TIL there was no single burning of the historic Great Library of Alexandria. The “single burning” story is just myth.
Instead, the Library of Alexandria was slowly defunded and its librarians, intellectuals purged from Alexandria. Over generations its prominence and scholarship slowly faded away, and the collection was likely slowly lost to corruption, war, plunder, dilapidation, or dispersed across other private and public collections.
Internet Archive now has a menstruation information and history library, since we now live in a world with Florida bill 1069, which bans the mention of periods before sixth grade in Florida public schools.
Library is universally available:
Where do the bad rainbows go?
Prism.
They get a light sentence.
It gives them time to reflect.
Tour de #France: Jai Hindley wins stage five to take yellow jersey
Australian Jai Hindley wins stage five of his debut Tour de France to take the overall leader's yellow jersey from Britain's Adam Yates.
Joe Biden insists that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen should become the next NATO Secretary General, The Telegraph reports. In private conversations, she told Biden that she would not be able to take up any position in NATO until at least next year. In recent years, Biden and von der Leyen have forged strong ties over China, Ukraine, and climate issues. For example, the president of the European Commission now relies on Washington's intelligence and does not use information provided by European agencies, as they misjudged the possibility of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. @liveukraine_media
With the city and surrounding areas shaking (1600x earthquakes in the last 24 hours) it seems Iceland's newest volcano is about to erupt.
That would make it the third time it does so, with each instance spaced with about roughly a year between.
src: https://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes