#Grandfather

Robbie Fox

RobbieBarstool

Per tradition, I will now post some highlights from the Star Wars Holiday Special from 1978, which George Lucas said he'd like to smash every copy in existence of with

Raven Books

ravenbooks

I have been resisting getting up on my soap box about this as I fear it will be taken as a criticism of other businesses, in particular other book shops,

naturgeschichtlich

la_leere

this is quite sad because it will make this area less accessible to visitors, but a good time to talk about how amazing coast redwood fire resilience ishttps://twitter.com/ohhfabbi/status/1296508822656184320 if you

Suryanarayan Ganesh

gsurya

The Ch Sanghis are just plain lying, that too in English. I have been traveling to China, France, Germany, Nordics for last 20 years and in ALL of them find

Joe Pilot, MD

JoeSilverman7

My family has been in the business of medicine for 100 years. My grandfather was a giant of medicine. There’s a plaque of him hanging at @umichmedicine. He gave his

Jubilee

crowddemocracy

My great great grandfather owned slavesWhen they were free’d he gave them their houses and offered them employmentHe was a “good” slave ownerThis is the story I grew up with

Carl Doss #OneRaceTheHumanRace

unixdoss

Thread:Words from my Sister-What Dear White PeopleWhen you make posts that seemingly protest Black Lives Matter, what “I” see is discrimination. I try so hard not to judge because I

nganga wa Juja

olmagogo

First things first. Let's settle who @DavidNdii really is. In my research, he is from a 'home guard' headed family. Back those days before the Lari massacre, Lari was shared

Daniel Joyaux

Thirdmanmovies

Did anyone ever grow up with a major piece of pop culture in some slightly altered form? Let me regale you with the story of Die Hard: The Grandpa Cut(1/)

Bobby D.

Ancient0History

"Thus glandular injections, as well as the Steinach operation (which renders an external secretion internal by making gonads wholly ductless), often cause complete changes in emotional life."- H. P. Lovecraft

Greg

How2Drink

Neither of my parents had college (or... high school) educations. I heard my whole life that getting a degree, any degree at all, would guarantee me a serious starting salary

Courtenay Bluebird (Martin)

BluebirdBlvd

WELP, I finally saw the baked beans story and I’m pretty weirded out by it. *sigh* My grandfather was the person who taught me how to use tools and

Jon Putnam

jbeputnam

My late grandfather was an engineer for the @metpoliceuk until the 1980s and designed/developed a number of their specialist vehicles. It seems a shame to leave his work hidden in

Amanda B😷wer

heyprofbow

I was in the early stages of my dissertation. I sat at the round table, exhausted, as they criticized my work. I was calm. 1/8https://twitter.com/academicchatter/status/1285918768300847104 The complaints ran over me,

𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕒𝕞 𝔻. 𝕃𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕤𝕖𝕪 🌈

wdlindsy

On Christmas Day, my husband, his brother, and I asked ourselves whether we have any memories of our grandparents and their siblings discussing the flu epidemic of 1918 and how

mishmish/ miss miguel

myyshellll

Happy 57th anniversary of the first time Umm Kalthoum performed “Enta Oumri” live :) legend has it that the applause she received afterwards was one of the longest anyone had

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