#Historical

I'm all for these lavish super serious high fantasy adaptions of the Chinese folklore, but when am I going to get a comedy about THE GHOST THAT PRETENDS TO SPEAK
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As of Saturday 11 April, there have been 6.5 deaths per 100,000 people in Ireland.There have been 14.81 deaths per 100,000 people in the UK.Guys, people have been dying at
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How divination is like psychotherapy: a thread on healing, culture, and colonialism. (This thread jump off from my previous thread on how colonialist academic psychology denigrates astrology and divination as
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this seems fun so- fic rec bingo, my thread: this'll probably be done throughout multiple days bc i don't think i can do it all in one sitting. also, there's
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Black Activists on Anti-Imperialism: "As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the
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A one-image-a-day thread for #NationalPetMonth. Hans Asper's 1538 portrait of Cleophea Krieg von Bellikon (now in @KunsthausZurich), with her cat and dog having a bit of a 'krieg' (war) themselves
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Good morning. We're now into the 8th month of the #COVID19 pandemic. In the United States, we've learned that plans for scale-up of testing were abandoned after being far along
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54 Facts about Guyana on its 54th Anniversary of IndependenceA THREAD 1. The Name Guyana or Guiana is an Indigenous Word meaning "land of water" 2. The Official name is
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1) What was "hurling" like in medieval Ireland (...or what game did Cú Chulainn play?). A twitter 'lecture' with images, texts and weblinks, during the Covid-19 lockdown #camogie #hurling #medieval
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#Malawi might be a country you haven't heard of or can't locate on a map but it surely does have strong, independent institutions! +1! I have provided social & political
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1/ Here are my 6 favorite research pieces of 2019 making the case for global investing...First up, @CreditSuisse with their "GlobalInvestment Returns Yearbook 2019"This is the yearly update to my
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Bill Gates reads 1-2 hours every day and always carries a book with him.Today he's worth 125+ BILLION dollars.Here are 20 books @BillGates recommends reading: 1/"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Do you ever wonder why it feels like the Internet has made us collectively dumber, despite the fact that it increases individual access to information?The answer lies in the concept
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The totalizing narrative coming from the Oromo side doesn’t sit right with me either. But I don’t think minimizing/glossing over the damages done in the process of state building, thereby
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Ok folks, so since Gilgit-Baltistan has been in news quite a bit in the past few days and weeks, let me share some perspective on PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan.In this thread,
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As of today, there have been 320 deaths from the coronavirus in Ireland, and 9,875 deaths in the UK. Ok, ok, but the UK has a ginormous population, right? Especially
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