andy huber

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andy huber

andy huber

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شامل ہوئے Mart 2024
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Zang Moor
Zang Moor@ZangMoor·
@archeohistories Just own it you spawns of the devil. Always, deflecting and making excuses. You invaded Africa which had many civilizations that were built, destroyed and rebuilt long before you invaded. Neither you nor the Arabs civilized Africa, you destroyed it’s civilizations
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Archaeo - Histories
Archaeo - Histories@archeohistories·
Smallpox was an unknown disease across the entire American continent before European colonization began in the 15th century. When Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico in 1519, his forces unknowingly carried the virus with them. At least one active case of smallpox arrived with the Narváez expedition at Cozumel and Veracruz in 1520, giving the disease its first foothold on Mexican soil. From there, it spread rapidly inland, reaching the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán by the fall of 1520. The epidemic devastated the Aztec population, killing key rulers including Cuitláhuac and contributing directly to the fall of one of the most powerful empires in the Americas. Estimates suggest between one-quarter and one-half of the population of central Mexico died from the disease. By 1568, Mexico's population had collapsed from over thirty million people to just 1.5 to 3 million. Major epidemic waves followed throughout the colonial period, including outbreaks from 1545 to 1576 that killed up to 17 million people. Colonial authorities eventually responded with quarantines, road closures, inoculation houses, and charity hospitals. In 1803, Spanish physician Francisco Javier de Balmis launched one of the world's first organized vaccination campaigns, using 22 orphaned children to carry the live vaccine across the Atlantic. Mexico's 20th-century response became increasingly systematic, culminating in the 1925 Vaccination and Revaccination Act that made immunization legally mandatory. Between 1944 and 1949, health workers administered over 28 million vaccine doses across the country. Smallpox was officially declared eradicated from Mexico in 1951. The arrival of smallpox in Mexico fundamentally reshaped the entire trajectory of the Americas, accelerating the collapse of the Aztec Empire and enabling Spanish colonial dominance over a continent that might otherwise have successfully resisted conquest. The catastrophic population loss, estimated at tens of millions of people, destroyed political structures, disrupted agricultural systems, and erased vast amounts of cultural knowledge, leaving Indigenous communities weakened for generations. At the same time, Mexico's long and painful history with the disease ultimately drove some of the most pioneering public health innovations of the modern era, including early vaccination campaigns, organized immunization boards, and national health legislation that laid the groundwork for how governments around the world would approach epidemic disease prevention. #archaeohistories
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A.M.P.
A.M.P.@anselmo_mp·
@archeohistories Cortes estaba conciente que llevaba varios subalternos con viruela, era para de la estrategia, y es uno de los motivos por qué Carlos III, no lo hizo virrey
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X9ja@_X9ja_·
@spectatorindex Congratulations to Peter Magyar and the people of Hungary! 🎉 From illiberal state to a new dawn for democracy. Hope this sparks a wider wave across Europe. #HungaryLiberated #OrbanOut 🇭🇺
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The Spectator Index@spectatorindex·
🇭🇺 Hungary's PM-designate Peter Magyar says, after resounding election victory, that 'we have replaced the Orban regime and liberated Hungary'.
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mariano🗡️
mariano🗡️@argenbino·
@Variety tremendous actor. he’ll do more than justice to the role.
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Variety@Variety·
“Harry Potter” actor Paapa Essiedu says he has received race-fuelled death threats over his casting as Professor Snape in the upcoming HBO Max adaptation: “I’ve been told, ‘Quit or I’ll murder you.’” variety.com/2026/tv/global…
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Bay Gang 49erZ
Bay Gang 49erZ@BayGang49erZ·
@shinobi602 @JayDubcity16 Could it be that generally Fromsoft games look and for the most part run like shit and they were scare bluepoint would improve on it?
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Arik Friedman
Arik Friedman@ArikFried·
@archeohistories Spains leaders King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile were expelling their own people because of religious reasons at that time. They took over lands from the Aztecs even though they were living in peace. Spain got punished and lost its power and prestige.
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Archaeo - Histories@archeohistories·
Moctezuma II, born around 1466, was the ninth and most powerful emperor of the Aztec Empire, ruling from approximately 1502 until his death in 1520. He inherited a vast empire and expanded it further through military campaigns, pushing Aztec territory south into Chiapas and incorporating the Zapotec and Yopi peoples. His early reign was marked by famine, drought, and rebellion, yet he managed to suppress revolts across his domain and keep the empire functioning through a combination of military force and taxation. He was known for centralizing power around himself, stripping commoners of roles in the royal court and widening the gap between nobles and ordinary people, policies that created deep resentment among the population. The first warning signs of what was to come arrived in 1518, when Moctezuma received reports of strange ships along the eastern coast of his empire. When Hernán Cortés arrived in 1519 with a relatively small Spanish force, Moctezuma was already aware and sent emissaries and lavish gifts, possibly attempting to gauge the newcomers while asserting his own prestige. On November 8, 1519, Moctezuma personally met Cortés on the great causeway leading into Tenochtitlan, an exchange of greetings that masked a deeply dangerous moment in Aztec history. Just six days after that meeting, Moctezuma was taken prisoner inside his own palace by the Spanish, with Cortés later admitting he did so to prevent losing control over a situation where his small force was deep inside enemy territory. Though technically still treated with the outward respect due an emperor, Moctezuma had effectively lost all real power, with the Spanish overseeing nearly every aspect of his activities. His own nobility grew increasingly furious watching their emperor serve as a cooperative hostage, and tensions built steadily inside Tenochtitlan throughout the following months. A massacre carried out by Spanish soldiers at the Great Temple during a religious ceremony, while Cortés was away dealing with a rival Spanish force, pushed Aztec anger past the breaking point. When Cortés returned, full-scale urban warfare had erupted throughout the capital, and the Spanish forced Moctezuma to appear before his people from a palace balcony in an attempt to calm the fighting. The Aztecs, who had by then rejected Moctezuma as a traitor to his own people, responded with a barrage of stones and projectiles, striking him in the head, arm, and leg. According to Spanish accounts, Moctezuma refused medical treatment after being hit and died of his wounds on June 29, 1520, though indigenous sources give a darker account, suggesting he was killed directly by the Spanish before his body was cast out. After his death, the Spanish were driven from Tenochtitlan in the chaotic and bloody retreat known as La Noche Triste, forced to flee to their Tlaxcalan allies to regroup. His successor Cuitláhuac died of smallpox within months, and the young Cuauhtémoc took the throne only to face the final Spanish siege of Tenochtitlan, which ended with the complete fall of the Aztec Empire on August 13, 1521. The fall of Moctezuma II and the subsequent collapse of the Aztec Empire fundamentally reshaped the entire Western Hemisphere, ending one of the most sophisticated civilizations in the ancient world and opening the door to three centuries of Spanish colonial rule over Mesoamerica. The destruction of Tenochtitlan, once a city larger than most European capitals, erased a complex political, religious, and economic system almost overnight, replacing it with the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The displacement of the indigenous population, combined with catastrophic European diseases that killed millions, permanently altered the demographic and cultural landscape of Mexico, leaving a legacy of colonial trauma, cultural loss, and blended identity that continues to shape Mexican society to this day. #archaeohistories
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ESPN
ESPN@espn·
The U.S. women's hockey team has politely declined an invitation from President Donald Trump to attend his State of the Union address Tuesday. In a statement the team said, "Due to the timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments following the Games, the athletes are unable to participate. They were honored to be included and are grateful for the acknowledgment."
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C2@CCarl76·
@espn Good for them. Trump would try and steal their gold medal anyways
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Rick Hunter
Rick Hunter@RicHuntter·
@MLB He was the Barry Bonds of his time and was better than Jackie Robinson. The only reason he wasn't selected before Jackie is because he wouldn't turn the other cheek when someone would call him a N*gge*
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MLB@MLB·
DYK: Josh Gibson is MLB's all-time leader in batting average (.371), slugging percentage (.719) and OPS (1.176). Satchel Paige once said of Gibson, “You look for his weakness and while you're looking for it, he’s liable to hit 45 home runs.” #BlackHistoryMonth
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chillmaxxing2026
chillmaxxing2026@user30582·
@Variety He blocked me for saying "Rules of Attraction" doesn't hold up.
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Variety@Variety·
“Pulp Fiction” co-writer Roger Avary says it was “impossible” for him to get his movies made through “traditional” means. But after launching his AI production banner, he now has three features in production: “I go out there and try to get stuff made, and it’s almost impossible. And then I built a technology company over the last year, basically making AI movies, and all of a sudden, boom, like that, money gets thrown at it. All of a sudden, just by attaching the word ‘AI’ and [the fact] that it’s a technology-based company, all of a sudden, investors came in, and we’re in production on three films now.” variety.com/2026/film/news…
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Robert Dean
Robert Dean@RobbaDean·
@screenrant Any LOTR movies in a top 10 films of all time list is a joke. It’s time for @womeninfilm Top 100 Films of All Time list! Long overdue.
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ScreenRant@screenrant·
Screen Rant breaks down the 60 best movies of all time, from old classics to modern masterpieces across multiple genres of cinema. Read the full list and check out the top 15 in the image here! 🍿 screenrant.com/best-movies-al…
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RainbowMage
RainbowMage@HawkHunter26·
@sw_holocron No one hates Star Wars more than its own fans. I mean just look at the responses in this thread alone. The Acolyte was an amazing show and we were robbed of a season 2 because the fans can't enjoy anything. 🫠
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Star Wars Holocron@sw_holocron·
Leslye Headland says “We succeeded” with THE ACOLYTE “When we set out to make THE ACOLYTE, I hoped to create a new expression of Star Wars, inventing something to expand on the storytelling I have loved since I was a child. And since it premiered in 2024, the fans of the series have affirmed this: We succeeded”
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MysticblackRose
MysticblackRose@Supremema83·
To Those who are sharing their somewhat negative comments Y'all really should be ashamed to yourselves! Just go watch the movie even if you like the movie trailer, just go watch the movie! Then say, what you want say about it, not beforehand. "If you can't say nothing nice, don't say nothing at all" Thank you
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Empire@empiremagazine·
Skeletor is "the embodiment of toxic masculinity" in Masters of the Universe, says director Travis Knight. “[Jared Leto] wanted to swing for the fences,” the director tells Empire. “We landed on something that I’m really happy with.” Read more: empireonline.com/movies/news/sk…
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EJW
EJW@TedWilcox7·
@amyklobuchar trump & admin are the leeches on America
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Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar@amyklobuchar·
Noem calls legal Haitians leeches. They win in court. “The Haitian plaintiffs include a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s, a bank’s software engineer, a lab assistant in toxicology, a college economics major and a nurse. No leeches joined the suit.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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Yorkshire Lass
Yorkshire Lass@eyup_io·
@washingtonpost Good on her! It’s about time someone stood up for local communities instead of bowing down to every federal whim. Let’s keep our streets safe without the fear-mongering, eh?
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post@washingtonpost·
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger distanced state law enforcement agencies from federal immigration operations, ordering the end of partnership agreements and condemning federal operations in other states as undermining public confidence. wapo.st/3M7oc4M
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andy huber
andy huber@Scuzz99·
@nytimes Don't forget about the 17 people who froze to death under his watch
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The New York Times@nytimes·
Breaking News: Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City endorsed Gov. Kathy Hochul for another term, praising their partnership in the state as a model for Democratic unity. nyti.ms/4klHDmT
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ArchaeoHistories
ArchaeoHistories@histories_arch·
In 2019, Scientists managed to sequence a complete genome of a human being from a discarded piece of 5,700-year-old chewing gum. She had blue eyes, dark skin, dark hair and had recently eaten a meal of duck with hazelnuts. This ancient birch gum found in Scandinavia contained enough DNA to reconstruct the entire genetic makeup of the person who chewed it, determine which microbes lived in her mouth, and discover what she had recently eaten. The birch gum’s waterproof and antiseptic features helped preserve the DNA, and the location where it was found in Denmark. #archaeohistories
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DiscussingFilm
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm·
First look at ‘CRASH LAND’, a new comedy starring Finn Wolfhard and Gabriel LaBelle The film follows a group of small-town amateur stuntmen whose antagonize their community and film crude, ‘Jackass’-style stunts.
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