#Biography

Marina Amaral

marinamaral2

Olympe de Gouges is considered as one of the world's first feminists. She was arrested on 20 July 1793, condemned to death and guillotined on 3 November 1793, mainly because

Dana White

ItsDanaWhite

Normalize apologizing and seeking to be accountable when you violate an agreement or do harm, but never allowing someone to tell you who you are. People will use those moments

Vincent Young

a2binny

I was to learn of the passing of Dr. John G. Bartlett, MD. Dr. Bartlett led so many of the advances in the #InfectionDiseases field. He gave me a boost

Ceasar Bautista

Ceasar_Bautista

The root of all success is the ability to make good decisions. At the same, I've never thought hard about what it really takes to make good decisions, and I

Anne Applebaum

anneapplebaum

Time for Christmas shopping 2020! So many good books were published this year, despite everything. Everyone should read Putin's People by @CatherineBelton, on the deep roots of Russia's current ruling

LG²

lizsfg

1/ If Keystone = PA, is @GenFlynn going to Harvest the [crop]? Who knows where the bodies are buried? 2/ @SenMastriano “Democracy can die in darkness... w/ no transparency or

Mayukh Sen

senatormayukh

i know i “write about food” or whatever but it was truly gratifying to spend so much of this year writing about movies—my first love—and so many actors i admire

Liz Crash

AsFarce

William Ah Ket is well known as one of the very few early twentieth-century Chinese-Australian lawyers and a fierce opponent of racism. that's not what this thread is about. it's

Jon Finkel

Jon_Finkel

1) i love writing. i love coming up with book concepts.a big question i always get asked on pods is: how do you decide what book to write next?a quick

Frank M. Taylor

Paceaux

Martin Luther King, Jr was killed by James Earl Ray on April 4th, 1968. We know a lot about Dr. King. We don't know a lot about his killer. Or

robert saint rich

fatherrich_

Visual art in the digital age has forced artists to believe they need to create for social media, that clout is wealth, and a comment is a critique by established

Henry Sotheran Ltd

Sotherans

HISTORIAN: they were rarely seen apartME: yesHISTORIAN: one carried the other's poetry to his deathME: YesHISTORIAN: they wanted to be buried togetherME: YESHISTORIAN: these two men were close friendsME: NO

Parveen Kaswan, IFS

ParveenKaswan

Remembering Maharaja #Surajmal on his birth anniversary, rightly called as 'Plato of Jat people'. History of the world is but the biography of great men and those who don't know

T. Greer

Scholars_Stage

Recently read Berlin's biography of Karl Marx. What struck me: how extraordinary a character Engels was. Engels was smart--at least your average professor smart. But his entire influence on the

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Among the many problems with modern journalism is the desperate effort to guess at a subject’s motive, which has crept from biography - where at least one can hope

Ellen McDermott

HeyNell

A book I’m really looking forward to this year is a new biography of Ida B Wells, written by her great-granddaughter. I have it in pre-order.https://twitter.com/michelleduster/status/1335333855075643395 Right now, I’m reading

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