Map of Constantinople in Byzantine period
https://redd.it/1q100f1
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The rich carved decorations that fill the Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth.

In Byzantine times, the church was concentric, but after being destroyed by Muslims, it was rebuilt in a basilica style, giving it a medieval appearance, even though the current building was constructed in the XVIII century.

The famous statue Veiled Vestal, created by Italian sculptor Raffaelle Monti in 1847, Italy.

💢 Trump Recognizes Maduro's #2, Delcy Rodriguez as President

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/who-is-delcy-rodriguez-vice-president-who-could-replace-venezuelas-maduro-2026-01-03/

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📝 🇺🇸 🇻🇪 The most exteme "realpolitik" scenario is a Trump puppet Chavist government

PSUV stays in power, but they allow american Oil giants to extract and exploit the reserves

Humiliating both democratic opposition and anti-imperialists

📝 Arban: Given how swiftly they got Maduro, there was no resistance, the other top dawgs still remain in Venezuela, nobel prize lady thrown under the bus, this is the most likely outcome at this point.

📎 Antonio

Trump BURSTS Bubble On Nobel Winner Machado’s Venezuela Takeover; US Will RUN Country

https://modernity.news/2026/01/04/trump-bursts-bubble-on-nobel-winner-machados-venezuela-takeover-us-will-run-country/

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- President Trump repeated that the United States would move towards a second phase of strikes if Maduro's VP and now current President of Venezuela Delcy Rodriguez did not capitulate and agree to US terms, as of now it seems that Rodriguez is refusing to agree to US terms and is demanding the release of Nicholas Maduro.

Troops on the ground in Venezuela are also a possibility if the current Maduro regime does not agree to an exchange of power making the United States the authority in Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "The defense decree is now activated, all of Venezuela is mobilized. There is only one President in this country, and his name is Nicolás Maduro Moros." - Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez.

🏠 The State Duma proposed writing off a mortgage when four children are born.

Deputy Nina Ostashina stated that the loan should be gradually written off when each child is born, and after the birth of the fourth child, it should be fully repaid.

🇮🇱✝️ - Israeli PM Netanyahu:

"Christians are oppressed everywhere in the Middle East — except one place: Israel".

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BREAKING: Pizzerias are reporting above-average traffic to the Pentagon today.

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✝️ 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Israel is banning Christians in Gaza from their annual Christmas pilgrimage to Bethlehem for the third consecutive year.

Only two churches are currently operating in Gaza, the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Porphyrius, and the Catholic Church of the Holy Family. They are currently sheltering approximately 900 Christians who fled their homes since the beginning of the Israeli bombardment of the Strip. Gaza’s Christian community, which is among the oldest in the world, only numbers at about 1,000 individuals.

Like so many others in Gaza’s Christian community, Ayad was personally affected by the bombing of the Greek Orthodox Church. “The moment the church was bombed was difficult for all Christians and Muslims in Gaza,” he stressed to BreakThrough News. “They crossed all boundaries in their targeting and spared no one. In that bombing, I lost my cousin, her husband, and their child. An entire family was wiped off the civil registry… That’s why we decided to leave until the war ended, but the war dragged on.”

https://breakthroughnews.org/three-years-without-christmas-in-gaza/

Antoine Lavoisier, 18th century French chemist, as a final experiment told his college that he would try to blink as long as possible after being beheaded. Some sources say he continued to blink for 30 seconds.

Josh from Kiwi Farms has put an entire website together to colate all the info about all the terrible stuff Vivek has said and done to the American people and it's pretty thorough.

https://new.gop/bio/vivek-ramaswamy/