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James Cook se llevó la gloria de descubrir Australia para Inglaterra. Pero ocultó un detalle: navegaba con un mapa robado. Y ese mapa lo había trazado, 160 años antes, un capitán gallego cuyo hallazgo España escondió como secreto de Estado. Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Se llamaba Luis Váez de Torres. Reconstruir su origen es casi imposible: los registros parroquiales se destruyeron y el Consejo de Indias mantuvo sus misiones en el Pacífico bajo el más absoluto secretismo. Pero los historiadores navales sitúan su linaje en Galicia.

Le llamaban el bretón. No por Francia, sino por Bretoña, un enclave del norte de Lugo, sede de una antigua diócesis. Era el mote territorial que se usaba para distinguir a oficiales con apellidos comunes en las flotas de Indias. Ese apodo delata su origen lucense.

Laut BILD soll es sich bei dem Mann, der auf dem Stadtfest in Burglengenfeld im Landkreis Schwandorf nachts randaliert haben soll und in Gewahrsam genommen wurde, um den neugewählten
AfD-Stadtrat
▶️ Markus Leopold handeln.

Die Mittelbayerische hatte von einem Mandatsträger als Täter gesprochen und Leopold ist der einzige Stadtrat, auf den die polizeiliche Altersangabe passt.

Er habe wohl keinen Alkohol mehr bekommen. In der Folge beleidigte er Mitarbeiter der Pizzeria als auch die Security.

Dabei sollen auch rassistische Äußerungen gefallen sein.
▶️ Im Zuge der Festnahme wurden auch zwei Polizisten leicht verletzt.



Geteilt von
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UK grid costs set to soar even higher. Grid integration costs are already forecast to triple from £8bn to £25bn by 2030/31. Now NESO is asking for another £89bn of grid spending beyond 2030. Why this matters for your bills...A thread 🧵 (1/9)

Grid integration costs consist of backup from the capacity market, grid balancing and grid expansion. All set to soar over the next few years. (2/9)

Capacity Market costs exploded from under £10m in 2017 to over £1.6bn by 2026. Monthly costs forecast to double to £250-370m in October 2026. (3/9)

SitRep - 04/07/26 - Ukraine destroyed a MiG-29 and attacked St. Petersburg..

An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In a recent strike on occupied Crimea, Ukrainian drones destroyed a Russian MiG-29 fighter jet at Belbek.

REPOST=appreciated

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Missed the latest?

https://x.com/NOELreports/status/2073320882819194952

As usual we start with Russian losses

https://x.com/NOELreports/status/2073321159567741222

El 5 de julio de 1807 los milicianos organizados por el leal Santiago de Liniers impidieron q las tropas británicas conquistarán Buenos Aires. Por entonces, Argentina era parte del reino de España. Liniers fue fusilado por su lealtad al rey de España el 26 de agosto de 1810.

El 24 de junio de 1806 los británicos lograron tomar Buenos Aires casi sin pegar un tiro gracias a la deserción de casi la totalidad de las milicias de la ciudad y la retirada de las tropas enviadas por el virrey. Las tropas inglesas estaban formadas por solo por 1600 hombres.

Los británicos se hicieron con un botín de 1.291.323 pesos procedentes. El 12 de agosto de 1806 se presentó en Buenos Aires Liniers con un ejército formado en Montevideo y junto con las milicias mandadas por Martín de Alzaga, logró que los británicos se rindieran el 20 de agosto.

The Enemy Will Not Have the Final Say This Week—Pray These 10 Prayers

1. Pray That Every Plan of the Enemy Will Be Frustrated (Isaiah 54:17)
Father, every evil plan, hidden agenda, and assignment of darkness prepared against my life this week, let it be scattered by Your power. I declare that no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and every scheme of the enemy will fail.

2. Pray for Divine Protection Throughout the Week (Psalm 121:7-8)
Lord, preserve me and my family wherever we go. Protect us from accidents, sickness, violence, evil attacks, and every danger seen and unseen. Let Your angels surround us throughout this week.

A falling CD4 count opens the door to killers. 🦠

Every opportunistic infection.
Every CD4 threshold.

Know them all 🧵👇

2/7

CD4 <500: first signs of trouble ⚠️

* Oral candidiasis (thrush)
* Kaposi's Sarcoma
* TB reactivation
* Herpes Zoster (shingles)

3/7

CD4 <200: danger zone 🔴

* PCP (Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia) => #1 killer at this level
* Toxoplasmosis => ring-enhancing brain lesions
* Cryptosporidiosis => profuse watery diarrhea

Start PCP prophylaxis: Cotrimoxazole ✅

זו אחת החידות הגדולות של 7 באוקטובר: מדוע נסראללה, שהופתע גם הוא מהמתקפה של חמאס ומהעיתוי שלה - לא הצטרף, ושלח את כוחות רדוואן שכבר היו על הגבול לתקוף את הגליל?

הבוקר אנחנו מפרסמים לראשונה את המסמכים הדרמטיים שחושפים - כך נעשו מאמצי התיאום בין חמאס לחזבאללה לפני מתקפת 7 באוקטובר:
הסיוע של חזבאללה במבצע "שומר החומות", ניסיונות השכנוע של בכירי חמאס בפגישה עם נסראללה, ההסתייגות המעניינת של נסראללה - והציטוטים האופטימיים של סינוואר בשיחות סגורות בעזה: "לאיראנים וחזבאללה יש מוכנות גבוהה לכונן ברית עם חמאס כדי להילחם באויב במערכה עתידית".

המסמכים המלאים שפרסמנו לראשונה הבוקר אצל @efitriger >>

1/ קשרי חמאס וחזבאללה ידעו עליות ומורדות לאורך השנים. ב-2019, שנה שבה חמאס כבר מתחיל להאיץ ברצינות את ההכנות לתכנית המתקפה שלו (״התכנית להכרעת אוגדת עזה״) - אסמאעיל הניה ראש הלשכה המדינית שולח מכתב לנסראללה ובו הוא כותב לו: ״אחיך ומשפחתך בפלסטין סמוכים ובטוחים שלא תאכזב אותם במערכתם מול אויבם, וכי תמיד תהיה להם לעזר ולמשענת עד להשגת הניצחון. הם בטוחים שתמיד תמצא את הדרך להשתתף עמם במערכת העמידה האיתנה שלהם״. מכתב דומה נשלח גם לחמינאי, וזו, כנראה, הייתה תחילתה של סלילת הדרך >>

2/ כעבור שנתיים מגיע מבחן משמעותי ראשון לשותפות בין הארגונים: מבצע ״שומר החומות״. כתבנו בעבר לא מעט כיצד ״שומר החומות״ היה ניסוי כלים של חמאס ביחס לסוגיות רבות - ובראשן הפיכת הלחימה בישראל לרב-זירתית.
מסמך פנימי של חמאס חושף - במהלך המבצע, נפתח בביירות חמ״ל מודיעין משותף לחמאס, חזבאללה ומשמרות המהפכה - וממנו חזבאללה סייע לחמאס והעביר לו מידע לפי בקשתו. בדו״ח שכתב ח׳אלד ע׳אנם, ראש המודיעין הצבאי של חמאס חו״ל - הוא תיאר: ״החמ״ל היה פעיל מהיום השני למערכה ועד יום אחריה … הם שאלו אותנו איזה מידע אנו רוצים, וביקשנו את הדברים הבאים: מידע על הפריסה הצבאית, מידע על פעילות מודיעין אווירית, פעילות אווירית של מטוסי קרב…״ >>

You all think I am weird by doing these types of videos but I absolutely LOVE doing this type of shit funny to see the end result 🤣😜🤣😜🤣😜

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#SurreyRCMP #surreyps #LangleyRCMP #BCRCMP #RCMP #Police #Cops #Canada #BC #BritishColumbia #Langley #LangleyBC #Surrey #SurreyBC

You all think I am weird by doing these types of videos but I absolutely LOVE doing this type of shit funny to see the end result 🤣😜🤣😜🤣😜

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#SurreyRCMP #surreyps #LangleyRCMP #BCRCMP #RCMP #Police #Cops #Canada #BC #BritishColumbia #Langley #LangleyBC #Surrey #SurreyBC

@SurreyRCMP @surreyps @LangleyRCMP

@ChrisPentecos @Nncim15 @LangleyResident @BarbaraDoduk @RegretlessBee @Cdnwatcher @Istandtoreason @facepalmchris @trustednerd @felixcruggins @CultureGuard @WaxMyBallsShow @FranLa9 @kfurneaux23 @VernThurston @JonYaniv @JNonsense46242

You all think I am weird by doing these types of videos but I absolutely LOVE doing this type of shit funny to see the end result 🤣😜🤣😜🤣😜

1)

#SurreyRCMP #surreyps #LangleyRCMP #BCRCMP #RCMP #Police #Cops #Canada #BC #BritishColumbia #Langley #LangleyBC #Surrey #SurreyBC

You all think I am weird by doing these types of videos but I absolutely LOVE doing this type of shit funny to see the end result 🤣😜🤣😜🤣😜

2)

#SurreyRCMP #surreyps #LangleyRCMP #BCRCMP #RCMP #Police #Cops #Canada #BC #BritishColumbia #Langley #LangleyBC #Surrey #SurreyBC

@SurreyRCMP @surreyps @LangleyRCMP

@ChrisPentecos @Nncim15 @LangleyResident @BarbaraDoduk @RegretlessBee @Cdnwatcher @Istandtoreason @facepalmchris @trustednerd @felixcruggins @CultureGuard @WaxMyBallsShow @FranLa9 @kfurneaux23 @VernThurston @JonYaniv @JNonsense46242

матресценс - це не «просто адаптація до нової ролі».

це ініціація: перехід, у якому стара форма існування має розпастись, перш ніж збереться нова.

тіло, мозок, ідентичність, стосунки - усе трансформується одночасно.

нижче розкладаю по частинах 🦋🧵

термін ввела антропологиня Дана Рафаель ще в 70-х, описавши материнство як біосоціальний перехід - за аналогією з обрядами ініціації в традиційних культурах, де зміна статусу завжди супроводжувалась визнаною спільнотою фазою «порогу».

у 2008-му психологиня Орелі Атан з Колумбійського університету перенесла цю ідею з антропології в психологію, а у 2015-му формально відновила термін у науковому вжитку.
вона розширила концепцію Рафаель до моделі «bio-psycho-social-and-beyond».

1/10 🇺🇦 SITREP du 04/07/2026

Une journée historique marquée par des frappes stratégiques ukrainiennes d'une portée inédite (jusqu'à 850 km) et l'effondrement continu des infrastructures énergétiques russes. Analyse complète. 👇

2/10 📊 BILAN DES PERTES RUSSES

Une journée noire pour l'artillerie de Moscou :
💥 +1190 soldats
💥 +100 systèmes d'artillerie (!)
💥 +6 systèmes de défense aérienne
💥 +1768 drones neutralisés

L'attrition russe s'accélère.

3/10 🛢️ GUERRE DE L'ÉNERGIE

Le GenStaff confirme : 42,74% de la capacité de raffinage russe est désormais hors service. Les frappes sur le terminal de St-Pétersbourg et la base de Kronstadt portent un coup de 13,5 milliards $ à Moscou.

VATIKANSTADT. In seinem weltweiten Gebetsanliegen für den Monat Juli 2026 rückt Papst Leo XIV. den unschätzbaren Wert der menschlichen Existenz in den Mittelpunkt. Unter dem Leitgedanken „Für die Achtung vor dem menschlichen Leben“ fordert das

Kirchenoberhaupt alle Gläubigen auf, jedem Menschen von der Empfängnis bis zum natürlichen Tod mit Würde zu begegnen.

In der veröffentlichten Videobotschaft warnt der Papst eindringlich vor den Gefahren einer wachsenden gesellschaftlichen Kälte. Wenn der Respekt vor dem

Leben abnehme, breite sich eine gefährliche „Wegwerfkultur“ aus, die besonders die Schwachen und Verwundbaren an den Rand drängt. Das Gebet beinhaltet daher auch ein deutliches Schuldbekenntnis für Momente, in denen die Gesellschaft in Gleichgültigkeit verfällt.

Gedanken zur Tageslosung für Sonntag, den 05.07.2026

Losungswort
Du bist mein Gott von meiner Mutter Schoß an.
Psalm 22,11

Lehrtext
Paulus schreibt an Timotheus: Dankbar erinnere ich mich daran, wie aufrichtig du glaubst. Es ist derselbe

Glaube, der schon in deiner Großmutter Lois und in deiner Mutter Eunike wohnte. Und ich bin überzeugt, er wohnt auch in dir.
2. Timotheus 1,5

Die Losungen der Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine

Ist Glaube vererbbar?

Die heutigen Bibelverse erinnern mich daran, dass Leute

meinten: Weil ich aus einer Pastorenfamilie komme – mein Vater und mein Großvater waren Pastoren –, liegt es auf der Hand, dass ich ebenfalls Pastor wurde. Tatsächlich staune ich, wie sehr ich mich in den Spuren meiner Vorväter befinde. Doch das liegt nicht an ihnen,

If I'd told you that on the evening of July 4th on the nation's 250th birthday it would be 11:15PM, Trump would not yet have spoken, there would only be a few hundred people in attendance, and the event stage would be featuring a foreign opera, you would've had me committed

Whoa he just showed up and he looks absolutely livid at the tiny, low-energy crowd

Every time he strays from his milquetoast script it is either to make up lies about a Communist threat, babble repetitiously, or whine about how he has been treated

This crowd is so small I kid you not you can hear *individual people* cheering

This is humiliating to America

4. Mose 20
Zweite Ankunft der Israeliten in Kadesch-Barnea • Mose wird Gott ungehorsam • Die Edomiter verweigern den Durchzug durch ihr Land • Aaron stirbt und sein Sohn Eleasar wird Hoherpriestertwr360.org/programs/view/…

„Durch die Bibel“ ist ein weltweites Bibelprogramm in über 100 Sprachen und Dialekten. Unsere Mission ist einfach und sie ist dieselbe, die Dr. McGee für sich selbst annahm: Das ganze Wort Gottes der ganzen Welt zu verkündigen.

Webseite
twr.org
Sprecher
Kai-Uwe Woytschak
Dachorganisation
„Durch die Bibel“
Neu: TWR360.ORG

I am building new arteries inside my body right now.

Not with surgery. Not with drugs. With exercise.

Your body has a backup system most doctors never tell you about. It is called collateral circulation. When a coronary artery narrows, your body can grow entirely new blood vessels to route blood around the blockage.

Natural bypasses. Built by your own biology. Triggered by movement.

The EXCITE trial. 60 patients with significant coronary artery disease. Randomized. Published in Circulation, 2016.

One group did high-intensity exercise. One group did moderate-intensity exercise. One group was the control.

After just 4 weeks, both exercise groups showed significant improvement in their coronary collateral flow index. The control group did not.

Four weeks. Not four years. Four weeks of consistent exercise and the body started building new pathways around the blockage.

The Cleveland Clinic describes collateral circulation as your body's natural mechanism to provide blood flow to ischemic tissue. Your body senses reduced flow. It calls other blood vessels into action. Exercise accelerates the process.

This is what I think about every single day.

My calcium score is over 1,000. I have old plaque in my arteries. That is the past. I cannot undo it.

But every time I walk. Every time I exercise. Every time I push my heart rate up, my body is responding. Building collateral pathways. Strengthening existing vessels. Creating redundancy in the system.

I am not just maintaining my heart. I am upgrading it. Building a network of backup routes that did not exist 6 years ago.

This is what playing offense looks like. Not waiting for the next scan. Building the architecture that makes the scan less relevant.

@AndrewG76201347 No. I have stopped taking disaccharides samples.
Lactose intolerance is a CLINICAL diagnosis.
If you drink a glass of milk and you are fine, you do not have lactose intolerance regardless of your lactase level.
If you drink a glass of milk and have

@AndrewG76201347 Bloating pain and diarrhea you have lactose Intolerance regardless of your lactose.
But then the question is WHY do you have lactose intolerance? Because you have IBS or DGBI.
Your gut when you have DGBI is sensitive to being stretched. So when the malabsorbed

@AndrewG76201347 Lactose reaches the colon and is fermented the gas released stretches and annoys the bowel.
Lactose is a FODMAP
But instead of avoiding the lactose or other fermentating offending agent ask yourself “what else is annoying my bowel”
Usually the lactose is

Jews of Babylon (1/3)

Jews of Babylon: Before There Was a "Middle East"

Jesus was a Middle Eastern Jew. So were these people for 2,500 years before him, and for two thousand years after.

Chapter One: Before There Was a "Middle East"

[Image: Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim, the "Ben Ish Chai" — photographed at age 26, decades before he would go on to lead Baghdad Jewry for fifty years, until his death in 1909]

Look at this face. The long black beard, the ornate turban, the sharp gaze. This is not a portrait of some exotic figure from a faraway place. This is a young man who would go on to spend fifty years at the head of a community thousands of years old — a community that existed before there was even a concept called "the Middle East," and long before the word "Zionism" was ever written.

The caption beneath the original photograph gives him a title worth pausing on: Reish Galuta d'Bavel — "Head of the Exile of Babylon." The very same title, carried across seven centuries, that you're about to meet again below.

2,500 Years Before the Word "Zionism" Was Written

When Jerusalem burned in 586 BCE, and the exiles of Judah were led to Babylon, Babylon became the center of Jewish thought for a thousand years. The Babylonian Talmud was composed there. In the academies of Sura and Pumbedita — the two central centers of learning for world Jewry, on the banks of the Euphrates — sat the Geonim: the supreme spiritual leadership for all of world Jewry. When a Jewish community anywhere on earth found itself grappling with a question of religious law, it sent that question to Babylon, and received back a responsum — a detailed answer that itself became a body of religious literature.

A Lord's Procession

Alongside the Geonim stood a separate institution: the Exilarch — a political leader whose authority the Caliph himself formally recognized. What did this actually look like? We have a remarkable account, and it doesn't even come from a Jewish source. Benjamin of Tudela, a Spanish-Jewish traveler, visited Baghdad in 1168 and documented the moment when the Exilarch — called by Muslims "our lord, son of King David" — presented himself before the Caliph:

"The procession of the Exilarch would wind its way along the festive streets of Baghdad. The community's leader wore garments embroidered in silk, with a white turban studded with precious stones. He had a retinue of horsemen, and at the head of the procession, a herald cried out: 'Make way for the lord, son of David.' When the procession reached the palace courtyard, the Caliph would stand to receive the Exilarch, seating him on a throne facing his own."

Benjamin of Tudela notes that at that time, about 40,000 Jews lived in Baghdad.

A Cord That Was Never Cut

Throughout all those centuries, the Jews of Babylon maintained an unbroken connection to the Land of Israel. In 1853, a group of immigrants from Iraq founded their own synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem. And perhaps the most touching story of all: when Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim — the very man pictured above — returned in 1869 from a pilgrimage to the Land of Israel, he did not come back empty-handed. He brought sacks of soil from the Holy Land and scattered them across the floor of the synagogue where he prayed in Baghdad.

This Was Not a Utopia — But It Also Wasn't What People Assume

To say there were only golden years would be a lie. But the unbroken thread — 2,500 years of communal, economic, and spiritual continuity — is exactly what's missing from the story most Americans know. "We didn't know there were Jews from Iraq." They're right that they didn't know. Because no one ever told them.

Jews of Babylon (2/3)

Chapter Two: The Torah That Came Out of Baghdad

[Image: The title page of Kaf HaChaim, the edition published by Moshe Sofer — son of Rabbi Yaakov Chaim Sofer — in Jerusalem]

[Image: An old poster, framed with olive-branch ornamentation and a line from the Lamentations liturgy: "Fortunate is the eye that beheld all these." Fourteen faces — white beards, turbans, embroidered skullcaps]

Here is another image. An old poster, bordered in olive branches, with a line from the traditional lament for the destroyed Temple: "Fortunate is the eye that beheld all these." Fourteen faces — white beards, turbans, embroidered skullcaps. These are not statesmen. These are the sages.

At the center: Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim, the Ben Ish Chai. Around him: his students, his sons, and those who carried his legacy forward. Among them is a name that won't mean much if you're American — but means everything if you're a Sephardic Jew (using the term the way it's used across the Middle East and North Africa, not only for those descended from medieval Spain): Rabbi Yaakov Chaim Sofer.

This Story Begins in a Schoolhouse, Not a Pogrom

In late-nineteenth-century Baghdad stood a Torah academy called Midrash Beit Zilkha — yes, the same Zilkha family that built the first branch-banking network in the Arab world. They didn't just accumulate wealth. They invested it in Torah. At this academy studied a boy named Yaakov Chaim, son of a humble Torah scribe, who received personal ordination from the Ben Ish Chai himself.

In 1904, Yaakov Chaim Sofer immigrated to Jerusalem. Not fleeing. Not expelled. Immigrating, by choice.

Forty Years of a Single Labor

In Jerusalem's Beit Yisrael neighborhood, Rabbi Yaakov Chaim sat for forty years and wrote. The result: Kaf HaChaim — ten volumes of Jewish legal rulings. Look at the title page: this is a book reprinted by the author's own son, Moshe Sofer, who carried his father's work forward "for the merit of the many." Three generations — the father in Baghdad, the son in Jerusalem, and the great-grandson who later founded an entire yeshiva bearing his name — all part of one unbroken chain.

This is a book that Rabbi Ovadia Yosef himself edited and revised in a later edition. It's a book that Israel's current Sephardic Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, still cites as foundational.

Recognition That Crossed Communities — Before There Was Even a State

Beneath the author's name on the title page are printed rabbinic endorsements. Who signed them? Not only leading figures of Middle Eastern Jewry. Also, Rabbi Chaim Berlin, a well-known Ashkenazi rabbi of Jerusalem. Also, a rabbi who had served, in turn, in Moscow and then in Chicago before settling in Safed.

Before there was a State of Israel — before anyone spoke of "Ashkenazi" and "Sephardic" as competing political categories — the Torah that came out of Baghdad was already speaking to the whole house of Israel.

From Baghdad to Jerusalem, from 1904 to today: this isn't history. It's a living chain of transmission.

Jews of Babylon (3/3)

Chapter Three: The Modern Flourishing

[Image: King Faisal I's visit to the Jewish community of Baghdad, 1925. At center: Sir Sassoon Eskell. Beside him: Menachem Saleh Daniel, Rabbi Ezra Dangoor, Rabbi Sasson Kadoorie, and community leaders]

Look at this photograph: men in Western suits and red tarbooshes — the felt caps common across the Ottoman world — seated in formal rows. This is not a photograph of refugees. This is a photograph of a king visiting his community.

A City That Was One-Third Jewish

In the 1920s, as Iraq was reborn as an independent state, Jews made up roughly 35 to 40 percent of Baghdad's population. Not a minority on the margins. A decisive share of the city itself.

The Finance Minister Was Jewish — And He Wasn't Alone

In 1921, when King Faisal I was crowned over independent Iraq, he appointed Sir Sassoon Eskell as his Finance Minister. Eskell sat alongside Gertrude Bell and T.E. Lawrence in shaping the architecture of the new state itself.

But Eskell wasn't a single symbolic figure. The constitution he helped draft guaranteed permanent Jewish representation — six seats out of eighty in parliament, one out of twenty in the senate. Over the following two decades, Jewish names appear again and again in the Iraqi parliament: Yosef al-Kabir, Shalom Darwish, Naeim Zilkha — a lawyer and judge who dared to criticize the government from within — Salman Shina, Yechezkel Shem-Tov, Salih Kahtan, Avraham Chaim.

Beside Eskell in that same photograph sits Menachem Saleh Daniel — Eskell's own uncle. A man who had already served, in 1877, as Baghdad's representative in the Ottoman parliament, before Iraq existed as an independent state at all. A man so wealthy that when King Faisal's palace was destroyed by flooding in 1926, the king and his family moved into Daniel's own home until a new palace could be built. When Daniel died in 1940, his son Ezra inherited his senate seat — and served until 1952.

It Wasn't Confined to Politics

Jews were pioneers of modern Iraqi journalism and among its foremost poets. The brothers Saleh and Daoud al-Kuwaity wrote the music that became the national sound of Iraq. Jews spoke Arabic as their mother tongue, wrote poetry in it, and edited newspapers in it.

Here is the paradox an American audience often struggles to grasp: these people were not "Jews who happened to live in Iraq." They were Iraqis — an inseparable part of the national fabric they themselves helped weave — who also happened to be Jewish.

What Happens When a House Is Erased

In 2016, real estate developers in Baghdad demolished Sassoon Eskell's historic villa. The Iraqi Muslim historian Nabil al-Rubaie — the same historian who documented that the graves of Menachem and Ezra Daniel in the city of Kifl had also been removed — responded with sorrow: "Every educated Iraqi knows who Yehezkel Sassoon was." And added, bitterly: "Thank you to our state, to our government, if this is how they honor him."

The houses vanished. The graves vanished. The memory, for those who bothered to keep it, did not.

Stop ending emails with 'Looking forward to hearing from you.'

It's passive. It puts the entire burden on the reader. And it gives them no reason to respond today instead of never.

Here are 4 closers that actually drive a reply:

1/ The Specific Ask

BAD: "Looking forward to hearing from you."
GOOD: "Can you confirm the budget by Thursday? I need it before the Friday sync."

Deadlines get answered. Vague sentiments get archived. Always give a specific timeline.

2/ The Next Step Declaration

BAD: "Looking forward to your thoughts."
GOOD: "I'll move forward with Option A unless you flag something by Wednesday."

"Silence-is-consent" forces action. They either object now or accept your plan.

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Gardening Plot: Puffapod
July 05th, 2026

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Pagi itu, beberapa hari setelah pemindahan ke big pot, Keisha kembali datang ke greenhouse dengan langkah yang lebih ringan. Sejak memasuki ruangan, pandangannya langsung tertuju pada Puffapod miliknya.

Senyum kecil pun terukir ketika melihat tanaman itu kini telah mencapai 83% progress. Pertumbuhannya jauh lebih pesat dibanding sebelumnya; batangnya tampak semakin tebal, daunnya berkembang lebih lebar, dan warnanya terlihat sehat berkat ruang tanam baru yang diberikan.