#1941

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

ThreadIt's bizarre to realize that as a layman, I know more about the world than Chris Wallace @FoxNewsSunday.Watch how Wallace asks a series of totally uninformed questions with no core

JonnyBriggs

briggs_jonny

Been doing some research focused on infantry weapons recently for the PhD. Saw this great photo posted by @Medical_Int which shows Infantrymen of Les Fusiliers Mount-Royal, one bombing up a

mwihaki muraguri

mwihaki254

If we care to look there’s beauty & history in words & names. In my community each year (known by the passing of mbura ya njahi & mbura ya mwere)

Spec Rob

SpecRob2

#Hiroshima75 #Nagasaki75 trend. The reasons why the US decided to drop 2 atom bombs and why Japan didn't surrendered when all was lost. Let's start in the beginning In Japan's

Stop the Steal - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

Thread – Why Are the #Dementiacrats Panicking About the Supreme Court?1. The #Dementiacrats and their media allies have been apoplectic about the Supreme Court selection of @realDonaldTrump, most particularly Kavanaugh

John Edwin Mason

johnedwinmason

I've been thinking about this photo. Jack Delano, a member of the famed Farm Security Administration documentary project & a political progressive, made it at a "convict camp" in Greene

Antidotal

JohnFMiller86

/threadThe Great Big Thread Of Woke Logical Inconsistencies: #1Wokeist: "Our entire worldview should be a reaction to how terribly white people behaved historically."Also wokeists: "Only focusing on the historical contributio

Dr Phil Weir

navalhistorian

On this day 1940 Adm/Flt Sir Charles Forbes, CinC @RoyalNavy Home Fleet set sail from Scapa Flow aboard his newly returned flagship, the battleship HMS Nelson, with V/Adm Sir Jock

André Brett

DrDreHistorian

Today it is 81 years since an Australian prime minister first died in office. So, here is a morbid thread for morbid times: Aussie and Kiwi PMs who died in

Anthony

anteyhon

Movie stars being slapped on film. A thread. Lucy Marlow slapped by Joan Crawford in QUEEN BEE (1955). Joan Crawford slapped by Ann Blyth in MILDRED PIERCE (1945). Geraldine Brooks

Bodefivanov78

Bodefivanov78

Un bateau avec un port en lourd de 72809 Tonnes, possédant 9 canons de 460MM capable de projeter des obus de 1460KG à 42025 Mètres ?C’est la classe Yamato et

Joshua Benton

jbenton

In small-town Louisiana, it was still cool in 1926 to arrest "idle negroes" who weren't working for local white farmers. Once their labor force was captive, farmers would bail them

Sensei Ryan (Once and Future)

horridpoplyrics

They say that there's a thin line between Bravery and Insanity.But, I don't think that's true at all.Let's rename Fort Lee, after Robert E. Lee, to Fort Doss, after Desmond

Greg Chivers

defnotscifi

This curious movie credit posted by @johnfeath reminded me how much I like Q-ships, so here’s a dive into one of the weirder ways navies wage war.Put simply, a Q-ship

i am in training, don't kiss me

MissPavIichenko

Honestly I really hate how with World War II media in general, people will pride themselves on "humanizing all sides" but most of the time it just means they're doing

Historic.ly

historic_ly

Anti-Stalin paradigm: A kind of derangement syndrome that causes people to judge Stalin differently than they would judge other humans and/or ascribe super-human abilities to him. Stalin does stuff from