Bridget Bennett

Bridget. Bennett. Minnesota.

[Classic Rock In Pics @crockpics]

Baby Jim Morrison enjoying the Atlantic surf at Melbourne Beach, Florida, alongside his mother Clara and his father, future Rear Admiral George Stephen Morrison, back in 1944. Taken while his father was stationed at Naval Air Station Melbourne during World War II,

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

A 2,000-year-old Roman-era swimming pool has been uncovered in Aydın, offering a glimpse into how ancient Romans enjoyed leisure and bathing.

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Tralleis near Aydın in western Türkiye have fully uncovered a remarkably preserved Roman swimming pool dating to around the 1st or 2nd century AD.

Measuring roughly 37 meters (121 feet) long and 12 meters (39 feet) wide, the massive pool could hold around 300 people and was part of a sprawling 40,000-square-meter bath and gymnasium complex. Researchers believe it was a cold-water pool used for swimming, athletic training, instruction, and recreation.

The complex reflects how important physical fitness and public life were in Roman society. Bath and gymnasium complexes were more than places to exercise and bathe—they also served as centers for education, business, and social interaction.

The pool was supplied by an advanced water system that continuously circulated fresh water while allowing it to drain efficiently, showcasing the sophistication of Roman hydraulic engineering.

Tralleis was a prosperous city in the Roman province of Asia, known for its temples, theaters, baths, and other monumental buildings. Excavations continue to reveal new insights into daily life in one of the region’s most important ancient urban centers.

Despite being described as an “Olympic” pool in some modern reports because of its impressive size, it was not built for the ancient Olympic Games. Archaeologists believe it instead belonged to a local athletic complex where young people learned to swim and trained for regional competitions.

[Jeffrey Guterman @JeffreyGuterman]

J.D. Vance became the first vice-president of the U.S. with a mustache since Thomas Riley Marshall, vice-president from 1913 to 1921 under President Woodrow Wilson. Vance is also the first vice-president to have a beard since Schuyler Colfax, vice-president from 1869 to 1873 under President Ulysses S. Grant. #FunFacts

[Bridget Bennett @BrigidsFyre7682]

@WalkwithGod7 Amen

[Walk with God @WalkwithGod7]

Vice President JD Vance said his Catholic faith taught him that Jesus Christ should shape every part of a believer’s life, including politics.

He said Christians should not limit their faith to family life or a few cultural issues. Instead, Christ’s teachings should influence how believers approach all areas of society and public life.

Vance called for a more fully Christian approach to politics, saying faith cannot be confined to only certain parts of life.

[Bridget Bennett @BrigidsFyre7682]

@Cultaholic Bring back vince walking down ramp, Shane, Stephanie, Linda, stone cold, and others.. storylines matches like tlc hell in cell, hard-core, women's matches like.. 80s 90s..

[Cultaholic Wrestling @Cultaholic]

If WWE ratings are not strong around 2028, the belief is TKO President Mark Shapiro and others will "really start pressuring" Nick Khan and Triple H.

This comes after a JPMorgan analysis of TKO's share price noted: "WWE fan dissatisfaction is worth watching but is not yet a structural problem. Premium live event viewing appears to be growing, although Raw ratings are trending down year over year."

(Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter)

[Trump Lover❤🇮🇳🇺🇸 @SUBRATA30016572]

First baby born to a sitting Vice President in over 150 years!!!Congratulations @VP and family!!!
Drop a❤🇺🇸 if you love this beautiful second family!!

[chordsoftime81 @ChordsOfTime]

Happy Heavenly Birthday Elvis Presley's manager, Col. Tom Parker (whose birth name was Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk), was born in the Netherlands on this day in 1909. #ColTomParker #ElvisPresley #musichistory #fyp #classicrock

[Elvis Presley News @Elvis_News]

Today in Elvis history: Remembering Elvis' ​father​, Vernon ​Elvis Presley​, on the anniversary of his passing​ on this day in 1979.​ (Yes, his middle name was Elvis)

#ElvisHistory #ElvisPresley

[Ginger 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🏖️🩵☮️🩴🏝️🦚🏖️🦅🍉🌊🫍🐟🐳 @gginger069]

June 26,1977
Elvis 👑
Performed His Final Concert
🕊️👑🕊️👑🕊️👑🕊️👑
#ElvisPresley
#Icon
#ElvisHistory

[Elvis Presley @ElvisPresley]

On this day in 1957, Elvis spent his first night at Graceland.

#ElvisPresley #Icon #Legend #Graceland

[Belle @RoyallyBelle_]

The Princess of Wales and 12 year old Prince George on the Buckingham Palace balcony today 🩵

[Architecture Hub @archpng]

Three giant swords planted into rock — never to be used again.

Sverd i fjell, or Swords in Rock, stands beside Hafrsfjord near Stavanger, Norway. Created by sculptor Fritz Røed and unveiled in 1983, the monument commemorates the Battle of Hafrsfjord, traditionally dated to 872, when Harald Fairhair is said to have united Norway under one crown.

The largest sword represents the victorious king, while the two smaller swords represent the defeated rulers. But the meaning is not only victory.

Because the swords are fixed into solid rock, they also symbolize peace, unity and freedom — weapons laid down forever.

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

@historyinmemes Before politics, young Reagan worked as a lifeguard and saved 77 people from drowning.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1992, Ronald Reagan gifted Bill Clinton a jar of jelly beans—the same candy Reagan famously used to help curb his smoking habit during his presidency.

When Bill Clinton visited Ronald Reagan in 1992, the former president gave him a jar of red, white, and blue jelly beans as both a symbolic and practical gift. Reagan had famously relied on jelly beans to help quit smoking years earlier and suggested they might help Clinton resist similar urges.

The lighthearted exchange became a memorable moment between the outgoing and incoming leaders. It reflected Reagan’s well-known fondness for jelly beans while also serving as a friendly gesture of support during the presidential transition.

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

The Spitzhäuschen in Germany was built in 1416 and is over 600 years old. This beautiful old house still stands today.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The box bed, sometimes known by its French name of lit clos, is a bed built into a piece of furniture. It looks curious to us today and it’s somewhat of a novelty to climb into bed and shut the doors behind you, but 600 years ago this kind of bed was very popular, and it is making a comeback today.

As its name implies, the box bed is a bed which is completely contained within a wooden box. There were a lot of variations in design – some had curtains for privacy, while others were completely closed off with sliding wooden doors. They could be built in a number of ways to utilize the space available – some were freestanding and could be moved, but others were built into recesses of a room. Most well-known description of a box bed is in Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. By the time of novel, box bed was a thing of past, but even then Bronte noted how “very conveniently designed” box beds were, admiring them for practicality of giving each member of family their own privacy with no need for individual rooms, and for fact they made narrator feel very secure when he was in bed with closed panels. While they were already obsolete by time of Bronte’s novel, box bed had a long history of use. Its roots come from Medieval Brittany. By 16th Century, examples of box beds could be found across Europe, including France, Scotland, Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Austria. As they became more popular, more commonplace designs advanced and in 18th Century box beds could be quite sophisticated and cleverly designed to blend into the room and look like inconspicuous cabinets.

While they seem a bit odd or even claustrophobic to us today, box beds were a very practical solution to a lot of problems faced by people living in Medieval Europe. Firstly, they provided a private space. Many families slept in the same room at that point, and poorer families often lived in dwellings with only one room even as recently as the Victorian era, particularly in rural communities. The beds meant that people were able to retreat to a private part of the room, and they also helped to divide the room up. Furthermore, as the beds were built in boxes which were usually raised off the ground, they provided storage space. They usually had a large bench in front of them which could be used as seating, and which also had space for storage.

The drawers under the bed or bench were sometimes pulled out to use as a bed for younger family members or guests – the original hide-a-bed. It is also noteworthy that a lot of surviving examples, and the regions where the box bed prevailed the longest, are in regions such as Scandinavia, which are mercilessly cold during the winter. The enclosed nature of the box bed means they are very warm and keeping warm could be a matter of life or death in Medieval times – this probably explains why box beds were in use in frigid Scandinavia for longer than elsewhere.

One final upside to the box bed is that examples with doors and panels also helped to keep people safe. Whilst it may not have happened often, in rural areas there was always a risk that a dangerous animal like a wolf might get in to the house – box beds kept individuals in dwelling safe, at least while they slept. After a period of several hundred years, box bed is starting to make appearances in homes across the world again. While there is thankfully very little chance of being attacked by a wolf while you sleep nowadays, cramped living conditions and prevalence of studio apartments mean that they are once again a handy solution to problem of privacy in a single room living situation.

Now that box beds are growing in popularity again, there are some regions which have come full circle. Large cities such as New York where people are turning to box beds in their studio apartments are resorting to a trend which was used by many of the earliest inhabitants in New York in 17th Century, and they are every bit as practical now as they were 400 years ago.

#archaeohistories

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

What do you think of Elvis Presley?