Recent interest in “George Washington” has surged due to multiple articles commemorating his legacy and addressing misconceptions about him. The New York Times published a piece exploring Washington’s impact compared to George W. Bush, which highlights a contemporaneous reevaluation of presidential figures and their decisions. This juxtaposition likely sparked curiosity, prompting readers to seek more information about Washington’s life and contributions.
Additionally, USA Today released an article questioning whether Washington and other leaders were truly America’s first presidents, promoting a deeper investigation into the historical narrative surrounding early U.S. leadership. This direct engagement with foundational American history has likely driven search interest as individuals explore the complexities of the nation’s origins.
Furthermore, The Boston Globe addressed common myths about Washington, such as the widely held belief that he had wooden teeth. By clarifying these misconceptions and discussing significant events like the Siege of Boston, the article appeals to those interested in understanding the factual history behind a monumental figure. Collectively, these news articles have contributed to a notable increase in search queries related to George Washington, as people seek to clarify historical facts and engage with current discussions surrounding his legacy.
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https://preview.redd.it/lxllz144bvjg1.png?width=1073&format=png&auto=webp&s=3d53dbf73ddc6b60c5b0abe6fa02d88075c56604 Shang Tsung-Mortal Kombat Willingly betrayed all of earthrealm and sided with Shao Khan. Helping Outworld win 9 tournaments that would endanger earthrealm in exchange for power and being his right hand man
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Hell, he even betrayed himself in MK1!
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Shang Tsung betraying himself is the most Shang Tsung he could ever do.
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(Head)Canon reason why we can have Shang Tsung “mirror match”
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Bro was an earthrealmer? Huh.
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Yup though in the MK1 timeline he’s from Outworld
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 Anakin Skywalker betrays the Jedi Order and falls to the dark side largely due to his fear of Padmé dying, which ends up happening anyway by his own actions. (Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith)
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Politician during voting season: I HAVE THE POWER TO SAVE THE ONE YOU LOVE! Politician after you voted: I’m sure we can figure out the trifling matter of cheating death over the next few hours before your wife gives birth. By murdering children and foreign politicians, fighting Muppets and Ewan Mcgregor, and in general wasting time on things that clearly aren’t conductive to that goal.
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Palpatine: I have concepts of the power to cheat death
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We’ll save her in a couple of weeks. We’re looking at it very strongly.
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“The Jedi are all dead-“ “Yes, but the DOW is above 50,000”
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 “I have betrayed everyone I have ever known” \-Count Dooku
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“I have betrayed everyone I have ever known…” “Except my master moments before he has me killed, I’d never betray him by outing him as the Sith mastermind behind everything.”
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Apparently from a video I watch on YouTube (I know not most imperialical source but still) he truly believed this was Palpatine ultimate test to see if Anakin would take his first order or wait for wiser orders it only in the last moments did he suddenly realise looking his Sith master dead in the eye that he was never part of the grand plan but just another stepping stone
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https://preview.redd.it/6ejkq4ieivjg1.jpeg?width=1248&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3aed83c66707ceee43f0437df30fc679e7bf94c3 Ye Wenjie – Liu Cixin’s “Three Body Problem” Messed up because of the trauma from her youth, seeing her dad killed in a brutal, public fashion, and later developing a distaste for humans in general, she’s eventually the first human to contact the Trisolarans (aliens from the world of three body, a “habitable” planet with three suns orbiting it). She eventually learns enough and installs herself at an observatory high in chinas mountains, and makes contact with the trisolarans. They, who are extremely more technologically advanced, WARN Wenjie not to respond to their own response to her initial call because it means the invasion of earth and likely end of the human race. Her response? “Come. We cannot save ourselves. I will help you conquer this world” Incredible. I have heard great things about the last two books BUT LIBBY TAKES FOREVER WITH ITS QUEUES. NO SPOILERS PLSSSS
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I had to put the book down for a bit when she sent the return message. One of my favorite moments in recent sci fi literature.
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I audibly gasped and covered my mouth and was stunned for a few minutes just processing what happened. I don’t even remember the next closest thing to have shocked me so much in any media.
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Same. For me it struck me as one of the most selfish moves I’ve read in fiction.
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If you haven’t read Dark Forest and Death’s End yet I cannot stress enough that you HAVE TO. 3BP is really just a set-up for the events of Dark Forest and Death’s End is just insanity from start to finish. In particular there’s one scene in Dark Forest and a couple in Death’s End that will leave you jaw agape.
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Some chapters are so heavy that you can’t carry on reading and have to digest it before continuing. The author never let’s you satisfied, something must go wrong.
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I love the lasts two books, it gets more sci-fi the longer you read though, not everyone liked it.
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What a mf monster
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Seath the Scaleless In Dark Souls lore, dragons were immortal beings outside the concept of life and death. After the four lords appeared and claimed the lord souls, they began a war to kill the dragons and begin a new reign. But the dragons had scales of stone that couldn’t be pierced, until Seath revealed to the lord of sunlight Gwyn that their scales could be stripped with lightning. This led to the near complete genocide of all everlasting dragons. Seath does this out of jealousy. He realizes that as an albino without any scales himself, he is the only ancient dragon that will ever naturally experience death. He is then “awarded” the title of Duke by his new rulers, as he toils away in his grand library trying to find a way to make himself immortal.
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“How does it feel, Seath? To be a … *bitch?*”
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“Lightning!”
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“Bitch ain’t even got no legs.” *”Ain’t even got no legs.”*
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“We even got this crystal shit that makes us double immortal for some reason. We don’t even need it.” *”Don’t even need it!”*
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“Oh no, lightning! Our one weakness!” “1.05 Patch save us! “UGH! I’ve got miasma up my asshole…!”
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There’s this one great moment in the intro which give a bit of a peak into his mentality. Seath though the secret to immortality had something to do with the Stone Dragon’s scales (prior to the fire manifesting for the first time, Dragon’s were basically sapient moving rocks, they weren’t “alive” in the traditional sense, there some lore to suggest Seath and other more traditionally organic dragons only became possible after the first flame, this even affected dragons that were from before the flame, it essentially “infected” them with “life”). Seath revealed this to Gwynn and the other lords and that’s how they figured out their strategy had to center around stripping the scales away (lighting to blast them off, fire to burn them away, diseases to rot the flesh beneath). But in the aftermath Seath found the scales held nothing useful for him, either he was wrong and the scales weren’t the true source of the immortality, or the act of killing a dragon removes whatever it is about the scales that makes them work. You see him sitting on top of a pile of the dead clutching the useless scales in his hands and screaming to the sky.
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Love that shot. Seath really gets the short end. I love that Seath becomes a duke, a title that’s typically hereditary in nature, as a reward for assisting in destroying his entire species. Such a spit in the face.
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And then he has a daughter that fucks off to live in a painting to get away from him.
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It’s more so that she gets locked away in the painted world. It could be due to her ability to use ice magic, which is almost effectively death magic and antithetical to the first flame that gives life to the world.
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https://i.redd.it/frmgvuorevjg1.gif Carter J. Burke ***(Aliens)*** He gave the order to investigate the derelict ship on planet LV-426 which led to the deaths of every human coloniser living there *(except for Newt)*. This gave him and the Weyland Yutani corporation an excuse to send a detachment down to the planet and bring back a Xenomorph specimen under the guise of a search-and-rescue which would’ve set him up for life if it had worked. When his early attempts to persuade Ripley to bring the Facehuggers back dont work, he lets them loose to impregnate Ripley and Newt although they’re both saved by the remaining marines. Ripley deduces that he may also have planned on killing the marines by sabotaging their cryo-pods on their way back. Ultimately, when the Xenomorphs break into the compound, Burke tries to cut-and-run and save his own skin leaving the others to die, only he ends up being cornered by a lone Xenomorph in a darkened corridor. Whether he was killed then-and-there or brought back to the nest to be impregnated, it’s obvious that he wasn’t making it out alive.
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I like the idea of marines having crying-pods they can retreat to after a particularly stressful deployment.
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The crayon-pods are also popular
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“You know, Burke, I don’t know which species is worse. You don’t see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.”
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I’m glad Newt’s cryo malfunctioned in the third film and nothing bad happened to her
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You don’t see them fucking each other over for a *goddamn percentage.*
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If I remember one of the cut context scenes correctly he was glued to a wall and impregnated. Ripley runs across him when she’s looking for Newt at the end of the movie and she simply gives him a grenade and walks away.
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Correct. When Ripley and Newt initially try to leave the nest, their path is blocked by an explosion which leads to them running into the Alien Queen. That explosion was Burke offing himself.
Additional Sources:
The New York Times – From One President to Another, a Love Letter With an Edge
USA Today – Were these men America’s real first presidents?
The Boston Globe – No, George Washington didn’t have wooden teeth. Yes, he led the Siege of Boston.
