Archive for the '1800s' Category

Henry David Thoreau vs. Wild

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Henry David Thoreau: Ugh. Should have named Walden book “Survivorman.” Would have sold better.

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Twitter Historian on October 7th 2009 in 1800s

New Twitter Icon: The Raven!?!!?!

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Edgar Allan Poe: There’s a bird stuck in my study. Calling animal control.

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Twitter Historian on October 6th 2009 in 1800s

Marie Curie’s Lab Tests

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MarieX (Marie Curie): Foreign lab assistant keeps asking for “two more” every time we give him an x-ray. Give it a rest, man!

PS — When said by a non-native English speaker, “two more” might sound like “tumor” and visa versa.

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Twitter Historian on October 5th 2009 in 1800s

Harriet Tubman Gets More Done With Less

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Harriet Tubman doesn’t tweet that often… view her first tweet.

Conductor H. (Harriet Tubman): I’d tweet more, but Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 limits me to 84 characters.

See: the Three-Fifths Compromise on Wikipedia.

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Twitter Historian on September 29th 2009 in 1800s

Apple Denies Another Historic App

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Catch Alexander Graham Bell’s first tweet.

Alex GB1 (Alexander Graham Bell): @GoogleVoice Don’t feel too bad. Apple rejected my dialer app, too.

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Twitter Historian on September 25th 2009 in 1800s


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