#Century

Brasil Football 🇧🇷

BrasilEdition

Today, Mané Garrincha, the second best Brazilian footballer of all time would’ve turned 87 years old. But who is Garrincha?A beautiful yet heartbreaking story 290 Career goalsx2 FIFA World

Stephen Fisher

SeaSpitfires

The #selfie stick: a military history thread.Selfie sticks have, of course, been around as long as the wheel. But despite this, their use in the military can only be traced

👻 Mystic Mansion 👻

TeamDarkRonnie

Thread of everything I hate about Ult :https://twitter.com/Bankai_ZS/status/1318598875163332609 Movement does not feel that good due to the input delay, buffer system, and some other movement quirks, feels like I'm not

Jeb J. Card

ahtzib

On UFOs and the paranormal and power, some thoughts.Note, I respect everyone so far in this conversation, I think they all have done serious research on this and don't disagree,

Burckhardt

BasedBurckhardt

1) This is my cover photo. It has been since I started this account. It's an anonymous painting from 1650 depicting the hanging and burning of Girolamo Savonarola in the

Roger Mac Ginty

rogermacginty

Twitter, I need your help. Has anyone any thoughts on why the name Isabella might have been so popular in Scotland in the nineteenth century? There seem to be an

Steven Johnson

stevenbjohnson

Is the doubling of global life expectancy just a statistical sleight-of-hand? I get this a lot. Adults aren’t *really* living longer, the argument goes; it’s just that infant mortality has

Mark Copelovitch

mcopelov

Nothing the Fed does is apolitical. The politics are just different from those in other political institutions.https://twitter.com/zachdcarter/status/1300500020924485632 The creation of the Fed was one of the epic political battles of

George#DTNotMyPrez

Numbers28

Up to April, officials of this reactionary, racist, xenophobic, pathological lying and pro-apartheid Russian NRA GOP regime were warning Americans to take heed that COVID-19 was serious even as the

The Museum of English Rural Life

TheMERL

Ok, we found something amazing and we demand you to come on a journey with us: A lot of our offices are like this.The usual depressing office furniture, the utilitarian

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

Watching this hearing is making me angrier and angrierThis is a massive, coordinated apologia for one of the most shameless traitors ever to work in our government—Mike Flynn—who was working

Jazz

JazzElves

In the middle of the first century CE, there were a series of letters written by a religious leader to some of the communities they oversaw. One of them in

technorationalist

_infinitography

My conviction grows stronger that the history of the origins of modern science will only get out of the self-indulgent swamp of the "discourse" departments by a radical and quick

Swordo

Swordo9

Literature, in a non-trivial sense, is inherently reactionary at heart. For instance, the great authors and artists of the twentieth century were considered reactionaries - and for good reason. Pound,

David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel) 🏳️‍🌈

DavidOBowles

It's been a while since my last major etymological thread, but I was eating some great spicy food yesterday and decided it was time for ....Mexican X, Part XVIIHot Xalapeños!

CHRIS YUU OR NOTHING

cytakigawa

what if georgie comes back to life but is still the same age as when he died so bill has to be both his sibling and his parent. helping georgie