#Century

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coldtakesonly

I've lived thru six elections, this will be my seventh. Every year it seems like ppl have the same exact conversations, the discourse never changes. We relive it every four

HistoryandHeritageYorkshire

GenealogyBeech

Now more likely to be considered a nuisance, pigeons and doves were considered a valuable source of all year round meat, feathers for furnishings and their waste products as manure.

בנימן | Benjamin

yehudi_eyif

Netanyahu is terrible in lots of ways, and absolutely deserves criticism and resistance, but this is some antisemitic BS. A brief history of Ashkenazi last names, and why the fact

Eleanor Parker

ClerkofOxford

St Catherine and her wheel, in medieval glass from Christ Church, Oxford. Today is her feast, once known as 'Catterns Day'.Catherine was a very popular saint, patron of young women

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Theatrics868

Firstly, you cannot understand the “Fancy Indian”/ “Red Indian” or any other ole Mas character without firstly understanding the Carnival which is a celebration of inversion, role reversal and a

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GENmag

The Black Death of the 14th century changed the course of history. The coronavirus has the potential to do the same. @SteveLevine explores what we might learn about our future

Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley

lottelydia

IMAGINE claiming to be a twenty first century feminist and then writing an op-ed with a standfirst that says "the basic biological distinction between a woman and a man" is

MatondoMasterclass

CymruOlly

A thread on potatoes, the history of the potato and their versatility The potato is a root vegetable native to the Americas, a starchy tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum, and the plant itself, a perennial in the family Solanaceae. ( Not nabbed

Kristine Rose-Beers

iamkristinesr

Book conservators working from home and in need of inspiration? Let’s see what we can find to read... (MS No.A2127, Dioscorides’ Materia Medica, 13th century, @topkapi_sarayi ) #ConservationBookClub #CBLconservation Still

mani marie

themanimarie

i always feel mad uncomfortable when people ask me when i lost my virginity as if it holds value some people ask just to be like oh when did you

Marijn "i before j" van Putten

PhDniX

There are several letters of the prophet to several heads of state, which have been recorded in literary sources.There are some documents out there, which are said to be the

Soteriology101 🎤

Soteriology101

Imagine what Calvinists would be saying if all the early church fathers regularly extolled the idea of individuals being predestined to effectual salvation until a 4th century convert from Africa

MustafaHaji_

mustafahaji_

ROHIT SHARMA- The Hitman.Here is a thread of all memorable perfomances of Rohit Sharma in T20 Internationals of his career.Rohit has played 111 T20Is and made whopping 2864 runs with

Daniel Bellingradt

dbellingradt

The known world ("mundo") of the European polymath Ramon Llull around 1300 in a self drawn map:"africa" - in the upper part. A mosque, tall buildings."Asia" - in the lower

Baron Dipitous

BDipitous

This is something I've said before, but I know someone needed to hear this today, so I'm repeating it: Being a teen/young adult is freaking hard. Add a pandemic on

Xueting Christine Ni 倪雪亭

xuetingni

Many have been saying that there aren't any Chinese lit in translation that aren't from decades ago. That might have been true last century. It also depends on the tastes