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oh, it is definitely a HS prom, it's all over the news on Russian news sites.

there's also a video

So here are all the images I found particularly fap-able, taken from his site. (See below for actual entire zipped collection)

I should learn to write scripts so I don't have to do this stuff manually.

Edit: Looks like imgur has a cap on the amount of images in an album. I may pick through them later to see which ones made it to the site.

Edit 2: Figures this would be my first gilding. Thanks, stranger ;)

Also here's the full collection of images because I didn't feel like finding which had missed the upload to imgur.

The story behind the picture:

During the flight to Khabarovsk Vladimir Putin instructed the commander of the presidential airliner to land in Chita, Siberia. There the Bair Banzaraktsaeva family boarded the plane. Father/husband of the family was a junior sergeant who died in the aftermath of flooding in the Far East. The President presented the widow with a medal "For Courage", which her husband had been awarded posthumously. Six year old son got a Christmas gift - a radio controlled car.

So yea, it was all planned out beforehand.

More pictures here.

There is an Android app called "Ikonki", it shows these pictures of Saints while you're driving.

If you go above 45 mph, is starts singing "Hosannah"

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vemind.ikonki

Передержка is exactly fostering home, a place to hold animals temporarily while looking for future owner. I don't use Google translate, I'm a native speaker.

If you can read Russian

Try this proxy link, if you can handle the slow connection.

There's probably better ones to use, but I don't know of any because I never need them.

Markov wasn't the only person this tiger ate. There's an excellent book about this incident, called The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. It's a fascinating read, and is full of information about the plight of tigers and other wildlife in the Russian Far East as well as human struggle for survival. Highly recommended.

could just be a gimble off amazon. I have this one for my gopro https://www.amazon.ca/iSteady-3-Axis-Gimbal-Stabilizer-Cameras/dp/B000Z2Q17O/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=gopro+gimbal&qid=1610811328&sr=8-5

Because US doesn't act in Russia's interest, rather simple. For example, NATO is an alliance to counter Warsaw Pact, yet it still exists even after Soviet Union fell and slowly creeping to Russia's doorstep. Ukraine was simply the last straw, so they burn bridges to make sure that Ukraine will stay in long conflict and will be too economically taxing for EU or NATO to take.

Russia proposed to join NATO few times before, and was rejected, put two and two together you'd see that NATO is still opposing Russia. So no wonder they don't like NATO (US included).

For references, see here: https://www.quora.com/Should-Russia-join-NATO?share=1

PrivateTunnel as I had subscribed before returning. The only problem is you have to set up the vpn itself using vpn. So I had to get free trials from other VPNs just to set up my account. You only have to do this once and after that it’s perfect. 35 USD for a year.

It's actually only $16 and has "Easy Kabob" written on the side, so only the first half applies.

If you want to see this in action. There is an anime called Zipang that does just this, it is really interesting to see the war from the eyes of what a Japanese citizen would want to hear and see rather than what an American would want to hear and see.

The show is about a modern Japanese warship that accidentally travels back in time to the battle of midway. The crew rescues a pilot who was supposed to die that day when he crashed into the ocean. When the crew first realizes that they are have gone into the past they all make a decision to completely avoid other people and let history unfold like it was supposed to because they feared the consequences. But as soon as they save the downed pilot and that downed pilot reads in the ships library what happens during the war and how the Japanese lose and get nuked he decides to change the course of history in Japans favor.

This is the point in the anime where everything gets skewed to make Japan look better. As an example, during one of the crews recon missions there is an American ship that is headed towards a battle all of the Americans are blond haired blue eyed. And the most interesting thing is that the show all the Americans constantly talk about how great of strategists the Japanese are and how they just aren't sure they are gonna win this war.

However on the opposite side all of the Japanese captains that are shown in scenes are very put together and know exactly what they are doing and constantly talk down on the American soldiers.

Another small little thing I noticed was all the American soldiers were at the brothels and gambling and drinking and looked very sloppy however all the Japanese soldiers wore white and were clean cut and had very good posture.

Like /u/nikvasya says, there is actually a market for this kind of thing: A simple installer that installs a whole bunch of useful software.

So I'm going to plug Ninite, which lets you custom-tailor a free, lightweight application that automatically downloads and installs a whole bunch of useful software. You can even run it again later to update everything.

that dude was working on his voice since childhood trying to copy a Vladimir Vysotsky's voice. At some point he was spitting blood from grunting too much like that. He's a celebrity in Russia. http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Nikita_Dzhigurda

Takes too much force to spin the torque converter on an automatic vs. popping the clutch on a manual. Basically a fluid vs. direct connection. It gets more complicated with modern auto transmissions and electronic shift lockouts too. More detailed explanation can be found here.

The people commenting that JavaScript is "just a scripting language" have obviously never heard of Atwood's law.

And, not to mention, with Facebook using PHP (well, actually, Hack), can you really just dismiss the two languages as "just a scripting language"?

And for those saying that JavaScript is just a scripting language, I'm wondering, do they write code in Java, Scala, C#, which, I find, many claim that those three languages are "real programming languages"? Well, guess what: those are all JIT'ed languages just like JavaScript and PHP, all of which are turing complete.

Then are those also just "scripting languages"?

In 2015 42 US policemen were shot and killed.

In Norway 7 policemen have been shot in the line of duty since the end of WWII.

So, yeah, it's almost like it goes both ways.

He didn't kick him, he was showing a move and overdid a bit. Parents of the boy had no complaints. Source: https://meduza.io/shapito/2015/03/10/ot-ob-yasneniy-trenera-po-futbolu-shkolnik-podletel-i-udarilsya-ob-zemlyu

Or hard drugs

What they have on the sign is a viable option too. Example in a font

First you'll want to load www.ask.com onto your web browser. You can do this by copy and pasting "www.ask.com" (no quotes) into your web browser's address bar or by clicking this link. Once www.ask.com is loaded onto your web browser, type "Google" (no quotes) into the search bar then click the magnifying glass. After the results are loaded onto www.ask.com, click the link that says "Google" or "www.google.com" (no quotes). The Google web page will then load onto your web browser.

Location of this intersection, just in case.

Yea. Why would they only encrypt traffic one way?

>Dropbox encryption uses 256-bit AES keys to protect files at rest, and encrypts data in motion with 128-bit AES SSL/TLS encryption or better. Google Drive encryption is similar; files in motion are protected using 256-bit SSL/TLS encryption, while those at rest are encrypted with 128-bit AES keys.

https://www.virtru.com/blog/dropbox-encryption/

there is a link in the article to https://vk.com/album-30602036_216448246 gallery of all photos, take a look some of them are pretty cool

also, intresting story about this IGM group, there are some posts about them being fraudsters, like instead of prizes they sent bricks in ps4 box to a contest winner

the "IGM" itself is close to the name of other russian community founded by gaming magazine "igromania" and that magazine tried to make them banned on VK.com

If you liked that, try "the man eaters of Kumaon" by Jim Corbett. It's his stories of hunting down man eaters in India by himself.

Solo yolo.

Also: it's free.

https://archive.org/details/maneatersofkumao029903mbp

Here's also a study saying that bad study design is a factor in that result:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Do-%22Moderate%22-Drinkers-Have-Reduced-Mortality-Risk-Stockwell-Zhao/519d2192165d102e3c5dfe9c1c8e3f417475de38

Russian answer

Video

~~Google street view~~ Yandex river view

Начинай здесь https://www.freecodecamp.org/. На котлин забей, андроид - слишком маленький рынок. Половина всех работ в мире это Javascript. Начинай с 30 мин в день. Потом прибавляй каждую неделю. До начала августа уже сможешь создовать простые сайты.
https://moocfi.github.io/courses/2013/programming-part-1/ это офигенный курс Java. Я начал програмировать с этого курса. 10/10 хотя Javascript более полезный. Самое главное это заново научиться учиться. Людям с долгим учебным перерывом (закончил школу и потом 5 лет в магазине работал например) очень сложно усидеть за столом, фокусируясь на учебе/работе, хотя бы полчаса. Но это обычный навык, который можно восстановить. Главное не перегружать себя. Когда я начанинал програмировать, я начинал с 30 мин в день и даже это казалось сложным. Засыпал через первые 10 мин. Когда было совсем скучно, я сменял предмет учебы и скажем переключялся на Blender это 3д моделирование, или Illustrator. Тут главное высидеть "учебное" время, чтобы мозг заново привык к нагрузкам. В общем, если школьники могут 8+ часов отсижывать, то и ты сможешь со временем.

For everyone who's jazzed about this video, $16 will save your fingers and potential cancer exposure.

The Little Golden Calf https://www.amazon.com/Little-Golden-Calf-Ilya-Ilf-ebook/dp/B004IEACCK

Set in post revolution russia (193x), follows the adventures of a well spoken con man, Ostap Bender, who is frustrated by the slowly closing country, who tries to con his way to Rio de Janeiro.

A very fun read.

We have Derechos right here in the USA. Check out the scenes across the plain states that occurred last Thursday. Derecho

Oof… yeah I don’t see how they expected to get away with this unless they thought everyone in the audience was a moron.

I know they do make electric guitars that look like accoustics, ie: https://www.amazon.com/Yamaha-FGX800C-Cutaway-Acoustic-Electric-Guitar/dp/B01DW6A6E8 but I don’t think that’s the case here.

No surface, but it does have notches for skewers to rest in - it's purpose-built for kebabs (specifically shashlyk, but anything on a skewer will work).

Often collapsible, so you can bring it with you to your favorite shashlyk spot. Works with both charcoal and wood.

I got a red light-up collar for my white shepherd when we lost her in the snow one night. Now she's east to spot while she runs around.

It's like this one:

https://www.chewy.com/nite-ize-nitehowl-led-safety-necklace/dp/161359

I mean,

https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/ru/yakutsk

Looks like next week they'll be wistfully reminiscing about back when it was a balmy -50°C.

Ever since the opening of a chapel and the Theology Department, the university has been achieving great success.

They don't need to target any specific site, just the upper atmosphere. That would send us back to the dark ages.

Here's a source arguing the opposite - that this correlation is an effect of bad studies rather than actual health outcomes:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Do-%22Moderate%22-Drinkers-Have-Reduced-Mortality-Risk-Stockwell-Zhao/519d2192165d102e3c5dfe9c1c8e3f417475de38

Someone is really mad at russia for no reason.

If you don't have enough brain power to understand a BRIDGE was not designed to hold several hundreds of people then shut up and stop talking about something you know nothing about.

Take your head out of ur ass and move along

> SSL certificates specifically should only be bought from a small group of authorities trusted worldwide or they’re essentially pointless

https://www.censys.io/certificates/2028b5221de277ef1e961f4e3182a3c500ee5aa67bf5b544d3a6d58a5ea6777d

> C=RU, ST=Moscow, L=Moscow, O=RU-Center (ЗАО Региональный Сетевой Информационный Центр), CN=RU-CENTER High Assurance Services CA 2

> Browser Trust
Apple Trusted Intermediate
Microsoft Trusted Intermediate
Mozilla NSS Trusted Intermediate

maybe they live in northern Manitoba my dude, did you check a map out? The place is huge. Also what kind of weird contest is this, -40, -45 is like tomatoes vs tomahtoes, I promise you can’t feel the difference cause ya can’t feel jack shit.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/the-pas/r9a/january-weather/882?year=2019 here’s a city in Manitoba that did in fact have several -40 or below air temps in 2019, maybe the person lives there for fucks sake.

Just in case if someone missed, SHE'S A FRAUD

Read here: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/08/05/photos-of-a-young-mother-working-as-a-courier-in-moscow-spark-renewed-calls-for-help-and-fraud-allegations

Well, since you asked, Russia's eugenics program is being rolled out: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/10/19/we-don-t-need-your-children-here

Nobody died. Happened in Vladivostok. Guy bought the car two weeks ago.

Full story: https://meduza.io/feature/2020/11/19/vo-vladivostoke-betonnaya-plita-upala-s-kryshi-devyatietazhnogo-doma-na-avtomobil-ego-vladelets-chistivshiy-kapot-ot-snega-uspel-ubezhat

Both guys were arrested and charged with impersonating police officers https://meduza.io/news/2020/07/28/na-kubani-animator-pod-vidom-sotrudnika-dps-otkryl-strelbu-na-vecherinke-politsiya-vozbudila-delo

If you use Chrome it'll probably offer to translate the website

Video is fake though. People in uniform are not cops. Real cops are not that trigger-happy, and don't carry long AKs.

A childhood favorite soda of mine, worth tasting. Tarragon is the spice. I guess it's closets to licorice, but much less pungent and more herbal twang to it. You can find it at your local Russian supermarket.

[Here it is on Amazon, but really overpriced honestly. It's soda, don't pay $30 for a two liter.]("tarkhun" soft drink (chernogolovka) 2l (pack of 3) https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01IU5ZMAO/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_AAF8KHN2BPX9W9NZF8JR)

sure, like going out on a peacafull protest https://meduza.io/en/slides/four-years-in-a-russian-prison-for-attending-protests-it-s-even-crazier-than-you-think

In fact, the other one jammed the circuit of electric lock on her door. Apparently she was a professional engineer with PhD in physics and was afraid to catch a flue while waiting her fate in medical facility. Sarah Connor in some ways

They literally take people with empty posters.
https://meduza.io/news/2019/07/18/na-krasnoy-ploschadi-zaderzhali-aktivista-s-pustym-plakatom

yep https://meduza.io/en/short/2019/11/18/russian-environmental-activists-and-inflatable-orca-kayak-past-kremlin-in-protest-action

The best part of the story - he could escape from the police, and it was the only one proof of the crime

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/10/16/cat-accused-of-delivering-drugs-to-russian-prison-colony-escapes-holding-area-in-petting-zoo

Russian here. Read this https://meduza.io/feature/2019/03/06/eto-bylo-spontannoe-reshenie (pretty good source for news in Russia).

Actually nothing terrible happened with this man. Police took him for his own safety more than for punishment, because in video you can see small group of pro stalin communists. After police station man was released and I think it will be small fine. If police did not intrude in this situation he could be beaten by this activists.

Fair enough. According to Medusa^* they were fined and released.

* Medusa is based out of Riga, Latvia. It was formed when an editor of Lenta.ru ran up against the Russian government and was fired. Much of the rest of the editorial staff also then quit and they all formed Medusa.

ну 0,086 промилле это как после кефирчика (источник https://news.joins.com/article/23398680?cloc=joongang|section|moredigitalfirst), кстати медуза как всегда спецом соврала и назвала уровень в 10 раз больше (https://meduza.io/news/2019/02/28/rossiyskoe-sudno-s-netrezvym-kapitanom-vrezalos-v-most-v-yuzhnoy-koree)

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That is not how chloroform works.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-criminal-use-of-chloroform.-Payne/fa0111cfb1dda6699b464e386b7b9ed8a830590d

> жители дома увидели в подъезде полностью голого парня в неадекватном состоянии ... на первом этаже обнаружили труп его сестры ... в комнате Лёни нашли рассыпанный спайс и приспособления для курения наркотической смеси. ... По словам соседей, погибшая девушка, на 3 года старше брата, снимала квартиру в их доме. Перед смертью она кричала и звала на помощь, но Леонид изрезал тело сестры ножом, после чего отнёс вниз. ... после убийства парень расписал подъездные стены рисунками, похожими на ритуальные. ... Убийство родной сестры парень объяснил попыткой изгнать из неё дьявола.

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> При задержании, по его информации, мужчина читал «молитву». ... мужчина был без одежды. У него на коже ... также обнаружили «странные» рисунки, при задержании он был рядом с телом убитой.

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> неизвестный мужчина, испачканный в крови, выбежал на лестничную клетку за жертвой, которая пыталась спастись. ... Девушка скончалась от множественных травм.

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> жильцы нашли обнаженное тело 21-летней девушки со множественными ножевыми ранениями — она скончалась до прибытия медиков. ... сначала жильцы дома обратили внимание на сработавшую на шестом этаже пожарную сигнализацию. Позднее в застывшем на том же этаже лифте был обнаружен вырванный щиток, а в коридоре квартиры напротив — следы крови. Соседи ... слышали женский голос, зовущий на помощь ... до прибытия правоохранителей предполагаемый убийца успел раздеться, нарисовать кровью жертвы какие-то символы, а также нанести ее себе на голову и прочесть молитву. Молодой человек не прекращал молиться даже после задержания. Свидетели утверждают, что он просил «избавить его от Сатаны». ... в ходе обысков в его квартире нашли курительные смеси.

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>Леонид Г. рассказал, зачем зарезал сестру, и попытался сбежать из зала суда (video)

(schpeische muscht flow)

https://www.amazon.com/Gun-that-Changed-World/dp/0745636926

If I understand correctly, this is a translation of his memoirs. I am confused by the phrase about "deportation to Siberia." But in general, judging by the reviews of critics, the translation is normal. Critics have written a lot about his patriotism and loyalty to communist ideals - this is one of the very important parts of his memoirs.

So I recommend it. I don’t know how in translation, but in Russian these memoirs are read very easily and fascinatingly.

The higher end Samsungs have much more minimalist controllers, with two clicky buttons for volume and channel, then a circle for movement. Back, home and play all lined in good placement so the brain knows where to click in terms of placement. As well as power and source. The mid tier Samsungs don’t come with the high end controller and instead have the terrible laggy rubber buttons that have to be brutally hit to get any semblance of functionality.

This is the Amazon link to the controller I’m talking about.

Original Samsung BN59-01259B TV Remote Control (BN5901259B) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KJNKXJK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_VPK7ZJ4PEHD1APRSJCJP?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Here you go: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GTWWJB5/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_ZPKDQGZ4PDMS7EPDE253?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

You can buy her one now. No clue what the fuck an AK has to do with anything.

This read really well, not sure about the translation quality, I am not a Russian speaker, but, I presume it's good.

https://www.amazon.com/Verizon-Nano-Sized-SIM-Card/dp/B00KPY7T50/ref=psdc_14674870011_t3_B00LSPUP06

you can get them even nano-sized

https://www.amazon.com/Verizon-Wireless-Micro-Card-BULKSIM-NFC-D/dp/B07RPXG5NS

А этот коммент достоин поста в /r/quityourbullshit

For English speakers: and this comment deserves a post in /r/quityourbullshit

Edit: sources in Russian: https://meduza.io/feature/2017/08/02/korrespondenta-ntv-v-pryamom-efire-udarili-po-litsu-protiv-napadavshego-vozbuzhdeno-ugolovnoe-delo

another vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdUPFGBXIMM&feature=youtu.be more info (in russian) https://meduza.io/feature/2016/02/29/ubiystvo-u-metro-oktyabrskoe-pole

tldr: woman on video is a babysitter of a dead girl. she sayd she did it because her husband cheated on her. police standing right behind her for from 30 to 50 minutes according to different sources. woman from video threated to blow up herself.

The car coming from the right ran the stop sign: https://yandex.com/maps?ll=85.140867%2C52.511852&panorama%5Bpoint%5D=85.140867%2C52.511852&panorama%5Bdirection%5D=81.220306%2C4.295980&panorama%5Bid%5D=1581626879_706176266_23_1407059882&panorama%5Bspan%5D=22.313246%2C45.000000

> To suggest one is clearly higher than the rest is silly

Have any questions? Ask authors. https://fedena.com/blog/2014/01/10-countries-high-literacy-rate-world.html

> Russia is known to just not count their illiterate at all

Got any proof of that?

It's the other way around. Big wheels like this equals low torque, but high rate of speed; you have to put a lot of effort into getting them turning, but if you can get them turning (and it's solidly built) then it covers a lot of ground in one revolution, so it will go faster.

https://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1028977/how-do-levers-work/

https://www.geogebra.org/m/AxYgWNkH

I highly recommend MacMillan's <em>Nixon in China</em> if you're interested in that trip and the political intrigue in both the US and China in the leadup to and following the trip.

Nixon saw an opportunity and latched onto it in his greatest accomplishment as President (and one of the few positive things) but it would never have happened if the Chinese hadn't wanted it as well. Mao was many things, but dumb he was not - the Americans would prove a very useful counter to the increasingly antagonistic post-Stalin Soviets.

I get them at the various Chinese supermarkets I visit. If there are a lot of Chinese people in your area, there might even be herbal type stores. Most people have access to Amazon I believe, which is available here. I think that price breaks down to 7 USD a box which might be a little pricier but if it is not by much, I think.

You take 1-2 vials when you have symptoms. Yeah, vials since one dose is a bunch of tiny pills. It is considered TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) which is often herbal, so it tends to require a relatively large amount of plant material relative to western pharmaceuticals where there tends to only be the active ingredient doing the work.

You are most welcome! You can try this book https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Fairy-Pantheon-Folklore-Library-ebook/dp/B00ALBR218/

I'm talking about something like this. They are easy to put on/off and instantly give you superhuman abilities on an icy pavement.

Most recent findings I've read is that it was somehow sprayed into a teapot, and the assassins did a pretty bad job... probably exposing themselves in the process.

The original article I read years back was deleted, but here's a mirror of it on medium. Looks like it was also turned into an audio book.

The USSR and the US had their own little race as WW2 was winding down to snatch as many Nazi rocket scientists as possible. In the US it was Operation Paperclip. I don't know the Soviet program name, if there even was one, but the USSR did manage to snatch a ton of mid level engineers, while the US focused on senior resources, like Von Braun.

The mid-level engineers and scientists were treated much better than other German POWs, but it was still basically prison. Both the German and Soviet scientists were in essentially prisons called "Sharashka". It was a scientific or engineering center working on rocketry, nuclear program, etc, that was run by the military. They lived there and could not leave. It was a really strange situation where Soviet scientists, many of whom were Jewish, worked side by side with former Nazis.

The model was created by Sergei Korolev, who led the Soviet space program until his death. Gagarin flew on a rocket that could be directly traced back to the German V2 design.

Here's a great book if you're interested: https://smile.amazon.com/Korolev-Masterminded-Soviet-Drive-America/dp/0471148539/ref=sr_1_1?crid=13VWTX0AH4CZH&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=korolev&amp;qid=1596025232&amp;sprefix=korole%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1

Does John not also say that it was a cohort and the Temple Guards? I extrapolated no further than your quote "they fell to the ground". I believe that my source for the Theban regiment converting was also in the Spear of Destiny, https://www.amazon.ca/Spear-Destiny-Trevor-Ravenscroft/dp/0877285470/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1508523652&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+spear+of+destiny but it may have been something I was taught a long time ago and would require research to source. Gesthemane is between the mount of Olives and Jerusalem. Why would Jesus be there if not to stop the Romans from reaching Bethany?

Surely, the Good Samaritan would have only blocked the robbers if he could have avoided hurting them. The S-400 similarly only shoots down other missiles. If it shoots down an F-35, the pilot can sometimes eject safely. In any case, whether or not the pilot survives, it prevents him from killing hundreds.

edit: The story of the good Samaritan arises from a dispute over the meaning of the archaic Hebrew word "roehcha" often translated as "neighbour" but its root is roeh=see. Had the Samaritan seen a man being robbed and said "my life is not my own I cannot sully my salvation with violence" he would have no more seen the victim's plight than the Cohen who could not approach a dying man or the Christians of the west who condemn Russia for saving their brethren in Syria.

The version I read is that Longinus was a centurion (commander of 100 men) in the German-Roman Theban cohort. This was the same cohort that had been sent to arrest Jesus at Bethany. They had all fallen down in the presence of Christ. Longinus would have been well aware of this event. He was the cohort's intelligence officer who had gone blind but kept his rank. He was studied up in the beliefs of the restive Judaeans. When the High Priest arrived, carrying the Spear of Phineas/Pinhas (and Saul and David), to break the bones of Jesus, Longinus, knowing the prophecy that the Messiah's bones would not be broken, grabbed the spear from him and thrust it into Jesus to prove that he was dead. His blindness was cured. partial source: The Spear of Destiny

As a sidenote, a Jewish source which I read too long ago to retrieve was a book of the lives of European Jewish sages called "Love Thy Neighbour". There was a Holy Chassid at the time of a Cossack uprising in which Jews were being killed. They had fled to the synagogue and asked the rabbi to do a miracle. He said "What do you want me to do? Become the Messiah Ben Joseph? Who should I fear? The crooked Cossack?"

At that moment, a Cossack with an old crippling injury hobbled in and ran the rabbi through with his bayonet. The Cossack's name was Longinus. The book said that Longinus was also the name of the Roman soldier who had killed the Messiah Ben Joseph with a spear. Some Jewish writings talk of two Messiahs the Ben Joseph and the Ben David. None will directly admit that both are manifestations of Christ.

I was wondering what's up with copper mug. Found out that they are sold under Moscow Mule name and stumbled upon some trivia.