#History

Okay, yesterday, we had to get up at 2:00 am to head to Athens for @AthensCon. It’s took about seventeen hours, including three flights. We were bushed when we landed...even
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the history of execution in Iran[a thread]pictures might trigger you so please be careful#DontExecuteInIran @amnestyhas announced that in 2019 Iran had the highest number of execution in the world after
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1. One of the few advantages of being older is the capacity to look back at earlier times & compare. In my case to look back at care, the care
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[Thread] The Spaceshipper holiday gift guide: Art of & making of (books).Here is a list of a few (35) books that I really liked this year (I read them in
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what i think they would be doing in glee if it was still on today: a thread disclaimer- i'm only on season 4, so just want to warn you of
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As most recently discussed in depth by @luke_j_obrien, the nuclear release procedures for NATO in Cold War were byzantine & slow. Given US stress on promptness of lower yield W76-2
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Just watched a segment on @donlemon's @CNN show with @Emily_Baum of the @latimes. Some things happened. First, the story is that the Trump administration shut down a research program called
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"Only Allah can judge me!"A thread This phrase is thrown around quite often, mostly by those wanting to find a loophole to justify their questionable actions. Most of the
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8 Reasons Why You Should Read Daily= THREAD = If you are a person who is not fond of reading, then you are missing out something.People often don’t understand the
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The city of @MaricaRJ has just launched the most ambitious COVID-19 response in Brazil and arguably the world. In a new piece @BostonReview, @LeandroFerreira and I discuss the #BasicIncome policies
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Here’s a short thread on some rather worrying misinterpretations of the meaning and implications of “asymptomatic” #SARS-CoV-2 or #COVID19. This is provoked by a @bmj_latest news item by https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/369/bmj.m1375.full.pdf Let’s
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A thread on the British empire.1/"At its height in 1922, the British empire governed a fifth of the world's population and a quarter of the world's total land area."@feeldalove168https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-
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I feel like I’m doing a terrible job hosting this account because my heart is so burned out I can’t seem to pull together original thoughts. The last few months
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Utah Republican @SenMikeLee: Democracy isn't the objective. Profit is. And democracy can thwart that. Here's a United States Senator, elected by democracy (or whatever the hell passes for it in
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.@Owaahh now that you raised the question of elitism in Kenyan education....https://twitter.com/wmnjoya/status/1219985996776976384 Exam cheating and educational inequality started with colonial servants.After WW I His Majesty's government started
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1/6 There's two types of comments in this HUGE thread:- those who WANT #UBI so they can have life stability- those who HAVE stability and DON'T want it for othersWhy
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