What a disgrace & embarrassment.
The President of the United States of America was able to get more Nazis to attend his fair than families & patriots.
Trump’s former Secretary of Defense James Mattis:
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us.” (2020)
Not true. In their list of grievances, the Founding Fathers complained that King George III was blocking colonial laws that would promote immigration and make it easier for foreign settlers to become citizens.
A polar bear walks in the Canadian Arctic as a rainbow stretches across the horizon behind it. During the brief summer season, parts of the landscape bloom with fireweed.
[📹 Martin Gregus Jr]
Imagine not being able to stop attacking other Americans for even one day to celebrate America’s 250th
The worst president in American history. By far.
@Joshstrangehill Uncanny seeing you pop up today as we were talking about Futurama only last night backstage waiting to walk on for the last set of the tour. One of the band came over all Zoidberg, and me saying how much I must watch it all again.
Just brilliant :-)
Meet the White-lined Dirona (Dirona albolineata), a stunning, translucent sea slug that looks like a sculpture carved from ice.
Native to the Eastern Pacific Ocean, these ethereal creatures are famous for their leaf-like cerata trimmed with frosty white lines.
[📹 morghoffadventures]
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...
On this day in 1886, Tom Longboat was born.
One of the greatest marathon runners in Canadian history, he won the Boston Marathon and served as a dispatch runner during the First World War.
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Fox News obviously has to do their thing, but that doesn’t mean we have to fall for it.
Mamdani gave an extremely patriotic speech, and I’d urge everyone tempted to tweet something nasty based on the below to just watch the whole thing first.
Happy 250th to all (even Fox)
I was in the room.
Canada paid for the bridge.
Respectfully, sir, history doesn’t become fiction just because you say it on television.
Please stop. Sir.