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Proof of walk this morning with without Amigo and Cypher on a different island and a different beach.....⛱️
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Proof of walk this morning with without Amigo and Cypher on a different island and a different beach.....⛱️
20th Century Boy
T. Rex ‧ 1973
Friends say it's fine
Friends say it's good
Everybody says it's just like rock and roll
I move like a cat
Charge like a ram
Sting like a bee
Babe, I wanna be your man
Well it's plain to see
You were meant for me
Yeah, I'm your boy
Your 20th century toy
Friends say it's fine
Friends say it's good
Everybody says it's just like rock and roll
Fly like a plane
Drive like a car
Howl like a hound
Babe I wanna be your man
Well it's plain to see
You were meant for me
Yea I'm your toy
Your 20th century boy
20th century toy
I wanna be your boy
20th century toy
I wanna be your boy
20th century toy
I wanna be your boy
20th century toy
I wanna be your boy
Friends say it's fine
Friends say it's good
Everybody says it's just like rock and roll
Move like a cat
Charge like a ram
Sting like a bee
Oh, babe I wanna be your man
Well it's plain to see
You were meant for me
Yea I'm your toy
Your 20th century boy
20th century toy
I wanna be your boy
20th century toy
I wanna be your boy
20th century boy
I wanna be your toy
20th century boy
I wanna be your toy
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Released on this day 13th February 1970, 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐒𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐡 the debut studio album by Black Sabbath
"𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧", "𝐍𝐈𝐁", "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐝".
Track listing
European edition
Side A
1. "Black Sabbath"
2. "The Wizard"
3. "Behind the Wall of Sleep"
4. "N.I.B."
Side B
5. "Evil Woman"
6. "Sleeping Village"
7. "Warning"
Personnel
Ozzy Osbourne – lead vocals, harmonica on "The Wizard", tambourine
Tony Iommi – guitar
Geezer Butler – bass
Bill Ward – drums
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When Marcus Aurelius died on March 17, 180 AD, his eighteen-year-old son Commodus inherited an empire at its zenith. The Pax Romana—two centuries of unprecedented peace and prosperity—was ending not with foreign conquest but with the character of one man. Within twelve years, Commodus would transform Rome from a disciplined superpower into a theatrical stage for his delusions, demonstrating how rapidly institutional strength dissolves when leadership prizes spectacle over governance.
Commodus rejected everything his father represented. Marcus Aurelius embodied Stoic philosophy, military discipline, and administrative rigor. His son craved adulation and pleasure. Commodus immediately negotiated peace with the Danubian tribes—abandoning his father's hard-won military gains—and rushed back to Rome for a triumph he hadn't earned. He delegated actual governance to a succession of freedmen and favorites while devaluing the currency, the largest debasement since Nero. The denarius lost 21% of its silver content under his watch, funding lavish games and bribes to maintain popularity with the mob while alienating the Senate through confiscatory taxation.
His megalomania reached pathological levels. Commodus declared himself the reincarnation of Hercules, renaming Rome itself "Colonia Lucia Annia Commodiana." He renamed all twelve months after his own titles. He fought as a gladiator in the Colosseum—not privately, but publicly, forcing senators to watch their emperor debase imperial dignity while clubbing cripples he pretended were giants. He once beheaded an ostrich, then walked to the Senate section carrying the severed head and his sword, silently threatening them. They chewed laurel leaves to hide their laughter.
The conspiracies began in 182 when his sister Lucilla attempted assassination. The plot failed spectacularly when the assassin announced, "This is what the Senate sends you!" before attacking—giving Commodus's guards time to intervene. The subsequent purges killed senators, prefects, and family members alike. Each failed conspiracy pushed Commodus deeper into paranoia and autocracy. His advisors—Saoterus, Perennis, Cleander—accumulated power until rivals murdered them or mobs tore them apart. By 192, even Commodus's mistress Marcia and his praetorian prefect recognized they were next on his execution list. On December 31, they poisoned his food. When he vomited the poison, they sent his wrestling partner Narcissus to strangle him in his bath.
The Senate declared him a public enemy, demolished his statues, and restored Rome's original name. Pertinax succeeded him, ruling only 87 days before assassination triggered the Year of the Five Emperors—a civil war that sold the empire at auction to the highest bidder. Commodus's twelve-year reign destroyed the succession principle that had produced five consecutive competent emperors, revealed how thin the veneer of Roman stability truly was, and established a precedent for military strongmen to seize power through force rather than merit. The Severan dynasty would temporarily restore order, but Rome never recovered its lost innocence. One man's narcissism had demonstrated that institutional legitimacy, once shattered, cannot be rebuilt—only replaced.
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Carved into a sheer mountainside nearly 2,200 years ago, the Bhaja Caves in India raise a simple but staggering question: how did ancient craftsmen pull this off with nothing but hand tools?
These rock-cut monasteries feature perfectly rounded columns, vaulted ceilings, and a massive chaitya hall carved out of solid basalt — all done without metal drills, electric lighting, or modern surveying equipment. Every surface had to be shaped by hammer, chisel, and sheer endurance, yet the symmetry and acoustic design still hold up today.
We know Buddhist monks and artisans built them during the 2nd century BC, but the exact logistics — how many workers, how long it took, or the methods used to keep everything perfectly aligned in dark, confined rock — remain unclear. The caves stand as one of those ancient engineering achievements that remind us just how skilled early builders really were.
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Conan The Barbarian, 1982.
Directed by John Milius.
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Danaid, 1885 by Auguste Rodin.
(The model was Camille Claudel.)
Also known as The Spring, the Musée du Luxembourg purchased the sculpture, which was shown at the Salon in 1890.
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What Leonardo da Vinci discovered about the human heart in 1512 wouldn't be proven true for another 500 years.
While dissecting an ox heart by candlelight, da Vinci noticed something everyone else had missed. The aortic valve didn't just open and close like a door. It danced.
He sketched swirling patterns in the blood flow—tiny whirlpools that seemed to help the valve seal perfectly. But in the 1500s, no one could see inside a beating heart to prove him right. So his drawings were forgotten, buried in notebooks that wouldn't be studied seriously for centuries.
Fast forward to 2014. Researchers at Oxford using cutting-edge MRI technology made a stunning discovery: da Vinci's 500-year-old sketches were anatomically perfect. The vortices he drew actually exist.
Those swirling blood patterns do exactly what he theorized—they help the valve close gently and efficiently, preventing damage with every heartbeat.
He figured this out without microscopes, without computers, without even knowing what blood circulation was. He just observed, sketched, and thought deeply about what he saw.
Da Vinci wasn't just an artist who painted the Mona Lisa. He was reverse-engineering the human body, combining art and science in ways no one would attempt again for half a millennium.
He saw the heart not as a simple pump, but as an elegant machine designed by nature's engineering.
Sometimes genius isn't about having the right tools.
It's about asking the right questions.
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On this day in 1982, The Jam single “Town Called Malice” debuted at #1 on the UK Singles Chart (February 13)
Paul Weller has said that it was written about his hometown Woking as a result of his teenage experiences there.
The Irish Independent described the song as a "class-war tirade set to a post-punk northern soul groove", which is a great description.
The single from their LP “The Gift” debuted at #1 on the UK charts, and stayed there for three weeks.
It was also the band's sole chart entry onto any American chart when it hit #31 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in 1982.
The song also went to #4 in Belgium, #7 in the Netherlands, #14 in New Zealand, and #15 in Australia.
"Town Called Malice" was featured prominently in the 1985 comedy film National Lampoon's European Vacation, and also appeared in the movie “Billy Elliott”, and an episode of “The Walking Dead”
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This week in 1989, the Traveling Wilbury’s single “End of the Line” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #83 (February 11)
The final track on the supergroup’s debut album “Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1” features all the Wilburys except Bob Dylan as lead singers; George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison sing the choruses in turn, while Tom Petty sings the verses.
It peaked at #8 in Canada, #11 in New Zealand, #12 in Australia, #14 in Ireland, #39 in Belgium m, #50 in the Netherlands, #52 in the UK, and #63 in the US.
As the great Roy Orbison passed away after recording his vocals but before the video was shot, a shot of a guitar sitting in a rocking chair and a photo of him are shown when his vocals are heard in the clip…
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"It's a good day to dive". 🤿
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Proof of walk this morning with Amigo and Cypher to Whitesand and Bulabog Beach ⛱️
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Proof of gym workout this morning. No walk with Amigo and Cypher due to heavy rain.
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My boy Amigo 💜
No walk this morning because of heavy rain.
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