#Independence

4 years ago today, Beyoncé released Lemonade. Winner of a Peabody award and topping several decade-end lists, it became the most awarded album ever. Here’s a thread reviewing the themes
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The Pentagon’s deputy inspector general Glenn Fine resigned today. Last month, Pres Trump removed Fine as chairman of the committee overseeing $2 trillion in emergency Covid-19 funds. IGs are under
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Thread : Partition of Punjab- Timeline 1947Partition of Punjab in 1947 was the subset of partition of India. But it has certain peculiar features. The most obvious was the presence
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1. This History Thread is about sabotage in Burma (Myanmar) from cutting British colonial telegraph lines to hacking websites. Sabotage as a tactic is: destroying or damaging infrastructure or other
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Indian Right Wing (for the lack of a better and appropriate term) MUST stand with the #BlackLivesMatter .I will explain "why" in a series of tweets so bear with me.
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Really excited for Dr. Patrick Ball of @hrdag's talk. His background is quantitative analysis for evaluating human rights violations, e.g., for truth commissions. @UCSF_Epibiostat #SamplingKnowledgeHub #epitwitter This guy's incredi
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NNAMDI AZIKIWE'S ADDRESS TO THE IGBO PEOPLE IN 1949!Read & Retweet!In the following address given eleven years before Nigerian independence, Nnamdi Azikiwe calls for self-determination for the IGBO as they
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The origins of Mizoram and the conflict in North East India:Recently, 6 soldiers of Assam police were martyred defending territorial boundaries of Assam from Mizoram encroachers backed by Mizoram police.This
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The conservatives have been in power for almost a decade. It's not gone well. Don't vote conservative. Even if they promise the moon on a stick. Which they will. https://www.ft.com/content/8075e68c-7857-11e8-8e67-1e1a0846c475
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"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." George Washington 1st POTUS#4thofJuly "one useless man is a
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Waziristan – Militancy and violence through the last 100 years. Thread on the military campaigns against, and of the tribesmen of Waziristan. 3rd Anglo-Afghan War-1919: The Pashtun tribesmen had long
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From tomorrow, I will be doing a thread following Giuseppe Garibaldi's "Spedizione dei Mille" (Expedition of the Thousand) to conquer Sicily and southern Italy (Kingdom of the Two Sicilies), as
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Thread: What is the ShadowNet? The Snowden connection. 1.https://twitter.com/CowgirlCas22/status/1297226457505300481?s=20 2. There has been a buzz on social media lately about the documentary "Shadow Gate." This is nothing new fol
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THREAD: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow. I went with him on his route today. He graduated from Marietta High School in 1975 and took
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#ReadingSession - #Thread on "Report of the Task Force on an IT Strategy for PDS and an implementable solution for the direct transfer of subsidy for Food and Kerosene" -
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United StatesCoronavirus Cases:1,910,392Deaths:109,448Florida Showing 1419 new cases yesterday. Coronavirus Cases:1,926,341Deaths:110,256FloridaCoronavirus Cases:60,183Deaths:2,610So far. No updates for today yet. United StatesCoronavirus C
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