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[TRUTH NOW ⭐️⭐️⭐️🗽 🎺 @sxdoc]

Soldier returns home after deployment
Dogs never forget
Fences don’t stop them

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: A NATIONWIDE GROUND STOP has just OFFICIALLY been issued by the FAA, citing "EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES and REASONS OF SAFETY" 🤯

This means effectively ALL flights are blocked from taking off

There's no word yet on how long it will last or what specifically caused it.

Insane.

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

STATEMENT FROM THE KIRK FAMILY:

Today's decision to delay the trial of the man accused of murdering our beloved Charlie until at least June 2028, is deeply disappointing. While nothing will restore the time we have lost with Charlie, every additional day without justice prolongs our family's pain and forces us to wait even longer for accountability.

As we continue down this difficult road, we remain deeply grateful for the love, prayers, and support that have sustained our family through these painful months.

[Whiplash437 @MrWhiplash_]

🚨 BREAKING. Scott Bessent just announced the Internal Revenue Service is launching MASSIVE AUDITS of financial institutions that facilitated the laundering of Minnesota funds.

Read that again.

Banks. MSBs. Financial middlemen.
Anyone who helped move dirty money is about to get TORCHED.

For once, the IRS is being deployed FOR AMERICANS FIRST — not against working families.

Follow the money.
Audit everything.
Prosecute whoever broke the law.

Thank you, Sec. Bessent. 🇺🇸

Do you firmly support Scott on this?

[Batgurrrl 🇺🇸 @Batgurrrl]

@HonestTakesX Definitely C, so I can afford an attorney to get justice.

[Batgurrrl 🇺🇸 @Batgurrrl]

@TopClassActions woohoo...lets gooo!

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

At 95, I'm still smokin'! 😝

I’ve learned two things:

Never waste a good cigar.
Never trust anyone who says you should ‘act your age.’ 😉👍🏻

[BernieFireball 💥🇺🇦 @BernieFireball]

@brettachapman Another beautiful photo of Dust Maker (aka Pete Mitchell)
https://t.co/IYX370WdlS

[Lizzie @Lizzielrs3]

@brettachapman I’m Nipmuc Indian. This is Payne Henries. My Grandmothers cousin. He was a great man. Always fighting for rights for our people and those being oppressed. He’s from Webster Massachusetts. Im so proud of him and my ancestors Aho 🪶

[Sting56 @FourAces56]

@brettachapman Here's a more enhanced image

[Scott Howell @howellsh]

@brettachapman

[Brett Chapman @brettachapman]

This has always been one of my favorite historical pictures of Native Americans. This 1898 photo is of a Ponca man named Dust Maker. I like it because his regalia is very detailed, he has a confident look, and the photographer did a great job with the lighting—looks great!

[CNBC @CNBC]

BREAKING: Dow Jones Industrial Average opens at new all-time high. https://t.co/ySV4w1Dx1b

[Batgurrrl 🇺🇸 @Batgurrrl]

Check out this portfolio! https://t.co/46jg19Ml61 via @fineartamerica

[Batgurrrl 🇺🇸 @Batgurrrl]

@FanElonMuskrut B

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

A modern reconstruction of a Saka (Scythian) warrior, featuring a pointed cap inspired by Reliefs from Pasargadae (Persepolis, 550 BC).

© The Archaeologist

#archaeohistories

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

This 600-year-old painting is one of the most mysterious in history. That mirror at the back is just 3 inches wide, yet it reflects the entire room in immense detail. Look closer at it and you'll realize nothing is as it seems.

The painting you're looking at is The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, completed in 1434. It’s considered one of the most enigmatic masterpieces of the Northern Renaissance, packed with symbolism and technical brilliance.

At first glance, it's a portrait of a wealthy merchant, Giovanni Arnolfini, and his wife, possibly capturing a marriage ceremony or a legal contract. But then your eyes land on the small convex mirror at the back of the room.

Just three inches across, this mirror reflects the entire scene with astonishing precision, even including two additional figures who appear to be entering the room, likely the painter himself and a witness. Around the mirror are ten tiny medallions depicting scenes from the Passion of Christ, adding a religious layer to the domestic scene.

Van Eyck even signed the painting just above the mirror with the words “Johannes de Eyck fuit hic” — “Jan van Eyck was here.” It’s not just art; it’s a visual puzzle nearly six centuries old.

#archaeohistories

[Batgurrrl 🇺🇸 @Batgurrrl]

@Hot_Pepper76 LOVE Whitney! Such a tragic loss of her incredible talent & beautiful voice!

[Hot Pepper @Hot_Pepper76]

In November 1994, Whitney Houston gave an unforgettable curtsy in a shimmering gold gown during The Concert for a New South Africa. Grace, glamour, and pure show-stopping elegance, this moment still wows today. Just wow.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The 2000 year old skull of a Peruvian warrior was found to have been fused together with metal in one of the world's oldest examples of advanced surgery, according to a museum.

Museum of Osteology in  Oklahoma says the skull, which is in its collection, is reported to have been that of a man who was injured during battle before having some of the earliest forms of surgery to implant a piece of metal in his head to repair the fracture.

According to experts, that the man survived the surgery, with the skull now a key piece of evidence in proving that ancient peoples were capable of performing advanced surgeries.

The skull in question is an example of a Peruvian elongated skull, which is an ancient form of body modification where tribe members intentionally deformed the skulls of young children by binding them with cloth or even binding the head between two pieces of wood for prolonged periods of time. 

'This is a Peruvian elongated skull with metal surgically implanted after returning from battle, estimated to be from about 2000 years ago. One of our more interesting and oldest pieces in the collection,' the museum said.

'We don't have a ton of background on this piece, but we do know he survived the procedure. Based on the broken bone surrounding the repair, you can see that it's tightly fused together. It was a successful surgery.' 

Skull had originally been kept in the museum's private collection, however it was officially put on display in 2020 following growing public interest in the artifact due to news coverage on the discovery of the skull. The area where the skull was discovered in Peru has long been known for surgeons who invented a series of complex procedures to treat a fractured skull. 

The injury was commonplace at the time due to the use of projectiles like slingshots during battle. Elongated skulls were common in Peru at the time, and were stretched by applying force to a person's cranium, often by binding it between two pieces of wood.

Multiple reasons have been given for skull elongation, varying from serving as a way for society's elites to mark themselves out, to acting as a form of defense. Subsequent archaeological digs have found that Peruvian women who had elongated skulls were less likely to have suffered serious head injuries than those without. 

Surgeons during that time period would scrape a hole in the skull of a living human without the use of modern anesthesia or sterile techniques. 'They learned early on that this was a treatment that could save lives. We have overwhelming evidence that trepanation was not done to increase consciousness or as a purely ritual activity but is linked to patients with severe head injury, (especially) skull fracture,' physical anthropologist John Verano of Tulane University told National Geographic in 2016.

'We don't know the metal. Traditionally, silver and gold was used for this type of procedure,' a spokesperson for the Skeletons: Museum of Osteology.

In a 2018 study published in Current Anthropology, the practice of elongating skulls was found among disparate cultures ranging from the Mayas to the Huns, and were found to be a status symbol of privilege and prestige in groups worldwide. 

© Museum of Osteology

#archaeohistories