Samir Haque

Electrical Engineer, Computer Scientist. AI, Infrastructure and Aviation expert, Violinist (practice please) and GSD lover

[Samir Haque @SamirHaque99]

St Francis taught us how to live our lives. I try and often fail but will keep trying. I need you to do this as well.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In case you don't know his name, Ryan Chen (陈睿), often referred to online as "Chinese Trump", is a 42-year-old Chinese businessman and social media personality from Chongqing who went viral for his uncanny impersonations of Donald Trump.

[🔊 trumpbyryan]

[Wick 🥃 @imUrB00gieman]

Yellowstone officials start dressing bison like mormon missionaries in effort to deter people from approaching the animals… 🦬😝😝😝😎

[Samir Haque @SamirHaque99]

@TheBabylonBee What if Iran posts Gandalf? You shall not pass!

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

Just another Russian retriever

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

In 1880s, an entire town made it illegal to sell ice cream sodas on Sundays. So drugstore owners found a loophole, and accidentally invented one of the most popular desserts in the world.

The town of Evanston, Illinois passed a “blue law” banning the sale of sodas on the Sabbath, since church leaders considered them too frivolous for a holy day. Soda fountain owners had a problem: customers still wanted something sweet after church. Their solution was simple. They served the ice cream with syrup poured on top, but left out the soda water entirely, technically staying within the letter of the law while completely ignoring its spirit.

A nearly identical story is told 200 miles away in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, where a soda fountain owner named Ed Berners is said to have done the exact same thing that same decade, purely because it was Sunday and sodas weren’t for sale that day. He liked the result so much he kept selling it, first only on Sundays, then every day of the week.

Either way, the name followed the same logic. The treat was called a “Sunday” at first, until local church leaders objected to a dessert being named after a holy day. So the spelling was quietly changed to “sundae” instead, close enough to keep the joke, safe enough to keep the peace.

Thus, an ice cream Sundae drenched in hot fudge and toppings was born...

© Eats History

#archaeohistories

[Aviation @xAviation]

Vought F-4U Corsair, idling while unfolding wingspan!

📹: aviationphotoshoots

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

😂😂😂

[ChairmanOohMowMow @ooh_mow]

“My client was on his way to the library when he was viciously attacked by this white man.”
-F. Lee Bison: Attorney for Adonis Montclair Buffalo

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

A map you didn’t know you needed

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How can’t you love this 5-yr old warrior..

This little guy has progressive cerebellar atrophy and is physically handicapped.

He finally took independent steps.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Proud giraffe parents welcome their new baby to the world

[BuffaloRon @BuffaloRon]

I will not be taking anymore questions...

what happened happened.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima.

Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes.

Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse.

No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed.

So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history.

When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive.

The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy.

At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong.

They convicted him anyway.

For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy.

Case closed. For fifty years.

Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project.

He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay.

A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001.

The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader.

Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.

[Samir Haque @SamirHaque99]

@Keevaro7997 @AllegedlyDrew Hope to see you you at the next Cars and Coffee!

[I❤️Nostalgia '𝕏' @Ilovenostalgia]

Did you watch the Banana Splits?

[Tyler Ratcliff @TylerRatcliff17]

Poor little guy is gonna be hooked for the rest of his life after this shot, and when he’s 80 he’ll realize this would be the best shot of his life🤣🤣