#1926

Dr Chris Constable 🏳️‍🌈

drcconstable

A short thread on the wonderful @GSTTnhs about St Thomas’ Hospital and its moves over the years. When the current unpleasantness is over much can be found out @OldOpTheatre a

Brian Feroldi

BrianFeroldi

History of S&P 500 (thread)1860: Henry Poor founds Poor's Publishing - focused on railroad industry1906: Standard Statistics Bureau founded - focused on rating mortgage bonds1926: Standard Statistics launches 90-stock index

Mostly Borrowed Ideas

borrowed_ideas

1/6 Thread: The art of selling your stocksSince 1926, top 4% companies explain the net gain of the entire stock market in the US.Yes, 4%!The rest 96% in aggregate matched

Amanda

AmandaLuvsRoses

L did a really good thread on the origins of the BLM organization. If you haven't seen it:https://twitter.com/SomeBitchIKnow/status/1312552845443575809?s=20 This thread follows up with a focus on an excerpt from the

Beatrice Cherrier

Undercoverhist

1/ In 1938 as in 2018, trade wars, tariffs and mercantilism were hot topics. That year, Bryn Mawr economist Karl Anderson published a blistering critique of Australian econs’ attempts to

🎬 South West Silents 🎬

SWSilents

Over the course of the next few weeks we’re planning to #tweet a #SilentFilmPoster everyday to showcase some of the fantastic/crazy artwork which make up the film posters of the

micah

micahherskind

"Socialism and prison are antagonistic terms."Eugene Debs, ~1920 I just finished Debs' incredible Walls and Bars: Prison and Prison Life in the 'Land of the Free', a collection of essays

Meraj Hasan

_merajhasan

Today marks the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk secularists (namely the Three Pashas). Between 700k to 1.8 million Armenians were massacred over nine years. Young

سلطان سعود القاسمي

SultanAlQassemi

Yesterday the world lost one of the greatest living architects, the legendary Rifat Chadirji who was born in Baghdad in 1926. There is so much to say about him that

Dr Robert Bohan Artist

RobertBohan

Thread: Felix Nussbaum (1904-44) was a German Jewish art. He gave us a profound record of man’s inhumanity to man. He charted the inner life of an artist facing a

Patrick Iber

PatrickIber

If you'd like to understand the history of the USA, here's one for you: Buster Keaton's "The General" is now regarded as his best film, containing truly astonishing stunts and

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niallhoranruff

tw// ghosts, deathBirdbox and the black dalia connections(spoilers to birdbox are included) *I would like to begin this thread by saying I mean absolutely no disrespect to EIizabeth Short or

Jackie Friman 🇸🇪

jackiefriman_

The curious case of the Zanetti train - or, is it possible to travel into another dimension?Apparently Philadelphia Experiment (1943) is not the lonely case of paradimensional traveling that has

🇪🇪 Rygabert

Jahustaja

Vend Vahindra (1883-1962) was a perennial Estonian Buddhist who respected our native maausk, Taara, Jesus and Confucious. He called upon Genghis Khan to establish theocratic Pan-Baltic state along with Finno-Ugrians

Eileen M

myrna38717

I realize many of you are thousands of tweets ahead of me, but this is my 5000th, so I want it to be special. On January 7, 1926, the Washington

Salvation Army International Heritage Centre

SalvArmyArchive

#WomenWednesday a thread* Florence Booth & Adelaide Cox laid these stones at 280 Mare Street, Hackney, in October 1910 before the site was opened as the Women's Social Work Headquarters.