Abraham Ash / 𐤀𐤁𐤓𐤄𐤌

Orthodox Jew. Jung fan. Lover of gharqads, wildlife, & Shelby Foote. "From Settlement to Superpower" and "The American Revolution" Podcasts.

[Abraham Ash / 𐤀𐤁𐤓𐤄𐤌 @Historycourses]

The first episode of The American Revolution Podcast is now out! In this episode we give a brief overview of the globe-spanning British Empire of 1763.
https://t.co/K5Fp8FqcwB

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@DoctorPerin Honestly, if it works I couldn't care less whether it's scientific or not.

Now, separately I have intellectual interests, but but as a matter of therapeutic process I don't see why we should care whether something is scientific or not

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@Gruntpa Isn't that all of us, though

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Was fun to see the lights go on in my son's eyes when he connected the WWI armistice to veterans day

[Abraham Ash / 𐤀𐤁𐤓𐤄𐤌 @Historycourses]

@engrishmuffins @orthonormalist Still highly funny to me when I hear ppl in Lakewood use "Catholic" as synonymous with "Christian"

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@LiteralSheridan I mean, he's just literally saying that yes, the story happened? And they held off against superior force until backup arrived?

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@rcssmedasmith Sailors on the nearby ship!

[Abraham Ash / 𐤀𐤁𐤓𐤄𐤌 @Historycourses]

For some reason this reminds me of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's last recorded words, moments before his vessel was lost with all hands in a storm off the Azores:

"We are as near to Heaven by sea as by land!"

[Edmund Fitzgerald in Real Time @EdmundFitzAt50]

Captain Cooper of the Anderson radios Captain McSorley to notify him of another ship about 9 miles ahead, and asks how they're doing.

McSorley replies:
"We are holding our own."

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@TURBOPOSSUM Is it really meant to be insulting? Sounds really cool

[Abraham Ash / 𐤀𐤁𐤓𐤄𐤌 @Historycourses]

My eight-year-old is getting me back into World War II. Send help pls

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@Ethelbrait1941 Funniest part of the tweet is that the word "Irish" is in it

[Nate @NatedoggRU]

Throwing a car battery into Lake Superior today to avenge the Edmund Fitzgerald

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@scratchyjohnson It's a reconstruction, with lots of interpretive liberties taken

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Today I get to feel Smug and Superior because I was listening to the Synaulia Ancient Roman music albums before Twitter found out about them.

[Abraham Ash / 𐤀𐤁𐤓𐤄𐤌 @Historycourses]

@turrible_tao Incredible things happening

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Flora MacDonald giving a speech in Gaelic to the Highlander loyalists en route to Moore's Creek is one of the greatest and most ironic Revolutionary War crossovers, in my opinion.

[Roland THTG @Roland_THTG]

@Historycourses And in some cases it was the same families!

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@engrishmuffins @selentelechia Have you ever read Chaim Grade's The Yeshiva?

This has pretty clear roots in Eastern European Jewry and its peculiar neuroses

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@geexcy I have frequently thought this too, but it feels kind of money-grubby lol

"Actually, in my professional opinion you should see me twice a week."

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@Philip_Mangum They played the same sort of game with Ireland.

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Found myself musing during my morning commute about the successful post-Culloden coöption of the Highlanders into the British imperial project by convincing them to enlist en masse in the army, and the similarity between the South's successful reïntegration after the Civil War.

[А. Z. Fоrеmаn: Seriouѕ Рhіlоlοgy, Ѕіlly Веhаvіоr @azforeman]

Me reading Hamlet's "To Be Or Not To Be" speech in a reconstruction of early 17th century English pronunciation

[Abraham Ash / 𐤀𐤁𐤓𐤄𐤌 @Historycourses]

@engrishmuffins Excuse me sir, that's not an umlaut. It's a diaeresis.