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Iranians prefer 'precise' Israeli strike over US attack as protests resume at universities
Iranians, while "waiting every minute and second" for a US strike against the Islamic Regime, would prefer an Israeli strike due to the precise nature of the Air Force's strikes in June, while there is a perception that US strikes would "bring terrible destruction, like in Iraq and Afghanistan," a local, identified as Ali told KAN Reshet Bet on Sunday.
By Wings of Time 3 days ago in History
Why Attacking Iran Could Be Riskier Than Capturing Maduro
When President Trump said in January that a U.S. “armada” was heading to Iran, he compared it with the kind of force used in the military’s recent lightning operation in Venezuela, saying it was “able to rapidly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence.”
By Wings of Time 3 days ago in History
Iran Could Direct Proxies to Attack U.S. Targets Abroad, Officials Warn
A new billboard in Tehran this month. The uncertainty surrounding possible threats from Iran’s proxy groups further complicates the Trump administration’s war planning. Credit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times
By Wings of Time 3 days ago in History
The Cristero War (1926–1929): Faith, State, and Conflict in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (Part 1)
The Cristero War (1926–1929) was one of the most intense and complex conflicts in post-revolutionary Mexico. It pitted the Mexican state, determined to strictly enforce the anticlerical provisions of the 1917 Constitution, against thousands of Catholics—peasants, workers, organized women, and some members of the clergy—who took up arms shouting “Long live Christ the King!” Although for decades it was a silenced episode in textbooks, today it is recognized as a key event for understanding the relationship between Church and State, as well as the political and social configuration of 20th-century Mexico.
By diego michel4 days ago in History
The Tunguska Event: The morning the sky exploded in Siberia, knocking down 80 million trees with no impact crater.
The silver heat hit S.B. Semenov before the sound even arrived. He was sitting on the porch of the Vanavara trading post, sixty miles from the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, when the air suddenly smelled of scorched iron and lightning. It felt like his shirt had caught fire. The sky split in two—a jagged, vertical gash of blue-white light that made the morning sun look like a dull copper coin. Then came the punch. A massive, invisible hand of air slammed into the post, lifting Semenov off his bench and tossing him three yards across the dirt. The windows shattered in a single, synchronized scream of glass. He looked up, and the northern horizon was gone, replaced by a wall of smoke that reached toward the stars.
By The Chaos Cabinet4 days ago in History
The earliest fossilised vomit in the world with intact remains is found by scientists.
The oldest known vomit from a terrestrial mammal is a lump of fossilised vomit that is around 290 million years old. An early land food chain can be redrawn thanks to 41 bone fragments that freeze a single meal from long before dinosaurs.
By Francis Dami4 days ago in History
60 Seconds and Over the Top
Captain Montgomery was cold. It seemed to him that he was always cold. His boots were coated in a thick, cold mud. The air was cold on his face. The only time he wasn’t cold was when he was in the officer’s mess, sharing a bit of brandy with the other commanders. But the last drink they shared was weeks ago. Now half of those officers were over the top – lying in the muck and craters of no-man’s land, dead and left behind.
By Jonas Kraft4 days ago in History
The Christmas Day Massacre
Imagine it’s Christmas Eve, 1926. New York City is glowing under a light dusting of snow, the air is thick with the sound of upbeat jazz, and behind a few nondescript basement doors, the party of the century is in full swing. This was the height of Prohibition, a time when being a "dry" nation only seemed to make everyone thirstier. But while the flapper girls were dancing and the champagne was flowing, something dark was creeping into the glasses of unsuspecting revelers.
By KWAO LEARNER WINFRED4 days ago in History
Angry Writer Misinterprets Trump’s Immigration Ban: A Look Back
Everybody Knew What it Meant Nobody should have been fooled. The intentions for the executive order, which placed a temporary ban on immigration to the United States, targeted Muslims. Even its legal jargon couldn’t hide its intentions.
By Dean Traylor4 days ago in History
