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That painting is haunting. Just looking into his eyes is a powerful response. The terror and remorse in his eyes is astounding. How the artist managed to convey that much emotion is beyond me
whats with the usa and airdropping animals. they do it with screw flies too sterilized of course to prevent them from going up from south America. they lay egg in mammals and there lava eat it to death.
This is a little weird, but you should do a history report on the President of Mexico, who lasted one hour “ Pedro José Domingo de la Calzada Manuel María Lascuráin Paredes“, and that’s his full name.
The reason “historians” doubt it happened is because it’s not widely recorded outside of Matthew. But Bethlehem was a small town, with a tiny population. Even at killing all males 2 and under, it wouldn’t have been a huge number of kids. Compared to the other murderous shenanigans of Herod’s life, Rome (and by extension their historians) would barely blink at his executing a few dozen kids in a small Jewish town. Doesn’t mean it didn’t happen though.
80 years and 8 days ago, 100k amarican troops landed on normandy. Land, air and naval forces attacked Normandy, we shall never forget the sacrifices the allied powers made and the friends lost on that day
That was a _much_ better ad transition than the Sitting Bull series. I'm glad the EC team was willing to take audience criticism in stride and approach it differently this time.
The other gods: "why tho? Like it's sweet but a little weird." Aphrodite: "I mean c'mon. The man is literally afraid of women, I'm shocked the statue worked."
