#1920s

Matteo Maggiori

m_maggiori

A return to the gold standard is a terrible idea. Why would one want as a monetary policy objective to stabilize the price of a useless metal? As opposed to

Hani Hassan

hanihassan26

Tonight's useless bit of #trivia #ValentinesDay Valentine's day has long been associated with love, & marked as day of commemoration & celebration for no less than 1500 years, ever since

鍾翔宇 Xiangyu

notXiangyu

1. It's remarkable how effectively the capitalists are able to so completely distort history that it ends up entirely inverted. For instance, in the widespread and ludicrous myth that Poland

Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik

CRostvik

Have you ever seen an ad like this? I've been writing about the 'blue goo' menstrual product advertising trope, and thought I'd share some findings in the hope of connecting

Jesse Colombo

TheBubbleBubble

Hello, everyone – I want to chime in on the latest phase of the speculative market mania, which includes the GameStop price explosion. This is extremely unhealthy. People from all

Siddharth Singh

siddharth3

This is one of my most favourite places in the world. And what an incredible history it has.Once upon a time, Hitler wanted this field to become the symbol of

Delaney Hall

daphall

I reported last week's @99piorg. It's about the place I live, Santa Fe, NM, and the complicated legacy of historic preservation here. If you'll indulge me in a THREAD (1/10)https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/stuccoed-in-time

Eddie Du

Edourdoo

In the mid-1920s, Joseph Goebbels was given the difficult task of fostering support for the growing Nazi Party in Berlin, "the reddest city in Europe besides Moscow."https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/how-the-nazis-succe

Mike Pitts

pittsmike

A thread on the new Welsh stone circle and #Stonehenge. What is at Stonehenge today can inform the theory that the original monument in Wiltshire was a “second-hand” Welsh ring.How

𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐤🖤

blueivyslave

AAVE AND WHAT IT MEANS- a thread -rt to educate someone- AAVE stands for african-american vernacular english and black women and members of the black lgbtq+ community have been talked

💕 the effexorcist 💕

kahtrinuh

Watching Grass is Greener on Netflix about the history of weed and its roots in the black jazz and hip-hop community and the war on drugshttps://youtu.be/UCUDxgYMdxI Louis Armstrong to his

Batho Motlhake

BathoMotlhake

HISTORY OF LAND IN BWBefore BW became a Protectorate in 1885, we just had settlements based on territories of tribes. As we know, that was the when tribes constantly fought

H i s t o r yK E

HistoryKE

#HistoryKeThread Once upon a time in 1889, the hinterland of what would later become the territory of Kenya was hit by rinderpest. The scourge reportedly wiped out up to 90%

Anti-Fascism & Far Right 🥤

FFRAFAction

While there is now more academic work on crusader & Templar imagery & its appropriation in contemporary far right, one of weirdest, most understudied bits of right-wing extremism is overlap

Tom Ryan

tomryanauthor

I have learned something wild and genuinely creepy, and interesting enough that I want to share it.Some of the details in this thread have popped up in my feed previously

jumi ♡ 🌸

starjumi

What is AO DAI?information thread about the traditional vietnamese dress from a vietnamese person. First of all an Ao Dai is a VIETNAMESE dress. The words Ao = shirt and

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