The Trevi Fountain is a symphony in stone.
But there's a lot more than meets the eye — have you ever wondered what's behind it?
Its hidden details hold the key Rome's power and prosperity... (thread) 🧵
It sounds like a boring topic, but concrete is one of the most revolutionary inventions in history.
For example, concrete now weighs more than everything else humans have ever made combined.
So here's the story of how it has changed the world, for better and for worse...
Two years ago, the average cost of a house in this country was $215,000. Today it’s $400,000. Our kids don't have a chance to own a home. I’m going to change that.
Did you know JFK was about to force AIPAC to register as a foreign agent in 1963?
And then, that November, right as it was about to happen he magically got pew pewd
and to this day AIPAC openly brags about how it buys our politicians on behalf of Israel because that’s “good for democracy”
Love this guy!!!
He just discovered RFK Jr's Housing Plan and posted this video.
Scream it loud my friend and welcome to the movement.
@RobertKennedyJr#Kennedy24
The Tower of Babel is one of the most famous stories in the Bible — despite being only 235 words long.
It has inspired plenty of art and endless speculation down the centuries: what might it have looked like? was it based on a real building?
Here are some potential answers...
These are eight slightly different versions of The Great Wave Off Kanagawa from eight different museums.
So which is the real one? That's the thing — they're all the real one.
Here's a brief history of art's most famous wave...
Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”