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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

If General Custer Played World of Warcraft…

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General Custer: Leeeeerooooy Jeeeeennnnkins!!!

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Twitter Historian on September 1st 2009 in 1800s, Entertainment

Retweet: Oscar Wilde Plays Around With Twitter

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Oscar~Wilde: Critic just said my new work was exciting and gay. LOL
[originally posted on January 29, 2009]

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Twitter Historian on August 28th 2009 in 1800s


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