I dread eating Turkey on #Christmas, so in an attempt to understand why we eat this overstuffed dry monstrosity, here's a short thread on the History of 🦃 and eating Turkey on #Xmas Turkeys are originally from N America, and mitochondrial DNA of domesticated turkey has shown that they were first bred and domesticated in ancient Mexico by the pre-Aztec people around 800 BC. Alongside dogs, the turkey was the among the first animals domesticated there

Thread: As a historian, the most interesting thing about the new WW2 film Midway was the director's decision to dedicate the film to: "the Americans and Japanese who fought at Midway. The sea claims its own".
A poignant dedication, but nevertheless one that left me conflicted 1/ On one hand, the sympathetic depiction of the Japanese as honourable, courageous, professional sailors simply fulfilling their patriotic duty & sacrificing themselves for a cause they believed was just & honourable, is no doubt accurate, & an important belated recognition of 2/