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TIL The giant panda wasn't recognized as a true bear until 1985 because it shared traits with raccoons
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"Monarchy first changes into its vicious allied form, tyranny; and next, the abolishment of both gives birth to aristocracy. 9 Aristocracy by its very nature degenerates into oligarchy; and when the commons inflamed by anger take vengeance on this government for its unjust rule, democracy comes into being; and in due course the license and lawlessness of this form of government produces mob-rule to complete the series."
The Histories, Polybius (~200–120 BC)
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/6*.html
The Histories, Polybius (~200–120 BC)
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/6*.html
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Polybius • Histories — Book 6
Part of a complete English translation of Polybius. Site contains many Greek and Latin texts, translations and related material.
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NEW - School teacher, Enoch Burke, jailed again, in Ireland for "contempt of court." Burke was suspended in 2022 from his school after refusing to use a student's preferred pronouns, citing his Christian beliefs.
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A 32,000-year-old saber-toothed tiger kitten is being studied in Yakutia.
🐯In northeastern Yakutia, where permafrost stretches to the horizon, scientists have brought to light a find that even experienced paleontologists trembled at, because from under a layer of ancient ice they took out a saber-toothed tiger kitten, preserved so perfectly, as if it had just fallen asleep in the cold last night.
🐯Homotherium latidens is a "saber—toothed cat", a representative of an ancient genus of predators that inhabited North America, Eurasia and Africa during the Pleistocene epoch, when glacial winds shaped the landscape, and giant mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses and cave lions determined the rules of survival.
🐯The perfect preservation is explained by the cold, dryness and stability of the environment, which froze the body without decomposition, preserving the structure of the coat, the shape of the paws and even the thin whiskers.
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🐯In northeastern Yakutia, where permafrost stretches to the horizon, scientists have brought to light a find that even experienced paleontologists trembled at, because from under a layer of ancient ice they took out a saber-toothed tiger kitten, preserved so perfectly, as if it had just fallen asleep in the cold last night.
🐯Homotherium latidens is a "saber—toothed cat", a representative of an ancient genus of predators that inhabited North America, Eurasia and Africa during the Pleistocene epoch, when glacial winds shaped the landscape, and giant mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses and cave lions determined the rules of survival.
🐯The perfect preservation is explained by the cold, dryness and stability of the environment, which froze the body without decomposition, preserving the structure of the coat, the shape of the paws and even the thin whiskers.
Video: Ri00
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Inside the operation of the world’s largest ship elevator at the Three Gorges Dam, China.
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Great review of The Brave and the Bold, third book in The Hidden Truth series.
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"Schantz’s world building is, I think the make or break aspect of the book, and really the whole series, for most people. He goes into great detail describing the secret history behind the development of many technologies we take for granted today, as well as recapping some of the physics that the Circle is trying to keep secret. The intent is both to help the reader understand on a base level what the Circle is up to and how they go about accomplishing their goals of containing technological development and disrupting Western Civilization. Some readers might find the level of detail excessive. On the other hand, I find it draws me in even further, making the book difficult to put down to say the least. Part of that is because the author does such a good job describing things in an accessible way and the other is that most of the details are actually true. It makes you realize that the free market has never really been free."
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"Schantz’s world building is, I think the make or break aspect of the book, and really the whole series, for most people. He goes into great detail describing the secret history behind the development of many technologies we take for granted today, as well as recapping some of the physics that the Circle is trying to keep secret. The intent is both to help the reader understand on a base level what the Circle is up to and how they go about accomplishing their goals of containing technological development and disrupting Western Civilization. Some readers might find the level of detail excessive. On the other hand, I find it draws me in even further, making the book difficult to put down to say the least. Part of that is because the author does such a good job describing things in an accessible way and the other is that most of the details are actually true. It makes you realize that the free market has never really been free."
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Review: The Brave and the Bold by Hans Schantz
Book Three in The Hidden Truth series takes the fight straight to the Civic Circle
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"Every Christmas, Judas Iscariot is let out of Hell. Most people never leave, not even once, and they did not betray Our Lord and Savior to his agonizing if necessary death, so you might not expect him to get special treatment. In fact, Judas leaves Hell on a regular basis. As this infamous man told St. Brendan the Navigator, that night long long ago when the saint and his companions came across him on a frozen sea, he is released from Hell on Sundays, for the twelve days of Christmas, and a couple additional feast days beside."
https://www.notebook.bdmcclay.com/p/a-december-ghost-story?r=lp6h7
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Help the Society for Post-Quantum Research put the classical back into classical physics by putting Amazon's #1 New Release in Electromagnetism under your Christmas tree.
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TIL that in the 1830s, when the Taj Mahal had fallen into severe neglect and held no significant tourist or cultural value, the British seriously considered dismantling it and auctioning it off to raise funds—but the plan was ultimately abandoned after low returns from a trial auction
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"John Leake: The Demonic Rituals to Replicate God and Mankind’s New Religion of Science" - Tucker Carlson, YouTube, 08DEC2025
>Ritual piercing of the body. The shedding of blood. The promise of salvation. John Leake explains the religion of vaccines, and why its adherents are dangerous.
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>Ritual piercing of the body. The shedding of blood. The promise of salvation. John Leake explains the religion of vaccines, and why its adherents are dangerous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PQpQ0MtHF0
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"Gerard’s death, announced today, December 17, 2025, closes a chapter not only in television history, but in the long, evolving life of one of science fiction’s most durable characters.
When Buck Rogers returned to the screen at the end of the 1970s, science fiction was in the midst of a cultural recalibration. Sci-fi on television struggled with the post-Star Wars world. The genre was shaking off the cynicism of the post-Apollo era and rediscovering a sense of adventure, optimism, and wonder. Gerard’s Buck was not a relic of the past, nor a grim futurist anti-hero. He was something rarer: a bridge figure."
https://open.substack.com/pub/lucinarocketeer/p/remembering-gil-gerard-19432025?r=lp6h7
When Buck Rogers returned to the screen at the end of the 1970s, science fiction was in the midst of a cultural recalibration. Sci-fi on television struggled with the post-Star Wars world. The genre was shaking off the cynicism of the post-Apollo era and rediscovering a sense of adventure, optimism, and wonder. Gerard’s Buck was not a relic of the past, nor a grim futurist anti-hero. He was something rarer: a bridge figure."
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Remembering Gil Gerard (1943–2025)
Buck Rogers and the Living Future
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North Carolina academic James G. Leyburn, in a social history of the Scotch-Irish, described the Scots who moved to Ulster as humble folk with ambition and qualities of character that made good pioneers. "Even Presbyterian ministers who worked among them in Ulster were usually from humbler walks of Scottish life, for The Kirk offered no sinecures for younger sons of the gentry." Scots-Irish were a unique people and the extent of their influence in the establishment of the USA after the Revolutionary War was considerable. Scots-Irish are described as clannish, contentious, hard to get on with, set in their ways. A Scots-Irish prayer ran: "Lord grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest I am hard to turn."
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Welcome to Hell
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Scrooge in Hell, 1970 with Albert Finney & Alec Guinness
This scene was always cut from network TV broadcasts of the 1970 Scrooge, that scared the "Hell" out of me as a five year old watching in a theater.
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In some Japan's schools, education isn’t just about knowledge — it’s about character. For the first three years of school, children in these specific institutes don’t take academic exams at all.
Instead, the focus is on respect, empathy, and moral values.
Students learn to clean their classrooms, serve lunch to their peers, and care for their environment. Teachers emphasize teamwork, discipline, and gratitude — qualities considered as vital as academic success.
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Instead, the focus is on respect, empathy, and moral values.
Students learn to clean their classrooms, serve lunch to their peers, and care for their environment. Teachers emphasize teamwork, discipline, and gratitude — qualities considered as vital as academic success.
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TIL nearly one in three humans have the parasite toxoplasma gondii. Passed from cats, and only capable of reproducing in cats, it potentially has a higher rate of schizophrenia and suicidal ideation.
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From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL nearly one in three humans have the parasite toxoplasma gondii. Passed from cats…
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Looks like we’re going to see some of those wicked Lutheran and Catholic charities aiding and abetting the invasion going out of business in 2026: The Trump administration is making sponsors pay back the money that migrants received through tax-payer funded benefits like welfare and health care. Deputy Secretary of HHS, Jim O’Neill, is sending […]
https://voxday.net/2025/12/21/bankrupt-them-all/
Looks like we’re going to see some of those wicked Lutheran and Catholic charities aiding and abetting the invasion going out of business in 2026: The Trump administration is making sponsors pay back the money that migrants received through tax-payer funded benefits like welfare and health care. Deputy Secretary of HHS, Jim O’Neill, is sending […]
https://voxday.net/2025/12/21/bankrupt-them-all/
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