Path of Totality

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Sculptures by Eberhard Encke at Unter den Linden during the Berlin summer Olympics 1936. Photo Heinz Fremke

#BorderCrisis - 8 “The busiest spot of the southern border for illegal crossings is struggling with an all-time high of migrants and a spike in COVID-19 cases. Last week, 7,000 migrants were released in downtown McAllen, Texas. More than 1,500 tested positive for COVID-19 over the past seven days, according to a city document issued Wednesday. The city of 141,000 residents in the Rio Grande Valley is ground zero for the border crisis. Agents in the valley encounter more illegal immigrants than any of the Border Patrol's other eight regions. Many migrants come thousands of miles from Central America and elsewhere to cross the border just miles south of downtown McAllen, where they are picked up, processed, and dropped off downtown.” — from the article “A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.” — President Ronald Reagan Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-border-town-struggles-under-101200363.html

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Nordic Herding Call

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Train to be like this guy. #MondayMotivation

1920s Glamour

Who Really Snubbed Jesse Owens? On August 3, 1936 Jesse Owens won his first gold medal in the 100-meter dash. It’s true that Hitler did not meet or shake hands with Owens, but Hitler did not meet or shake hands with any of the athletes that day. That said, there are several reports of a salute or wave. Paul Gallico, one sports commentator in Berlin, wrote that Owens was “led below the honor box, where he smiled and bowed, and Herr Hitler gave him a friendly little Nazi salute, the sitting down one with the arm bent.” Owens himself later confirmed this, claiming that they exchanged congratulatory waves. “When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany. Hitler didn’t snub me — it was Roosevelt who snubbed me. The President didn’t even send me a telegram.” — Jesse Owens [Sources listed in comments]

Dresden, Germany. Never forget.

Adolf Hitler drives through Brandenburger Tor on his way to open the Olympics, Berlin 1936

The Olympic flame arrives in the Reich 1936