#Century

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

BiruniKhorasan

The Afghan Persian word for hospital is "Shifa Khane" (شیفا خانه): "House of Health".The Iranian Persian word for hospital is "Bimaristan" (بیمارستان): "Place of Sickness".I think the Afghan version is

Simon Grindrod

SimonPGrindrod

For half a Century, SA had a racist system of laws, brutally enforced to deny opportunity & dignity on the basis of skin colour - and totally dispossess millions of

Justin Stearns

kaohu11

Off the top of my head thread on (modern) scholars of plague in the Middle East (apologies in advance/add more!) Starting with Michael Dols, who wrote the first comprehensive survey

Dean "Just call me Desdinova" Baratta بطبطبط

TwShiloh

I’m now at the point where I have to conside that the elections in November will be:1) disrupted to the point where they won’t be seen as legitimate by a

Congresswoman Kendra Horn

RepKendraHorn

99 years ago, thousands of Oklahomans lost their lives, homes and businesses in one of the worst acts of racially-motivated violence in our nation’s history, the Tulsa Race Massacre. This

Guillermo del Toro

RealGDT

‘Hellboy II’ Just Missed the Superhero Boom https://filmschoolrejects.com/hellboy-2-just-missed-the-superhero-boom/ via @OnePerfectShot What allowed the two films to exist, it’s gone. The Bluray DVD performance of the first Hellboy was massive. So

LGA_A320

A320Lga

They definitely were! The American steel industry invested maybe 1/3 of what the Japanese did in steel R&D through the 60s and 70s, were among the last producers to adopt

Matt Glassman

MattGlassman312

Most people are familiar with our separation of powers system. Our Founders had an 18th century mentality, informed by their experiences in the British mixed system, and they set up

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WaskelweeWabbit

You know, I've watched people seek out the American dream for 1/2 a century. Immigrants who came here, longing to make something of themselves, or just to escape tyranny &

Catholic Answers

catholiccom

Alright, let's go. St. Catherine of Siena thread: Catherine was born on the feast of the Annunciation in 1347. She and her twin were the 23rd and 24th children to

shadowed eyes

EyesShadowed

1/12 To kick off @GlosHistFest, which starts 5 Sept, Gloucester Day, took my camera around the Kingsholm Looking Up Art Trail (https://www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/events/kingsholm-looking-up/) this afternoon. I'll thread the res

Louisa 🌈👭

LouisatheLast

Every time I see this statue I lose my mind. How? HOW???https://twitter.com/marinamaral2/status/1385573100163584002 Marble statues are so beautiful especially in person. Like I know intellectually that the ancient Greeks and Romans

gastornis

gastornis17

"Est itaque res diversas convenire eas singulas idem esse vel non esse, ut esse hominem vel album, vel non esse hominem vel non esse album"; "It is then different things

CK

taylorsreput

Madonna, Gaga & Ariana.When Gaga was at her peak, her icon dragged her down. Now that Ariana is at her peak, her icon collabed with her and served a masterpiece.

J. Scappettone

oikost

Upon the removal of the Columbus statue from Grant Park following the protests in Chicago, I find it important as a person of Italian ancestry & citizenship to broadcast the

Max van der Velden

MaxVanDerVelden

THREAD: Adhesive capsulitis: An age related symptom of metabolic syndrome and chronic low-grade inflammation?Summary of this interesting paper of Pietrzak 2016. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26880627 The underlying etiology of adhesive ca