#Biography

Yusuf Madu

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TWENTY REASONS WHY QUEEN AMINA OF ZARIA NEVER EXISTEDBy Ndagi Abdullahi1 – The earliest Zaria traditions never mentioned Queen Amina of Zaria. 2 – The people of Zaria first heard

Brian Jay Jones

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It’s #NationalCoffeeDay, so let’s spend just a bit talking about one of the greatest coffee salesmen of all time: Jim Henson, who helped put Washington, DC’s Wilkins Coffee company on

Tathagata Roy

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Yesterday @SudheenKulkarni held forth on Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee on his birthday abusing him through total lies and half-truths. Perhaps a few people were impressed,bcz Sudheendraji has traveled thru 3

Manouk Akopyan

ManoukAkopyan

.@esrailian executed Kirk Kerkorian's vision to perfection to produce a film about the Armenian Genocide.Eric deserves a lot of credit for making a movie that meant the most to the

🌀Black Archaeology🌀

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African Game of Thrones The Black Pharaohs: The Kings of Kush – Egypt’s 25th Dynastyhttps://mobile.eurweb.com/2016/03/black-pharaohs-the-kings-of-kush-egypts-25th-dynasty/amp/?__twitter_impression=true#BlackHistoryMonth #bhm #egypt Bl

Wumbolo🇨🇳

wumbolo

(1/9) Epstein had multiple trolls insert PR into Wikipedia articles about him and downplay his crimes. Smallbones, a Wikipedia editor, wrote an article about it for the wiki's news publication,

SelfMadeHero

SelfMadeHero

“WHEN YOU CAN’T KEEP GOING, GO FASTER!” This famous quotation, by the Olympic runner and Czech national hero Emil Zátopek, has struck a new chord here at SelfMadeHero. It hasn’t

Marc Owen Jones

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[Thread] 1/ In the UK aggressive online attacks on the press and journalists continue following the #DominicCummings scandal. The "scum media" hashtag seems to be escalating. This thread is an

Brett MacDonald

TweetBrettMac

Now Reading: TR on the Civil War and pride of southerners: TR's father would donate his time to the education of orphaned boys and organizations that fought animal cruelty. One

Alexandra Lange

LangeAlexandra

Thrilled about this: gorgeous Ruth Asawa stamps coming in 2020 @usps https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2020/0403-usps-reveals-additional-stamps-for-2020.htm I’ve been obsessed with Ruth Asawa for a long time, first wrote about her in

ronald ulysses swanson

Iamnot_nkulieb

There’s this woman on tiktok who posts recipes but in the voice over she gives updates about her ending of her marriage and how she found out her ex was

Kris McNeill

krismcneill

I got the sad news that last Sunday night Prof. Tom Dunne of Reed College passed away in his sleep of natural causes (age 89). Tom was my undergraduate thesis

Ams

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My favorite sports anime and manga list. And a sports series recommendation thread. https://twitter.com/blueiswholesome/status/1299444500780130304 Ashita no JoeOne of the best written and influential stories to come out of Japan. It's

Gilo

seaofcomplicity

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/putsch-of-pall-mall-shatters-the-calm-at-gentlemens-travellers-club-ljsfmdgr3Another club, another cleric?Fascinating to see these links between upper crust London clubs and senior clerics. Ven Canon David Stanton i

Ana 😷

Ana__George

I’m going to start a thread of all of the books I read in 2021! ‘LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay’ by Warren KozakA well written

North American Society for Intelligence History

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The stereotype in US #intelligence intelligence is that officers on the operations write autobiographies while analysts write journal articles. But there are a few analysts who have written autobiographies or