#Prussia

Simon Pfeiffer

SimonDPfeiffer

In the recent epsiode of the amazing @cowenconvos, @Jeff_Holmes says to @tylercowen "I think it is still the case that can't do a census as there is such a

Marc Caputo

MarcACaputo

Lost Cause meet Crazy Cause: using Juneteenth to tear down of the San Fran. statue of Ulysses S. Grant —who won the Civil War that led to emancipation, long before

ainsley

astrobyainsley

a deep dive into the birth chart of karl marx. [thread] let’s start with his ascendant & ascendant ruler. right off the bat, those who are aquarius risings are free-thinking

Elaine Scattermoon

scattermoon

Europe is known for its microstates - Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, Vatican City (Luxembourg is too big to count) - but for 104 years, a curiosity of a microstate existed

Malcolm Tucker

gorbalsgoebbels

Thread: Debunking the myths and lies of the SNP/Yes and how they’ve radicalised Scots. Scotland subsidises England.https://www.gov.scot/publications/government-expenditure-revenue-scotland-gers-2019-20/MYTH.We spend £81 billion for publi

Dan Jackson

northumbriana

A thread of some of the oldest photographs of the North East. Would welcome further submissions! This first group are of the great fire of Newcastle & Gateshead in 1854

Napoleonic Impressions

Napoleonic_Imp

As a result of not knowing what day it is due to post-Christmas lethargy, we inexcusably neglected to mark the anniversary of the birth of Barclay de Tolly yesterday. So

Paul Holland

Paul_Hol1000

Elon Musk. The inflation fraud of our time. For a small number of people, inflation meant the opportunity to amass enormous wealth and economic power in just a few years.

Jasmine Soliman

JIsoliman

A little thread of the beauty of cabinet card versos (inspired by @photograph_tut). CC designs start off simple (a stamp and address), become very ornate, then go on to black

Robert McNees

mcnees

Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined Newton, Leibniz, and her own original ideas in "Institutions

Sofía Otero

Gene_Tonic_

10 facts you might not know about Katherine Esau (pronounced EE-saw), the grande dame of botany, plant anatomy and phloem (1/n) 1. She was born in the Russian

George Mack

george__mack

We live in the AGE OF INFORMATION. It's never been easier to PASSIVELY ACCEPT the opinions of other people.Let's use HISTORY as a reminder as to how this can go

Robert McNees

mcnees

Albert Michelson, pioneer of optical interferometry, was born #OTD in 1852. He refined measurements of the speed of light, failed to find evidence of the aether, and developed a method

Ideas Untrapped

IUntrapped

#IdeasThatMatter STATE CAPACITY starts here. The fundamental question, what is STATE CAPACITY."State capacity describes the ability of a state to collect taxes, enforce law and order, and provide public goods."

jas ☭

dietcoketrashh

Female soldiers of the Soviet Union thread Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916-1974)Nicknamed “Lady Death” for the number of Nazi soldiers she killed, 309 confirmed. Awarded “Hero of the Soviet Union”, the highest

US Rebel

USRising1776

In America, the public is given zero information on the "Weimar Republic," the period in Germany post-WWI that led to the rise of the NationaI SociaIists in 1933.This is deliberate.

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