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Reunion, a Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles fanfiction written by me. All chapters updated Oct. 13 & 14, 2025. New prologue and a cover with artwork by TOK715 on X. #TSCC #fanfiction #fanfic tinyurl.com/yhsykk6r

Henry Mancini wrote "Moon River" specifically for Audrey Hepburn. He later said that while many versions of the song have been done, he feels that Audrey's was the best. According to lyricist Johnny Mercer, in a meeting following a San Francisco screening of the movie, a Paramount executive, in reference to "Moon River," said, "Well, I think the first thing we can do is get rid of that stupid song." Audrey Hepburn stood up at the table and told him, "Over my dead body!" The song stayed in the movie, and has since become a classic. Since then, "Moon River" has been recorded more than 500 times. Film: Breakfast at tiffany's (1961)

The mall hallway moment in Terminator 2 is pure cinematic shock. Arnold walks slowly, hiding the shotgun in a flower box, then suddenly turns. On a first viewing, audiences still believe he’s the villain—until the reveal flips the entire story upside down.

@RetroNewsNow I remember the original '3-2-1 Contact' and 'The Bloodhound Gang' segment was my favorite. The entire series was very good science show. I was maybe 12 when it ran on PBS. Never missed an episode.

🔬📺Anyone else remember ‘The Bloodhound Gang’ segment on ‘3-2-1 Contact’? A trio of young sleuths who solved mysteries using nothing but science, deduction and pure curiosity. ‘Whenever there’s trouble, we’re there on the double.’🕵️‍♂️

The Cheers hat scene is funnier than every ‘that’s what she said’ combined. One dime bet. One perfect con. Zero filler. Fight me in the replies. This is the Mount Rushmore of sitcom moments. 🎬🎥 Cheers (S01E19) 🔥❤️😂

The Plymouth Pilgrims accidentally ran the first documented socialist experiment in America three centuries before Marx scribbled his manifesto. Governor William Bradford's "common storehouse" system from 1620-1623 delivered textbook collectivist results: mass shirking, crop failures, and near-starvation. Bradford recorded the disaster in detail. Young men "complained that they were oppressed" when forced to work for others without reward. Productive colonists watched lazy neighbors receive equal rations despite contributing nothing. The system "was found to breed much confusion and discontent" because it violated basic human incentives. People starved while fertile Massachusetts soil lay underworked. The turnaround came swiftly in 1623 when Bradford abandoned the collective model and assigned private family plots. Production exploded overnight. Women and children voluntarily joined field work when their families directly benefited from extra effort. The same colonists who nearly died under socialism suddenly produced abundant harvests under private property. Bradford explicitly credited private ownership for saving Plymouth Colony. He documented how individual responsibility transformed human behavior within a single growing season. Individual effort cannot be separated from individual reward without destroying both. Every socialist experiment since Plymouth has repeated this identical pattern. Different century, different continent, same predictable collapse when planners ignore the reality of human nature. No matter what they call it, whenever and wherever collectivist ideas are put into practice, disaster soon follows.

This Dog pretending to be unbothered while his new kitten sister uses him as a wrestling dummy. She has zero fear and he has infinite love

Bob and Norma Clark married in a church south of San Francisco in August 1964 and spent nearly five decades believing they were legally husband and wife. They didn’t question it. Not once. Why would they? There had been a wedding—family gathered, vows exchanged, photographs taken. A sister stood beside Norma. A brother walked the aisle. Everything that makes a marriage feel real… was there. And for 48 years, it was real. Just not on paper. It wasn’t until 2012, while sorting through end-of-life planning, that something small cracked open the truth. Norma read that without a marriage license, certain benefits wouldn’t exist. So she went looking. Nothing. No document. No copy. They requested one from the county. The answer came back clean—and devastating. No record. No certificate. No legal marriage. Nearly half a century erased by a missing filing. The church still had proof of the ceremony, but it didn’t matter. The paperwork had never been submitted. And after all those years, it couldn’t simply be fixed. They had to start over. With witnesses. By sheer luck, the same people who stood beside them in 1964 were visiting for Thanksgiving. So they set a new date. November 21, 2012. Bob didn’t treat it like paperwork. He brought flowers. They walked into a county office filled with strangers—and a photo album filled with a life already lived. Weddings. Children. Vacations. Proof of something the law had somehow missed. People gathered. Smiled. Watched. Then came the signatures. This time, it was official. A voice from the crowd broke the moment—light, warm: “Kiss your bride.” He did. And just like that, nothing changed… except now the world had paperwork to prove what they had already known for 48 years.

Americans don’t want the government tracking, monitoring, or controlling their cars. KILL THE KILL SWITCH!

Last hug: The moment of this snow leopard's return to freedom leaves you speechless.

What are the seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowls in the Book of Revelation? The seven seals (Revelation 6:1-17; 8:1-5), seven trumpets (Revelation 8:6- 9:21; 11:15-19), and seven bowls/vials (Revelation 16:1-21) are three series of end-times judgments from God. The judgments get increasingly worse and more devastating as the end times progress. The seven seals, trumpets, and bowls are connected to one another. The seventh seal introduces the seven trumpets (Revelation 8:1-5), and the seventh trumpet introduces the seven bowls (Revelation 11:15-19; 15:1-8). The seven seals include the appearance of the Antichrist (Revelation 6:1-2), great warfare (Revelation 6:3-4), famine (Revelation 6:5-6), plague (Revelation 6:7-8), the martyrdom of believers in Christ (Revelation 6:9-11), a devastating earthquake causing terrible devastation, and astronomical upheaval (Revelation 6:12-14). Those who survive the six seals are right to cry out, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?" (Revelation 6:16-17). The seventh seal introduces the seven trumpet judgments. The trumpets include hail and fire that destroy much of the plant life in the world (Revelation 8:7), the death of much of the world's aquatic life (Revelation 8:8-9; 8:10-11), the darkening of the sun and moon (Revelation 8:12), a plague of "demonic locusts" that torture the unsaved (Revelation 9:1-11), and the march of a demonic army that kills a third of humanity (Revelation 9:12-21). The seventh trumpet calls forth seven angels who carry the seven bowls of God's wrath (Revelation 11:15-19; 15:1-8). The bowl judgments include painful sores afflicting humanity (Revelation 16:2), the death of every living thing in the sea (Revelation 16:3), the turning of rivers to blood (Revelation 16:4-7), an intensifying of the sun's heat (Revelation 16:8-9), great darkness and an intensification of the sores from the first bowl (Revelation 16:10-11), the advance of the Antichrist's armies at Armageddon (Revelation 16:12-14), and a devastating earthquake followed by giant hailstones (Revelation 16:15-21). Together, the seals, trumpets, and bowls of the end times comprise "the great day of [God's] wrath" (Revelation 6:17) and serve to judge the Antichrist's kingdom of wickedness. Revelation 16:5-7 declares of God, "You are just in these judgments, you who are and who were, the Holy One, because you have so judged; for they have shed the blood of your saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve..... Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments."

Good Tuesday morning church! It’s going to hit 77° here in New England. Hey, my wife and I graduated in 1977 ❤️ This is a verse that we must apply daily . We must love the Lord with all heart, soul,mind. We must walk in the Spirit or we will fulfill the lust of our flesh ❤️🙏🤗😊

This really troubles me using potable, life giving water for machines. Perhaps I’m alone in this?

The opening fly-over in Star Wars (1977), the Star Destroyer chasing the ambassador ship, still feels endless in the best way. The scale just keeps growing, then the docking bay slides past and it somehow gets even bigger.

So thankful for the new birth🙌❤️🙏

It's sad what the Star Wars franchise has become, but we shouldn't forget how powerfully *Christian* was the original trilogy. The first movie I ever saw in a theater was the original Star Wars in 1977. People today don't realize what a big deal Darth Vader was: he was the ultimate villain (far more terrifying than Thanos or any of today's Hollywood villains). There was nothing redeeming about him; he personified evil. That's why Vader's redemption in Return of the Jedi (spoiler!) was so mind-blowing when it happened. Nobody saw this coming: the personification of evil could be converted to good? Unthinkable. Yet that's exactly what happened, through the love of his son (another spoiler!). The belief that *no one* is beyond redemption—and that love can overcome even the worst evil—are fundamentally Christian beliefs. The original Star Wars trilogy demonstrated how Christianity was still a deep part of our culture in the 1970's and 1980's, even though so many at that time were working fervently to reject those Christian foundations. So while the Star Wars franchise is in pitiful shape today, I'm thankful for that original trilogy and the fundamentally Christian message it proclaimed to millions of people.

#𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕣𝕋𝕣𝕖𝕜 May the 4th be with you.

A binman in Turkey’s capital found a bag of thrown-away books on his rounds and couldn’t bring himself to take it to the dump. He kept it. Other workers started doing the same. The pile has now grown into a public library of over 9,000 books, run by sanitation workers, in an old brick factory.

Big Brother should not be able to decide when you can drive your car. KILL THE KILL SWITCH!

Why would a shopping mall keep a massive rock right in the middle of it? In Haabneeme, that’s exactly what happened. During construction of the Viimsi Shopping Center in 2014, workers hit something they couldn’t just dig around. A glacial boulder. About 22 meters around. Roughly 6 meters tall. Not placed there by people. Carried and dropped thousands of years ago by ice. The original plan was simple. Remove it and move on. Locals pushed back. Hard enough that it was officially protected as a natural monument. So the project changed. Instead of clearing the land, they built around it. Shops, walkways, glass… and a piece of the Ice Age sitting quietly in the center. You walk in for groceries, and there it is. Older than the entire town around it. Most places erase what gets in the way. This one didn’t. And now the question kind of flips. How often do we actually leave space for something that doesn’t serve us, but still matters?