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Mortuary grates are special iron grates that were installed over graves in the Victorian era to protect them from thieves. In those days, it was common practice to dig up fresh corpses and sell them for use in anatomy classes. However, there is a belief that mortise safes were intended to restrict access to the burial site not only from the outside, but also from the inside.
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This is a photo of the Persian Cossack Brigade of Iran. It was an elite cavalry force modeled on the Cossack formations with the cooperation of the Russian Tsarist government.
Besides suppressing the revolt of Colonel Pessian and various tribal insurgents—including the Jangalis, Kurds, Turkmen, and the Azadistan movement—the brigade notoriously bombarded the Persian Parliament (Majlis) in 1908. Its primary external enemies were the Ottoman Empire and, following the Russian revolution, the Bolshevik Red Army.
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In August 1941, during World War II, Britain and the Soviet Union launched Operation Countenance, invading Iran to secure oil supplies and ensure a supply route to the USSR, which led to the abdication of Shah Reza Pahlavi. In 1945, under orders from Stalin, the Soviets used their communist agents to establish a controlled separatist movement aimed at capturing northern Iran. After World War II, tensions rose as the Soviet Union refused to withdraw its troops from northern Iran, leading to the establishment of a pro-Soviet government in Azerbaijan, which was ultimately suppressed by Iranian forces in December 1946. The following quote is from the orders to create the Soviet-controlled separatist movement under the guise of a democratic party, illustrating the tactics used to confuse and lure non-communists into the movement:

"TOP SECRET
To Comrade Bagirov
Measures to Organize a Separatist Movement in Southern Azerbaijan and Other Provinces in Northern Iran
1. Consider it advisable to begin preparatory work to form a national autonomous Azerbaijan Oblast with broad powers within the Iranian state. At the same time develop a separatist movement in the provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran, Gorgan, and Khorasan.
2. Establish a democratic party in Southern Azerbaijan under the name "Azerbaijan Democratic Party" with the objective of guiding the separatist movement. The creation of the Democratic Party in Southern Azerbaijan is to be done by a corresponding reorganization of the Azerbaijani branch of the People's Party of Iran and drawing into it supporters of the separatist movement...
6. Combat groups armed with weapons of foreign manufacture are to be created with the objective of self defense for pro-Soviet people..."

Soviet Politburo (1945). Decree to the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, to Organize a Separatist Movement in Iran.
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"The Young Carpenter," 1886

Artist: Fredrik Kolstø
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Willem Petzer and Renaldo Gouws (2026). The Hidden System Behind South Africa’s Political Agenda.
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In March 1922, South African communists attempted to revolt against the government of Jan Smuts in the Witwatersrand region (Gauteng). They were fighting under the slogan 'Workers of the World, Unite and fight for a white South Africa.
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In 1922, the white miners of South Africa were incited by communist agitators to strike against their dire working conditions and meager wages. Headlines in the press heralded the event as "An Organized Revolution," "Red Regime Atrocities," "Unadulterated Bolshevism," and "Lenin's Last Desperate Attempt". In response, Jan Smuts, a key figure in the League of Nations charter, who had previously quelled a Boer uprising in 1914, mobilized armed forces to squash the white mining strike, leading to violence that resulted in numerous injuries and fatalities, reminiscent of the American government's handling of the Communist-stirred "Bonus Army" in 1932. Mine owners, including the influential Jewish Beit family, who had once boasted the richest man in the world during the Anglo-Boer War, seized upon this opportunity to reduce costs. As with cotton pickers in the United States, the white miners were replaced by cheaper black miners. The communist agitation redirected it's focus towards inciting black miners.
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The African Union published this animation for the Flagship Projects of Agenda 2063. Well, it's just another utopian digital gulag like the European version. The pages flip to the African Encyclopedia — naturally, the page won't highlight the work done by Rhodesians in Rhodesia (that's been decolonized, 'never happened'); it won't open on African leaders like Moïse Tshombe and Jonas Savimbi. Gaddafi is not important either, from the seems of it. Instead, history will be dominated by the selectively chosen leaders like Bolsheviks Mandela and Kwame Nkrumah. Well, Rockefeller's Pan-Africanist dream is being "realized" along with a "Central African Bank".
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1877). The Diary Of A Writer.
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🗓️ 15 March 44 BC: The Ides of March 🩸

2070 years ago today, Gaius Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome (dictator perpetuo), was stabbed to death in the Curia Pompeia (the Senate’s temporary meeting hall) by 60 conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.

The assassins believed that his death would lead to the restoration of the Roman Republic. However, the outcome of the ‘Ides of March’ was the opposite: Rome was plunged into a new wave of civil wars.

From these conflicts emerged Caesar’s great-nephew Octavian as Augustus. He became the first Roman emperor, thereby sealing the definitive end of the Republic – the very system the conspirators had actually sought to save.

A historical paradox: the murder of the man feared as a tyrant paved the way for the absolute rule of the emperors.

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Julius Caesar (2002), is a film directed by Ulrich "Uli" Edel which most closely follows the written history.
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Egyptian Pharaohs were once required to masturbate into the River Nile to keep its flow cycle stable. The event was known as the Fertility Festival.

https://www.cracked.com/article_33015_pharaohs-had-the-grossest-ritual-to-keep-the-nile-running.html
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The Races of Hercules: the Spartans

The Spartans regarded themselves as a people of multiple bloodlines, one group claiming descent from Hercules. They considered themselves Heraclidae—descendants of Hercules—who joined with the Dorians and settled in Peloponnesus, which was not their original homeland.
"The Heraclidae who joined with the Dorians, and came into Peloponnesus, became a numerous and glorious race in Sparta... but the kings were chosen out of two only, called the Eurypontidae and the Agiadae." (Plutarch)


Special racial restrictions were imposed on Hercules’s descendants to prevent mixing:
"Lysander, who was still ephor, resolving to be revenged on Leonidas, drew up an information against him, grounded on two old laws: the one forbids any of the blood of Hercules to raise up children by a foreign woman, and the other makes it capital for a Lacedaemonian to leave his country to settle among foreigners." (Plutarch)


The Spartans of Herculean descent considered it a crime to allow bastards or foreigners to rule over them and also prohibited other bloodlines from producing kings:
"...the kingdom would be a lame one if bastards and false-born should govern with the posterity of Hercules."


This means that the famous Spartan kings like Leonidas I, who fell fighting against the Persians, would be of Herculean blood. Plutarch also explained that this is how they maintained their supremacy in the region:
"Greece presently saw Sparta exert her sovereign power over all Peloponnesus... freed Greece from Illyrian and Gaulish violence, and placed her once again under the orderly rule of the sons of Hercules."


Reference:
Life of Lysander by Plutarch. Available at: https://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/lysander.html
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Photo: Ivan Pavlovich Kalmykov — Ataman of the Ussuri Cossacks with officers of the American Expeditionary Force «Siberia»during the Russian Civil War in the Far East.
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Фото: Иван Павлович Калмыков — атаман уссурийских казаков с офицерами Американского экспедиционного корпуса в Сибири во время Гражданской войны в России на Дальнем Востоке.

#казакивгражданскойвойне
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WOW 🚨 George Soros funded a ballot measure called Proposition 64

The money from that measure was supposed to go to substance abuse

Instead California Democrats redirected all the money, $370 million, into registering voters

This is a sophisticated money laundering scheme

Here’s what happened:

California DOGE found California Democrats used a state agency called ‘Elevate Youth’ to launder taxpayer money into registering voters

“Elevate Youth funneled money ($370M) meant for substance abuse help to get out the vote and organizing - for Democrats”

Elevate Youth is funded through Proposition 64

Proposition 64 was a ballot measure that was sponsored by GEORGE SOROS

So again, let me break that down:

- George Soros paid for a fake ballot measure claiming it would help victims of substance abuse
- Once passed, all the money collected in new taxes from that ballot measure was then redirected into registering voters and organizing

California Democrats need to go to prison
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Sharp color photo fo a Russian woman in 1905. Not kodachrome or autochrome, triple glass negative color separation.

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A poster from the Russo-Japanese War depicting a Cossack defeating the Japanese
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A theory of how the US military experimented on Maduro's foreign guard.
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