Elke ܬ̇ܝܳܕ̣ܽܘܪܰܗ Speliopoulos ♱ 📿

Unapologetic child of God, 🇩🇪 in 🇺🇸, Syriac Orthodox, married to Greek Orthodox husband, PhD, MDiv, MAR

[Wynne @wynneflh]

In 1942, a drunk German officer sat at dinner and bragged about the Jewish woman he had selected from the brothel the Nazis had forced open in town. He said her name out loud. The Tunisian Arab sitting across from him stayed calm, smiled, poured more wine, and finished the meal. Then he drove the officer home, sped through the dark streets, and knocked on a door close to midnight. That night, he hid 25 people for four months. He never spoke about it again.
His name was Khaled Abdul-Wahab. He was 31 years old, a wealthy Muslim Tunisian who had studied art and architecture in New York and spoke fluent German. Nazi officers trusted him. They invited him to their dinners.
Tunisia was the only Arab country directly occupied by Nazi Germany during the war. Jewish families were pushed from their homes. More than 5,000 Jewish men were sent to forced labor camps. Yellow stars marked every chest.
That December night in the coastal town of Mahdia, Khaled listened as the officer boasted. The woman he named belonged to a family Khaled had known all his life.
He left immediately. He drove through the night. He knocked on their door at midnight.
Pack nothing. Come now.
He gathered 25 people — mothers, fathers, cousins, and children — and drove them nearly 20 miles to his family farm, hiding them inside the olive press, stables, and storage buildings.
This was not one brave act. It was four straight months of courage.
He fed them while supplies grew scarce. He kept babies quiet. He trusted his servants to stay silent. When German soldiers arrived to count Jewish families, the hidden people pinned yellow stars onto their clothes and stood motionless. When the soldiers left, the stars came off again.
One night, a drunken soldier wandered onto the farm and discovered them. An eleven-year-old girl hiding under a bed watched him laugh and threaten to kill everyone there. Then Khaled appeared. She remembered him her entire life as a guardian angel. He calmly walked the soldier outside, took away his weapon, and sent him off the property.
Nobody on that farm died.
In May 1943, British forces liberated Tunisia. All 25 people returned home alive.
Khaled went back to a quiet life. He married, raised daughters, painted, and worked in government service.
He never told anyone what he had done. Not his wife. Not his children. No one.
He died on September 4, 1997, at the age of 86. His story was buried with him.
Ten years later, his daughter Faiza was sitting in a café in Paris reading a Sunday newspaper when she came across an interview with an American historian describing a Tunisian Arab who had hidden 25 Jews in 1942.
The historian mentioned her father by name.
She was 45 years old and had never heard the story before.
She contacted the historian. One of the children saved on the farm had left behind 83 pages of testimony before her death. Every detail matched.
“I rediscovered my father,” Faiza later said.
Khaled was nominated for Israel’s highest honor given to non-Jews who saved Jewish lives. He would have been the first Arab to receive it.
The committee declined, saying he had not risked his own life enough.
Faiza answered with a line history should never forget:
“My father opened his home to Jews. They did not open theirs to us.”
Today, the 25 people Khaled saved have hundreds of descendants living across Israel, France, America, and Tunisia. The little girl hidden beneath the bed grew up, moved to Paris, and built a family of her own. None of them would exist if Khaled had stayed silent that night.
He had everything to lose. He acted anyway. Then he spent the rest of his life saying nothing about it.
The world nearly forgot him twice. Now you know his name.

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 BREAKING: James Talarico has officially won the US Senate race in Texas.

[AYi @AYi_AInotes]

80 秒从比珠峰还高的高空垂直砸进街道，这架载有九人的私人飞机在空中遭遇的，是高空物理学最残酷的死神陷阱：棺材角气流

最让人背脊发凉的是，整场灾难的导火索，仅仅是飞行员为了避开颠簸而做出的爬升决定。

这架载着九个人的私人飞机在 80 秒内从比珠穆朗玛峰还高的高空垂直砸向佛罗里达的街道，而整场灾难的起点，竟然是一个听起来无比合理的常规操作：向塔台申请爬升两千英尺。

很多人以为空难都是发动机当场爆炸或者零件空中解体。

但这架 Learjet 60 在三万五千英尺高空遭遇严重颠簸、机身挂着薄冰时，飞行员做了一个教科书式的标准避险决策：向迈阿密中心请求从 35000 英尺爬升到 37000 英尺，想彻底翻过这片恶劣天气。

他们做梦也没想到，高空物理法则给所有喷气机预设了一个极其致命的隐形绞刑架，飞行员管它叫棺材角。

在高空稀薄的空气里，飞机的安全速度窗口会被死死挤压成一条极其狭窄的缝隙：

飞得太慢，稀薄的空气根本托不住机翼，飞机会瞬间失速坠落；

飞得太快，机翼表面就会形成激波，导致气流剥离引发超速下坠。

飞机每往上爬升一千英尺，最慢的失速速度和最快的超速极限就会向彼此靠近一点，直到两个死神极限彻底撞在一起。

这架飞机的巡航极速是 0.81 马赫，平时就已经贴着边缘在飞。

狂暴的气流在极狭窄的窗口里剧烈拉扯，刚开始爬升几秒钟，地速瞬间从 437 节暴涨到 505 节，飞机瞬间冲破速度红线，带着近两万英尺每分钟的骇人下沉率直接倒栽葱。

最绝望的是超速和机翼倾斜同时发生时的物理恶魔。

一旦喷气机超速，气动中心后移会强行把机头往死里往下按，机头越低速度越快，越快机头被压得越猛；

只要机身带一点侧倾，原本向上的升力就会彻底甩向侧面，整架飞机直接被拧成急速下坠的夺命螺旋。

此时人类惊慌下的求生本能是拼命往后拉操纵杆，但倾斜状态下拉杆只会把死亡螺旋越勒越紧；

唯一生还的可能，是在云层里完全看不见地平线、超速警报疯狂尖叫的几秒钟内，顶住本能先把机翼完全改平，然后再拼命拉起。

可惜他们根本没有这个机会，
到最后的 8750 英尺时，下坠速度已经彻底飙到了每分钟超三万两千英尺，

相当于时速 360 英里垂直砸向地面，剩下的距离仅仅用了 16 秒就烧成了街道旁的一团火球。

无线电里只剩下迈阿密管制员一遍又一遍绝望地呼叫他们的尾号，再也没有任何回音。

[Bob Allen @CaptBob_Nomadic]

I’ve had a number of messages asking to comment on the Lear crash. I’ve learned who the crew was, I did not know them, but I’m going to give them the respect and reverence they should be given. They were two young pilots out there doing what they loved to do.
I also agree with everything Adam is saying here. I’m sick of the constant flow of negativity every time a female or minority is involved in an accident or incident. It’s too bad people are allowed to hide behind anonymous usernames.

[El Tesla @elteslaengineer]

The Learjet 60 that crashed in Palm Beach County today went from 35,000 ft to the ground in 76 seconds.

I rebuilt the last 3 minutes in 4D from ADS-B, ATC audio, a NEXRAD analysis and dashcam video, then ran the engineering. Here's what the data says, and what it doesn't. 🧵

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

BREAKING: Europe is under a massive widespread cyber attack right now Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Estonia, Ireland the Netherlands and just now Finland are all experiencing disruptions to supermarket refrigeration systems causing food to go off.

The attack is spreading...

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

This would be insane.

[🎼 Lurdes @sedrul08]

Italian actors recreating Caravaggio paintings.

#HappyTuesday 🧙🧹

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

BREAKING: Ukraine has carried out the world’s first medical evacuation of a human via a drone from the battlefield the 30th mechanised brigade of Ukraine managed to save their injured comrade from a minefield.

Just absolutely insane.

[Elke ܬ̇ܝܳܕ̣ܽܘܪܰܗ Speliopoulos ♱ 📿 @speli]

The reactions is what I am here for.

[Porsche @Porsche]

Mission S.

Authentic. Consistent. Timeless.

A glimpse into the future - shaped by our heritage. Mid-engine architecture. A focus on the driver and the driving experience.

Call it a love letter.

[Elke ܬ̇ܝܳܕ̣ܽܘܪܰܗ Speliopoulos ♱ 📿 @speli]

New Abun d'Bashmayo on people who notoriously come late to the Holy Qurobo. https://t.co/j0Np1E5J7X

[Elke ܬ̇ܝܳܕ̣ܽܘܪܰܗ Speliopoulos ♱ 📿 @speli]

Neuer Abun d'Bashmayo Beitrag auf Deutsch über die, die immer erst kurz vor der Kommunion auftauchen. https://t.co/iR9DoT6Jjk

[TheOrthodoxWay @_theorthodoxway]

“If you examine your life well, you will find many instances when God showed His unmistakable mercy to you. Trouble was brewing, but it passed you by for some reason. God delivered you. Acknowledge these and thank God, Who loves you.”
- St. Theophan the Recluse

[Elke ܬ̇ܝܳܕ̣ܽܘܪܰܗ Speliopoulos ♱ 📿 @speli]

Neuer Abun d'Bashmayo Beitrag auf Deutsch, der einen Freund preist. https://t.co/FMg5vMX9vG

[Elke ܬ̇ܝܳܕ̣ܽܘܪܰܗ Speliopoulos ♱ 📿 @speli]

New Abun d'Bashmayo Substack praising the virtues of a dear friend. https://t.co/EDdIhDgf6i

[Heidi Hatch KUTV @tvheidihatch]

⚠️BREAKING NEW IMAGES OF FLASH FLOODING: Bob Bissit shared videos with KUTV showing catastrophic flooding and debris flows moving through the Grove neighborhood of Beaver after the National Weather Service issued a Flash Flood Emergency on Sunday afternoon.
#utah #cottonwoodfire #flashflood #utwx

[Elke ܬ̇ܝܳܕ̣ܽܘܪܰܗ Speliopoulos ♱ 📿 @speli]

I-15 was closed just before we could pass. Now on major reroute after turning around on the highway. Lord, have mercy!

[ABC4 News @abc4utah]

The Beaver County early warning camera network captured heavy flood waters flowing through the Beaver River Channel before it went offline on Sunday.

Read full story: https://t.co/B76cztReEh

[Tony Lane 🇺🇸 @TonyLaneNV]

A hiker came around a blind corner on a trail at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park Alaska and found herself face to face with Bear 909 - one of the most well known Alaskan Coastal Brown Bears in the park - along with her two cubs.

Instead of panicking she stepped off the trail about 12 to 15 feet, stopped when the terrain ran out, stayed calm, used one voice, and let the bears pass.

That is textbook bear encounter protocol and she executed it perfectly under pressure that would have most people completely frozen. The bears at Brooks are habituated to humans and have a high tolerance because of the salmon food source in the area but they are still wild animals that can turn defensive in a split second if they feel threatened. The number one rule - never run.

Running triggers the predatory instinct and at that point the encounter changes completely. Always carry bear spray and know how to use it before you ever set foot in bear country.

Could you remain that calm in that moment?

[Elke ܬ̇ܝܳܕ̣ܽܘܪܰܗ Speliopoulos ♱ 📿 @speli]

@DrChrisSanchez May his memory be eternal. My sincere condolences.

[Elke ܬ̇ܝܳܕ̣ܽܘܪܰܗ Speliopoulos ♱ 📿 @speli]

Awesome.