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James Felton

JimMFelton

[Brexit end credits thread]When Big Ben bonged for Brexit, Mark Francois came so loud he startled the pigeon that lives atop his hobbit hole. He was never heard from again.

Open Ocean Exploration

RebeccaRHelm

In the South, there is a political strip of blue in a sea of red, and that strip hints at a 100 million-year-old coast that still shapes our world today...[thread

Tim Skellett

Gurdur

Drama-queening is most definitely NOT an answer. @AlexBerenson is a liar, who weirdly has taken it upon himself to become an apologist for a virus. Imagine saying this for polio,

Erik Bootsma

ErikBootsma

3,613,732 Can anyone guess what this number represents?No? It's the total estimated deaths from car crashes from 1899 to 2013.Just for perspective, total deaths from ALL of the wars the

Band_of_Brothers_101st

EasyCompany506t

Remembering Captain Henry S. "Hank" Jones on the anniversary of his passing on July 21, 1947, aged just 23. Jones served with the 506th PIR (and with Easy Company) during

TProphet

TProphet

1/ If you're a software or SaaS company (especially a startup!) that isn't Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix or Google, it's very likely that the highest and best use of your

Peter Cook

_Peter_Cook

And now for something completely different.Yesterday, this happened:https://twitter.com/_Peter_Cook/status/1323969940446216193 What was "this?" This was a colonoscopy. I'm 48 years old, so that's a bit young for one, but c

Nick Britten

Nick_Britten

Defenders of Rorke's Drift Private John Williams (AKA John Fielding) B Coy, 2nd Bn, 24th Regt.John Fielding was born in Abergavenny on the 24th May 1857 and was a worker

The Irving Society

IrvingSoc

#OTD 3 July 18801/Over supper, Jules Bastien-Lepage, lost in admiration with Henry Irving’s face, begged to paint his portrait. Irving agreed but after two sittings, disliking it, changed his mind.Although

Laurie Churchman

LaurieChurchman

This time last year, we were picking up the phone on Britain's first major #coronavirus outbreak at the @brightonargus. On the anniversary of the city's first reported case, I asked

Laurie Voss

seldo

It's Presidents Day in the US and once upon a time I read a biography of every single US president so I may as well make use of that useless

Sarah Climenhaga

SarahC_Toronto

Questioning the lockdown is seen as a domain of anti-science, alt right, conspiracy theorists. But the effects of these lockdowns are destructive to mental health, devastating to low income populations

Gummi Bear

gummibear737

Professor Neil Ferguson Deep Dive"Professor Lockdown", as he's nicknamed in some newspapers, is back in the public space and offering his scientific opinions on public health policyAs such, let's take

adria r. walker

adriawalkr

This point about Chicago Blues is particularly interesting to me. I think often about the Great Migration & about how much of the literature/studies focus on the people who left

Dr. Esophagus

dr_esophagus

Seeing patients - both remotely and in person - has led to a few insights about the pandemics effect on people - especially the elderly. 1) This has impacted the

B. Thomas Hall

ThomasHall17

On Friday, July 9, 1982, at 4 p.m., the House of Commons proceeded to Private Members' Business, which was supposed to last an hour. In those days PMB was usually

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