#Patronage

One of the greatest emperors of Vijayanagara, and also one of greatest rulers of India, Sri Krishna Deva Raya, under whose reign Vijayanagara attained greatest heights. His reign was marked
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The collected poems of al-Mutanabbi (d. 965), the most celebrated Arabic poet ever, were first printed not in Cairo or Beirut, but Calcutta in 1815.The editor, Shaykh Ahmad, was Yemeni.
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You run a small business & you’re already frontloading costs by paying for content & marketing on social media without exhausting free options for customer acquisition. You may kill the
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Just out in @jepp_journal - "The European Union's authoritarian equilibrium" - my article explaining why autocratic member governments like Orbán's can endure so comfortably within the EU. Warning to fellow
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TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE JAMES BY THE GRACE OF GODKING OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &The Translators of the Bible wish Grace,
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This is the "Creativity Without Law: Challenging the Assumptions of Intellectual Property" essay collection edited by Kate Darling and Aaron Perzanowski. It's so fucking cool/weird to open up a book
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DEVDASI | Journey from GLEAM to GLOOM | Most respected to most dejectedThread to look back in time to where we are today. An untold story in book 'NITYASUMANGALI' by
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I have not yet had coffee but here's a longish thread on postal banking in Canada, thrift, and account-based policy. #cdnecon #cdnpoli https://twitter.com/chambart/status/1265252673974132736 As the article notes, we had postal
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Please dears. i want to advertise my market here. i need all your retweets and patronage as well! help ya girl. A THREAD Our day and night facial oil
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Thread:Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was a ruthlessly power hungry despot, who single handedly destroyed #Pakistan’s industrial & economic base & bureaucratic institutions by introducing cronyism, political patronage & corruption in our
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FG and FF parliamentary parties have been sent the framework document on govt formation, which outlines ten “missions” for the new govt: Mission 1 includes a commitment to introduce a
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Authoritarian party stay resilient because they're cohesive. These are signs the PAP juggernaut is fraying, slowly but surely.https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/heng-swee-keat-dpm-4g-leader-step-aside-pap-pm-lee-accepts-1458
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Today, is Shraavana Poornima, celebrated as ‘Samskritadinam’, #WorldSanskritDay, it's also the auspicious day of 'Rakshabandhan'!A thread on how a group of volunteers are doing divine service teaching #Sanskrit to all,
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1. The average govt official has no working knowledge of policy Let me do a thread of how Virgin Nigeria fleeced NigeriaIf we remember vividly Virgin Nigeria was flying from
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THREAD:Clearly an inspiration from his parents, conservation work & supporting communities to protect their natural environment for future generations has been a top priority for Prince William. (We haven't been
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This truly is an awful piece deserving of all the criticism it's received from Nigerians. Its core arguments are poorly argued, and totally divorced from the daily experiences of Nigerians
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