#1970s

The King of Adal

SamatarYunus

This will be a thread about the #FutuhAlHabash the fake book written by colonial oppressors to downplay and lie about somali history. @Awdalite_ Chart shows what each prominent copy of

Bartley Kives

bkives

The city was advised to build the Southwest Transitway in 1976. It opened today, 44 years later. #wpgpoli I wrote this for @WinnipegNews in 2012, when the first 3.6 kilometres

Andy Arthur

cocteautriplets

There was for many years a Steptoe-like institution in Fountainbridge known by the name Asa Wass & Son.Asa is a biblical Hebrew name, Wass an ancient Anglo-Norman name. The Asa

Invest Like the Best

InvestLikeBest

In May 2020, Michael Jordan's game-worn autographed Jordan 1's from 1985 sold for a whopping $560,000, setting the record for the most expensive sneaker ever sold. The final price was

Jeffro Johnson

JohnsonJeffro

Around 1980 or so, pop culture ceased to be an expression of culture, but instead because a SUBSTITUTE for culture. With each succeeding decade, it has become more infiltrated, more

Sudipto Mondal

mondalsudipto

For the first time in India a private news channel was taken off air by a group of cops without authorization. My story on Kannada news outlet Power TV which

Archie Henderson

archiehench

I am a music historian, and with @AdrianRMG I have researched the best-selling single of every decade all the way back to 14,000BC. Here's a thread:2010s - Ed Sheeran, The

Amanda Marie Martinez

Amammartinez

At times, the country music industry’s disinterest in expanding its listeners racially in the past has confounded me. Wouldn’t u expect a business try to sell its products to anyone

Adam Minter

AdamMinter

Plastics Recycling Isn’t a Lie, It’s the Future - my response to the @frontlinepbs @NPR doc ‘Plastic Wars.’ https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-09-19/don-t-give-up-on-recycling-plastic @bopinion One thing I’d like to add

asif

aj_raja

UNIQUE MELANESIAN SOCIETY – ‘BIG MAN’ AND POLITICAL ORDER ThreadMelanesian region includes 4 countries; Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and numerous smaller islands. Melanesian society is organized

Sean Gallagher

WhatAboutClass

I've said this before, but here's my (long) basic take on the historiographic politics of the American Revolution and the #1619Project. I should note before I start that I am

Lock Down Not Vacation! Murali Krishnan

dwimidhaM

#IndiaFightsCOVID19 The paristhiti would have taught to many that we have hidden from Covid longer than we could afford ( Not IT guys who are cocoons) BTW, I am also

Ewan Gibbs

ewangibbs

A thread of 1970s Communist cartoons. I’ve been looking through editions of Scottish Marxist, the Commujist Party of Great Britain’s Scottish magazine. I’ve found some great pictures that were mostly

Chxta

Chxta

Upon gaining power in 1979, Margaret Thatcher made the defeat of inflation in the UK its number one priority. The 1970s were a difficult time for #Britain inflation-wise, and Meg

Shreyansh Vinod Dhari

Thatcherite25

A vry interesting choice of word. Luk carefully at dis tweet. I. Khan has used d word 'Ramazan'. R u wondering wat is so interesting in it? Ok, let me

Jesse Case

jessecase

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