THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (1974)
D: Joseph Sargent | Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
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In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
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Barn cats rule

I have documented the popularity of Santa Muerte among Mexican law enforcement over the years but this is the fist time I see her statue riding in a police cruiser, as seen in Ciudad Juarez! #SantaMuerte

Frogs: amphibious jesters of the marshlands, their croaks a cacophony of swampy symphony. With bulging eyes and webbed feet, they leap into the chaos of the night, heralds of wetland wonder.

#SaveFrogsDay #RalphSteadman #Illustration

We used to be a country. A proper country.

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Rounding off the Weekend! 🥳

Pick your favourite word ⭐️

A B
C D

(Follow your heart!)

Meet a master of disguise, the mimic octopus! To protect itself from foes, this cephalopod masquerades as more dangerous animals. By contorting its body & using color-changing cells in its skin, it can take on the appearance of sea snakes, lionfish, & other toxic ocean-dwellers.

Ulysses Grant’s birthday. The finest soldier to ever wear US Army blue. Captured three armies - Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Appomattox. Destroyed slavery, “the cause and pretext for the rebellion.” Saved the United States and democracy.
Huzzah!
#Grant

For all my dog-loving followers:

A stunning #Greek rhyton (drinking cup) in the shape of a #dog 's head. Dating ca. 475 BC.

Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia

#DontShootYourDogInAGravelPit

68 years ago April 27: Rocky Marciano, 32, retires as heavyweight champion, seven months after a 9th-round KO of Archie Moore - his 6th and defense. His final record: 49-0 (43 KO’s). The “Brockton Blockbuster” remains the only heavyweight champion to retire undefeated.

Here’s the thing about Kristi Noem
- Killing a dog callously is awful.
- Killing it because it wasn’t trained is disgusting.
- Bragging about in a book is stupid.
- Attacking people for criticizing you is pathetic.
- Wearing it as a badge to prove you’re tough is psychotic.

Here is the field for the 2024 Kentucky Derby!

There’s a good chance you watched late night TV, if you recognize this World War II vet. 😎

'There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.' Ulysses S. Grant, born on this day in 1822

My mother was voted at one time one of most beautiful women in America. Flo Ziegfeld said she had the most beautiful legs on Broadway

Serious miscalculation. (1945, Oslo, Norway. Air Commodore Darvall taking surrender of Luftwaffe. #WW2 #HISTORY )

This #dog wasn't shot in a gravel pit....

A #Roman burial of a dog. The beloved animal was buried with a vessel, its head was bedded on a piece of leather.

A life without #dog s is possible but pointless.

From Cologne, 1st AD.

Photo: Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

Since we’re talking dogs,

I once flew into the Helmand to pull a wounded EOD K-9 off the X. The moment was so surreal that I whipped out my camera and snapped this horrible photo.

14 men, went after that dog like they would any other critically wounded service member.

“White Rabbit' was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a 'Bolero' rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of 'Alice in Wonderland.' You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss.” - Grace Slick

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