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Went to World War 2 Museum in Wakefield, RI, this weekend. Definitely worth checking out if you’re in the area Tons of random stuff that makes everything real. - All types of propaganda posters - Japanese battle maps of Iwo Jima - Shovel Hitler used to start creation of the Autobahn wwiifoundation.org

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Happy Juneteenth 🫡

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Can’t believe I’d never heard of this before. Greek guy named Pytheas basically sailed around all of Europe ~330 BC - He left from modern Marseille, but it’s disputed whether he went overland through France/Spain or sailed through Gibraltar since the Carthaginians had shut down the strait at the time. - He gets to the north side of Europe and circumnavigates Britain, including the Orkney Islands and names a distant island “Thule” possibly Iceland - Offers explanation of the tides being caused by the moon measurements of latitude, and is the first written record of the Arctic midnight sun

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WWII era armor, operated and maintained by volunteers “The goal of the Museum of American Armor is to bring the sights and sounds of American history to a new generation, and thereby pay tribute to those who have dedicated their lives to defending our freedoms.”

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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was always more fascinating as an hombre riding a motorcycle for eight thousand miles.

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Legendary Romanian socialist Ștefan Gheorghiu (1879-1914)

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Ancient Romans weren’t just builders, they were chemists ahead of their time. They created a unique blend of volcanic ash and lime that formed concrete capable of lasting thousands of years, even underwater. Modern scientists have found that this ancient mixture can actually heal itself when exposed to seawater, thanks to a natural mineral reaction. It’s yet another example of how ancient innovation still holds secrets we’re just beginning to understand.

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Coincidentally, the solar cycles' minima and maxima seems to roughly correspond with transitional phases of recent world history: Cycle 23: minimum during bosnian war / end of communism, peaks in 9/11 wars 24: Minimum during Great Recesion, peak at Occupy/ Arab spring / Euromaidan 25: Minimum during COVID, peaking... Now. https://farcaster.xyz/catabolismo/0x427831d0

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How quaint that we forget when Kissinger and Nixon broke up.

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Updated my ancient coin site with two new additions to my collection: An Athens Tetradrachm die set (contemporary copy) and a very rare early variant of a Tetradrachm called Starr Group V.B (less than 50 are known to exist). https://ancient.moonshot.ooo

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Silhouette of a C-47 with D-Day invasion stripes flying 81 years after June 6 1944

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Felt so dumb for never realizing before that Cartagena Spain (and indirectly, Cartagena Colombia) is called that because it comes from “New Carthage” the city established by Hannibal’s father Hamilcar https://open.spotify.com/episode/7BqPDxi6lqO75VRUIo6HR5?si=E-zFDo7vSjylKqYqVeFMvA

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“For Cuban information scientists, who had experienced a socialist revolution and an abrupt redistribution of material wealth, this unequal distribution of informational wealth also had to be radically transformed.”

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Have enjoyed listening to Walter Scheidel interviews recently. https://youtu.be/U4Stzxi-m4s?si=pRpw-OooqSUWfR9o https://youtu.be/ZrK-3-qYU8I?si=RwXvewmEwV7LgAhl

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