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Striving to live life to the fullest & with purpose. News,history/music👌 & die-hard supporter Manchester United FC, Miami HEAT & the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

[Vulcan @cravpup]

The purpose of a narrative is simply to tell the perceived audience a story. It can be written or told to educate, motivate or most commonly to entertain. Narratives can be both fact or fiction. The challenge of constructing a good narrative is to captivate the audience and 1/2

[Wayne Chen @wcchen]

RIP Stranger Cole (26 Jun 1942 - 11 Jun 2026), #Jamaican singer. songwriter born Wilburn Theodore Cole. Long career began in 1962, early days of #Ska, with hits “Rough and Tough”, “When I Call Your Name”. #Rocksteady #Reggae #Jamaica
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[World Cup 2026 @WorldCupMedia]

𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟-𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 🇲🇽 Mexico 2-0 South Africa 🇿🇦

[Track & Field Gazette @TrackGazette]

FIFTH FASTEST WOMAN IN HISTORY!!!🤯🤯

10.63 (1.9)

Adaejah Hodge (Georgia) 🇰🇾 runs 10.63s (1.9) to win 100m prelim at the NCAA Championships in Eugene.

NCAA Record & World Lead

[CBS News @CBSNews]

After 144 years of construction, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia is finally complete. The iconic basilica, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí and considered one of the most ambitious architectural projects in modern history, was shaped by Gaudí for 43 years before his death exactly 100 years ago, when he was struck by a tram while the church was still far from finished.

In the final years of his life, Gaudí lived on the construction site and devoted himself almost entirely to the project. At the time of his death, only about 10% to 15% of the basilica had been completed, leaving future generations with the monumental task of carrying out his vision. A century later, that vision has finally become reality.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

In May 1944, 23-year-old Phyllis Latour jumped out of a US bomber and parachuted into occupied Normandy, France. Her mission was to gather information about Nazi positions in preparation for D-Day. Once on the ground, she quickly buried her parachute and clothes, and began a secret mission that would last four months, pretending to be a poor teenage French girl.

Phyllis had been trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). She learned how to send secret messages in Morse code, how to fix wireless radios, and how to spy without being caught. She also went through tough physical training in the Scottish highlands. Phyllis wanted to get revenge on the Nazis who had killed her godfather.

Phyllis said, “The men who had been sent before me were caught and killed. I was chosen because I would be less suspicious.” She would ride a bicycle through the region, pretending to sell soap, and secretly pass messages to the British about German locations. She acted like a country girl chatting with German soldiers to avoid raising suspicion. She moved from place to place to stay hidden and often slept in forests finding her own food.

Phyllis also came up with a clever way to hide her secret codes. She wrote them on a piece of silk and pricked it with a pin each time she used a code. She kept it hidden inside a hair tie. Once when the Germans briefly detained her and searched her she took out the hair tie and let her hair fall, showing she had nothing to hide. In the summer of 1944, Phyllis sent 135 coded messages helping Allied bombers find German targets.

After the war, Phyllis married and moved to New Zealand. Her children didn’t know about her wartime service until 2000, when her oldest son found out online. This hero passed on October 7, 2023. May she rest In peace.

[Premier League @premierleague]

The best match from the 2025/26 season, as voted by YOU 🫵

🔴@Arsenal 2-3 @ManUtd ⚫️

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[NCAA Track & Field @NCAATrackField]

JA'KOBE THARP ARE YOU KIDDING ME 🤯 12.75

✅ NCAA RECORD
✅ WORLD RECORD

#NCAATF x 🎥 ESPN / @AuburnTFXC

[UtdTruthful @Utdtruthful]

📲 Casemiro and his wife replying to Manchester United’s ‘Thank You’ post:

“Forever a Red Devil” ❤️🥹

[sin ⁴⁴ @44britcedes]

Lewis and Fred in Monaco in GP2 in 2006 vs now in 2026!!! 😭❤️

[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

RUN IT BACK

[sim 🇧🇷🇲🇽🇸🇳🇫🇷🇭🇹 @simscircuit]

🚨| Isack Hadjar: "It's true that it's hard to imagine being on the podium with Lewis (Hamilton). Honestly when I was in karting and started F4 I saw him dominating every race, I thought that being on the podium with him one day would be impossible. I thought he'd be gone before I even got there. And he's still at the top at his age it's so impressive. And I'm so proud to be alongside him."

[via Canal+ | translation by @bonotires]

[Autosport @autosport]

Kimi and Lewis are now 1st and 2nd in the championship standings 🤝

The only drivers to have completed every lap so far this season 📈

[Autosport @autosport]

Lewis Hamilton draws level with Ayrton Senna for the most podiums at the #MonacoGP 🤝🇲🇨

[Formula 1 @F1]

ON THE PODIUM! 🙌

Lewis Hamilton secures P2 in Monaco 🤩

#F1 #MonacoGP

[VERSUS @vsrsus]

Ivory Coast are bringing AFCON to the World Cup.

[Scuderia Ferrari HP @ScuderiaFerrari]

A tight Quali in Monaco! 🇲🇨 We’ll start from the second row with Lewis

[IChooseViolence @ourhermitage]

“We gon be some famous singers”

Imagine them looking at back at this moment. 😰

[ArtDontSleep @ArtDontSleep]

Celia Cruz performing "Guantanamera" at a sound check in Kinshasa. Featuring Johnny Pacheco on flute.

Live at Zaire '74, the festival staged alongside the Rumble in the Jungle.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

June 5, 1944. 3:30am.

Eisenhower woke to howling wind and hard rain. At 4:15am, in a water-soaked tent, his meteorologist James Stagg told him: there's a 24-hour break in the storm coming. One window. Miss it, and the next date is June 19.

He had 5,000 ships and 160,000 men already moving toward France.

He said: "OK. Let's go."

That evening at 8:30pm, he drove to Greenham Common to stand among the paratroopers of the 101st Airborne. He had just been privately briefed they could expect 80% casualties. He didn't show it. He walked through the crowd, shaking hands, asking names, asking where men were from.

One soldier, Lt. Wallace Strobel, said Michigan.

Eisenhower smiled. "Oh, Michigan. I used to fish there. Great fishing in Michigan."

Witnesses said his eyes were wet when he got back in the car.

That night, alone, he wrote four sentences and stuffed the paper in his pocket:

"Our landings have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."

He misdated it "July 5." His mind was somewhere else.

Meanwhile, across the Channel, Field Marshal Rommel was in his staff car rolling through Germany toward home. His wife Lucie was turning 50 tomorrow. He had brought her a pair of shoes from Paris.

The Germans had no Atlantic weather stations. Their meteorologists had told high command: no invasion is possible in this weather. Rommel genuinely believed they had weeks.

The paratroopers jumped at midnight.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Rasmus Hojlund has joined Napoli on a permanent transfer.

Everyone at the club would like to wish Rasmus all the very best for the future ✊