#Biography

Leonardo da Vinci had #ADHD.• He rarely completed projects.• He never published anything.• He was ashamed of abandoning projects & commissions.• He rapidly found new things to hyperfocus on.• He
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Mary Grew, abolitionist leader & newspaper editor. Her work was respected by all the men in the movement—except her own father.Maryback row w/the Penn. AntiSlavery Society. Margaret Burleigh, her partner
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[42th Thread : Refutation of ignorant claims by a bigot]1.This thread is yet again another refutation of a fake sanghi historian whose plagarized threads I've already refuted 6 times.Truth:- Thread
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Celebrate the tradition of #BlackAnarchism with Lucy Parsons, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Martin Sostre, and Kulwasi Balagoon - four important figures that are far too often overlooked.See below for more on
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Kashmirs history is filled with mythical tales, fallacious narratives, corrupt ideologies and fake rhetorics. We sometimes accept this hypocrisy as truth and that's solely due to our ignorance. When one
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Back to work. Kids back to school (in the next room). Tough for them. Didn't see many people or do much over Christmas, obviously, but so nice to have some
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This is convicted terrorist Susan Rosenberg, she sits on the Board of Directors for the fundraising arm of Black Lives Matter. She was convicted for the 1983 bombing of the
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Lizzie Collingham is one of my favorite social historians working today. I finished the latest of her books, Biscuit, on Christmas Day. #FrumReads4 1/xhttps://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1118496/the-biscuit/9781847926128.html Collingham'
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Thanks to everyone who posted tributes to my father. I thought I might honor him with a not-too-serious thread on some of his major works, from the admittedly warped perspective
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Charles Lenox Remond was the most prominent Black abolitionist in the US until he was overshadowed by Frederick Douglass.Remond’s commitment to women’s rights was as deep as FD’s, maybe deeper.
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Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld (1821-61), known to the world as Lola Montez ‘the Spanish dancer’ was a celebrated courted & mistress of King Ludwig I of
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I'd like to start a thread with all the times women or POC #academics have felt erased when their work has come out in the media (news / online articles)
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10 habits that have worked wonders for meA thread... Habit 1:Read everydayI read 30-45 mins everyday. Early in the morning. Only non-fiction.No specific topic. Anything that intrigues me. How it
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Please listen.I've written a lot of threads, but this might be the most pressing. Trump's authoritarianism is a full-blown national crisis and history shows us the American presidency is ripe
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Just received this thoughtful piece from a colleague and friend at Stanford (medievalists in the US are watching this shabby debacle with keen interest). It's by the author of the
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1/n #SadarPranam to Ishvara within you dear @Burairss .I’ll not waste space doing name calling (as you do) rather clarify how childish your arguments trying hard to prove historicity of
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