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  1. A look back on career of Ben Simmons after Sacramento Kings signing rawchili.com/nba/?p=828446 #access:metered #Basketball #Kings #NBA #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings #Source:USATODAY #ssts:sports:nba:kings #Sstsn:SacramentoKings #tag:Basketball #Tag:BenSimmons #Tag:CaliforniaGoldRush #Tag:CGRSports #Tag:ESPNInc #Tag:NationalSports #tag:NBA #Tag:OverallNeutral #Tag:Philadelphia76ers #Tag:SacramentoKings #Tag:SportsNews #type:story

  2. A quotation from Shakespeare

    KING RICHARD: Not all the water in the rough rude sea
       Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.
       The breath of worldly men cannot depose
       The deputy elected by the Lord.
       For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed
       To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
       God for His Richard hath in heavenly pay
       A glorious angel. Then, if angels fight,
       Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 55ff (3.2.55) (1595)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #richardii #angels #anointing #blessing #divineblessing #divineintervention #divinepower #divineright #divinewill #God #kings #royalty #hubris

  3. Allegedly, #Prighozhin’s march on #Moscow has ended in a deal brokered by #Lukashenko, in which #Wagner Group forces will head to #Belarus and … become Lukashenko’s #Varangian Guard, or something? Assuming of course #Putin doesn’t wait for them to get strung out on the road and bomb them all to bits.

    I can’t help but be struck by how antiquated all this feels. The Varangian Guard reference above is deliberate—the whole thing is #Byzantine in both the original and modern senses of that word. Shades of #Belisarius and #Justinian. Yes, I know I’m mixing up periods, and the analogy is inexact in all kinds of ways: history doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.

    #Kings and #emperors and shifting personal loyalties, not cold-blooded calculation of national interests. It’s not the way #modern states make #war—even though #Ukraine may well be the first modern war of the twenty-first century, through future eyes. Something older, more visceral, rising from ancient slumber.

    Hell of a time to be alive. I suppose that’s always true.

  4. #ArtButSports #Art #Sports #NBA #Warriors #Kings #DraymondGreen

    Via ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports
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    The Massacre of the Innocents, by Nicolas Poussin, 1625-32