Joe Harper

Florida Real Estate Investor and Appraiser. Offspring of Virginia and her political heritage. @Longwoodu University '92

[Joe Harper @BartowCapital]

@Moses0507 @us_poll @mountain075 @MelvinsTweets @Parker9_

[Richard Nixon Foundation @nixonfoundation]

The only Republican to appear on a national presidential ticket five times.

[Joe Harper @BartowCapital]

@BehizyTweets @KylieJaneKremer Yes yes. Your diety spared Trump but killed a retired firefighter and father. 👌

[Joe Harper @BartowCapital]

@NavyEMC @NagelNilson @JohnCleese His grandfather was literally deported back to Germany for illegal schemes out west. And changed his name from Drumpf to Trump. It’s literally common knowledge that the German immigrant Drumpf changed the family name. And he went back to Germany to find a bride.

[Joe Harper @BartowCapital]

@ramit Ramsey is being sued by former employees for so many reasons. Discrimination. Hostile work environment. Sex harassment.

https://t.co/2wZ3RjrViF

[Vince @ginandconflict]

@SarHandicrapper @zerohedge We're just conscripting presidential candidates now

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

TL/DR: the Fed will cut rates with stocks and home prices the highest they have ever been.

You will never guess what happens next...

[Joe Harper @BartowCapital]

@AlextheMiller @GrantCardone @Scaramucci And $2.8 billion AUM.

[Joe Harper @BartowCapital]

@AlextheMiller @GrantCardone @Scaramucci If you think a JD from Harvard in 1989 makes him dumb.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

RNC Chair Lara Trump says Kamala Harris had no qualifications to be VP but was chosen because she’s a woman, and she would never want to accept any position herself unless she got it strictly on merit.

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

This has to be one of the largest sea surface temperature jumps in geological history—definitely the largest increase that this civilization has ever witnessed. The #AMOC may have already crossed its tipping point; nobody knows for certain. #Mitigation is urgent.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In the Wizard of Oz, the shot of Dorothy walking towards and opening the door was filmed in color on a set painted sepia toned and the Dorothy stand in wearing sepia clothes and make up.

After she opens the door she moves out of frame and Judy Garland wearing the regular Dorothy clothes moves into frame.

The use of Technicolor, a color film technology, allowed the filmmakers to create the vibrant and colorful world of Oz. The transition from black and white to color was a groundbreaking visual effect at the time and added to the magical experience of the film.

[Longwood Lancers @LongwoodLancers]

It may be the end of the journey, but what a journey it was for @LongwoodMBB.

https://t.co/kvw3p4961N

[Joe Harper @BartowCapital]

@peterdiseth Stopped by to say I spotted you in Maggie Moore(s).

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

Go on, give these a whirl.

Webb just released highly detailed images of 19 spiral galaxies! These observations add new near and mid-infrared puzzle pieces to the PHANGS program, a worldwide astronomy project: https://t.co/TBNbkzUJ7p

[G҉O҉J҉O҉_ @lil_mike_ke]

@MatthewSugiarto @InternetH0F

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Some facts about history that might surprise you:

1. Ancient people knew the earth was round. Over 2,000 years ago an astronomer called Eratosthenes even calculated its circumference to within 1% of the real figure... using a stick.

2. "Ancient Greece" was not a country. It was a group of culturally Greek city states with political, religious, and economic links spread all around modern-day Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Italy, France, Ukraine, and further afield. An "Ancient Greek" could have been from any of those places.

3. The lives of Medieval people weren't quite as miserable as we sometimes think. Life expectancy figures are skewed by infant mortality. If you made it to your twenties then there was nothing unusual about reaching the age of 60 or even 70 — except during times of plague, of course.

4. Ancient Greek statues weren't originally pure white marble — they painted their statues in bright colours. To the Ancient Greeks a plain marble statue like Michelangelo's David would look unfinished.

5. Same for the Middle Ages. The sculptures on Medieval cathedrals were once painted (like at Amiens, in the image). Our impression of the Middle Ages as a drab and grayscale world would be unrecognisable to somebody who lived at the time — in fact, it's arguable that Medieval people loved colourful design much more than we do.

6. There isn't any evidence that Vikings wore horned helmets. Although some have been discovered, they pre-date the Vikings by more than 1,500 years and seem to be from the Bronze Age in Scandinavia.

7. Not everybody in the past was devoutly religious — there is evidence of atheism, or at least religious skepticism, going back millennia. The Pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus once wrote:

"This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man."

And Xenophanes of Colophon, who lived in the 5th century, famously pointed out the irony that people all around the world always thought their gods looked like them. While the Epicurean poet and philosopher Lucretius, writing in the 1st century BC, even said:

"So potent was Religion in persuading to do wrong."

8. The Western Roman Empire never exactly "fell". The last emperor was deposed in 476 AD, but the Senate continued meeting for another two centuries and the administrative apparatus of the Roman state also survived for a long time afterwards. It was more of a gradual fading of what had once been the empire than a sudden collapse and disappearance.

9. People talk about the Renaissance like everybody in the Middle Ages knew nothing about Ancient Greece and Rome, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Throughout the Middle Ages people were very familiar with Aristotle, Ovid, Plato, Virgil, Boethius, and many more. The only reason the Renaissance was possible is because Charlemagne had his scribes scrupulously copy out surviving ancient books (during the Dark Ages!) and also thanks to the translations of Islamic scholars. The Renaissance was more of a change of mindset than the rediscovery of a lost past.

10. People in the past certainly didn't travel as much as we do now — there weren't cars, trains, or aeroplanes. But they did travel more than we might think. The Chinese admiral Zheng He sailed all around south east Asia, the Middle East, and east Africa. Then there's Ibn Battuta, a scholar from modern-day Morocco, who travelled more than 100,000 kilometres through 44 different modern countries.

But it wasn't only explorers. People also travelled for work, whether the Italian painter Gentile Bellini going to Istanbul or the composer Guillaume du Fay, who worked literally all around Europe. Leonardo da Vinci even left Italy to work in France!

11. There were global conflicts before the 20th century. The Nine Years' War (1688-1697) took place on four different continents, and the Seven Years' War (1754-1763) was spread over five continents. And, in terms of scale, the second-bloodiest conflict in history (after WWII) took place in 17th century China.

12. The story of Noah's Ark predates the Bible — the "Flood Myth" originated in Ancient Mesopotamia. The Sumerians even told a story about a wise man called Atrahasis who was warned by the god Enki about a deluge intended to destroy humanity, and advised him to build a boat in order to save himself, his family, and the animals.

What are some other surprising facts about history?

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Aaron Rodgers lasted 1/1584th of a Scaramucci.

[Vanessa @VanessaChaseOG]

Holly Springs Sacred Harp Singers- “Morning Prayer Number 411”

[Joe Harper @BartowCapital]

@VanessaChaseOG Powerful. Reminds me of Cree music. What’s this type of music called? Is it unique to a denomination or region? I’m fascinated.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Trump is going to have his bail revoked.