#Germanic

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creation247

Money Twitter: A Journey Through Time and Space Step into my time-machine.//THREAD// Money Twitter 174 A.D.Marcus Aurelius campaigns against Germanic tribes along the Danube River… Posts mega-thread titled “Meditations.” Instant

🔱 Wanderer 🔱

NGunderland

Rewatched Troy & 300, was wondering why there hasn't been a high quality production of the life of Arminius in Film yet.Most of you probably know about the Battle of

c / אוֹרֶן 🌿

whatabirdy

Anyways, thread on Scottish languages, both modern and ancient (Gaelic, Scots, English, Pictish, and Norn) for anyone who's interested! Firstly, let's divide the most common by language family. Gaelic and

Elle M. (they/them)

ellle_em

I meant to sleep last night but then I started plotting an alternate history where Christianity never happened I was like half-awake so my history probably isn't great but part

Simon Cox

SimonFRCox

Leavers beginning to realise EU states see EU *fundamentally* differently from how Leavers see it. THREAD 1/9https://twitter.com/simonfrcox/status/1337174629719437313 Some Leavers believe UK’s economic/political interests/qualities are fu

Thomas Lane

ThomasCLST6

#CLST6 #LookCloser9 Yeah yeah I know I explaining the joke makes it not funny anymore, but here we go.This is a bust of the emperor Caracalla. He ruled (at first

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

Look at these various names carefully!They will tell you a secret.. a story..Elephant- Sanskrit íbha, Mycenean erepa, Greek el-éphas, Latin ebur, Hittite laḫpa. and Slavic velibodŭ,Ape- Sanskrit Kapi, Greek kēpos,

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

No, Critical Race Theory is about calling every system that's not in the control of the Critical Race Theorists "racist" until it is. It also proceeds from a modified Hegelian

Seamus Jennings

seamus_jennings

Found this sketch in my files from last year, taking the piss of Toby Young when he described Johnson thus: '(with his) broad, Germanic forehead, there was also something of

Jonathan Myerson Katz

KatzOnEarth

I’ll give him this: A hard thing to convey about Trump and the modern GOP’s fascism is that because it is predicated on white supremacy, it appeals MAINLY BUT NOT

Irina

Wer_ko_der_ko

Today is the November Pogroms memorial day in Germany, also known as "Kristallnacht" when in 1938 German Jews were killed, beaten up, humiliated, imprisoned and their homes and businesses looted

Imar Y. Koutchoukali 🌐 🐿

koutchoukalimar

Last week I tweeted this. One of the comments argued that the origin of Arabic qamīṣ < Latin camisia is hypothetical. It reminds me of people sometimes say "well [proven

JOMAozedong

aozedong

@Kali_de_Armas normally has some real good tweets but this is not one of them and I want to go over *why* more. And since it’s probably my tweet from yesterday

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD]1/19Long, long ago there was a people that lived someplace in the steppes of Eurasia who spoke a language linguists call, quite unimaginatively, the Proto-Indo-European tongue or PIE. Here, we're

John Taylor

realJohn_Taylor

What George Orwell got right (and wrong) about language. A thread.If I weren't a Latter-day Saint I'd be drunk right now, maybe.1/24 2/24 It's late and I'm reminiscing about the

Martin Johnes

martinjohnes

Although there are claims that the origin of Xmas trees lies in pagan traditions, it probably comes from medieval Germanic traditions of using trees to tell religious stories, especially around

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