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Beavers carry their babies in their arms just like humans.

Baby beavers squeak!
#beavers
🦫 🦫 🦫 🦫 🦫 🦫
I want a Sunday kind of love.
#Voltige:
Learning #equestrian vault riding and trick riding, or #voltige. Watch those toes!
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Origin of Cult45 Thread 1/

Ok, lets do Part 3 in my threads about #Cult45. Who built this Trump cult (was not Trump). And who controls this cult that is wiping out GOP today (it is not Trump)

Here is where the rubber starts to hit the road... read on...
Origin of Cult45 Thread 2/

Cult45 is the magacult, that adores Trump. But Trump did not BUILD this cult. He inherited it, like he inherited his millions from his scumbag slumlord dad, Fred Trump. Cult45 was built over two DECADES before Trump... by Fox. Let's explore
Origin of Cult45 Thread 3/

First a warning. This is part 3 of a series. You have to have read parts 1 and 2 before reading this part 3. Here is link to the previous part 2 (which has link to part 1)

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Thread. What is the link between #red & worms? Why is there an insect whose Latin name is '#worm little worm'? Let's start with a Sanskrit term: "krimija", "worm-made". (I know no Sanskrit, so please feel free to offer better translations). This was borrowed into Persian as قرمز.
2... qermez (contemporary Tehran pronunciation: ghermez), meaning 'red'. Above, popular Iranian children's TV character kolah ghermezi, 'red hat'. This appears to have happened in early Islamic times; in Middle Persian 'red' is 'sukhr' (New Persian sorkh). What about the worms?
3. Well, before the advent of synthetic #chemistry in the 2nd half of the 19th century, #dyes & pigments were mostly obtained from plant roots, or in certain cases, animals. The most famous is the 'imperial purple' obtained from the glands of Mediterranean sea snails.
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