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  • Britain's Pompeii: The Medieval Town Perfectly Preserved Under Tons Of Sand [47:43]

    06/29/2025 8:43:37 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 9 replies
    YouTube ^ | February 21, 2025 | Unearthed History - Archaeology Documentaries
    Time Team uncovers Kenfig, a lost medieval town that has been buried under sand for centuries. Join the excavation as experts search for streets, homes, and a marketplace frozen in time. Could this be an archaeological treasure trove, or just a lot of digging through sand? Britain's Pompeii: The Medieval Town Perfectly Preserved Under Tons Of Sand | 47:43 Unearthed History - Archaeology Documentaries | 164K subscribers | 62,345 views | February 21, 2025
  • Sunken Revolutionary War boat being rebuilt 15 years after crews found it digging at 9/11 site

    06/25/2025 11:20:20 AM PDT · by fidelis · 13 replies
    12News Arizona ^ | June 25, 2025 | MICHAEL HILL
    NEW YORK — Workers digging at Manhattan's World Trade Center site 15 years ago made an improbable discovery: sodden timbers from a boat built during the Revolutionary War that had been buried more than two centuries earlier. Now, over 600 pieces from the 50-foot (15-meter) vessel are being painstakingly put back together at the New York State Museum. After years on the water and centuries underground, the boat is becoming a museum exhibit. Arrayed like giant puzzle pieces on the museum floor, research assistants and volunteers recently spent weeks cleaning the timbers with picks and brushes before reconstruction could even...
  • 30 Vintage Photos From 1973

    06/21/2025 6:23:38 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 117 replies
    Aol ^ | 06/20/2025 | Rachel Schneider
    The year 1973 was full of change and entirely groovy. The U.S. pulled out of Vietnam, Roe v. Wade shook up the courts, and gas lines stretched for blocks as the oil crisis took hold. On the flip side, bell-bottoms were in full swing, Pink Floyd dropped “The Dark Side of the Moon,” and a little horse named Secretariat ran straight into the history books. These 1973 photos represent how electric the year was.
  • Gingrich: Trump, Netanyahu Will ‘Change History Decisively’

    06/19/2025 9:04:59 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 11 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/19/2025 | Jeff Poor
    Wednesday on FNC’s “Hannity,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich argued President Donald Trump will be the one who will break a long-standing hostile Iranian regime. According to Gingrich, such an effort, along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will change history “decisively.” “It’s obvious. I mean, in so many ways, he’s given them every opportunity to peacefully get out of what is their own demise and destruction,” host Sean Hannity said. “Can you believe in such a short period of time the Israelis dominate the entire — the airwaves and the skies of Iran in such a short period of...
  • Iran Threatens U.S. With "Devastating" Response Mar 17, 2025

    06/17/2025 7:01:11 PM PDT · by daniel1212 · 36 replies
    newsweek ^ | Mar 17, 2025 | Amir Daftari
    Salami issued a stark statement, saying any act of aggression against Iran would result in a "tough, decisive and devastating reaction." He also said that Tehran takes full responsibility for its actions and will "overtly" acknowledge them when necessary. "If we attack anywhere or support anybody, we will unequivocally announce it," Salami said. However, he said that Iran does not dictate the policies of the Yemeni Houthi movement, which he stated make their own strategic decisions. His comments came after President Donald Trump threatened Iran, warning against support for Yemen's government and militant groups. Iran's Supreme Leader framed the strikes...
  • Biden: US prepared to use force to stop Iran getting nuclear arms "prepared to use all elements of its national power" to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon"

    06/17/2025 7:01:05 PM PDT · by daniel1212 · 9 replies
    BBC ^ | 14 July 2022 | Raffi Berg & Tom Bateman
    Mr Biden made the declaration with Israel's Prime Minister Yair Lapid on the second day of his visit there.... The US and Israel have long accused Iran of state-sponsored terrorism in the Middle East and further afield. Iran provides funding, training and weapons to Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement, and the Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. Iran denies that it sponsors terrorism and says the organisations it backs are resistance groups fighting Israeli and US aggression... Iran is embroiled in a crisis with the US and other Western countries over its nuclear programme. It has breached...
  • Trump to flood big cities like LA and NYC with ICE agents in ‘single largest Mass Deportation Program’ in history

    06/16/2025 12:51:48 AM PDT · by Libloather · 50 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6/15/25 | Caitlin McCormack
    President Trump announced plans to flood Democrat-run cities, namely New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, with new, larger waves of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to bring about the “single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.” Trump highlighted the sweeping change targeting the majority-Democrat cities on Truth Social Sunday night as he praised ICE agents for their “incredible strength, determination, and courage.” “In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside,” Trump wrote. “These,...
  • Federal actions to suppress insurrections, violent riots, and radical threats, 1863 - 2025

    06/11/2025 5:09:02 PM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 8 replies
    FreeRepublic ^ | June 11, 2025 | ProtectOurFreedom & Grok 3
    New York City Draft Riots (July 13-16, 1863) Opposition to Civil War conscription sparked riots in New York City, primarily among Irish immigrants. Mobs attacked government buildings, looted, and targeted Black residents, killing at least 120. Federal troops (~4,000) from the Battle of Gettysburg restored order, killing dozens of rioters in street battles, one of the largest federal responses to urban unrest at the time.Eutaw Riot, Alabama (1870) The Ku Klux Klan attacked a Republican rally in Eutaw, Alabama, targeting Black voters. Federal troops (~500) restored order, an early use of federal force against racial violence in the Reconstruction-era South.Coeur...
  • Dem Makes Case for More Immigrants [semi-satire]

    06/09/2025 11:28:01 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 2 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 8 Jun 2025 | John Semmens
    Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt) made the strongest argument yet for why we need to increase immigration, saying "if we don't have avenues for people to come here legally we're not going to have anybody around to do the jobs Americans are not willing to do. One of the more distasteful things each of us has to do is wipe our asses. The same hand we eat with comes within a thin piece of toilet paper of contacting our own excrement. We are a rich enough country to not have to do this ourselves. In past times many of the elite...
  • Immigration authorities highlight criminal history of multiple migrants arrested in Los Angeles

    06/08/2025 4:30:05 AM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies
    Fox News ^ | 6/08/25 | Landon Mion, Bill Melugin
    Federal immigration authorities said some of the migrants arrested in the Los Angeles area last week had criminal histories that included assault and drug offenses. Nearly 45 people were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday alone, as officers swept through several locations, including two Home Depot stores, a store in the fashion district and a doughnut shop, prompting protests that continued through the weekend against immigration enforcement operations in which officers raided businesses to arrest workers. The weeklong tally of migrant arrests in the city surpassed 100. One man has already been sent back to Mexico after being...
  • D-Day: The day that turned the tide – remembering June 6, 1944

    06/06/2025 7:29:42 AM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 19 replies
    DEFENSE Magazine ^ | June 6, 2025 | Michael Fencl
    June 6, 1944—a date etched into the annals of history. Known simply as D-Day, it was the start of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, and the largest amphibious assault ever conducted. But beneath the surface of this widely remembered military operation lie lesser-known stories, unsung innovations, and strategic gambits that made this turning point of World War II both extraordinary and brutal. The Massive Deception that Made D-Day Possible One of the most overlooked elements of D-Day is the sophisticated web of deception known as Operation Bodyguard, a set of diversionary operations meant to mislead the German...
  • Egyptian Women Just Ended The "Palestinian" Debate FOREVER!

    06/03/2025 11:38:50 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 11 replies
    Sahar TV ^ | 29/5/25 | Nonie Darwish
    Pre-67 resident of Ghaza, saw terror actions against Israel staging from Gaza, moved to Egypt with her family, gives her eye witness accounts. Transcript linked below video.
  • Last living grandson of 10th U.S. President John Tyler, a link to a bygone era, dies at 96

    05/28/2025 8:27:43 PM PDT · by Az Joe · 66 replies
    cBS Snooze ^ | 05/28/2025 | Cara Tabachnick
    The last living grandson of the 10th U.S. President John Tyler has died at 96 years old — the end of a link to a bygone era of American history.
  • Podunk, USA exists in Upstate NY— blink and you'll miss it

    05/26/2025 8:33:16 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 43 replies
    Syracuse dot com ^ | July 22, 2022 | Sunny Hernandez
    "A hypothetical small town regarded as typically dull or insignificant."That's the definition Google assigns to the word "Podunk." For many it's a mythical place filled with country bumpkins and nothing to do.As it turns out, Podunk actually exists and it's right in Upstate New York.There are no official signs to let you know you've arrived, other than map coordinates and the nod of a street sign reading "Podunk Road," but one can actually visit the hamlet of Podunk, New York. The tiny no-stoplight-town, made up of a handful of houses, is inside the town [township] of Ulysses, nestled within the...
  • Classical Composer Ludwig van Beethoven Was Full of Heavy Metal

    05/25/2025 11:52:37 AM PDT · by Publius · 56 replies
    ZME Science via MSN ^ | 25 May 2025 | Tibu Pulu
    Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a prodigious composer, credited with 722 works that pushed the boundaries of music and ushered in the Romantic era. Yet, his personal life was marred by several health challenges. Beethoven continued working despite deafness (and what a curse that must have felt like for a composer of his caliber), gastrointestinal troubles, and jaundice. A year ago, scientists sequenced Beethoven’s genome from his hair. They found genetic risk factors for liver disease but nothing conclusive about his other ailments. Now, new research suggests lead toxicity might explain the composer’s suffering.
  • Did the Puritans agree on End Times theology?

    05/24/2025 10:36:11 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 40 replies
    Were the Puritans aligned in their eschatological views? This article examines various theologies of eschatology that emerged between the 17th and 18th centuries, focusing on seven prominent Puritan writers and their unique perspectives. We’re going to look at Owen, Goodwin, the Mathers (father and son), Edwards, Turreting and Wittsius. Each of these Puritan writers offers unique interpretations of eschatology that draw on specific passages from the Bible, particularly the book of Revelation. Their arguments, however, were not without their weaknesses. For example, premillennialists like Cotton Mather faced the challenge of reconciling their beliefs with passages that suggest a more spiritual...
  • WILD VIDEO: Ceiling of 650-Year-Old Chinese Fengyang Drum Tower Collapses, Sending Tourists Scrambling

    05/22/2025 7:15:31 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 29 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | May 22, 2025 | Staff
    For centuries, the Fengyang Drum Tower stood tall over the Chinese Anhui province, working like a sort of clock marking the time of day, and announcing the beginning of official ceremonies. But the passage of time and a recent renovation have led to a disaster last Monday that very nearly ended in a catastrophe costing human lives. CNN reported: “Visitors to a centuries-old tourist site in eastern China were sent scrambling after hundreds of roof tiles came loose and cascaded more than two stories to the ground.” MULTIPLE VIDEOS AT LINK............. The Fengyang drum Tower is one of the largest...
  • Oklahoma public schools to teach about the 2020 election ‘discrepancies’ using real data, and leftists are losing it

    05/20/2025 4:51:11 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 15 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 19 May, 2025 | Olivia Murray
    How dare school teachers introduce indisputable information and ask students to draw their own conclusions! How dare public school teachers introduce hard, indisputable facts, and ask students to draw their own conclusions? Don’t they know that public schools are institutions meant to be used for the proliferation of progressivism? The teachers’ unions and leftist activists have worked so hard to eliminate silly and outdated things like arithmetic, civics, and rhetoric, replacing them with curricula like critical race theory, gender studies, and socialism—and now, Oklahoma is undoing the entire structure they’ve spent decades assembling. Under state superintendent Ryan Walters, Oklahoma is...
  • The Tenuous Taboo: Egypt, ISIS, and Chemical Weapons in the Middle East

    05/18/2025 12:27:51 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 2 replies
    Diplomatic Courier ^ | October 7, 2015 | Asher Orkaby, PhD
    ...With the guidance of former Nazi German munitions experts, Nasser expanded Egypt's chemical weapons program to include the production of mustard gas, chlorine, phosgene, and according to several intelligence estimates, even advanced nerve agents. A short four years later, Egypt deployed this new class of weapons in January 1967 on the small northern Yemeni village of Kitaf, located within the vicinity of the Yemeni tribal opposition's cave headquarters.International media, whose attention had already been drawn to South Arabia by the continuation of hostilities, wasted little time in shining the spotlight and launching full-scale journalistic inquiry into Egypt's use of chemical...
  • ‘Tasteless’: NYC Tears Down Statue Of Thomas Jefferson, Erects 12-foot Statue of 'Overweight Black Woman'

    05/07/2025 8:59:28 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 52 replies
    Red State ^ | 05/07/2025 | Katie Jerkovich
    New York City previously tore down a historic Thomas Jefferson statue only to now erect a 12-foot bronze statue of an "overweight black woman," which many blasted as “tasteless” and more.The statue is called “Grounded in the Stars” and was unveiled on Wednesday in Times Square, created by artist Thomas J. Price. The artist's “Man Series,” a stop motion animation, will also appear nightly throughout May on the district’s billboards, providing a “two-part takeover” in the district that “amplifies traditionally marginalized bodies on a monumental scale," per the Times Square website.Price said, per the Times Square site.“Times Square stands as...