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May 23

Miura bulls are the most famous breed in bullfighting. This 200-year-old line is known for its huge size, muscular build often exceeding 600 kg (>1300 lbs), adaptive intelligence, and fierce temperament.

This thread covers their origin, how they’re bred, and why they’re feared:

The predecessors of the Miura bulls came from the Cabrera breed, one of the bloodlines or encastes as it is said in tauromachy. This line was created in the 1700s by Luis Antonio de Cabrera, who bred bulls to be tall and slender with long legs and little belly fat.

They were bred specifically to charge the matador’s body rather than follow the muleta, which is the red cloth used in the final stage of the fight. These bulls were especially aggressive, particularly toward picadores, who are mounted bullfighters with lances.

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May 7

Peter De Roo’s extensively researched 1922 biography of Pope Alexander VI Borgia refutes all accusations of debauchery, including the claim that he fathered Cesare and Lucrezia, while highlighting his lifelong ambition to unite Europe against the Turks.

Thread with excerpts:

First, ancestry. Borgia (Borja in Valencian/Spanish) came from noble stock and was related by marriage to Aragon’s royal family. Some relatives were bishops and royal advisers. The lie that he was a marrano jew came from Italian bishops tied to future Pope Julius II.

De Roo argues that Adrian's supposed sons were actually his nephew's, William Raymond. Primary sources and their place of birth make his paternity unlikely. The evidence is that he said "my sons" a few times in letters, but he also said this when referring to emperors and queens

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Nov 28, 2024

New translation: For the first time in English, Shield Society (Tate-no-kai), the manga that chronicles the life of Yukio Mishima, written by an unknown author under the pseudonym Isao Iinuma and first published in 1972, before it was banned.

Read the pages from right to left🧵

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Nov 20, 2024

Otto Skorzeny's job for Mossad involved backstabbing everyone he knew, before and after the war. As a military advisor to Egypt, he knew that Heinz Krug, a former V2 rocket scientist with von Braun, was aiding their missile program. He killed him and dissolved his body in acid.

He took part in Operation Damocles' terrorist tactics, traveling to Egypt to plant bombs that killed 5 Egyptians at Factory 333, where German scientists worked.

None of his former Kameraden knew about this when they attended his funeral and sang the Teufelslied (Devil's Song).

If, as some people are saying, this is a Jewish lie, maybe the posts claiming that Skorzeny was "a former SS officer who also worked for Mossad" that go viral on this site from time to time should stop.

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Nov 13, 2024

Trump frequently says he will "launch the largest deportation operation since Dwight D. Eisenhower." How did Operation Wetback, the initiative pushed by Eisenhower, logistically work? In 1954, the U.S. government initiated a large-scale operation to deport illegals.

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The project was conceived and executed as a military operation by Gen. Joseph Swing, a U.S. Army officer who fought in World War I and commanded the 11th Airborne Division. Swing described the “alarming, ever-increasing flood tide” of migrants as “an actual invasion of the U.S.”

Planning for the operation began in 1954, with coordination between the INS, led by Gen. Swing, and the Mexican government, who wanted some of his laborers back for their agricultural business. Harlon Carter, head of the Border Patrol and future NRA president, was a key leader.

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Oct 31, 2024

This is the complete translated version of Undefeated Soldier, the comic book that chronicles Franco's life, from his beginnings as a soldier and later General in colonial North Africa to his victory in the Spanish Civil War. Enjoy!

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