#1943

Great Women of Mathematics

GWOMaths

GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DR. EUPHEMIA HAYNES, 1890-1980. First black woman to earn a PhD in mathematics. Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes grew up in Washington, D.C., where a large community

lavanya murali

anthrocharya

"Western colonialism was...both objectively beneficial and subjectively legitimate"Let's talk about thishttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2017.1369037?journalCode=ctwq20 Starting with famine. British policies

Maria J Pérez Karswell 🎃

mjpcuervo

It's #WorldGothDay, so here's a thread on how my favourite gothic mansion in literature has been depicted in film. 1943 Thornfield. Pros: Black and white, gloomy and dramatic. You can

DropTheDie

DropTheDie

Most high-fantasy: "The castle has floating candles that burn with a ghostly white flame!"My high-fantasy: "You're on the 68th floor of a high-class hotel inside a 5-star restaurant. An awakened

Tristan Mendès France

tristanmf

Vous vous souvenez de cette affaire sordide de poupées sexuelles à l'effigie d'enfants vendues sur Amazon ? Toute la presse en avait parlé à juste titre, en mentionnant souvent l'association

Paul Bingley

PaulBingley

On this day 76 years ago, the Isle of Man suffered its worst aviation disaster. This thread is in memory of the 31 Americans who lost their lives on April

SHoW

SocHistoryWar

#NVHOW20 Introducing Dr Stephen Moore @smooreBofB1940 ‘The Bethnal Green Shelter Disaster’; how the causes of the greatest loss of life in a shelter in the UK during the Second World

Zuriel Domingo

domingozuriel

Remembering Day of Valor and my grandfather Francisco Palma Domingo, Sr; a native of Ilocos, he read literature and pre-law for his Associate in Arts degree at Far Eastern College

Connor Looker

HotStoveStats

I’m going to start a thread of some of the “one-hit wonders” in MLB history.First up, Bill James (no, not that Bill James).Went 26-7 in 1915 for the Braves. 1.90

Chris Holland

ChrisCardsFan

The seizure of the Gilbert Islands in November 1943 is best known for the bloody storm landing conducted by the US V Amphibious Force on Tarawa Atoll from 20-23 Nov.,

Ian 😎🍺

Grittygroblet

Let's try again... Right, today I visited the lovely nature and naturist reserve (is that a thing?) of #Studland just down the road in #Dorset . Here's me and the

Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley

lottelydia

All this cooking "healthy food" discourse is reminding me of the WW2 reports that evacuated children refused to eat food that wasn't tinned, or fish & chips. There was so

Bryan MacDonald

27khv

'Hitler's crocodile' dies at 84 in Moscow zoo. The reptile - named Saturn - which allegedly belonged to the Nazi leader was sent to the Russian capital from his previous

pumpkinpie

avocadhof

thread on how we found out my grandma is actually chinese ! ok so up until i was sec 1 actually thought i was 100% malay but we came to

The Punisher

PunishDem1776

Nikola TeslaThe Greatest Inventor in HistoryA Towering GeniusElectric Messiah1856-1943Who got credit for NTs inventions?Who created the "Bulb"?Who illuminated 1893 worlds fair?How many Patents did NT have?Born in Croatia 1856, NT

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dewybleach

revolutionary dads, a thread pres. thomas sankara and burkinabé first lady mariam sereme with their 2 children, auguste & philippe fidel with his oldest son fidelito. rest in peace to