Gold

Real gold is not afraid of the melting pot

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Spangle-cheeked Tanager

javier.chaves.photography

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Did You Know 🤔

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The DNC is nearly empty.

The crowd is scattered and uninspired.

The speakers are incompetent and cringy.

All the internet and media hype is fake. 🤔

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Title: Venetian Canal, Palazzo Corner

Artist: John Singer Sargent

Date: 1880

Style: Impressionism

Genre: Cityscape

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Jacob van Walscapelle — Flowers in a Glass Vase. circa 1670. details

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what’s ikea doing in romania?

Illegal deforestation of our ancient forests

(The author does incorrectly call Romania a Soviet state when we were only part of the Warsaw Pact instead)

Ikea’s Race for the Last of Europe’s Old-Growth Forest

The furniture giant is hungry for Romania’s famed trees. Little stands in its way.

The article talks about how those journalists and environmentalist were attacked by 15 armed thugs and the police response (of basically letting the attackers go) as well as Romanian forests make up the vast majority of old-growth forests left in Europe

But Ikea is not the only one doing it

Der Spiegel: Romania’s ancient forests under siege by illegal loggers backed by Austrian companies

An investigation by German publication Der Spiegel shows that Romania’s forests, some of the oldest in Europe, are threatened by large-scale

This article talks about Austrian companies doing the same illegal deforestation

And it gives a better picture of how much forest is lost per year

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Next time you shop at Ikea, sing to yourself, "Isn't it good Romanian wood?"

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Democratic leaders arrested on charges of election fraud in Connecticut - Washington Examiner

Two city officials from Bridgeport, Connecticut, along with two campaign workers in the 2019 mayoral primary race, have been charged with el

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Desert Duo

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Those colors take me back in time . . .

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Hanging out at the pool.

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Guy puts on invisibility cloak

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Virgil Rainer, Pietà, ca. 1910

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Rainer has captured familial intimacy in the Virgin Mother's kiss of her child Jesus' forehead.

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Russia spends 80 billion dollars/year on defense and is outmanufacturing all of NATO on the essentials of war.

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The Nephilim

One of the great debates over Genesis 6:1–4 is the identity of the Nephilim, a question that is inextricably related to the meaning of the term. As we’ll discover in chapter 3, the role of the ancient Mesopotamian context for why Genesis 6:1–4 is even in the Bible is crucial to the correct understanding of the Nephilim. Jewish thinkers in the Second Temple Period understood that original Mesopotamian context, which is why they overwhelmingly viewed the Nephilim of divine sons of God as giants. This perspective includes the translation of the Hebrew term with gigas (“giant”) in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament.[27]

It might seem obvious to some readers that Nephilim ought to be understood as “giants.” But many commentators resist the rendering, arguing that it should be read as “fallen ones” or “those who fall upon” (a battle expression). These options are based on the idea that the word derives from the Hebrew verb n-p-l (naphal, “to fall”). More importantly, those who argue that Nephilim should be translated with one of these expressions rather than “giants” do so to avoid the quasi-divine nature of the Nephilim. That in turn makes it easier for them to argue that the sons of God who produced the Nephilim were human.

("Reversing Hermon" by Dr. Michael Heiser)