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BREAKING: Palantir CEO Alex Karp has bought a $46M “billionaire bunker” in Miami, which has its own private police, and neighbors include Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jared Kushner.
Across all 651+ US internal medicine residency programs (10,900+ spots), approximately 49% of students hail from foreign medical schools.
The most radicalizing videos on the internet are from about 40 years ago when malls were packed
An interesting article on the prospect of capturing Kharg Island "U.S. troops may well take Kharg Island, only to endure ballistic-missile strikes, drone attacks, and petrochemical smoke, all without a reliable means of obtaining logistical support" theatlantic.com/international/…
Someone is selling a manor estate in Burgundy with a private river, waterfalls and a natural swimming pond. 2 hours from Paris. Two buildings arranged around a courtyard, 1,700m² (18,298 sq ft) in total, 12 bedrooms, an artist's studio, stables and 7 hectares (17 acres) of land. Inside there's a music room with a piano, a library in the tower, a writing room, and a dining room built around a fireplace large enough to roast a whole animal. Herons and wild ducks live on the property year round. The river has a depth of 3 metres and you can swim in it all summer. Near Vézelay, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Asking price: €1.39M ($1.6M). The French sure do know about living well. A river on your grounds, your own land to walk, swimming in summer, dinner outside. What's the French word for this kind of life?
The jerrycan is one of the most consequential pieces of military equipment to emerge from the Second World War, yet few people know its story. It was designed in Germany in 1937 by Vinzenz Grünvogel of Müller engineering firm in Schwelm. The Wehrmacht specified that a soldier had to be able to carry two full cans or four empty ones, which drove the distinctive triple-handle design. The rectangular shape made the cans stackable, the recessed welded seam resisted impact damage, and an interior plastic lining allowed the same can to carry either fuel or water. An air pocket built into the design allowed the can to float if dropped in water. By 1939, Germany had stockpiled thousands of these cans in preparation for war, issuing them to motorized troops alongside rubber hose for siphoning fuel from any available source. The Allies had no equivalent. American engineer Paul Pleiss encountered three of the cans in Berlin and flew back to Philadelphia to alert military officials, but could generate no interest. The British Army relied on a flimsy four-gallon tin container that leaked at its crimped seams, often losing as much as twenty-five percent of transported fuel before it reached troops. At least one cargo ship exploded from fuel vapors accumulating in its hold from leaking containers. When British forces captured German jerrycans during the Norwegian Campaign in 1940 and later in North Africa, they used them in preference to their own equipment whenever possible. The United States eventually reverse-engineered the design, though their version replaced the recessed welded seam with rolled seams prone to leaking and removed the interior lining from fuel cans. Even the inferior American copy proved transformative: over nineteen million were required to support US forces in Europe alone by May 1945. President Franklin Roosevelt credited the jerrycan directly with enabling Allied armies to advance across France at a pace that exceeded Germany's own Blitzkrieg of 1940. The Soviet Union recognized the design's value and adopted it as their standard liquid container, a version still produced in Russia today. The jerrycan remains a NATO standard container and a direct descendant of Grünvogel's 1937 design is still in use across military and civilian contexts worldwide. #archaeohistories
Buy a farm in El Salvador 🇸🇻 And this could be your view
