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@VHansenYear1000: Just back from a week in Vietnam, and loved the History Museums in Hanoi and Saigon (where this statue is on display). Both have wonderful Óc Eo material. I've never seen such beautiful wooden statues from the 5th C CE. Really extraordinary. https://t.co/Rp2e0FoRSm
Connect with me on the Impervious Browser! @ImperviousAi https://t.co/VM2gCLyMhV
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@archaeologyart: Athens, Greece. c. 1910. Photographer: Frédéric Boissonnas. https://t.co/TTvjHEXnx6
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@ghostofhellas: Athena and Poseidon by the Ancient Greek Amasis Painter, circa 540 BC. https://t.co/7ssH25Uwom
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@EhsanShavarebi: The apsidal #Buddhist temple of #Barikot (the oldest known example in #Gandhara) is chosen by @archaeologymag as one of the Top 10 Discoveries of 2022! 🥳
Congratulations to all my colleagues in the #ISMEO team! I'm so proud to be part of this project as the team's #numismatist. https://t.co/YqMjC4URdN
Congratulations to all my colleagues in the #ISMEO team! I'm so proud to be part of this project as the team's #numismatist. https://t.co/YqMjC4URdN
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@kamilkazani: The best possible endgame is:
Independent & united Siberia inheriting all the Russian nuclear arsenal, including the nuclear fuel, warheads and delivery systems. The bulk of the production facilities is located on its territory anyway https://t.co/ZsKIIsmPLP
Independent & united Siberia inheriting all the Russian nuclear arsenal, including the nuclear fuel, warheads and delivery systems. The bulk of the production facilities is located on its territory anyway https://t.co/ZsKIIsmPLP
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@OptimoPrincipi: The balance and harmony of the Pantheon. Equal in height and diameter, the building's rotunda creates a perfect sphere measuring 43.2 metres (150 Roman feet). The Pantheon, completed in 126 AD, still holds the record for the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. https://t.co/w0Ihak1suX
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@Arthistorian18: One of the most beautiful narrative panel in Ellora cave
Here Shiva and Parvati Playing Dice at Cave 21, Ellora https://t.co/t6BBYCXvek
Here Shiva and Parvati Playing Dice at Cave 21, Ellora https://t.co/t6BBYCXvek
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@dpanikkar: Landscape with Villagers and Travelers. Lucknow, 1800. Aga Khan Museum. https://t.co/e7HCRD7Oi9
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@kamilkazani: Let's sum up:
1. @navalny's remarks are not incidental. They reflect consistent ultranationalist vision
2. There's no sign of him being "reformed". While occasionally apologising for slurs, he claims his views haven't changed
3. He stopped trashtalking, that's how he changed
1. @navalny's remarks are not incidental. They reflect consistent ultranationalist vision
2. There's no sign of him being "reformed". While occasionally apologising for slurs, he claims his views haven't changed
3. He stopped trashtalking, that's how he changed
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@kamilkazani: @navalny's geopolitics. That's how he justified aggression against Georgia. Interestingly enough, Navalny's anti-Georgian rhetorics is surprisingly similar to Putin's anti-Ukrainian one. In particular, he described Saakashvili as "Hitler"/"Georgiahitler"
https://t.co/9fnNcTkUCk https://t.co/pzemnONeUv
https://t.co/9fnNcTkUCk https://t.co/pzemnONeUv
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@archaeologyart: Pottery bowl containing pink coloured paint (the plant dye madder mixed with gypsum), once belonging to a fresco painter. Date: 1st. c. AD, Roman Period. Excavated/Findspot: Hawara, Egypt. Collection: British Museum. https://t.co/AqIZCqczan
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@kamilkazani: Another example
1. Moscow cultural elites know Navalny is "not bad" (= not bad *for them*)
2. They select facts and construct arguments to support Not Bad Navalny theory
3. Through their Western connections, their POV becomes Western POV
They fully shape the Western opinion
1. Moscow cultural elites know Navalny is "not bad" (= not bad *for them*)
2. They select facts and construct arguments to support Not Bad Navalny theory
3. Through their Western connections, their POV becomes Western POV
They fully shape the Western opinion
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@kamilkazani: Example
1. Moscow cultural elites know that disintegration of empire is against their interest
2. They claim this scenario "makes no sense" (=against our interest) and look for arguments against
3. Through their Western connections, Moscow perspective becomes Western perspective
1. Moscow cultural elites know that disintegration of empire is against their interest
2. They claim this scenario "makes no sense" (=against our interest) and look for arguments against
3. Through their Western connections, Moscow perspective becomes Western perspective
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@kamilkazani: As a result, the dominant Western discourse on Russia is being infected by all the prejudices, biases and the (semi)conscious class interest of a narrow social circle whom the Western cultural elites draw their opinions from
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@kamilkazani: Discourse on Russia = the wildly overrepresented circle of Moscow cultural elites with good Western connections + the silent, voiceless, unrepresented empire. And I don't mean just the ethnic periphery, I mean everything that is neither Moscow, nor St Petersburg
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@Arthistorian18: Longmen Grottoes, Henan, China. Built under order of Empress Wu Zetian late 7th century AD. Note the Gandharan dress.
© Mal Anders https://t.co/gYcqOEbPhx
© Mal Anders https://t.co/gYcqOEbPhx
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@ArysPan: "Bell idol" terracotta figurine of the late #geometric period (7th c. bce) from Boeotia/Thebes
#Archaeology #AncientGreece
©Sonia-Fatima Chaoui
Louvre Museum, Paris https://t.co/8MY8WWlxwM
#Archaeology #AncientGreece
©Sonia-Fatima Chaoui
Louvre Museum, Paris https://t.co/8MY8WWlxwM
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@AnonOpsSE: No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by a capitalist who required cheap labor and took advantage of that immigrant to increase his profits, and nothing makes them happier than to hear you blame the immigrant and not them.
#CapitalismKills https://t.co/SHaEpnlBN6
#CapitalismKills https://t.co/SHaEpnlBN6
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@maria_drutska: Honestly I still can't get over how russia is basically allowed to commit genocide on our land, run torture camps, bomb our hospitals, target our energy so we freeze and starve, but its escalation if we want to stop their bombers & missile launchers that are literally killing us
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@AnonOpsSE: Lets post pictures banned in China....
#ChinaProtests #OpWhitePaper https://t.co/4QjM8qL52n
#ChinaProtests #OpWhitePaper https://t.co/4QjM8qL52n
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@kamilkazani: Russian "liberal opposition" shares Putin's imperialist philosophy with all its basic premises. They just use different shibboleths but that's it. There's no indication they would change the course except for the wishful thinking of too many Western journalists and politicians
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@kamilkazani: Rearmament of the Russian military industry based on the technological import from the West scaled up once Putin took power. Local peaks were reached around 2007 and 2013. Most recent escalation of import started in 2019 and continues till 2022 with the Covid interruption in 2020 https://t.co/UVcXXAIBjp
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@kamilkazani: More importantly, European businesses continue arming Russia right now and (certain) national governments do nothing about it. Well, that's how you get a long war that will eventually impoverish you. The more you arm Russia, the longer the war lasts and the poorer you will end up