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Switzerland has returned 18 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, marking another major step in the long fight to bring stolen African history back home. Officials handed over the artworks during a ceremony at the National Museum in Lagos, where the pieces were received as part of Nigeria’s growing push to reclaim objects taken during the colonial era.

Many of these works were taken after British forces raided and looted the Kingdom of Benin in 1897, scattering thousands of royal and sacred objects across museums and private collections in Europe and beyond. For Nigeria, their return is about far more than museum displays. It is about memory, dignity, and reconnecting people with pieces of their own history.

Swiss officials said the return followed years of research into where the objects came from and how they ended up in European collections. Museums in Zurich and Geneva were linked to the restitution, showing how pressure around colonial-era collections continues to reshape how major institutions handle disputed artifacts.

For many Nigerians and supporters of restitution, the handover sends a clear message: stolen heritage should not remain locked away overseas. As more countries face calls to return looted objects, Nigeria’s latest recovery adds momentum to a global demand for historical repair and respect.

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JAMES CRENSHAW
VS
OZZIE STEVENS
MALES 42 LBS.
ROF: RECK FOWLER
Crenshaw is with his "Jeep" dog, a three time winner, by Kentakn
Ozaiots "Homert
, a four time winner is being handled
Simmons from Morida and was conditioned by B. Stopp. cog starts
last in the stale,
then shoulder and onto bottom jaw
ano shaking.
Homer with front leg, then mouth hold,
Jeep in throa
and chost.
At the 10 min. mark Joep is in the shoulder and seems
to be over-powering Homer.
Homons! front leg is hurt bad.
At the
13 min, mark Homer starts for stifle but does not make it,
Jeep 1:
back in the throat and throwe him to the mat and shakes in his shoulder. Homer gets good holds every chance he can but Jeep is really working fast.
27 min. Homer shakes hard in the stifle, bu
Jeep bites him off.
Homer with nose and Jeep goes to stifle,
Homer gets back in stifle, then front leg and at 36 min. the doge
are mouth-to-mouth.
Dogs swapping out holds,
biting everywhere
and shaking. At 59 min. Jeep is in the throat but he is not biting as hard as ho was.
Up until about the 2 hour mark the dogs
have been fighting about the same pattern, swapping out stifle holds and nose holds and front leg holds.
At 2:50 dogs are layin
with Homer on nose, At the 3 hour mark
then at 2:57 Homer goes to stifle and chews. the dogs are still laying in hold with James
and Kenny urging them on.
At 3:05 dogs are out-of-hold and
handled
and Jeep makes his first good scratch after 3 hrs. of
battle.
Homer gets on jaw and nose.
Another handle at 3:21 and
Homer stumbles across,
Talk about sameness!!
falls and
gets up and goes on across.
Jeep scratches at 3:23 and the dogs are
really worn out and laying in hold at 3:25.
3:43 and "Homer"
cannot
Another handle at
go and he takes the count, making James
Cronshaw and Jeep"
the winners in a long 3 hours
and 43 minutes.
One of the best fights every witnessed.
Not a dull moment.
really game dogs!!
his flaht will be remembered
TwO
for
Iomn

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Did you know Sports legends Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis were stationed at Fort Riley during World War 2!
The legendary number "42" and the "Brown Bomber" are pictured in 1942 during their time serving our country. Robinson was drafted and sent to Fort Riley for basic training. During Robinson's time at Fort Riley he passed all the requirements and applied for Officer Candidate School. Robinson along with several other black candidates' applications were dismissed due to their race. Louis used his popularity to campaign on behalf of Robinson and other prospective officers. As a result, the candidates were granted acceptance into the program due largely to Louis's efforts.

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The ocean floor has surrendered a legendary titan of the 1940s.

Salvage crews recently raised a massive WWII warship from its deep grave.

Massive gun turrets and anti-aircraft weapons remain bolted to the deck.

Engineers fought immense weight and corrosion to pull this armored hull into the light.

Divers found personal letters and gear inside the hull. These items offer a glimpse into the final moments, though much of their struggle remains a silent mystery.

This recovery transforms a sunken wreck into a monument of human conflict. History is no longer buried beneath the tide.

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He'd been dead for 137 years. And in December 2022, his country finally gave him its highest military honor.
The man was Ulysses S. Grant — the general who won the Civil War for the Union, the 18th president of the United States, and, for a long stretch of the twentieth century, one of America's most unfairly forgotten heroes. On December 23, 2022, that neglect was formally corrected. President Biden signed legislation posthumously promoting Grant to General of the Armies of the United States, the highest rank the U.S. Army can confer.
He became only the third person in the entire history of the nation to hold it.
Think about how small that club is. Before Grant, the rank had gone to exactly two men: General John J. Pershing, who commanded American forces in World War I and received it in 1919 while still alive, and George Washington himself, promoted posthumously in 1976 during the nation's bicentennial. That's the company Grant now keeps. Washington. Pershing. Grant. The rank is so exalted that people often call it a "six-star general" — though in truth no six-star insignia was ever actually created, and Pershing, the only living man ever to hold it, never wore more than four stars on his shoulder.
The honor was a long time coming. And to understand why it took so long, you have to understand how badly history had treated him.
Here is what most people miss: in his own lifetime, Grant wasn't a controversial figure — he was a global superstar. When he finished his presidency, he and his wife embarked on a two-and-a-half-year world tour and were received like royalty across the planet. In the words of one Grant scholar, he was seen as the equal of Washington and Lincoln — "the most famous soldier in the world without any doubt" at the time of his death. He was that towering.
So what happened?
His reputation was slowly buried by a story other people told about the war. In the decades after Appomattox, a powerful cultural movement known as the "Lost Cause" took root — one that romanticized the Confederacy and its generals, like Robert E. Lee, while diminishing the men who had fought and won for the Union. Grant, as the Union's greatest commander, was a natural target. Critics reframed his brilliant, relentless generalship as mere butchery, and painted his presidency in shallow, dismissive strokes. Some of that criticism, historians note, was politically motivated from the start. Over time, the caricature stuck, and the real man faded from public memory.
The decline of his reputation had a physical symbol, too. Grant's Tomb in New York City — once one of the most visited monuments in America — fell into shocking disrepair. From the 1970s into the early 1990s, the great general's final resting place was neglected and vandalized, left in genuinely terrible shape before restoration efforts finally rescued it.
But the tide of history turns. Modern biographers and historians — including Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow — have reintroduced Americans to the real Grant: not just the general who defeated Lee, but the president who pushed for the 15th Amendment guaranteeing Black men the right to vote, and who sent federal troops to crush the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction. His full legacy, military and moral, came back into focus.
And here's a charming footnote that shows how these honors actually work. When Washington was promoted in 1976, Congress passed the law — and then the Army simply forgot to process it. The paperwork sat untouched until 1978, when, as the story goes, a soldier studying for a promotion board casually asked a general whether Washington now outranked Pershing. That single question set off a chain of inquiries that finally made the promotion official. Even the Father of His Country had to wait in the bureaucratic line.
Grant waited far longer — nearly a century and a half. But in the end, the recognition came, carried by lawmakers from opposing political parties who agreed on at least this one thing: that a man's service to his country deserves to be remembered rightly.
History has a long memory, and sometimes it circles back to give the overlooked their due.

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Yesterday afternoon, a rare 22-degree solar halo appeared above Devils Tower in Wyoming. ☀️

The ring formed as sunlight passed through millions of tiny hexagonal ice crystals high in the atmosphere, creating one of nature's most beautiful optical displays.

It lasted only a short time before the clouds changed and the halo faded away.

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THE NAVIGATORS OF 30,000 YEARS AGO
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Who were the first people to colonize the Americas? Until just a few years ago, it was believed that the first American culture was that of the Clovis people, the ancestors of the Native Americans. Furthermore, it was thought that humans had arrived on that continent no earlier than about 14,000 years ago. Thus, in this “reconstruction” of history, the earliest civilizations would have been those of North America, while the Aztecs, Maya, and Incas would have arrived much later.
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Recent discoveries, including DNA analysis, have instead shown that, once again, archaeology was wrong. The earliest civilizations in the Americas were the peoples of Central and South America, at least 15,000–20,000 years earlier than previously believed. And these populations came BY SEA (yes, you read that right, “by sea”) from Siberia and Sundaland (the continent that disappeared due to the melting of ice, corresponding to present-day Indonesia and the surrounding islands).
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In fact, around 2020, some researchers published the results of their discovery of human remains in the Chiquihuite Cave in Mexico. Excavations began in 2012. More extensive excavations were carried out in 2016 and 2017. The findings were published in the journal *Nature*. What was found in the cave has completely revolutionized archaeologists’ understanding. The study, presented by Ciprian Ardelean, an archaeologist at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Mexico), and his colleagues, suggests that people were living in central Mexico at least 26,500 years ago. The professor says, “It takes centuries, or millennia, for people to cross Beringia and reach central Mexico.” He adds: “It would have taken many years of prior presence for them to get there, whether they came by sea or by land.” This means that humans were likely in Central America well before 30,000 years ago.
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But that’s not all. Another research center has discovered that the indigenous populations of Central and South America do not have just one ancestral group, but two. So to speak, they have a “mother population,” identified as “Population Y,” consisting of the original inhabitants of Sundaland from the distant past, roughly around the time of the Ice Age melt. But they also have a “father population,” the Iñupiat, who came from Siberia.
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These discoveries fundamentally revolutionize all archaeological beliefs about the past of the Americas. To whom, then, did the oldest ruins found in those lands belong? Which ancient civilization was capable of creating geopolymers high in the Andes? Who created the gigantic Nazca lines, and above all, for what purpose? And above all: if 30,000 years ago people were able to travel from Australia to Central America, what prevented them from going from Central America to Egypt, as various pieces of evidence now seem to indicate? We provide some answers.
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The article continues in the book
HOMO RELOADED - 75,000 YEARS OF HIDDEN HISTORY

You can find a copy of the book here:

English version:
www.amazon.it/dp/B0BLYBDF69

Spanish version:
www.amazon.es/dp/B0H3C3W7W3

Text NOT CREATED using Artificial Intelligence. Human authors only

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Pitstop's CH. Mechanic. Ron took this photo at Pitstop Kennels in Long Island, NY in December,1995 when he was in keep for a show.

Only real dog men in the know can identify his handler😁

What say you gentlemen ~ ladies?

I DK am not in the know I took this whole thing PHOTO/ WORDS from social media…

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I took this from a post on Facebook about color the color of dogs

Some hate Reds, everyone hated this one. Longest match at 7 yrs old was 38 mins with no teeth. I like this Red one Good dogs come in all shapes and sizes and colors, it's up to you to find your own.

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