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#Statues
maddux mullinax 🐂
madduxmullinax
Watching the notherners talk about the Birmingham statue is hilarious. Some quick facts. Birmingham wasn't around during the Civil War, the city was established in the 1870's.There are statues in
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Dr Laura McAtackney
LMcAtackney
The media reporting on the removal of orientalising and sexualising 19thC decorative arts outside an international 5 * hotel in Dublin has been disappointing. There have been many opinions on
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Sean Carleton
SeanCarleton
According to @NoBordersMedia, Montreal’s John A. Macdonald statue has just been toppled. As an historian of settler colonialism in what is currently Canada, let me share some accessible resources to
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🔞 Iona 🔞 - K-kaeya... p-pretty
gi_iona
Sudden horn knee thought... ZhongKae where Zhongli rails Kaeya on one of Morax's Statue of the Seven. I'm thinking the ones placed in hard to reach places like that one
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David A. Robertson
DaveAlexRoberts
Before Macdonald started the residential school system in 1883, he was starving Indigenous people to get them out of the way for his previous railroad (which he took bribes for).
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Dr. Karen L. Cox ✍🏻🏳️🌈😷
SassyProf
1. On June 3rd, Trump issued an Executive Order to create a "National Garden of American Heroes" with a list of specific people. All but one already have a statue
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Boris Johnson
BorisJohnson
The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square is a permanent reminder of his achievement in saving this country – and the whole of Europe – from a fascist and
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Mohamed Zeeshan
ZeeMohamed_
As an Indian, I have no respect for Churchill. But I empathise w/Britons who revere him for his WWII leadership. Historic personalities are complex &reflect their context. I’m an admirer
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lise
aneleish
I think the point of taking down certain statues or renaming certain buildings isn’t to “cancel” important historical figures and pretend they never existed, but to properly prioritize their history.
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Talha ahmad
talhaahmad967
Why Taliban destroyed Buddhas of Bamiyan(Untold story) [Thread] The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th-century monumental statues of Gautama Buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the
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Alison Herring
HistoryHerring
The contractor who removed the Confederate monuments worked with the Sherriff's office and private security b/c the Richmond police apparently refused. A thread on the involvement of Richmond police in
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Happy
misterbigpants
Thread: Stumbled across game developer @SpaceBackyard Formed in 2016, they've released 3 narrative games + a teaser and ... WOW!!! All of them are incredibly stylish, feature vibrant atmospheres, and
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ProwlerChamp
It’s rarely dipicted in statues, but Jesus was beaten and whipped with a scourge, a sort of whip with various metals and claws and other such things to rip and
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Darshana🇮🇳
We_The_Saffron
TathagatThe famed gigantic Buddha statues of Bamyan, Afghanistan. They were carved out of mountain cliffs & were completed by 6th century CE. The bigger statue was 174 ft & the
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Latinx Nerds
comosedicenerd
Colonization wants the past and the future. It wants to tell only stories of its glory and indoctrinate future generations into it so it can continue to rule.https://twitter.com/msdanifernandez/status/1274911498129641472 There’s a
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Anand Giridharadas
AnandWrites
When I was a student in history classes, a common mantra was: Don't judge past people by present standards; that's anachronistic.One of the shifts happening now is the opening up
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