#Tradition

Evan

EvanMcFarlane

How the rise and fall of Mamchester United has mirrored the career of The Undertaker.A thread. Alex Ferguson joined in 1986, but it would be 1990 before he lifted his

Women's Voices

WomenReadWomen

This is Saulė, the Latvian and Lithuanian goddess of the sun, patroness of orphaned children, in a sleigh led by female reindeer.The winter solstice was celebrated as her return; she

Rob Donoghue

rdonoghue

Practical upshot of stopping doing terrible things:Evil is incredibly useful in D&D. Having the setting slap the label of evil on things simplifies things for players and GMs in concrete,

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

In 1797, President George Washington was determined to unambiguously hand over the nation’s reins for the first time.He attended the inauguration ceremony of John Adams to show his support. Unfortunately,

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread: This is one of the most amazing things I have seen...Neolithic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangshao_culture burial, discovered in Puyang, Henan Province, Northwestern China and dated to 4000BC... A person was buried between

Clare Griffin

balalaichnitsa

Ok, clearly I hate myself because I am actually now going to do a line-by-line refutation of this nonsense.https://twitter.com/daniel_dsj2110/status/1334295004790091781 First, a quick transcription of what the photo in the OP

Guillaume Nicoulaud

ordrespontane

Je ne suis pas un spécialiste de l’Islam mais, des quelques informations historiques et théologiques dont je dispose, il semble bien que (i) cette tradition date de bien avant la

Courtside Fracas

courtsidefracas

#NBA 𝐱 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐑 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐆𝐔𝐄 (& 𝐂𝐎.) 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃The NBA season is well & truly back, and #CourtsideFracas are conscious we have a lot of

Curt Kennedy

imcurtkennedy

1/Quite a few ppl asked questions that I didn’t get to answer on my “How did we get here” thread I posted last week. By “here,” I mean the public

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

1. @ShaoulSussman and I wrote about a key scholar named Herb Hovenkamp. It's a story of how corporate power lives not in seedy politics, but in academia, in expert jargon,

Astrius Catyote

AstriusCatyote

Gonna go on a rant, here. A very Anti-Christmas rant. So if you don't wanna hear it, or think arguing with me about it will do anything, just keep scrolling.Okay?Okay.Rant:

rhod chang @SHUOYUE1994

quigonejinn

SUP GUESS WHAT CAME 2DAY staring off with some real good stuff about western observers being horrified by the ubiquity of male homosexuality in 16th century China. and good stuff

JohnPaul Fitzpatrick

F1tzy79

"panel is brightly illuminated by reflected sunlight on the equinoxes" which involves knowledge of the stars yet the refence in this link is "note the spiders " hard day of

Felix Tamsut

ftamsut

In recent years, fan and ultra groups in Germany used the matchdays ahead of Christmas to provide help to those in need.Despite not being able to attend games due to

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update July 7: If someone tells you you’re “essential,” you’re going to want to run the other way. Because “essential” now means underpaid, unappreciated, sacrificial & there to serve

征西大将军

Truth2Upeople

Who are the Uyghur "activists"? A thread. Erkin Alptekin, son of Isa Alptekin pic2 a Pan-Turkic nationalist and ex-KMT official, fled XJ in 1949; grew up in Kashmir and Turkey.

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