#Medieval

So. Twitter. I've just had the plumber round. The bath had been leaking & there was a damp patch on the ceiling. We didn't know if it was the pipes
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Allá va, 40 joyitas de Madrid que me suele sorprender que gran parte de la gente de Madrid ni conzoca. Dentro hilo. 1. BETI JAI Recién recuperado, único frontón de
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A #thread on the most brutal torture and execution techniques throughout history.1. The Blood Eagle This alleged method of execution believed to have been performed by the Vikings included initially
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[QUICK THREAD: THE JADEJAS]1/63Muslims took much from India, but they also brought much. One of those gifts was opium. From toothache to gonorrhoea and from cholera to male impotency, this
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Vocês sabiam que as epidemias da história também moldaram o mundo da arte? Artistas registraram, conscientizaram e também morreram com as tragédias. A morte e a doença se tornaram tema
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Byzantium’s Eastern Frontier.The most sophisticated defensive system of the Middle Ages. It broke the momentum of three centuries of Arab invasions and allowed the Byzantines to resume the offensive, reaching
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ARCs my POC heart would love to find under the Christmas tree (aka 2020 books to look forward to)Yes, this will definitely be a thread. These Violent Delights
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This decision just came from a US district court and it's INCREDIBLE. Basically, a psych disabled lawyer sued after being put through a metric fuckton of ableism before being allowed
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Ritual torture and murder has been an accusation following around the chosen folks for quite some time. In light of its re-appearance in our modern day, with all of the
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rating all the dudes i have on my feh account while only knowing their names and nothing else about them, a thread I’m not doing the girls because we don’t
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Happy Lycanthrope day of the #MonstrousMayChallenge I love werewolf books and have read so many it would be a very long list of recommendations. But I’ve decided to go
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Gender is not saving Jazz Jennings. Gender is destroying Jazz Jennings. A thread explaining just one enormously important aspect of my gender critical turn over the last two years. 1/20https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2019/10/jazz-jenning
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El otro día os prometí que os explicaría el misterio que se esconde tras esta lápida en la que reposan dos soldados del Imperio Austrohúngaro que lucharon y murieron en
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Vu que @emma_ducros souligne "l'inculture" de ceux qui déboulonnent la statue de Christophe Colomb, il paraît utile (ou nécessaire) de rappeler quelques vérités à son sujet. Spoiler alert : ce
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Jean-Michel Blanquer a accusé les universitaires d'être des « islamogauchistes ». Attaquer quelqu'un en l'accusant de trop aimer l'islam : une vieille stratégie rhétorique, dont l'empereur Frédéric II, au XIII
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A full house for the “The Death of Japanese Studies” panel even 5 minutes before it begins. Is our field in a state of crisis? #AAS2019 Organized by John
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