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[THREAD: HIBAKUSHA]1/61At about 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945, a Boeing Superfortress dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima and instantly vaporized, by conservative estimates, 30% of the city's human population.This was
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[THREAD: VALLEY OF FLOWERS, FLOWERS OF CARNAGE - I]1/162Isn't it ironic that when India officially acquired J&K in 1948, the very river it was named after no longer remained Indian?
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[THREAD]1/38Qadian is a sleepy and unassuming little town some 40 miles from Amritsar. Its story goes back to 1530 when Mirza Hadi Baig, a religious scholar fresh from Samarkand, Uzbekistan,
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[QUICK THREAD: THE CURSE OF MAGDALENE]1/27Under normal weather conditions, although the jury's kinda out on what's "normal" anyway, it takes the elements 2,000 years to wash away 13 billion metric
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[THREAD: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL]1/70Long before there was an America or an England, Roman ships were carrying wine and gold to India and returning with spices, silk, and exotic animals.
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[THREAD]1/12When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk dismantled the Ottoman Caliphate, Turkey was a social and ideological mess. The kind of mess you'd expect from a theocracy. The road to reforms wasn't going
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[THREAD: THE GANDHIAN TYRANT]0/29This isn't a new story; wrote this some time last year but for Facebook. So still a first here. It's about a journey. Of a nation from
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[QUICK THREAD: BOOK OF THE DEAD]1/6When you died in Ancient Egypt, your soul had two options depending on how you conducted yourself while alive — Afterlife, or eternal death. But
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[THREAD: OF CLAPS & COMMUNISM]1/48How long should a standing ovation last? One study pegs the typical duration at 6 seconds, but what do you think? Say, that person is exceptionally
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56/68Hu Jintao was set to retire in 2013. This convention was succession planning exercise. This is where Xi managed to worm his way into the 9-member Politburo Standing Committee of
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[THREAD: REDDER THAN RED]1/68The China Mao grew up in was feudal, poor, and run by a king who was run by a queen who was run by devious despotism. By
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[THREAD: URDU CHAUVINISM]1/51By the end of the 10th century AD, Śauraseni Prakrit (a vernacular derivative of Classical Sanskrit) had started corrupting into regional dialects like Braj Bhasha, Awadhi, and Dehlavi.
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