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For the first time on screen, as seen on The Adventures of Cliff Booth first trailer, a scene could take place in a Big Kahuna Burger restaurant.

US President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan visiting the Terracotta Army in Xi'an, China (April 29ᵗʰ, 1984)... 🇨🇳🇺🇸 During a landmark visit to China in April 1984, Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan toured the extraordinary Terracotta Army in Xi’an, one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 20th Century. The visit came during a period of cautious warming between the United States and China, little more than a decade after formal diplomatic relations had begun to normalize. The massive host of terra-cotta warriors charged with guarding the emperor’s tomb for eternity was discovered in 1974, when farmers near the city of Xi’an, China, dug a well and found a clay head—the first of perhaps 7,000 unique figures. (No one knows for certain because excavations of the pits are still ongoing.) Qin Shihuangdi, who died in 210 BC, was the first ruler to unite China. After his conquests he also tied the empire with an extensive road network, standard currency and weights and measures, a single written script, and even a more consistent legal code. Qin's great accomplishments included his resting place, a 19-square-mile complex designed to mirror the plan of his capital, Xianyang, and guarded by one of the most incredible armies ever assembled. Each clay-crafted figure weighs some 300 to 400 pounds and stands 1.8m high. Legs and feet form a solid base, but the rest of each figure is hollow. Torsos, arms, hands and heads were molded separately then attached and covered with a fine layer of clay, which was later finished with detail work. Each warrior is unique and features a realistic human face, likely based on some living person of the time. The army was assembled in formation and equipped with horses, chariots, and all the accoutrements of an elite fighting force, including bronze weapons, many of which were later plundered. The figures were buried in pits 4.5 to 6m deep. The largest of them stretched as far as two football fields laid end to end. In accordance with custom the tomb was begun while the emperor was alive, and actually quite young, so that he could oversee all aspects of its construction. It took 36 years, and hundreds of workers, to raise the terra-cotta warrior army. In 1987, the mausoleum was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. Qin Shihuangdi is said to have had a special interest in immortality. He sent subjects across the empire in search of products or potions that could extend life. This obsession not only remained unrealized but may have proven fatal. It’s believed that one “longevity” potion contained mercury, and scholars suspect it contributed to his death. By the time the Reagans visited, the site had already become an international symbol of China’s ancient civilization and growing openness to the outside world. Reagan’s 1984 trip focused heavily on trade, diplomacy, and strategic relations during the Cold War, but moments like this also reflected the growing cultural exchanges between the two nations. Images from the visit captured a rare intersection of ancient imperial history and modern global politics. © Historical Photos #archaeohistories

DID MICHAEL JACKSON GET ALL HIS MOVES FROM BOB FOSSE IT’S CALLED THE SNAKE DANCE!

The first trailer for Zach Cregger's ‘RESIDENT EVIL’ has been released. In theaters on September 18.

> Be Tom Anderson > 55 years old > At 14, hacks into Chase Manhattan Bank's computer system > FBI raids his house in one of the largest raids in California history > Too young to be charged. Goes by the hacker name "Lord Flathead" > Studies English at UC Berkeley, then film at UCLA > Lands at a company called eUniverse > Sees Friendster blowing up and thinks "I can build something better" > Creates Myspace in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe > Becomes everyone's first friend. Literally. His face auto-added to every single account > 240+ million friends. The most connected person on the internet > Myspace overtakes Google as the most visited website in America > Rupert Murdoch's News Corp buys it for $580 million in 2005 > Tom stays on as president, pockets his share, watches Facebook slowly eat his creation alive > Myspace collapses. Gets sold again for $35 million. A 94% loss > Everyone laughs. "Tom from Myspace" becomes a punchline > Except Tom already cashed out > Quietly retires. No comeback tour. No podcast. No "10 lessons I learned" thread > Discovers photography at Burning Man in 2011 > Spends the next decade traveling the world taking landscape photos > His Instagram looks like National Geographic > No interviews. No drama. No desperate pivot to the next startup > Just a man who built the internet's first social network, sold it at the peak, and walked away And Tom Anderson is still out there somewhere with a camera, zero stress, retired and $580 million in the bank. Tom won the game. Then stopped playing.

Tourists crowd inside the crown of the Statue of Liberty, 1980s More iconic historical photos: bit.ly/44OpIzi

The eerie Mystery Man in Lost Highway was inspired by a real encounter David Lynch once had at a party, where a stranger claimed to be at his house at that moment. It became the blueprint for one of the film’s most haunting scenes.

PULP FICTION as a video game from the 1990s. This is incredible.

OMG … this is AI generated #rorymcllroy #golf @McIlroyRory

Good morning. #EP378

ROBIN WILLIAMS talking about his accent for Mrs Doubtfire (1993).

by far the most devastating in memoriam.

Harrison Ford, known for his rugged dignity, just gave one of the most touching acceptance speeches I’ve ever heard. Just a man, reflecting on the incredible blessing it is to be able to do what you love and find your place in the world. I cried.

Jesse Owens of USA winning gold for the long jump in the summer Olympics in Germany, 1936.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The man saluting behind Owens is Lutz Long, a German who shared training tips with Owens and was the first to openly congratulate him after his final jump in full view of Hitler. After the Olympics, the two kept in touch via mail. Below is Long's last letter to Owens while he was stationed with the German Army in North Africa during World War 2. Long was later killed in action during the allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ "I am here, Jesse, where it seems there is only the dry sand and the wet blood. I do not fear so much for myself, my friend Jesse, I fear for my woman who is home, and my young son Karl, who has never really known his father.⁣⁣ My heart tells me, if I be honest with you, that this is the last letter I shall ever write. If it is so, I ask you something. It is a something so very important to me. It is you go to Germany when this war done, someday find my Karl, and tell him about his father. Tell him, Jesse, what times were like when we not separated by war. I am saying—tell him how things can be between men on this earth.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ If you do this something for me, this thing that I need the most to know will be done, I do something for you, now. I tell you something I know you want to hear. And it is true.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ That hour in Berlin when I first spoke to you, when you had your knee upon the ground, I knew that you were in prayer.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Then I not know how I know. Now I do. I know it is never by chance that we come together. I come to you that hour in 1936 for purpose more than der Berliner Olympiade.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ And you, I believe, will read this letter, while it should not be possible to reach you ever, for purpose more even than our friendship.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ I believe this shall come about because I think now that God will make it come about. This is what I have to tell you, Jesse.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ I think I might believe in God.⁣⁣ And I pray to him that, even while it should not be possible for this to reach you ever, these words I write will still be read by you.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Your brother,⁣⁣ Luz"⁣⁣ More chilling historical photos: bit.ly/46yA996

RIP Tom Noonan (1951-2026) Manhunter (1986) Director: Michael Mann Tom Noonan on how he got cast for the role of Francis Dollarhyde by Michael Mann in "Manhunter" (1986): "I went up to this casting place, and I saw they're bring in all these people from Steppenwolf - the theater company in Chicago that we all love so much. I had an appointment at 10:00 and then it got pushed to 10:30, 11, 11:30. I was starting to get really unhappy, and all these people are going in - I think from Steppenwolf, that's probably just my paranoia. Finally they brought me in and I was really fu**ing pissed off. That's all I knew: I was going to get in there and I was going to read the fu**ing scene, and just leave. So I was really mad, I didn't have a plan about how to do this thing. I go in and Michael Mann's there. Michael's sort of a scary guy, even though he's not huge, and I learned over time that you really don't talk back to him or give him shit, ever. He's like Napoleon. I walked up and I said, "Listen, I'm gonna read and then I'm gonna leave, OK?" He said, "OK." I sat down. There was a woman reading with me, who apparently was a casting assistant but now she was the casting person and was going to read with me. They put her opposite me, and I don't know...I didn't do anything, but she started to get really frightened of me, which made me feel really excited and full of myself. Michael got real excited and started wandering around the room. I could feel that he was really into what I was doing too, and I thought, "I got this job." Then I finished, and he started to talk to me. I said, "I told you. I'm reading and now I'm leaving." I just walked out. I called my agent, and he said, "What do you mean, you walked out when he wanted to talk to you?" I said, "No, he kept me waiting an hour and a half and f**k him." He said, "He wants to talk to you. If he doesn't talk to you, you're not going to get the job." I said, "Well, let's just let him think about it for a while." I did go back in and talk to him for like a minute. He said, "I have one question." I said, "Good." He said, "You're really scary. How do you do that?" I said, "Michael, the secret to being scary is to be really scared. Because when you're really scared, people are really scared of you." He said, "Wow," I said, "OK," and I left. I got the job. Now, I'd not worked much. I was making a little bit from my acting, but I was really poor and desperate, and this is a real part. I proceeded then to turn it down about five times. I just wanted to get paid more than they were willing to pay me. They wanted to pay me like $35,000 to do this whole movie. That was money back in 1985, but I said, "I'm not doing it for under $100,000." My agent said, "You're crazy." Somehow, they ended up giving me that amount of money." [Quote taken from IMDb]

RIP Robert Duval 🙏 "I love the smell of napalm in the morning"

Shaun Alexander with Jaxon Smith-Njigba celebrating in the Seahawks locker room 🥹 This picture made my day.

Fresh off the Seahawks’ Super Bowl LX win, Mike Macdonald was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight. Here was the start of his appearance:

The @Seahawks are world champions once again 🏆

absolutely insane couples goals