@honeywhite2023 @FoxNews Who in God's name would not support this
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: "We took our three destroyers and we rammed them through some pretty big stuff today, and we knocked the hell out of them."
"The destroyers weren't hurt in any way. The people weren't hurt, but they were firing at us and we were firing back at them."
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Tom Hanks' son, Chet Hanks, has revealed that he lives in a Nashville trailer park, a move he described as a practical solution as he pursues a career in the country music industry. MORE: bit.ly/4tcZZcz
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That uncertainty is important, because the real significance of the mound does not depend on turning the central burial into a legend. The power of the site lies in the unmistakable evidence of hierarchy, planning, and communal labor, all preserved in the way the dead were placed and the monument was built around them.
It also tells us something larger about the people of the Kanawha Valley. They were not drifting through the landscape without memory or design, but shaping it with earthworks, ceremonial spaces, and burial practices that required organization, belief, and continuity across generations.
The mound’s survival is almost as remarkable as its construction. It endured top leveling, erosion, utility intrusions, landscaping, and the steady pressure of urban growth, yet it still rises in a city park as one of the clearest surviving reminders that this ground held deep histories long before the modern town existed.
There is also a quieter sadness in the record. The burials and artifacts removed in the nineteenth century were taken to the Smithsonian, which reflects the older pattern of Native remains being treated as specimens rather than ancestors connected to living communities and enduring histories.
So when people look at Criel Mound and see only a grassy hill, they are missing the harder truth that monuments do not need stone walls or carved names to hold memory. This one held a community’s labor, a burial rite of striking precision, and a worldview that still asks us to take Indigenous history in the East as seriously as we take the ruins of any more famous civilization.
Criel Mound matters now because it reminds us how much of America’s oldest history survives in plain sight, often overlooked until a road, a park project, or an excavation forces attention back onto it. It asks a difficult modern question too: how many stories of Native nations remain under our feet, flattened by development, simplified by myth, or remembered only in fragments because people failed to value them in time.
The lesson is not only to admire the mound, but to learn how to read it with humility. A place like this teaches that memory can be built from earth, that burial can also be testimony, and that the histories still standing around us deserve more than curiosity, because once they are damaged, no future generation can fully recover what was lost.
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Beneath a quiet West Virginia mound, archaeologists found eleven people laid around one central burial, a pattern so deliberate it still unsettles the imagination.
What makes Criel Mound linger in the mind is not simply its age, but the care buried inside it. Deep beneath the earth, eleven people were found together at the base, arranged around one central burial in a layout that looked intentional, ceremonial, and impossible to dismiss as random.
That arrangement is the detail people remember, because it suggests a community making a statement in earth and ritual. Ten individuals surrounded the central figure, and the finds around that middle burial made excavators believe this person held unusual importance.
Today the mound stands in South Charleston, but long before streets and businesses surrounded it, this was part of a much larger ceremonial landscape in the Kanawha Valley. The mound was once among extensive earthworks that stretched for miles on both sides of the river, evidence that this was not an isolated monument but part of a broader sacred geography.
Archaeologists generally connect the mound to the Adena world, with the West Virginia Encyclopedia placing such builders in the Ohio and Kanawha drainages between roughly 1000 and 200 B.C. The commonly repeated estimate for Criel Mound itself is around 250 to 150 B.C., though some older nomination language also noted a mingling of Adena and Hopewell traits in the material recovered there.
Even in altered form, the mound still conveys scale. Sources describe it as about 33 feet high after historic damage, making it one of the largest surviving burial mounds in West Virginia and second only to Grave Creek Mound in the state.
But Criel Mound was not left untouched by the modern world. Before the Smithsonian excavations, its summit had already been leveled for a bandstand or judges’ stand, tied to a racetrack that once circled the mound, so by the time investigators arrived part of the original form had already been lost.
That loss matters, because every change to a mound like this erases context that can never be fully restored. What survives is precious not because it is complete, but because it endured despite being treated for years as scenery, usable land, and public space rather than as an irreplaceable archive of Native history.
In late 1883, Smithsonian investigators began cutting a shaft from the top down toward the original ground surface. Near the upper levels they found burials at shallow depths, and the associated artifacts led later interpreters to believe those upper interments were intrusive and from a later period rather than part of the mound’s first use.
Then came a long stretch of earth with no major discovery. Only when excavators neared the base, roughly 31 feet down, did the original burial deposit appear and reveal the moment for which the mound had first been raised.
The dead at the bottom were found on a prepared setting of bark and ash, then covered with another layer of bark. Postmolds and structural traces suggested some form of tomb or vault, which helps explain why this was understood as a formal, deliberate burial event rather than a casual accumulation of graves.
The central burial drew the most attention, and not only because of position. Copper near the head, shell beads, and weapon points were associated with that individual, while some of the surrounding burials had fewer or no objects, creating a pattern of difference that likely reflected status, role, or ceremony.
Older retellings often fixate on the size of the person in the center. Some sources and later retellings describe a skeleton around 6 feet or even 6 feet 8 3/4 inches long, but the West Virginia Encyclopedia stresses that Norris reported the individuals as adults of medium size, and the National Register form itself warns that the extreme height may have been exaggerated by pressure from the earth.
#archaeohistories
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Marines with 3rd Marine Logistics Group rehearse sword manual and guidon drill movements during Corporals Course 4-26, Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan, April 10, 2026.
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@NCRegister Sad to see so many joining the pagan cult of cathocism. Praying they will find Jesus.
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Many U.S. dioceses are expecting heavy increases in people joining the Catholic Church at Easter 2026, including some with record highs, a survey by the Register found.
“Something’s happening,” said John Helsey, director of communications for the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, which is expecting a 57% increase in unbaptized people becoming Catholics at Easter — from 635 in 2025 to nearly 1,000 in 2026.
In most places, this year’s increases aren’t a one-off but follow significant increases in recent years.
One example is the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, which had record highs attending liturgies several weeks ago that were meant to welcome would-be converts who have been preparing to enter the Church in recent months and to formalize their status.
Newark is expecting a 30% jump in converts in 2026 (at 1,701) over 2025 (at 1,305). The 2026 figure is 60% higher than the 1,064 converts in 2019, the year before the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Last year, we had no idea where all the people came from then; 2025 eclipsed every year we had had up to then. We thought it might be an anomaly,” said Father Armand Mantia, director of the archdiocese’s OCIA (Order of Christian Initiation of Adults) program that prepares converts to become Catholics. “And then, all of a sudden, we had our rituals for 2026, and 2026 blew away 2025, which we didn’t think was possible.”
Read the full story at ncregister.com
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@margbrennan What in God's good name...? You blended your "devout" faith with Islam?
YOU MARRIED A MUSLIM AND ALLOWED HIS FAITH TO POLLUTE YOURS!?
You are as "devoutly Roman Catholic" as I am Jewish, which is to say not at all!
Better yet, you are as Catholic as Joe Biden.
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The Secretary of Defense tells the American public to pray for our troops on bended knee and invoke Jesus' name....
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@margbrennan @SecWar REALLY should stop forcing his religious beliefs on an American public who only wants this illegal war to end and our troops brought home.
This religious nutbag has no business running our military.
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@margbrennan Pray for America too in Jesus name 🙏
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says that HALF of all people plotting any kind of attacks in America were Muslims directly communicating with overseas terrorists organizations Joe Biden and Democrats did this with their open border “Roughly half of last year's disrupted Plotters had some online contact with Islamist terrorists inspired by Islamist foreign terrorist organizations abroad. For example, in the recent attempt to attack a synagogue in Michigan, the shooter had familial ties to a Hezbollah leader.” “In 2025, there were at least 3 Islamist terrorist attacks in the United States. Law enforcement disrupted at least 15 U.S based Islamist terrorist plotters.”
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@SavtaSammi @margbrennan Thank you for your sacrifice and to them Thank you for serving this great Nation!! God bless you!!! Shalom Shalom!!!
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@margbrennan And yet, I’m not offended Margaret. I have two Jewish kids serving our country and I find zero offense. Do you know why Margaret? Because he’s praying for their success against an evil regime that would kill us all. 🇺🇸
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@SmoopsiePoopsie @margbrennan @grok Way to do your homework!!! Thank you for teaching me something today.
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@margbrennan @Grok, is @margbrennan a practicing Catholic? Why would she write such a post?
Well, well, well ..... methinks someone us clearly biased. 👇
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@margbrennan My God says "You shall not kill". What "god" is Hegseth actually invoking when he blasphemes the name of Jesus for plausible deniability?
Pray to Jesus to protect all people involved in this war and to help our "leaders" come to their senses & end this war immediately.
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@HNaive11 @fasc1nate God bless our troops, past present and future!
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@fasc1nate These kids went on to win World War One. Just sayin'.
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Three young newspaper boys, known as “newsies,” photographed at Skeeter’s Branch at the corner of Jefferson and Franklin in St. Louis, Missouri, at 11 a.m. on May 9, 1910. The image was taken by Lewis Hine.
Newsboys were a frequent focus of Hine’s social reform work, as many were children forced to work long hours.
From 1908 to 1924, Hine was employed by the National Child Labor Committee to document the harsh living and working conditions faced by children across the United States.
His photographs played a critical role in raising public awareness and helped pave the way for the passage of child labor laws.
Color: @retrograde_colour
The most haunting photos ever taken: bit.ly/46yA996
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@LarrabeeNed @nickshirleyy @GovPressOffice And you don't even want to go there with any mention of COVID...
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Hey Nick, why don't you investigate the billions that Trump gave to thousands of fraudulent companies during Covid?
$378 billion given to fake businesses during the pandemic.
Prosecutors have accused borrowers of purchasing luxury homes, cryptocurrency and Teslas with EIDL funds.
Trump gave billions to family members, wealthy associates, billionaires who were flagged ineligible.
Trump removed the flags 4 days before he left the WH
#TrumpIsCorrupt
#trumpaffordabilitymeltdown
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@CENTCOM Americans don't want new drama on Operation Epic Failed, Americans want to stop the war immediately.
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Update from CENTCOM Commander on Operation Epic Fury:
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