(11 votes, average: 3.64 out of 5)

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@jfkennedy happy bday, mr. pres! let’s get together l8r.
[originally posted October 30, 2008]

(16 votes, average: 4.88 out of 5)

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Historical Tweets is hitting the books and taking short hiatus this week.

We’ll be re-posting some of our favorite (but not most viewed) tweets, because, as you well know, those who don’t understand Historical Tweets are doomed to repeat them.

@sitting_bull I warn in advance, this battle will make me famous.
[originally posted October 5th 2008]

(25 votes, average: 4.72 out of 5)

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Twitterstorian Ryan Day found this Biblical tweet:

Tarsus4Life (Paul of Tarsus): @apollos RE: What you wrote on bathroom wall. It’s spelled G-E-N-T-I-L-E-S. I, Paul, am preacher to the GENTILES. Get your mind out of the gutter.

(15 votes, average: 4.53 out of 5)

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Hippocrates: Still no royalty check from ER, House, or Grey’s. Lawyer’s on it, but I’m getting madder and madder with each episode.

From Wikipedia: “The Hippocratic Oath is an oath traditionally taken by doctors swearing to ethically practice medicine. It is widely believed to have been written by Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, in the 4th century BC.”

(22 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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real miss cleo (Cleopatra): Hate to seem vain, but my manservants keep pointing behind me and yelling “killer ass”

From Wikipedia: “Cleopatra died from an asp bite.”