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Oldest Mask
The oldest mask in the world, around 9000 years old.
— The nightmare swirls and churns unending! —
Wikileaks rejected a State Department document and demanded that I destroy it.
My uncle worked for the State Department. He died a couple weeks ago. As per State Department policy, whenever one of their higher-ranking employees dies, the Department sends a small team to the home of the deceased to ensure they had no sensitive documents in their possession. It’s not that they distrust their dead colleague – they just don’t trust his family.
The Department team came to my uncle’s house one morning, spent a few hours rifling through his closets and drawers, and left with a small pile of papers. They expressed their condolences for my loss, then left. I never saw them again. Not even at the funeral.
On the night I visited and found him on the floor, dying of a heart attack, he told me something. It’s something I would’ve preferred to have never heard; something that made me wish I’d gotten to his house 20 minutes later to find him dead.
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Gnarled tree root sculptures by UK-based artist, Tach Pollard.
June 14 2020 - Students at Jefferson High School in Portland tore down the Thomas Jefferson statue in front of their school. Thomas Jefferson wrote “All men are created equal“ in the US declaration of Independence, but he was a life-long slave owner who enslaved over 600 people throughout his lifetime. [video]
When I was a kid, I thought those pillars went down to the sea floor.
In reality, they usually go down to some large submerged floats.
