Michelle Obama's book is an invitation to remember a history and a politics that Trump is trying to erase, writes @niamalikah (via @opinion) https://t.co/3fXfcxxlxB ...

RT cs 🇮🇪 (@computer_spirit)@NickSzabo4 Ireland’s population goes back thousands of years yet our state is still younger than the USA. We only have 20% the number of presidents USA has had, and we have only existed 41% the time the USA has had. Yet Bill here will have you believe that you got here yesterday. ...

Historians have long debated the exact founding date of New York. But the year itself is less important than using the occasion to reflect on its fascinating history https://t.co/K50hUSGukH ...

Tutankhamun: How Englishmen uncovered the boy-king https://t.co/zIzNmhTzYU ...

RT IMPERATOR (@IMPERATORAUS)Just as all of philosophy is a footnote to Plato, all of history is a footnote to the Roman Empire. https://t.co/SYsnTgF7Rz ...

history. When we hear that word, what is it that comes to our mind. Perhaps some dates, records, perhaps the names of some rulers and generals arranged neatly in an order.But did it mean the same for our ancestors. What was history for them. When they didn't have records, perhaps they imagined and when they mixed memory with myth, they created story that made sense about their past.And this talk is going to about those stories. Somewhere in the 14th century, one bright morning, Sultan Firosha Touglak stands ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@davidmarcus Which doesn't change the reality that Israel was founded quite predominantly by 20th century immigrants on the ruins and bones of the people who let them in. ...

Whatever eventually rises from the pile of rubble beside the White House’s south lawn, it will be a pastiche of pastiche—if history is anything to go by https://t.co/QXCySz0aaf ...

Awesome flow. Yan teacher Jesse believes the words are keys to hearts and bridges to the past. Let's give it up for Jesse. Lania, literally in English, the little monster of Lang Lang Mountain. Many of us in China this summer followed this rag tag band of misfits on a journey to the west. In the original Journey to the West that inspired this film, a monk traveled west from China to India to seek Buddhist scriptures. That monk was a real person named Schwenzang. This is a photo that I took when my wife and ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Correction: their parents fought in a slave army, drafted from a population, that on the eve of war, opposed by 70%+ going to war with Germany. The slave army, along with its allies, then proceeded to mass murder civilians on a historically unprecedented scale. (Which doesn't excuse what their opponents did)."Greatest Generation" is what TV taught the Boomers to call this most pathological of generations. ...