In 1901, divers pulled a lump of corroded bronze out of a two thousand year old shipwreck. It took the next century to understand what it was, and the answer broke the timeline of human history.
It's called the Antikythera Mechanism, and it is the oldest known computer on earth.
It was built by the ancient Greeks, around 100 BC, and it should not exist. Nothing else of its sophistication would appear anywhere in the world for more than a thousand years after it...
It was found by sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera, in the wreck of a trading ship that had sunk in the first century BC, surrounded by bronze statues and pottery.
The corroded fragments looked like nothing at first, and sat largely ignored in a museum in Athens. Only over the following decades, and especially with modern X-ray and CT scanning in our own century, did researchers finally see inside it.
What they found was a machine. Behind its bronze face was a system of at least thirty interlocking precision gears, cut and arranged with a sophistication that would not be matched until the geared astronomical clocks of medieval Europe, well over a thousand years later.
It was, in the words of the team that studied it, a mechanical computer that worked by turning astronomical theory into bronze...
And it did extraordinary things. You turned a hand crank on the side, and the mechanism calculated the positions of the sun, the moon, and the five planets the Greeks knew. It tracked the phases of the moon. It predicted solar and lunar eclipses years in advance. It even displayed the four-year cycle of the ancient Olympic Games. A person standing in the ancient world could set this device to a date and watch the heavens be calculated in front of them, by gears, by hand.
Roughly a third of the original survives, in 82 corroded fragments. We still do not know who designed it, or how a civilization without anything resembling industrial machinery achieved this level of precision engineering. What is certain is that it was not a one-off accident. A device this refined implies a tradition behind it, generations of knowledge and earlier attempts that have been lost completely.
The Antikythera Mechanism is proof of how much the ancient world knew, and how much of what human beings have achieved has simply vanished without a trace, leaving us to stumble on a single piece of it at the bottom of the sea...
OMG… Christopher Macchio just sung Nessun Dorma and said at the end— “NO ONE SLEEPS”
Drop a 🐸 if you know
Nessun Dorma is played at the end of the film The Sum of All Fears, in which time ALL the traitors & Deep State Actors were executed
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HUGE 🔥 — In a major win for Trump's policies, Apple will make 19 billion chips in the US, buy only US-produced rare-earth magnets, and use Kentucky-made cover glass for every new iPhone and Apple Watch worldwide. Trump nods in approval: "I did that."
Africa is building a wall... Made of trees.
8,000 km of green defiance stretching from Senegal to Djibouti: it’s called the Great Green Wall - a plan to stop the Sahara desert, restore dead land, and lift 100 million people.
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You can plant a lemon seed and grow a tree that produces lemons.
If lemons were a hybrid like mules (horse/donkey) or boysenberries (raspberry/blackberry) the seed inside would refer back to the original.
👉Only God can create the seeds.
Jeremiah Johnston reveals the Shroud of Turin as Jesus' resurrection cloth: "34 billion watts of energy traveling at 1/40 of a billionth of a second" created the image with no paint, dye, or brush marks.
Top scientists from Los Alamos, Sandia, and ENEA labs, including weapons and rocket experts, confirmed it after years of study. Physicist Paolo Di Lazzaro replicated a tiny version only with an ultra precise laser burst of cold energy.
This matches biblical accounts of Jesus manifesting as brilliant light at the Transfiguration, to Paul brighter than the noonday sun, and in the empty tomb where John saw the linen cloths and believed.
The shroud isn't a death cloth. It's the signature of the resurrection moment, leaving what Johnston calls "Jesus' selfie." Watch the full discussion for the science, history, and scripture that make this one of the most compelling pieces of evidence for the Christian faith.
This theory challenges everything we thought we knew about the burial cloth.
The most controversial artifact on Earth isn’t locked in a vault. It’s on public display at Oxford University right now. 👀
It’s the Weld-Blundell Prism - a 4,000-year-old clay tablet holding the Sumerian King List. Ancient Babylonian scribes carved a royal bloodline that begins when the Anunnaki kingship “descended from heaven.”Found in the ruins of Larsa which is modern Iraq. Currently sitting in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.The numbers will break your brain:Baked around 1800 BC.
It lists 8 Anunnaki kings who ruled for a combined 241,200 years.Then comes the line that changes everything:“Then the Flood swept over.”
Before the Flood? God-kings living tens of thousands of years with cosmic precision.
After the Flood? The lifespans suddenly crash into normal human biology.Same clay. Same handwriting. Same scribes.
Yet mainstream historians say:
“Top half = pure myth.
Bottom half = real history.”
C'mon… how does one document flip from fantasy to flawless accuracy halfway through without skipping a beat?
This isn’t just a king list. It’s the oldest surviving record of an Anunnaki genetic reset...
#Anunnaki #Sumerian #WeldBlundellPrism #AncientHistory
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.
Pete Hegseth is so KIND.
When a Vietnam war hero visited the White House, SECWAR Pete made sure to visit with him and made him feel as important as he is.
He played a soldier who lost both legs.
The role earned him an Oscar nomination.
Then real wounded veterans started calling him “Lieutenant Dan.”
It changed his life forever.
After portraying Lt. Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump (1994), Gary Sinise became one of Hollywood’s most recognizable actors.
But after 9/11, something shifted.
As thousands of Americans returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with life-changing injuries, Sinise began visiting military hospitals.
The veterans didn’t see a movie star.
They saw someone who understood, even if only through a role.
So he kept showing up.
In 2003, he formed the Lt. Dan Band, performing free concerts for troops, veterans, and military families around the world.
Then, in 2011, he launched the Gary Sinise Foundation.
While still starring on CSI: NY, he spent his days filming and his nights raising money, visiting hospitals, and supporting military families.
Eventually, the mission became his full-time work.
One program became the heart of it all:
R.I.S.E. (Restoring Independence Supporting Empowerment).
The goal wasn’t simply to thank wounded veterans.
It was to give them their independence back.
The foundation builds specially adapted, mortgage-free smart homes for America’s most severely wounded veterans.
Wider doorways.
Roll-in showers.
Accessible kitchens.
Voice-activated technology.
Homes designed for people whose lives were permanently changed in combat.
Each one is given to the veteran free of charge.
Since its founding, the Gary Sinise Foundation has delivered more than 100 of these custom-built homes while also providing mobility equipment, mental health support, emergency relief, and millions of meals to service members, veterans, first responders, and their families.
Sinise once said:
“We can never do enough for our nation’s defenders, but we can always do a little more.”
He could have spent the last two decades chasing bigger movie roles.
Instead, he chose hospital hallways over red carpets.
A character he played for two hours became a mission he has lived for more than twenty years.
Sometimes the greatest role a person ever plays…
isn’t on a screen.
It’s in real life.
The guy who created Fortnite (Tim Sweeney) has been quietly buying up U.S. forests to save them from developers.
He has spent over $200M to buy 50,000+ acres of wilderness in North Carolina, using permanent legal protections to block any future logging or building.
Our raw/unedited video of the last 2:30 of the fireworks last night from the roof of Kennedy Center.
Check out the lightning strike at the 12 second mark.
Then skip to the last 30 seconds where you felt the concussions in your chest and the building was actually shaking.
Frickin' awesome!
Barack and Michelle Obama, please shut your mouths and go away.
Are you kidding me? Y’all are crying about slavery, racism, and George Washington owning slaves right before America’s 250th birthday. Give me a break.
Y’all should be praising America for all the opportunities this country gave you instead of always trying to divide Black and white people and make everyone hate this country.
This is exactly why I put George Washington on my Cousin T’s America 250 Pancake Box. His legacy is much bigger than owning slaves. He fought for independence and helped create the greatest country in the world.
I love America, and I’m proud to celebrate it.
If you would like to order a box, the link is in the comments. We also have gluten-free mixes, syrup, jams, jellies, and more.
🚨🇺🇸 BEAUTIFUL MOMENT FOR AMERICA 250
U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Diakaria Sangre received his American citizenship at Mount Vernon on the Fourth of July, the perfect day to officially join the greatest nation on Earth. (THE RIGHT WAY)
From serving in the Marines to becoming a full citizen on our 250th birthday… this is what the American dream looks like.
Welcome to the team, Sergeant. We’re proud and honored to have you. 🙏
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