#1941

Jeremy Yellen

jeremyyellen

I am just finishing up a graduate seminar on the Japanese Empire where we read a book a week for 15 weeks, and have noticed some trends in Anglophone/English-language writing

bluesharp

bluezharp

"Catfish Blues"Robert Petway (c. 1903 – date of death unknown) was an American #blues #singer& #guitarist. He recorded only 16 songs, but it has been said that he was an

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HEOSWBIAOTF

my recounting of the history of simon & garfunkel (mostly focusing on paul) off the top of my head (aka, infodumping): a thread paul frederic simon was born in new

jas(джас)☭ ☆

dietcoketrashh

Female soldiers of the Soviet Union thread Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916-1974)Nicknamed “Lady Death” for the number of Nazi soldiers she killed, 309 confirmed. Awarded “Hero of the Soviet Union”, the highest

Heinz History Center

HistoryCenter

Welcome to your #HistoryLunchBreak! Today we’re diving into the story of the Butler-born jeep. #MuseumFromHome Just prior to our nation’s participation in World War II, the United States Army was

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PremRathee

Thread/1/Pakistani Hindu Population Myth:You all must have seen such tweets from Indians where they question the population of Hindus in Pakistan:"In 1947 Pakistani Hindu population was 23%. why is it

Paul C. Strobel

PaulStrobel

#OTD vor 79 Jahren, am 20. Mai 1941, begann Unternehmen Merkur: Die deutsche Landung auf #Kreta. Hier ein Foto meines Großvaters im Transportflieger. Sein bester Freund und Mann seiner späteren

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD]1/22Today is #YomHaShoah, or Israel's #HolocaustRemembranceDay, and to commemorate this I'm gonna tell a story. Story of a friendship that transcended not only history but also politics. And time.This goes

David K. O'Hara

David_K_OHara

Jerry Jeff Walker (1942-2020) & Guy Clark (1941-2016). Like desperados waiting for a train... JJW was like a god in my father's house, and we prayed to him often. One

Michel Lara

VeraCausa9

The perfect symmetry of the Zeus Artemision bronze. There's been a long debate on these questions: Is the bronze god representing Zeus or Poseidon? Is he wielding a thunderbolt or

Terry

MarksmanMarine

1) THE SAINT OF AUSCHWITZ! When the Nazis invaded Poland, Father Maximilian Kolbe was one of the few priests who remained in his monastery and denounced Nazi activities. He was

nadia

nadiajaferey

literally obsessed with teens posting history tiktoks so here’s a thread: german occupation of belgium, 1914 the establishment of the league of nations, 1919 attack on pearl harbor, 1941 the

Shanmukh

maidros78

1) I just did a back of the envelope calculation about the `Massacre of Muslims in Jammu'. Let us look at the numbers coldly. There were no massacres of Muslims

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ineffableomens

Here's my contribution for #AwakeTheSnake!! A house tour with the flash bastard of Mayfair (a thread) #GoodOmens [1/x] This how I pictured the floor plan… I needed to think about

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ukpuru

From the 1930s, the Igbo west of the Niger, the Enuani, Ika, Ukwuani, Ndi Osimili in the Asaba and Aboh divisions of the Western Region looked towards creating an administrative

Steve Boxman

SteveBoxman

This thread is dedicated to two of the greatest fighters of all time, Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson who sadly lost their lives on this day(Louis 1981 and Robinson