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🌳 The Golden Giant of 1,400 Years 🌳
In the heart of the Gu Guang Zhai Temple in China's Shaanxi Province stands a tree that is more than just nature—it is history, memory, and a living work of art all at once.
This majestic ginkgo tree was planted over 1,400 years ago, during the Tang Dynasty. Since then, it has survived kings, wars, dynasties, and generations of people. And every autumn, it transforms into a sea of gold: millions of leaves fall, covering the temple courtyard like a luminous carpet of sunlight.
For visitors, it is an almost magical sight—as if nature itself had decided to send a golden rain upon the earth. No wonder people from all over the world travel here to experience this moment.
In China, the ginkgo has always been considered a symbol of perseverance, longevity, and hope. And this tree shows us how deeply rooted beauty can be – in the soil, in time, and in people's hearts.
Standing here, one senses: Some wonders need no words; they whisper in gold.
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'The art of self-defense is the greatest thing in the world for a kid to learn. A boy learns to protect himself, and at the same time, he learns how to be clean and respectful to others.'
Heavyweight worId champion and HaII of Fame inductee Arnold Raymond.
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The Château de Chaumont, located in Oyé, has a history dating back to the 12th century. Initially part of donations to the Abbey of Cluny, it was acquired by Andrault de Langeron in 1638 and later sold to Antoine Circaud in the 17th century. The estate became known for its cattle trading, notably managed by the Circaud-Mathieu partnership.
The current château, mainly 18th-century construction, was built on medieval foundations and remodeled in the 20th century. It features neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance decorations and a fresco by Léon Raffin depicting scenes from Saint Louis's life. Open to visitors in summer, it is a key heritage site in Brionnais.
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Painted Wall from Pompeii depicting the Goddess Selene and the mortal Endymion.
Italy.
Endymion as a hunter (with dog) is sitting on rocks in a landscape, holding 2 spears, looking at Selene who descends upon him; in the background two female spectators admiring the scene.
Selene was the Goddess of the moon in Hellenic mythology. She was depicted as a woman riding sidesaddle on a horse or driving a chariot drawn by a pair of winged steeds. Her lunar sphere or crescent was either a crown set upon her head or the fold of a raised, shining cloak. She was sometimes said to drive a team of oxen and her lunar crescent was likened to a pair of bull's horns.
Selene's great love was the shepherd prince Endymion. The beautiful boy was granted eternal youth and immortality by Zeus and placed in a state of eternal slumber in a cave near the peak of #Lydian Mount Latmos (Latmus). His heavenly bride consorted with him there in the night.
Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale.
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Chrysler's Highway Hi-Fi, a car record player system offered as an option in their vehicles from 1956 to 1959.
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This week in 1970, The Band’s self-titled LP debuted on the UK Albums Chart at #49 (January 31)
The album includes many of the Band's best-known and critically acclaimed songs, including “Up on Cripple Creek”, and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", which Rolling Stone named the 249th-greatest song of all time in 2010.
In 2020, the album was ranked #57 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and Time Magazine included it in their unranked 2006 list of the 100 greatest albums.
Esteemed rock critic and music journalist Robert Christgau, having been disappointed with the Band's debut, had expected to dislike the record and even planned a column for The Village Voice to "castigate" their follow-up.
Upon hearing the record, however, he declared it better than the Beatles’ “Abbey Road”, which had been released four days following, writing that the Band's LP is an "A-plus record if I've ever rated one".
On the charts “The Band” went to #2 in Canada, #9 in the US, #15 in Norway, #18 in Australia, and #25 in the UK.
In 2009, “The Band” album was preserved into the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and/or informs or reflects life in the United States".
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On this day in 1987, the Paul Simon LP “Graceland” went to #1 on the UK Albums Chart (January 31)
With his musical career at somewhat of a relatively low ebb through the early 80s after “Late in the Evening”, Paul Simon found inspiration after hearing a bootleg cassette of mbaqanga, a style of South African music with rural Zulu roots.
And so the concept for the album “Graceland” began to take shape.
He travelled to South Africa to record with local musicians.
At the time, musicians in Johannesburg were typically paid $15 an hour; Simon arranged to pay them $200 an hour, around triple the rate for top players in New York City.
Simon said he "wanted to be as above board as I could possibly be", as many of the musicians did not know who he was and would not be lured by the promise of royalties alone, so he also offered writer's royalties to those he felt had contributed particularly to compositions.
Simon later flew several South African musicians to New York to complete the record three months after the Johannesburg sessions.
The South African male vocal collective Ladysmith Black Mambazo were a group that gained an international profile after collaborating with Simon on the LP.
The resulting album “Graceland” was an eclectic mixture of musical styles including pop, a cappella, zydeco, isicathamiya, rock, and mbaqanga.
It was Simon's most successful studio album and his highest-charting album in over a decade; it is estimated to have sold up to 16 million copies worldwide.
In addition to topping the UK charts, it was also #1 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland, and #3 on the US Billboard charts.
“Graceland” was ranked 46th on the 2020 list of Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, as "an album about isolation and redemption that transcended 'world music' to become the whole world's soundtrack."
“Graceland” also won the 1987 Grammy for Album of the Year.
In 2006, it was added to the United States' National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important".
Despite copping flak from some for breaking the cultural boycott of the time on South Africa (in protest at the existing Apartheid regime), Simon had the support of countless black South African musicians as he exposed and promoted their music to the world.
The album contains significant Paul Simon tracks like “The Boy in the Bubble”, “You Can Call Me Al”, and “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes”.
The song "Graceland" was voted #485 in the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and won the 1988 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
Paul Simon’s childhood heroes the Everly Brothers also contributed backing vocals to the song.
In the “Graceland Classic Albums” video, Simon states that he considers the title track the best song he has ever written…
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These are not stories for entertainment. They are the foundational code of the ancient Greek world, set down by a bitter, practical farmer-poet named Hesiod. Together, Theogony and Works and Days form the bedrock of Western mythology and philosophy.
In the Theogony, Hesiod doesn't just tell tales of gods he builds their family tree from chaos to cosmic order. It begins with a primordial void, and from it erupts Gaia (Earth), Tartarus (the Abyss), and Eros (Desire). He charts the brutal, successive overthrows of power: Ouranos castrated by his son Kronos, who is in turn overthrown by his son Zeus. This is the origin story of the universe, where divine might establishes justice and the Olympian hierarchy we know is cemented through struggle and cunning.
In Works and Days, the perspective shifts starkly from heaven to earth. Hesiod, embroiled in a property dispute with his corrupt brother, addresses him directly. This poem is a furious, earthy manifesto on how to live a just and prosperous life in a world now ruled by Zeus's justice. He tells the myth of Pandora to explain why human life is filled with hardship. He outlines the five ages of man (Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic, Iron), lamenting his own corrupt Iron Age. Most famously, he provides almanac-style advice on farming, sailing, and daily conduct a survival guide for a hard world, where the key virtues are hard work, honesty, and respect for the gods.
Hesiod’s genius is in this duality: one poem builds the cosmos, the other teaches you how to plough a field within it. He moves from the birth of the gods to the price of a good plough-ox, binding the divine to the mundane. This is where mythology meets manual, establishing the idea that the order of the heavens must be mirrored by justice and diligence on earth.
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12 Ways to Light Your Home During a Blackout.
When countries begin to collapse, one of the most obvious signs is rolling blackouts. There are many causes such as a shortage of fossil fuels, lack of basic materials, terrorist attacks on power stations, or governments simply lacking the funds to keep the power plants operating.
Right now, there are many countries experiencing rolling blackouts including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Yemen, Afghanistan, and many others. As the world economy worsens and natural resources become harder to find, blackouts will become a regular thing.
Eventually, the lights will go out—and stay out. And not just in countries like Pakistan. Major countries such as the United States will also struggle to keep the lights one because no matter how much money you have, you can't buy resources that no longer exist.
While no one can predict when the final blackout will occur, we can be certain that temporary blackouts will become more and more common in the coming years. People will have to get used to going without power for hours or even days at a time.
In olden times, people had to take advantage of the daylight while they could. They got up with the sun and went to bed shortly after sunset. That gave them a longer work day in the summer, when there was more work to do on the farm.
Sleeping through the longer nights in the winter not only allowed them to catch up on their rest, but also stay in a warm bed through the colder hours of the night. But there have always been exceptions. Some people have to work at night.
Other times, there are tasks that just have to be done at night. If you’re keeping livestock and one decides to give birth, you can’t exactly say, “Wait till morning.” Nor can you do that to your child when they’re sick.
These needs have led to humanity's invention of many different methods for producing light. And soon, we’re going to need these methods again. I’d recommend having as many as possible, as your lighting needs will vary.
Below, you'll find an overview of the best ways to light your home during a blackout.
Let The Sun Shine
Before talking about making artificial light, we want to be sure that we’re getting the most possible benefit out of the sun. Sunlight is plentiful and free, but our homes aren’t always built in such a way as to let enough sunlight in. There’s something fundamentally wrong with having to use artificial lights indoors during the daytime, just because we aren’t letting enough sunlight into our homes.
To start with, make sure that you have sufficient windows in your homes and that they are unobstructed. I’ve seen many a home with nice windows in it, but the windows were covered all the time, causing the people living there to use electric lights. It’s almost as if they don’t realize that those shades or drapes will open.
If you really want light inside your home, put in skylights, either the more traditional type or the newer tunnels or tubes. These new ones are much easier to install and are highly efficient, due to the curved lens and polished metal surface on the inside of the tube.
If you’ve never had skylights in your home, you’ll be amazed at just how much light you can get from them, making it seem like the lights are on, even when they are off.
Home Lit With Skylights
Fire For Light
Humanity's oldest form of making artificial light are through building a fire. Once our ancestors harnessed fire, they started finding different uses for it.
Homes with open fireplaces had a built-in light source, allowing the family to gather around the fire, using its light for sewing, reading, and handicrafts. They then went on to find ways of making that light more portable, so that they could use it wherever they were.
Wood-Burning Stove
If you put a fireplace or wood-burning stove in your home to provide heat during an emergency, make sure that it has a glass door and not a metal one. You want to get the most benefit out of that fire, and that includes getting light from it as well. You could leave the door open instead, but that’s a safety hazard.
Oil Lamps
Besides the fireplace, probably the oldest means for producing artificial light is the oil-burning lamp. Oil lamps can be made in a wide variety of styles, including nothing more than a bowl filled with oil and a wick.
The oil used in the lamp can vary extensively as well, needing only to be something flammable, which isn’t too volatile. Oil lamps have been used with oils squeezed from a variety of plant life, as well as rendered from animal fat and even burning mineral oil extracted from the ground.
For a blackout in the home, you’re best off with some sort of glass oil lamps because they will produce the most light, as glass lanterns have less that can block the light. However, you need to take into consideration exactly where the lantern will be used, as you might need some sort of metal cage around it to protect it from breaking.
Another useful thing which has been used in the past, along with oil lamps, is reflectors. Lamps hung on the wall usually had a polished metal reflector behind them, allowing the light that would normally shine on the wall to be reflected out into the room.
Propane Lamps
There are a variety of propane lamps that are built for camping, running off of small propane canisters. These can be a bit expensive to operate, as those small canisters aren’t cheap.
However, you can reduce this cost by buying an adapter to refill the small canisters off of a larger propane tank. The larger tank is cheaper per pound, as well as being useful for running the barbecue grille and space heaters.
Gasoline Lamps
Speaking of propane lamps, the Coleman company still produces their gasoline-powered camping lamp. These supposedly run off of Coleman fuel, but in reality, otherwise known as “white gas.” In other words, it’s unleaded fuel.
The big advantage of that in a blackout situation is that gasoline is one of the most readily available fuels there is. If nothing else, you can siphon it out of your car.
If you’re going to have one or more of these lamps as backup lighting, be sure to stock plenty of mantles for them, as well as a rebuild kit for the pump.
Carbide Lamps
Before miners started using electric lights to work, they used to wear a small lamp on their heads. Considering that, it’s amazing that it took so long for manufacturers to start making LED headlamps.
This lamp consisted of a can, with a screw on top and a reflector. It used calcium carbide as a fuel. The calcium carbide was put in the can, along with a few drops of water. That would cause the rocks to give off carbine gas, which is flammable. While not the best light source; it produces enough light to work by.
Candles
Candles require a bit more work to make than oil lamps, but they have the advantage of not being as fragile. This also makes them more portable, able to be taken from the home to where they need to be used. Candles don’t necessarily require a candle stand, unless they are narrow “tapers.”
For survival purposes, one of the best ways to make your own candles is to set multiple wicks in spaghetti-sauce jars and then fill them with melted wax, allowing it to cool and solidify. Having multiple wicks allows one jar to produce the same light as several separate candles. Containing the candle in the jar prevents waste, as the melted wax can’t drip off anywhere.
Woman Lighting Candle In Dark.
Electricity
Since capturing electricity as an energy source, one of the major uses of electricity has been for producing light. Obviously, we do this in our homes, which is why a blackout is called a blackout. But even when the lights are out, we have ways of using electricity to make light.
Before talking about these lights, allow me to talk about brightness for a moment. There are a number of different ways that light can be measured, with two of the most common being candlepower and lumens. Today, we find these electric lights usually rated in how many lumens of light they produce.
Lumens is a specification that covers the total amount of light being produced by a light source. It can be a bit baffling, because two lights which have the same specification may not illuminate equally if the light cone from one is wider than the other.
Some marketers take advantage of this and exaggerate the quantity of lumens their products produce. To avoid false marketing, you’re better off checking the manufacturer’s website. If they don’t have a website, they might not be a manufacturer but merely marketing something made in China that they put their logo on.
LED Tactical Flashlights
Today’s LED tactical flashlights are a vast improvement over the incandescent flashlights we had before, producing much brighter light, while not having breakable bulbs. Many come with a machined aluminum case, which is nearly indestructible, and some are bright enough to temporarily blind you if you look in them.
The one disadvantage of these lights, especially the brighter ones, is that they are hard on batteries. Even though they use lithium or lithium-ion batteries, which have greater energy density than other types of batteries, they can burn through the batteries pretty quickly. It’s definitely worth buying the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries for them, as that will be cheaper in the long run.
One thing to keep in mind is that cheap flashlights, like cheap anything else, are cheap. The switches in them are likely to go out after some time.
That doesn’t mean they’re worthless; I’ve got them mounted with clips in every room of my house. They make great emergency lights when someone has to grab one quickly. But I wouldn’t count on one of those cheap flashlights as my EDC light or my main flashlight in a survival situation.
LED Headlamps
Along with the advent of LED flashlights, some enterprising manufacturers started making LED headlamps, perhaps getting their idea from the miner’s carbide lamps mentioned above.
The big advantage of a LED headlamp, over a LED flashlight, is that you can have both hands free while using it. That makes it possible to do a lot of things that were difficult to do before.
Most LED headlamps cast a very narrow beam of light, which is great if you’ve got it aligned properly, but useless if you don’t. There are also LED headlamps which cast a wide beam of light in front of you, covering roughly 120 degrees.
These are great when working on things that require moving around a lot. Keep in mind that the light will be spread over that larger area, meaning that the actual amount of light falling on any one square inch is smaller. To make up for this, be sure to buy one with high lumen specification.
Battery Lanterns
The basic difference between a battery lantern and a flashlight is that the lantern is designed to light up an entire tent or room. These come in a wide variety of styles. Most are LED now as well and generally run off of AA batteries. They are an excellent option when you need wide-area lighting. But again, you need to watch out for battery consumption.
There are also LED battery lanterns that are designed for mounting under kitchen cabinets, in closets and for other storage areas. These lights, sometimes referred to as “puck lights” are great emergency lights, anywhere in the home.
Battery Lantern Shining in the Woods
Get Some Solar Charging
If you are planning on using any type of battery-operated lighting during a blackout, then you should also invest in enough solar charging capability that you will be able to fully recharge all your batteries every day.
That’s going to take more than just a solar phone charger; but it’s a worthwhile investment. Lithium-ion batteries are good for about 1,000 charges, so being able to recharge them as often as needed will keep you in light for quite some time.
Chemical Options
While not considered as common, there are a couple of chemical means of producing light; both of which have found a home in the prepping and survival community.
Light Sticks
Chemical light sticks have been around for quite some time. While often used more as a toy, they are a light source. Available in a variety of colors, they don’t really put out a lot of light. They’re actually better used to mark something, like making sure you can keep track of your kids, rather than providing light to work.
In the Army, they’re commonly used to mark a turn in a road, when on maneuvers out in the woods. The one real limiting factor is that once the chemicals are used up, they’re trash.
Photoluminescence
If you ever had glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling of your bedroom when you were a kid, then you’re familiar with the concept of photoluminescence. It is light that is emitted from material which has absorbed photons. In other words, you allow it to absorb light during the day and it puts off light when it's dark.
There are photoluminescent emergency lights that you can buy, which will emit light for up to 12 hours, providing enough light to light up the inside of a tent. While not the brightest light there is, this is a great method of providing low-level light for a room or area, without having to burn fuel or go through batteries.
You can also buy photoluminescent signs and tape that can be used for marking. This is used in industry to mark the edges of steps and outlines of doorways, making exit points clear, especially emergency exits.
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🥀MAGNA CARTA (1215)✍️
"The Document That Placed Law Above the King"
1️⃣. Introduction: Why Magna Carta Matters:
Magna Carta means “The Great Charter.”
It was signed in 1215 in England and is considered one of the most important political documents in history.
Although written in the Middle Ages, Magna Carta planted the idea that no ruler is above the law. This single idea changed the future of England and later, the world.
2️⃣. Historical Background: England Before Magna Carta:
To understand Magna Carta, we must understand the crisis in medieval England.
🔶 King John (r. 1199–1216):
🔹Weak ruler
🔹Lost French lands
🔹Heavy taxation on nobles
🔹Frequent military failures
🔹Conflict with the Church
King John ruled without consultation, raising taxes and punishing nobles unfairly. The barons (powerful nobles) were angry and fearful.
♦️ England was still a feudal society where loyalty depended on mutual obligations and King John broke those obligations.
3️⃣. Why Magna Carta Was Created:
The barons did not want democracy.
They wanted protection from the king’s abuse of power.
Their demands included:
🔹Fair taxation
🔹Lawful punishment
🔹Protection of property
🔹Respect for feudal rights
Under pressure and facing rebellion King John was forced to negotiate.
4️⃣. Signing of Magna Carta (1215):
♦️Signed at Runnymede, near the River Thames
♦️Between King John and the rebel barons
♦️Written in Latin
♦️Contained 63 clauses
♦️ Important fact:
"King John signed it unwillingly"
5️⃣. Key Principles of Magna Carta:
1. Rule of Law:
The king must obey the law like everyone else.
2. No Tax Without Consent:
The king cannot raise taxes without the agreement of his council (barons).
3. Right to Fair Trial:
No free man can be imprisoned without lawful judgment.
♦️“To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.”
4. Protection of Property:
Nobles’ lands could not be seized without legal process.
5. Limits on Royal Power:
The king’s authority was no longer absolute.
6️⃣. Who Benefited from Magna Carta?
Initially:
🔹Barons benefited the most
🔹Some protection for free men
🔹Common peasants were mostly excluded
🔹 However, its ideas expanded over time.
7️⃣. Failure and Survival of Magna Carta:
Soon after signing:
🔹King John rejected the charter
🔹Civil war broke out
🔹Magna Carta was annulled by the Pope
After King John’s death:
🔹Reissued by later kings
🔹Became part of English law
🔹Slowly gained symbolic importance
8️⃣. Long-Term Importance of Magna Carta:
Although medieval in origin, Magna Carta influenced:
🔹English Parliament
🔹Habeas Corpus
🔹Bill of Rights (1689)
🔹U.S. Constitution
🔹Modern democracy
📌 It transformed England from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy.
9️⃣. Magna Carta and English Literature:
For English literature students, Magna Carta is important because:
♦️It shaped political thought
♦️Encouraged freedom of expression
♦️Reduced censorship over time
♦️Influenced writers like Chaucer, later Renaissance thinkers
♦️It created a climate where ideas could slowly challenge authority.
🔟. Common Misconceptions:
❌ Magna Carta did NOT create democracy
❌ It did NOT give equal rights to all
✅ It DID limit royal power
✅ It DID begin constitutional thinking
1️⃣1️⃣. Why Magna Carta Is a Medieval Turning Point:
Magna Carta marks the moment when:
🔹Power shifted from king alone → shared authority
🔹Law became stronger than rulers
🔹The medieval world began to change
It quietly prepared Europe for: ➡️ Renaissance
➡️ Reformation
➡️ Modern political systems
1️⃣2️⃣. Conclusion:
Magna Carta did not end tyranny overnight,
but it planted a seed, a seed that grew into liberty, law and modern freedom.
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The images provide a detailed overview of the psychology of psychopaths. Here are the key concepts explained in detail::
The Nature of Psychopathy
Absence of Conscience: Psychopathy is defined as the absence of conscience. It is not considered madness, emotional pain, or trauma.
Lack of Inner Brakes: Psychopaths look and speak like normal humans but lack the inner mechanisms (empathy and guilt) that make social life possible.
What Makes a Psychopath Different
Absence of Empathy and Guilt: Most people refrain from harming others due to empathy (feeling another's pain) and guilt (discomfort after causing harm). Psychopaths possess neither.
Lack of Emotional Connection: They do not feel remorse, do not emotionally bond, and do not experience love the way normal people do.
Objectification of Others: Other people are not seen as equals; they are viewed as objects, tools, resources, obstacles, or possessions.
Most Psychopaths Are Not Criminals
Operating Below the Radar: While violent criminals represent the extreme end, most psychopaths never go to prison. Instead, they operate in ways where harm is legal, deniable, and normalized.
Common Behaviors: They emotionally abuse partners, manipulate family members, exploit coworkers, defraud people financially, and rise in corporate and political systems.
The Psychopath's Inner World: Power Over Meaning
Driven by Stimulation and Control: Normal people find meaning in connection and love, but psychopaths are driven by stimulation, control, domination, and winning.
The "Drug" of Control: They get bored easily and seek excitement, often falling into addictions or risky behaviors. Their most powerful "drug" is control over others.
The Mask of Sanity
Mimicry for Survival: Psychopaths survive by mimicking normal people's emotional expressions, social language, and moral vocabulary.
Outward Appearance: This camouflage, called the "mask of sanity," makes them appear charming, intelligent, calm under pressure, confident, and charismatic. This charm is a tool, not genuine warmth.
Cracks in the Mask
Despite their skill at mimicry, psychopaths reveal themselves through patterns:
Grandiose Self-Importance: They believe rules do not apply to them and feel entitled to exploit others.
Cold, Predatory Eye Contact: Their gaze is often described as empty, intense, or reptilian, lacking emotional fluctuation.
Disorganized Speech: They contradict themselves, evade direct questions, and use dramatic gestures or emotional displays to distract.
Why This Knowledge Matters
Psychopaths Cannot Be Fixed: Understanding psychopathy allows people to recognize manipulation, set firm boundaries, avoid emotional entanglement, resist charm, and stop moralizing predators.
The Greatest Mistake: The greatest mistake normal people make is assuming everyone has a conscience; they don't.
Why Psychopaths Seek Leadership and Authority
Overrepresentation in Power: They are overrepresented in corporate executive roles, finance, bureaucracy, and politics.
Evolutionary Advantage: Positions of power offer authority without accountability, access to resources, influence over people, and legal protection for harmful behavior. Unrestrained by guilt or empathy, they have an advantage in competitive hierarchies.
Can Psychopaths Be Treated?
Resistance to Treatment: Psychopaths do not believe anything is wrong with them and often see their condition as a gift.
Ineffectiveness of Therapy: Therapy does not rehabilitate them; in many cases, it teaches them to manipulate better.
Biological Basis: Psychopathy is largely biological, not environmental. Childhood abuse does not cause it.
The Dark Triad Personality
Psychopathy is part of a cluster of three personality traits known as the Dark Triad:
Narcissism: Grandiose self-importance and entitlement.
Machiavellianism: Manipulativeness and a cynical view of human nature.
Psychopathy: Lack of empathy, impulsivity, and antisocial behavior. 
Psychopathy and Society: The Danger of Pathocracy 
Pathocracy: This term describes a system of government where a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people. 
Societal Paralysis: When an individual in a political power position is a psychopath, they can create an "epidemic of psychopathology" in normal people, paralyzing all areas of social life.
Warning: The infographic ends with a warning: "Beware the ones who seek your pity, they prey on empathy."
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The island of Loreto
The island of Loreto is located in Lake Iseo, north of Montisola, and is a private property.
The island became after 1889 the property of the Duchess Felicita Bevilacqua La Masa, and after her death, with an act dated 9 October 1900, it was sold to comm. Vincenzo Richeri, vessel captain in the Regia Marina.
In the following decade, the cav. Vincenzo Richieri built a neo-Gothic castle on the island around which he created a garden full of conifers, a marina and two light towers.
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A massive chocolate train debuted in Milan, Italy, on Monday.
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🎬 Today is the 62nd anniversary of the political satire dark comedy movie, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb!
It was released in theaters on January 29, 1964 & starred Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, & James Earl Jones.
It was co-written & directed by Stanley Kubrick & it is loosely based on the 1958 novel, Red Alert by Peter George.
It was nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor for Peter Sellers, & Best Picture.
It was also listed on many of the American Film Institute's lists including their 100 Years, 100 Movies list at #3 & their 100 Years, 100 Movies list at #26.
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Guntur Mirchi.
📍 Andhra Pradesh, India 🇮🇳
Guntur is home to one of the largest red chilli trading hubs on the planet.
These specific peppers, known as Guntur Mirchi, are world-renowned for their intense heat and deep crimson hue.
The process is a massive visual spectacle: millions of chillies are sun-dried in vast open fields, creating a natural “red carpet” across the landscape before being exported globally.
This labor-intensive tradition is the fiery backbone of Indian spice markets, delivering a punch that defines the region’s culinary identity.
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The Oak – Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
'Live thy life,
Young and old,
Like yon oak,'....
Whether we are young or old,Tennyson calls us to live our lives, like the oak tree.
With these verses Tennyson starts his poem and regulates its entire tone,as one of advisory from an elder to the young. He uses the development of the oak as a metaphor for human life.
Through figurative language,symbolism and rhyme, he describes the view of the Oak tree. As it is obvious, the poet personifies the tree.
This becomes more salient ,when he closely ties the condition of the Oak through the four seasons, to human life through its different stages .
Life is a series of transitions. Our adaptation to different situations is the key of a long, healthy and happy life invariably in beauty.
Book The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson
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