"House of the Dragon and The Rings of Power spend millions of dollars filming each episode, and yet no dragon or balrog has been able to compete with the sheer epicness of a dying old man determined to sit in a chair"
More than 200 people were killed in Ethiopia, witnesses there said on Sunday, in an attack in the Oromia region that they said targeted mostly ethnic Amhara people. https://t.co/LGmJarRojI
@nytimes After the Rwandan genocide we all collectively promised each other as Africans to never let it happen again yet here we are an entire generation later watching history repeat itself
Yesterday, a racist came onto our thread and said that "archaeology used to be a white male swashbuckling adventurous profession". (Yes, we can hear your groans from here) So here are some amazing people that defined the field, but aren't talked about enough🧵
In 1913, 10-year-old Sarah Rector received a land allotment of 160 acres in Oklahoma. The best farming land was reserved for whites, so she was given a barren plot. Oil was discovered there and she became the country's first black millionaire.