Evil mother

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Have you ever wondered what happens at night on top of a mountain in the darkest place on Earth?

📹 Connor Paton/ connorpatonphotos

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

3 secret codes that 99% don't know

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

A wren’s voice is loud and clear, despite its small size.

📽: Lawrence Chatton

[Evil mother @Momthewitch]

@farman4x 81

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

When you realize that even your legs are under your own control 😂

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Children in hospital paint little pebbles that penguins can give to their mates as gifts during breeding season

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

At Ground Zero, after the last living person was pulled out, the search dogs stopped eating.

So the police did something nobody had written down in any manual.

They climbed into the rubble, lay down, and pretended to be alive.

More than 300 dogs worked the World Trade Center site. They came from every corner of the country, on trucks and in cargo holds, with handlers who had been trained to do one thing. Find people who are still breathing under the ground.

That is what a search and rescue dog is built for. Not bodies. Life. They are trained on live human scent. When they find it, they bark, they dig, they light up, and the handler rewards them, and the whole thing means something.

The last living person recovered from Ground Zero was a woman named Genelle Guzman-McMillan. She had been buried for 27 hours. A dog found her.

She was the last.

After that, the dogs kept going out on twelve-hour shifts, across sixteen acres of smoldering steel, at temperatures that burned their paws, and they found nobody.

Nobody.

Day after day.

The handlers noticed it first. The dogs were changing. Their tails were down. They were not eating. They would come off the pile and lie flat and not look at anyone.

A veterinarian named Cindy Otto, who spent ten days there working night shifts to care for the animals, put it plainly. The dogs had been sent to find life, and every day they were finding the opposite.

It was breaking them.

An NYPD officer named Famiglietti described what happened next.

They pulled everybody off the rubble. Then they asked for volunteers.

The volunteers, police officers, went out into the debris and hid themselves. Under beams. In voids. Curled up in pockets of concrete. They were told to lie down like they were hurt. Then the handlers sent the dogs in.

Picture that.

A grown man with a badge, a man who had spent the last week pulling friends out of that same pile, lying down in it on purpose. Face down. Holding still. Waiting for a dog.

And the dog comes over the top of the wreckage, and catches the scent, and barks, and digs, and finds a person who is warm and moving and alive.

And the handler says good girl, good boy, and the whole team celebrates.

They called them mock finds.

They did it for the dogs.

They did it so the dogs would remember what they were for.

One of those dogs was a two-year-old golden retriever named Bretagne. She came from Texas with her handler, Denise Corliss. It was her first deployment. They worked ten days at Ground Zero. They found no survivors.

But firefighters would come off the pile, stone-faced, not speaking, and see the dog, and something would break open in them. They would kneel down. They would put their face in her fur.

One day a man walked up to Bretagne and started petting her. He told Corliss his best friend loved golden retrievers.

Corliss asked where his friend was.

The man pointed at the pile.

"He's in there somewhere."

He kept petting the dog.

Bretagne went on to work Hurricane Katrina and Rita. She retired at 10. She was the last known surviving search dog of 9/11.

On June 6, 2016, at age 16, she was carried into a veterinary office in Texas to be put to sleep.

Outside, a dozen firefighters from her fire department stood in a line in their dress uniforms, in the heat, and saluted as she went past.

They draped her in an American flag on the way out.

Three hundred dogs went into that pile looking for the living.

They found one.

And when they could not find any more, the men they worked beside laid down in the rubble and let themselves be found, so the dogs would not lose heart.

That is the whole story of Ground Zero, really.

Nobody could save the dead.

So they saved each other. 🇺🇸

[steve @bagshaw2112]

If you have 5 minutes today , take the time to watch this video of Dolly Parton answering questions from her fans. She was one funny lady .
#dollyparton #funny 🙏🙏🤣🤣🤣

[Pop Waves @popwavesx]

Just going to leave this absolute masterpiece here you don't get theatre royalty like this any more.😍😍

[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen are quietly justifying the whole existence of the internet right now

[peanut butter movies 🌹 @its_edikan]

HE WAITED 27 YEARS TO SEE HIM AGAIN… AND THE STORY GETS EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL.

Sir Ian McKellen telling the story of his first love is the kind of story you think you’re prepared for until you hear the details.

The way he remembers those feelings decades later, with that little smile on his face, says everything. Some people really do stay with you long after the relationship itself is gone.

And honestly? The way Ian tells it makes it feel less like a celebrity story and more like an old friend finally telling you about the person they never quite forgot.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

NEW: 🇺🇳 UN votes 164-1 to ditch the Mercator projection in favor of the “Equal Earth” map,

The US was the only country who voted against

The dark blue shows the real size of the countries in the world

[Tolkienverse ᚠ @ToIkienverse]

El actor sir Christopher Lee vivió la vida al 200%

— Fue descendiente de Carlo Magno
— De niño conoció a Felix Yusupov, quien acabó con la vida de Rasputin. Años más tarde Lee interpretaría al propio Rasputin.
— Presenció la última ej*cución con guillotina en Francia por casualidad.
— En 1939 se presentó voluntario para luchar contra las fuerzas soviéticas en Finlandia.
— Fue piloto en las fuerzas aéreas británicas.
— Sirvió como oficial de inteligencia.
— Sobrevivió a dos bombardeos y fue hospitalizado después de contraer la malaria seis veces en un año.
— Escaló el monte Vesubio tres días antes de que entrara en erupción.
— Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cazaba en secreto a criminales de guerra.
— Conocía 8 idiomas y hablaba 5 de forma fluida.
— Era un experto espadachín.
— Inspiró al autor de James Bond.
— Ian Fleming era su primo hermanastro.
— Le propuso matrimonio a una condesa sueca recibiendo la bendición del rey pero la abandonó porque sentía que no era suficiente para ella.
— Al rededor de los 30, planeó convertirse en cantante de opera pero escogió la actuación.
— Fue el único actor que conoció a Tolkien en vida.
— Fue Saruman en El Señor de los Anillos.
— Apareció en Star Wars.
— Fue nombrado caballero.
— Formó una banda de metal.
— Y a los 93 años tristemente falleció. Pasó la noche antes en el hospital viendo El Señor de los Anillos y contándole a las enfermeras todas las anécdotas del rodaje.

[Barbara Etheridge @biebar_e]

@terryandrob I've never read any of his books (😳) but I keep a quote from the Theif of Time on my dresser mirror and read it every day.

[Tulip 💐 @cutelipssx]

For the people that say women's health issues and men's health issues are treated the same, you are very wrong.
Here is what has happened in the last week.
August 22: take my husband into ER for extreme epigastric pain. He tells the nurse it's 8/10 pain. He's not doing too hot. She reads the doctor in on the situation and BEFORE THE DOCTOR COMES IN THE ROOM, he is given morphine. The first dose doesn't help. So they give him another. He sees the doctor. Gets an ultrasound…

[Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @GurdeepPandher]

So delighted that my dear friend Constable Sukhvinder Singh Sunger of the Vancouver Police Department has made global headlines for a historic appearance at the prestigious Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Scotland. Sukhvinder became the first turbaned Sikh Drum Major to lead the Vancouver Police Pipe Band. In 2021, Constable Sukhvinder and I made this video together in Victoria, BC. I am excited to share that joyful moment.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In the year 756, a grieving empress of Japan donated
her late husband's dearest belongings to a temple in Nara.

They were placed in a wooden warehouse
called the Shosoin.

Persian glass goblets. Silver ewers from ancient Iran.
Musical instruments, medicines, games, textiles
from across China, India, Central Asia.

Scholars call this warehouse
"the final destination of the Silk Road."

Nearly 9,000 treasures. In near-mint condition.
The oldest surviving silks on Earth
that were never buried in a tomb.

Now, the question that should keep you up at night:

How does a wooden shed full of treasure
survive 1,270 years without being looted?

Egypt's treasures survived because they were sealed
inside tombs, hidden under tons of stone.
Most of the world's ancient wonders that remain
survived by being lost.

The Shosoin was never lost. It sat in plain sight,
in the middle of a city, for thirteen centuries.

Its security system?

A strip of paper.

The lock is sealed with paper
bearing the Emperor's personal signature.
To break the seal without permission is unthinkable.

That's it. That was always it.

Not even the shoguns, the military rulers of Japan,
could open that door.
For one stretch, it stayed shut for 140 straight years
because no one had the authority to look inside.

Once a year, each October, an imperial envoy
travels from Tokyo to break the seal,
air out the treasures, and seal it again.

They have been doing this, on schedule,
since before the Vikings existed.

Anywhere else, this is a heist movie waiting to happen.

In Japan, it's just a piece of paper that has said
"please don't" for 1,270 years.

And for 1,270 years, everyone hasn't.

[Pop Waves @popwavesx]

Obama really had zero chill as President😍😍

[‏ً @BALUCIAGA]

there’s a real answer to this actually

[PaidProtester @paidprotestr]

These are some of the best comedy bits that Dolly Parton did on interview shows and a couple of award shows. She tells jokes, and the ones about herself are the best.

#DollyParton #Parton #interviews #humor