Anon, did you know there was an Epstein-like child exploitation network in the 19th century? After the continental rails were built, nefarious characters set up "Orphan trains" which would collect orphaned children in one part of the country, and ship them by train to another. 👇 In the 1850s, several charities got together and had a new idea. New York had too many immigrants, and too many orphans from immigrants dying on the factory floor. Why not get rid of them?

OK. Here's why I not only think the CSA would fall to Communism, but that such an outcome was inevitable.
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https://twitter.com/Aelthemplaer/status/1879299893304692953

At the CSA's conception, a divide existed between the landless whites, the landed whites, and the yeomen farmers. It wasn't uncommon for the aristocracy to come into feuds with soldiers from the lower classes. Any victory for the CSA would not erase these class divides.

Actually this may merit further poasting. Let's review the world of Batman Beyond 👇

https://twitter.com/Aelthemplaer/status/1877902540903161961

Batman Beyond opens in the distant year of 2019. Gotham has entered the technological era, and Bruce is getting too old to be Batman. Wayne Enterprise is about to get bought out by one of Bruce's main competitors and Bruce feels like the world is moving on without him.

Anon, did you know that colonial Americans accidentally recreated Roman Concrete and didn't even realize it for like 200 years? Here's the poll winner 👇

https://twitter.com/Aelthemplaer/status/1875251660374548538

After the war of 1812, the Economy was starting to grow now that it was increasingly divorced from British dependency. There was a need for infrastructure to feed this growth. Cue Mr Canvass White, who decided to open up cement mines in New York for new construction.

In 1980, the DDR achieved a miracle. After a decade of labor, E Germany's birthrate had reached 2.0 from a low of 1.2 - effectively hitting replacement birthrate - higher than the US at the time. But, how did they manage to do this? One woman stands out. Inge Lange...👇 Between 1965 through 1975, the DDR birthrate had gone from 2.5 to 1.5. It was crashing fast. As the head of the Women's Department of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party, Inge Lange could comb the data and see doom coming for the DDR...

Sorry lady, but Archimedes beat both Newton and whatever Hindu nationalist icon you're talking about by 1500 years. In fact, archeologists are still unraveling just how much of Calculus he had figured out. We don't even know the full extent yet, but it appears exhaustive ...👇

https://twitter.com/SagasofBharat/status/1874470802953027668

In the 13th century, a Byzantine monk was running short on paper. As was the unfortunate practice of the time, his way to finish his work on time for whatever patron had ordered the book was simple: Go down to the archives and rip out a few pages from a dusty book...

We actually already have a country with a large high skilled Indian population in the Americas. It's Suriname. Most Americans have probably never heard of Suriname. So let's go through this country on the other side to get a sense of things! In Suriname, ~40% of the country are from SE Asia, and 1/4th are "Hindustanis" descended from laborers imported by the Dutch from British-ran India. The Dutch imported them to replace the now-freed slaves. Now, you might wonder "Why not just use the freed slaves?".

This is a thred of 20 Laconic phrases I memorized for everyday use.

https://twitter.com/PeterRQuinones/status/1774267731925151801

1: "Begin with your own family."
This was the response King Lycurgus gave when an elder of the city raised a proposal to make Sparta into a democracy. The implication being, if you won't treat your children's silly ideas as equal to your own, why should society?

Aliens are back in the news thanks to Mexico's joke of a hearing with the paper mache bodies. However, I thought it would be good to go through my reasons why aliens don't exist at all anywhere in the universe, in twitter format.
Hope this thd is enjoyable for you.
00 01 spectrometry.
You remember back in school when they told you a beam of light can be split up using a prism? You probably were also educated that sometimes some of the colors are missing, and that you can figure out what mineral the light touched by what colors it keeps.

In 2021, the French government released a report that claimed over 300,000 kids had been abused by the Catholic Church. Media gobbled it up. But in the post-covid world of doubting the experts, I figured, why not doubt these experts too, and evaluate their claims?

...🧵 The report, which can be found here, was published in English. This is kinda suspicious and obviously for export to America.

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A thread on curses. 🧵

It was taught to me by a Syriac elder, that when God curses, he also promises. No curse of God is a closed door, unless it be sealed by death. Even then, Christ provides. Rather. every curse from God contains within it a blessing - a path to escape it. The first curse, in those regards, is actually hidden in a blessing. All the trees are made to bless man, except that tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If he avoids that , he will be blessed. And yet, the curse itself is entangled in a blessing of redemption. A flip-side.

00 What the Magi saw, a thread.

The Three Wise Men have captivated Europeans for ages. Common people wonder who they are, learned wonder why the pagan priests of Zoroaster were visiting Jesus at all. Strange thing indeed. Some of you pagan followers may find this interesting. 01
Why the Magi were there is not that odd when you read the Old Testament, and discover that Daniel was made their chief at one point. Now, I've said occasionally I actually think Daniel and Zoroaster are the same person, but that's for another time.