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[British Museum @britishmuseum]

✨ #HappyNewYear! ✨

#January is named after the Roman god Janus, who had two faces so he could see the future and the past at the same time.

Janus was the god of beginnings and guardian of doorways and gateways

🔎🔗 https://t.co/o0adSHb2rq

[British Museum @britishmuseum]

🎂🎉Today is our 262nd birthday! 🎉🎂

🏛 The Museum first opened to ‘all studious and curious persons’ #OnThisDay in 1759.

Since then we have welcomed over 356 million visitors – are you one of them?

[Military History Matters @MilHistMag]

#OnThisDay in 1916, the Gallipoli campaign was finally abandoned by the Entente powers, after a costly and humiliating failure to weaken the Ottoman Empire via the Turkish straits. This artwork depicts the landings of April the previous year.
#otd #history #wwi

[Ancient History Hit @AncientsHH]

Upon hearing that Publius Quinctilius Varus' three Roman legions had been utterly destroyed in the Teutoburg Forest, the Emperor Augustus shouted out in despair, 'Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!'

[Wilhelm Gustloff @WilhelmGustloff]

Gustave Dore
The Valley of Tears
1883

[British Museum @britishmuseum]

It’s #NewYearsEve 🎉

However you’re planning to celebrate tonight, here are some dazzling fireworks from the collection to ring in the new year 🎆🎇✨

🔎🔗 https://t.co/IM9BSDJ7vo

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

This is good, very good for the Mediterranean.
[Note: it also stops the brain drain.]

[Meredith Frost @MeredithFrost]

Bored Dorothy and Munchkins behind the scenes of The Wizard of Oz, 1939

[Data Science Fact @DataSciFact]

All models are wrong. Some models are useful. -- George Box

[Data Science Fact @DataSciFact]

'Begin with very simple methods. If possible, end with simple methods.' -- Sir David Cox

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

If this works, outperforms any quarantine!
More so if false negatives correlate to contagiousness.

[Roger Moorhouse 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱 @Roger_Moorhouse]

My piece on the Battle of Warsaw of 1920 – and the war that saved Europe from Communism. #Warsaw1920 https://t.co/S610gguhVQ

[War History Online @WarHistoryOL]

Pilots of the No. 303 "Kościuszko" Polish Fighter Squadron during the Battle of Britain, 1940.

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

On this day in 1819, British cavalry charges into a crowd of political demonstrators in Manchester killing 18. It becomes known as the Peterloo Massacre.

[The Byzantine Legacy @ByzantineLegacy]

Ruins of Late Antique church in mountains of Lycia (near village of Karabel, Turkey)
Photos taken today

[British Museum @britishmuseum]

It’s #InternationalCatDay so we’re sharing one of the most famous felines in the collection – the Gayer-Anderson Cat.

In ancient Egypt cats were highly valued as pets, but also acquired religious significance – read more here: https://t.co/m5tMotzMXj 🐱

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

A priest, a minster, and a rabbit walk into a bar. The rabbit says, "I think I'm a typo."

[WWII Pictures @WWIIpix]

"When I asked the woman if I could take her picture, she bowed deeply and posed for me. Her expression was one of bewilderment, anguish, and resignation."

Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, Hiroshima, December 1945. #WW2

[British Museum @britishmuseum]

Time for some afternoon tea ☕

This double-spouted teapot has a partition down the middle of the body.

It was designed so you can serve two different kinds of tea at once, keeping your guests happy whatever their preference https://t.co/zsxVaUDGzZ

[Atlas Obscura @atlasobscura]

The Sudwala Caves in Mpumalanga, South Africa, are the oldest known caves in the world and since the 1970s, the main chamber of the caves has also been used as a concert hall. https://t.co/N9NY4BJhun