Henri 📖
@happyhappyhenri
Software Developer @waterstones, Bookshop Dweller. History MA haver. Man United fan. From 🇱🇹 All the terrible opinions are my own
Finally got my hands on “Silence of The Gods”. When the Grand Duchy of Lithuania became the last European state to convert to Christianity in 1387 by the order of Grand Duke Jogaila, the process of Christianization was not completed in a day. For over five centuries after the…
Natalia Estemirova was one of Russia’s greatest human rights activists and journalists. She lived, studied, worked and taught in Chechnya, writing about Russian crimes in the region during the Russian invasion and after - including kidnappings, bombings, assassinations and…
You go to a shop on a Sunday and some of these people act like it’s their first time ever out in the human world. Where did you all come from 😳
An important point. In our school curriculum we learn a lot about Western culture and its successes. But the biases extend to the negative coverage too. We cover Western European authoritarianism in depth but don’t leave much time to learn about cruelty of other regimes.
In high school, you get 155 hours on Hitler, 3 minutes on Stalin, and nothing on Pol Pot. Nothing on Mao. Barely a mention of Fidel Castro. It's striking that we don’t learn about Mao or Pol Pot—despite the scale of their crimes. Mao killed more people than any dictator in…
Polish people man. I’m sure there are some dicks but everyone I met is straight as an arrow 🔝🇵🇱🦫
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🇱🇹🔬 Lithuanian laser power enters Silicon Valley! Vilnius-based Light Conversion has opened a new laser micromachining applications lab in California - right in the heart of global tech innovation. A world leader in ultrafast laser technology, Light Conversion has over 9,000…
Absolutely gorgeous mid-20s summer Friday. I probably have 30 of these left, ever. Im gonna play video games in my apartment
Meanwhile Lithuanian Ministry of Defence is not messing about and is actually vocal about naming the adversary. I don’t know why other Eastern and Central European countries do it. We all know who it is.
🇱🇹@LTU_Army is testing different bunker types with controlled detonations simulating Russian artillery shells: by measuring pressure, wall vibrations & other factors, they aim to identify the most resilient materials to enhance our fortifications & readiness for national defence.
Can we please come back to writing history this way. I’m tired of reading about 5000 years in 300 pages with the last half being 20th century…
My magnum opus has arrived. Magnum as in 1249 pages, 800 illustrations, most in color, 75 maps, well over a hundred extracts from primary sources, chronologies and lists of key terms. I wrote Volume 1, from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance, and my oldest friend in academe,…