americanina

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
~~Aristotle ~~

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1996, an Italian born diver named Cristina Zenato was on a routine dive off the coast of the Bahamas when a shark approached her. It did not attack. Instead, it circled her, revealing a fishing hook lodged deep in its mouth.

Most people would have frozen. Cristina reached out and removed the hook.
The shark, later named Foggy Eye, returned to her afterward and kept showing up at her dives. Word seemed to travel through the reef. One by one, other injured sharks began approaching her, each carrying its own hook, its own quiet request for help.

Over the next 20 years, Cristina removed nearly 300 hooks from sharks. She did this despite heavy opposition from family and friends who feared for her safety. She was never harmed.

Today she is known as the Shark Whisperer, a title earned through patience, trust, and an unshakable belief that these creatures deserve to be understood rather than feared.

Fear yields to purpose when you master your instincts.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

The average traveler has only been to 5 of these places! How many have you visited?

Eiffel Tower 🇫🇷
Great Wall of China 🇨🇳
Kremlin 🇷🇺
Leaning Tower of Pisa 🇮🇹
Louvre Museum 🇫🇷
Statue of Liberty 🇺🇸
Hoi An Vietnam 🇻🇳
Golden Temple 🇮🇳
Colosseum 🇮🇹
Times Square 🇺🇸
Forbidden City 🇨🇳
Notre-Dame 🇫🇷
Taj Mahal 🇮🇳
Machu Picchu 🇵🇪
Sagrada Familia 🇪🇸
Acropolis 🇬🇷
Buckingham Palace 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Sydney Opera 🇦🇺
Golden Gate Bridge 🇺🇸
Burj Khalifa 🇦🇪
St. Peter's Basilica🇻🇦
Pyramids of Giza 🇪🇬
Alhambra 🇪🇸
Mt. Fuji 🇯🇵
Petra 🇯🇴
Stonehenge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Grand Bazaar 🇹🇷
Niagara Falls 🇨🇦
Big Ben 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Berlin Wall 🇩🇪
Central Park 🇺🇸

[americanina @americanina]

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This bird is a Dire Straits fan and sings their songs

[Mohit Mishra @mohitmishr93531]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture—
everything he knows,
distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour
you'll watch this week.

👇 Bookmark it for later

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

A single family was so obsessed with its own glory that it built a tomb covered, floor to ceiling, in marble and precious stones. The work took so long that the family went completely extinct before it was finished...

This is the Chapel of the Princes in Florence, the mausoleum of the Medici, the dynasty that ruled the city and bankrolled the Renaissance.

It sits behind the Basilica of San Lorenzo, beneath the second-largest dome in Florence, surpassed only by Brunelleschi's. And inside, there is not a single bare surface: every wall, every column, every inch is sheathed in dark, gleaming stone.

The Medici wanted a tomb that would rival the great royal mausoleums of Europe and announce that they were not merely bankers, but rulers chosen, almost, by God.

So they did not decorate the chapel with paint. They covered it in pietre dure: precious and semi-precious stones, porphyry, jasper, lapis lazuli, coral, mother-of-pearl, cut and fitted together by hand like a vast jigsaw of jewels. The work was so difficult and so costly that the family founded an entire workshop just to produce it, the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, which still exists in Florence today.

The scale of the ambition is almost hard to believe. Construction began in 1604. Along the lower walls, craftsmen inlaid the coats of arms of sixteen Tuscan cities in glowing stone. Six grand dukes were entombed in niches of porphyry and granite. And still the work went on, decade after decade, generation after generation.

It went on so long that the Medici dynasty died out...

The last of the line, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, used part of her fortune to push the chapel toward completion, but she did not live to see it done. The floor of inlaid stone was not finished until 1962, more than three and a half centuries after the first stone was laid, and more than two hundred years after the family it was built to glorify had vanished from the earth.

The Medici built it to make themselves immortal, and it worked. The family is gone but you can still stand inside the room they built to be remembered by, surrounded on every side by their refusal to be forgotten...

[americanina @americanina]

@iqrafatma1278 Fake. Looks like the image of a receipt was generated by you. No real printed restaurant receipt looks like that.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Italian photographer Valerio Minato waited six years to capture the perfect alignment of the moon, a mountain, and a basilica

This image earned NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, recognizing Valerio Minato’s years of planning and precision.

[americanina @americanina]

@ImtiazMadmood There's a famous Ad that describes this - "Just do It".

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Children in a kindergarten in Italy napping to the sound of birds singing.

[americanina @americanina]

So was that a producer error or what? Where's the FIRE competition?#FIRE #Rizzo #final4 #Survivor50

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“We apologize, but you must remain in Space. The country that sent you no longer exists.”

Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev went to Space as a Soviet and returned to Earth as a Russian.

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

Most people enter a cathedral the wrong way. They look up, take a photo, and leave.

But these buildings were designed as a journey through light, geometry, music, and silence.

Once you learn how to walk through one, you’ll never enter a cathedral the same way again.
https://t.co/7DgqLQ014T

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

The moment you arrive in Florence and lay
eyes on the cathedral for the very first time

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Parmesan Cheese is Catholic.

The "King of Cheeses" was created to preserve milk so monks could focus on prayer.

Parmigiano Reggiano was created in the Middle Ages by Benedictine and Cistercian monks in the Po Valley of Italy.

They had an abundance of milk from their cows but needed a way to store it long-term so they could focus on prayer rather than daily farming.

They developed the massive, dry, salt-brined wheels that could last for years.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Italian director Franco Zeffirelli once said “When I feel depressed, I return to Florence and look at Brunelleschi’s dome: if the genius of man has reached such heights, I too must try to create, act, and live.”

[Earth @earthcurated]

Italy as seen from Space on a rare clear day.

[americanina @americanina]

@Azzurri Yes, but will always be rembered for missing the kick that lost Italy the 1994 world cup. Great example of how sports betting ruined sports.

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

HOLY SH*T!

Record snowfall buries buildings and towns in Russia’s Kamchatka.

I promise to never complain about 6 inches of snow in New York again.

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

Neuroscientist reveals how doomscrolling destroys your brain ‼️‼️