#1920s

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

lolYou can find puritans jailing abortionists for explicitly religious reasons in the 17th century but you do youhttps://twitter.com/joshuagrubbsphd/status/1332750574719283201 Abortion was not an evangelical talking point until the Antenice

Duncan Weldon

DuncanWeldon

A Sunday evening thread on the early twentieth century British debate on free trade vs tariffs and why it might be relevant to the Brexit debate.You can stretch supposed economic

Tomi T Ahonen of the Smile Police

tomiahonen

Hitler-Trump analogy thread/1This is not about genocide. This is not about starting the deadliest war, and widest-ranging the planet has seen, World War 2. Hitler did that WHEN he was

Reesus Patriot™

ReesusP

Growing up farming, part of becoming a man was getting your first NRA Sticker after gun class (our was in middle school I was 10) I think it cost me

Michael J Barany

MBarany

Haven't done a proper historical thread in a while, so....Ever wondered how mathematics got to be a "young man's game"?Let's have a look... 1/ This thread is based on a

Sara Benincasa

SaraJBenincasa

I was today years old when I found out that after years of spying for France, Josephine Baker went to Germany to perform for sick and dying former inmates at

planninganon

Planninganon

Always worth remembering that people were allowed to commute to work from the camps, and bring their servants with them. Many of the deaths came from insanitary Boer farmers not

Jimmy McLoughlin

jimmym

'The Institute of Directors has been known for breaking ground and setting agendas' as @jameshurley writes in @thetimes this morning It does though have a series of problems, but it

Shaun Maguire

shaunmmaguire

I like to collect historical oddities that led to the accumulation of industries in unexpected geographies. Two of my favorites in a thread:1) Shockley leaving New Jersey and starting Shockley

Aleksey Asiryan 🇨🇦

AlekseyAsiryan

1/ [THREAD] One of the post-Nagorno-Karabakh war questions left unanswered: Will #Azerbaijan join the #EAEU now? I'm asking because it might explain some of #Russia's (in)actions during the war and

Soner Cagaptay

SonerCagaptay

THREAD: Turkish honorifics and their nuancesSayin: most formal; coined in early 20th c; gender-neutral, used only with/always precedes last name; most frequent usage at ceremonies, on airport announcements, and in

Conor McCormick-Cavanagh

ConorMichael28

With the Stapleton neighborhood set to change its name, I spoke with Bob Goldberg, a top expert on the history of KKK in Colorado, to find out more about Mayor

Kyle Chayka

chaykak

My first book, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism is on shelves today from @bloomsburypub! You can order it here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-longing-for-less-9781635572100/ But I also wanted to do a thread

Pedal2DC

Pedal2DC

Recently I tried to explain the Virginia Bicyclist Safety Act to a reporter and it didn't go well 1/13 The BSA does 3 things: (1) requires drivers to change lanes

Kyle Jacobson

_KyleJacobson

Sometimes when I’m refusing to fall asleep at midnight, I wind up reading very random Wikipedia pages. Some of it is esoteric but some might be interesting. Should I make

Jeannette Ng 吳志麗

jeannette_ng

This started with my being aesthetically offended by these tiles and their maker's "not your grandma's mahjong" attitude.But what's more interesting is the rabbit hole I fell down about mahjong's

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