On this day, 6 May 1919, Alejandro Finisterre, the Spanish anarchist poet and inventor of table football or “foosball” was born. His political idealism seemed to be realised with the outbreak of the Spanish revolution in 1936. However his house was bombed by nationalist forces and he was severely injured. Seeing many injured children who are unable to play football with their friends, he built a table out of pine and attached players to steel bars - inventing modern table football. After the war he had to flee the Franco regime to France, and was imprisoned for four years in Morocco before heading to the Americas. More info in our short biography of him here: https://ift.tt/2whqIgX
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEJANDRO FINISTERRE!
Those who grasp after friendship and those who shrink from it are not worthy of approval; on the other hand, it is necessary to risk some pleasure for the pleasures of friendship.
This coffin of solid gold is covered with incised decorations and inscriptions inside and outside, with the names and epitaph of the deceased king and protective texts. It is inlaid with semiprecious stones and colored glass.
The coffin’s shape is that of Osiris holding the sacred insignia, the heka scepter and the flail. The vulture and the uraeus, or cobra, protect his forehead. The divine beard is made of gold inlaid with blue glass.
Deities of Upper and Lower Egypt protect the body of the coffin with their wings. The coffin weighs 110.4 kilograms or 243.4 pounds.
This is the third and innermost of three mummiform coffins of Tutankhamun. The mummy itself now rests in the outermost mummiform coffin in the tomb at Thebes.
From the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 60671
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is looking to build a “state-of-the-art” “urban warfare” training facility that will include “hyper-realistic” simulations of homes, hotels and commercial buildings in Chicago and Arizona.
Note that ICE was attempting to keep this information from the public but failed to properly redact the documents. I gotta ask - why the fuck is ICE building “urban warfare” training facilities across the US??
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