#1941

George Alderman

GeorgeAlderman_

Happy #OxiDay! Some quick history for anyone who doesn’t know about this celebration of steadfastness and bravery by the Greek people On October 28th, 1940, the Italian ambassador to Greece

HistoryFaces

historyfaceapp

HistoryFaces [http://bit.ly/HistoryFacesApp ] honors Series 2’s Woody Guthrie, American folk singer/songwriter, composer of This Land Is Your Land, lifelong advocate for social justice & progressive ideas & an anti-fascist. H

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lukewarmbrandy

па замислите ви сад, сињајевина, одувек је била отворена ка истоку, иде онај шљунак, они превоји, онај мали балегар окреће оно своје

Simon Lancaster

bespokespeeches

‘Underlying health condition’ has become the phrase to use for people with diabetes, asthma etc re CoronaVirus. Google Trends shows a whopping spike in use. But how safe is this

Whores of Yore

WhoresofYore

This is Dorothy ‘Dolly’ Wilde (1895-1941), Oscar Wilde’s niece. She was the only Wilde to keep that name after Oscar’s scandalous trial for indecency. Dolly was a socialite, who was

Jenny Grant

SilenceInPolish

Today my thoughts turn to British drizzle, and the soldiers from foreign lands who endured it.Written just 4 years apart, Auden's 'Roman Wall Blues' and Pruszyński's 'Polish Invasion' reflect on

cherries

outofmooddd

ثريد عظيم لمصر من 1990م ل 1950م مشهد فوقى للقاهرة 1931-تم التقاط الصورة بواسطة منطاد زيبلين ميدان محمد على باشا -شتاء الاسكندرية 1934م من رده

John Tomaney

john_tomaney

OTD in 1942, HMS Kipling, a Royal Navy destroyer, was attacked by German Stukas in the eastern Mediterranean and sunk. 29 of her crew were killed. 221 men survived, among

Badhri

itisba3

Tributes to Shri #PANJUARUNACHALAM (Born 18 June 1941 – Died 9 August 2016) Indian Writer, Producer, Director & Lyricist, who worked in Tamil Cinema, on his Birth Anniversary today. He

Carry On Strategy

CarryStrategy

A small thread on Monitors in WW2.Monitors played a pretty insignificant role in WW2 but they are a fascinating ship.The basic idea of a monitor is off a relatively small

Abhishek Mukherjee (@SachinAzharCT)

ovshake42

On this day, 1948, during the Sydney Test, Vinoo Mankad whipped off the bails at the non-striker's end.Bill Brown, out of the crease, was ruled out.The mode of dismissal is

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koshersemite

***TW: The Holocaust***As tonight marks the beginning of Yom HaShoah, I want to make a thread appreciating what I call the two main types of Jewish resistance that occurred during

Paul Bingley

PaulBingley

Eighty years ago yesterday, 90 Squadron (RAF) was re-formed at RAF Watton, Norfolk. It's purpose was to introduce the famous B-17 Flying Fortress to combat over Europe. The new bomber's

Brian 👁️

Lefty_Jew

Isn't this just doing the Double Genocide myth that Eastern European Fascists have been pushing? Not to say there weren't issues with the USSR but they weren't Nazis, these aren't

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egg_under_u_hoe

since you fucking hoes want to act as if hitler isn’t even that bad here’s a thread about what he’s done TW// mass murder , mass shootings , violence ,

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