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У Москві 70-річну жительку ТОТ Запорізької області засудили до 15 років ув’язнення за донати на ЗСУ.

Перед оголошенням вироку вона заспівала «Рідна мати моя» на слова Андрія Малишка 💔

[Iovincorīx @Iovincorix]

Iron Age sculpture of an Iberian warlord from the aristocratic funerary monument unearthed in Porcuna, Andalucia, southern Spain ; 500-450 BC.

[Bad Baltic @BadBalticTakes]

We found some interesting things in the ruins of that Superior Civilisation™.

That photo on the left is (I think) an RT-64 radio telescope in Russia, although similar to the RT-32 Irbene Radio Telescope in Latvia built to spy on the West.

Actually though, it contained tapes of Western music.

The disillusioned conscripts stationed there were using their Superior Civilisation’s most advanced tech to circumvent the censorship imposed by.. er, that same Superior Civilisation™.

The Soviets then wrecked the place themselves on their way out. They set off explosives inside, cut cables, poured acid into controls, and shred all schematics, manuals, and wiring diagrams.

They left believing that the Latvians could never possibly use it.

Nevertheless, Latvian scientists and engineers managed to fully reverse engineer it, restore it, then gave it an actual useful purpose.

They pointed it at the stars instead to advance humanity’s understanding of the cosmos.

The facility is now at the frontier of civilian science with advanced new telescopes integrated into the world’s largest low-frequency radio telescope network.

It’s currently undergoing its fourth modernisation, led by Ventspils University.

Fortunately, they don’t have to attend those dull parades and they have easier ways to listen to decent music!

Huge thanks to MarxistInfo for highlighting all this.

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@notKavetsky По факту

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@junker_ukr Ваш приклад несвідомо говорить на користь Серпухова, який виховав для армії майбутнього Головкома

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Remarkable onboard footage from a Ukrainian Yak-52 backseat gunner shooting down Russian Shahed attack drones from an open cockpit with his rifle.

[Empire Aesthetics @Empireaesth]

“There will always be an England” chalked on the doorstep of a bomb-damaged house after a German air raid (10 July 1940)

[Daily Dutch Masters 🎨 @Goudriaan2]

A view of a bay with rocks, possibly Smeerenburg
Jan Beerstraaten, 17th century

Smeerenburg means "Blubber Town". Dutch whalers founded this Arctic settlement on Svalbard in 1619. They used it to boil whale blubber into oil. The town was abandoned by the 1660s.

[LiorLefineder @lefineder]

Caligula making his horse a consul was an awful moment for the Roman Empire, but a historic milestone for horses.

[📜Echoes of Empire📜 @EchoesofEmpire_]

British Army recruiting sergeants outside a public house at Westminster, 1877

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@Hortivnya Сум за молодість, що уходить

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Soldiers taking a break by a female sutler — by Adrien Moreau.

[Historical Chronicles @HistoriaJack]

HMS Centurion capturing the Spanish Treasure Galleon Nuestra Señora de Covadonga

- Montague Dawson

[Emese Balog ن @EmeseInBudapest]

The earliest surviving depiction of Jesus as the Good Shepherd is from the 2nd century, in the Catacombs of Domitilla in Rome.

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@sector_m14 Рерайт існуючого поста на Архіпелазі, без жодної фантазії

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

Good Omen, by Yamamoto Shunkyo, 1931

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@Slobopitek Імператор Геліогабал

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The Reconnaissance

- Ernest Croft, 1882

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@klaasm67 Fortunately, wars end sometimes.