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On the 3rd of October 1526, a clerk at the Arsenal of Venice wrote out a receipt.
296 ducats for 185 arquebus barrels. Paid to a gun-barrel maker in a valley above Brescia, one Bartolomeo Beretta.
That scrap of paper is still in the Venetian archives. Last Saturday, five hundred years to the day, the company it started turned 500.
Most family firms don't survive the third generation. Beretta is on the fifteenth, and the sixteenth is already at work. Today, the company is run by Pietro and Franco Gussalli Beretta. Same surname. Same valley. And they still make the guns where Bartolomeo lit the forge.
Think about what that receipt, and the company, has outlived: The Republic of Venice. The Spanish Empire. Napoleon. The British Empire. Two world wars. The Soviet Union.
No other industrial family, they say, has run a business for five centuries without a break.
And this year, some limited-edition anniversary guns are numbered 1,526, the year on the receipt.
What it boils down to is this: a man took an order, did the work, and taught his son. Then his son did the same. Fifteen times.
Now that's a family legacy!
To the Berettas 🥂
This has to be the video of the year. Bally Bagayoko who is the mayor of French city Saint-Denis shouts at police to “Stop!” and protects the student protesters.
I have just completed what I believe to be the most comprehensive evaluation of Charlotte NC arrest records in history.
This project has taken me 3 months to complete, combing through over 50,000+ arrest records and mugshots.
I've found what appears to be massive fraud.
Thousands of Hispanics have been labelled as "WHITE CAUCASIAN" in the arrest records... THOUSANDS.
In fact, I found over 500 cases where Hispanics who were arrested more than once... had their "Ethnicity" CHANGED from "Hispanic" to "Caucasian" from one arrest to another.
Horrifyingly, I found HUNDREDS of these "White Caucasians" were actually ILLEGAL ALIENS from foreign countries with ICE detainers.
Perhaps most disturbing...
Many of the illegal aliens who were labelled as "WHITE CAUCASIAN" had already been released back into the public, DESPITE the ICE detainer requesting they stay in prison.
We have a serious problem.
FRANCE: A church was vandalized and desecrated by North African Muslim students and their white French girlfriends and friends.
All while singing rap songs praising Islamic terrorists like Salah Abdeslam, who carried out the Bataclan attack.
“No one but Allah can stop us.”
This shows how even the native European youth seem to be increasingly immersed in and influenced by a foreign Islamic culture brought in through unchecked immigration.
Sad to see.
@Dred_Tory James, I was there for that so incident with PPCLIs at the farm. I, and many others wanted DBFS for those two pilots.
I'm not the one out fabricating entire major event timelines and contexts due to elbows up personality disorder though.
BREAKING: France conducted the first test launch of its new M51.3 nuclear-capable ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine, the defense ministry said.
"We are 15 Black women researcher-subjects...We examined a series of multigenerational sista circles and individual journal entries..."
If you do mesearch, have the right identity, and write about whatever the progressive left is obsessed with at the moment, you can become president of the American Psychological Association. These fields find ways to reward good political soldiers because what matters most is the ideology, not the integrity of the discipline, the seriousness of the science, or the public trust in how you steward your institutions.
You might think this is just another cherry picked data point. But ask yourself: How many psychologists must have been involved in rewarding and platforming this person over the years? What must the institutions be like to have declared this person fit to lead the APA? How many APA members are embarrassed by this? How many think this is not serious work but would never say so? It's not just a field that doesn't want to reform, they literally cannot.