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Just like in modern times, many people in antiquity enjoyed visiting the tombs of famous historical figures. One of the most famous historical figures in the Greco-Roman world was Alexander the Great. According to ancient records, one of the Roman emperors visited his tomb. However, while doing so, this Roman emperor ended up breaking off Alexander the Great’s nose. Did this really happen, though? The tomb of Alexander the Great Alexander the Great died in the fourth century BCE in the year 323. He was buried in a magnificent tomb, which was just as famous in antiquity as it is...

President Joe Biden has launched a scathing critique of former President Donald Trump regarding his alleged ties to Project 2025, a controversial and highly detailed 900-page document called 'Mandate for Leadership'. Project 2025 overview and Joe Biden's response Project 2025, also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, is a product of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. The project, developed with input from former Trump administration officials, includes a 180-day transition plan and addresses both domestic and foreign policy. It is essentially an administration-in-waiting for the next conservative president. Biden's focus on Project 2025 comes in the wake...

“Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life” (Romans 5:9-10). Jesus Christ delivers His brethren not only from sin and its judgment, but also from uncertainty and doubt about that deliverance. God is a God of wrath. But the wrath due to be poured out on all mankind, Christ took on Himself. That’s what the apostle Paul meant...

President Joe Biden has come under fire from Gold Star families following his false statement that he is the "only president this century, this decade, that doesn't have any troops dying anywhere in the world" during the CNN debate last Thursday, June 27. Biden, after negating that 13 American service members were lost in Afghanistan, also said during the debate that "when he [Donald Trump] was president, they were still killing people in Afghanistan. And he didn't do anything about that." Gold Star father berates Joe Biden for blatantly lying during the debate with Donald Trump During the debate, Darin...

A nonpartisan panel of doctors should assess every White House hopeful - and disclose the results to the public, says FD Flam for Bloomberg Opinion.The presidential debate last week revealed an embarrassing fact about the American political system: We are all low-information voters. No matter how diligently any of us might keep up with the news, we don’t have access to basic data on the physical, cognitive and mental health of the people we’re electing to lead us. That could change if all presidential candidates were required to undergo an exam by an independent panel of physicians and reveal the...

A Neolithic passage tomb in the Boyne Valley, County Meath in Ireland was discovered in 1699AD and became a tourist attraction long before it was excavated and restored from 1962AD to 1975AD by the late Professor Michael J. O'Kelly, Professor of Archaeology at University College Cork... According to ancient.eu, Newgrange was built long before Stonehenge, the Mycenaean culture of ancient Greece and the pyramids in Giza. The construction took place about 3200BC and is part of one of the most important megalithic complexes in Europe. Two other ancient structures are also present, Knowth and Dowth as well as thirty seven...

Science Magazine reports that six artifacts discovered in 2020 near the shore of Lake Xiada Co in western Tibet have been identified as stone sewing needles by Yun Chen of Sichuan University and her colleagues. The objects, thought to be about 9,000 years old based upon the radiocarbon dating of charcoal fragments and animal bones found with them, are pointed at one end and have a hole in the other. Two of them are intact, and the eyes, or holes, were preserved in four of the needles, which were made of tremolite, serpentine, actinolite, and talc. Examination with ultra-deep-field microscopy...

A White House staffer who has worked closely with President Joe Biden for years has revealed how the commander-in-chief's mental acuity has seemingly declined. The senior White House official who worked with the Biden during his presidency, vice presidency and 2020 campaign told the New York Times he no longer believes the 81-year-old has what it takes to defeat Trump. That official, who declined to be named so he could speak openly, said the president has shown more and more signs of his age in recent months - speaking more slowly, haltingly and quietly. Biden has also appeared more fatigued...

At Turning Point Action's Conference in Detroit, Michigan, Former HUD Secretary Ben Carson offered his message to Christians reluctant to support former President Trump.

The disastrous radio interview where Joe Biden called himself a black woman was scripted, with the president knowing exactly the questions he'd be asked. WURD radio in Philadelphia was sent eight questions to ask the 81 year-old president. Journalist Andrea Lawful-Sanders says she ended up asking four - with Biden still managing to make a mess of his answers. The president sparked a flurry of headlines after saying he was a 'black woman,' apparently while attempting to hail his appointment of Kamala Harris as vice president.

This month marks 11 years of working in New York's service industry. It's changed a lot. As an Irish lad, I grew up on Cheers and in my first gig in New York, I found my solace at Molly Pitcher's Ale House—a popular joint where the regulars could have been characters on that show. Now, Molly Pitcher's is no more, Cheers is no more, and the characters are no more. In my first gig, a month in, I had learned that the bar corner seat was Rosie's, an 80-something iconic regular. When Rosie entered, she imperiously claimed her throne and...

Welcome again your host here remembering Rush Limbaugh who played songs like those back in 1974... That Top 10 song the Lord's Prayer back in those days..."Deliver us from evil" indeed I am thankful for deliverance from evil today Jesus gave that to me... On to a Money Update ABBA with our theme... And one of the great tech centers of the world is Taiwan and around Taiwan the South China Sea... "A key Marine Corps role is to 'serve as the inside force' in the first island chain-from the Ryukyus to Australia-to curb China's ambitions, Commandant of the Marine...

resident Joe Biden could make a decision within days whether to remain a candidate for reelection, said Hawaii’s governor who participated in a recent meeting with Biden and other Democratic governors and whose family has known the president for years. And if Biden decides not to run, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green told The Associated Press on Saturday that he believes the president will designate Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him on the ticket. “I think the president stays in this race unless he feels that it is not winnable, or he feels that he has to hear other voices...

OAKLAND, Calif. - A major sideshow erupted on the eastern span of the Bay Bridge overnight. It's becoming a common occurrence in the Bay Area. The sideshow in the middle of the night came to a close with a fireworks show. Participants shot them 30 feet into the sky with cars taking over the bridge around 2 a.m. Sunday, causing traffic to come to a halt for about an hour. Video shows multiple cars pulling donuts, getting dangerously close to spectators. Passengers hung out of car windows and sat in truck beds, as drivers spun in circles. "You could hear...

Former President Donald Trump said President Biden should ignore mounting calls for him to drop out of the race for the White House following his dismal debate performance. Trump, 78, took to his Truth Social website on Saturday and sarcastically advised that Biden, 81, should plow forward with his campaign and dismiss the growing number of Democrats who wish to see another candidate take his place. Biden “should ignore his many critics and move forward, with alacrity and strength, with his powerful and far reaching campaign,” he wrote. “He should be sharp, precise, and energetic, just like he was in...

Dr. Guy Bechor: After Hamas brutally beat those it accused of being "thieves" and even wrote "thief" on their backs (and some of them were mere political opponents), a video that the IDF spokesman even circulated [link] around the world, Hamas gave an order to carry out a brutal lynching of them: They were stoned to death by the mob, the most brutal form of death, on video. The beauty of "the day after". After the official Hamas announcement, that it will be the ruler of the Strip and no one else, and therefore will return to sitting over the...

Joe Biden is said to be in 'denial' about having to withdraw from the presidential election following his dismal debate performance last week, as some of his campaign donors become ever more worried about his mental acuity. The 81-year-old commander-in-chief has insisted he is staying in the race amid calls from members of his own party to step aside and hand the reins over to a younger Democrat. But even those who are publicly vouching for Biden have admitted in private that there is no path forward with him at the top of the ticket, according to the Washington Post....

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell thinks he has a solution to Joe Biden’s debate problems. Just allow Biden’s staff to be on stage with him during the debates. To be clear, O’Donnell suggests that this is something that all candidates should do, even Trump, presumably. But we all know that O’Donnell is only saying this now because he thinks that Biden is the one who needs the help of other people to get through a debate. It’s amazing that this is the sort of analysis that MSNBC viewers get on a regular basis. Transcript via Real Clear Politics: LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: Allow...

Rep. Maxine Waters offered a strong defense of President Biden at Essence Fest earlier today: “I don’t care what anybody says — it ain’t going to be no other Democratic candidate. It’s going to be Biden!” TELL THEM, MAXINE!

If President Joe Biden is taken off the top of the presidential ballot and replaced with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, there are two names that should play a prominent part in the 2024 campaign: Patricia McKay and Will O’Neill. McKay, 68, was a New Zealand woman and tourist who was killed in broad daylight outside of a mall in Orange County, California on Tuesday, allegedly by a group of armed robbers who shot at her and then killed her by running her over with their car. O’Neill is the Republican mayor of the city where she was killed. However, he...