Great White by George Probst
Today I learned about the Nazi who worked with Nasser, then Peron, and then somehow Israeli intelligence
Skorzeny was the man who rescued Mussolini and to actually see his funeral is terrifying. A lot of SS veterans singing Nazi anthems and songs.
He’s also one in a long line of SS officers who went on to teach other countries how to torture and murder their opposition.
Siberian Tigers
“Until human beings devised weapons for themselves, this was the most powerful killer on earth.”
Life of Mammals - David Attenborough
Disc Dedicated to the Sun-God Sol
Silverleaf disc dedicated to the sun-god Sol. Sol is crowned with rays. Two horses appear behind his shoulders. From Pessinus (Bala-Hissar,Asia Minor), in modern-dayTurkey.Romanperiod, 3rd century CE. (The British Museum, London).
A Bosnian girl, holding an AK-47 rifle smokes a cigarette as she waits for a funeral service at Sarajevo’s Lion’s cemetery in 1992.
The Maya city of Tikal is famous for its soaring palaces and temples. But something far more humble kept Tikal functioning: its water filtration system, the earliest known of its kind. Researchers recently discovered a volcanic mineral that captures microbes and heavy metals in one of Tikal’s largest reservoirs. Because the material is not found nearby, the finding suggests the presence of a deliberate filter.
The finding contradicts the long-standing idea that the ancient world’s technological prowess was concentrated in places such as Greece, Rome, Egypt, and China, says study co-author Kenneth Tankersley, an archaeological geologist at the University of Cincinnati (UC). “When it comes to purifying water, the Maya were millennia ahead.”
Nestled in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala, Tikal flourished for more than 1000 years. At the height of its prosperity, around 700 C.E., it’s thought to have been home to more than 45,000 people. “It was one of the preeminent Maya cities,” says Nicholas Dunning, a UC geoarchaeologist.
