Narmer Palette, 3100 BCE. It contains some of the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions ever found. The tablet is thought by some to depict the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the king Narmer.[2566x1808]
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npr:
“En garde!” the coach shouts. Two opposing fencers, uniformed and masked, raise their sabers before their own faces.
Both Greek fencers, Panos Triantafyllou and Vasilis Ntounis, are in wheelchairs.
“Prêt, allez!” the coach shouts again, and the match begins. The sound of swift-striking sabers echoes inside the small indoor court in Athens’ Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, where Greece’s national team consisting exclusively of people with disabilities is training.
Triantafyllou, 33, won silver at Rio’s 2016 Paralympic Games and is getting ready for the Tokyo Paralympic Games in August. He’s been picking up medals in the meantime: gold last November at the Wheelchair Fencing World Cup in Amsterdam and silver this month at the cup in Eger, Hungary.
Greek Paralympic Fencer Hopes To Show What’s Possible In A Wheelchair
Image Credits: Demetrios Ioannou for NPR

On this day, 1 June 1875, British suffragette May Billinghurst was born. During the movement for votes for women, Billinghurst would hide stones for smashing shop windows in her wheelchair.
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jtem:
It’s from Bareback oops I meant Brokeback Mountain, the film about the two gay cowboys…
And? Whats wrong with that
Believe it or not, gays are not synonymous with authoritarian Democrats. They are actually capable of free thought.
They really do think they own us dont they.
As a bisexual conservative, I feel y'all’s pain. Lol
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