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  • The Last Cape Horners [1:11:39]

    06/01/2026 10:48:13 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 17 replies
    YouTube ^ | May 17, 2023 | garry Kerr
    Gustaf Erikson of Finland owned the last great fleet of sailing ships the world would ever see. We have rare first hand accounts from men who sailed from Europe to Australia to load grain and return to Europe by way of the treacherous Cape Horn. These sailings were known world wide as The Last Grain Gaces. The Last Cape Horners | 1:11:39 garry Kerr | 16K subscribers | 1,697,158 views | May 17, 2023
  • Japanese temple that holds “eternal flame” burns to the ground

    06/01/2026 10:37:20 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 34 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | June 01, 2026 | Mister Retrops
    Reikado Hall on Miyajima Island's Mount Misen has been known as the home of the "eternal flame" for over 1,200 years. And the thing about eternal flames is that if they do get out of control, you can't really put them out. Otherwise they're not so eternal are they? And then the inevitable happens: A Buddhist hall in Western Japan known for housing an "eternal flame" that has been burning for over 1,000 years caught fire and burned to the ground on Miyajima Island. pic.twitter.com/8HPHGdDu4A— The Associated Press (@AP) May 21, 2026Yep, according to News on Japan, the eternal flame...
  • Black accomplishments 101: I never realized that black folks had invented so many useful things that we take for granted today.

    06/01/2026 10:22:00 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 88 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 06/01/2026 | Bill Ponton
    Ever since high school, we have all been made aware of black accomplishments with each occasion of black history month in February. There was Harriet Tubman’s railroad and Rosa Parks’s bus seat, but most memorable of all, was George Washington Carver who invented the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, which was a mainstay of kid’s lunches until nervous white mothers had it banned from schools. Apart from those recollections, I have not given much thought to the cultural legacy of blacks, except for their music, dance, and comedy. However, around the time of George Floyd, I started to hear common...
  • What Lies Beneath: Massive Secret Vault Under Lincoln Memorial to Be Opened to Public for America250

    06/01/2026 7:58:28 AM PDT · by PROCON · 24 replies
    redstate.com ^ | May 31, 2026 | Bob Hoge
    If you’ve ever been to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., you’ll know it’s a majestic site, with the 19-foot-tall Georgia white marble statue of Honest Abe overlooking the Reflecting Pool and then further off, the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol.Something you presumably didn’t see on your visit, however, is a massive 50,000-square-foot foundation built to keep the whole thing from sinking into the swamps of D.C. It’s called the Undercroft, and it’s been a tightly held secret for decades.In June, the Department of the Interior will invite the public to see the hidden vault, Secretary Doug Burgum announced...
  • Archeologists Discover The Oldest Sunken City In The World [50:12]

    06/01/2026 7:29:59 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 36 replies
    YouTube ^ | May 31, 2026 | Odyssey - Ancient History Documentaries
    Just off the southern coast of mainland Greece lies the oldest submerged city in the world. It thrived for 2,000 years during the time that saw the birth of western civilisation. In this documentary, an international team of experts use cutting-edge technology to prise age-old secrets from the complex of streets and stone buildings that lie less than five metres below the surface of the ocean. State-of-the-art CGI helps to raise the city from the seabed, revealing for the first time in 3,500 years how Pavlopetri would once have looked and operated. Archeologists Discover The Oldest Sunken City In The...
  • Moment Washington schools chief is shoved in back of cop car over heinous cover up scandal (Karen Cloninger)

    06/01/2026 3:33:57 AM PDT · by Libloather · 31 replies
    California Post ^ | 5/31/26 | Nina Joudeh
    A Washington school superintendent accused of helping cover up several sexual assault allegations at a high school was recorded on body camera as officers led her out of district headquarters in handcuffs and shoved her into a police cruiser. New footage released Friday shows Longview Public Schools Superintendent Karen Cloninger being arrested at district offices following a months long investigation. Investigators alleged she tried to conceal reports of sexual assaults involving Mark Morris High School basketball players in a locker room. The investigation previously led to several players being arrested on rape charges back in February, according to KLOG 100.7....
  • Dem congressional candidate charged with terrorist threats after pulling gun on government officials (Hawaii)

    05/31/2026 10:50:33 PM PDT · by Libloather · 15 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/31/26 | Anthony Blair
    A Democrat congressional candidate from Hawaii allegedly pulled a gun on officials after storming a government building — swiftly landing him in handcuffs. Kirill Basin, 40, allegedly threatened two Maui County workers during the terrifying incident at around 9:30 a.m. on Friday before fleeing the building in Wailuku, Civil Beat reported. The longshot candidate for Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District was arrested at his home around 12:30 p.m. on a terrorist threatening in the first degree charge. Basin bizarrely claimed in an Instagram post on Thursday the day before his arrest that cops had tortured him for 14 hours. “This is...
  • Plots, love letters and remedies: The medieval secrets being revealed by AI

    05/31/2026 8:40:14 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 19 replies
    BBC ^ | May 27, 2026 | Sandrine Ceurstemont
    Deep in the archives of the Vatican library, a mysterious hand-written book, scrawled with strange symbols, had lain unread for more than 400 years. Its cryptic pages apparently concealed secret remedies "for affections of the human body", according to some text scratched inside the cover. Such healing practices were kept under wraps at the time since they could attract suspicion or even accusations of witchcraft.Known as the Borg cipher, the 408-page-long manuscript is mostly incomprehensible -- coded using 34 obscure symbols with a few Roman letters and a front page written in Arabic. There was no known key to reveal...
  • Judge awards corporations the right to vote in Delaware town

    05/31/2026 5:03:07 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 16 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | May 31, 2026 | Mister Retrops
    Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz has ruled that companies in Delaware will be able to vote in elections just like people. This is especially wacky for Delaware. As per the US Census Bureau, the estimated human population of Delaware is just over 1 million. But there are over 2 million corporations headquartered in the state, which means there are far more companies in Delaware than there are people. According to Bloomberg Law, the ruling came up because the town of Fenwick Island was already letting corporations vote in its municipal elections (they own most of the property, after all)....
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr Has a long History Handling Snakes

    05/31/2026 4:16:36 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 16 replies
    Twitter / X / Robert Kennedy ^ | May 31, 2026 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr
    Not bored with snakes yet? I caught this Timber rattler during a Colorado River trip with my Dad in 1967. My cousin Maria Shriver is to my left. pic.twitter.com/ULMzv2hFJN— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) May 31, 2026The girl is Maria Shriver. I don't know who the nose picker in the back is!......... 🙄
  • Valerie Jarrett reflects on 10-year journey to Obama Presidential Center’s opening

    05/31/2026 12:58:34 PM PDT · by Libloather · 47 replies
    WGNTV ^ | 5/26/26 | Micah Materre
    CHICAGO — Valerie Jarrett has gone from friend, confidante and special senior advisor to Barack Obama during his two terms in office to CEO of the Obama Foundation. And with less than a month to go, she’s about to witness the birth of the Obama Presidential Center. The 19.3-acre campus in Chicago’s Jackson Park neighborhood is set to open to the public June 19. “It exceeds my wildest expectations. I think we’ve really done a great job. We worked with the community to help us on the design and the jobs and the feel,” she said. “I think people will...
  • Look Back at Clint Eastwood's Life in Photos as the Hollywood Veteran Celebrates His 96th Birthday

    05/31/2026 11:16:23 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 47 replies
    People ^ | May 31, 2026 | Kate Hogan and Stephanie Sengwe
    At 96 years old, Clint Eastwood has had one of the most illustrious careers in Hollywood. Born in San Francisco on May 31, 1930, Eastwood first served in the army before he ventured into acting. He got his big break in 1959, starring as Rowdy Yates on CBS' Rawhide and his career took off from there. Throughout his 66-year-long career, Eastwood has starred in classics such as Escape from Alcatraz, Dirty Harry, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Bridges of Madison County and has directed a staggering 40 films, including American Sniper, Heartbreak Ridge, Flags of Our Fathers and more. Eastwood's...
  • Finding Sheba: The Search for an Ancient Queen

    05/31/2026 11:09:29 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 12 replies
    Aish HaTorah ^ | Sep 2025 | Avi Abrams
    Few biblical tales have stirred the imagination across cultures as powerfully as the legendary meeting between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Told in the First Book of Kings (10:1–13), the story describes a mysterious monarch who traveled from a distant land with caravans of gold, spices, and precious stones to test Solomon with riddles and witness his famed wisdom... Yet, despite the vividness of the episode, the identity and location of her kingdom remain one of the Bible’s enduring mysteries. The two most widely accepted views place Sheba either in southern Arabia (present-day Yemen) or in Ethiopia... Proponents...
  • 10 Most Iconic American Revolution Paintings

    05/31/2026 9:02:24 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 31 replies
    AmericanRevolution.org ^ | Edward St. Germain
    Paintings are our best visual reference of what the American Revolution was like, for those who lived through it. They offer a glimpse into what people wore, how battles were fought, and what it felt like to live during the Revolutionary War. However, it’s important to remember that paintings of the American Revolution were not intended as realistic depictions of the events portrayed. Most paintings were much more idealistic in nature – even those painted by artists who witnessed the events first-hand... 1. Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze (1851)2. The Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull (1819)4. The...
  • Trump calls on all future candidates to take cognitive exam, noting perfect score during latest physical

    05/31/2026 6:33:39 AM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies
    Fox News ^ | 5/31/26 | Eric Mack
    President Donald Trump fired back at critics of his health and cognitive abilities just two weeks before his 80th birthday, repeating his new favorite moniker for his Democrat critics, calling out the "Dumocrats." "All people running for President and Vice President should be forced to take high difficulty Cognitive Tests," Trump wrote in an overnight Truth Social post. "Congress, and the Dumocrats, should demand it!" Trump is set to become only the second president to serve at the advanced age of 80 after former President Joe Biden. "The results of my Physical Examination, taken at Walter Reed Military Medical Center,...
  • Hasan Piker defends pro-communist, anti-ICE Singham network activists as 'wonderful people'

    05/31/2026 6:19:39 AM PDT · by Libloather · 19 replies
    Fox News ^ | 5/31/26 | Michael Dorgan, Asra Q. Nomani
    NEWARK, N.J. – As he navigated the crowds in an impromptu appearance at a protest outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility, Marxist political influencer Hasan Piker defended figures in the pro-China activist network funded by American Marxist tech millionaire Neville Roy Singham as "wonderful people," while dismissing scrutiny surrounding his Cuba trip. Asked about reporting on Singham's network and its connections to far-left activism, Piker said there is "this environment of suspicion" surrounding Singham and his activities, taking a "sinister shape," but they are "totally above board and totally legal." In recent months, many agitators from the Singham network...
  • Father of the Two Ocean Navy: Carl Vinson [17:37]

    05/31/2026 5:51:33 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 9 replies
    YouTube ^ | May 22, 2026 | The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered
    You might not know his name, but without Carl Vinson, the world, and certainly the US Navy, might have been vastly different. Note: Just because you can think up a reason to criticize doesn't mean that you are obligated to do so. Pedantic is not a compliment folks. Father of the Two Ocean Navy: Carl Vinson | 17:37 The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered | 1.64M subscribers | 36,160 views | May 22, 2026
  • Beneath the Gold: Exploring Gilded Age Extremes

    05/30/2026 10:32:24 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 7 replies
    NY History ^ | 2023 | Gina Modero
    New York City has long been a place of extremes. During the Gilded Age (about 1870 to 1900), the contrast in the way the wealthy and the poor lived in New York was drastic... Photograph of William K. Vanderbilt’s home on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street, where the lavish costume ball was held in 1883.In stark contrast to lavish balls and mansions of the city’s wealthiest citizens, photojournalist Jacob Riis captured the shocking living conditions of New York’s poverty-stricken population in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890). His photographs reveal...
  • A Town Worker Accidentally Found Gold Worth 40,000 Euros While Mowing the Lawn

    05/30/2026 7:45:56 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 21 replies
    Daily Galaxy ^ | May 29, 2026 | Arezki Amiri
    Ten sealed gold bars turned up in a Saxon meadow with no owner, no explanation, and a six-month countdown that ended with a surprising decision. A municipal worker in Bannewitz, a small Saxon town south of Dresden, was mowing grass near a rainwater retention basin last October when he noticed something glinting in the freshly cut swath. He initially gathered eight small, sealed packages. Town officials who came to investigate found two more. Laid out together, they amounted to ten gold bars, each weighing about 28 grams, scattered in what the municipality later described as a fan-like pattern. The total...
  • Some New Yorkers demand $800K each in reparations as state commission holds hearing

    05/30/2026 3:48:06 PM PDT · by Libloather · 39 replies
    Fox News via NY Post ^ | 5/30/26 | Joshua Q. Nelson
    Some Black New Yorkers are demanding cash reparations from the government as state officials consider some form of compensation for slavery or other past racial injustices. “We need $800,000 for each foundation of Black Americans. That’s simple,” Aubrey Muhammud told Fox News Digital. “That’s — in New York — that’s about the cost of living that’ll get you a home or a small business or for you to recover from any financial duress.” The New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies held a public hearing last Saturday. The hearing followed up on when Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2023 signed...