Airfields that played a pivotal yet fleeting part of America's campaign against the Japanese Empire in World War II are now being refitted for service as the Pacific is potentially set to become a theater of war in the world's next big conflict. Airstrips on the islands of Peleliu and...

Elephants were often used as a symbol of royal authority and were often employed to torment captives in public executions. 2000 Years of Death By Elephant Explore the gruesome history of execution by elephant, a method used for over 2000 years across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Learn about its significance as a symbol of power and its varied methods of inflicting pain and death.

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Peter Hammill remembers trimming down the music and the name to spend 18 months in a ferocious punk-tinged endgame that resulted in stunning live album Vital

German populist partiy (AfD – Alternative for Germany) took more than 60% of the vote in Thuringia and almost half in Saxony in the regional elections on Sunday. The media and opposition parties insist on calling them ‘far-right extremists,’ but, in fact, they represent the hard-working middle class German patriots who oppose the creeping Islamization […]

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Normal superheroes are usually cut from a recognizable mold. But some creators throw the mold away and create superheroes different than anything we’ve seen before. Sometimes, they’re just ridiculous—like Super President, who somehow juggles running the country and fighting crime without breaking a sweat. Other times, they’re designed to teach us powerful virtues, like Bibleman, […] The post 10 Superheroes Different Than Anything You’ve Seen Before appeared first on Listverse.

While the Nazis were one of the most awful and destructive forces in the long history of humanity, they were also notable inventors. Surprisingly, Adolf Hitler’s underlings invented quite a few important and major things during their run in Germany and their spread across Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. In this list, we’ll take […] The post 10 Things the Nazis Actually Deserve Credit for Inventing appeared first on Listverse.

You can often determine the extent to which an issue is damaging to the Regime by its media’s refusal to cover or even acknowledge it. Such is the case of the violent takeover of certain parts of Aurora, Colorado by the violent Tren de Aragua gang. Consider this sequence towards the end of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’s interview on ABC This Week: ABC's Jon Karl asks Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) about both immigration *and* a local Colorado issue, but NOT about Tren de Aragua's activities in Aurora. Compare to Regime Media hounding of Trump surrogates on abortion pic.twitter.com/j9Om6M3WaU — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) September 2, 2024 ABC THIS WEEK 9/1/24 11:24 AM JON KARL: Another issue that didn't come up in the CNN interview is her now apparent support for at least in some aspects, the border wall. I mean, we've seen in her ad on the border, she uses images of the border wall. She says she'll sign the Senate bill which provided $650 million for more border wall construction. She had called previously, the border wall a medieval vanity project, and a stupid use of money that she vowed to block. So what's changed there? JARED POLIS: Look. This is another issue that as it gets into the public discourse is very misleading. Democrats in general, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, you know, Barack Obama, have always been supportive of building barriers and walls for certain parts of the border as part of a comprehensive border security strategy. KARL: But wait a minute. She called the- I mean, she called the border wall a medieval vanity project, a stupid use of money and said that she would block funding for it. So she wasn't talking about supporting, you know, the wall. POLIS: That's true. The border wall that Donald Trump has proposed is a huge boondoggle and waste of taxpayer money. He effectively talked about a wall across the entire border rather than using barriers of different kinds effectively in a cost effective manner including imagery from satellites, including on the ground intel to secure and lock down the border. What Kamala Harris is for is securing the most cost-effective way possible to stop the illegal flow of people, of guns, of drugs across that southern border, and of course, Donald Trump's border wall would not work, would waste taxpayer money, and of course, barriers and walls are a part of the overall comprehensive strategy that Kamala Harris will deliver on to secure the southern border. KARL: And let me just ask you quickly another proposal she's put out there is trying to make home ownership more affordable. One of the proposals is this $25,000 incentive for first-time home buyers. You have a big issue with affordability in Denver, of course. Do you think this would be an effective way or could it possibly actually drive up costs further? POLIS: Well it’s part of Kamala Harris's overall strategy. So what she leads with, and we're strongly in agreement, and we're pushing for it in Colorado. We're moving barriers that exist in building homes. She talks about 3 million new homes nationally is the goal. What bureaucracy can we get out of the way? What red tape can we eliminate? How can we make it easier to build the kinds of homes that people can afford reducing red tape and legal costs? When we deliver on that, of course it also makes sense to help people buy rather than rent so that first-time home buyers, young people, can get into ownership, build wealth, build equity. It's part of that opportunity economy she talks about, rather than just have your paycheck go to rent every month. How can you build intergenerational wealth to be able to support your own retirement, perhaps your kid’s college education. KARL: All right, Governor Polis. Thank you for joining us this morning. Appreciate it. Polis was on as a campaign surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris, and answered questions about the CNN interview and other matters. But in this end sequence, Polis is asked about immigration (the border) and is asked about the impact that Harris’s housing proposals may have on the Colorado market. But in no way, shape or form is Polis asked about a very thorny issue directly stemming from the Biden-Harris border policies: the Tren de Aragua takeover of certain apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado.  Contrast this with Republicans getting hounded on abortion, and the difference is night and day. The media make time for this, and try to punch through all sorts of narratives.  But there is no time to ask the governor of Colorado about such a pressing issue as migrant crime. If it weren’t for Regime Media, we’d have none at all.  

The exceptional silver lidded vessel in the Viking hoard discovered in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, that was initially thought to be of Carolingian origin was instead created in Persia during the Sasanian Empire (224 to 651 A.D.). A careful cleaning and metallurgic analysis revealed that the pot travelled thousands of miles to end up crammed with Viking loot and buried in southern Scotland.. Found by retired businessman and metal detectorist Derek McLennan in September of 2014, the Galloway Hoard is the largest Viking treasure found in Scotland since 1891. It contains more than 100 individual pieces — silver ingots with runic inscriptions, silver arm rings, brooches, a solid silver pectoral cross with enamel decoration, an exquisite gold bird pin — buried in two layers. The loose pieces were on top and the lidded vessel underneath containing even more treasures, each individually wrapped in luxurious silk samite cloth. Its shape and style were comparable to lidded vessels made in the Carolingian Empire (800–887 A.D.) of central and western Europe. The hoard was buried in the 10th century when the population of Galloway was predominantly Viking settlers. By then, the lidded pot was already an antique. It was so important a piece (the largest pot of its type ever found) and its contents so valuable that archaeologists thought it may have been pillaged in a Viking raid of a monastery or church in Germany or France. The decoration on the surface was hard to see through a thick layer of verdigris (the green powdery coating produced by the corrosion of copper) and the remains of the textile it was wrapped in. After a 3D scan provided a roadmap of the surface, precision laser cleaning allowed conservators to remove the verdigris that obscured the surface without touching the precious surviving textile wrap that clings to the vessel. Cleaning revealed Zoroastrian iconography, including leopards and tigers and the centerpiece: a crowned fire altar. Zoroastrian was the state religion of the Sasasian Empire, and Sasasian kings were frequently depicted hunting exotic big cats. The crown over the fire altar is also a reference to the Persian emperor. Dr Jane Kershaw, an expert on Viking age silver from the University of Oxford, said: “Taking tiny samples from both the vessel body and the niello – the black silver-sulphide inlays that outline the decoration – we assessed the provenance of the silver. It was immediately clear that the vessel was unlike any other silver contained in the hoard: instead, the results point to origins in the Sasanian Empire, what is today Iran. Elemental analysis using portable X-ray Fluorescence revealed that the vessel is an alloy of silver and relatively pure copper, which is typical of Sasanian silver, but not contemporary European silver. In addition, the isotopes of the lead contained within the silver metal and niello match ore from Iran. We can even go so far as to say that the niello derives from the famous mine of Nakhlak in central Iran. It’s fantastic to have scientific confirmation for the distant origins of this remarkable object.” The vessel will go on display for the first time in the British Museum’s Silk Road exhibition which runs from September 26 until February 23, 2025. Meanwhile, National Museums Scotland is hosting a live online event on September 11 in which conservators, archaeologists and other experts who have studied the hoard will discuss the what they’ve learned about the Galloway Hoard in the decade since its discovery, including the latest findings. Tickets are free (there’s a suggested donation but it’s optional) and you can sign up here.