DukeofDiscussion

Man with opinions

[Pokemon Giveaways @PokeTCGiveaways]

Her Japan trip vs His Japan trip 🇯🇵

[Gkings23 Wills💎 90s 🎥 🎬 @gkingsventures]

Immortals the great Gods fight scene

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Kenya Airways Captain Ahmed gives passengers a stunning view of Africa’s tallest mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro.

[📹eric.thimba]

[olivia @piloevilo]

This escalated way too fast 😭👀

[90’s anime @90sPiictures]

If you love dark fantasy aesthetics and massive psychic battles, the 1996 X movie is an absolute must-watch

[iamRecktor @generalrecktor]

That’s what a cosmic entity is expected to look like. When they switched into their cosmic forms and that head tilt.. so tuff. The Les Twins, you will forever be goated.
Men in Black International 🎬

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

New trailer for ‘MOTOR CITY’, an action film with no dialogue starring Alan Ritchson.

The film follows a working-class man who goes after revenge against a gangster who framed him for a crime he didn’t commit.

In theaters on July 24.

[Sparkplug102👌 @Raphenol]

The ending that gave Lewis everything he was searching for. ❤️🏡🐸

[Eternal Anime @Eternal_Anime22]

I love this fusion of WWI era weaponry and battle tactics (trench warfare) combined with futuristic technology it makes the setting very unique

Anime: The Saga Of Tanya The Evil
#幼女戦記

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

On 12 July 1962 the American supercarrier USS Independence was steaming through the Mediterranean with the Sixth Fleet when her lookouts spotted a three-masted sailing ship under full canvas, a sight that already belonged to another century. The carrier flashed a signal asking the stranger to identify herself. Back came the reply by light, "Training ship Amerigo Vespucci, Italian Navy." She was a tall ship launched at Castellammare di Stabia near Naples in 1931, her black hull banded with two white stripes in memory of the old gun decks, 26 canvas sails spread across masts more than fifty metres high. The Independence, eighty thousand tonnes of steel and aircraft, took her in and signalled a single line in return, "You are the most beautiful ship in the world."

The compliment outlived the carrier. The Independence was eventually scrapped, but the Vespucci is still sailing, the oldest ship in commission in the Italian Navy, and Italians have called her the most beautiful ship in the world ever since that afternoon. The story did not quite end there either. On 1 September 2022 another American carrier, the USS George H.W. Bush, crossed her path in the Adriatic and sent almost the same words across the water, telling the old ship she was still the most beautiful in the world, sixty years to the season after the first time. Few exchanges between warships are remembered with any fondness.

#drthehistories

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Du Zhu Piao is an ancient Chinese tradition where people balance and move on a single floating bamboo pole, originally used for river travel and fishing.

[Muse @xmuse_]

It looks like a fairytale castle, right?

Now imagine it wasn’t built for kings — but for soldiers.

St. Martin in Dresden was their garrison church, and it even held two faiths under one roof:

Protestant on one side, Catholic on the other.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Details on Robert Eggers' 'Werwulf' 🐺

• Horror film that follows a man who is cursed in a 'brutal, unforgiving, merciless, grotesque world'

• Set ~1300 AD before all the wolves were killed off in England

• Doesn't include werewolf cliches like 'being bitten by a werewolf and silver bullets'

• Willem Dafoe is playing a hunter

• They spent time with a real wolf to learn about its behavior

• Dialogue is in Middle English

• Shot on 35mm film — with grain structure of a black-and-white film incorporated onto color film to create a unique look

• All sets were built from the ground up

(via @esquire)

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

For the first time, researchers have identified exactly what Roman builders were adding to their concrete to make it last for centuries....

At an unfinished building site in Pompeii, abandoned during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, archaeologists uncovered something rare: Roman concrete materials that were prepared but never mixed. That frozen moment revealed how Roman builders actually made their concrete.

Instead of mixing lime and water the way we do today, they combined quicklime with volcanic ash first, then added water. The reaction produced intense heat and left behind tiny fragments of reactive lime trapped inside the hardened concrete. When cracks later formed and water seeped in, those fragments reacted again and sealed the damage from within.

In other words, some Roman concrete was intentionally engineered to heal its own cracks — and it’s still doing it nearly 2,000 years later.

Archaeological Park of Pompeii

#archaeohistories

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

One of the most insane LEGO builds I’ve seen!

Smaug by justin_boverbricks (IG)

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Today I discovered not only that there is such a thing as a quokka but also that my whole life I've been missing a quokka.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«When you think you're pretty good at painting details»

Victor Navlet, "Vue générale de Paris, prise de l'Observatoire, en ballon", 1855, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

[📹 Mathieu Nozieres]

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

It took about 140 years to finish the Duomo in Florence.

The original architects knew they wouldn’t live to see the dome rise, yet they laid the stone anyway.

When you believe in eternity, you build things differently.

[old toons @oldtoons_]

Show me an intro that goes harder than this. You can't!!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Ancient roman streets had (and still have) little white stones between the bigger ones and it's very likely this was done to facilitate the night time visibility, reflecting moonlight or the oil lamps' brightness.