#1940

Rabih Alameddine

rabihalameddine

Bruce Davidson, Time of Change, 1962 Wayne Miller, Chicago, Black Labor Union Workers on Strike, 1950 Vivian Maier, Untitled Walker Evans - Garage, Atlanta, Georgia, 1936 Ruth Orkin, Storm, Greenwich

Claire Placial

claireplacial

Mon avis de traductologue sur la polémique Agatha Christie: polémique nulle. Ça arrive tout le temps qu'un titre soit changé à la retraduction, pour des raisons les plus variées... dont

OperationBenjamin

OperBenjamin

We are grateful to the @usabmc for approving the request we submitted on behalf of Harry Cordova - a 98-year old #WWII vet - to change the headstone of his

S.P.A.

TheRealSPA

Happy 103rd Birthday Joan FontaineA thread http://waldina.com/2020/10/22/happy-103rd-birthday-joan-fontaine/ Today is Joan Fontaine's 102nd birthday. If nothing else, watch The Women (1939) (and Rebecca and Suspicion and and and...),

Álvaro Franca

alvaroefe

On wednesday Naipe Foundry releases version 0.1 of Pacaembú on @futurefonts. It's a special typeface with a beautiful story behind it, combining my two favourite things: Football and Type

The French History Podcast

FrenchHist

/1 "France gave up in 1940" is a persistent myth for those who don't take into account longer historical trends. France was the one great power that opposed German aggression

Craig Brown

CraigBrown_BP

Joe Morgan was the best player on the best team of the 1970s. I watched more of the Big Red Machine than any team besides the Royals. His prime was

Arka Saha 🐝♦️

utdarka

For everyone laughing at Manchester United, allow me to tell you a story. Railway workmen came together to play football once and dared to dream. A dream to make something

Elspeth Kirkman

Karminker

It’s the 93rd Academy Awards and this year the Academy has fielded quite a diverse set of nominees for once. This recaps and explores the woeful track record of

Dr. Mamata R. Singh

mamatarsingh

#ThreadThe only #Pashupatinath Temple in IndiaHUGE #SHIV LINGAM WITH 8 FACESUniqueness:1. The second Pashupatinath temple of lord Shiva in the world after Nepal2. The only #ashtamukhi (8 faced) shiv lingam

Halifax Fire News

HRMFireNews

Thread: there are some pretty cool historical pictures of Halifax Fire if you go combing through the municipal archives. I did that, and so I'm going to post a few.

linda ✨

lucid_unicorn

here's a thread of sci-fi/fantasy films with black leads The Meteor Man (1993) dir. Robert Townsend. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) dir. Benh Zeitlin. Son of Ingagi (1940)

Nick Stripe

NickStripe_ONS

THREAD – Mortality 2020Today we published England & Wales mortality statistics for the w/e 25 DecNearly a full year’s data for 2020In the last 52 weeks there were:c.604k deaths registered

Harry Stopes

HarryStopes

Really annoyed with myself for forgetting the actual anniversary was yesterday, but thinking of these two today Otto & Elise Hampel (21.6.1897-8.4.1943 & 27.10.1903-8.4.1943) lived in Amsterdamer Straße, Wedding. After

Syed

gypsy_heart6

Japan waged biological warfare against China during WWII: "Between 1932 & 1945, the Japanese conducted an extensive program to study biological weapons, which they tested on Chinese prisoners. At a

Fidato

tequieremos

For geographical and economic reasons, accession to Pakistan was the best option for Jammu and Kashmir in 1947. A brief thread!1. Almost all of J&K’s major geographical, communication and economic