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[iefimerida @iefimerida]

🥹 𝝙𝝖𝝟𝝦𝝪𝝖 𝝬𝝖𝝦𝝖𝝨 𝝟𝝖𝝞 𝝪𝝥𝝚𝝦𝝜𝝫𝝖𝝢𝝚𝝞𝝖𝝨 𝝖𝝥𝝤 𝝩𝝜𝝢 «𝝬𝝦𝝪𝝨𝝜» 𝝚𝝠𝝚𝝢𝝖 𝝙𝝞𝝖𝝗𝝖𝝩𝝜

🇬🇷 Η Έλενα Διαβάτη έζησε μια μοναδική στιγμή στο Παγκόσμιο Κύπελλο Κωπηλασίας Κ23, καθώς μετά την κατάκτηση του χρυσού μεταλλίου μαζί με τη Μιλένα Κοντού δεν μπόρεσε να κρύψει τη συγκίνησή της κατά την ανάκρουση του Εθνικού Ύμνου.

🥇 Οι δύο Ελληνίδες αθλήτριες πανηγύρισαν μια σπουδαία επιτυχία, με την Διαβάτη να δακρύζει εμφανώς συγκινημένη στην απονομή. Η στιγμή αποτύπωσε την υπερηφάνεια και τη χαρά της για μια μεγάλη διάκριση με τα ελληνικά χρώματα.

🎥 hellenic_olympic_committee

#iefimerida #ΈλεναΔιαβάτη #κωπηλασία

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇺🇦🇮🇷 Ukraine struck a Russian military cargo vessel bound for Iran in the Caspian Sea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces

This is the first time Ukraine is striking Iran now.

[Oligarch 12 000 Btu @Noteethworld]

Voilà ma proposition pour de nouveaux billets en euro

[Greek City Times @greekcitytimes]

Greece Water Polo Advances to World Cup Final in 2026

Greece defeated Italy 10-9 in a thrilling semi-final in Sydney to advance to the Water Polo World Cup final against Hungary. Full match report and reaction.
https://t.co/mwIFLet1My

[Ηellenic Olympic Committee @HellenicOlympic]

🚣Δύο χρυσά για την Ελλάδα 🇬🇷στο Παγκόσμιο Πρωτάθλημα Κωπηλασίας Κ23 στο Ντούισμπουργκ της Γερμανίας.
🥇οι Μηλένα Κοντού και Ελένη Διαβάτη στο διπλό σκιφ
🥇οι Αλέξανδρος Χατζηαυγουστίδης και Ανδρέας Μπούρκας στη δίκωπο άνευ.

[Kit Klarenberg @KitKlarenberg]

Oddly, British intelligence snitch Paul Mason has over half a million followers, yet this tweet promoting his inevitably execrable turd of a book posted 16 hours ago has...one like!!!

What a wanker 😂😂😂😂😂

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Ancient Roman identity wasn't ethnically "Italian": modern nationalism just wishes it was....

Unpacking how 19th-century Italian nationalists rewrote Rome’s diversity into a tale of racial purity. Some people today still cling to the myth that the Roman Empire was made up of ethnically homogeneous “Italians,” but that image says more about 19th-century nationalism than ancient history.

Modern Italy was born in the 19th century, but it borrowed its sense of greatness from a past that never truly belonged to it. After the unification of Italy in 1861, nationalist thinkers sought to forge a cohesive identity for the new Italian state.

One that could rival the great empires of Europe. To do so, they reached backward, claiming ancient Rome as the cultural and racial forebear of the modern Italian nation.

Writers, politicians, and ideologues promoted the idea of a pure, ethnically “Italian” Roman Empire, casting it as the cradle of Western civilization and the ancestral foundation of the Italian people.

This narrative, later embraced and weaponized by Mussolini’s fascist regime during World War II, erased centuries of imperial diversity in favor of a myth:

That all Romans were homogenous latins from the Italian peninsula.

But history, and archaeology, tells a far more fascinating story.

And far more diverse.

At its height, the Roman Empire stretched from the foggy highlands of Britain to the deserts of North Africa, from the Rhine to the Euphrates. Its citizens came from everywhere.

Berbers, Gauls, Greeks, Syrians, Egyptians, Thracians, Iberians, Jews, Celts.

And Rome welcomed them all. Not as foreigners, but as Romans.

Emperors and the ruling class themselves weren’t even always from the Italian peninsula.

Trajan, hailed as one of Rome’s greatest rulers, was born in Hispania (modern Spain).

Septimius Severus, founder of a powerful imperial dynasty, came from Leptis Magna in what is now Libya.

Philip the Arab was from Arabia.

Caracalla’s mother was Syrian.

And by the 3rd Century AD, it was normal for emperors to be African, Syrian, or Illyrian.

Archaeology confirms what the ancient writers already knew…

Rome was a world power built by a 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦.

In Roman Britain, the skeleton of an elite woman was discovered whose isotope and DNA analysis suggests she had North African ancestry.

Troops stationed along Hadrian’s Wall came from modern-day Algeria, Morocco, and Syria, sent to guard the empire’s chilly northern frontier.

In York, the remains of a woman known as the “Ivory Bangle Lady” point to a high-status individual of mixed African and European descent.

To be Roman was never about ethnicity or race. It was about allegiance, law, language, and the unifying idea of the 𝘙𝘦𝘴 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢, a shared civic identity that transcended geography and ancestry.

The myth of an ethnically “Italian” Roman identity is a fiction, crafted long after the empire’s fall, to serve modern nationalist agendas. But the real Rome was a tapestry of cultures, faiths, skin tones, and languages. Its strength came 𝘯𝘰𝘵 from racial purity, but from imperial diversity.

From the different peoples that Rome conquered, to the peoples that ended up conquering Rome; Rome belongs to all. The old adage; Rome wasn’t built in a day stands true. However, it also certainly wasn’t built by just one kind of people.

#archaeohistories

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

You killed 162 children in the opening day of war.

Fuck you.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Here is what I actually cannot explain:

The year is 2003.

The United States invades Iraq on the basis of "weapons of mass destruction" that do not exist.

This is not a matter of interpretation. It is documented.

The intelligence was manipulated.

The case was fabricated.

The people who fabricated it knew it was fabricated.

Some of them have said so, on record, in memoirs that were reviewed positively in the same newspapers that helped sell the war.

One million people died.

The country was destroyed. The infrastructure, the institutions, the social fabric.

ISIS emerged from the power vacuum.

The region destabilized in ways still producing casualties today.

Not one person went to prison.

The architects of the decision became senior fellows at think tanks.

They wrote books.

They appeared on television as "serious foreign policy voices."

Some of them are now presented as "voices of reason" in the anti-Trump discourse.

And the next time the same government, with many of the same institutional actors, said there was a foreign threat that required military response, a significant portion of the population believed them.

That is what I cannot explain.

Not the lie.

Governments lie.

The bottomless, renewable, apparently inexhaustible willingness to be lied to again.

[Jerónimo Sánchez @jero_s_velasco]

La polémica sobre qué representar en los nuevos billetes de euro me ha hecho recordar las representaciones más hermosas que conozco para el dinero: las antiguas monedas griegas, llenas de animalitos, no sólo la lechuza de Atenea.

[-- GEROMAN -- time will tell - 👀 -- @GeromanAT]

This is not sustainable for a long time.
On so many levels.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

Everyone who told you Iran was building a nuclear weapon lied.

The President, Congress, Netanyahu, the influencers, the Fox News hosts. ALL of them lied.

They killed an old man who never wanted a nuke to provoke a civil war and what they got instead was a united Iran and a much younger leader who isn’t encumbered by fairytale notions about an international law that doesn’t actually exist.

[ayden @squatsons]

The ARAMCO refinery in Jazan, Saudi Arabia is burning after ballistic missiles and drones launched from Yemen impacted the facility.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Tucker Carlson just described the reality of US politics.

"90% of Congress takes money from an unregistered foreign lobby. Both parties have the same paymasters. Loyalty to a foreign country."

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Trump is a grifter. He’s a snake oil salesman who’s costing you your kids futures. Open your eyes!
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Olga Bazova @OlgaBazova]

Absolute 🔥 of the video.

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

Coin of Cleopatra VII, with her image and a Greek inscription "θεά νεωτέρα" thea neotera, lit. "the younger goddess", one of Cleopatra's adopted titles.

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

Mosaic from Thmuis, Egypt, created by the Hellenistic artist Sophilos (signature) in about 200 BC, now in the Greco-Roman Museum in Alexandria, Egypt. The woman depicted in the mosaic is the Ptolemaic Queen Berenike II (who ruled jointly with her husband Ptolemy III) as the personification of Alexandria.

[dog @Dog__Dog0]

This is one amazing puppy! She's been on boats her entire life and now has sea legs. I love the way she rocks with the boat, she's no greenhorn.
🎥boatdogmaggie:ig

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

These are acts of genocide.