#Tradition

Aimun

bluemagicboxes

This whole "shia-block-roads" outcry is so bizzare to me. You don't have to be Shia or believe in all Shia beliefs to appreciate the significance of this. And I don't

Jim Bonner

Real_Jim_Bonner

mini-THREAD on a subject that I've been thinking about recently: The 'devolution' of deities mirroring the devolution of character (in the broadest possible sense) -- both internal to specific civilizations,

Kevork Oskanian

DrKevorkO

1/ Happy to have found this monograph - an excellent postcolonial view on depictions of Poland and Ukraine in 19th-century Russian literature. 2/ Twitter Synopsis:The Poles are latinised, Catholicised, fake

k'eguro

keguro_

And as these books go out of copyright and different editions become available, we are losing many important Introductions and Prefaces that created intellectual and historical genealogies.(I'm a Harlem Renaissance

David Grossman

davidgross_man

Bernie's Judaism was confusing and uncomfortable to many. Some were eager to paint him as a "fake jew" (??), but he clearly stood for the values that we celebrate tonight:

Rebecca Kennison

rrkennison

What I'm going to say is not directed toward immigrants to the United States nor its naturalized citizens. While we do not have a good metaphor (e.g., melting pot, fruit

YS

NYinLA2121

Dems, what are you prepared to do? Seriously; all these half-measures...such a weak party.Feinstein backing down. Kaine backing down. Talking about filibusters and all. Get the fuck out of here.

harold, they're shapeshifters

smolswordrider

did u know that while Guinevere is nearly always the wife & queen of King Arthur, her adulterous/courtly love affair with Lancelot is much, Much less universal? there are even

Jessyn Farrell

jessynfarrell

Instead of standing up an entirely new bureaucracy, why don't we just elect a mayor who will just *follow the law*?If we learned anything from the Trump era, it's that

Rachel S. Harris

Hebrewlit

I keep thinking of the symbolism of Lag BaOmer. For hundreds of years Jews have been commemorating a date when people finally stopped dying of a plague. 1/4 And I

Marina Amaral

marinamaral2

Foot binding was a Chinese tradition in which young girls' feet were broken and tightly bound in order to alter their shape and size.These shoes were used by women in

Otto Saumarez Smith

OSaumarezSmith

Advertiser David Ogilivy told British Travel Association in 60s he couldn’t show England as “the vital industrialised welfare state which gave the world penicillin, jets, Henry Moore & atomic power

Soul Eubanks Ⓥ

soul_eubanks

It's my friends first thanksgiving as a vegan and she asked me for some advice on how to answer family questions at the dinner table. Here's a thread of the

NKANI

nkaniyazambia

People born between 1985 and 1995 are the most unique generation of all time. Here's why? They are in-between two generations: the one before the internet and technology took over

Makoto Niijima

Makoto_Justice

Admin:And so, the Persona Says accounts hang their towel and retire from the accounts. The originals will finally rest and be themselves.As a tradition here in Texas, I tip my

علي | Ali

IslamAndHistory

Why liberalization of Islam tends to happen and how to avoid it and affirm orthodoxy within Islam.[Thread] It can be difficult to keep up your Islamic identity and our beliefs