It was like a scene from the final hours of the Roman Empire: Everywhere you looked, some prominent politician was degrading himself in public.

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

On my own front porch I have a palm tree growing in a blue toilet bowl … and on occasion I like to wander outside, stark naked, and fire my .44 Magnum at various iron gongs I’ve mounted on the nearby hillside. I like to load up on mescaline and turn my amplifier up to 110…

4,500 year old quartz crystal dagger with ivory hilt. Found in a Copper Age-era tomb in Valencina de la Concepción, Spain.

350 Million years in a single picture

The throne of Tutankhamun (c.1370-52 BC) New Kingdom (gold-plated wood inlaid with semi-precious stones)

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80 years ago today Yugoslav resistance fighter Lepa Radić was killed by the Nazis. Unbroken after days of torture she was given a final chance on the gallows to give up her comrades.

She said 'I'm no traitor. You'll know them when they come for you, to the last man.'

She was 17

Winston Churchill was hit by a car today in 1931 in New York City. He was lucky to survive with just a few nasty scars. Here is a doctors note prescribing unlimited alcohol (in Prohibition Era America) for medicinal purposes….

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei Sketched the Moon as Seen Through His Telescope in 1609.

Just so we’re clear what happened: millions of American children, the vast majority of whom were already underprivileged, were forced to sacrifice their future to make paranoid adults feel safer.

'This age of indolence...darkened the face of learning, and the decline of genius was soon followed by the corruption of taste.”

-Edward Gibbon, 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-1788)

-The Ruins of the Roman Forum, 1951 photograph by Herbert List

Old Hollywood bloopers are a thing of beauty.

Two thousand years ago, the vile, corrupt emperor Nero sat in this, his dining room (its shape was oval), issuing commands. Discovered in modern times by archeologists.

During the archaeological excavations carried out in the ancient city of Sagalassos in the Ağlasun district of Türkiye, a 2000-year-old fountain structure was discovered, established around end of the 1st Century CE.

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School closures will go down as the worst civil rights catastrophe of modern history-By far. It was done to salve the angst of adults and the hysteria was overhyped & fueled by people who anointed themselves TheExperts™ and who were promoted by the media. Generations will suffer

Amber Heard when the children’s hospital asked her where the $7mill donation was: #AmberDelvey #DeppHeardTrial

Basics of Feudalism in Middle Ages 😄

© Medieval Humour

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Another childhood star lost to drugs.