#NEPAL: This is incredible. 1,643 children survived because one headmaster acted fast when disaster was already on the way.
He received a warning that a village upstream had been swept away by the river. He immediately rang the school bell and moved the children and teachers to higher ground.
School buses were on the way to school, He called the bus drivers and told them: "Don't come here. Go back."
One school bus was already on its way. The headmaster saw it approaching the bridge and told the driver to turn back. The bus reached safety just before the bridge collapsed.
Then the flood hit the school. The entire three-storey school was washed away. It completely vanished. Not even a trace was left behind.
But all 1,643 children survived.
47 year old Rajendra Dadabi a teacher who became a hero when it mattered most. One man's quick thinking saved 1,643 lives.
This is the priest who died on the Titanic to hear confessions and administer last rites.
Given the opportunity to board a lifeboat on two separate occasions, Father Thomas Byles firmly declined. He chose instead to stay behind, absolving sins and consoling the doomed passengers.
Following the vessel's collision with the iceberg, he assembled the remaining crowds on the aft deck.
Those who lived through the disaster recalled him standing bravely amid the panic, listening to confessions, granting collective absolution, and reciting the Rosary right up until the ocean claimed the stern.
This is the type of story we should elevate, heroic virtue. May the Lord bless us with more holy men possessing the courage of Father Thomas Byles.
The egg that became you was made inside your mother while she was still a fetus inside your grandmother.
A female fetus builds her entire lifetime supply of eggs before she is born. By about 20 weeks she has six to seven million of them. By the day she is delivered the number has already fallen to one or two million, and it keeps falling. Around 400 will ever be released.
Which means that at one moment your grandmother was carrying your mother, and your mother was already carrying the cell that would become you. Three generations in one body at the same time, and only one of them knew about it.
Work out the date and it gets stranger. A woman born in 1976 came from an egg formed around 1946, three decades before she was born, in a body that was itself unborn.
There is a caveat worth being honest about. An egg carries half your genetic material, so the cell in your grandmother was half of you. And a few studies in mice have raised the possibility that women might make some new eggs in adulthood, though the finding is contested and nobody is rewriting the textbooks.
What is not contested is the timing. Your mother never made that egg, she was assembled around it while the egg sat waiting inside her.
There is one part that has no caveat. The mitochondria, the parts of your cells that make energy, come only from the egg. Yours were in your grandmother's body. If you have a daughter, hers were in yours, formed while you were carrying her and had no idea.
So a woman pregnant with a girl is carrying her grandchildren too, in the most literal sense the phrase allows. Every woman reading this began inside a woman she may never have met, in a body that had not yet been born itself.
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¡Qué mal pensado! Es hacer presente el nombre de ciudadanos comprometidos en la política para el bienestar ciudadano y que todos deben conocerlos para tenerlos presente en el momento que se eligirán como gobernantes
Una devoción de más de 350 años llegó al cine. ❤️🔥📹
‘Sagrado Corazón: Su Reino no tendrá fin’, una película recorre la historia de esta devoción y se pregunta por qué el mensaje del amor y la misericordia de Cristo continúa vigente.
Conoce la historia detrás de la película: https://t.co/BlmBP3leEx
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📹 Vídeo | El ejército nepalí rescata a 350 trabajadores de este tunel de la central hidroeléctrica en construcción destruida tras la gran riada de lodo https://t.co/KJFKANzTRX
La historia ya hizo este experimento; el caso de Lindsay Clancy es un calcado al de Constance Fisher.
En 1954, Constance ahogó a sus tres hijos en una tina después de afirmar que escuchaba voces y que estaba paranoica.
Fue declarada no culpable por razón de locura y fue encerrada en un hospital estatal.
La declararon mejor después de unos años y la dejaron salir del hospital estatal.
En 1966, después de tener tres hijos más, ahogó a los tres también.
¡Ciertamente una tragedia completamente evitable!
En 2023, Lindsay Clancy estrangula a Cora, Dawson y Callan con bandas de ejercicio y admite que lo hizo.
Toda la defensa es que estaba demasiado loca para ser responsable, y si el jurado lo acepta, no va a prisión, va a un hospital psiquiátrico que la revisará anualmente para su liberación.
Esta no es una historia nueva… Es la misma con nuevos nombres y una década diferente.
Si alguna vez dejan que Lindsay Clancy camine libre, recuerda a Constance Fisher.
Boat owners on Wisconsin's Lake Chippewa routinely use dozens of their boats to push a massive floating bog known as the "Forty Acre Bog" out of the way when it drifts and blocks a local bridge.
Hay una pared en Roma que destruye una idea muy extendida sobre los primeros cristianos.
En las catacumbas de San Sebastián, en Roma, apareció una inscripción que probablemente se remonta a mediados del siglo III:
«Pablo y Pedro, rogad por Víctor».
No es una inscripción medieval. No es una tradición inventada siglos después. Es un testimonio arqueológico de una comunidad cristiana de la Antigüedad pidiendo la intercesión de los apóstoles.
Y lo más interesante es que no se trata de un caso aislado. En aquella zona se encontraron numerosos grafitos dirigidos a Pedro y Pablo con peticiones como «tenednos presentes» o «rogad por nosotros».
Esto tiene una enorme importancia apologética: la comunión de los santos y la petición de su intercesión no aparecen de repente en la Edad Media.
Ya encontramos cristianos de los primeros siglos que acudían a los apóstoles y les pedían que intercedieran ante Dios.
Y hay algo precioso detrás de esas palabras.
Aquel cristiano llamado Víctor vivió hace casi 1.800 años. Su nombre quedó grabado en una pared porque alguien quiso pedir por él a Pedro y Pablo.
La fe de aquellos cristianos sigue hablando desde las piedras de Roma.
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In April 1945, during the closing days of WWII, the rare Lipizzaner horses of Austria’s historic Spanish Riding School, along with hundreds of other thoroughbreds, were trapped in Hostau, Czechoslovakia. Nazi Germany had confiscated the horses to build an experimental "Aryan" equine breed, but as the war drew to an end, the stud farm found itself stranded between the retreating German Army and the advancing Soviet Red Army. Fearing that incoming troops or starving local refugees would slaughter the priceless herd for meat, the farm's German caretakers secretly reached out to American forces to arrange a surrender and rescue.
Recognizing the immense cultural value of the 400-year-old breed, General George S. Patton, a former Olympic equestrian, authorized a high-stakes, covert rescue mission designated Operation Cowboy. He tasked a small unit from the U.S. 2nd Cavalry Group with pushing 20 miles behind enemy lines into Soviet-assigned territory to seize the farm. Given their limited manpower, the American unit took the extraordinary step of enlisting surrendered German Wehrmacht soldiers, as well as liberated Allied POWs, to secure the area and handle the animals.
When fanatical Waffen-SS units launched counterattacks to retake the installation, American GIs and Wehrmacht soldiers stood shoulder-to-shoulder, firing side-by-side to defend the farm. The joint force successfully repelled the attacks, rounded up over 1,200 horses, including 375 Lipizzaners, and safely herded and trucked them past American lines just hours before Soviet forces arrived. Operation Cowboy remains one of only two documented instances in World War II where American and German Wehrmacht soldiers fought as allies against Nazi SS troops.
To secure the surrender before the Soviets arrived, U.S. Captain Thomas Stewart had to engage in a bizarre piece of military theater. When he crossed into enemy lines to negotiate, the commanding German general refused to surrender his garrison to a lone American captain, claiming it would dishonor his men. Capt. Stewart agreed to the general’s terms: he promised to return the following day with a fleet of U.S. tanks. When Stewart rolled back into town with two light tanks and an armored task force, the German general formally surrendered with full dignity, instantly transforming his Wehrmacht troops, liberated Cossack riders, and Polish POWs into a unified defense force to herd the Lipizzaners to safety.
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