This is real footage from 120 years ago.
None of the people in it knew that the city around them had four days left...
What you are watching is a cable car gliding down Market Street in San Francisco, filmed on the 14th of April, 1906.
The camera was mounted on the front of the car, so you see the city exactly as it was: the crowds, the horse-drawn carriages, the early automobiles weaving through traffic, the men in hats, the great buildings rising on either side. An ordinary spring afternoon in a thriving American city.
Four days later, on the morning of the 18th of April, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck. The shaking lasted under a minute, but it ignited fires that burned through the city for days...
By the time it was over, more than 3,000 people were dead and roughly 80 percent of San Francisco had been destroyed. Almost every building you see in this footage was gone.
And the film itself nearly went with it.
The negative was placed on a train bound for New York on the 17th of April, the day before the earthquake. Had it left a single day later, it would have burned in the fire along with the studio that made it.
This entire moving record of a lost city survives because of one day...
The ringtone was loud and filled the concert Hall and a pianist decided to improvise around it.
The pianist had two choices: 1- choose to get angry or 2- choose to be flexible in this situation.
Always choose option 2.
“Take Five” by Dave Brubeck Quartet was recorded 67 years ago today.
Two years later it became a surprise hit and the biggest-selling jazz single ever.
Roy Clark was the ultimate guitar showman 🔥
Incredible picker, hilarious entertainer, and pure country charm. This guy could make you laugh and shred at the same time. Legends like him don’t come around often.
Who else grew up watching him on Hee Haw? 👇
#RoyClark
The U.S. Army’s New Battle Rifle (277 Fury)
This guy is a great representative of Americans spirit 🇺🇸
God bless this man and his family
I hope everyone has the greatest 4th of July celebration 250 yrs 2026 🎇
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The important thing to keep in mind is that colonizers created a binary system, but many animals and plants are gay. For example, bison frequently identify as homosexual.
Let an expert educate you.
Before the Crusades, two-thirds of the Christian world had already fallen under Islamic rule.
Your school probably skipped that part.
They taught you the Crusades began in 1095, as if Christians just woke up one morning and decided to march east for no reason.
But history did not begin in 1095.
By then, Islamic armies had already conquered massive portions of the Christian world:
Syria.
Egypt.
North Africa.
The Holy Land.
Spain.
In 711 AD, Islamic forces crossed into Spain.
By 732 AD, they had pushed all the way into France.
That is where Charles Martel met them at the Battle of Tours and stopped the advance into Western Europe.
Some historians consider it one of the most decisive battles in world history.
So when people talk about the Crusades without mentioning the 400 years before them, they are not giving you history.
They are giving you a narrative.
Were the Crusades complicated?
Of course.
Were Christians perfect?
No.
But the idea that the Crusades were some random act of Christian aggression is historically dishonest.
The real story begins long before 1095.
And once you know what happened before the Crusades, the entire conversation changes.
They buried this.
Now you know.
Disney hired some "little people" to dress as Pinocchio and wave at people at the premiere of Pinocchio.
They left them on a balcony with enough food and wine for the day, but by late afternoon they were all naked (the costumes were too hot), drunk and screaming swear words at people.