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oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread: This is Croesus, the last Lydian king. In 546 BC, he misunderstood the prophecy from Delphi, which said that "If Croesus attacked the Persians, he would destroy a great

Too Early For Benga

paushinski

THE ACCIDENTAL KINGS.Wenge Musica's Sworn Musical Rivalry..In the long school holidays of 1984 in Kinshasa, the heartland of Zaire, or as it was mildly called, 'Ile Congo Ya Mobutu', a

Vallachian Rex

VallachianR

Thread: In communism poetry is a capital crime.This poem was used as evidence by the communist prosecutors in the 1958 treason trial of Romanian poet and journalist Radu Gyr. Gyr

Sakuga Lad - Animation Enthusiast

SakugaLad

2021 may have started on the very wrong foot in certain parts of the world, but the One Piece anime opened this year with a gargantuan bang with episode 957,

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

Did the Prophet Muḥammad follow an Arabian religion or religiosity before Islam, that is, before what Muslim accounts label the "Call to Prophecy"? A short thread based on notes for

The Global Qur’an

GloQur

South Asian Muslims have been translating the Qur’an into Urdu for over two centuries. The first complete Urdu translations emerged at the end of the 18th and the beginning of

Dr Anton Howes

antonhowes

Because of colonialism and widespread printing, we know a lot about what Europeans thought of Asia in the 17th and 18th centuriesBut what did Asian visitors think of Europe? A

Jim Bentley (he/him)

Curiosity_Films

Close reading is "a thing." One master of this is @KyleneBeers. But what about "close viewing"? I love the weekly @nytimes "What's Going On In This Picture?" activity where students

cherry⁷

chucklesbts

don't worry, bts have kim namjoon; a devastating thread when ellen did a jump scare to bts and namjoon’s first instinct was to check up on the members and see

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

Happy Tuesday! The latest focal S:N501 build is now updated with sequences from 11 Jan.There are 101 new sequences in the 501Y.V1 (B.1.1.7 #b117) & 501Y.V2 variants.Additionally, I'll include some

Cecil Walker

CecilRWalker

I've noticed that a lot of us in our generation find excitement in home comfort items like rugs, candles, air fryers, and other "adulting" things. Did some thinking and came

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

A perspective on COVID from a sunny, crisp London house, in a break between zoom calls. Context: I am an expert in human genetics and computational biology; I know experts

Sara Sheridan

sarasheridan

THREAD: Scottish women who had impact in Europe. Born illegitimate in Oban, Victorian Rose Blaze de Bury moved to Paris, where she hosted a salon, wrote several novels, drafted an

Anurag Shukla

Anuraag_Shukla

Thread warning: A long thread coming on the life and work of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, a world-renowned Kenyan writer, scholar, and social activist. His seminal work, "Decolonising the Mind" is

Donkus the Psycho Shocker

poondonkus

Let's talk about Mudman, the World Heroes character. Let's also talk about Hayao Miyazaki, Papua New Guinea, and Daijirou Morohoshi.World War 2, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and the Yellow Magic Orchestra

Malarăsculat.

caselchris1

For those who think caste-based discrimination is somehow worse in corporate America, here’s a thread on caste and corporate India.https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/30/business/30reuters-cisco-lawsuit.html#:~:text=It%20states%20he%2

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