#Monument

Memelord

dailydigger19

THREAD: Time to talk this past month's war on statues. People began targeting them as a form of protest against what they see as racism. But now Shaun King says

76actu

76actu

Le Premier ministre @JeanCASTEX ainsi que la ministre des armées @florence_parly sont attendus à #Rouen puis #SaintEtienneduRouvray cet après-midi.Un déplacement à suivre dès 16 heures dans ce #Thread, ainsi que

Evan Levine

LevineRx

I know I posted a Greek monument for yesterday’s #MuseumsUnlocked on the Romans, so today I’ll try to right my wrongs by posting a Roman masterpiece in #Greece! Who wants

Afghan Historians

AfghanHistorian

Is #Firuzkuh the site of the modern #MinaretofJam? Discovery and debates – DCT 1/7 @dcshifty #Afghanistan When the discovery of the Minaret of Jam was announced in 1957, the world

Society of Golf Historians

SHistorians

#NotMastersWeek Thread: Built on the backbone of the principals CB MacDonald laid out when he designed National Golf Links of America, Bobby Jones’ Augusta National is essentially a course of

Alexander Heinemann 🇪🇺 🕯️ 🇬🇧

ale_heinemann

The #Tübingen Institute of Classical Archaeology has just put online (OA) a small series of photographs taken by an anonymous German tourist to Italy shortly after 1906 and recently donated

Kennedy Gochenour

KennedyCLST6

#CLST6 #RR17 Trajan’s Column makes the triumph of civilization over barbarism one of its major themes. Obviously, the emphasis here is that Romans are civilized and Dacians are barbarians. Initially

Lewis Crofts

lewis_crofts

So, on destroying statues: My favourite story is of the world’s largest Stalin statue (at the time) built in 1955 in a park overlooking Prague. At 15.5m it was an

Alice Gorman

drspacejunk

On July 16, 75 years ago, the first nuclear weapon was tested at White Sands Missile range in New Mexico, USA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dfK9G7UDok #Trinity75 This monument marks the site of the

IPAN

ipannigeria

THERE'S NO ENMITY BETWEEN THE YORUBAS AND THE IGBOS!"We risk a critical misunderstanding of a people, if we only hear a single story about them". There are good and bad people of

Peter Doyle

ProfPeterDoyle

Ypres: a city strongly held in the memory of all those who visited it in time of war, and of those who travelled there as pilgrims in its aftermath #WW1

Nacho Oliveras

NachoOliveras

Warsaw1/n Aleja Solidarności2/n To me this is "The End" in a Polish movie, but it seems this can also mean "the end of parking spaces"...3/n 4/n – at Pomnik Bohaterów

Kébong Michel

Kebong_Michel

Qui est Paul Barthélémy BIYA Bi MVONDO?Paul BIYA c'est :- 05 Chefs d'État Français.- 06 Chefs d'État des USA.- 04 Chanceliers Allemands.- 03 Papes.- 04 SG de l'ONU.- 05 Coupes

Doug Landry

dougblandry

The U.S. will cross 200,000 COVID-19 dead tomorrow. A staggering loss by any measureBut it's made worse by the White House's incompetent response to the virus AND total unwillingness to

The Mountain Goats

mountain_goats

just a short sermon on a Sunday regarding idol worship so it seems that, in the absence of a good record to run on, the administration is going all-in on

Adam Turns Zoom Video On

aharristweets

While many of us struggle to reconcile our profound love of what Washington did for our nation and that he was a slave owner, I have been deeply moved by