Leonardo da Vinci’s mother might have been a slave: here’s what the discovery reveals about Renaissance Europe

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the conversation A recently discovered note, drawn up by Leonardo da Vinci’s father, Piero, in November 1452, shows that he emancipated an enslaved woman named Caterina. The scholar who found the →

The most expensive book of all time? What makes this $50 million Hebrew Bible so special?

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the conversation In May, Sotheby’s headquarters in New York will be hosting the auction of what could be the most expensive book of all time: a bible estimated up to 50 million dollars. It is said to →

Banning TikTok Would Close China’s Social Media Backdoor

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national interest by Rachel Chiu In mid-March, the White House issued a major ultimatum to TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance: divest from the popular social media app or risk fighting a national →

China issues report revealing landmark setback for US human rights in 2022; American people's basic rights, freedoms undermined

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​global times​​​ China's State Council Information Office on Tuesday issued the Report on Human Rights Violations in the US in 2022, revealing human rights legislation and justice have seen an →

US uses ‘ideological bias to split world,’ aims for confrontation

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global times By Yang Sheng and Xu Yelu As the US will hold its second "Summit for Democracy" from Wednesday to Thursday, Chinese experts said that compared to the first summit in 2021, the latest →

Asia overlooking risk of more US rate hikes

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asia times by William Pesek “For decades now bond vigilantes have been asleep on their sunbeds, lulled into a slumber by the soothing lapping of waves of secular stagnation and the froth of →

5 planets will align across the sky on Tuesday night. Here's how to see them

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nbc news by Christopher Brito People can catch a five-planet alignment on Tuesday night as Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars will appear across the night sky. The planets will align on →

Fear pervades Tennessee's trans community amid focus on Nashville shooter's gender identity

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nbc news By Matt Lavietes and Jo Yurcaba Shortly after news broke Monday of a fatal shooting at a private Christian Nashville elementary school, police said the suspect was transgender. This detail, →

How is bitcoin still trading (for now) at $27,000?

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nbc news By Jason Abbruzzese Why is one bitcoin, after all the disasters in the crypto industry, trading at about $27,000? Your guess is as good as Mark Cuban’s. “I wish I knew the real reason,” the →

The Cross of Code

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​american conservative​​​ by Micah Meadowcroft You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of code. I borrow from William Jennings Bryan and his free silver because his “cross of gold” remains →

The carefully planned Nashville shooting coincides with a so-called ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’

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american thinker By Andrea Widburg While Democrats are busy blaming inanimate objects (i.e., guns) for the fact that an evil person murdered three children and three adults at a Christian school, →

Fat, Stupid, and Diverse

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​american thinker​​​ By J. Robert Smith To lift a line from the immortal Dean Wormer: “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life…” here amended to fat and stupid. Case in point, Alvin →

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