In June 1944 an American pilot held his crippled B-24 in the air long enough for 7 men to parachute to safety. Then his plane went into a power dive and crashed into an English farm. His body lay 20 feet underground for 79 years. In 2023 they found him. They buried him at Arlington. This is the story of William Montgomery..🧵1/5

Nikita Khrushchev governed the Soviet Union from 1953 until 1964. He recorded his memoirs on reel-to-reel magnetic tape during his retirement following his ouster as Soviet premier in 1964. He wanted to set the historical record straight and counter the official Soviet narrative that turned him into a "non-person" after 1964. The recordings spanned his entire life, from his early days in the coal mines and his rise under Joseph Stalin to his time leading the USSR and handling major Cold War crises.... A reel-to-reel tape recorder spinning on a wooden porch broke the Kremlin’s absolute silence. At his state dacha in Petrovo-Dalneye, twenty miles west of Moscow, an elderly man sat bundled in a wicker chair, speaking quietly into a microphone. It was Nikita Khrushchev, the former First Secretary of the Communist Party and Premier of the Soviet Union. Following his sudden ouster in October 1964 by Leonid Brezhnev, the man who had denounced Joseph Stalin and stared down John F. Kennedy had been erased from public life. Soviet encyclopedias cut his name, state media never mentioned him, and KGB guards watched his perimeter day and night. Reduced to a "pensioner of union significance," Khrushchev was expected to fade into oblivion. Instead, over hundreds of hours of clandestine audio recordings, the fallen titan defied his own police state to smuggle his version of history to the world. The quiet defiance began in 1966 out of sheer boredom, depression, and indignation. After a decade atop a nuclear superpower, Khrushchev found himself living as a closely monitored unperson, his telephone tapped and visitors turned away at the gate. Deeply embittered by how Brezhnev’s regime began rehabilitating Stalin's image and rewriting history to erase his achievements, Khrushchev resolved to speak. Encouraged by his son Sergei, an aerospace engineer, Khrushchev began dictating his recollections onto magnetic tape. Sitting in his garden or pacing his living room, clutching a portable microphone, the former premier recounted the inner mechanics of the Soviet empire: Stalin’s terrifying nighttime banquets, the murderous machinations of Lavrentiy Beria, the decision to install nuclear missiles in Cuba, and the ideological split with Mao Zedong. Capturing the memories was an operation fraught with extreme peril. Khrushchev was under constant surveillance by the Ninth Directorate of the KGB, with listening devices concealed throughout his dacha and grounds. Aware that security agents could raid the property at any moment, Sergei Khrushchev ferried recorded tapes into Moscow, hiding them in car trunks and trusted friends' apartments. A small circle of secret typists worked around the clock transcribing hundreds of hours of raw audio onto thousands of typed sheets. When Khrushchev suffered a severe heart attack in 1968, the family realized that if the patriarch died, the KGB would immediately seize and incinerate the archive. Sergei resolved that the only guarantee against destruction was getting the memoirs published abroad. The transmission to the West was executed through extraordinary clandestine channels. Portions of the tapes and transcriptions were passed to intermediaries, most notably Soviet journalist Victor Louis, a shadowy figure with ties to Western correspondents and complex channels to the intelligence world. Copies were spirited out of the USSR to Time Inc. and the publisher Little, Brown and Company. In the United States, a young scholar and journalist named Strobe Talbott spent months locked in a secure room translating and verifying the authenticity of the sprawling recordings. For the first time in modern history, a former master of the Kremlin was providing an unvarnished, first-person confession of the Soviet power structure directly to the Western public. #archaeohistories

This is what makes a real man... Not an expensive watch, a luxury car, or a nice suit. It’s having a genuine heart and being willing to do the hardest, most difficult things to help a helpless animal feel safe, comfortable, and stay alive. Thank you! ❤️

El momento en que Rubén Blades se quiebra antes de iniciar a cantar esta canción la convierte, para mí, en la mejor versión en vivo de este tema.

Reggie, a Beagle who had been used in medical testing, was rescued from a laboratory after years of living in fear and trembling. When he was finally free to bark for the first time, Reggie seemed overwhelmed with joy. That bark was more than just the sound of a dog. It felt like his first greeting to a new life, one where he was finally free. 🐶❤️

Bir eşek, her sabah sahibine sarılmak için onun yanına geliyor. ❤️

If you have ever watched The Pacific on HBO you know him. He was the young Marine writing in his Bible during the worst battles of the war. The book he wrote 35 years later became one of the most powerful and widely respected accounts of the Pacific war. This is the story of Eugene Sledge...🧵1/8

Lo encontró al borde de la muerte y le salvó la vida. El lobo no se olvida. 🐺

Un indio y cuatro israelíes. Los héroes del día. Está para una película.

RT @israelnewspulse: Watch the full documentary The Killing Roads, about the October 7th massacre. Set aside the time to watch it through.…

54 years ago today, “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone” by The Temptations was released as a single.

The Beatles - 'Hey Bulldog' (1968). #TheBeatles #Beatles

"Into the Groove" was released in 1985 (track from the film Desperately Seeking Susan and single that became Madonna's first UK #1). On July 13, 1985, she took the stage at Live Aid in Philadelphia (JFK Stadium) and delivered one of the most iconic performances in the festival's history.

Para nosotros se perdió unos días. Para él se le cayó el mundo entero. Mirá esa cara cuando lo encuentran.

Claude Monet

This is not a photograph. It’s called Oak Grove, and it was painted in 1887 by Ivan Shishkin. Every furrow of bark, every leaf, every blade of grass in the shade of these old oaks was put there by hand. Shishkin painted trees so faithfully that his canvases are less like pictures of a forest and more like portraits of the trees themselves, each one rendered down to its smallest detail. He spent his life wandering the woods near his home outside Saint Petersburg, studying nature so closely that Russia gave him a nickname: the singer of the Russian woods. What I love most is that these oaks feel so alive, you can almost feel the coolness of their shade on your skin. And like very old trees in real life, they make you feel small in the best way possible, as if they have seen everything and are telling you that it will all be alright...

"I'M THE WALRUS" #TheBeatles © The Beatles "John worked with George Martin on the orchestration and did some very exciting things with the Mike Sammes Singers…. It was a fascinating session. That was John’s baby, great one, a really good one." ~ Paul McCartney

RT @IsraelVive1948: Este video fue uno de los tantos de la temática que aparecieron al principio de la guerra y es un tema que se habló poc…

Happy birthday to Gal Costa, born on this day in 1945! A captivating voice of Brazilian music, she brought warmth, emotion, and a fearless spirit to bossa nova, tropicalia, and MPB.

Piazza Navona is Rome’s ancient stadium hiding in plain sight. The square follows almost exactly the footprint of the Stadium of Domitian, built in 86 AD for athletic competitions. The ancient structure measured about 275 meters (902 ft) long and could hold roughly 30,000 spectators. Centuries later, buildings rose around the remains of its seating, while the former arena became the open space we know today as Piazza Navona. Even now, the square’s long shape is essentially the outline of a nearly 2,000-year-old Roman stadium.