#1959

Bryce Adelstein Lelbach

blelbach

The latest revision of @INCITS/@isostandards COBOL comes out this yearThe goals of COBOL sound normal today:- Portable- Freely available- Designed by the communityIn 1959 it was radical & unprecedentedIt was

🏴James Heathers 🏴

jamesheathers

Thesis: 'methodological crisis' in science is NOT the sudden realisation of a problem. It is a well characterised problem which benefited hugely in recognition by a change in how scientists

GOLFTV

GOLFTV

Gary Player's career in ten tweets. The thread. Player was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1934. His father worked in the gold mines and took out a loan to

Yuna Wong

YunaHuhWong

Wonder how they wargamed logistics in the old days? Here are the instructions for Monopologs, a 1957 logistics game that RAND ran for the Air Force. Report written by Jean

Shervin For The Valley (CA-30)

AazamiShervin

The Santa Susana Field Lab sits above the San Fernando Valley and was home to one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in U.S. History. That meltdown was covered up for

Geanne Lebbink

geanne_lebbink

I was curious about dates that allow me to be the married lesbian trans woman in the Netherlands:1959 1st SRS in the NL 1969 1st Demonstration against Article 248-bis1971 Abolition

Elizabeth McCracken

elizmccracken

Mike Pence is a human midcentury Chiclet. Mick Pence is a mortician trying to sell America a coffin on the installment plan. Mike Pence is a figure from the Corridor

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

Visit Bradford Later

visitBradford

TV & Film Quiz of Bradford. Answer All the questions to see how knowledgeable you are! @bfdcityoffilm #VisitBradfordLater #YorkshireDaysIn Helen Mirren was in Bradford recently filming ‘The Duke’ with Jim

S.P.A.

TheRealSPA

Happy 88th Birthday Rene BurriA thread http://waldina.com/2021/04/09/happy-88th-birthday-rene-burri/ Today is the 88th birthday of the photographer Rene Burri. His iconic images have inspired photographers for years, his philosophy and app

petty offense

JurisPettiness

Buckle up, nerds, we're gonna talk about MAIL.https://twitter.com/JurisPettiness/status/1250504919909650435 So when we're talking about mail you can argue whether the earliest forms of it--rulers distributing their decrees--is a true predeces

Puskas & Kocsis 🇭🇺

puskasandkocsis

Why Ferenc Puskas and Sandor Kocsis are the greatest strike partnership of all time. (Thread) Let's start with the facts. Ferenc Puskas scored 84 goals in 85 matches for the

The Arth India

thearthindia

#ArthExplained: The #IndiaChinaWar 1962 - More than a border dispute? (Thread by Abhishek Sharma @sharmaaa15)Duration of the war: 20 Oct 1962 - 21 Nov 1962Locations: #AksaiChin, North East Frontier Agency

AllThingsSeleção

SelecaoTalk

Pelé 1970 World Cup Part 1 Pelé 1970 World Cup Part 2 Pelé 1970 World Cup Part 3 Pelé 1970 World Cup Part 4 Pelé 1970 World Cup Final Part

luna⁷༊˚𐤀

kkuktaes

"So this is love, so this iswhat makes life divine.” taekook as disney couples ; a thread. start with the classic.cinderella (1950) they lived happily ever after. beauty and the

Amal Sinha

amaleshwar

@Iyervval, my favourite defence analyst, was interviewed by @vaibhavUP65 on a potential Sino-Indian War.I found it fascinating. Since the video doesn't have English subs yet, here is a summary thread:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNrs