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Curwen Ares Rolinson
huntersrolinson
This Is #GangSteppe - a fine 2nd century AD Kushan depiction of Lord Skanda, from Gandhara in present-day Afghanistan/Pakistan. Something I find pretty cool about this particular rendering, is that
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Max Olson
maxolson
Tweets from the past: new tech edition. What would people say if twitter had been around for 100s of years? Seeing this pop up in my feed a bunch. Seems
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dSana 🦄
dSana_SKey
1/ 30 years before I was born, wankers wearing fascists symbols some of you like and protect from "leftie censorship" thinking them cool or harmless, have invided my country, enslaved
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Jake Holliday
J_O_Holliday
Thread: Members of the Wehrmacht Feldgendarmerie erecting a sign on a major road in Russia, July 1941. This was not just any highway, however. Later in 1942, what happened along
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Sergey Radchenko
DrRadchenko
I hesitated for a bit whether I should post excerpts from the following documents as they can easily be quoted out of context but I've decided to do it anyway.
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Tade Thompson
tadethompson
From a thread strand with @clacksee we come to this: where does 'no politics in my fiction' come from?Glad you asked.It comes from the CIA. Here's a nice picture of
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Sergey Radchenko
DrRadchenko
On the question of Russia sanctions - and putting on my historian's hat - the following two considerations come to mind. 1) In the short term, sanctions can and do
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BDW
BryanDeanWright
America’s greatest threats are 1) China & 2) the denigration of American Exceptionalism.The China threat is clear.The latter less so.Let me explain.https://twitter.com/immatthew_davis/status/1335733171711746049 We used to understand t
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Nivenus
nivenus
I feel like we strongly underestimate as a culture just how effectively Nazism was neutered in Germany.And Germany specifically, I will add. Fascism in Italy and Japan was nowhere nearly
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Zach Dorfman
zachsdorfman
THREAD: Espionage in the Golden State.A big part of my reporting over the last few years has been about spying in California. It's an endlessly fascinating, under-covered, and (I think)
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David Frum
davidfrum
Lizzie Collingham is one of my favorite social historians working today. I finished the latest of her books, Biscuit, on Christmas Day. #FrumReads4 1/xhttps://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1118496/the-biscuit/9781847926128.html Collingham'
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Advaid അദ്വൈത്
Advaidism
In the 1930s, the Western Media loved the LW = RW narrative, especially the British.When the Nazis were defeated at Stalingrad, Churchill presented the Sword of Stalingrad to Stalin at
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Georgy
oktyabrvperedi
Thread on the Electrification of the Soviet Union. The "State Commission for Electrification of Russia" or "GOLERO plan" was the first plan for the economic development of the Soviet Union.
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Dr Francis Young
DrFrancisYoung
On this night 30 years ago, Lithuania (which had declared independence 10 months earlier) faced its first test as a nation reaffirming its independence. The key events of the night
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Ajit Datta
ajitdatta
On this day 45 years ago, the Emergency was declared. In light of the MoU that the Congress Party signed with the CCP, perhaps it's the right day to remember
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Zaid Hamid
ZaidZamanHamid
1.Today, another Pak army convoy was ambushed in Waziristan. Fence on the Afghan border cannot stop the terrorists hiding within our own ranks, within our own political parties but funded
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