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Post #444- Some images from the dives today at Friday's Rock 🦞
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🤿 "Something wicked this way comes"
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The 1,600-year-old famous Lod mosaic, one of the most complete and spectacular Roman mosaics in the world.
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The First Message Humanity Ever Left Behind....
Before books, before paper, before ink… there was clay.
Thousands of years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, a young scribe pressed a sharpened reed into soft clay, carving tiny wedge-shaped symbols that we now call Cuneiform. This happened around the third millennium BC, at a time when cities were just beginning to rise along the rivers of the Tigris River and Euphrates River.
What he wrote might seem ordinary to us today—records of wheat harvests, trade deals, taxes, or prayers to the gods. But in that moment, something extraordinary happened. Humanity discovered a way to capture time itself.
Each tiny mark pressed into that clay tablet became a frozen thought, a voice that could travel thousands of years into the future.
Imagine the scene: a young apprentice scribe sitting in the heat of the day, carefully pressing symbols into damp clay. He likely thought he was simply doing his daily work. He could never have imagined that one day, people living five thousand years later would still be reading his words.
Today, even though the clay tablet may be cracked and broken, its message survives. The symbols remain clear, still whispering stories from a world long vanished.
This fragile piece of clay is more than an artifact. It is proof of the moment when human memory stopped depending on fragile minds—and began living forever in written words.
In a way, every message we write today is an echo of that first brave step into immortality.
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📊🤵Statistics of the Top 20 Most Populous Countries in Asia (2026)
Based on data from Worldometers, the 2026 Asian population rankings record the following specific figures:
🥇Group with over 1 billion people: India (1,476,625,576) and China (1,412,914,089).
Group between 100 million and 300 million people: Indonesia (3rd), Pakistan (4th), Bangladesh (5th), Japan (6th), Philippines (7th), and Vietnam (8th).
🥈Next countries in the Top 15: Iran, Turkey, Thailand, Myanmar, South Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
🥉Group from 16th to 20th position: Yemen, Uzbekistan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and Nepal.
These figures reflect the actual population scale of countries in the region at the current time.
Source: Worldometers
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#Asia #Population #Statistics2026 #Data
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Jack London
"Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel."
"Jack London, orig. John Griffith Chaney, (born Jan. 12, 1876, San Francisco, Calif., U.S. —died Nov. 22, 1916, Glen Ellen, Calif.), U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
Born to poverty, the largely self-educated London became a sailor, hobo, Alaskan gold miner, and militant socialist.
He gained a wide audience with his first book, The Son of the Wolf (1900), and the story “To Build a Fire” (1908).
Thereafter he wrote steadily; his 50 books of fiction and nonfiction, including many romantic depictions of elemental struggles for survival as well as socialist tracts, include The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea-Wolf (1904), White Fang (1906), The Iron Heel (1907), Martin Eden (1909), and Burning Daylight (1910)." (Britannica)
'The Star Rover'
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Tending & defending 💙 
Whether they're protecting their eggs from predators or keeping them free of debris and algae, these ocean parents dedicate lots of time and attention to caring for their clutches.
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From the 8th century onwards, the Spanish city of Cordoba, ruled by the Arab Umayyad dynasty, was one of the largest and most vibrant in Europe.
The Umayyads fostered the arts and sciences there, and beginning in 786, they built a great mosque, one of the finest examples of Islamic architecture in Spain.
After the city was recaptured by the Christian King Ferdinand of Castile, the mosque was converted into a church in 1236.
The architecture of this unique building offers a striking glimpse into the history of the cultures that have succeeded one another on Spanish soil.
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GEORGE ORWELL
1984
"So long as they continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern. Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult."
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TasteAtlas Eat Local. Eat Seasonal.
Food in Porto in March 🇵🇹
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Bora Bora, French Polynesia 🇵🇫
There's a reason this island has become shorthand for paradise. The lagoon surrounding Bora Bora shifts between about fifteen shades of blue and green depending on the time of day, and it's warm enough to swim in year round 🌴.
Those overwater bungalows with glass floor panels let you watch reef sharks and rays glide underneath you while you're still in bed.
Bora Bora is small. You can drive around the entire island in about an hour. But the real life is on the water, not the road. Snorkelling in the coral gardens, feeding stingrays at a sandbar, or just floating in that lagoon will fill your days faster than you'd expect.
It's not cheap, and it's not a secret. But some places earn their reputation honestly 💙. This is one of them.
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On this day in 1982, Actor and singer John Belushi died from an overdose of cocaine and heroin.
Belushi was one of the original cast members on US TV's Saturday Night Live, played Joliet 'Jake' Blues in The Blues Brothers and also appeared in many films including Animal House.
On the evening of February 28, 1982, he checked in to a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. For several days, he frequented various nightclubs on the Sunset Strip and Santa Monica Boulevard.
In the early morning hours of March 5, 1982, Belushi, while in his Chateau Marmont bungalow, was visited separately by friends Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, as well as Cathy Smith. Around noon on March 5, Belushi's fitness trainer, Bill Wallace, found Belushi dead in his room.
In an interview with the National Enquirer in May 1982, Cathy Smith admitted that she had been with Belushi at the Chateau Marmont on the night of his death.
Smith pled no contest on June 11, 1986, to involuntary manslaughter and three counts of furnishing and administering controlled substances to Belushi in the hours before he was found dead.
She served fifteen months in prison. Belushi's tombstone reads "I may be gone, but rock n roll lives on."
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Pi Leh Bay, Phi Phi Islands, Thailand 🇹🇭
Pi Leh Bay is the quieter, more striking sibling of Maya Bay. Towering limestone cliffs wrap around the lagoon on almost every side, creating a natural amphitheatre filled with water so turquoise it barely looks real 🌊.
You can only reach it by longtail boat or kayak, and swimming here feels like floating inside an emerald. The bay has no beach to speak of, just sheer rock walls that drop straight into warm, shallow water.
Most tours from Phuket or Krabi stop here for 30 to 45 minutes. If you charter a private boat 🚤, go early in the morning before the fleet arrives. The silence bouncing off the cliffs is half the experience.
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On this day in 2008, Canadian guitarist, singer, Jeff Healey, died after a long ilness.
Healey released over 12 albums, presented a long running radio show and worked with many artists incuding; Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, The Allman Brothers, Bonnie Raitt, ZZ Top & Eric Clapton.
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