#CONTEMPORARY

"THANK GOD! THEN I WILL BE AT THEM WITH THE BAYONET" was Field Marshal Hugh Gough's response whenever he was told the ammunition of his artillery was almost exhausted. Gough
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He can be cute as a button!He can be sexy af!And I can bet you, he can be very very lovely! Ladies and Gentlemen, hold your breath! Here comes Park
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What was the Greek attitude to myths? Thread!https://twitter.com/bodhidave3/status/1277632645170692096 Short answer: there wasn't one. "The Greeks" is not a coherent group. Neither, really, is "myth".Long answer: in
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Tonight you can all watch #GhostLight - a 30 minute film we made in 5 weeks from idea to premiere. Humour me as I take a thread to acknowledge all
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a thread of bts being all-rounders / aces jin : first singing. honestly I already talk about how amazing his voice is so I don’t think I need to say
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Today, Exeunt turns 10 – and we're marking our birthday by unearthing some treasures from the archives.First up, it's Daniel B Yates' original manifesto for digital criticism, which won the
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My next big bet: $LUXA/Lux Health Tech Acquisition Corp.- Led by @Lux_Capital (@wolfejosh & @peterjhebert) targeting a health-tech biz. - $345m raised- Team of serial entrepreneurs, inventors, renowned doctors, &
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This article was so bad, I decided I should do a thread to explain just how bad it is. To begin with, Hoodbhoy’s arguments are entirely fallacious because he strawmans
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It's starting!! Thanks to France François of @InCulturedCo for hosting this zoom/FB live on whether Black Lives have mattered in with @FictionsofHaiti & @emmadouyon!!https://twitter.com/InCulturedCo/status/1286359475683827712 Fran
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Since #ScholarStrike overlaps with #Emmys season and we're still mourning #ChadwickBoseman, here's a thread on the figure of the Black law man in #Watchmen and 21 Bridges @ScholarStrike @AntheaButler @TheTattooedProf
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Once upon a time, long before the British, we had our own Vedic system of time keeping. We had 30 muhurtas in a day. Life was quicker paced, organized and
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Been down the rabbit-hole of #Croatian #folklore - here's a #thread of what I found:'#VAMPIRES IN DALMATIA: THE EXAMPLE OF THE VILLAGE OF ŽRNOVO ON THE ISLAND OF #KORČULA
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So @shadihamid said something really questionable about whether researchers couldn't oppose what they study, then walked it back, and now my feed is full of people dunking on the 10/25
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Latest: Following #China's ratification of its extradition agreement with Turkey, human rights organizations and #Uyghurs in Turkey are now anxiously waiting to see if the Turkish parliament would ratify the
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Trans poets in Ireland and the UK: Hi! I want to know more of you. Do you have a book? I would also like to buy your book.Feel free to
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I LOVE a good alien movie! Strange and eerie otherworldly beings from distant worlds. But where does this come from and how has the way we depict ‘Extraterrestrials’ changed throughout
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