#CULTURE

Hippopotamus range (And their history of introduction into the Americas) The Latin word hippopotamus is derived from the ancient Greek ἱπποπόταμος, hippopótamos, from ἵππος, híppos, "horse", and ποταμός,
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Long long time back there was a Rajkumar....he was named "Ram".This beautiful story of love, of sacrifice and of valor was authored by Sage Valmiki in the time frame of
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The 4th of July is a sacred day & some of you have ruined it for yourselves with NRx memesFreedom of speech & religion is good, the right to bear
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[THREAD] If you're an autistic activist who speaks, and you've recently joined the fight for the communication rights of nonspeaking autistic people, I want you to know that you're going
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A :As I think about the flagrant acts of violent racism in Alberta, both recently and historically, I can’t help by think that we, the cis white hetero feminists in
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It's Australia Day. A painful day for many, and increasingly a day of national reflection. Perennial troll farm, the Institute of Public Affairs, chose today to publish a report they've
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Who is Shah Rukh Khan? (Must Read) thread 1.He's the grandson of a freedom fighter Gen. Shah Nawaz Khan who was the major general of Indian National Army under Netaji
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Exactly. So, once a year from the 1st to the 6th of August, the country should cease all but emergency (NOT 'essential') services & host a series of cultural events.https://twitter.com/Nationwideradio/status/1337093694462324739
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Random thread on things I've learned while running Medal the last few years. In no particular order. Scale solves most things. Get to it as fast as you can.Trust
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Ok, kids, a thread, on one of the things that they teach clergy in seminary, but clergy are often afraid to teach you: the Hermeneutics of Suspicion. Nothing I’m about
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Thread d’infos sur l’occitan, parce-qu’on commence un peu à se connaître vous et moi et qu’il est temps que vous connaissiez un peu ma langue et ma culture, tout de
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Hey all, we've invited @SeventhDegreeUK to help do a live-tweet of reading through Andy Ngo's book about antifa called 'Unmasked' (starting now). We'll try to keep our observations about the
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Drunk me (I assume?) seems to have changed my bio to "the first battery was made of wine" at some point and actually this is a banger so sure let's
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Happy birthday to Sasha Shulgin, born on this day in 1925. He invented hundreds of chemical technologies for exploring the mind and healing the soul. Sasha's first known publications are
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1) I guess I'm doing a thread about #sciencefiction and #space advocacy and communication. Bleh. Let's start by agreeing #scifi is wonderful. I love it, founded a sf book club
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Ancestral memory and how a site becomes holy, a thread. Blagaj is one of the holy sites of Bosnian Islam. Despite the opposition from adherents of Arab Islam every year
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