Darn archaeologists screw up UN Climate scaremonger narrative. Real scientific facts keep getting in the way of the nightmare fairy tale. 20,000 years ago, Britain was connected to mainland Europe. Time Team Special 26 (2007) - Britain's Drowned World youtube.com/watch?v=4P9wQj6q…

Elon Musk got rejected by Netscape. He walked into the lobby, was too shy to talk to anyone, and walked out. Never got the job. At his first company Zip2, the board demoted him. Twice. They refused to let him be CEO. He got fired from PayPal as CEO while flying to his own honeymoon. The board voted him out mid air. He almost died of malaria in 2000. Ten days in intensive care. Lost 45 pounds. A day from death. His first child died at 10 weeks old. His first rocket exploded. Falcon 1, flight one. Burned on the pad. His second rocket exploded. His third rocket exploded. The last of his money was nearly gone. Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008. The closest he ever came to a nervous breakdown. Both companies almost died on the same Christmas Eve. He was sued by investors. Mocked by the people who built cars before him. His childhood heroes, the astronauts who inspired him, testified against his company to Congress. The Cybertruck window shattered on live stage in front of the world. He overpaid for Twitter by his own admission and watched its value collapse. He was beaten unconscious as a child and thrown down a flight of stairs. He has said he goes to sleep alone and it kills him. He failed in public, over and over, for thirty years. He is the richest man in the history of the world. The difference was never the absence of failure. It was the refusal to stop after it.

In 1855 the United States government hatched one of the strangest plans in its history. It imported camels to conquer the American West. The man in charge was Jefferson Davis, the Secretary of War who would soon become president of the Confederacy. He convinced Congress to hand over $30,000, and the Navy sailed to the Middle East and brought back a herd of camels to Texas. One was even born on the voyage, so they arrived with more than they left with. To run the animals the Army hired a Syrian-Greek camel driver named Hadji Ali. Nobody could pronounce it, so the soldiers called him "Hi Jolly." And the wild part is, it worked. The camels could carry twice the load of a mule, go for days without water, and cross brutal desert that left horses dying in the sand. The experiment was a success. Then the Civil War broke out. The man who started the program was now leading the enemy. The Army lost interest, the camp was overrun, and the camels were sold off or simply turned loose into the desert. So they went feral. For the next 50 years wild camels wandered Texas, Arizona, and California, spooking horses and terrifying travelers who had no idea why a camel was standing in the Mojave. Sightings were still being reported into the 1900s. One ghostly "Red Ghost" legend even told of a camel roaming the desert with a dead man strapped to its back. Hi Jolly stayed in Arizona until he died in 1902. There is a stone pyramid topped with a metal camel marking his grave to this day. The US Army Camel Cavalry. Possibly the greatest Western story almost nobody knows.

"Harmon Killebrew visited 8-year-old John Guiney, who was badly burned when his altar robe caught fire, while lighting candles at his parish church in Brooklyn, New York. From the time that Johnny was admitted into the New York Hospital, he had: "Done little but talk about Harmon Killebrew.” Johnny’s bed was filled with baseball magazines and bubble gum cards, and a lot of the cards were of Killebrew. So, on the morning of May 20, you can imagine the look on that eight-year-old boy’s face when Harmon Killebrew walked into his hospital room. “John recognized his hero the moment he walked into the room yesterday, but just to make sure, he flipped open one of his magazines. It was the same man, alright.” Then Johnny and Harmon got into a conversation. “How old are you, John?” Killebrew asked. “Eight,” replied the young Guiney. “That’s a coincidence. I have a boy who’s eight too. What month were you born?” “August.” “That’s the very month my kid was born.” To that, Johnny let out a big smile. That was when Harmon signed a baseball for him and gave it to him. He also signed a photograph on which was written: “My pal, John…” That was when Johnny got a little nervous. “If you wouldn’t mind…” “What’s that?” asked Killebrew. Johnny reached under his pillow in his hospital bed and pulled out his baseball glove. “Would you autograph my glove too?” Killebrew smiled and said: “I sure will! What position do you play?” To which Johnny gushed: “Shortstop! We play over in Prospect Park. I live at 77 Underhill Avenue. That’s very near the park!” Harmon Killebrew then made a deal with John: "If you hurry up and get well, the next time I’m in town, I’ll take you out to the ball park and you can meet all the fellows." "I’ll watch you on television" the freckle-faced youngster said from his hospital bed. "Maybe I’ll hit you a couple of home runs", Killebrew responded. Guess what? Harmon Killebrew hit two home runs for John! May 20, 1964. “Nobody in the lifetime of our organization is more deserving of entering the Hall of Fame than Killebrew. He’s in the same class as Senator pitching great Walter Johnson. Killebrew was the meal ticket for our franchise for all those years in Washington and Minnesota. He had fan appeal. He sold tickets.” Calvin Griffiths, Twins’ President.

Today is Flag Day. #chicago

Before the Rain. This mornings's light over the Chicago Skyline on Sunday. #weather #news #chicago #ilwx

15 years ago, yogurt maker Chobani tried to enter Canada and build a plant in Kingston, Ontario, but was blocked by regulatory and supply management barriers. Instead of fighting it long-term, they expanded elsewhere, in the United States. Today: ➡️They buy about 9% of all the milk produced in New York State. ➡️They process 1.6 billion pounds of milk per year in New York. ➡️They built the world’s largest yogurt plant in Idaho. ➡️They’re now building an even bigger one in Rome, New York (over 2 million square feet, 1,000 jobs). That is the true cost of supply management.

Pourquoi les gauchistes sont les plus gros attardés du game? Décorticage, point par point. Premièrement, ils ne comprennent rien à l'économie. Strictement rien. Dans leur tête, la richesse est un gâteau de taille fixe. Si quelqu'un a une grosse part, c'est forcément qu'il te l'a volée. L'idée qu'on puisse fabriquer un nouveau gâteau, plus gros, à partir de rien, leur est physiquement inaccessible. Le jeu à somme positive, la création de valeur, ça dépasse leur firmware. Pour eux tout est à somme nulle: ta réussite est mathématiquement ma défaite. Deuxièmement, et c'est logique vu le point un, ils détestent exactement les gens qui créent cette valeur. L'entrepreneur qui emploie cinquante personnes? Un exploiteur. Le mec qui n'a jamais créé un seul emploi de sa vie? Un grand penseur du travail. Ils crachent sur les contributeurs nets et vénèrent ceux qui ne produisent rien. Cohérent dans l'absurde. Troisièmement, et c'est le vrai moteur: la jalousie. Tout l'édifice tient avec ça. Ce n'est pas qu'ils veulent que tout le monde monte. C'est qu'ils ne supportent pas que quelqu'un monte plus haut qu'eux. Girard avait tout expliqué: le désir mimétique, l'envie déguisée en morale. Ils ne veulent pas la justice, ils veulent ta part. Quatrièmement, et là je laisse la science trancher: corrélation troublante avec le fait d'être profondément aigri, et, disons-le, rarement épanoui. On va pas se mentir. Le bonheur, ça se voit sur un visage. L'amertume aussi. Bref. Une idéologie qui ne comprend pas la richesse, déteste ceux qui la créent, carbure à l'envie, et confond redistribution et vengeance. Le plus drôle? Ils sont persuadés d'être les gentils.

The BigLies™️: "ScHOolS Are UnDErFuNdED" "TeACheRs Are UnDeRpaiD." PUHlease. BILLION$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for schools. Chgo Public School teachers get $75k-$120k 'yr', by which they mean 170 class days, max. Plus 4-5% raises each yr for next 4 yrs. Plus pension$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

"Steve Gromek came home for the winter to more than the usual frost. There were hostile letters in his mailbox. People he considered friends wouldn't speak to him. In a Hamtramck bar, Gromek said hello to a former amateur teammate, 'and he ignored me'. I saw a guy I had known for more than 10 years, a guy I had played ball with. I said hello and he ignored me. People he considered friends wouldn't speak to him. "Oh, Christ," a bartender told the World Series hero, "it's that picture you took with Larry Doby, you could have just shook his hand. That picture of Steve Gromek and Larry Doby has unmistakable flesh and blood cheeks pressed close together, brawny arms tightly clasped, equally wide grins. The chief message of the Doby-Gromek picture is acceptance." Marjorie McKenzie Lawson. Pittsburgh Courier. "I will always cherish that photograph and the memory of Steve Gromek hugging me and me hugging him, because it proved that emotions can be put into a form not based on skin color." Larry Doby. "This photo was astonishing for its time. Larry Doby followed Jackie Robinson by less than three months in the 1947 integration of MLB. The idea of men of two different races cheek-to-cheek offended the most bigoted parts of the white population, some of whom never forgave Steve Gromek. It should also be added that Larry Doby endured the same racism and brutality as Jackie Robinson, but received less credit for it as the second man to integrate baseball while Robinson was the first." Dr. Gerald Stein. Larry Doby: 1st Black player in the American League. 1st Black player to hit a home run in World Series. 1st Black player to hit a home run in an All-Star game. 1st Black player in the American Basketball League (preceded NBA). 1st Black player to go directly to the majors from the Negro leagues. 1st Black player to lead either league in home runs. July 5th should be "Larry Doby Day."

"Sunday would come and that little ball park would be packed way before game time, everybody wanting to see the great Rube Waddell pitch. Nowhere to be found! Manager'd be having a fit. And then just a few minutes before the game time there'd be a commotion in the grandstand. You'd hear people laughing and yelling: "Here comes Rube! Here comes Rube!" And there he'd come right through the stands. He'd jump down onto the field, cut across the infield to the clubhouse, taking off his shirt as he went, and in about three minutes — he never wore any underwear — he'd run back out in uniform and yell: "All right!!! Let's get 'em!" "Wahoo Sam" Crawford. "After making an allowance for his wild habits, if I were a manager and had my choice, Rube Waddell would be my first choice of all the pitchers I have ever seen work. And that includes the best in both major leagues during the past twenty-five years." Walter Johnson. "He won 21 games, led the league in strikeouts with 302, starred in Vaudeville, led a marching band thru Jacksonville, got engaged, married, separated, rescued a log he thought was a drowning woman, accidentally shot a friend AND was bitten by a lion. Rube like chasing fire trucks, wrestling alligator's and taught geese to skip rope. Tigers Mgr. Hughie Jennings would distract him on the mound by waving children's toys at him." Rube Waddell, 1903. An inveterate alcoholic, the term 'Sousepaw' was apparently coined for him. In 1909 he got so drunk during a game that he passed out on the mound and when roused by his manager, threatened to shoot and kill him. In 1904 Rube Waddell was the opposing pitcher and made the last out during Cy Young's perfect game. Waddell struck out 349 batters that season, second straight 300 strikeout season, a record that would not be equalled until Sandy Koufax did it in 1965-1966. The Hall of Famer compiled a career 193-143 record along with an ERA of 2.16. Died of tuberculosis at the age of 37. Rube Waddell. Chicago Orphans, 1901.

Nobody cares about us and them etc. they are just out to have some fun.. long may it reign. All the best to the Scottish football team and their fantastic supporters.

Big News this morning : The George Washington statue near Fenway Park in Boston has been given the Highest Honour By the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Fans. Someone has got up there God knows how and placed a traffic cone □on his heed. 😅🤣😂😂. This is a proud moment for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland. 👍🏻

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Things you didn't learn in school. ▪️2 to 5 million Europeans were taken as slaves by the Ottomans. ▪️European Christian men were the first to abolish slavery. ▪️Communism has killed over 100 million people in 100 years.

🌩 An incredible sunset over Nebraska is going viral online The footage was captured today in Sidney, Nebraska, during a powerful storm. The photographer managed to capture a massive supercell — one of the rarest and most spectacular types of storm clouds. These systems are often responsible for the strongest tornadoes, giant hail, and extreme rainfall. Looks more like a scene from a disaster movie than real life.

I'm from Texas. Here are some helpful tips for Knicks Fans: What You Should Know Before Visiting San Antonio: 1. It's not cheese dip. It's queso. 2. Sweet tea isn't a beverage. It's the official wine of the South. 3. "Bless your heart" is not always a compliment. Context matters. A lot. 4. If someone says they're "fixin' to" do something, no repairs are involved. 5. A breakfast taco is a perfectly acceptable breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late-night snack. Get one asap. 6. The speed limit is merely a suggestion to the pickup truck behind you. 7. "Y'all" is singular. "All y'all" is plural. 8. No, you cannot survive June by "just walking a few blocks." 9. The Alamo is smaller than you imagined. Don't say it out loud. 10. If a local says, "It's not that hot today," and it's 96 degrees, they mean it. 11. Guacamole is considered a vegetable. 12. The phrase "Texas-sized" is not marketing. It's a warning. 13. You may develop strong opinions about salsa before the weekend is over. 14. When someone waves from another vehicle, they're being friendly. Wave back. 15. Chili does not contain beans. This is not a debate. 16. If you ask for "just a little spicy," the outcome is entirely at the restaurant's discretion. 17. Texans put hot sauce on things that already contain hot sauce. 18. Cowboys exist, but most Texans commute by pickup, not horseback. 19. A 20-minute drive can somehow be 35 miles away. 20. If someone offers homemade brisket, cancel your other plans immediately. 21. H-E-B is not a grocery store. It is a way of life. 22. The stars at night are big and bright...!!! Yes, people will expect you to know what comes next. 23. "A little outside town" can mean 45 minutes away. 24. If you hear, "Well, that's interesting," it may mean the exact opposite. By the end of your trip, you'll be saying "y'all," ordering queso, and arguing about barbecue like you've lived in Texas your whole life. Welcome to Texas - stay safe and enjoy the game!

Historic Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 passing over the Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct as part of the coast-to-coast tour celebrating America’s 250th anniversary 🚂🇺🇸

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Boston tea party circus 1776 colorized

“Loch Lomond” in Foxborough. Quite a sight. #WorldCup