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FALSIFICATION OF AZERBAIJANS “HISTORY” (a thread - this is gonna be long) #PeaceForArmenians #StopAliyev #StopAzerbaijaniAggression #StopAzeriLies 1. The Caucasian Turks proclaimed the state naming it ‘Azerbaijan’ - ‘Azerbaijan’

Stephen West

Stephen_A_West

1. “I’m a single white man from South Carolina,” an aggrieved Lindsey Graham declared last week.Note: Graham’s Senate seat has never been occupied by anyone *but* a white man.Before Graham,

Daily Suffragist

DailySuffragist

Meet a suffragist who began her career canvassing Kansas in 1867 -- and ended it in 1918 burning Woodrow Wilson’s speeches by the White House.In today’s episode of Suffrage Powerhouses

Ohio Department of Common Sense

OhioSense

Scientific studies during and after the 1918 flu showed no reduction of spread from masks even when universally worn. Scientists consequently admitted something must be wrong with their hypothesis on

Historic.ly

historic_ly

I feel like having some fun. I'll try to list all the countries the UK invaded with years!https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1249103290496733186 1918! Britain went to Poland to try to overthrow the Bolsheviks and

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40_head

1. This is actually "curiouser" than some might know. What is significant about the 1916 presidential election? It set the standard for the 2 party presidential election we know today.

Allyson Heim

MsHeim

Book List! Pandemic ProtagonistsWhen I'm experiencing uncertainty, my go-to strategy is to #readaboutit. Here are books I've read over the years that feature some kind of disease and some kind

Danny Boy

Care2much18

Seeing Phase 4 decision framed as 'make or break'.A special police unit in Bolivia is collecting dead bodies in the streets. They found 400 this week. People who died on

Joe Thorndike

jthorndike

Some tax history/tax propaganda gems I came across while writing a story for next week's issue of @TaxNotes. During World War I, federal tax officials worked with compliant newspaper editors

CBHC / RCAHMW

RCAHMWales

A week in Welsh waters:During the First World War the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) possessed a fleet of submarines which attacked Allied trade routes in the seas. Thousands of

Harry Crane

HarryDCrane

Back of the envelope #Probability for why active countermeasures needed on #coronavirus.If disease spreads by Galton-Watson process --- each sick infects random number (maybe 0) other ppl.What's probability the disease

The Irish Nation Lives

theirishnation

#OnThisDay in 1919 Captain William Benn, MP for #Leith, asked in #Westminster "how many members of the House have been imprisoned [or arrested]...under the Defence of the Realm Act". The

David Frum

davidfrum

That this president who lavishly praised Kim Jong Un and turned his back on Hong Kong's democracy protesters now positions himself as foe of communism is too ludicrous even to

Matt Pearce 🦅

mattdpearce

“In the decades after a pandemic, real wages in Europe (for which there is the best continuous data) invariably increase ... These gains are at the expense of capital; shareholders

⭐Nereide🪐

Nereide

1/1729 is the Hardy-Ramanujan number, known to be the second #taxicab number.The nth taxicab number, denoted by Ta(n), is the smallest #number representable in n different ways as the sum

Paul Putz

p_emory

Went to some college football history material to see how coaches responded to the flu pandemic during the 1918 season. Knute Rockne did not disappoint: "I am having quite a