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[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

George Orwell’s 1984 was published today in 1949.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

[JRDC @JRDCastillo30]

Ano ang issue ng mga DDS kay Leni?
KFC

Ano ang issue ng mga DDS kay Risa?
Index cards

Ano ang issue ng mga yellow/pink kay Sara Duterte?
Corruption. Betrayal of Public Trust. Plunder.

Ano ang issue ng mga yellow/pink kay Digong ?
Crimes against humanity

Big difference

[2000s @PopCulture2000s]

cher was insane for this

[Raissa Robles @raissawriter]

I find this press conference held by lawyer Baligod and his 18 marine clients UNPRECEDENTED and AN INSULT to the Senate as an institution. First of all, only senators hold press cons inside the Senate. That a mere civilian lawyer with his clients did so with the aid of a senator!

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

In Spain, the 13-year-old daughter of a mother was kidnapped and raped by a neighbor. The attacker was sentenced to nine years in prison.

Approximately six years after serving his sentence, the attacker was released on parole and returned to the city. He encountered the mother at a bar near a bus stop.

The attacker mockingly asked her: "How is your daughter?" Enraged, she bought gasoline, returned to the bar, doused the man with it, and set him on fire.

The man suffered severe burns and died a few days later.

Although gripped by panic, she did not flee, but instead confessed what had happened to those around her and waited for the police to arrive.

She was sentenced to five years and six months in prison, but thanks to a pardon campaign and for health reasons, she was released after serving part of her sentence.

- @isaacrrr7

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The car that used to be in my garage is currently in an Earth-Mars elliptical orbit and will be there for at least 10 million years

[Jeferson Nasa @Jefersonnasa_]

Una mujer leyó un cartel casero en una ventana que decía: "Grita 'Max' y, si tienes suerte, aparecerá un ángel".

¡Y lo hizo!

[ON @Skapyon1986]

このコスプレ考えた人天才超えて盆栽

[Love Classical Music and Movies 🎺🎻💖🎥🎬 @AlexTran677026]

The Doors stated that Val Kilmer's vocal performance as Jim Morrison in the movie "The Doors" (1991) was so convincing that they could not distinguish his voice from Morrison's original.
Val Kilmer Learned 50 Songs Just to Become Jim Morrison.
The film was directed by Oliver Stone and is considered one of the most impressive rock star portrayals of the 1990s.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Napoleon did an insane amount of reading when exiled on the island of St. Helena.

He brought 588 volumes from France, and his captors sent him another 1,200 paperbacks.

What did he read? His librarian wrote:

"The Emperor was infinitely fond of reading. The Greek and Roman historians were often in his hands, especially Plutarch. He could appreciate this excellent author more than anyone else. Therefore The Lives of Illustrious Men always appeared on the shelves of his campaign libraries. He often read Rollin. The history of the middle ages, modern history, and particular histories occupied him only casually. The only religious book which he had was the Bible. He liked to read over in it the chapters which he had heard read in the ruins of the ancient cities of Syria. They painted for him the customs of those countries and the patriarchal life of the desert. It was, he said, a faithful picture of what he had seen with his own eyes. Every time that he read Homer it was with a new admiration. No one, in his view, had known what was truly beautiful and great better than this author; consequently he often took him up again and read him from the first page to the last. The drama had great charms for the Emperor. Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, often had one or two acts of their pieces read aloud. He preferred Corneille to the others, in spite of his imperfections; he always chose what was as lofty as he himself, Napoleon. Sometimes he would ask for some comedy which he had seen played, and from time to time a piece of poetry, for instance, ‘Vert-Vert’ [by Gresset]. He also took pleasure in reading some parts of Voltaire’s Essai sur les moeurs et l’esprit des nations, as well as some articles from the Dictionnaire Philosophique of the same author. Novels helped him to relax and broke the seriousness of his habitual occupations. Gil Blas, Don Quixote and a small number of others would be read by him. Those of Mesdames de Staël, Genlis, Cottin, Souza, etc. he read over sometimes, but the novels which he could not bear were those of Pigault Lebrun. He could not endure this author, although he had almost all his works; he never thought of asking for a volume of them, and would have refused one if it had been offered to him. He had nearly always under his eyes all the works relative to the military art and the campaigns of the great captains. One author, Polybius, which he had desired for a long time, he received only during his last days, when he had almost given up work. It was only by chance that he took up a scientific work; books of this sort were only occasional."

[Muse @xmuse_]

Commissioned by Tsar Alexander I around 1820 and carved from a single block of red granite weighing about 160 tons, the Tsar Bath at Babolovsky Palace near St. Petersburg is considered the largest bathtub in the world.

[cats with powerful impression 🐾 @catshealdeprsn]

An old lady who makes accessories for cats and uses her black cat as the model to sell them—this is one you just can’t help stopping for.

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

Why This 1930s Dance Still Feels Unreal Today?

This breathtaking dance performance from Lucky Star proves why Eleanor Powell is still considered one of the greatest dancers in film history.
No fast cuts.
No camera tricks.
Just raw talent, precision, and elegance that modern cinema rarely matches.
Every step, every movement, and every beat shows a level of discipline and grace that made Golden Age Hollywood unforgettable.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

In the forests of Madagascar the leaf-tailed gecko makes itself almost invisible

[Reuters @Reuters]

🐜 While most restaurant owners might want to keep ants out, one man in Thailand has built a cafe to show them off. At the Ant Keeping cafe in Bangkok, Karn Romyasai aims to reveal the vast, complex societies created by the bugs

[Himanshu Tyagi, IFS @Himanshutyg_ifs]

Crocodiles don't die of 'old age' in the traditional sense. If protected from starvation, disease, & accidents, they can easily live for over a century.

Unlike most mammals, which stop growing after adulthood, crocodiles grow throughout their lives, as long as they have sufficient food & suitable habitat.

Crocodiles are cold-blooded. They rely on external heat to regulate body temperature; their metabolism is very slow, & they can survive for months without food.

This particular crocodile, Henry, was notorious as a man-eater in the Okavango River, having killed multiple people in the early 1900s.

A hunter named Sir Henry Neumann was sent to catch and kill this problem animal. Instead, he captured the crocodile alive & transferred it to a conservation centre, & so it was named Henry.

Henry has fathered >10,000 offspring and remains reproductively active at >125 years of age.

Every species, in its own way, is extraordinary.

[Omne Europa @neolatyno]

The Welsh language has such a peculiar hissing sound, i love it. Welsh is one of very few Celtic survivors in today’s world. It is also the inspiration for Tolkien’s Sindarin Elvish language

[Love Music @khnh80044]

One of the most iconic dance scenes in film history 🕺❤️
Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates performing the legendary “Zorba’s Dance” in Zorba the Greek (1964)

[Vincent Alexander @NonsenseIsland]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, the great cartoonist and film director, best known for PERSEPOLIS. She was only 56. A great talent. She will be missed.

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

Around 1,950 years ago in Pompeii, a weaver named Successus fell in love with a barmaid named Iris.

She did not love him back.

We know this because his rival, a man named Severus, decided to humiliate him publicly. He grabbed something sharp and carved this into a wall for the whole city to read:

"Successus the weaver loves the innkeeper's slave girl named Iris. She does not care about him at all. But he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye."

Imagine walking to work and seeing that with your name on it.

Successus found it. And instead of letting it go, he carved his reply directly underneath:

"Envious one, why do you get in the way? Yield to a man who is better looking and being treated very unfairly."

Severus came back one more time to end it:

"I have spoken. I have written. You love Iris, but she does not love you."

Then, in 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted and buried the wall, the tavern, and the entire argument under 20 feet of ash. The thread was frozen mid-beef for almost two millennia until archaeologists dug it up and translated it.

We will never know who got the girl. We do not even know if any of the three survived.

Pompeii has over 11,000 of these inscriptions. Bar reviews. Bragging. Bad poetry. A bakery wall that says "Welcome, hungry people." Two guys fighting over a girl in the comments.

The technology changes. We do not.