Gotta say New Years Eve 2020 is a good twitter day …. everyone is out and bringing their A game. I guess we cant wait
RT @ykomska: Is anyone writing Soviet/Stalinism history from the graphic sausage design perspective? https://t.co/QB8qhwmdWr
This is a truly fantastic thread from @davidfickling on shipworm, coppering, the industrial revolution and the slave trade, complete with brilliant illustrations. FANTASTIC stuff! twitter.com/davidfickling/…
RT @davidfickling: Here's a story about how a ship-eating clam helped bring about the Industrial Revolution: https://t.co/Oa9XlFNPjy
RT @itsnicethat: What your toys say about you: Spanning 58 countries, Toy Stories is a photographic study of the objects children love most…
The last ten years have seen an explosion of new psychoactive substances that are causing risks of overdose for users and problems for crime agencies
RT @Tate: #Onthisday in 1946, painter Ruskin Spear looked out of his front-room window at a very snowy London. ❄️ What can you see outside…
48.3% of private firms in China had Party organizations in 2018, up from 35.6% in 2012, meaning average annual growth of 2.1% over Xi’s tenure.
RT @StefanSasse: @adam_tooze I'm always shocked that when the Soviet Union dissolved, the Kriegsgräberfürsorge found the old battlefields o…
RT @VonHitchofen: @SiGornick @506176656C @adam_tooze It was the narrow undercarriage that did for the Spitfire in Russian service. Very poo…
@Chris_Hoeland @MSchularick @BMG_Bund Das also die Frage: was ist die weltweit-maximalste Kapazität für mRNA Impfstoff Produktion? Klar gibt es eine gewisse Flexibilität -Schweiz, Schweden, Indien
Quite a lot of huffing and puffing coming out of PBoC: "Over the past month, the People’s Bank of China has had to work especially
One of my favorite conversations of the year was with @EricLevitz An essential follow and read at @intelligencer Altogether, the team at New York Mag
RT @506176656C: @adam_tooze "The P-39 was used by the Soviet Air Force, and enabled individual Soviet pilots to collect the highest number…
Arthur Cockfield, British architect of Europe’s single market: "Had Cockfield been born in France, with its respect for intellectual brilliance & tradition of authoritarian technocracy,
RT @ahistoryinart: Joan Eardley's pastel drawing reflects much of what Glasgow's tenements looked like in the 1950s. This is possibly Glasg…
Once you have seen a Russian buffet spread, there is really no going back … its like nothing Ive ever experienced. twitter.com/Russia/status/…
"In Japan, 910k people work in auto industries, including 690k in parts. A gasoline-powered automobile is composed of around 30k parts, while an engine-less EV
RT @Tank_Archives: The main weakness of the early T-34 tanks was the lifespan of the engine and clutch. By early 1941 the guaranteed lifesp…
An armored train that needed a bespoke, dismountable SPG to support it … twitter.com/GunslingerSqui…
It must have been quite haunting having these monsters littering the landscape long after the war had ended. twitter.com/alextijhuis/st…
The methamphetamine market has expanded globally during the past few years with seizures more than doubling from 100 tons in 2013 to 228 tons in
Faced with farmers protests, "Like all demagogues, Modi has come to a cross-road. More so because his regime labours under a self-inflicted handicap; it is
"European single market was to a large extent created by British Conservatives.” @MESandbu Thatcher = bulldozer Cockfield the intellectual driver. But not compatible with national
"British supplied tanks made up in the region of 30–40% of the heavy and medium tank strength of Soviet forces before Moscow at the beginning
RT @fakehistoryhunt: Some things really were better in the past. Zeppelin Cobalt Blue Glass Decanter Shaker Set,1920s. https://t.co/HNDu68D…
“Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power
“Control the yield curve, decide the future,” Banque Havillland’s plan for a raid on financial markets of Qatar on behalf of UAE. Remarkable story this:
RT @JoeMillerJr: There are good Christmas presents, and then there’s my Playmobil Johann Sebastian Bach 😍 https://t.co/4iSmi6FKsv
B-52s – The Last Argument of Presidents By time last retire, they may be more than 80 years old! Life is limited by fatigue limit
12.4 m doses shipped, 2.6 m people vaccinated "US states have used 1/5 of the doses they were given in the past three weeks.” Have
RT @TGTandV: Just finishing transcription of this man's memoir of commanding Army Aviation operations in Aden and the Radfan. Looking forwa…
@TGTandV @DEHEdgerton @NewLeftReview Broadly speaking, the US literature (though I don’t know it as well), confirms an existing narrative – the titles are telling –
Arguments of @DEHEdgerton War Machine and Wages of Destruction are joined at the hip. Goes back to "LIBERAL MILITARISM AND THE BRITISH STATE” by @DEHEdgerton
"At xmas (1870) the true siege of Paris began" Frederick Engels December 1870. French armies withdrew to the city. on 27th December German batteries opened
On New Years Even 1870 Alfred Krupp sat in his villa on the Hügel and did sketches for a giant mortar that he wanted to
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