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13/19Ishtar was called the Queen of Heaven and shows up on many Assyrian and Akkadian artefacts today. The following Akkadian seal, for instance, comes from 2300 BC. That's at least

[THREAD]1/19Long, long ago there was a people that lived someplace in the steppes of Eurasia who spoke a language linguists call, quite unimaginatively, the Proto-Indo-European tongue or PIE. Here, we're

[THREAD: DÉJÀ VU]1/20When Constantine called the Council of Nicea, Europe went from Roman to Christianity practically overnight. Interestingly, it never really got a chance to try out Judaism, a system

[THREAD]1/12A vast majority of Shia Muslims belong to a subsect called Šī'eh-ye Davâzdah-Emâmī or, more commonly, the Twelvers. The sect is also the official State religion of Iran. This thread

[THREAD]1/12When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk dismantled the Ottoman Caliphate, Turkey was a social and ideological mess. The kind of mess you'd expect from a theocracy. The road to reforms wasn't going

On July 29, 1982, Ronald Reagan and Indira Gandhi delivered a joint speech at the lawns of the White House. Here's excerpts of their speeches, first Reagan's, then Gandhi's. The

[THREAD]1/11For all its romanticism, 19th century wasn't a very life-affirming time to be in. With as many as seven global outbreaks and a body count in hundreds of millions, cholera

[THREAD]1/12In the summer of 1518 somewhere in Strasbourg, Alsace (in modern France), a certain Frau Troffea broke into an impassioned, spontaneous dance that would last days and kick-start what came

[THREAD]1/22I intend to ruin this shameless piece of self-aggrandizement, one claim at a time. Let's see how far I manage to go with this. Read on...https://twitter.com/BJP4Karnataka/status/1245245008715943941 2/22"8th Jan: India holds