#Monarchy

Charlie Stross

cstross

Compulsory mourning for a stranger sucks.Especially when it’s performative Victorian-style royal mourning, and the past century has seen a huge cultural flip-flop so that death and mourning are as inadmissible/peripheralized

sine

stellarbokuto

What the colors in team jerseys mean and symbolize; thread Shiratorizawa - VioletViolet is often associated with royalty. Back then, the pigment to make this color was difficult to obtain

Navroop Singh

NavroopSingh_

As Rand put it in “Conservativism: An Obituary” (CUI, Chapter 19):"The world conflict of today is the conflict of the individual against the state, the same conflict that has been fought

Lawên | لاوێن

Lawwwen

The Kurds of #Kuwait. Thread:The presence of Kurds in Kuwait coincide with the country’s export of crude oil in 1946. During the early 1940s, Kuwait saw an increasing number of

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

The Ijebu Kingdom / British-Ijebu War.Ijebu (also known as Jebu or Geebu) was a Yoruba kingdom in pre-colonial Nigeria. It was formed around the fifteenth century.Its ruling dynasty was founded

Secret SoSHHiety

SouledOutWorld

Daniel 7“Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

The Ethiopian Empire____Spreading across modern day Eritrea and Ethiopia around 1137 CE – 1975 CE, and Stretching from the Middle Ages all the way to the Cold War, the Ethiopian

PatríciaMMarcos

PatrciaMMarcos

110 anniversary of the Portuguese Republican Revolution Afonso Costa, aka “mata-frades” (friar killer), is seen here, in a picture emulating Pombal, the 18th reformer. Pombal expelled the jesuits from Portugal+all

💛🐝Ebony VOTE GOTDAMMIT Edwards-Ellis💛🐝

Eedwardsellis

Spoiled. Entitled. Naive. Selfish. Mis/disinformed. Cosplay socialists. White supremacist. These are all terms I've heard used to describe the "progressives" who are insisting that Biden "earn their vote" this

Jackie (SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY out NOW) Barbosa

jackiebarbosa

This week's #RomanceCoversAs is best appreciated in the order posted, so I'm adding a number to each one so you'll know where it falls in the sequence.Turns out, Queen Elizabeth

Carolinian Nationalist

softsuthernwind

Even during the revolution, the Southern mentality was quite different than that of the Yankees. Foremost, the idea of “leave us alone” or “don’t mess with us” is Southern in

Mahmoud

Mahmodshikhibra

Isis re-emerging Here is my own point of view about reactivation of #ISIS in Iraq After the end of Baghouz battle many people in the East and west said that

Thomas A. Fitzgerald

CadillacRiver

What's that @peterdaou ...Your silence is deafening.I like Bernie's platform for #GreenNewDeal #FightForFifteen #MedicareForAll (w/ caveat support of transitioning through a public option & expansion of #ACA #preexistingprotection & #

amber taichou

hozoinarc

(thread) How Yukimura achieved a beautifully tragic prologue, through the use of Canute.From age 6 to 16, Thorfinn followed his father’s murderer under the goal of revenge, only for that

Ayman Rashdan Wong

AymanRashdanW

Drama The King: Eternal Monarch yang tengah bersiaran bercerita tentang Lee Gon (이곤) dari Kingdom of Corea (Daehan Jeguk / 대한제국) yang tersesat ke dunia Republic of Korea (Daehan Minguk

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Mob minds could do with some psychological distancing. I’ve pondered the Thielean anti-democratic turn for a few years now. Trump’s victory in 2016 struck me as both the most democratic