#Century

भारतीय वास्तुकला(Wonderful Indian Architecture)

wiavastukala

Thread on ancient naval defence system of India1)Relief depicting naval vessel, Borobudur Temple, Java(Indonesia)Dated: ~8th century CE or olderEven before the accounts of the 1st century BC, there were written

Deceuninck-QuickStep

deceuninck_qst

Today’s #LaVuelta20 stage started from Logroño, the capital of the La Rioja region, and a former commercial port of the Romans. The city is located some 30 kilometers from

Jim

IslamicOrigins

*Some popular misconceptions about Motzki: a thread* Harald Motzki (d. 2019) was an extremely influential scholar in secular Hadith Studies, best known for his criticisms of Joseph Schacht and Gautier

Carolyn Pointer

CarolynAPointer

Centuries of attempts at genocide, and at erasing their cultures and languages, do not negate that. 3/ Here’s a reading list to help people who are ignorant of actual history.

Jeremy Howard

jeremyphoward

Western doctors didn't believe the young Malaysian-Chinese doctor, Wu Lien-teh, who realized that the 1910 Manchurian Plague was transmitted through the air, and that a simple cotton mask could reduce

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

To continue in a little more detail...I read Ruha Benjamin's Race after Technology first and foremost as an early modernist concerned with technological "projects" and "improvements" in the seventeenth century,

TheValuesVoter

TheValuesVoter

A word to the looters - those who burned buildings, destroyed things and tried to hurt people - whoever you are:You’re not helping the family of George Floyd. You’re not

Katharine Coldiron

ferrifrigida

THREAD I’ve been thinking a lot about the 1918 influenza epidemic, as I’m sure many others have. Here is how I learned about it: These are pages from THE GHOST

jack

giawxbadidea

my review and reactions of chromatica chromatica I- beautiful way to open the album, really makes me feel like i’m walking into chromatica. 8/10 alice - really catchy and

Samantha Power

SamanthaJPower

With long-overdue #ArmenianGenocide recognition seemingly near, it's worth recalling the courage of US diplomats who in 1915 exposed the massacres in real-time, trying in vain to get Washington to help

Reconcile Sylva

ReconcileSylva

*TW for racial violence* This Friday, September 18th, marks the 105th anniversary for the monument dedication ceremony for the Confederate monument in Sylva, NC. Here's a #thread on the history

AIPAC

AIPAC

AIPAC opposes the letter being circulated by @RepAOC—cosigned by @RepJayapal, @RepRashida & @BettyMcCollum04—which explicitly threatens the U.S.-Israel relationship in ways that would damage American interests, risk the security of

Benedict Evans

benedictevans

Every time there’s another big new story about harmful content on a social platform and another flurry of questioning why that platform didn’t find it and stop it, I think

Pratik Sinha

free_thinker

In a way, have to be thankful to Navika Kumar to make people more serious about privacy & security. It is important to know that the leaks are deliberate, and

Stephanie Hans

HansStephanie

Following un my previous post about combination weapons, here is the thread about strange but Fascinating firearms. Please upload more if you have some. The interest started with this gun

Patrick Jonsson - happy goth & occult historian

DrPatHistorian

Swedish proletarian author and spiritualist medium Ebba Richert (1904-1980), photo by Rolf Winquist, 1964. Some of her books were filmed (one starring Viveca Lindfors, Brödernas kvinna 1943). She was introduced