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....couple of our dahlias from this week, Edinburgh & Lucky Number 🌹💐🪻🌷 #GardenersWorld

#OTD 1912: At about 2:20 am, the #Titanic sank into the North Atlantic, killing more than 1500 people. Captains of industry John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenheim, Macy's co-owner Isidor Straus, and his wife, Ida, who refused to leave his side, all perished. #maritimedisaster

14th April 1912, around 9.00 am, #Titanic receives an ice warning from the Caronia: "Captain Titanic, west bound steamers report bergs, growlers and field ice in 42°N, from 49° to 51°W, compliments, Barr". #TitanicTimeline #Titanic2026 #RMSTitanic #Titanic114

14th April 1912, around 1.50 pm, #Titanic receives an ice warning from Amerika: "Amerika passed two large icebergs in 41° 27 N 50° 8 W on the 14th of April". #RMSTitanic #Titanic2026 #TitanicTimeline #TitanicAnniversary #Titanic114

In Southampton, a few days before her departure, #Titanic was not quite ready to welcome her passengers. Work was still in progress (until the day before her departure): installation of carpets, plants, fresh paint on the funnels, inside the ship,... #Titanic114 #RMSTitanic

1998 Champion Hurdle Victor Chandler's Biggest Ever Losing Race

Kirov Reservoir dam in Kyrgyzstan built under Soviet rule in the 1970s.

Trump says war with Iran is 'over' and that the US achieved victory.

The BBC reporter didn’t even let him finish because he was saying stuff which didn’t fit their narrative. Top guy. 🍻

I bet the BBC weren’t expecting this

Nicky Henderson will walk the track at Newbury on Wednesday before making a decision on Constitution Hill’s participation in Saturday’s Dubai Duty Free Finest Surprise Stakes Read more ⬇️ itv.com/racing/article…

Undercover police try and arrest a man outside screwfix in Brixton for dealing Class a drugs and as they try to arrest him the drugs go everywhere..

A U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone crashed on April 9 over the Persian Gulf. It suddenly dropped altitude and disappeared from tracking. It’s a major loss (~$238 million drone) with sensitive surveillance tech onboard.

Russia is building a 4.6 km bridge across the Lena River—284 meters high—through permafrost, connecting Yakutsk (population 300,000) to the outside world. Yakutsk has been trapped for 383 years and cut off for 5 months every year. Russian engineers tame the frozen earth.

"I said before the election – and I say it again really clearly today: Growth....is the number one priority of this government." - Keir Starmer, August 2024.

Apocalyptic warning for the UK. Sky News reveals Britain is highly exposed to a massive diesel shortage as Middle East refineries are paralyzed by Washington's war on Iran. With prices skyrocketing and reserves running dangerously low, the UK supply chain is buckling.

Why might Lord George Robertson* be lobbying the government to increase defence spending? 🤔 * Senior Counsellor for the Cohen Group

UK food prices have increased by 37% in the last five years. The basic essentials of energy, water and food are now becoming unaffordable for millions of people in the UK. And this is compounded by the highest ever tax burden. We are being absolutely fleeced.

This can't go on. It just can't.

Today's cartoon by Michael Ramirez for the Washington Post:

Trump is becoming a laughingstock, but if you watch Fox News (I check in on it every day), you have no idea. So if that's all you watch, you'll think everything (including Iran) is going swell. This is part of the reason why Trump can never go below a certain point.