#Past

Dr Phil Weir

navalhistorian

On this day 1950 41 Independent Commando @RoyalMarines, under Lt/Col Douglas Drysdale, left Hungnam, heading for Koto-ri & Col Lewis "Chesty" Puller's 1st Marine Regiment, part of @USMC's @1st_Marine_Div fighting

Cameron Holmes

C_Holmes44

Want to become a better listener & increase your sales?Then keep reading"Traits of a Good Listener" (with tips on how to improve) -THREAD- 1. They don't listen to respondGood listeners

El

elshadai_g

A thread on castration during Adwa:The practice of genital mutilation in the Oromo culture was done to prove a warrior vanquished his enemy. The mutilated trophy was placed on the

Andrew Watkins

and_huh_what

THREAD: As Afghans, diplomats & observers try to interpret initial Biden team signals on how it will approach peace process ... seems worth reflecting on two big bits of news

Whores of Yore

WhoresofYore

A lot of love for Tallulah Bankhead (1902-68) coming in after tweeting about her yesterday. In honour of the scandalous Ms Bankhead, here’s a thread of her quotes. Enjoy, daaaaahlings.

Tren Griffin

trengriffin

1/ Charlie Munger: “We have the same problem as everyone else: It’s very hard to predict the future."Seth Klarman: "An unresolvable contradiction exists: to perform present value analysis, you must

Julie Bindel

bindelj

THREAD: Woke prudes are as bad as Mary WhitehouseLibby PurvesThe TimesLong ago, when the present censorious generation were in nappies, for three decades Mrs Mary Whitehouse campaigned to “Clean Up

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

I am sceptical that the university of Edinburgh has much evidence of a building being named after the famous 18th century Enlightenment philosopher David Hume causing 'distress' to contemporary students.

White_Tiger_333

TheRealAlice333

I have been saying this on here literally for years now. I was told this as a teenager, by one of them. And the truth of it is being shown.

Newman Nahas

NahasNewman

Surprised by how many people respond to arguments about lockdowns by arguing that recessions save lives. They always draw on the same work by Ruhm noting macro-level correlations between mortality

Leah Douglas

leahjdouglas

The top meat industry lobby group used my data on Covid-19 cases in the meatpacking sector to criticize OSHA’s $13,000 fine of Smithfield Foods, because worker cases are “trending down

Dan Go

FitFounder

10 pieces of workout advice I wish I could have given to my 25 year old selfI've made a lot of mistakes in the gym. If I could slap my

milan - they/them - nsfw

seungshibari

sk!z as songs i was obsessed with in high school for some mystical reason unbeknownst to me hynjn champagne c0ast by bl00d orange. self indulgent and dreamily dreary.

Bob Gates

GatesRobertJ

Nikola Tesla was born around midnight, between July 9 and July 10, 1856 during a fierce lightning storm.#WWG1WGA #TheStormIsUponUs Who wants to celebrate in 5 hrs? Interesting. I've seen homemade small units,

Dave McClure

davemcclure

i've invested for ~20 yrs, met 1000's of founders, seen 1000's of decks, done 100's of deals -- yet it's still humbling how often i'm wrong or uncertain about what's

Deborah E. McDowell

dem8z

In my annual, ritual meditation on King, I keep thinking about those misused,spontaneous references to his “four little children” in “I Have a Dream.” As many have noted, this passage

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