The “Dark Ages” produced some of the brightest lights in human history.
Gothic cathedrals that still silence crowds.
Universities that shaped Western learning.
Music, philosophy, and theology that still form our moral imagination.
Maybe the age was never dark.
Maybe we just forgot how to see its light.
@imetatronink@CasaChichi I can still sing along to most of the Partridge Family songs, just as I did every Friday night so long ago. Part of the soundtrack of our lives.
Life in medieval England was harsh, ordered, and deeply structured.
From the Norman conquest to the late 15th century, most people lived lives we would barely recognise today.
No electricity.
No modern medicine.
No real freedom of movement.
Yet this was the world that built England.
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Putin brought flowers to the grave of the Soviet pilots who were buried in Alaska. This is the type of Russian and Soviet heritage preservation that he thanked the U.S. authorities for.
📜 Hold My Beer
The bomber is NOT always going to get through.
Several of them are going to end up in flaming debris on Iranian mountainsides.
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Life in Eleventh Century Britain: The Fyrd and the Housecarls: Before the Normans brought over their own version of feudalism, the Anglo-Saxons had a different way of calling up an army in need of defense. https://t.co/ltjxsHXTHX
Life in Eleventh Century Britain: The Fyrd and the Housecarls: Before the Normans brought over their own version of feudalism, the Anglo-Saxons had a different way of calling up an army in need of defense. https://t.co/cHsV1sCinN
Amazing. HHS Secretary RFK Jr. pledges that nothing will be off limits in his investigation into America's chronic disease epidemic:
"Some of the possible factors we will investigate were formerly taboo or insufficiently scrutinized.
The childhood vaccine schedule.
Electromagnetic radiation.
Glyphosate.
Other pesticides. Ultra processed foods.
Artificial food allergies.
SSRI and other psychiatric drugs.
PFOAs.
Microplastics.
Nothing is going to be off limits. Whatever belief or suspicion I have expressed in the past, I'm willing to subject them all to the scrutiny of unbiased science. That is going to be our template. That's something that will make us all proud of this agency, and of our role in restoring American health."