Katherine

Arty girl. Kinda strange. I retweet clever people. #thinkcelestial

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven - and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it.

[Skeletor 🧼🧽🫧 @TheMuppetPastor]

It has come to my attention that Dolly Parton didn’t die. Chuck Norris requested “Jolene” live.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

Is the cure to male loneliness retaking Constantinople?

Either way, I think we should do it.

[Classic Spy Chic @ClassicSpyChic]

“I would like to have seen Montana”

(3 years later In Montana)

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...

...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY

He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."

His name is Rishi Sharma.

He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.

He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.

He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...

...FOR FREE

So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.

Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.

He does it out of pure gratitude.

In his words:

"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."

As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:

"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."

THAT is America.

250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...

God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[🎩Laird of the Manor🎩 @LairdOfThManor]

A small public service announcement from the Department of Things That You Should Know…

It has not “peeked” your interest.
Nor has it “peaked” your interest.

…It has piqued your interest.

You are not “phased” by something.
You are fazed by it.

If you’ve had a long day, you are weary.
If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary.

It is “due course”, not “do course”.
“Per se”, not “per say”.

And while we’re here, it’s “could have”, not “could of”, but that particular battle may already be lost.

Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak of grammatical housekeeping.

This has been a @LairdofthManor announcement.🎩💙

[For the love of Missy. @MissyBBBobtail]

A lot of people are confused by the concept of “cat years" so here's a little guide:

0-1 years - just a little baby

1-3 years - just a little baby

4-9 years - just a little baby

10+ years - just a little baby

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

“Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.”

— Will Durant (from The Story of Civilization)

[🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 @MericaCulture]

America 250 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸

[The Bull Moose Project @BullMooseProj]

Eighty-two years ago today, June 6th, 1944.

May we never forget their sacrifice and our privilege.

[Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao @SECNAV]

The eyes of the world were upon them - and today, we honor their legacy as we live in the freedom secured by their noble sacrifice.

[LDSLawyer @LDSLaw]

As is my wont, a post to remember and memorialize the Battle of Midway, the turning point of the Pacific War in WWII. June 4-7, 1942. Only six months after Pearl Harbor.

[Karen 🙋‍♀️ 🩷 @i_sing_my_heart]

@SecRubio Praying so.

The first two photos below are largely what the world was shown. The final photo is of the aftermath.

NEVER FORGET.

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

Iranian hairstylist Ami Moghadam received death threats for posting videos of women receiving haircuts on Instagram.

So she decided to troll the Islamic Regime and their oppressive mandatory hijab laws in the most epic, hilarious way possible. 😂

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Claude Mellan's Face of Christ, also known as The Sudarium of Saint Veronica (1649), is one of the most technically extraordinary works in art history...

The entire portrait is rendered using a single, continuous spiralling line that begins at the tip of Christ's nose and expands outward to the edges of the cloth.

Mellan achieved the illusion of depth, shadow, and facial features without any cross-hatching or traditional shading. Instead, he precisely varied the thickness and pressure of the burin (his engraving tool) as he rotated the copper plate, creating "swelling" lines that darken the image where needed.

The spiralling line is estimated to be approximately 150m (about 500ft) long if it were stretched out.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[🅶🅾🆁🅺 @Raclure03]

Le photographe français Mathieu Stern a découvert par hasard un vieux film négatif datant d'il y a 120 ans.

Après l'avoir imprimé, il s'est avéré qu'il s'agissait d'un chat.

🤪👍

[Christopher Lloyd @DocBrownLloyd]

I told you when this baby hits 88…you’re gonna see some serious shit.
A lifetime of stories. Coming soon.

[positive side of X 🌞 @positivityofx]

A group of young Kestrels seeing a butterfly for the first time