Solemn Transcendence's Twitter Thread

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1/10 In the early morning hours of July 17th, 1918, after being held hostage in a fortified mansion east of the Ural Mountains for three months, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and 𝘢𝘭𝘭 five of their children were brutally murdered. Their bodies were doused with sulfuric

2/10 John D. Rockefeller had started investing in the medical field as early as the late 1800s in an attempt to find a cure for his alopecia. With the successful development of the first vaccine for Rabies by Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux in 1885, Rockefeller was confident

3/10 In the years leading up to the turn of the 20th century, several advancements were achieved in the field of chemistry, a lot of which had taken place in Germany. It wasn't until April of 1915 that chlorine gas was first used against French and Algerian troops in Ypres

4/10 Adolf Hitler was appointed to the chancellery in 1933. And later that year the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of 1933, which implemented swift changes that swept through the demoralized nation with rapid succession. The Weimar Republic was quickly dissolved, and in

5/10 Despite the failings of the German confederation twenty years earlier, Hitler recognized the mistakes that were made under Wilhelm's reign and veered the empire's resources into various scientific fields. His obsession in the development of new technologies was only

6/10 On the evening of February 24th, 1942, a strange craft approached the southern California coast which triggered a barrage of gunfire from the local military as it approached the city of Los Angeles. The object disappeared then reappeared several hours later which

7/10 Just three months earlier on January 7th, Nikola Tesla was found dead in his room at the New Yorker where he had lived since 1933. He had spoken about plans on building a "teleforce" ray gun for decades and had recently decided on meeting with congress to discuss its

8/10 Despite their engineering feats, the Germans had been both outnumbered and outmatched against the manufacturing might of Allied forces, which eventually stalled their progress toward the end of the war. Previously suppressed information surrounding the expulsion of

9/10 In December of 1946, a coalition of allied forces led by Admiral Richard E. Byrd launched an expedition into the southern polar region of Antarctica. Operation High Jump would mark Byrd's third trip into the icy continent. In 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 mission however, Byrd was equipped

10/10 In September of 1961, while traveling through the mountains of New Hampshire on their way home from a trip to Canada, Barney and Betty Hill encountered a strange object in the sky. The event had left them both rattled and confused, and there was a two-hour gap in time