#OTD in #history 1948, the #Berlin Airlift began after the USSR blockaded it. 2 million lost steady access to electricity, food & coal. But the #USA & allies flew 300,000 flights carrying supplies. As a result, the West formed #NATO & established West #Germany—a symbol of freedom

Your reaction if you live in the southwest.

Imagine explaining to someone in 1988 that Poland would become a top-20 world economy in 2025. Free markets work!

Everyone’s favorite Latin phrase today #SineDie

Worth repeating.

The poor guy was not a letterman in history. Reagan ran in 1976 too.

Capitalism's unequal distribution of prosperity is far better than socialism's equal distribution of misery. Experience keeps proving it.

REST IN PEACE: Today marks 12 years since the tragic loss of our 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots. 💔 The group was killed when they were overrun by a wildfire in a canyon near Yarnell. #abc15 #granitemountainhotshots #arizona #az

“The Odyssey teaser trailer”? You mean the Iliad?

#OTD in #history, 1775, Washington took command of the #USArmy. The Continental #Congress appointed him, Adams said, for his "Skill & Experience as an Officer, whose independent fortune, great Talents & excellent universal Character, would command the Approbation of all #America"

I always love the British embassy posts on July 4th 😂

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🇺🇸 Today at Mount Vernon, we proudly welcomed over 100 new U.S. citizens at our annual July 4 naturalization ceremony, which featured a keynote address from Arnold Schwarzenegger. He said it best: George Washington was America’s first action hero. 💥🦅 It was a day of

America hasn’t been perfect. It’s made grave mistakes. But there is no country that has ever done more for improving the world. It breaks my heart how unappreciative Americans across the ideological spectrum are of that. Much of the left rejects we’ve ever been good for the

Where to start? The leaflet referred to here—“A Last Appeal to Reason,” by Adolf Hitler—was dropped en masse on August 1, 1940. By that date: 1) Nazi Germany’s attempt to destroy the Royal Air Force ahead of an invasion of Britain was already in its fourth week (on July 10,

Happy 79th birthday to the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush!

And then Tucker followed up by asking why Iran is enriching uranium at 20x the rate needed for civilian energy and why they are pursuing advanced ballistic missile guidance systems. LOL…just kidding.

Putin is making it very clear that any truce in Ukraine will come only when he is defeated. We talk, he kills Ukrainians. We talk some more, he kills more Ukrainians. He has openly said he wants to destroy Ukraine and that is his war aim. A combined Ukrainian-US-European effort

Something you don’t see every day: a Catholic Mass being celebrated in Canterbury Cathedral—once the very heart of the English Reformation—led for the first time by the Pope’s ambassador to the UK, in honour of the martyred St Thomas Becket.