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TIL the Romans destroyed entire mountains with pressurized water to mine gold: at Las Mรฉdulas in Spain โ€” the largest gold mine in the Roman Empire โ€” seven aqueducts fed a technique called ruina montium ("wrecking of mountains"), yielding 6,560 kg of gold a year.
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Thinking maybe we should rename Bank of "America." How about Bank of Davos? Either way, Scott Bessent knows what he's dealing with.
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The Monday Brief - NOT ABOVE THE LAW: Bessent's $1.2 Billion Strike on the Empire's Banks - October 19, 2026
Treasury hit Bank of America with $1.2 billion in penalties for money laundering failures. Susan Kokinda traces the bank from Countrywide and the 1980s debt crisis to King Charlesโ€™ green finance club, and Bessentโ€™s challenge to the IMF.
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Elon just changed what wins on X.

Not likes. Not outrage. Not the loudest headline.

Time.

Overnight he announced two changes to the timeline. A new AI ranking model that predicts much better hoโ€ฆ
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The Caucasian Shepherd Dog is a livestock guardian dog native to the countries of the Caucasus region and one of the world's largest dog breeds.

This is its size with humans for scale.
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I saw a lot of dogs in Georgia, but none this big!
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Humanities dissertations increasingly critical of Western culture
American doctoral dissertations in history, literature, philosophy, arts and culture are becoming more critical of Western culture, even as fewer people complete them. The number of humanities dissert
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๐Ÿšจ I spend an enormous amount of time trying to understand the chaos we're living through. Not the headlines. The machine behind them. ๐Ÿšจ

If you want to understand what Elon Musk is really fightiโ€ฆ
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TIL about the "Latin Verse Machine", an invention built in 1845 by an English grocer, John Clark, which generated mechanically produced poetry without any human involvement.
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One of the most iconic dance scene #warandpeace #waltz #shostakovich #ballo #dance #tolstoy #natasha
Magnifico film e altrettanto magnifico romanzo. Un' affresco della societร  russa del 19ยฐ secolo.
Dopo il matrimonio con Zbruev nel 1965, la sua carriera subรฌ il veto politico sovietico che le bloccรฒ le offerte internazionali (incluso Via col vento). A questoโ€ฆ
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โ€œElen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.โ€ - The Fellowship of the Ring
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The peak of globalism was Obama and Macron.

Two men, two continents, the same casting.

Young, polished, brilliant speakers. Perfect rรฉsumรฉs. Total ease in front of a camera. Able to electrify aโ€ฆ
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TIL Jakarta, Indonesia, is now the world's most populous city, with a population of 42 million people. Dhaka, Bangladesh, with a current population of 36 million, is expected to surpass Jakarta by the mid century, while Tokyo is expect to drop to 2.7 million residents.
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โ€œThe Recovered Thing is not quite the same as the Thing-never-lost. It is often more precious. As Grace, recovered by repentance, is not the same as primitive Innocence, but is not necessarily a poorer or worse state.โ€ - Tolkien on Fairy-stories
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In China, the AI bubble has already burst https://t.co/KUhTpl4KgE
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Sigue siendo el mejor vรญdeo sobre adicciรณn que se ha creado
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"Thereโ€™s a whole world of ideas out there that youโ€™re not supposed to explore. Forgotten history. Unconventional science. Unfashionable philosophy. Suppressed perspectives. Questions that respectable people arenโ€™t supposed to ask.

"And authors who arenโ€™t afraid to ask them."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-222307579#:~:text=There%E2%80%99s%20a%20whole,to%20ask%20them.
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The 2026 Non-Fiction Based Book Saleโ„ข
Runs Through November 3, 2026 | All Books $0.99 or FREE!
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Tom Holland: "The Culture War is a War Within Christianity"
For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack at https://fredpinto.substack.com/.

Check out the full episode here: https://youtu.be/s0vhtomuH-A?si=AFq4KKnJTvm4o71t

Tom Holland is an award-winning historian,โ€ฆ
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One of the great ironies of those looking for one single grand operatic victory moment in the Trump era is that they leave aside readings of all the little victories piling up along the way.

Hopium decodes become long-term black pills.

Winning is all around you.

Look at it.
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Barack Obama compared Trump's White House to Saddam Hussein opening a Cheesecake Factory. That's fucking hilarious coming from the man whose presidential center looks like Darth Vader commissionedโ€ฆ
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