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Yoruba History - by NNP

YorubaHistory

Madam Efunroye Tinubu (c.1810-1887)An Egba woman who acquired wealth & power through participation in the Atlantic slave trade and later the European palm produce trade, as well as from domestic

Yun Jiang

yun_aus

I'll chronicle the books I read here. I'm happy to openly admit that reading is my favourite passtime.I read 90% non-fiction, of which approx 60% is about China. Book recommendations

55ddd55

55ddd551

My fave WangXian and YiZhan fics. In no particular order. A thread!Raiment of Gusu: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20975354/ Wei Wuxian begrudgingly wears the Gusu Lan Sect's distinct white robes >> A short but very,

Protect Democracy

protctdemocracy

5 key takeaways from today’s pivotal #SCOTUSLive arguments in Mazars, Deutsche Bank, & Vance -- all cases dealing with whether or not the president has immunity from accountability #NoOneIsAboveTheLaw #NobodyIsAboveTheLaw

The_Preying_Mantis

Kickass_monk

Tamil identity is linked to the broader Hindu identity. We witness this in Carnatic music, the Bharatanatyam dance form, temple architecture, sculpture, classical literature, politics and overseas trade. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/NTKTrend/stat

Carola Groom

CarolaGroom

Easter weekend in lockdown, a thread of suggestions. Any more welcome. Major museums and art galleries are putting lots more stuff to look at and read about on their websites.

Yogita Limaye

yogital

Thread - Judging past leaders through the lens of the present might leave the world with no heroes at all. But it's hard to make progress without the acceptance of

Khawar Khan

khawar_achakzai

Exodus of Kashmiri Muslims. The word “exodus” has become rhetorical in the Kashmiri political narrative, however, its usage has largely ignored the mass migrations and displacements of poor Muslim peasants

👩🏻‍💻FebyOnline👩🏻‍🎨

febyonline

#CrashLandingOnYou #Cloy A paragliding mishap drops a South Korean heiress in North Korea - and into the life of an army officer, who decides he will help her hide. What

Byzantine Ambassador

byzantinepower

MELKITES – A Thread By C10th, the Arabic language had supplanted both Aramaic – then the lingua franca of the Near East – and Greek, the tongue of poleis (esp

؟ zai

bvditz

a master thread of links + tweets on what’s going on in kashmir right now pls rt !! http://freekashmir.carrd.co .https://twitter.com/blushjoonn/status/1290990502297219073 https://youtu.be/CDpEmvjx12I https://www.vice.com/en_in

🇦🇺 Peter Wallace

PeterWallaceAU

On ANZAC Day 100 years ago, my grandfather, Private Laban Ernest William Wallace (Crab), was in France fighting the Germans on the western front. He enlisted in the New England

Michel Lara

VeraCausa9

A thread on Classical antiquities I've recently found: Limestone funerary stele with antithetical sphinxes. Pairs of opposing sphinxes were used as guardians on funerary monuments & shrines. ca. 475–450 B.C.

True Indology

TIinExile

You are mistaken!समुद्रसङ्गमः was NOT Dara Shikoh's Sanskrit work.It was a TRANSLATION of Dara Shikoh's Persian work Majma-ul-Bahrain. The translation was done by a retinue of Sanskrit writers working directl

Sunny Singh

ProfSunnySingh

Tbf you don’t write a socially conservative fantasies served over seven books if you are left or liberal Token brown people? Check.Foreigner, inter-racial fling? CheckAs long as they all marry

Ben Chia

benbenchia

1/12 (thread)UK government policy in the first half of March is consistent with SAGE putting weight on theories that the UK already had a high prevalence of COVID-19 as a