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This is the excavation site under the #AcropolisMuseum in #Athens. While the museum displays the Classical era - the period most traditionally associated w/ Athens - the excavation below showcases

regina mühlhäuser

remueh

#Holocaust historian @ankahajkova studies sexual barter & #queer practices. Now a survivor's daughter sued, claiming Hájková's interpretation of her mother's relationship as lesbian is wrong & would destroy her mother

Jai

j__a__i

Thread of people who got ‘cancelled’ by centrists and the right, with *actual consequences* for them, starting with Aman Thakar, who got suspended from his job after calling in to

Dr Sam Hirst

RomGothSam

What is certainly true is that Britain was not 'white' as is often portrayed in period dramas or asserted by Romance readers who don't want a 'woke' agenda. In the

Tom Forth

thomasforth

While the UK cuts foreign aid from 0.7% of GNI to 0.5%, France is increasing foreign aid from 0.44% to 0.7% of GNI, thus more than making up the difference.

Dr. Kira Jones, unaccredited prismatoid

FlavianSophist

Okay, we need to have a chat about Roman portraiture. My feed is now full of horrifying #Nero reconstructions and I highly suggest that you don't look directly into his

Kristin Du Mez

kkdumez

So this caught my attn even before I realized Jesus and John Wayne was part of this discussion. Here's Newsmax talking about @DavidAFrench 's interview with Vox's @seanilling on how

James Felton

JimMFelton

The Great Rat Massacre Of 1902 (and how it backfired spectacularly)(Thread, sources here: https://bit.ly/3ob2cDX ) While we're talking about £500 incentives, I thought it would be fun to look back at

Musa موسیٰ🍁

Abdulhamid_1122

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

Chris Holland

ChrisCardsFan

The elimination of the Colmar Pocket—a 50 mi bulge in French First Army’s front in southern Alsace—was a priority for US 6th Army Group preliminary to crossing the Rhine River

Anosognosiogenesis

pookleblinky

The US native american population before 1492 was about 60 million people. This was only a little less than the entire population of Europe, which was about 75 million. And,

Thomas Zimmer

tzimmer_history

I reviewed @ezraklein‘s “Why We’re Polarized” for @hsozkult. A few thoughts, from a historical perspective, on an important book that still left me unconvinced that "polarization" is the right lens

David Frum

davidfrum

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'

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

“The British slave system was not in decline when the slave trade was abolished. On the contrary, all the evidence suggests that the slave trade was booming after 1783 –

Steven Vogel

StevenKVogel

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

Bob From Brockley 🥤

bobfrombrockley

A thread on free speech absolutists who defend fascists, prompted by Glenn Greenwald saying that Joe Rogan having once recommended a YouTube video of Noam Chomsky proves he has nothing

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