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Disclaimer: I must admit I have never read a biography of Queen Victoria. My knowledge of her as a person has been accumulated by reading articles, mentions in non-fiction books, watching documentaries, and listening to podcasts. As a side note, if you are interested in the Victorians the “Age of Victoria” podcast is excellent. Just like season 2, season 3 starts with a bang. It is 1848 and one sees King of the French Louis Philippe preparing to disguise himself as a common working man to escape his father’s fate via the National Razor. In Britain, the Hungry Forties and...

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s nominees to fill out the Justice Department’s leadership ranks pledged at their confirmation hearing on Tuesday to tackle domestic extremism, racial inequality and other thorny issues within the bounds of the law, seeking to restore order to a department battered by political attacks during the Trump administration. Lisa Monaco, a Justice Department veteran and national security expert nominated to be deputy attorney general, and Vanita Gupta, a civil rights lawyer known for her criminal justice overhaul work tapped as the department’s No. 3, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that they were committed to ensuring that the...

Debate Over Navy's Zumwalt Destroyer's Seakeeping Abilities Doused After Rough Seas TestsThe Navy sent Zumwalt into two real-world storms as part of trials to prove its controversial hull design could handle heavy seas.The U.S. Navy says the stealth destroyer USS Zumwalt successfully completed the second and final phase of its Rough-Water Trials late last year. This involved sending the ship into two real-world storms with waves between around 16 and a half and 20 feet tall. The testing was extremely significant given the ship's inward-sloping tumblehome hull form, which critics have long said would make it a disaster waiting to...

Fears Of A ​​​​​​​”Return Of The 1930s Dust Bowl” Rise As Record Drought Sizzles SouthwestThe United States Drought Monitor publishes weekly data that shows the Western U.S. is in a historic drought. The latest Drought Monitor map shows for Mar. 4, “Dry conditions dominated much of the West and especially the Southwest and into the Plains.” Extreme to exceptional drought conditions are seen across 57% and 90% of the land in Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, and diminishing snowpack could jeopardize drinking water for tens of millions of people from Denver to Los Angeles. The drought developed last...

Cotton flannel (left) and polyester (right). (E.P. Vicenzi/Smithsonian Museum/NIST) ================================================================ While some still quibble over wearing masks a year into the pandemic, scientists have gotten on with working out exactly what strategy is best - and cotton face masks just received another tick of approval. Various studies have tested different material combinations and health authorities such as the World Health Organization and the CDC recommend cloth masks for the general public, based on their conclusions. But some of these studies overlooked an important real-world factor - these face covering fabrics end up damp from our breath. Now, a team of...

It could go without saying that clearly the world has a dark history full of injustice and oppression. Moreover, in terms of evil, certainly it is those who wielded the greatest power in an utmost destructive manner, who are the ones history remembers the most. It should be asked, however, if the sins of the infamous are greater than the sins of many more wicked men who were forgotten, merely because they had not the power to accomplish greater deeds. How can this comparison be one may ask? Because the motives of the heart of many poor wicked men were...

The love of God ONLY gives and ONLY seeks that which is the highest and best for its object of love based and rooted in Almighty God's ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS PERSON, the MORAL ABSOLUTES of time, ETERNAL RIGHTEOUSNESS and ETERNAL SPIRITUAL TRUTH. How can any say they love you and give you less than Almighty God's RIGHTEOUS standards and RIGHTEOUS virtues (John 15:1-7, Gal. 5:21-22, Rev. 2:1-7)? Almighty God LOVES YOU in RIGHTEOUSNESS and sent His Son to die to make us RIGHTEOUS and to give us ETERNAL LIfe and an ETERNAL future (John 14:3, 1 Cor. 2:9, Rev. 21; 22:1-5)!...

Mumford & Sons banjoist and guitarist Winston Marshall took to Twitter on Tuesday to apologize for praising journalist Andy Ngo and promoting his new book exposing the far-left movement known as Antifa. Marshall apologized to those he “offended.” “Over the past few days I have come to better understand the pain caused by the book I endorsed,” Winston Marshall wrote in a statement posted to Twitter. “I have offended not only a lot of people I don’t know, but also those closest to me, including my bandmates and for that I am truly sorry. As a result of my actions...

Restoration (white indicates bones preserved in the adult skeleton). (Bi et al., Science Bulletin, 2020) ============================================================ An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of an extraordinary fossilized nest in China, preserving at least eight separate dinosaurs from 70 million years ago. The clutch of ancient eggs belongs to a medium-sized adult oviraptor, and we know that because the parent is actually part of the fossil. The skeleton of this ostrich-like theropod is positioned in a crouch over two dozen eggs, at least seven of which were on the brink of hatching and still contain embryos inside. The ancient...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that he is deploying National Guard troops to the southern border to address what he calls a “crisis.” Abbott (R) announced Operation Lone Star over the weekend to address the smuggling of people and drugs into the state, something he blames on the current administration. “The crisis at our southern border continues to escalate because of Biden Administration policies that refuse to secure the border and invite illegal immigration,” he said. “Texas supports legal immigration but will not be an accomplice to the open border policies that cause, rather than prevent, a humanitarian crisis in...

At the end of last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the third vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The EUA allows the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine to be distributed in the U.S for use in individuals 18 years of age and older. “The authorization of this vaccine expands the availability of vaccines, the best medical prevention method for COVID-19, to help us in the fight against this pandemic, which has claimed over half a million lives in the United States,”...

We look around as conservatives and Christians and think that Big Tech is really coming down hard on us over certain topics like voter fraud and Covid vaccines. But this isn't the height of censorship. Not yet. It's a dry run. Things are going to get worse and they're only going to get better on platforms that are not "woke.". Things are really bad, right? Big Tech tyranny is absolutely horrendous right now with censorship, suspensions, and outright bans on accounts that talk about voter fraud, transgenderism, Covid vaccines, and a few other taboo topics. But as bad as it...

There were royal victims and villains in Harry and Meghan’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey. But there was only one immediate and clear winner: the American media queen. Winfrey burnished her stature as a master interviewer with Sunday’s special. She was in her element. She asked the couple holding hands in a alifornia garden to reveal the sins of a monarchy with 1,200 years of history. The answers, including claims of palace bigotry and callousness Meghan said put her on the brink of suicide, reverberated with U.S. viewers and in the U.K. Winfrey carefully framed the interview’s legitimacy at the...

So basically I have come to the conclusion that QAnon is not a threat and is basically a Ghost Dance by people who still think there is a chance for the Republic. The US government saw the Native American Ghost Dances in the same way, they puffed up the threat of it all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Dance The " QAnonCult " follows the same patterns as the " GhostDance Cults" As their land shrank and any sort of actual victory grew more & more distant it was expected that the "Great Spirit" would come forth and remove the "pale faces" from their land....

There is a story related in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov about an old woman who was quite wicked. She dies and goes to hell to the great distress of her guardian angel. The angel searches for any possible good deed to plead on her behalf and finds a rotten onion – something the old woman had given to a beggar. The angel takes the onion and, with it, begins to pull the old woman out of hell. The end of the story is less than successful, but its power lies in the importance and significance given to even the smallest...

The Wisconsin House of Representatives is holding a general election review hearing on Wednesday, March 10, at 10:00 AM Central.The hearing can be viewed at WisconsinEye: Delivering unfiltered access to Wisconsin public policy (wiseye.org).The hearing is listed on the state’s schedule at this link. Schedule – WisconsinEye (wiseye.org)This comes after news broke on Tuesday that a top Wisconsin Democrat was given keys to the KI Center Ballroom in Green Bay where absentee ballots were stored and counted before election day.And Democrats pretend that this was a free and fair election?HUGE BREAKING NEWS! Former Top Democrat Had Keys to Wisconsin’s KI...

An armed person stopped an attempted burglary in Atlanta this week, police said. On March 8 around 3:03 p.m., officers responded to a Chik-fil-A on Peachtree Street. “Upon arrival, officers spoke with witnesses who stated a black male walked inside, produced a firearm and demanded money from several employees. The employees fled and the suspect exited the business a short time later. Several nearby citizens confronted the suspect as he was leaving. One of the citizens was armed and at some point, during the confrontation, the citizen fired several shots. The suspect ran on foot and was apprehended nearby, by...

Police investigate Catholic dad after he asked Catholic school board to not fly gay pride flag‘Sending signals that support gay pride messages is contrary to the teachings of the Church and have no place in our schools,’ the dad said.TORONTO, March 9, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Police are investigating a Catholic father over allegations that he committed a “hate” crime for asking a Catholic school board not to recognize “Pride month” or fly the rainbow flag at Catholic schools.Jody Maillet, a part-time university instructor, told the Toronto Catholic District School Board’s (TCDSB) March 4 meeting that he was “concerned” about a...

The $1.9 trillion “COVID relief” bill proposed by President Joe Biden and approved by Democrats in Congress “will erase the majority of San Francisco’s projected $650 million budget deficit over the next two years,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The Chronicle reported Tuesday that “S.F’s budget will be saved from painful cuts thanks to federal stimulus”: