Archaeologists believe they have found the site of a notorious Assyrian military camp, reports the Daily Mail . Archaeologists have found an ancient military base that may partially confirm the story from the Bible about God’s angels who repelled an attack on Jerusalem. One biblical story says that about 2,700 years ago, God sent a messenger angel to confront an army of Assyrian warriors who came with the intention of conquering the Holy Land. According to legend, the angel of the Lord brought down his wrath on the Assyrian army and killed 185 thousand soldiers in one night. Until recently, there was no archaeological evidence that such a battle could actually occur, supernatural elements aside. Now, archaeologist Stephen Compton, armed with modern mapping methods, has discovered evidence that some kind of epic battle did take place. The Assyrian Empire existed from 1365 to 609 BC. e., that is, hundreds of years before the time of Christ. The invasion of Jerusalem was launched by the Assyrian king Sennacherib. He was eager to assert his political and economic dominance over all routes through the Syrian Desert leading to the Mediterranean Sea. Previously, scientists found a scene that was carved on the stone walls of the palace of King Sennacherib. It was dedicated to the conquest of Lachish, a city south of Israel. The carvings also identified a military base, allowing scientists to compare it with photographs of the area taken in the 1910s. Photo of the area in the 1910s. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Compton saw an area that was the same size and shape as the paintings on the walls of the palace. Ruins were found in this area – the remains of a perimeter wall, as well as fragments of ceramics. Further archaeological exploration of the site revealed that it was abandoned after Sennacherib’s invasion and remained so for 2,600 years. The first discovery allowed researchers to continue searching for other military installations in the area. Eventually Compton did find the former location of Sennacherib’s military camps. “Each was a circular site located close to the old city walls, and each camp had the same Arabic name, or so it says on one of the early maps,” says Compton. The name of the camps also suggested that it was in this place that Sennacherib’s forces planned their attack. Three biblical passages detail how Assyrian soldiers were massacred the night before the attack on Jerusalem. In all three cases, the Israelite deity Yahweh sent an angel who entered the enemy camp and killed all the soldiers while they slept. The Lord’s messenger was sent to protect Jerusalem as an answer to the prayers of its ruler, Hezekiah. Another variation of this legend says that a plague killed the Assyrian army, and the Greek version claimed that the army was defeated because mice sneaked into the camp at night and gnawed the strings on their bows and the straps on their shields. The post Biblical story of 185,000 soldiers’ deaths partially confirmed appeared first on Anomalien.com.

MSNBC's Morning Joe kicked off the week on Monday by running a clip of Donald Trump suggesting Biden should take a cognitive test, like the one he passed with his own former White House doctor Ronny Jackson, but he said Ronny "Johnson."  This led to several unfunny gibes, with Joe Scarborough calling John Heilemann "John Heinz" and then Heilemann calling Joe "Jim" and "Chuck" (Chuck Scarborough was an NBC anchor in New York city.)  SCARBOROUGH: I'm not good at this politics thing. MIKA: Ugh [makes a face, either at Joe's antics, or Trump's]. SCARBOROUGH: But I'm guessing that if you're going to make fun of your opponent for being cognitively disconnected from, from facts and figures, it's probably good for you to not be disconnect cognitively from facts and figures as Donald Trump was this weekend.  JOHN HEILEMANN: Well, Jim, it's good to see you this morning here on Monday. [Mika chuckles, Scarborough sardonically winks.] Or is it Chuck? Chuck Scarborough? Jim Scarborough? The funny part came came when Joe Scarborough attacked Trump's "right-wing stooges" for suggesting Biden's mentally failing. As if Scarborough isn't a stooge for Biden, angrily arguing Biden's the sharpest he's ever been? SCARBOROUGH: The Trump campaign has -- understands they have a serious problem with Donald Trump on facts, on issues, on you name it. Because they have to keep engaging in cheap fakes to try to make Joe Biden look bad.  And you go to this weekend; and they've done it over the past several weeks. They've got the New York Post doing it, the RNC's doing it, all of these right-wing stooges on X are doing it. And [laughs] if you have to make [pauses] stuff [instead of "shit" which he recently said] up, if you've gotta make stuff up, obviously, you don't feel like you have a strong enough campaign to win outright. MIKA: No. I mean, they're grasping in many different ways, but I think that's just Trump being Trump, getting names wrong and getting information wrong. And I don't think he cares At the end of the segment, Scarborough said he feared having a president like Trump with storm clouds of "World War II" on the horizon. That was, of course, an allusion to Trump mistakenly warning, recently, about the danger of Biden leading us into World War II rather than III.  But Mika didn't get the joke, and just took the line at face value, flatly agreeing, "yeah, absolutely." Maybe she thought it was Joe's bumble, and didn't want to draw attention to it. Here's the transcript. MSNBC Morning Joe 6/17/24 6:00 am EDT DONALD TRUMP: Joe Biden has no plan. He's got absolutely no plan. He doesn't even know what the word inflation means. I don't think if you gave him a quiz. I think he should take a cognitive test like I did. I took a cognitive test, and I aced it. Doc Ronnie. Doc Ronnie Johnson. Does everybody know Doc Ronnie Johnson, congressman from Texas? He was the White House doctor. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: No, actually, they don't know him. They don't know Ronnie Johnson. JOE SCARBOROUGH: They don't know Ronnie Johnson. Who's Ronnie Johnson? MIKA: There's nothing like mocking your opponent's mental acuity -- SCARBOROUGH: There's a Randy Johnson. He was a pitcher --  MIKA: And messing up the name of the doctor who actually administered your own cognitive test who is sitting in the audience. SCARBOROUGH: Person, man, woman, horse, Ronnie Johnson. MIKA: The name of Trump's former White House physician turned U.S. Congressman is Ronnie Jackson. SCARBOROUGH: Wait, what? MIKA: Not Johnson. SCARBOROUGH: What? MIKA: Good morning. And welcome to Morning Joe. SCARBOROUGH: That's kind of confusing. MIKA: It's Monday, June 17th. So what else is new, right?  With us, we have NBC News national affairs analyst and a partner and chief political columnist at Puck, John Heilemann.  SCARBOROUGH: John Heinz: personal, close friend of mine.  MIKA: Pulitzer Prize columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post, and MSNBC political analyst Eugene Robinson. Chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, Peter Baker. And the co-host of MSNBC's The Weekend, also doing Way Too Early, also co-host of Morning Mika,  Symone Sanders-Townsend. Thanks for all of you being in early on Monday morning. So -- [Scarborough cuts her off]  SCARBOROUGH: So John, John, John, Heilemann. MIKA: Oh. Right. SCARBOROUGH: I figure. I'm not good at this politics thing,  MIKA: Ugh [pulls a face]. SCARBOROUGH: But I'm guessing that if you're going to make fun of your opponent for being cognitively disconnected from, from facts and figures, it's probably good for you to not be disconnect cognitively from facts and figures as Donald Trump was this weekend.  JOHN HEILEMANN: Well, Jim, it's good to see you this morning here on Monday. [Mika chuckles, Scarborough sardonically winks.] Or is it Chuck? Chuck Scarborough? Jim Scarborough? SCARBOROUGH: Joe. HEILEMANN: Joe Scarborough. MIKA: Yeah. HEILEMANN: I mean, glass houses, man, you don't want to be throwing stones at -- MIKA: Yeah. HEILEMANN: People who live in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones. That's all I'll say about that. SCARBOROUGH: Well, you know, and the thing is, too, it's getting, it's getting really more obvious, Mika, that they have, the Trump campaign has, understands they have a serious problem with Donald Trump on facts, on issues, on you name it. Because they have to keep engaging in cheap fakes to try to make Joe Biden look bad.  And you go to this weekend; and they've done it over the past several weeks. They've got the New York Post doing it, the RNC's doing it, all of these right-wing stooges on X are doing it. And [laughs] if you have to make [pauses] stuff [instead of "shit" which he recently said] up, if you've gotta make stuff up, obviously, you don't feel like you have a strong enough campaign to win outright. MIKA: No. I mean, they're grasping in many different ways, but I think that's just Trump being Trump, getting names wrong and getting information wrong. And I don't think he cares. Our top story -- [Mika grimaces as Scarborough again cuts her off.] SCARBOROUGH: Well, you know, I fear having a president like that, I really do. With storm clouds of World War II on the horizon. MIKA: Yeah. Oh, for sure. Absolutely.

Ozempic has quickly become a household name in recent years due to its reputation as the newest miracle weight-loss drug. The medication was first approved by the FDA in 2017 to treat individuals with Type 2 diabetes, but over time, it has become a popular method for anyone seeking to drop a few pounds — so popular that shortages in the United States have been an issue. But how safe is Ozempic? And is it really as effective as it claims to be? Dave Rubin, who suspects Ozempic “will not be on the market forever,” plays a clip of fitness expert and certified nutritionist Jillian Michaels explaining to Sage Steele the reality of a drug like Ozempic. Here are her three takeaways: “You will plateau on this drug,” she promised, calling the assertion a “fact.” The reason for this inevitable plateau is because Ozempic increases Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), which is a hormone the body produces naturally to regulate insulin. However, “When you are giving the body a hormone exogenously, over time the body is like, ‘Oh I'm going to stop making this on my own, oh I’m going to develop a tolerance to this,”’ Michaels explained. And when the drugs inevitably “stop working physiologically,” and you “get off of [Ozempic],” Michaels says, “You will gain all of the weight back,” meaning that “you’re handcuffed to this drug for the rest of your life.” “All of the meta analyses show us this — Google it,” she told Steele. If you do choose to get off of Ozempic, however, here’s what happens: According to Dr. Peter Attia, a physician and researcher of longevity medicine who’s conducted studies on the effects of drugs like Ozempic, individuals who cease taking the drug experience “muscle loss at an alarming rate” and “compromised bone density.” That means “your metabolism is going to be slower,” says Michaels. “You have been starving your body because you aren’t eating for such a long period of time that you will then lower your metabolic set point.” What’s even more concerning is that, according to studies, “individuals who went through a period of famine” ended up “[passing] on a slower metabolism to their offspring” because to compensate for food scarcity, their bodies made “biochemical shifts” that “marked their epigenome.” Bottom line: “There is a devastating rebound effect when people get off the drugs,” Michaels said. Dave isn’t surprised a bit by Michaels’ reports. “I will tell you just anecdotally I know a couple people that either were or are on Ozempic and have had insane weight loss ... it is so obvious to me that this cannot be good for your system,” he tells Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Drew Pinsky. “You're going to begin to hear about people who died on Ozempic,” says Dr. Pinsky, adding that Michaels “is 100% right in all of it.” To learn more about the side effects of Ozempic, including bowel obstructions, paralysis of the stomach, and sarcopenia, watch the clip below. Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

In 2005, former Miami Dolphin Rob Konrad was fishing alone nine miles off the Florida coast when a wave knocked him overboard. He wasn't wearing a life preserver in 72-degree water — certainly cold enough to become a problem after a few hours. When he couldn't catch his boat (cruising east on autopilot at five mph), he decided to swim west until he reached land. Sixteen hours later, he crawled on the sand at West Palm Beach, half-dead from hypothermia, dehydration, and rhabdomyolysis. He had swum 27 miles through the night, enduring jellyfish stings, a menacing shark, and two heartbreaking near-rescues.Although relatively young at 38 and in excellent shape, Konrad was not an especially experienced swimmer. So, how did he manage this superhuman feat? At the time, endurance swimmer Diana Nyad chalked it up to mindset: "We're not really talking about a swimming story. We're talking about a survival story. I'm sure his background as an athlete — toughness, having resolve, knowing things are going to be painful — were the saving grace for him."Konrad also had something else driving him:“I have two beautiful daughters,” he said, his wife, Tammy, by his side as he spoke to reporters a few days later. “I was hitting that shore.”We're all adrift, floating on the vast, unfathomable sea of existence, our only choice what to cling to. Becoming a family man might not save your life, as it seems to have saved Konrad's, but it could make it worth saving.It also helps to have some solid swim training. Two-thirds of American adults cannot swim the length of a 25-yard pool. The late Terry Laughlin's innovation was to understand this not as a lack of fitness, but as a lack of skill. His Total Immersion swimming program teaches swimmers of all levels to swim with efficiency and ease. Tim Ferriss offers a particularly detailed and grateful review here. Seventy-one percent of the Earth is covered by water; best to be prepared should you encounter some.

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A new report from Bloomberg relays that Apple’s iPhone 17, set for launch in 2025, may be significantly thinner than its predecessors. The report is interesting insofar that Apple, especially since Jony Ive left the company, had somewhat abandoned its obsession with thinness. For many, this was a welcome about-face as some felt that Apple was sacrificing functionality for aesthetics. Indeed, countless surveys over the years have shown that most Apple users prefer a slightly bulkier form factor if it entails a slightly larger battery. Interestingly, Apple’s newfound prioritization of thinness won’t be exclusive to the iPhone. On the contrary, the company is also looking to release thinner MacBook Pro and Apple Watch models. To this end, Bloomberg notes that Apple’s goal is to release devices that are “the thinnest and lightest in their categories across the whole tech industry.” It’s an intriguing proposition, and if Apple can figure out a way to achieve this without sacrificing battery life across any of its products, it’s certainly a step in the right direction. How thin will the iPhone 17 be? As it stands now, we haven’t seen huge fluctuations in iPhone thickness over the years. Still, those sensitive to mild adjustments in weight and size may have noticed a slight difference across various models. For instance, Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 measure in at a depth of 8.25mm and 7.8mm, respectively. As a point of comparison, Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 models were both about 7.44mm thick. So, how thin are we talking if Apple wants to have the thinnest smartphone in the industry? Well for starters, we might want to eliminate foldable phones as it’s not exactly a fair comparison. Google’s Pixel Fold, for instance, is 5.8mm thick, but that’s only when the device is fully opened. Taking those devices out of the running, most of the slimmest smartphones on the market today have a thickness in the range of 7.2mm to 7.7mm. Meanwhile, the thinnest iPhone model ever released was the iPhone 6, which had a thickness of 6.9mm. If Apple can somehow release a next-gen device in that range of depth, it would be impressive. Recall that smartphones today are thicker than in years past due to features like bigger batteries and more advanced camera modules. It’s worth noting that this isn’t the first time we’ve seen reports pointing to a slimmer iPhone 17 design. Last month there was a report claiming that Apple in 2025 will release an iPhone 17 Slim to replace what would have been the iPhone 17 Plus. Some other iPhone 17 Pro rumors we’ve seen point to a smaller Dynamic Island, 12GB of RAM, a 24MP front-facing camera, and maybe even Face ID sensors underneath an active area of the display. Don't Miss: Today’s deals: $79 AirPods, $99 Ninja blender, 25% off Google Pixel 8 Pro, Waterdrop RO filters, more The post Apple is working on thinner designs for next-gen iPhone 17, Apple Watch, and MacBook Pro appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $189 Apple Watch SE, $299 3D printer, $829 M2 MacBook Air, $300 GoPro HERO12 Black, more Today’s deals: $150 Beats Solo 4, $55 HP printer, $248 Sony XM5 earbuds, 25% off eero Pro 6E, more Today’s deals: $19 Roku streamer, $79 Beats Studio Buds, $199 Bose TV Soundbar, $399 Lenovo laptop, more Today’s deals: $189 AirPods Pro, $169 TP-Link WiFi 6 mesh system, $45 KitchenAid hand blender, more

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