Subdeacon Joe

That in translation, "Yes, you fit right in here!"

David BraunLiDAR and Aerial Archaeology rptndoosSeht0gM7J401 47a u8huy28ncgt6791:2t26frc 07 acPgua2l · Massive Confederate hilltop 10 cannon artillery implacement chevron, part of R.E.Lee's inpregnable Mine Run, Virginia defensive positions on the Rapidan River. The diameter of each emplacement is 80'. The middle & lower right half of the chevron, as can be seen, has been graded for a building site relatively recently.

https://youtube.com/shorts/6DvFlpbZDuw?si=l9wq8Kd6uxJH5htZ

A gamers nocturnal phantasy.

Yeah! He should taylor his content to those of us who are 65+ and only want dry and technical information, delivered with all the panache of day old oatmeal. Might could be that a lot of his viewers ARE "fifth grade students." Maybe even third grade students. He packs a lot of good information into that "silliness." Why is it a bad thing to show "fifth grade students" that shooting is both safe and fun? Maybe counter some of that "gunz-r-bad" brainwashing that they're constantly subjected to in schools and the press.

Some A-/B+ names in that cast.

All y'all are taking it very literally. The message I got from it is to not ignore "the little people" who have your back or do the unpleasant jobs. Sort of like the story of the the janitor at the USAF Academy. The guy pushing the broom and not mentioning to them that he had earned a salute from every man and woman, no matter the rank, with his Medal of Honor. But until just by happenstance one of the cadets ran across his name in a book they all mostly ignored him. After all, he was "just the janitor."

It's a shame Cyrus didn't stick with that. Lovely voice, but I just can't get past her very will publicized extremely vulgar stage performances. Especially with her turning around and complaining about how women are "objectified." As such.

I hadn't known she was 76. I thought maybe late 60s. Nor did I realize that she had such an extensive discography. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Safka_discography

Well! Just BE that way! Here I am, SLAAAVING away to edumacate people and what do I get? Ungrateful sarcasm! Some people's children!

yep.... that's a revolver https://www.smith-wesson.com/product/sw22-victory-

Have the punctured oil pan to prove it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunwise "Sunwise, sunward or deasil (sometimes spelled deosil), are terms meaning to go clockwise or in the direction of the sun, as seen from the northern hemisphere. The opposite term is widdershins (Lowland Scots), or tuathal (Scottish Gaelic).[1]. In Scottish culture, this turning direction is also considered auspicious, while the converse is true for counter-clockwise motion"

You mean "deosil" and "widdershins?"

As others pointed out Blessing of Animals is a common practice. Many Roman Catholic parishes have a Blessing of the Animals on the feastday of St. Francis, or the Sunday closest to it. Orthodox will also have a Blessing of the Animals. And cars, wells, beehives, swords, ships, soldiers and sailors, and almost anything else you can think of. During our annual house blessing Fr. L or Fr. N would usually also bless our dog (sprinkle with Holy Water in the sign of the Cross). First time Fr. N did it his wife was aghast. "You blessed a dog?" "Why not? She's one of God's creations."

You beat me to it. The first is the summation of Marxist theology, the other three are how to go about it.

https://shows.acast.com/cool-canadian-history/episodes/s9e10-the-beginning-of-the-end-the-1758-siege-of-louisbourg https://www.nationalguard.mil/Resources/Image-Gallery/Historical-Paintings/Heritage-Series/Louisbourg/ https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1938/january/capture-louisbourg-1758

Maybe because that is the title of the video.

Found on FB 'Roughly forty-three thousand years ago a young cave bear died in the rolling hills on the northwest border of modern-day Slovenia. A thousand miles away and a thousand years later, a mammoth died in the forests above the river Blau near the southern edge of modern-day Germany. Within a few years of the mammoth's demise, a griffon vulture also perished in the same vicinity. Five thousand years after that a swan and another mammoth died nearby. We know almost nothing about how these animals met their deaths. They may have been hunted by Neanderthals or modern humans. They may have died of natural causes or been killed by other predators. Like almost every creature from the Paleolithic era the stories behind their lives and deaths are a mystery to us, lost to the un-reconstructible past. But these different creatures, lost across time and space, did share one remarkable posthumous fate. After their flesh had been consumed by carnivores or bacteria, a bone from each of their skeletons was meticulously crafted by human hands into a flute. Bone flutes are among the oldest known artifacts of human technological ingenuity. The Slovenian and German flutes date back to the very origins of art. The caves where some of them were found also featured drawings of animals and human forms on their walls, suggesting the tantalizing possibility that our ancestors gathered in the fire lit caverns to watch images flicker on the stone walls, accompanied by music. But musical technology is likely far older than the Paleolithic. The Slovenian and German flutes survived because they were made of bone but many of the indigenous tribes in modern times construct flutes and drums out of reeds and animal skins, materials unlikely to survive tens of thousands of years. Many archaeologists believe that our ancestors have been building drums for at least a hundred thousand years, making musical technology almost as old as technology designed for hunting or temperature regulation. This chronology is one of the great puzzles of early human history. It seems to be jumping more than a few levels in the hierarchy of needs to go directly from spearheads and clothing to the invention of wind instruments. Eons before early humans started to imagine writing or agriculture they were crafting tools for making music. This seems particularly puzzling because music is the most abstract of the arts. Paintings represent the inhabitants of the world that our eyes actually perceive: animals, plants, landscapes and other people. Architecture gives us shelter. Stories follow the arc of events that make up a human life. But music has no obvious referent beyond a vague association with the chirps and trills of birdsong. No one likes a hit record because it sounds like the natural world. We like music because it sounds *different* from the unstructured noise of the natural world. And what sounds like music is much closer to the abstracted symmetries of math than any experience a hunter-gatherer would have had a hundred thousand years ago. A brief lesson in the physics of sound should help underscore the strangeness of the archaeological record here. Some of the bone flutes recovered from Paleolithic cave sites are intact enough that they can be played, and in many cases researchers have found that the finger holes carved into the bones are spaced in such a way that they can produce musical intervals that we now call perfect fourths and fifths. In the terms of Western music, these would be F and G in the key of C. Fourths and fifths not only make up the harmonic backbone of almost every popular song in the modern canon, they are also some of the most ubiquitous intervals in the world’s many musical systems. Though some ancient tonal systems, like Balinese gamelan music, evolved without fourths and fifths, only the octave is more common. Musicologists now understand the physics behind these intervals and why they seem to trigger such an interesting response in the human ear. An octave, two notes exactly twelve steps apart from each other on a piano keyboard, exhibits a precise 2:1 ratio in the wave forms it produces. If you play a high C on a guitar, the string will vibrate exactly two times for every single vibration the low C string generates. That synchronization, which also occurs with the harmonics or overtones that give an instrument its timbre, creates a vivid impression of consonance in the ear, the sound of those two wave forms snapping into alignment every other cycle. The perfect fourth and fifth have comparably even ratios: a fourth is 4:3, while a fifth is 3:2. If you play a C and G note together, the higher G string will vibrate three times for every two vibrations of the C. By contrast, a C and F# played together create the most dissonant interval in the Western scale: the notorious tri-tone or ‘devil’s interval, with a ratio of 43:32. The existence of these ratios has been known since the days of ancient Greece. The tuning system that features them is often called Pythagorean tuning after the Greek mathematician who, legend has it, first identified them. Today the average seventh grader knows Pythagoras for his triangles, but his ratios are the cornerstone of every pop song on Spotify. The study of musical ratios marked one of the very first moments in the history of knowledge where mathematical descriptions productively explained natural phenomenon. In fact, the success of these mathematical explanations of music triggered a two-thousand year pursuit of similar cosmological ratios in the movements of the sun and planets in the sky; the famous ‘music of the spheres’ that inspired Kepler and so many others. Wave forms, integer ratios, overtones … None of these concepts were available to our ancestors in the Upper Paleolithic. And yet, for some bizarre reason they went to great lengths to build tools that could conjure these mathematical patterns out of the simple act of exhaling. Put yourself in that Slovenian cave forty thousand years ago. You have mastered fire, built simple tools for hunting, learned how to craft garments from animal skins to keep yourself warm in the winter. An entire universe of further innovation lies in front of you. What would you choose to invent next? It seems preposterous that you would turn to crafting a tool that created vibrations in air molecules that synchronized at a perfect 3:2 ratio when played together. Yet that is exactly what our ancestors did.’ Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World ~ Steven Johnson * This entire book is incredible. Highly recommended

I love these "Then and Now" photo sets. How in some places it seems that the only things that changed were the names on the buildings and the streets are now paved, while in others if it wasn't for one building you couldn't tell that it's the same location.