#1943

Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸

mrjeffu

A thread about wartime cruise ships (1/11): This is a Japanese passenger liner advertisement from April 1940 offering a 3 month "round-the-world luxury cruise." The Twin Sister Queens shown in

S.P.A.

TheRealSPA

Happy 103rd Birthday Joan FontaineA thread http://waldina.com/2020/10/22/happy-103rd-birthday-joan-fontaine/ Today is Joan Fontaine's 102nd birthday. If nothing else, watch The Women (1939) (and Rebecca and Suspicion and and and...),

Sheecid Lopez

SheecidL

From someone born and raised and living in California: here js a thread of California being racisthttps://twitter.com/thehill/status/1280511890888613888 The Lemon Grove Incident (1930s): Lemon Grove School District tried to segregate Mexica

Kimberly D. Manning, MD

gradydoctor

1/#NarrativeintheTimeofCOVID“We’ve got someone,” the charge nurse said. I turned and raised a brow. The morning had been quiet. I had a patient now. We’d moved to telemedicine for nearly every

Rutter Lab

RutterLab

Tonight on #MitoMonday we briefly highlight the life and works of one of the first, and most influential programmers of the modern computing age, Admiral/Dr. Grace Murray Hopper. #LateNightWithTheRutterLab #WomenInSTEM

Stephen Fisher

SeaSpitfires

If 2020 had gone as planned, I’d be at @trebahgarden in Cornwall right now, talking to my @Zegrahm guests about D-Day embarkation hard PH at Polgwidden Cove. As I can’t

Rabih Alameddine

rabihalameddine

Katsushika Hokusai, Lady Holding a Cat, ca. 1810s, Ink on paper Joan Brown, Self Portrait with Donald, 1982 Renoir, Woman with Cat, 1875 Renoir, Sleeping Girl (Girl with a Cat),

Marcus Faulkner

NavalHistWar

New release: Decision in the Atlantic: The Allies and the Longest Campaign of the Second World War, edited by @ProfCMBell and myself, published though @KentuckyPress (May 2019) #ww2 #BattleOfTheAtlantic The

Henry M. Hart Jr.

FedCourts4Lyfe

The Bar is Racist. #DiplomaPrivilegeNowSome history from George B. Shepherd, No African-American Lawyers Allowed: The Inefficient Recism of the ABA's Accreditation of Law Schools, 53 J. Legal Educ. 103 (2003)

Justin Pyke

CBI_PTO_History

Here is a brief thread on Japan's terror bombing of the Chinese wartime capital of Chongqing. It is referred to in China as the "Great Bombing of Chongqing." Japanese bomber

Tirano y Lo Que Surja 🇹🇲

BaiChongxi

Como ya estoy hasta los cojones de las imágenes de Pictoline y de disque influencers hablar sobre lo que es o lo que no es el fascismo, voy a hacer

Nick Hewitt ⚓️

NickHewitt4

Thread on the importance of @CWGC and the way every beautifully tended grave can unlock the stories of lives lost and sacrifices made. I saw this lonely stone in a

Hamza

wingsforus

Ever wonder why Pakistan has a lack of great intellectuals? Thinkers and opinion-makers seem missing from our history. And yet, they definitely existed. On 14th August, let us remember a

Dreadnought Holiday

TheDreadShips

They say that necessity is the mother of invention. At times it's closer to the Bride of Frankenstein... It's worth unpicking how we got here, "here" being the Carcassone-Quillan railway

Kate Gabrielle

kategabrielle

Hi there! I'm @kategabrielle and in a couple minutes I'll be live tweeting PURPLE NOON, airing on @TCM at 6pm EST! I hope you'll join in as I share my

Dharmaa Sankar 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌹

dharmaasankar

28 April 1945.#OnThisDay 76 years ago, Fascist Dictator of Italy Benito Mussolini along with his mistress Clara Petacci were lynched by Communist partisans. The bodies were later hung upside down