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The Crimean Tatars often carried out predatory raids into Polish territory. Sometimes they did this together with the Ottoman army or Zaporozhian Cossacks. The Polish government paid a high annual tribute to the Tatars to prevent their raids. Despite these efforts, the early modern Crimea was full of slaves from Poland. Not all of these, however, were of Polish ethnicity: among the enslaved inhabitants of Poland were also the Ruthenians (Ukrainians), Lithuanians, Jews, and Armenians. According to the account of the Dominican friar Francesco Piscopo (the 1660s) Polish was second in importance language of the Crimea after Ottoman Turkish (Turc...

The "good thief" of Luke 23 was not executed for simple thievery. In the context of first-century Roman Judea, simple theft was never a capital offense. [1, 2] To understand why he was crucified, it is necessary to look at the specific language of the Gospels and the nature of Roman provincial law. [2, 3] The Greek Terminology: Beyond Simple TheftWhile Luke 23:32 uses the general plural noun kakourgoi (κακοῦργοι), which translates to "criminals," "evildoers," or "malefactors," the parallel accounts in Matthew 27:38 and Mark 15:27 use a much more specific word: lēstai (λῃσταί). [4, 5] What it does not...

Let’s start with the obvious: “Basket of deplorables” is a weird turn of phrase. There are baskets and there are deplorable people, but pairing the two is the oddest of linguistic odd couples. Hillary Clinton said those three words in the final months of her 2016 presidential campaign, making rhetorical and political history. There were two kinds of Donald Trump supporters, she explained: Voters who feel abandoned and desperate, who she placed in one metaphorical basket, and those she called “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic” — her “basket of deplorables.” Trump — the same man who announced his candidacy...

This video, presented by Melissa from the Reagan Library, explores the eclectic and fun friendships of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Given his background in radio and Hollywood before entering politics, he maintained many high-profile relationships throughout his life. Key friendships discussed: Frank Sinatra: One of Reagan's closest friends (1:26-3:55). They met in Hollywood and remained close until Sinatra's passing in 1998. The library holds a game gift set Sinatra gave the Reagans for Christmas in the 1970s. Bob Hope: A friend to 11 U.S. Presidents, Hope frequently joked with Reagan (3:56-6:13). The video includes a clip of them humorously...

For six centuries, the body of Alexander the great lay in a monumental tomb in at heart of Alexandria. After a series of disasters, the tomb vanished. The conqueror's body, however, may have survived... Following the death of the conqueror in Babylon, their body began a long journey involving squabbling generals, a golden coffin in Alexandria, and various imperial visitors. tol-in-stone examines the tumultuous history of this lost mausoleum, exploring theories ranging from catastrophic destruction to a potential relocation to Venice. Where is the Body of Alexander the Great? | 8:35 toldinstone | 648K subscribers | 298,441 views | July...

A new study, "Range and diet diversity in the Pleistocene American 'cheetah,' Miracinonyx trumani," was published in the scientific journal Current Biology on Friday. Using the tiniest of bones, including some found in Wyoming's Natural Trap Cave, the diet and DNA of the American cheetah-like cat have been revealed in astonishing detail... "It's actually most closely related to the living mountain lion, and those are both sister species most closely related to the jaguarundi," she said. "The three of them together are distantly related to modern cheetah."... Some of the best Late Pleistocene specimens [various species] ever found have come...

American manufacturing is on the rebound — and that good news could hardly come at a better time for President Donald Trump, as Republicans gird themselves for the midterm elections just two months from now. Manufacturing isn’t the only sector that’s on a hiring spree; businesses across the board added 162,000 new jobs in August. Even The New York Times called the latest employment numbers “zesty.” The paper quoted T. Rowe Price’s chief US economist, Blerina Uruci: “It’s a very good report . . . And it perhaps shows that financial conditions more broadly are not that tight.” The workforce...

Sanity returned to the University of Florida Saturday when the Gators took on the Florida Atlantic Owls at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Florida. During the neo-Marxist cultural revolution that was the summer of 2020, everything deemed "racist" had to be purged, regardless of context or logic dictating otherwise. ESPN reported that this included the popular "gator bait" chant, in which fans would extend their arms in front of them and clap their hands together like an alligator seizing its prey. What exactly does that have to do with race? The university's president that year, Kent Fuchs, announced racial...

Here’s a little thought experiment… Imagine a community spent nearly 50 years building up a popular local sports facility, poured millions of dollars into it, and watched generations of families use it. Then, because of a problem buried deep inside the legal paperwork, they were told to hand over the keys and walk away. Now imagine people publicly celebrating that move simply because the people losing out were Aboriginal. Unthinkable, right? The entire world would melt down. But flip the races, and apparently some people get giddy and call it justice. That’s the racist little cloud now hanging over a...

Iran announced Monday it will establish a new “restricted zone” near the Strait of Hormuz within the coming days — as the flailing nation desperately tries to expand its control over the critical chokepoint. The exclusion zone will span from where the US blockade of Iran begins to other areas of the Gulf, Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said on Sunday in an interview with state TV. Rezaei said that any ship that sails into the restricted zone will be placed on a sanctions list. “Any ship that enters this area with the intention of...

The Atlantic hurricane season reaches its climatological peak this week, and AccuWeather meteorologist are monitoring just one area for potential development. VIDEO AT LINK.......... As the climatological peak of the Atlantic hurricane season arrives this week, tropical activity remains largely suppressed due to an unusually strong El Niño. The one exception is off the southeastern coast of the United States, where AccuWeather hurricane experts have highlighted an area with a low chance of tropical development into the middle of the month. "A slow-moving front will drift into the southeastern United States, leading to enhanced thunderstorm coverage. An area of tropical...

OpenAI has reportedly hired Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s daughter Jessica Schumer for a top policy job as Silicon Valley increasingly works to shore up ties with Democrats ahead of November’s midterm elections. Jessica Schumer, Amazon’s former top public-policy official in New York, is joining OpenAI to handle the company’s government outreach and partnerships in Northeastern states, Axios reported, citing a spokesperson for the AI giant. The Harvard and Yale-educated Schumer brings deep ties to Democratic politics and government to OpenAI, which is rapidly expanding its operations in Washington, DC, and state capitals as lawmakers wrestle with how to regulate...

snip Yet there was one striking exception to the stultifying conformity of cultural critique, one lonely example of an A-list star confronting a specific 9/11 event head-on and offering his voice in full-throated support of authentic American heroism. Even more impressively, it came from a Canadian - and at a time when Jean Chrétien's ministry was mostly engaged in petty sniping about alleged offenses to its amour propre. When I was, oh, fourteen years old I saw Neil Young with Crosby, Stills, Nash &... plus his compatriot Joni Mitchell and The Band. And to be honest in the intervening decades...

A Westchester County police bigwig’s bust for allegedly driving her son to a botched gang drive by in the Bronx has Democrats running for cover — and Republicans saying I told you so. Ex-Mount Vernon Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackard is facing attempted murder charges in the shocking June 29 shooting, but prominent Democrats in the region are staying mum and refusing to condemn the disgraced cop because the suburban city is a coveted party stronghold. “Democrats are the first to preach ‘no one is above the law’ until it screws them politically,” Republican National Committee spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre told...

Pardon a bit of self-indulgence, I wanted to brag about my Alma Mater, The University of Florida, who back in 2020 at the height of the BLM hysteria was led by a DEI President who banned the "Gator Bait" cheer that had been a part of UF Sporting Events for at least since the 1990s. Now at the beginning of a new football season, with a new Head Coach and new President who appreciates college football traditions decided to allow the cheer to come back. Saturday night in the first quarter the cheer returned to an overwhelmingly positive response hopefully...

When we return to work after the Labor Day weekend, the hope is that America will start paying attention to the stark choice offered at the midterm elections in November. There are just two months left until voters decide whether the Trump administration can continue the free enterprise agenda that is sparking an economic boom and keep reversing the woke cultural insanity that ruined so many lives — or whether the big-government socialists who call themselves Democrats will cripple all that progress and mire the country in another round of debilitating impeachment politics. While historical precedent and the pundit class...

Technology is supposed to make life easier. Unfortunately, it also has a remarkable ability to convince us to spend hundreds of dollars replacing devices that were working perfectly well—or buying gadgets we barely need in the first place. That problem has become especially noticeable in 2026. Smartphones have swallowed entire categories of consumer electronics, while competition has made other products so inexpensive that paying premium prices often delivers surprisingly little extra value. A recent Yahoo Shopping examination of outdated tech purchases highlighted several categories where consumers may be spending far more than necessary. That does not mean every expensive gadget...

* The curls were cute. The system wasn’t. * A black box waited off-camera. * Stardom came with a price tag. =========================================================== Most people remember Shirley Temple as the adorable childhood star during Hollywood’s heyday. The Dimples. Tap shoes. Bouncy ringlets. That heartwarming little smile. On the Good Ship Lollipop. She became the kind of child star whose image was so relentlessly cheerful that it eventually hardened into American nostalgia. Forever America’s sweetheart. Which is precisely why the story about the ominous “black box” sounds practically unbelievable the first time you hear it. A TikTok video explains that when Temple...

Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s family has called for D4vd to get the death penalty — on the eve of what would have been her 16th birthday. In an exclusive statement to the California Post, her parents said it would be the “perfect” punishment for the locked up singer, who is accused of killing and dismembering her last year. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman is currently weighing whether to pursue the death penalty or life imprisonment for the performer, whose real name is David Burke, ahead of his trial later this year. Celeste would have been turning 16 on Monday,...

The United Nations has decided that Britain has not grovelled enough. After years of toppled statues, boarded-up war memorials and official lectures about “colonialism,” a UN human-rights committee now wants the country that ended the Atlantic slave trade to fill its public squares with statues of “people of African descent,” The globalist body also suggests Britain should rewrite what children are taught, and treat historic slavery as a live brief for migration policy and hate-speech enforcement. This comes in the form of formal “reparatory justice” guidance from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, published six months after...