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@RobertPRowley2 I needed to see these today! Later in the season I’ll say hello to #Queen butterflies in Georgia. Beautiful captures…ThankU4Sharing

#ChihuahuanDesert today. Desert Marigolds; Claret Cup Cactus; flowering yuccas west of the mountains; Queen on desert sumac.

@historyinmemes @RunnerGal23 #BradleyCooper

Bradley Cooper spent six years training to perform this single scene, which lasts over six minutes.

I haven't given you guys a goodnight photo in awhile. Usually they don't get as many views, but for the one's who see it, goodnight 🫡

@redandblack @RunnerGal23 do you remember the clock factory in Athens Georgia? ☢️ #SuperFund #ebo=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">google.com/gasearch?q=clo…

"They told us the paint was safe enough to eat. So we put the brushes in our mouths hundreds of times a day. And now our bones are still radioactive a century after we died.' They were called the Radium Girls. Teenagers who painted watch dials with glowing paint, who danced in the dark covered in their own light, who were told they had nothing to fear. Their employer knew better. They just never told the girls." Orange, New Jersey, 1917. Grace Fryer was eighteen when she walked through the doors of the U.S. Radium Corporation. The job seemed almost too good to be true: painting watch dials with luminous paint so soldiers could read their watches in the trenches of World War I. The pay was better than any factory work available to young women. The paint actually glowed. The girls painted their nails with it, their teeth, their faces—showing up to dances shimmering like something out of a fairy tale. They called themselves the Ghost Girls. Their supervisors told them the paint was perfectly safe. "You could eat it," one said with complete confidence. So they did. Every day. The technique was called "lip-pointing"—put the brush between your lips to make a fine point, dip it in radium paint, paint the number, repeat. Hundreds of times a day. Thousands of times a week. Gram after gram of radium-laced paint passed through their lips, settled permanently in their bones. The male scientists and supervisors working with the exact same paint wore full protective gear behind lead shields. They already knew what radium could do. They simply never told the women. By 1922, the sickness began. Teeth fell out. Jaws dissolved. Bones snapped from the smallest movements. And something else—something no one could explain. They glowed in the dark. At night, standing before their mirrors, their own bodies gave off pale greenish light. The radiation had buried itself so deep it was literally shining through their flesh. When Grace Fryer's symptoms appeared in 1923, she went to the company for help. U.S. Radium denied everything. Their hired doctors blamed syphilis—a deliberate, cruel strategy to label dying women as prostitutes. Grace found a lawyer in 1927. By then she could barely walk, her spine collapsing, weighing under 90 pounds. Four other dying women joined her. The company's legal strategy was simple: delay until they died. But when the women appeared in court in 1928, the public saw with their own eyes what the company had done. Grace had to be carried in. Quinta McDonald's face had sunk where her jaw was eaten away. The outrage was unstoppable. U.S. Radium settled. Each woman got about $175,000 in today's money. Grace died in 1933 at 34. By 1937, all five were gone. What they did can never be undone. Before the Radium Girls, companies faced almost no consequences for injuring workers. Their case changed everything—workers gained the right to sue for negligence, companies became legally required to warn about hazards, employers were held responsible for occupational injuries. Every warning label on a chemical container. Every required piece of protective equipment. Every workplace safety law. Five dying women built that. In 2014, researchers held a Geiger counter to Grace Fryer's grave. Ninety-one years after her death, her bones still registered radiation. They will glow for 1,600 years. "She could barely stand when she brought her lawsuit. Her spine was giving way. She knew she wouldn't survive. She sued anyway—not to save herself, but to save people she would never meet. Her bones still glow beneath New Jersey soil. Her name is written into every workplace safety law in the country. The company that poisoned her is remembered only for what it did. Grace Fryer will never be forgotten." © Tales Of Past #archaeohistories

I was flying Southwest from Dallas to New York. Three rows ahead of me, there was a young soldier in uniform. He looked barely 18. He was staring straight ahead, gripping the armrests. He looked nervous. When the drink cart came around, the flight attendant asked him what he wanted. 'Coke, please,' he said. 'Heading home?' she asked kindly. 'No, ma'am,' he said. 'Deploying. First time.' The whole row went quiet. The flight attendant didn't say a word. she handed him his Coke. Then, she got on the PA system. 'Ladies and gentlemen, we have a very special guest in Row 8 today. Private Miller is on his first deployment to serve our country. Since I can't buy him a drink, I’m going to ask a favor. If you want to write him a note of encouragement, pass it forward.' I grabbed a napkin. I wrote: 'You got this. Stay safe. - A dad from Row 12.' I watched as napkins traveled up the aisle. Napkins, receipts, pages torn from books. By the time we landed, the soldier had a pile of paper on his tray table three inches high. He stood up to get his bag, and he was wiping his eyes. He carefully packed every single scrap of paper into his rucksack. 'Thank you,' he told the flight attendant. 'No,' she said. 'Thank you.' We all walked off that plane a little quieter, reminded that freedom is just a word until you meet the kid who is defending it. Credit: Margie Lee

IRAN JUST HIT BRITISH TERRITORY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY. Not the Middle East. Not a nearby neighbor. A British military base in the middle of the INDIAN OCEAN. Diego Garcia. 4,000 kilometers from Iran. Last month, Iran's Foreign Minister said their missiles max out at 2,000km. Today they fired DOUBLE that distance. They lied. And they wanted the world to know. The UK just authorized the US to use this base to bomb Iran. Iran hit it back within HOURS. One missile failed mid-flight. A US warship fired an SM-3 at the second one. Nobody knows if it actually worked. Trump says NO ceasefire. The Pentagon is drawing up ground invasion plans. 5 days ago Trump said he was "nowhere near" that decision. Today his commanders are submitting requests. Iran just showed every country within 4,000km that they can reach you. That's 40+ countries. South Asia. East Africa. Southern Europe. And this is just what they're SHOWING us. RT so this doesn't get buried by the algorithm.

Galileo’s telescope wasn’t the first — but his was the best. The Dutch spectacle maker Hans Lippershey built the first spyglass (~1608). Galileo improved it to 20–30× magnification in 1609 and was the first to systematically use it for astronomy.

The SR-71’s speed was not limited by the power of its engines. It was limited by the heat its structure could withstand. Titanium makes up 93% of the SR-71s structure. A material that had never been truly utilized to its full potential until the SR-71 came along. Each SR 71 was handmade. That means everyone of the Blackbirds were ever so slightly different. The men that flew the SR’s had their favorites and then there were the hangar queens that no one liked to fly.. The reason why titanium was so expensive was the process to make it usable. The first reliable process to produce chemically pure titanium was developed in the 1940s. This process made the SR-71 possible. It begins by first converting the titanium dioxide to titanium chloride. How do we convert the Titanium? To do this titanium dioxide is mixed with chlorine and pure carbon and heated. Any oxygen or nitrogen leaking in will ruin the process, so this has to be done in relatively small batches in a sealed vessel. Once this process is complete, we have Titanium Chloride. We then need to purify the Titanium Chloride from any impurities in the titanium ore through distillation. Where we heat the product and separate titanium chloride using its lower boiling point. This Titanium Chloride vapor is fed into a stainless steel vessel containing molten magnesium at 1300 kelvin. Titanium is highly reactive with oxygen at high temperatures, so the vessel also needs to be sealed and filled with argon. Here the Titanium Chloride reacts with the magnesium, which itself is an expensive metal, to form titanium and magnesium chloride. At times the engineers were perplexed as to what was causing problems, but thankfully they documented and cataloged everything, which helped find trends in their failures. They discovered that spot welded parts made in the summer were failing very early in their life, but those welded in winter were fine. They eventually tracked the problem to the fact that the Burbank water treatment facility was adding chlorine to the water they used to clean the parts to prevent algae blooms in summer, but took it out in winter. Chlorine as we saw earlier reacts with titanium, so they began using distilled water from this point on. They discovered that their cadmium plated tools were leaving trace amounts of cadmium on bolts, which would cause galvanic corrosion and cause the bolts to fail. This discovery led to all cadmium tools to be removed from the workshop. Converting Titanium for the SR-71 is really slow This reduction reaction is extremely slow, between 2 and 4 days. It’s pretty clear that titanium is expensive and extremely difficult to work with. But without Titanium and the SR-71, we wouldn’t be where we are today, talking about the fastest, air, breathing airplane in the world. You can read the full article here. Linda Sheffield. wisconsinmetaltech.com/titanium-and-t… Eric Erik Simonsen image of 17974

RIP to the mighty Chuck Norris, seen here fooling around with Paul and Linda McCartney at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.

Paul McCartney with his dog ❤️

@JBONAMASSA @callmekingfish @bighousemuseum

What a great night in Macon, Ga... @callmekingfish is the future King of the Blues... What a talented and kind young man he is. Thank you for a great opening set and for closing out the night with us. 😎👍

Happy Birthday SISTER ROSETTA THARPE! (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) Sister Rosetta Tharpe's 1961 Gibson Les Paul Custom (serial no. 3749) #guitar #FamousGuitars #Gibson #SisterRosettaTharpe

Went to see Project Hail Mary tonight with the kids — it was AMAZING. 10/10 highly recommend.

A week ago, Trump lifted sanctions on Russian oil, rewarding Russia for helping Iran locate & kill American service members, and tonight Trump lifts sanctions on Iranian oil, rewarding Iran for actually killing American service members. Once again, Trump is a traitor to America.

BBC confirms the US is responsible for the Minab school massacre that killed 175 people, mostly girls. The "advanced" AI targeting system used outdated coordinates to hit a base next door, ignoring satellite images showing kids playing in the courtyard. Absolute war crime.

“The whole world can call me a part-timer. I don't care as long as my wife and children understand that I'm a full time father. That's my legacy right there. That's the biggest flex any superstar could ever say." — Roman Reigns

@BirdCentralPark #birdcpp Our locally rare American wigeon earlier today, a female hooded merganser and a bonus pine warbler at The Pool today. #birdsSeenIn2026 #birdphotography #birds #wildlifephotography #SpringIsHere