#Conquest

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

1/ What does #archaeology tell us about on the eve of the Muslim #conquest. When Yazīd and Mu‘āwiya showed up, what was #Beirut like? First, what it shows us that

Dylan Levi King

dylanleviking

The American occupation of Okinawa is blamed for many things—destroying the environment, secretly hosting nuclear weapons, troops regularly committing violent crimes, etc.—including a shift in local diet that has led

Dr Leonie Hicks

LeonieVHicks

Why I wince when I read 'The Norman Conquest: the complete story' on the front cover of @HistoryExtra and why 'Who was the rightful king? is the wrong question to

Parler @Helenherndon

helen_herndon

This is the battlefield—there is the triumphal procession. This is the land of the sword and the spear—that is the land of the wreath and the crown. 1/ This is

Minorityism

brumbyism

Let’s examine the Libbu allegation of majoritarianism in relation to Hagia Sophia. Does this allegation stand scrutiny? Hagia Sophia was built on top of a pagan Temple using columns brought

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aleashuhh

Sobbing and fucking the blanket. Friday baby. Crying more because he can’t get the blanket in the right fucking position. Poor Howie. Lightly crying, close to giving up on his

a packaged Malteser

GiuseppeAttar17

"Thread Time!" every now and then I will be doing what I have decided to call Thread Time on a variety of topics so my 1st topic will be on

Jewhadi™

JewhadiTM

China: The Conquest of Hollywoodhttps://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16842/china-films-hollywood-censorship#.X951ycEAN9s.twitter One Hollywood producer told PEN America that suggestions for projects critical of China aroused the fear that &qu

Akshay Narang

akshaynarang96

In India, it's never about ideology. It is only about civilisation. And to put it on record this is why PM Modi faces a massive smear campaign from a powerful

Talha

dhiblawe1990

Thread: History of Mogadishu and it’s conquest by Imaam Al Yaqubi One of the First Imaams of the Hiraab Imamate was Mohamed Ibn Imaam Ahmed ibn Imam Ahmed Ibn Imaam

Axel Çorlu

AxelCorlu

On #Chora and its conversion to a mosque, beyond the technical issues about preservation, a point I have been insistently making on the creation of the modern #Turkish identity and

JWTheSpa

SpaJw

I am currently watching the entire World at War documentary series. It is a masterful work of profound importance - perhaps more so now. The humility of the interviewees is

Mustafa Akyol

AkyolinEnglish

In past two days, I have received thousand of feedbacks from Muslims around the world (pro & con) to my @nytopinion piece on #HagiaSophia. It all boils down to a

Maddy

abhakhazia

I want to say there's a reason other than Nissa Nissa symbolism why team Stannis specifically chose the statue of the Mother to burn Lightbringer in. The Mother is mercy

Michelle Knight

mlizknight

I can’t get over Numbers 21 this morning (in part bc of a previous conversation with @MadisonPierce, but more recently because of a conversation we’ve had in my seminar). In

the superbowl of self abuse

inthewakeofdawn

not to beat a dead horse, but i think that's a main source of audience dissonance with zack snyder's superman. he presents superman as a christ figure, a messiah in

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