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@notgaetti Can’t ask for much more than that!

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@neontaster What tour?

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Jarren Duran is batting .333 (46-for-138) on fastballs this season, tied for 5th best in MLB; League Avg: .270.

#DirtyWater

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@IndyMcGrath I got heartburn just reading this.

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@notgaetti And he didn’t lead the league in home runs in any of the 3 years.

[Nat Friedman @natfriedman]

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000 years, we can finally read the scrolls:
This image was produced by @Youssef_M_Nader, @LukeFarritor, and @JuliSchillij, who have now won the Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize of $700,000. Congratulations!!

These fifteen columns come from the very end of the first scroll we have been able to read and contain new text from the ancient world that has never been seen before. The author – probably Epicurean philosopher Philodemus – writes here about music, food, and how to enjoy life's pleasures. In the closing section, he throws shade at unnamed ideological adversaries – perhaps the stoics? – who "have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular."

This year, the Vesuvius Challenge continues. The text that we revealed so far represents just 5% of one scroll.

In 2024, our goal is to from reading a few passages of text to entire scrolls, and we're announcing a new $100,000 grand prize for the first team that is able to read at least 90% of all four scrolls that we have scanned.

The scrolls stored in Naples that remain to be read represent more than 16 megabytes of ancient text. But the villa where the scrolls were found was only partially excavated, and scholars tell us that there may be thousands more scrolls underground. Our hope is that the success of the Vesuvius Challenge catalyzes the excavation of the villa, that the main library is discovered, and that whatever we find there rewrites history and inspires all of us.

It's been a great joy to work on this strange and amazing project. Thanks to Brent Seales for laying the foundation for this work over so many years, thanks to the friends and Twitter users whose donations powered our effort, and thanks to the many contestants whose contributions have made the Vesuvius Challenge successful!

Read more in our announcement: https://t.co/rUlrdGXBMs

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@RobertFWright @WSJ Sad to say, but this movie is 30+ years old.

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#Dodgers Vin Scully has called over four percent of all games in MLB history... including those that weren't televised, and those that occurred before the television was even invented.

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To truly appreciate the greatness of the late Vin Scully, watch all nine minutes of Kirk Gibson‘s final (and only) at-bat to end Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. A masterclass to end all masterclasses. RIP Vin Scully, who died at 94 yesterday. https://t.co/EQuptH6eP8

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@JPosnanski C Piazza
1B Karros
2B Guerrero
3B Zeile
SS Gagne
LF Hollandsworth
CF Butler
RF Mondesi
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GWC attorneys Louis Anthony Cairo and Lawrence J. Amato have obtained a $527,689.02 jury verdict for a union laborer who was injured in a #motorcycleaccident. https://t.co/gzXevFSexK