#Imperial

Penguin Classics UK

classicpenguins

'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'Today we’re celebrating the 80th anniversary of George Orwell publishing in Penguin. #80YearsofPenguinOrwell /1 Orwell saw the

Taff

Taff_Gillingham

This wonderful account, by a former member of the Sheffield City Battalion, was written after the 40th anniversary in 1956.To me it always sums up the veterans’ view of returning

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 114Medical Grand Rounds returns today: @YouTube here https://tinyurl.com/y99b6csl We cover the state of the pandemic, opening the schools, and the San Quentin prison outbreak. My

Sana Saeed

SanaSaeed

I'm glad the NYT finally acknowledged and issued a "correction" for the abysmal ethical and journalistic mess that was Rukmini Callimachi's 'Caliphate' series. It is not, however, enough. The series

EMS

bombUSgovt

In terms of physical resources and power potential, the American Empire died in 1975 when US forces fled Southeast Asia. The nation had already peaked in energy production, steel production

Irkutyanin

Irkutyanin1

One thing I tried to get across talking about Woodrow Wilson was that, in spite of everything else you may personally hate about him, and there is a lot, his

Helen Roberts 💙

HelenR864

A couple of years ago I was researching Hurdcott Camp, a #WW1 training camp in Wiltshire as part of my @ww1australiamap project when I stumbled across a FB page created

ChronHib ✍⌨

ChronHib

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu 16Ariwara no Yukihira a.k.a. Middle Counselor Yukihira (818–6.9.893)Parting, separatingto Mount Inaba’s peak where pines grow.On hearing “pines!”I shall return at once./1 Ariwara no Yukihira a.k.a. Chūnagon Yuk

WikiVictorian

wikivictorian

Fabergé eggs (Part two: the Other Eggs): A THREAD In the previous thread, I told you about the Imperial Fabergé eggs, which were the ones made for Russian Tsars

Oregon Rolled A 20 (I Draw Crappy Things)

OregonRolledA20

K a thread of ideas...2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia. https://twitter.com/HottingerLauren/status/1343789028076871681 Locals discover 20 coffins of unknown origi

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

I wrote yesterday about the spread of the UK B117 variant based on data up to the 13th Dec warning that it could become dominant across much of the UK

Dr Rob Cromarty

DocCrom

Ancient Coin of the Day: Just got Hercules on my mind today, so the thread is going to look at the connection which Commodus forged with Hercules, starting with this

maddie🍊(依玲)🍉

magdarins

This post is making a splash with tankies rn and I just wanna clarify smth! Boba liberalism and red nationalism are actually just two terrible twins unable to escape

Gummi Bear

gummibear737

Professor Neil Ferguson Deep Dive"Professor Lockdown", as he's nicknamed in some newspapers, is back in the public space and offering his scientific opinions on public health policyAs such, let's take

Chris Sams

jerijerod14

Through the Autumn of 1914 the only (as far as I know) example of German and Austro-Hungarian Naval surface units working together occurred. In the Pacific during 1914 the Protected

Ferran D'Antequera

FerranAntequera

¡Ojo al siguiente tuit! de @RamonEspinar https://twitter.com/RamonEspinar/status/1301469315384958976?s=20 Aquí tienes, @ramonespinar el Santiago, y cierra España antes del S.XIXhttps://twitter.com/FerranAntequera/status/11415708373189468

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