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@DrFrancisYoung Avatar @DrFrancisYoung Dr Francis Young

Dr Francis Young posts on X about lithuania, all the, head of, china the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 2192 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social topic influence lithuania #194, all the, head of, china, revive, poland, north america, im a, has been, paris

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"There's absolutely no shortage of opportunities to produce 'new knowledge' in the humanities; vast swathes of medieval early modern and modern texts remain untranscribed unedited untranslated. The failure to take these opportunities is partly a skills issue; (cont.)"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-13T10:06Z 47.8K followers, 393.8K engagements

"The moment he stepped out onto that balcony Communisms days in Europe were numbered"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-16T15:26Z 47.8K followers, 17.5K engagements

"Unfortunately for China theres nothing the UK does better than delays over planning permission - one of the few fields in which we still lead the world"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-17T16:21Z 47.8K followers, 11K engagements

"I am genuinely disturbed that so many responses to this are along the lines of 'AI will do that'. Sure why revive the notion that editing and translating the writings of past people is inherently valuable when we can just get a machine to do it badly What is wrong with people"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-13T14:15Z 47.8K followers, 37K engagements

"Poland and Lithuania's heads of state meet on the new Via Baltica. Polish-Lithuanian partnerships have proven successful in the past and will in the future too 🤝"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-20T12:50Z 47.8K followers, 3430 engagements

"Very happy wyverns"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-19T15:35Z 47.8K followers, 6113 engagements

"I reviewed The Tragic Pages of Lithuanian History by Vladas Terleckas"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-20T11:02Z 47.8K followers, 1990 engagements

"Do any real police forces have a detective whose job is to deal with all the really narratively satisfying murders"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-20T18:18Z 47.8K followers, 4109 engagements

"@a_wassen @TheModernist_CA @cath_cov @PriceLaurence Its always tricky when a practice dies out and gets revived - the living tradition gets lost and replaced by re-enactment. I dont know how it is in North America but in the UK there are a few places (albeit not many) where the north end tradition has never been broken"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-20T21:55Z 47.8K followers, XXX engagements

"One of my really unpopular opinions is that I dont hate the Normans. This might just be because Im a Latinist and cant read Old English of course"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-06T12:25Z 47.8K followers, 8170 engagements

"Trying Gulden Draak Smoked - an apotheosis of the brewers art 🍺"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-11T19:03Z 47.8K followers, 3202 engagements

"Lithuania played a role in thwarting Operation Sealion: in April 1940 the Lithuanian legation in Paris tipped off the Foreign Office about Hitler's invasion plans - which they heard about from an Italian military attach who was there when Hitler showed the plans to Mussolini"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-12T08:22Z 47.8K followers, 15.8K engagements

"@nickfshort Just dont let yourself get quite as obsessed as I am with Lithuania. I think of little else"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-12T14:53Z 47.8K followers, XXX engagements

". sometimes even when they do have the skills to broaden their horizons. And worse than that primary source analysis often isn't valued and writing flash-in-the-pan theory-laden monographs that engage with the 'discourse' of secondary literature is more attention-grabbing"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-13T10:06Z 47.8K followers, 30.6K engagements

"@duckbilledtweet @houshuang Albania was like this in the c20th always making randos king without asking them"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-13T17:47Z 47.8K followers, XXX engagements

"This notice has appeared in The Hastings Observer every XX October since 1067"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-14T17:29Z 47.8K followers, 483.8K engagements

"Does this mean you won't be allowed to live in the UK unless you can write fatuous guff about some awful novel by Ian McEwan"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-15T08:36Z 47.8K followers, 18.5K engagements

"Something that has very clearly emerged from the discourse of the last week is that many people long for spaces that are set apart as sacred regardless of their personal relationship to the Church (or even to religion); the Church would do well to respond to this yearning"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-15T10:13Z 47.8K followers, 11.4K engagements

"This is a great piece about the lasting temptation to search for A Key to All Mythologies - a misconception I spend much of my life trying to dispel"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-16T15:10Z 47.8K followers, 18K engagements

"For example we know the name of one Estonian god. Thats it. But people have confidently reconstructed Estonian mythology on the basis that it must have been derived from a pan-Finnic mythos"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-16T15:16Z 47.8K followers, 1932 engagements

"Comparative mythology is basically linguistics gone mad - its no coincidence that Jacob Grimm was a linguist"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-16T15:19Z 47.8K followers, 2146 engagements

"TIL that before WWII (when it was destroyed along with the rest of the city) Warsaw's St John's Cathedral had an English Gothic Revival frontage - the most notable instance of English Neo-Gothic in Eastern Europe"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-16T17:57Z 47.8K followers, 6300 engagements

"What a great postcard. We no longer appreciate our motorway service stations"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-18T07:58Z 47.8K followers, 4398 engagements

"@Enderfay There's a whole book of these:"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-18T08:18Z 47.8K followers, XX engagements

"Lutherans played a key role in Lithuanian history by helping Lithuanian to become a written (and indeed printed) language - although Calvinism would prove to be the most influential Protestant influence on the nation as a whole"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-18T09:35Z 47.8K followers, 7873 engagements

"@TheOldFaith Indeed. Thats because the Counter-Reformation was highly successful in Lithuania. The present-day state of affairs does not always provide a complete picture of a countrys history"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-18T13:01Z 47.8K followers, XX engagements

"@dennislennox Part of Lithuania (Lithuania Minor) was Lutheran right up to 1945"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-18T13:03Z 47.8K followers, XX engagements

"@SketchesbyBoze The 19th century was the golden age of the novel; all novels since have been desperately trying to recapture a little of the power and cultural influence those c19th novels had"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-18T18:38Z 47.8K followers, 1096 engagements

"I suppose we should be grateful to the thieves at the Louvre for getting Empress Eugenie back in the news"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-19T15:43Z 47.8K followers, 8175 engagements

"@andrewlownie Why did they ever get rid of oubliettes"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-19T16:49Z 47.8K followers, XXX engagements

"2025 as declared by @LRSeimas is the Year of Baroque Literature and Matthaeus Casimirus Sarbievius in Lithuania. This is the virtual exhibition of the Wroblewski Library in Vilnius entitled I draw the beauty of your great world o Christ:"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-20T08:22Z 47.8K followers, 2227 engagements

"@SarahDixon18 @BrunoHeisey I remember being told by the monks at Farnborough that when his body was recovered all the Zulu spears were in the front of his body and none in his back"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-20T08:30Z 47.8K followers, XX engagements

"Today I read that many Lithuanians when told they ought to join the Communist Party in the 1940s sent letters of apology saying that they were unworthy of Party membership as they still harboured some religious superstitions"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-20T09:28Z 47.8K followers, 10.9K engagements

"@cjdoran1 Likewise Michael Bourdeaux's 'Land of Crosses' (which summarises the Chronicle) was a big influence on me"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-20T11:05Z 47.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Someone blocked me because they hadnt realised how virulently anti-Communist I am; one might have thought my being a historian of Lithuania offers a clue that I wont love Communism"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-20T15:07Z 47.8K followers, 10.5K engagements

"@PriceLaurence @a_wassen It's not really 'an odd situation' if it goes on for that long. A great deal longer than today's over-the-counter versus populum Communions"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-20T17:54Z 47.8K followers, XXX engagements

"TIL that Prof. Sigitas Narbutas was on Lithuanian breakfast TV this morning talking about his translations of Latin poems for Lithuania's Year of the Baroque. What a country 😯"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-21T12:30Z 47.8K followers, 3252 engagements

"Was hoping this might be a secret protocol to the Treaty of Dover that handed the Isle of Wight to the French or something"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-21T13:51Z 47.8K followers, 5159 engagements

"The replies to this betray the reason why people who think churches are important in the abstract will never actually go to church; their idea of the Church is formed in the glib bubble of social media where toleration of any imperfection or messy humanity is impossible"
X Link @DrFrancisYoung 2025-10-21T17:32Z 47.8K followers, 5870 engagements