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@ayanakajima3 Excellent, thank you for doing this.

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@lpgeekbrasil LOL. Togashi, just write light novels, dude.

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@ThrillerAnime Overgeared, an awesome Korean webtoon

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@sandman_AP No shit, it's the illustrating that fucked up his back and health.

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@ayanakajima3 Thank you, sensei

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Four musket balls tore through George Washington's coat at the Battle of Monongahela. Two horses were shot dead beneath him. He rode back and forth across the worst of the fighting rallying broken men, and when the smoke cleared he did not have a single scratch on him. An Indian chief later said he ordered his men to fire at Washington again and again, then stopped, certain the Great Spirit was shielding him.

He was 23 years old. He wrote to his brother a few days later, almost puzzled by it, and said he had been protected beyond all human expectation by the miraculous care of Providence.

And here is the part people forget. That was not the one time. That was the pattern.

At Princeton he rode his horse to within thirty yards of the British line and told his men to hold as the muskets opened up. An officer who was there covered his eyes because he was sure he was about to watch the general die. When he looked again Washington was still sitting tall in the saddle, waving his hat, completely unharmed. For eight years of war he stood where the fighting was heaviest and the bullets simply refused to find him. His enemies started to talk about it. His own soldiers started to believe it.

He was not being reckless. He just never seemed to believe it was his time.

This is the thread that runs through nearly every great man in history. They lived like the date had already been written and no enemy on earth could move it up by a single hour.

Caesar stood on the bank of the Rubicon, looked at everything he was about to risk, and said the die is already cast. Then he walked into it.

Cromwell rode into battle after battle convinced the outcome had been settled long before either army woke up that morning, and he fought like a man who had nothing left to fear because the ending was not his to decide.

Andrew Jackson stood on the Capitol steps while a man walked up and pulled a pistol on him at point blank range. It misfired. The man drew a second pistol. That one misfired too. The odds of both failing were so small that people argued about it for years. Jackson just raised his cane and went after the man himself.

Stonewall Jackson would ride calmly through a storm of gunfire while everyone around him flinched, and when someone finally asked how he stayed so steady he said it plainly. My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has already fixed the time of my death, so I do not trouble myself about it. I am always ready, no matter when it comes.

That was the whole secret. Not that they loved danger. Not that they did not feel fear. They simply believed their steps were already numbered by a hand higher than any king, and a man who truly believes that walks through fire like it is a hallway.

You cannot kill a man before his work is done.

And when you line their lives up side by side, the escapes, the misfires, the bullets that passed through the coat but never the man, it gets very hard to call all of it luck.

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@zeonicscans The trick for any crossover is the characters have to look normal standing next to each other.

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@TheCriticalDri2 It's very good. And I hate woke bullshit. The forced dei transgender pirate is killed in the first episode. It was awkward watching "they"

[corleone @corleoneYC]

''Se um homem perfeitamente moral entrasse nesse mundo, ele seria humilhado e empalado''

- Platão 400 anos antes de Cristo.

[MAGA Jay Cutler @MAGAJayCutler]

“My land is an ocean away.”
“See, that is the difference between us.”

Young Washington

[PsyopAnime @PsyopAnime]

who says America has no culture?

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@CHamilton10315 I read the first book, it was very good Barsoom pastiche.

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@robertliefeld Whatever Sony executive brokered the Spider-Man deal is a genius. It was not looking good during the Marvel Phase One and Two era for Sony but they've been cooking since Homecoming with the actual Spiderman movies. Spinoffs, not so much.

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@robertliefeld @JimLee Daemonite but Acuran host

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@robertliefeld @JimLee I could have swore Helspont's first host was said to be an Acuran to connect your books. I always figured that was you two connecting your worlds. Never doubted the Acurans were your creation. Similar to how Chapel killed Al Simmons.

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@politicalawake Please mobilize the police, fire department, and the military to place a guard at every shrine 24/7 to stop these bastards.

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@gamu0514 Thank you, gamu-san. May your own country stay independent from outside influence. It's one of the two greatest nations in the world.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[Marshal Bohemond ⚔️⛨ | Space Crusader Vtuber @HMBohemond]

The greatest empire on Earth just turned 250 years old! Happy Birthday, America! Here's to 250 more!