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Celebrate beauty and grace. Give thanks to God for everything. Rejoice in laughter and the traditions that make us who we are.

Opinions are mine alone.

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@TulsiGabbard @_NavyBrat Praying for you both.

[C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond]

It is a remarkable fact that on this subject Heaven and Hell speak with one voice. The tempter tells me, “Take care. Think how much this good resolve, the acceptance of this Grace, is going to cost.” But Our Lord equally tells us to count the cost.
-CS Lewis, A Slip of the Tongue

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@RepEscobar He's using park money to fix things that belong to the parks.....

[David Suetterlein @DRSuetterlein]

Good morning from Afton Mountain

[The Last Homely House @AHomelyHouse]

A wee turret at the Quinta da Regaleira manor in Portugal.

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@nic_lucc Congratulations!!

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

Before AI we had Zach King

[North Yorkshire @visitnorthyork]

Through the walls of Wensleydale.

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@Buddhagem @Oranos8310 No, you actually don't.

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

@USATODAY

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@GetOnTap Okay I'm loving that they're hauling a boat!

[The Appalachian Podcast @GetOnTap]

Good morning Appalachia

[Michelle Cowbourne @Glastomichelle]

Beams of light coming from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor. Photo taken a few days ago as very grey when I went up there this morning.

[David Harsanyi @davidharsanyi]

One of the worst Scott Pelley segments was when he featured Paul Ehrlich to warn that the planet was heading for extinction. This was in *2023.* Journalist Pelley never mentioned that Ehrlich had gone 0-for-30 in world-is-ending prediction racket over the previous 50 years.

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@babybeginner Thank you- I have been wondering.

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@BritniDWrites "So basketball players can't use a bat to move the ball but baseball players can? But sure, referees are "fair"".

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this night in 1781, one man on a horse saved the American Revolution from losing Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and half of Virginia's government in a single morning.

You were never taught his name.

June 3, 1781. The British had chased Virginia's entire government out of Richmond. Jefferson, in his final days as governor, and the legislature had fled to Charlottesville, thinking they were safe in the foothills.

They were wrong.

That evening, 26 year old militia captain Jack Jouett was at a tavern in Louisa County when roughly 250 of the most feared cavalry in the British army came pounding down the road. Their commander: Banastre Tarleton, nicknamed "The Butcher," the man whose dragoons had cut down surrendering Americans at Waxhaws.

There was only one place they could be going. Charlottesville. 40 miles away. And the capture of Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, would be the prize of the war.

Jouett couldn't outrun them on the main road. So he didn't use it.

He swung onto overgrown backwoods trails and the abandoned Old Mountain Road, riding 40 miles through the dark with only the full moon for light. Legend says low hanging branches whipped and scarred his face for life.

Tarleton stopped his men for a 3 hour rest. Jouett never stopped.

Before sunrise on June 4, he came up the mountain to Monticello and woke Jefferson. Then he rode down into Charlottesville and warned the legislature.

Jefferson got out with minutes to spare. British dragoons were coming up his mountain as he left. The legislature escaped over the Blue Ridge to Staunton. Tarleton caught only seven stragglers, one of them a frontiersman serving in the legislature named Daniel Boone.

Paul Revere rode about 12 miles in 1775 and got captured before reaching Concord. Longfellow wrote him a poem and made him immortal.

Jack Jouett rode 40 miles, lost nothing, saved everything, and got a thank you gift of two pistols and a sword from the Virginia Assembly.

No poem. No fame. Almost no memory.

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@alexthechick @Heminator I think it's wonderful that it's not true. I also think it's despicable that so many "journalists" were willing to accept the story and spread it with little to no scepticism.

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@learning_yohei Hokkaido. One of my friends is from there.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Tell someone this is candy and they freeze.

It's called aruheitou.

A sugar sweet brought to Japan by Portuguese traders five centuries ago.

The hot sugar is pulled and shaped, one petal at a time.

Legend says a flower made by an Edo-era master was so lifelike that a real butterfly landed on it.

The original edible jewel, older than the famous ones you've seen.