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...Barry Cunliffe here marshals this vast array of evidence -- both archaeological and textual -- in a masterful reconstruction of the lost world of the Scythians, allowing them to emerge in all their considerable vigour and splendour for the first time in over two millennia. Author Talk | The Scythians | Barry Cunliffe | 39:29 Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) 173K subscribers | 131,877 views | March 25, 2020

A series of open miracles on the flydubai flight that very nearly went down with a plane full of passengers. Miracle 1: A plane full of people survived an attempt by the copilot to crash their aircraft. Passengers and crew broke into the cockpit and subdued the attacker after he stabbed the captain. Miracle 2: Two off-duty flydubai pilots happened to be on board. They took control of the plunging aircraft and landed it safely. Miracle 3: The plane plummeted and spun out of control - spiraling some 17,000 feet. It ultimately touched down with a chunk of its rudder...

In 2007 a spacecraft was launched with a special tether experiment named 'YES2' - this was planned to deploy a 30km tether and swing it like a pendulum to return a payload to Earth without using rockets. It holds the record for the longest object ever deployed in space, but, we don't know what happened to the return capsule. World's Largest Slingshot Threw A Spacecraft To Earth! | 14:54 Scott Manley | 1.87M subscribers | 103,941 views | September 30, 2026

…..According to media witnesses, authorities appeared to give Pike two doses of pentobarbital, and she was still awake and snoring more than 40 minutes after the last dose, The AP reported, and at 8:53 p.m. local time, there was an announcement to escort media witnesses out of the area.

(Artist's concept of the new Mesabi Metallics steel plant to be built in Minnesota)Monday’s news cycle brought an exciting story for both the manufacturing industry and America’s heartland: Mesabi Metallics has announced a new $15-billion steel mill to be built in Iowa, along the Mississippi River. With an expectation of being up and running by 2030, the mill will be the largest ever in the United States, being budgeted to reach approximately 10 percent of current American steel production within a couple years of startup. The statistics shared at the announcement anticipate five or six thousand construction jobs for its...

Okay, I’m going to talk about Green Lantern again. The silly superhero, and what DC Studios is doing with that character, that franchise. It’s going to be one of those days, so be warned. About a month ago, I talked about The Green Lantern Show, a.k.a. Lanterns on HBO. Which is part of this new DC Universe they’re trying to establish, which launched with Superman last year. That reboot. (Technically, it launched with something called Creature Commandos, an HBO cartoon based on some obscure DC characters. Basically, monsters who fight for the United States. But nobody watched that.) Anyway, they’re...

To the honorable people of the United States of America—the scholars, the students, and the members of the media, We begin this letter by saluting the noble souls of God’s greatest prophets—Noah, Abraham,Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, may His peace and blessings be upon them all. … …it should be fairly obvious that the phrase "Death to America," which Iranians have been chanting since the triumph of the Islamic Revolution… is a prayer for the eradication of the diabolical ruling elite whose seat of power is the White House. The men enthroned at the White House oppress both Iranians and Americans....

Leo XIV in France: Which Christianity Is the Vatican Now Promoting? Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic journey to France appears as a call to awaken hope and recover Europe’s Christian roots, but in substance it reveals the adoption of a horizontal and multilateral humanism, in which the Catholic faith is reduced to an ethical and social force at the service of a pacified and desacralized global coexistence.Pope Leo XIV’s journey to France, from September 25 to 28, was received by the media and the world at large as a major pastoral success. The press, both French and international, particularly highlighted the...

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D) is narrowly leading her Republican opponent, former NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya, in a new poll in the state’s U.S. Senate race. The InsiderAdvantage survey found that 46 percent of likely voters in the state supported Flanagan, while Tafoya garnered 45 percent support. Matt Towery, a pollster with InsiderAdvantage, called the survey results “unusual” for a race in a blue-leaning state, noting outgoing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) waning approval ratings and a widespread fraud scandal in the state as possible contributing factors to this close race. “Tafoya does extremely well with men and...

How Government Mandated Vehicle Kill Switches Can End Up Killing You Instead! 18 minutes worth watching. Next year, all vehicles must have kill switches that monitor your behavior and shut off (or prevent starting) if it thinks you're impaired. He details a gruesome injury that happened to him and what he had to do to survive. Long story short, such a feature would have killed him.

A senior American official confirmed to Channel 14 News on Wednesday that the United States is prepared to provide investigative and intelligence support to Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia upon request. The offer follows the dramatic thwarted hijacking aboard flydubai Flight FZ1073, as intelligence agencies across the Middle East coordinate to uncover the motives and potential state-backed terror networks behind the Omani first officer's assault.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department announced charges Wednesday against 10 foreign nationals accused of illegally registering to vote and then casting ballots in Minnesota. Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters that illegal aliens from Brazil, Ghana and Liberia falsely claimed US citizenship to vote in the 2022 midterm elections, the 2024 elections and some primary elections earlier this year. “Voter fraud erodes the public’s trust in our electoral system, and it’s vital to our democratic process that we do everything that we can to restore that trust,” Blanche said. “The most basic way the Department of Justice can accomplish this...

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“Children were 60% more likely to suffer recurrent respiratory disease with at least double the risk of recurrent ear and strep infections,” said Children’s Health Defense Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker, co-author of a new preprint study published last week. “In general, the risk increased in the vaccinated group based on increasing number of vaccines.” Early childhood vaccination is associated with significantly higher odds of multiple acute and chronic health conditions in children, according to a new study comparing the health outcomes of vaccinated and unvaccinated children. The study, published last week on the preprint server Zenodo, is co-authored by...

A WGXA report reveals that the pair, along with 28 others, trespassed and held an unauthorized pool party at the Bowman Station Apartments, where over a dozen guns were recovered after deputies received reports of vandalism, trespassing and drug use at several apartment complexes in Macon.

The compensation system built to fail Americans Two Americans can suffer serious injuries after receiving federally protected vaccines and find themselves in two entirely different systems of justice. One may enter a compensation program that has paid roughly half of the petitions it has adjudicated. The other may enter a program that has compensated fewer than one in a hundred decided COVID-19 vaccine claims. Neither person chose the system. Neither person was likely told there were two very different systems for vaccine injuries before rolling up a sleeve. Congress chose what compensation they would encounter if injured, years before either...

The UK government’s “one in one out” deal with France, which was supposed to help deter small boat arrivals, is expected to expire on Thursday, government sources have said. Negotiations to extend the deal have stalled over French demands for a Europe-wide deal instead, and a reluctance to scale up the numbers of people exchanged between the two countries. Flights that remove people who have been already detained under the scheme will continue, but they are expected to end within weeks. A UK government source confirmed that the expectation was that the deal would be formally drawn to a close...

A new migrant caravan is moving north through Mexico toward the United States — and White House Border Czar Tom Homan is warning migrants not to expect the welcome that previous caravans encountered during the Biden years. Homan delivered a direct message as federal officials monitor the “Fe y Esperanza,” or “Faith and Hope,” caravan traveling through southern Mexico. Migrants who attempt to illegally enter the United States will not be released into the country, Homan said. “They’ll be immediately turned around, or they’ll be arrested and prosecuted and deported,” Homan said. The caravan began its journey from San Pedro...

WASHINGTON — It’s the richest table ever assembled. An extraordinary cadre of the country’s most powerful tech titans with a collective fortune of over $1.8 trillion converged upon the White House Tuesday for President Trump’s summit on artificial intelligence. Despite many of them competing against each other — in some cases very bitterly — the multi-billionaire president managed to bring them together at the White House to discuss how America and outflank China — and the guardrails needed for the nascent tech. The summit illustrated Trump’s eagerness to have the federal government collaborate with and elevate the private sector, despite...

Chuck Schumer just told the country that banning congressional insider trading is fine, so long as nobody has to show a photo ID to vote. When Republicans put both ideas in the same bill, every Senate Democrat voted no. The Stop Insider Trading Act died Wednesday on a 53-47 party-line vote. Sixty votes were required to beat the filibuster. Every Republican voted to advance it. Every Democrat voted to kill it. That is not a complicated story, no matter how many times Schumer says the word “skullduggery.” Christian and Conservative news hand-curated the way it’s supposed to be. Stay full-MAGA...