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Past few years, never fully embraced @sanders.senate.gov. Given the current state of American politics, I find myself drawn to his views, along with @aoc.bsky.social, more so than the centrist views I've typically aligned with. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Bernie nails it here.✔️

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Fascinating. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/a...

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Let´s make a move.

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USA is building a strategic alliance with Russia Molotov-Ribbentrop style. youtube.com/watch?v=pZVi...

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This youtube.com/watch?v=i6_m...

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apnews.com/article/hous... While distracting the world with “good television” the taxes are cut for the rich at the expense of all the others. Fix your country America, you are a disgrace.

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“History will remember this day — when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.” Liz Chaney thehill.com/homenews/516...

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The USA presently is not to be trusted.

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nymag.com/intelligence... Trump is a Russian asset & USA not a friend at present. Europe should go it alone until America deals with the rash.

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2008 reissue of Dalley´s 1989 translation of Mesopotamian myths. Smooth read with very useful notes. Works great to take your mind off the current desolation in the world. #ancient #myth #Mesopotamia #booksky #history

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Sumerian proverbs tablet still relevant - written over 4000 years ago: In the city where there are no dogs, the fox is boss. A malicious wife living in the house is worse than all diseases. He who possesses many things is constantly on guard. One does not return borrowed bread #Ashmolean museum

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Based on the Sumerian poem, which antedates both the Hebrew & the Babylonian versions by more than a millenium, man was fashioned of clay as in the Biblical version. The purpose for which he was created, however, was to free the gods from laboring for their sustenance, as in the Babylonian version.

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The Egyptians in all probability did have a well developed written literature in the third mil. B.C. Unfortunately it must have been written largely on papyrus, a readily perishable material, & there is little hope that enough of it will ever be recovered. #ancient #Egyptian why #Sumerian was first

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Laurence Waddell, the Scottish 'Indiana Jones,' claimed in 1930 that the kings of #Egypt & #Sumer were the same lineage, ruling both empires, & that the Aryans founded Western civilization. Spectacularly wrong—but what audacity and boundless self-assurance! Truly an iconoclast. #ancient #history

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The Sumerians by Henry Freeman is a very concise introduction to the history & grandeur of the #ancient #Sumerian civilization & its transformation into the #Akkadian #Babylonian #Assyrian & #Persian A lot of what we know comes from them, & a lot of what they knew we only discovered in modernity.

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There is an evidence from circa 2,600 BCE of a game that can be compared to field hockey called pukku-mekku (ball & stick) from Freeman "The Sumerians" #Sumer #ancienthistory #sport

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Interesting review of the application of #AI in #archeology by Gattiglia: bit.ly/422N2bE The opportunity to use #MLP models to assist with translations of #ancient texts is tremendous, yet there are challenges & it is early days. # of papers on the subject doubles every year!

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Re-reading #Rigveda - it boils down to this: the oldest #Indian text composed ≅ 1,500 BCE representing memorized celestial instructions on the ceremonial, sanitary & safety procedures for the construction of mobile sites designed for meetings between them & humans #ancienthistory #soma #ritual

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After Advent's solemnity, #Christmas brought feasting and merrymaking, with the wealthy hosting lavish banquets of meats, pies, and delicacies. The festivities lasted twelve days, ending with Epiphany on January 6th. From the Mortimer´s The Time Traveller's Guide to #Medieval #England

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Pre-history is not what it used to be - ruins of pre-Harrapan civilization dated to 7,500 BCE were found in 2001 underwater in the Bay of Cambay (Gupta 2002). Can that be one of the mythical cities of #Krishna? #ancient #archeology #Indian

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Ram Setu is a mythical bridge built by Rama to connect #India & Sri Lanka. According to marine archeologists (e.g. Khare, ed. 2024) the bridge was just above the then-current sea level between 5,000-3,000 BCE. Looks like another #myth in fact being a historical fact. #Ramayana #history #archeology

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The oldest cave figurative art found in Sulawesi, Indonesia—dating back 45,500 years! 🐗✨ Hand stencils alongside a vivid depiction of a warty pig, created by early humans using natural pigments. Pic Courtesy-VOA #SulawesiCaveArt #AncientArt #Archaeology #HumanHistory

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A group of lads lay a noose on the ground & wait for an unsuspecting passer-by to step into it ... watch out at dusk, otherwise you will be kept hanging by one leg until you have paid a ransom. #Mortimer #medieval #England #violent #humour

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Is the Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project (MAP) still active? It’s been years since their stunning finds, but $100K/day funding likely halted more research. Such a shame for a project that revealed so much history beneath the waves! 🌊⚓️ #Archaeology #BlackSeaMAP #MaritimeHistory

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We can admire virtue and abhor corruption sincerely, but without courage we are curruptible. John McCain

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I can’t stop thinking about AI’s potential in archaeology. It’s already discovered 303 new geoglyphs in Peru’s Nazca Desert, nearly doubling the known figures. It’s also helping decode ancient languages, analyze lidar data, etc. Amazing! #Archaeology #AI #NazcaLines #AncientHistory #Peru

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There is so much more to discover for #archeology in #Egypt! The 1st dynasty capital of Thinis/This has not yet been located, although Herzig (2024) assumes it lies across the river Nile from the Abydos necropolis, under the modern Girga. Below the burial palette of the Predynastic king Narmer.

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This #book will not tell you what the hell those #drones are, but will show you the extent of the byzantine bureacracy of the US intelligence agencies & the macho infighting bullcrap prevailing there that explains the inaction & chaos. #UAP #UFO #Imminent

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“Such is the nature of #archeology - an ongoing #mystery tale whose plot slowly unfolds.” Eric H. Cline

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Temple Chariot. National Museum New Delhi, #India. These things are massive, 5-30m tall weighing many tons, carrying gods around during Ratha Yatra festivals. What could they be modelled after? #Hindu #Vishnu Fotos mine.

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Although several corrections & additions have been made since this 1992 edition of Cottrell´s classic treatise on #Hannibal expedition into Italy, Second Punic Wars 218-201 BCE, it remains my all time favorite. Fascinating. #ancient #Rome #history #Carthage

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The shipwreck of a ship which sank around 1300 BCE near Uluburun is one of several that prove a "global trade" existed in the Bronze Age among #Egypt #Aegan #Canaan #Hittites #Mesopotamia #Nubia Trade routes during the Bronze Age (Map by maritimehistorypodcast.com)

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