Duke Hilton🇺🇦
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Duke Hilton🇺🇦
@djericwright8
Son, Friend, Uncle, Dad, Brother, Dog Dad, ExHusband, Gala DJ, Surfer, Voiceover Artist, Lover of everything 70s/80s & Francophile. Oui.
Pacific Northwest Entrou em Ağustos 2009
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That fresh back-to-school 'fit feeling... your mini-me deserves it too ✨
Brand new styles for hitting the books just landed → snapchat.com/bitmoji/avatar…
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@IsaacHumphries7 @MelbUnited You are a great man! Cheers to your future!
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So here is the real Trump Mugshot. It’s even more ridiculous to me than any of the AI generated mugshots.
This will be in all history books for centuries to come and whenever anyone questions if Trump could have been a bad guy, this picture will tell a story.
I don’t know if Trump will be found guilty but this photo makes him look pretty evil to me. Just my opinion.
What are your thoughts? Do you like this photo?
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15 years ago today I won the Newcomer award at the Edinburgh fringe. I won £5K and paid it off my car loan. I had excellent friends with me whose faces I had to check in case I’d heard the announcement wrong. I ran into the street to get signal to ring my then boyfriend now husband. I’m a week from starting my 7th tour. SHEESH.
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Housing activity in July withered to slowest pace since 2010 finance.yahoo.com/news/housing-a… via @Yahoo
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How Trump's attacks on prosecutors build on history of using racist language and stereotypes news.yahoo.com/trumps-attacks… via @Yahoo
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The unreinforced concrete dome of Rome's Pantheon - a miracle of ancient architecture that survived the fall of an empire. Nearly 2,000 years later, nobody has ever built a bigger one.
The mighty dome, built by the Emperor Hadrian between 119-128 AD, measures 142 feet in diameter - still the largest unreinforced concrete dome ever built. Its most striking feature is a 27-foot wide oculus, completely open to the elements and acting as the building's only light source.
Many believe the oculus once functioned as a giant sundial. Every year at noon on 21 April, traditionally the birthday of Rome, the sun’s rays light up the entrance - the Emperor entering the building on such occasions would have been bathed in sunlight in dramatic fashion.
Most remarkable is the secret to the structure's longevity, itself a fascinating recent discovery. Roman concrete includes calcium carbonate lumps called "lime clasts" - these were previously thought to be the result of poorly mixed concrete, but are now understood to provide "self-healing" properties. Water seeping in through cracks in the concrete has been shown to dissolve the calcium carbonate, creating a solution which then recrystallizes to plug the gaps.
It also boasts several other architectural innovations. The coffered ceiling was intended to reduce the weight of the dome (as did the oculus itself), and the mix of concrete used was exceptionally light by design. It also decreases in density moving from bottom to top, making greater use of lighter volcanic material.
The result is one of ancient Rome's best preserved monuments that will likely stand for several more millennia. It inspired countless architectural feats over the ages since, notably Brunelleschi's dome of Florence Cathedral (1436), although that was built from brick - the ancient formula for concrete being long since forgotten.
It stands today as a testament to the ancient Romans' unparalleled mastery of engineering. It even won the resounding endorsement of Michelangelo, architect of the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, for which he undoubtedly took cues from the Pantheon. Seeing it for the first time in the early 1500s, he called it "an angelic and not a human design".
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@OldRider2_ My ex looks just like this. Fuuuuuck!! 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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