Thread on Alexander's invasion of the Persian Empire from the Iranian POV. In particular, how its last Emperor, Darius III, responded to the crisis. Post-conquest Iranian resistance was also far more widespread than recognised. Excerpts from E. Badian's paper "Conspiracies".🧵

Orcas breaching in rough seas, photo taken from a sword fishing boat off the coast of Nova Scotia

Sparta’s Victory Dogma Everyone knows the Spartan saying: “Come back with your shield, or on it”. What most people do not know is that Spartans did surrender, betray & sometimes cowered as well. Let's explore the Spartan psyche & maybe debunk a dogma forged in blood & terror.

This British Woman claimed that she lived and served at the court of Pharaoh Seti around 3,300 years ago. She even knew the details that had never been published. When she first time arrived in Egypt, it was obvious to her that she had been there before. But her last visit near

Camila Bomfim fez uma análise perfeita sobre o teatro montado por Elon Musk: “Faz parte de toda a cena que Elon Musk vai fazer, que é não cumprir a lei para depois dizer que foi alvo de um excesso. O Brasil é importantíssimo para o X. O que se espera é que Musk faça essa cena e

The entire Brazilian community on Twitter rn:

tuitou daquela vez como se fosse a última olhou pra timeline como se fosse a última e cada rt como se fosse o último e foi pra outra rede com seu passo tímido

E se a gente ocupasse o LinkedIn só de sacanagem e transformasse aquela rede em um verdadeiro inferno aleatório, expulsando de vez os coachs da internet?

Wait a lot of my fan pages are Brazilian!!! Come back hold up!!

OBRIGATÓRIO RETUITAR Adeus Twitter/ O TWITTER MORREU Se o twitter acabar onde vamos fazer memes com o mundo todo e saber as fofocas do mundo do entretenimento em primeira mão?

Hoje aconteceu o concurso oficial de sósias do Selton Melo no Rio de Janeiro e eu vim cobrir este momento apoteótico. Segue uma thread com tudo que aconteceu de mais fascinante por aqui 🧶

This is something everybody should always keep in mind - especially when on Twitter!

"Do not be afraid, I am a colonel of the Soviet army and a Jew. We have come to liberate you." 80 years ago today, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz. In the passage below, two Russian soldiers describe the heartwrenching moment in which the prisoners — "living skeletons" —

🧵Zelensky being publicly berated by US president and VP (a mass media spectacle par excellence) has left western Europe stunned, shocked, and floundering. There was much ‘unprecedented’ about the spectacle but I want to talk about something that isn’t being discussed.

"The Achilles heel of modern humanity is its spiritual weakness, which threatens to devalue the content and meaning of universal human values on the path to global solidarity - moral, cultural, and political, which ultimately can lead to a global catastrophe." - Zafar Mirzo

A 1970s article stole the argument I just came up with

Jean Sévillia on the crisis of history, from his 2003 "Historiquement incorrect", translated into Romanian and Spanish but not yet English!