Dúnadan

[We don't deserve cats 😺 @catsareblessing]

thanks for saving kitty's life... ♥️

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

Something I admire so deeply about cats is their natural bearing. They possess an inherent dignity that is impossible to ignore, even in cases where a cat is suffering or has suffered terribly in the past. This cat is a prime example of that. Carlos, I salute you.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Twenty five years ago today, a 62 year old man with cancer in his bones walked 2,687 people out of the South Tower, and then he went back inside.

Rick Rescorla was born in Hayle, Cornwall in 1939. British Parachute Regiment in Cyprus at 18. Colonial police in Northern Rhodesia. Then he came to America, enlisted in the US Army in 1963, and in November 1965 he went into the Ia Drang Valley as a platoon leader with the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry.

Hal Moore called him the best platoon leader he ever saw. His men called him Hard Core. He sang to them in the dark, Wild Colonial Boy in an Australian accent, because he had worked out that men who are singing are not men who are panicking. That is Rescorla on the cover of We Were Soldiers Once and Young, bayonet fixed.

Thirty five years later he was head of security for Dean Witter, later Morgan Stanley, in the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

In 1990 he brought in his old friend Dan Hill and the two of them walked the basement. He warned the Port Authority that the parking garage was wide open, that somebody could drive in a truck full of explosives, walk out and light it off. Nothing was done. Three years later the 1993 bomb went off about thirty feet from the spot he had flagged.

After that he told Morgan Stanley the towers were still a target and the next attack would come out of the sky. He wanted the firm to leave Manhattan. The lease ran to 2006, so they stayed. Twenty two floors of the South Tower, roughly 2,700 people.

So he drilled them. Every three months, everyone, no exceptions, down the stairwells two abreast while he stood there with a stopwatch. Traders pulling seven figures resented being marched down concrete stairs by a Cornishman with a clipboard. He kept doing it anyway.

8:46 a.m. The North Tower is hit. Port Authority comes over the South Tower loudspeakers and tells everyone the building is secure and to go back to their desks. Rescorla picks up a bullhorn and tells his people to get out.

He phones Dan Hill. "The dumb sons of bitches told me not to evacuate. They said it's just Building One. I told them I'm getting my people out of here."

9:03 a.m. The second plane hits the South Tower, floors 77 through 85. His people are already in the stairwells, moving exactly the way they had been drilled, and Rescorla is on the bullhorn singing to them. Cornish songs. A version of Men of Harlech he had rewritten for Cornwall. Men of Cornwall stop your dreaming, can't you see their spearpoints gleaming.

He called his wife Susan from the stairs. They had been married two and a half years, met jogging in New Jersey. He told her to stop crying, that he had to get these people out safely, and that if something happened to him he wanted her to know he had never been happier, that she made his life.

Someone told him to get out. He said, as soon as I make sure everyone else is out.

2,687 Morgan Stanley employees went home that day. Thirteen did not, and four of those were Rescorla and the men who stayed in the building with him: Wesley Mercer, Jorge Velazquez, Godwin Forde.

He was last seen on the 10th floor, walking up.

The South Tower fell at 9:59. They never found him.

[The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @LorenzoTheCat]

On this eve of 9/11, a reminder that some of the heroes of that tragedy had four legs.

[Simon Hintermann @Aurumek_]

"Cinnabar Red", 24x17.6cm, Watercolor and Pencil

[Saleh @Saleh0Art]

- A Manor House with a Bridge
- Willem Antonie van Deventer (1824–1893) 🇳🇱

[Aristocratic Fury @LandsknechtPike]

I served in a regiment of Imperial cuirassiers under the command of Don Baltasar de Marradas.

[Aristocratic Fury @LandsknechtPike]

Slovenia has so many picturesque places.

This settlement received city rights in 13th century and was an important trading post for around a century and a half.

It was built on an artificial river island made by digging a canal across a meander.

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

Soviet space dog Strelka nursing her puppies after safely returning from her orbital space mission aboard Sputnik 5 in 1960

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) was marketed like a scandalous Cruise and Kidman sex thriller, then gave audiences a strange, dreamlike odyssey about jealousy, fantasy and marriage.

[retrocvnt @retrocvnty]

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

[ADONIS @adonispara]

It will never not be funny to me that when Napoleon got stripped of his empire and exiled to Elba he responded by paving the roads, draining marshes, rebuilding the iron mines & ordered every house to install a toilet in just 2 months. "energy is a choice" he said.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Bruce Campbell says he has approximately 5 years to live following his diagnosis with a “treatable” but “not curable” cancer.

“The current thing is a 5-year deal.”

(via @TheAdamCarollaShow)

[La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas]

1 año en 100 viñetas
4- Hergé: 1943/1965

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

Someone must be chopping onions or something because I’m getting all misty up in here.

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

In a Daily Telegraph interview, actress Kirsten Dunst is asked what her ethnicity is.

“Aryan,” she replies without a thought. “Like a Swedish milkmaid.”

[犬 @not__dog__]

“I trust only my sword in this world.”