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Roger Kaputnik

IreadMad

Excellent article, which should be shown to people who protest about the Occupation- and it should be pointed out the debate took place well before the 1967 War, when the

Sathya

sathya1405

THREAD: #SooraraiPottru Now that the #SooraraiPottru frenzy in SM is cooling down. Thought of writing about #Captaingopinath who was the inspiration behind the movie. I am writing this

Nisheeth Sharan

nisheethsharan

Today @vikrantkumar tweeted about Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro. And I couldn’t help unsee the similarities from Maharashtra politics in it. So here goes...1/n#MaharashtraKiJaaneBhiDoYaro How Aditya Thackrey laid his claim to

Ty Stump

ArchivistTy

My latest article in Picturing PA, a short history of Pennsylvania Saloons. But I could only choose one photo to include, out of more than a dozen from the PA

WSGS (R.I.P. MF DOOM)

REcstaticIsA10

The Most Definite Yasiin Bey album. A thread on The Ecstatic The Ecstatic is the 4th full-length solo studio album by rapper Yasiin Bey (formally known as Mos Def). It

Samuel Herron

Rogersworthe

Since I've spent three years off and on working on a translation of the Paschal Canon by St. John of Damascus, I'm going to post some observations here as a

Tenoko1 | Writer of stories

tenoko1

Mitch, you’re showing a distinct lack of knowledge of what you’re referring to, as well as generalizing a subject because of the negative stereotype of extremists, while also just flat

Amelia

ActuallyAmelia

Did a survey at uni of Japanese folks on how they felt about recent releases The Last Samurai, Lost in Translation, and Memoirs of a Geisha.Most: "Happy to see our

👑TheRoyalWatcher👑

Royal_Watcher_

One of the things that bothered me most since Sunday (besides people lacking basic understanding of the BRF) is that so many had the nerve to disparage the Duke of

Robert McNees

mcnees

The nuclear physicist Harriet Brooks, who was probably the first person to notice the recoil of an atomic nucleus due to emissions during nuclear decay, was born #OTD in 1876.Credit:

Dr. Tony Gamble

tony_gamble1

I was looking through some books today & thought I'd share a favorite. Arthur Loveridge's "Reptiles of the Pacific World" published in 1945 near the end of WWII. One of

Benjamin Schmidt

benmschmidt

This article tries extremely hard to blame college students for COVID deaths, but it's so full of weird qualifiers and suspicious statistics that I went to check the underlying data.

T Roberts

TRobertsNI

1/ On the issue of the damaging NI Protocol, the Irish nationalists have now changed tack, presumably after PR advice, and are now engaging in theatre to make them appear

Que Walou 🦁 ⵊⵉⵀⴰⴷ

JiixBooks

Who is Assia Djebar? - ThreadShe was born Fatima-Zohra Imalayen in 1936 in Cherchell (close to Alger) to amazighi parents from Kabyle. Through her fathers teaching job she was able

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

It is discomforting that most people still underestimate true impact of #Covid19. Immediate effects are so shocking that we are all caught up in them.But longer-term implications may be more

Joe Pompliano

JoePompliano

Sylvester Stallone was homeless in 1975 and had $106 to his name.Today, he's worth over $400M.This is the wild story of how one negotiation changed his life forever and why

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