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MISSING | We are appealing for help in finding #missing 47-year-old Iain Thomas from #Walton Iain was last seen yesterday (Thursday 2 April) at an address on Lancaster St Have you seen him or know where he is? DM @MerPolCC or @missingpeople orlo.uk/i7cLD

The Veiled Christ is a 1753 marble sculpture by Giuseppe Sanmartino located in Naples. It is renowned in large part because it seems almost impossible. How can a sculptor make marble seem transparent? Yet this is exactly what Sanmartino achieved – Christ laid down, covered in a shroud that seems so real but so thin that we can still see his still features. The sculpture is found in the Sansevero Chapel (Museo Cappella Sansevero in Italian). Sometimes known by the church’s name Santa Maria della Pietà or Pietatella, the chapel was built at the end of the 16th century. However, it didn’t take on its most interesting details and artistry until the 1700s. Between 1740 and 1780, Raimondo di Sangro, prince of Sansevero, completely reconstructed the chapel. He commissioned the Veiled Christ sculpture and Sanmartino’s creation quickly became famous. It was so remarkable that some people believed it was created by alchemy. This rumor probably partly stems from the fact that the Prince of Sansevero was himself an alchemist, in addition to being Grand Master of the Freemasons, a patron of the arts, and an inventor. In reality, a close analysis leaves no doubt that the work was entirely produced in marble. This is also confirmed by some letters written at the time of its production. A receipt of payment to Sanmartino, dated 16 December 1752 and signed by the prince, is preserved in the Historical archive of the Bank of Naples. #archaeohistories

🔴Summary of Israeli attacks on Lebanese territory on 3/4/2026: 🟠 Airstrikes: 🔅 South: Srifa Jowayya Shaitiya Mifdoun Ghandouriya Between Qasiba and Sir al-Gharbiya Kounine Touline Shahabiya Ramadiya Hanin Haniya Majdal Selm Jamijma Hamila - outskirts of Houmine Shamaa Hadatha Ansar Dbeine Rashkananiyya Safad al-Batikh Kafra Majadel Dbeine Shahabiya Khiam Jisr Sahmar Ma'raka Junction Deir al-Zahrani Kfarsir Bint Jbeil 🔅 Beirut: Haret Hreik American Quarter 🔅Beqaa and Baalbek: Jisr Sahmar 🟠Drone strikes: Nabatieh al-Fawqa Kfar Bint Jbeil Hadatha Dabaal Burj Qalawiya Sahmar Jouya Al-Bustan 🟠 Artillery shelling: Haris Kfar Al-Khariba Deir Amas Rashaya al-Fakhar Beit Yahoun Aita al-Jabal Barashit Safad al-Batikh Al-Jumayjma Shaqra Majdal Selm Al-Khiyam Al-Tayri Bint Jbeil Mifdoun Rashaf Dabbin Jdeidet Marjeyoun Arnoun Yahmar al-Shaqif

Joe Biden's "empathy"

Some might want to reflect on that. When people are trying to attack us, not the message, here’s a fella who’s not exactly our ally, ran clubs and been at LFC saying why do this Listen to it here - 2mins10seconds in youtu.be/7NpEKZy3siE?si…

@Tiger911494404 And Hodge's daughter (Lizzi Watson, @islingtonlizzi) is Commissioning/Executive News Editor at the BBC.

This is EXACTLY where we are! As the Community Note points out…. THIS woman actually oversaw the closure yet she’s blaming the current new administration for it! This is X/Twitter at its very best. They’re openly trying to hoodwink the masses! Bad bad behaviour…

In 1996, journalist Gary Webb published a series of articles exposing how the CIA was allegedly involved in allowing or facilitating the sale of large quantities of cocaine in the United States by drug traffickers, with the proceeds used to generate untraceable funding for the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. In 2004, they claimed that he committed su*cide by firing two shots to the head. You read that last sentence right.

This is 10x older than the United States

And there it is.

One of the things that has always been shocking to me about living in America is the fact that somehow the majority of Americans cannot connect the dots between the prohibitively expensive/perennially rising cost of living and the wars and genocides their tax dollars fund.

Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), (member of the Senate Armed Services Committee) goes after Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.

🚨 BREAKING: The new Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche “We’re not going to prosecute the predators in the Epstein files or release their names to the public.” Make this go viral 👇

The USA is just like ISIS, hitting World Heritage sites. It is barbarism of the Stone Age, against civilization.

This is called ethnic cleansing

What they're doing to Lebanon is unbelievable.

The American government is reportedly helping the Israelis ethnically cleanse the Christian border villages in South Lebanon. Of course they’re happy to cleanse the Shia villages, but interesting to see a US government full of Christian nationalists contributing to the destruction of Christian villages to assist Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. Shame on the figures in the Lebanese government apparently acting as American proxies to help the Israelis destroy their country.

BREAKING 🚨 China just exposed the narrative live and unfiltered. 🔥 🇺🇸 Trump: “We need $2 billion a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.” 🇨🇳 China’s FM fired back: “The Strait was already open before the war. The disruption exists because of your illegal military actions against Iran. You created a global crisis out of nothing.”

But… but… @TheGreenParty has no policies, no substance. Oh… wait! Read this and then offer me something more in your replies than bigger tits and a name change. 🙄 Brilliant from @ZackPolanski 👏

The gap between the highest and lowest paid in Britain is wider than at any point in modern history. Some CEOs earn more in a day than their workers earn in a year. Should there be a legal limit on how much anyone can earn?