French archaeologist and historian Paul Veyne, born OTD in Aix-en-Provence, is a specialist of Ancient Rome, now an honorary professor at the Collège de France https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/aix-en-provence/?s=mb #travel #France #history
Along the Cours Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence

Visiting Aix-en-Provence, strolling the Cours Mirabeau, lunch at Les Deux Garçons.

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Deke Slayton, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office and Director of Flight Crew Operations, died OTD in 1993 https://toilet-guru.com/blog/44.html?s=mb #spaceflight #history
The Space Diaper Kidnapping

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🚀 EXPLOSIVE DISCOVERY: Hidden Masonic Links to the Legendary Treasure of Oak Island
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How Knicks NBA title ranks against Red Sox, Cubs, Cavs and other overdue breakthroughs

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7355502/2026/06/13/knicks-championship-winning-famous-droughts-streaks/

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How Knicks NBA title ranks against Red Sox, Cubs, Cavs and other overdue breakthroughs

It's been 53 years since a Knicks championship. How momentous was this drought-snapping title? We compare it to other famous streak-busters.

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Why the NBA champion Knicks are the greatest team in New York sports history

They accomplished so much on the court, and impacted so much off it, that they don’t merely deserve to go down as the finest Knicks team.

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Today is the feast day of Saint Philotheos of Sklataina, the second founder of the Monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/greece/meteora.html?s=mb #travel #Greece #history
Meteora — Μετέωρα — Greece

Meteora is a complex of Greek Orthodox monasteries built on sandstone rock pillars extending 550 meters above the plain near Kastraki and Kalampaka or Kalabaka.

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Bohemian physician and scientist Jan Marek Marci, born OTD in 1595, became rector of the University of #Prague and official physician to the Holy Roman Emperors https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/czech-republic/prague/?s=mb #travel #history
Visiting Prague, in the Czech Republic

The Charles Bridges takes you from the beautiful Art Nouveau stained glass windows in the Cathedral of Saint Vitus to Stare Mesto in Prague.

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#TIL That Chaucer & Shakespeare were into the whole 6-7 thing.

"A similar phrase, "to set the world on six and seven", is used by Geoffrey Chaucer in his Troilus and Criseyde. It dates from the mid-1380s and seems from its context to mean "to hazard the world" or "to risk one's life".[2] William Shakespeare uses a similar phrase in Richard II (around 1595), "But time will not permit: all is uneven, And every thing is left at six and seven"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sixes_and_sevens

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At sixes and sevens - Wikipedia

Henry II ruled as Holy Roman Emperor from 1014 to his death OTD in 1024 https://toilet-guru.com/blog/50.html?s=mb #travel #HolyRomanEmpire #history