#Biography

Chad Oldfather

oldfatherc

Heads up, five people who regularly read my tweets: This morning I shall treat you to a slow-moving tweet storm. A veritable stationary front of bite-sized prose. 1/ Its occasion

Marc Owen Jones

marcowenjones

[Thread] 1/ In the UK aggressive online attacks on the press and journalists continue following the #DominicCummings scandal. The "scum media" hashtag seems to be escalating. This thread is an

The New York Times

nytimes

The bookcase backdrop is ubiquitous this year, with people dialing into video calls from their personal libraries. @nytimesbooks looked at the bookcases of a few celebrities and notable figures. Here’s

Wealth Director

wealth_director

The Story Behind the Image of Steve Jobs“He looked at me like I had given him a Christmas present.”=A THREAD BY WD= Steven Paul Jobs was an American business ma…Wait

Mondo Lopez

mondolopez2

The Two CubasIm sure everyone knows about the "Second" Cuba, which was discovered and named by Christopher Columbus in 1492. The territory of modern day Cuba was inhabited by the

Really But Not Really A Senator This Time Person

sayer_of_stuff

By... not exactly popular demand, but certainly popular accidental suggestion, here's some Astronomy History with a focus on America, while drunk! HAPPY 4TH!https://twitter.com/sayer_of_stuff/status/1279594826661539841?s=20 As long as t

Zikhona Valela

valavoosh

John Tengo Jabavu died on this day in 1921. Frame 1 is an image in the biography his son DDT Jabavu (pictured in frame 2) wrote about him. JT was

Uriah

crimkadid

The founder of The Nation of Islam, Wallace Fard Muhammed, claimed himself to be half black and half white, born in Mecca. His followers claimed he was God Incarnate; most

Qs Ayuba Baranzan Duniya

ayukson2011

Kaduna: Crossing Over the River of Snails byChristian O. EmmanuelHausa historians employ the instruments of falsehood to distort the details of the history of their neighbours. This has always been

SciTech DiploHub

SciTechDiploHub

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!Let's celebrate all those women explorers, scientists and innovators who are transforming the world for the better!#WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #WomenInTech #WomenInSciDip #100tífiq

Doni Habib Ibn Saffari🇹🇯

TajikAlimCherik

Afghan identity: does it really exist? [thread]If you ask an afghan nationalist about the history of Afghanistan he will tell you that in the 1700s Ahmad shah Durrani rose up,

Jim OShaughnessy

jposhaughnessy

It’s *what* is said that’s important, not *who* has said it, a thread1/ I have long recommended reading outside of the field of finance and investing in order to gain

Simon Lancaster

bespokespeeches

Trump’s Oklahoma rally speech was 1 hour 40 mins long. This is the length of a movie, and the audience is engaged throughout - chanting/cheering. Most speakers can only hold

dr matt lodder

mattlodder

Did I ever tell you all about my academic stalker? Not a romantic story, but a catfish nonetheless. I'm an academic. The short version of a much longer story is

M. Gouldhawke ∞

M_Gouldhawke

The British law that created the mainland colony of British Columbia in 1858 had the racist Doctrine of Discovery and Terra Nullius written out in its first sentence, falsely claiming

Max Harris

maxdnharris

After discussions abt how well National's frontbench is positioned to represent NZ, I’m interested in its views on the place of the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti in particular). Coming

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