#Ancient

nooran🍁

purpleremnants

THREAD: Six years ago, in July 2013, I was in #Kashmir. My stay there for work and travel purposes coincided with the onset of #AmarnathYatra due to which never ending

Claire Lehmann

clairlemon

Some people seem to think that "higher education" is the only way one ever gets exposed to great literature, art, philosophy, psychology & science. Now we have the internet, we

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread (longish): Why was Orion seen by Ancient Greeks as a "the greatest hunter" armed with a cudgel (club)? And why do Bulgarians call Orion "cudgels (clubs)" and why do

Dr. Shannon Steiner

xeimevta

I sure love 2020. Waking up to bad news every morning sure is great.https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/turkeys-top-administrative-court-repeals-1934-decree-turning-hagia-sophia-into-museum/news We’ve seen this coming, y’all. Anyone who

Philip Amies

AmiesPhilip

Conservation has achieved a great deal, in 1980s I reported I think it was 14 or so avocets, to warden, he did not believe me until he saw them himself,

Uncle Bob Martin

unclebobmartin

For seven decades we programmers rode a technology that was skyrocketing exponentially. We got very accustomed to the rapid change. Now that change has slowed to a near stop; yet

ONE WISE MAN™ | Good Habits. Good Life

OneWiseMan__

Some Mind-Blowing Facts About Indian History Every Indian Should Know.// A Thread // (1/9)>> India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history. (2/9)>> Although modern images

Dirk Hayhurst

TheGarfoose

A old baseball friend, and terrific human, who knew me as one of the most (aggressive and obnoxiously) outspoken evangelical players on my college baseball team asked me what it

penitent admirer

loudpenitent

Ok look First: at the absolute least, ignoring for the sake of argument the fact that cultural genocide exists, it is an act of ethnic cleansing combined with deliberate destruction

Kaspars Ozolins

lettlander

THREAD: Who is Beelzebul? In Matthew 10:25, Jesus hints that he, the master of the house, will be called Beelzebul, even as his disciples will be maligned. The Greek word

Simon Lancaster

bespokespeeches

Much of my time as a speechwriter is spent helping leaders open up and talk about what matters most to them, no matter how personal/painful, because when they do, their

Lan Därjeeling🧁🤎

DescantCantus

Bear in mind I am no musicologist. My knowledge of musical/cultural history is rudimentary at best and perfunctory at worst. This is a complex question with very many components to

🍂 Ezra David Romero 🥧

ezraromero

I fell inw/giant sequoias as a kid. We lived in a farm town an hr away from the big trees. I've camped under them, hiked through them, took dates to

quranandbibleblog

quranandbibleb1

Many Christians are in denial about the Biblical "age of marriage". Too many Christians assume that the Bible agrees with modern views & will vociferously deny the reality, which is

Historians of Iran

HistorianofIran

1/ As I have mentioned, the story of #IranChina relations is not always a story of economic exchange and social integration. The lives of the elite were one thing, but

Laís de Oliveira

isolive

We're co-creating the future of communities with the 100 fellows we're bringing in to the very first cohort of the @beondeck Community Builders Fellowship. And I couldn't be more thrilled

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