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On this day #100yearsago, Howard Carter and his team of archaeologists broke the seal of the recently discovered tomb of King Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Asked if he could see anything inside, Carter replied “Yes, wonderful things.” 
Here is Carter’s own account of what happened, #100yearsago
I didn’t want to break my Twitter hiatus, but this was one of those historic moments that deserves to be remembered and shared.
Mar 4, 1921 - Harding's Inaugural Address: "The recorded progress of our Republic ... proves the wisdom of the inherited policy of noninvolvement in Old World affairs ... We seek no part in directing the destinies of the Old World. We do not mean to be entangled." #100yearsago
"While the world's embittered travail did not leave us devastated lands...it did involve us in the delirium of expenditure, in expanded currency and credits, in unbalanced industry, in unspeakable waste...Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way." #100yearsago
Mar 4, 1921 - Harding's Inaugural Address: "We can reduce the abnormal expenditures, and we will. We can strike at war taxation, and we must ... Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little." #100yearsago
I've fallen about a month behind in my #100yearsago posts. Rather than doing a huge dump - which I know no one will appreciate - I'm going to post some photos and major headlines over the next couple of days to catch up.
In terms of broader themes #100yearsago, here are a couple of videos that are useful and relevant. Here is one on the war in Anatolia between the Allies (led by the Greeks) and the Turks under Mustafa Kemal, who have rejected the terms of the peace treaty.
The British in Mesopotamia (Iraq) are also facing a revolt #100yearsago ago against their post-war rule:
Aug 18, 1920 - By 50 to 46, the Tennessee state House of Representatives voted to ratify the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, making Tennessee the 36th and final state needed for its adoption to the US Constitution #100yearsago
Aug 18, 1920 - At the last moment, Harry T. Burn, a 24-year old Republican Tennessee state legislator, switched his vote in favor of considering the 19th Amendment, breaking a 48-48 ties, at the urging of a note from his mother Febb Burn. #100yearsago
Aug 18, 1920 - Radical suffrage leader Alice Paul unfurling a banner, now embroidered with all 36 stars needed for ratification, from the headquarters of the National Woman's Party in Washington, DC #100yearsago
August 1920 - American swimmer Ethelda Bleibtrey, age 18, at the Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. She won all three women's events at the Games that year. #100yearsago
Ethelda Bleibtrey took up swimming to recover from polio. In 1919, she was arrested for "public nudity" for taking off her stockings to swim at Manhattan Beach. The resulting public outrage changed prevailing attitudes about women's bathing attire. #100yearsago
I've just found in the Net some pictures of a place I've heard about, but actually never seen: the WW1 POW camp near #Nymbruk, Bohemia. I did not even know its name. This is a family story. A thread /1
In 1914 the Austro-Hungarian empire started WW1, Italy was still a neutral country. The Italian/Venetian speaking people from #Trento province (then Tyrol), where draft and sent to fight zarist Russia. This picture is the 1st train leaving Trento to the front line /2
possibly my great grandfather, then austro-hungarian subject was in that train, who knows? /3
1. I want to tell you about a country I've been thinking a lot about lately.
2. This country saw, in the latter of half of the past century, very rapid economic development. It emerged as the workshop of the world, with vastly higher standards of living than before, and a thriving commercial class.
3. But 20 years into the new century, hopes that this economic development would lead to a greater degree of democracy have been thwarted. Instead, an entrenched and often venal ruling clique seems more in command than ever.
