#History

Om Prasad

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This is a remarkable episode in the History of Science in India. It's a shame that it is rarely featured among 'achievements' in any inventory of India's past and even

Dr. Twyla Baker

Indigenia

My older brother (cousin, for the white folx, Hidatsa didn’t have cousins, just more sibs) Gerard Baker used to be the Superintendant at two of the most storied National Parks

Office of the DNI

ODNIgov

#DYK @CIA and @USAirForce launched the nation’s first operationally successful film-return reconnaissance satellite, codenamed CORONA, 60 years ago? #ICinHistory Spurred by the Cold War, CORONA provided unmanned aerial reconnaissance of

Ant Evans

AntEvansMMA

MMA is barely 30yrs old, but its history is in the custody of the McNoob media + 'fans' who don't know a thing and don't care to.I take my share

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onlinecolloquy

The anonymous @TIinExile focused only on history has brought scholarly rigour even to SM & is hounded everyday for the same. He's expected to live upto high standards of scholarship

try jesus, don’t try me

zarimx

I can see the point about xenophobia, but I don’t think Black Americans descendant from US chattel slavery getting recognized for our unique history in this country is a bad

Dr. Joanne Freeman

jbf1755

1/ I've been off Twitter for most of the day, and dipping back in, I'm struck by what a strange, fascinating, revealing, and timely July Fourth weekend we're having.There was

Dominique Samuels 🇬🇧

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HISTORY THREAD : I am often asked why I identify with Britain so much and believe black people truly have a place here to call their own. That’s because black

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

#PiApproximationDayHere is the Indian story of Pi-Yajnavalkya 2000BCE->339/108=3.1388..(.09% error)Baudhayana 1700BC 3.08Jainas 400BC 3.16Aryabhata 499CE 3.1416Govindaswami 800CE 3.14159265Madhava,1370 3.14159265358Nilakanta 1480, 'F

Christian Lamar

christianllamar

January 6th 2021 objections are critical. We need to see where US Senate Republicans stand. All we need is one Senator to make it happen! We can clean up our

Brett McKay

BMcSport

A bit of cricket history in Central West NSW today - my little home town of Bogan Gate (pop. 200) has beaten Parkes to claim the Grinsted Cup for the

N. S. Dolkart is swimming in desserts

N_S_Dolkart

WORLDBUILDING THREAD, but first my credentials bc why not:I'm a published novelist (fantasy) and a member of the neo-pro Codex writer's group, thanks to which (along with con-going) I also

Justin C. Key

JustinKey_MD

Tuskegee. Marion Sims. Henrietta Lacks.The history of medical experimentation on black and brown communities in this country is not lost on me. In fact, as an American Descendant of Slaves

Touré

Toure

Had a very unpleasant moment today with some disappointingly predictable white people when I tried to explain to them how the statue depicted below is insanely racist. It sits on

Adam Kotsko

adamkotsko

The way people talk about "capitalism" is, perhaps unsurprisingly, not very clarifying. At times it seems to mean simply "having an economy at all," then it skips over to being

Sofia Akel

sofiaakel

'Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb' on Netflix documents the all-Egyptian archaeological group exploring the history of the Saqqara necropolis.This documentary brought to the fore what it means to decolonise research

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