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jack of all trades. ace of none. 5.6 most days. 5.7 on a good day. grateful dead fan. unaffiliated. vote blue. guitar player.

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@wiseconnector alcholism

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@S_U_Network johnny bench, brooks robinson, frank robinson, but absolutely not pete rose. he wrecked roy fosse’s career, and cast his $ about. steroids, imo wrecked the sport. take your pick.

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@S_U_Network nope. boog powell, frank howard, rod carew, gary carter, ron swoboda, reggie jackson, roberto clemente, bobby thompson, mark grace, rhyne sandberg, thurman munson…

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@MinnieMc_ i knew he favoured fender instruments, and now know he preferred a jag. v cool.

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@afrologist gnt. rest well.

j

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Known as the "Chernobyl Three," engineers Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bespalov, and Boris Baranov risked their lives to prevent an apocalyptic catastrophe just days after the historic explosion at the nuclear power plant in 1986.

Almost as soon as firefighters started pumping water into the reactor, it began flooding a basement room directly below. The basement contained the valves that controlled the coolant liquid that normally kept the reactor stable. But as the reactor rose to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, it began to melt the protective concrete floor below.

Experts feared that if the molten nuclear material came into contact with the water, it would unleash a gigantic steam explosion that would destroy the entire power plant, level Kyiv 60 miles away, and release so much radiation into the air that most of Eastern Europe would be uninhabitable for at least 100 years.

So on April 28, 1986, Ananenko, Bespalov, and Baranov volunteered to descend into the basement, locate the valves, and drain the tank. Protected only with diving suits and respirators while armed with a single flashlight, they waded through the radioactive water in near pitch-black darkness.

It took several days of many descents for them to find the valve and turn it enough to begin the draining process, and by May 8, a full 20,000 tons of water had been pumped out, sparing millions of lives from a nuclear winter.

[Robert Irwin @RobertIrwin]

Today, November 15 is Steve Irwin Day. A day to remember our dad, the greatest Wildlife Warrior on the planet. He was one man who changed the world forever and continues to inspire the next generations.

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@wiseconnector frank zappa

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@DarkMSolvent the bitch is back

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@LakotaMan1 sending positive energy your way. endeavour to persevere. it is a good day to fight.

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@LakotaMan1 composition is fraught with difficulties. try working backwards: i would construct an introductory thesis, a similar concluding statement, then butress my thesis with at least, three paragraphs crafted from my least defense>to a thunderous one.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

This is Czech gymnast Véra Cáslavská. In 1968, she faced off against the Soviets when she signed a manifesto calling for democratic change in Czechoslovakia. When the Soviet Union invaded the country, Cáslavská was forced to flee to the countryside, losing her training facility and dashing her hopes of competing in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

However, she did not give up. She continued her training in the forests of Moravia, where she trained by using logs as balance beams, swinging from tree branches, and lifting potato sacks to increase her upper body strength. At the last minute, she was given the green light to compete in the Olympics.

"While the Soviet gymnasts were already in Mexico City, adjusting to the altitude and the climate, I was hanging from trees, practicing my floor exercise in the meadow in front of the cottage and building calluses on my hands by shoveling coal. Then I went to Mexico and won the gold medal," she told the Los Angeles Times in a 1990 interview.

In her lifetime, she won 22 international titles between 1959 and 1968. This included 11 European championships, 4 world titles, and 7 Olympic gold medals.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

200 congressional Republicans voted against replacing lead pipes, affordable and accessible broadband for all, and rebuilding crumbling roads and bridges.

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henry

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volunteers

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jefferson airplane

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cassidy

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[Lucy McBath @lucymcbath]

My father was our town’s only Black dentist, President of the Illinois NAACP, and an Army Dental Corps veteran.

Happy Veterans Day to our service members who protected this nation and continue to inspire their communities.