A Florida family is grieving after tragedy has struck not once‚ but twice in exactly three months. Dalton Penkacik was walking to his job at an Amazon delivery center in Jacksonville around 1:15 a.m. on Dec. 1 when he was struck by a vehicle. An officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office was reportedly responding to a separate call and noticed Penkacik's body on the inside southbound lane of the 4500 block of Blanding Boulevard‚ according to authorities. The 25-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene by members of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department.Police said the driver struck Penkacik and then "fled the scene without rendering aid‚ calling for help‚ or reporting the incident.”Investigators suspect the hit-and-run vehicle was a Volkswagen based on evidence at the crime scene. Exactly three months before Penkacik's untimely death‚ the 25-year-old's younger brother was also killed in a car crash. On Sept. 1‚ 12-year-old Brighton Penkacik was on his way to school. The young boy was walking to a school bus stop when a dog reportedly started chasing him. Brighton allegedly ran into the road to escape the attacking dog and was hit by a Chevrolet Cruz. The driver allegedly remained at the scene and cooperated with law enforcement in their investigation.Brighton died from his injuries. Shawnee Penkacik told the Florida Times-Union that her 12-year-old son "was the brightest light in our family of 12 kids" and "had abundant joy and because he walked to school‚ [he] is gone way too soon."“When Brighton passed‚ he (Dalton) was the one that held everything together‚” the grieving mother told WOKV. “We’re seeing our kids who came to the term Brighton was gone to now Dalton is gone‚ and they have thoughts of who is next who are we going to lose next.”“I don’t understand how someone could hit and leave our son in the road‚” Shawnee said. “Dalton was caring‚ compassionate‚ kind‚ hardworking‚ a pillar in our family‚ a great big brother.”Shawnee recalled the last thing Dalton said to her: "Hey I love you mom‚ I’ll see you when I get home’ and I don’t get to see him."The father‚ Jason Penkacik‚ added‚ “It feels like the world stops and you’re trying to process it‚ it’s difficult to put into words and it’s a feeling I wouldn’t put on anybody.” Jason wrote on Facebook: “Every day is a blessing! Hug your kids and tell them you love them."Shawnee said‚ “This has impacted our family and in a way that’s difficult to recover from but we know we will because we have strong faith and we know God will see us through‚ but the humanity of it‚ compassion for people‚ it feels like nobody had compassion for Dalton.” Florida ranks as one of the most deadly states for pedestrians. According to the Governors Highway Safety Association report on pedestrian traffic fatalities for 2022‚ Florida is ranked as the third-most deadly state for pedestrians. In 2022‚ Florida averaged 3.70 pedestrian fatalities per 100‚000 residents. The most dangerous states are New Mexico with 4.40 deaths per 100‚000 and Arizona with 4.17 fatalities. The report also revealed that pedestrian deaths have skyrocketed a whopping 77% between 2010 and 2021 – versus a 25% increase in all other traffic fatalities. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here! Two Jacksonville brothers hit‚ killed by cars exactly three months apart www.youtube.com

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The Discobolus Palombara‚ also known as the Discus Thrower‚ was discovered in 1781 at the Villa Palombara on the Esquiline Hill‚ one of the palaces of the princely Massimo family. It was a 1st-century A.D. marble copy of a famous 5th century B.C. bronze by the Athenian sculptor Myron of Eleutherae. The original was probably cast for the city of Sparta. The pose of the athlete captured at the moment of maximum coiled tension just before he spins around and releases the discus was introduced a new dynamism into Classical sculpture that was widely admired and copied for centuries. The original was long lost‚ known only from ancient sources‚ when the Discobolus Palombara was unearthed. It was the first version of the famous work to be discovered. It is life-sized (many copies are reduced in scale) and is the most complete of any the copies that were later found. It caused an immediate sensation and vaulted into the small club of the greatest surviving works of antiquity. The sculpture was classified as a work of exceptional national interest by Italy’s 1909 cultural heritage law which made it illegal to export‚ but in the mid-1930s‚ the Lancellotti-Massimo branch of the family had financial problems and declared they would sell the Discobolus for the princely sum of eight million lire. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was interested‚ but ultimately balked at the price. Hitler was enraptured by Classical Greek art‚ describing it in Mein Kampf as “the wonderful combination of the most glorious physical beauty with a brilliant mind and the noblest soul.” That harmony was in stark contrast‚ he believed to the “degenerate” aesthetics of Modernist art. The representation of the heroic male nude was a particular favorite of his as it tied to his ideals of the perfectly fit‚ strong and muscular Aryan male‚ trained in sport and war. The prologue to Leni Riefenstahl’s 1938 Olympia‚ her influential albeit interminable movie dedicated to the 1936 Olympics‚ draws the connection between the Classical ideal of beauty and the New German Man explicit. A long montage of the ruins of the Acropolis dissolving into famous Greco-Roman statues‚ prominently featuring ones in German collections. The first is the Barberini Faun‚ which was sold to Ludwig‚ Crown Prince of Bavaria‚ in 1827‚ and has been in the Glyptothek in Munich‚ built by Ludwig specifically to house his huge collection of Greek and Roman sculpture‚ since it opened in 1830. Riefenstahl returns to the faun several times. The second is an extreme closeup of the Medusa Rondanini‚ also collected by Ludwig on his Grand Tour and in the Glyptothek. The Glyptothek’s Braschi Aphrodite makes an appearance‚ as well. Then‚ out of a cloud of dramatic smoke rises the Discobolus who morphs into chiseled German athlete nude in a field throwing a discus into the sun-broken clouds in slow motion. Nude shot-putters‚ javelin throwers and more discus shots follow‚ as Riefenstahl claims the inheritance of ancient Greek representations of beauty and athleticism for the Master Race. In 1937‚ the year after the Berlin Olympics‚ Prince Philip of Hesse went to Italy as head of an art buying expedition commissioned by Adolph Hitler. The Discobolus was at the top of the Führer’s wish list. Mussolini was glad to sell the black shirt of his own back to curry favor with Hitler‚ and the cultural patrimony of the nation was just as expendable. The Minister of Education protested the prospective sale‚ pointing out that by law the sculpture could not be exported‚ but Mussolini overrode all objections and ordered that Hitler get his heart’s desire. Mussolini’s son-in-law Galeazzo Ciano‚ then Foreign Minister‚ arranged a private sale. On April 20th‚ 1938‚ Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia debuted in movie theaters. On May 18th‚ 1938‚ the German government paid Prince Lancellotti 16 million lire in cash for the priceless Discobolus. In June 1938‚ Hitler presented it to the Glyptothek in Munich as a gift to the German people. Ten years later‚ it was returned to Italy‚ one of thousands of artworks stolen‚ coerced or illegally purchased by the Nazis that were restituted after the war thanks to the diligence of Monuments Men from the Allied armies and national delegates to the task force. Germany strenuously objected to the repatriation of the Discobolus as it had been bought from a willing seller for exorbitant piles of cash‚ not looted or the product of a forced sale. They took it to the courts repeatedly and went so far as to lodge an official appeal with the President of the United States‚ Harry Truman. It didn’t work and the Discobolus has been in Italy since November 1948‚ now in the permanent collection of the National Roman Museum at the Palazzo Massimo. Amazingly enough‚ it seems after 75 years‚ Bavarian museum officials still harbor delusions that their brief‚ illegal possession of the Discobolus has a chance in Hell of being reinstated. The dispute arose when the director of the National Roman Museum requested the statue’s 17th Century marble base be returned from the Antikensammlungen state antiquities collection. The German museum instead asked for the return of the Discobolus Palombara‚ saying it had been illegally transported to Italy in 1948‚ the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported Friday. Italy’s culture minister‚ Gennaro Sangiuliano‚ expressed doubts that the German culture minister‚ Claudia Roth‚ was aware of the Bavarian request. “Over my dead body. The work absolutely must remain in Italy because it is a national treasure‚’’ Sangiuliano was quoted by Corriere as saying‚ adding that he hoped that the base would be returned. The fraught history of the Discobolus Palombara was just recently brought to the forefront again when it was featured in the Liberated Art 1937-1947 exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome early this year.

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