research/publications/50-years-of

Yoni Appelbaum

YAppelbaum

1. A century ago, an architect at McKim, Mead & White had a problem. He was working on New York’s General Post Office , and needed an inscription long enough

Austin

austingcommons

It’s striking to me that the squabbling among the US armed services about their roles in a Pacific conflict is taking place around the anniversary of the Falklands War. The

Ministry of Culture 🇹🇼

CulturalTaiwan

#Taiwan's National Human Rights Museum launches new site introducing 45 #WhiteTerror sites of injustice to commemorate the #228Incident. https://hsi.nhrm.gov.tw/home/zh-tw/injusticelandmarks The Liuzhangli cemeteries in #Taipei's Xi

Carmen

carmondos

Eglantine Perreaux: BAD ASS!Settle in for a short but AMAZING story about an amazing woman: an artist, a WWII revolutionary, a baker. (link at end) Born Feb 2, 1912 in