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Thanumalayan Temple, Suchindram! One sculpture so precise, a 0.5mm stick can pass clean through both ears.😍 No machines. Just ancient hands, divine vision, and devotion carved into stone! Yet not validated by Western Media. Will Hindus accept it?🤔 Shivprabhat 🙏🏽

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Look at the tips of her fingers. The marble is turning into leaves... This is the most astonishing detail in Bernini's Apollo and Daphne, in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. Daphne, fleeing the god Apollo, has begged to be saved, and at the instant he catches her she begins to turn into a laurel tree. Bernini carved the exact second it happens, and the change starts at her hands: her raised fingers are sprouting laurel leaves, so thin that in bright light they turn faintly translucent, the way a real leaf glows when you hold it up to the sun. To understand what that took, consider what marble actually is. It is heavy, brittle, and utterly unforgiving. A single slip, one vibration too many, and a leaf that took days to carve shatters, and there is no putting it back. When the sculpture was restored in 1997, conservators discovered how Bernini protected this fragile growth while he worked: he had wrapped the thinnest, most delicate parts in little cushions of plaster, to shield them from the vibrations traveling through the stone as he carved the rest. The same restoration revealed his real secret... The leaves and the strands of windblown hair are riddled with the marks of a bow drill, a tool that bores holes into stone. But Bernini did not drill straight in, which would have left round, mechanical holes. On the tiny leaves at Daphne's fingertips, he tilted the drill at an angle, cutting long shallow grooves instead, so the marble would mimic the natural veins and splits of a living leaf. He was imitating the way foliage actually grows. I wrote this so that the next time a sculpture detail takes your breath away, you do not see only marble. You see the months of patience of a human being who chose to spend part of his short life turning cold stone into a living leaf, so that four hundred years later a stranger would stop and feel something... I started this newsletter because our past is extraordinary, and fewer and fewer people are showing us how to truly see it. Every week I try to. If that is something you would like to be part of, you can join at the link below, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible: Thanks for reading.

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When twin flames finally meet in this lifetime 🔥 In the midst of chaos, destruction, and raging infernos... two souls who were split from the same divine spark recognize each other instantly. No words needed. Just foreheads pressed together, eyes glowing with ancient recognition, bodies burning with the same eternal fire. This isn’t just love. This is a reunion of energies that have crossed galaxies and lifetimes searching for one another. One glance and the whole world could burn — yet in their presence, everything finally makes sense. They walk through the flames together, not because they’re immune to the heat, but because together they are the fire. Unstoppable. Magnetic. Sacred. Twin flame connections don’t come to comfort you — they come to awaken you, challenge you, and set your soul on fire so you can rise into your highest version. The push. The pull. The intensity. The undeniable knowing that this person is your mirror, your catalyst, your home. If you’re on this journey... the separations, the triggers, the magnetic pull you can’t explain — trust it. The universe is orchestrating your divine reunion in divine timing.

When twin flames finally meet in this lifetime 🔥 In the midst of chaos, destruction, and raging infernos... two souls who were split from the same divine spark recognize each other instantly. No words needed. Just foreheads pressed together, eyes glowing with ancient recognition, bodies burning with the same eternal fire. This isn’t just love. This is a reunion of energies that have crossed galaxies and lifetimes searching for one another. One glance and the whole world could burn — yet in their presence, everything finally makes sense. They walk through the flames together, not because they’re immune to the heat, but because together they are the fire. Unstoppable. Magnetic. Sacred. Twin flame connections don’t come to comfort you — they come to awaken you, challenge you, and set your soul on fire so you can rise into your highest version. The push. The pull. The intensity. The undeniable knowing that this person is your mirror, your catalyst, your home. If you’re on this journey... the separations, the triggers, the magnetic pull you can’t explain — trust it. The universe is orchestrating your divine reunion in divine timing.

Cosmic Insights 🌻

14,883 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

A Response to Historical Amnesia: The Truth About Cyprus Europe’s mind has long been occupied — not by armies, but by narratives. The Greek Cypriot and Hellenic propaganda machine has colonized European discourse so thoroughly that many in Brussels have stopped thinking — and started parroting. Worse yet, they do so willingly, without protest, as if truth were an inconvenience and justice a partisan tool. Let’s get one thing straight. This isn’t about “occupation” — it’s about the prevention of annihilation. In 1974, Türkiye didn’t invade Cyprus; it intervened as a guarantor power, after a violent coup orchestrated by Athens aimed to annex the island under the infamous ENOSIS plan — a plan that translated into the ethnic cleansing of Turkish Cypriots. Let’s not mince words: Before Türkiye’s intervention, Turkish Cypriots were being hunted, displaced, and massacred. They lived in enclaves, cut off, under siege. The so-called Republic of Cyprus had already collapsed as a bi-communal entity in the 1960s — it became a de facto Greek state long before 1974. For 51 years, the island has known peace. No war. No massacres. No ethnic cleansing. Türkiye didn’t bring conflict — it brought stability. It halted a bloodbath that Europe was either unable or unwilling to stop. And yet, here comes EPP Group — repeating the age-old script, eyes wide shut, ears closed to history, lips moving only to echo Greek Cypriot talking points. You speak of international law, but you erase the Zurich and London Agreements, which gave Türkiye the legal and moral obligation to act. What’s truly illegal is not Türkiye’s presence — but the EU’s decision to reward the Greek Cypriot side after it rejected the UN-backed Annan Plan in 2004. Turkish Cypriots said yes to reunification. Greek Cypriots said no — and were rewarded with EU membership. That’s not diplomacy. That’s betrayal. The Greek Cypriot administration was admitted into the European Union in blatant violation of the very principles the Union claims to uphold — through deception, unilateral recognition, and by exploiting the vacuum created by an unresolved conflict. So let’s not pretend. The real division in Cyprus was born not in 1974 — but in the massacres of the 1960s, in the refusal to share power, and in the Europe-enabled silencing of an entire people. As long as Türkiye stands firm on the island — and it will — no amount of political theatre, rhetorical acrobatics, or historical revisionism will alter the reality on the ground. You speak of reunification, yet pursue a fantasy detached from history, justice, and human dignity. The course you are on is a parallel universe — one where truth is optional and consequences are overlooked. If change is what you seek, know this: the only path you leave open is conflict — and in that path, all sides lose. But make no mistake: if ever forced to choose, we will protect that land with the last drop of our blood. We will never allow it to be stained by those who once turned it into a graveyard of peace. Let it be clear: the era of federation is over. We offered it — again and again. The Greek Cypriot side rejected it — again and again. Now, the only viable path is two sovereign states. That is not a threat. It is the reality you refused to accept for decades. Türkiye didn’t split Cyprus — it saved lives. And the world is not blind. We see the selective outrage. We note the hypocrisy. And history, whether you accept it or not, remembers everything.

A Response to Historical Amnesia: The Truth About Cyprus Europe’s mind has long been occupied — not by armies, but by narratives. The Greek Cypriot and Hellenic propaganda machine has colonized European discourse so thoroughly that many in Brussels have stopped thinking — and started parroting. Worse yet, they do so willingly, without protest, as if truth were an inconvenience and justice a partisan tool. Let’s get one thing straight. This isn’t about “occupation” — it’s about the prevention of annihilation. In 1974, Türkiye didn’t invade Cyprus; it intervened as a guarantor power, after a violent coup orchestrated by Athens aimed to annex the island under the infamous ENOSIS plan — a plan that translated into the ethnic cleansing of Turkish Cypriots. Let’s not mince words: Before Türkiye’s intervention, Turkish Cypriots were being hunted, displaced, and massacred. They lived in enclaves, cut off, under siege. The so-called Republic of Cyprus had already collapsed as a bi-communal entity in the 1960s — it became a de facto Greek state long before 1974. For 51 years, the island has known peace. No war. No massacres. No ethnic cleansing. Türkiye didn’t bring conflict — it brought stability. It halted a bloodbath that Europe was either unable or unwilling to stop. And yet, here comes EPP Group — repeating the age-old script, eyes wide shut, ears closed to history, lips moving only to echo Greek Cypriot talking points. You speak of international law, but you erase the Zurich and London Agreements, which gave Türkiye the legal and moral obligation to act. What’s truly illegal is not Türkiye’s presence — but the EU’s decision to reward the Greek Cypriot side after it rejected the UN-backed Annan Plan in 2004. Turkish Cypriots said yes to reunification. Greek Cypriots said no — and were rewarded with EU membership. That’s not diplomacy. That’s betrayal. The Greek Cypriot administration was admitted into the European Union in blatant violation of the very principles the Union claims to uphold — through deception, unilateral recognition, and by exploiting the vacuum created by an unresolved conflict. So let’s not pretend. The real division in Cyprus was born not in 1974 — but in the massacres of the 1960s, in the refusal to share power, and in the Europe-enabled silencing of an entire people. As long as Türkiye stands firm on the island — and it will — no amount of political theatre, rhetorical acrobatics, or historical revisionism will alter the reality on the ground. You speak of reunification, yet pursue a fantasy detached from history, justice, and human dignity. The course you are on is a parallel universe — one where truth is optional and consequences are overlooked. If change is what you seek, know this: the only path you leave open is conflict — and in that path, all sides lose. But make no mistake: if ever forced to choose, we will protect that land with the last drop of our blood. We will never allow it to be stained by those who once turned it into a graveyard of peace. Let it be clear: the era of federation is over. We offered it — again and again. The Greek Cypriot side rejected it — again and again. Now, the only viable path is two sovereign states. That is not a threat. It is the reality you refused to accept for decades. Türkiye didn’t split Cyprus — it saved lives. And the world is not blind. We see the selective outrage. We note the hypocrisy. And history, whether you accept it or not, remembers everything.

hermes | jeopolitik

96,525 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Alhamdulilah. Now this is what we call a huge web3 did What a wonderful journey it has been. Almost done with my first house. And honestly, it doesn’t feel like just a structure being completed… it feels like a reflection of everything that came before it. time, discipline, mistakes, exposure all quietly compounding. › 2023 The Beginning It started with no real direction. I was grinding, exploring, trying things without fully understanding where it all leads. There was no structure yet… just curiosity, repetition, and a lot of learning through trial and error. I was simply moving, even when I didn’t fully know what I was moving toward. › 2024 Things Start to Form Then things began to shift. Not overnight but gradually, through exposure and experience. I entered deeper into the space and connected with OGs in the TON ecosystem And slowly, one important lesson became clear: it’s not just effort that matters… it’s information, timing, and the people you learn from. › So I also started trading as well Trading became a major part of my learning curve. Forex & Perps showed me risk in its raw form mehnn 🙂‍↔️ taught me discipline and patience. Memecoins show me shege rugs up and down Along the way, I learned from different people PMO, not just strategies, but perspectives. Each one added something I didn’t have before. › Late 2024 Structure Appears Then came a different phase. I signed my first structured deal with sign a monthly arrangement that brought a new level of stability into my journey. For the first time, things were not just random wins and losses… there was structure, expectation, and consistency. Then came the TGE. Execution was clean. The ecosystem moved properly. And as early participants, we experienced meaningful upside not just financially, but in understanding how systems actually work when they’re built well. › Now The Reflection Almost done with something physical. But the deeper truth is this: the house is just the surface. what actually got built was the person. through risk, through losses, through discipline, through time. This is not a story about outcomes. It is a story about becoming. And I am still becoming. Grateful for the journey so far. Still building.

Alhamdulilah. Now this is what we call a huge web3 did What a wonderful journey it has been. Almost done with my first house. And honestly, it doesn’t feel like just a structure being completed… it feels like a reflection of everything that came before it. time, discipline, mistakes, exposure all quietly compounding. › 2023 The Beginning It started with no real direction. I was grinding, exploring, trying things without fully understanding where it all leads. There was no structure yet… just curiosity, repetition, and a lot of learning through trial and error. I was simply moving, even when I didn’t fully know what I was moving toward. › 2024 Things Start to Form Then things began to shift. Not overnight but gradually, through exposure and experience. I entered deeper into the space and connected with OGs in the TON ecosystem And slowly, one important lesson became clear: it’s not just effort that matters… it’s information, timing, and the people you learn from. › So I also started trading as well Trading became a major part of my learning curve. Forex & Perps showed me risk in its raw form mehnn 🙂‍↔️ taught me discipline and patience. Memecoins show me shege rugs up and down Along the way, I learned from different people PMO, not just strategies, but perspectives. Each one added something I didn’t have before. › Late 2024 Structure Appears Then came a different phase. I signed my first structured deal with sign a monthly arrangement that brought a new level of stability into my journey. For the first time, things were not just random wins and losses… there was structure, expectation, and consistency. Then came the TGE. Execution was clean. The ecosystem moved properly. And as early participants, we experienced meaningful upside not just financially, but in understanding how systems actually work when they’re built well. › Now The Reflection Almost done with something physical. But the deeper truth is this: the house is just the surface. what actually got built was the person. through risk, through losses, through discipline, through time. This is not a story about outcomes. It is a story about becoming. And I am still becoming. Grateful for the journey so far. Still building.

Tajudeen ♟️

37,936 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

🚨 BREAKING: Dubai International Airport — one of the busiest aviation hubs on Earth — is reportedly facing major disruption, with flights suspended amid escalating regional tensions. If operations are halted for any sustained period, the ripple effects will be global. Dubai is not just a city airport — it is a central transit artery connecting Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Passenger flows, cargo routes, and international logistics chains all pass through it daily. When a hub like this stops, it signals more than travel disruption. It signals perceived risk. Airspace security concerns, missile threats, or regional instability can force aviation authorities to shut corridors within minutes. The situation underscores how rapidly geopolitical escalation can spill into civilian life and global commerce. Stand by for confirmation and updates.

🚨 BREAKING: Dubai International Airport — one of the busiest aviation hubs on Earth — is reportedly facing major disruption, with flights suspended amid escalating regional tensions. If operations are halted for any sustained period, the ripple effects will be global. Dubai is not just a city airport — it is a central transit artery connecting Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Passenger flows, cargo routes, and international logistics chains all pass through it daily. When a hub like this stops, it signals more than travel disruption. It signals perceived risk. Airspace security concerns, missile threats, or regional instability can force aviation authorities to shut corridors within minutes. The situation underscores how rapidly geopolitical escalation can spill into civilian life and global commerce. Stand by for confirmation and updates.

Jim Ferguson

295,803 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

Imagine carving a single block of marble until the veil becomes so thin that the stone itself turns transparent. Antonio Canova, one of the greatest sculptors who ever lived, saw this statue and said he would have given 10 years of his life to have made it... It is called the Veiled Christ, and it has been called the most beautiful sculpture in the world. It sits in the Cappella Sansevero in Naples, a single block of marble carved in 1753 into the body of the dead Christ, lying beneath a shroud so thin and so perfectly rendered that, beneath it, you can see the swelling of the veins, the hollow of the closed eyes and the wound in the side. Prince Raimondo di Sangro had first hired a famous sculptor, Antonio Corradini, to carve it. Corradini died with nothing finished but a small terracotta sketch. The prince then handed the commission to a young and almost unknown Neapolitan named Giuseppe Sanmartino, and what Sanmartino produced was so far beyond what anyone expected that people refused to believe it was carved at all... The veil, they said, could not be marble. It had to be a real cloth that the prince, a notorious alchemist, had somehow turned to stone with a secret chemical process. The legend has never fully died, and Raimondo di Sangro did everything to deserve it. He was the head of the Neapolitan Masonic lodge, a polyglot who read Arabic and Hebrew, an inventor who built an "eternal flame" from chemicals of his own making. In the crypt beneath the chapel he kept two of his strangest creations: the "anatomical machines," two full human skeletons wrapped in astonishingly detailed reproductions of the entire human circulatory system, every artery and vein. For two centuries people believed he had somehow petrified the bodies of two living servants. Modern study has shown the skeletons are real, but the vascular systems were made by human hands. There is one more legend: it is said that when the Veiled Christ was finished, the prince had Sanmartino blinded, so that he could never create anything so beautiful again. It is almost certainly not true. But people have repeated it for two hundred and fifty years, because they needed an explanation for how a thing like this could exist, and be made only once, by a man almost no one had heard of, and never be equalled by anyone since... I write a weekly newsletter for over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us at the link below, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible: Thanks for reading.

Imagine carving a single block of marble until the veil becomes so thin that the stone itself turns transparent. Antonio Canova, one of the greatest sculptors who ever lived, saw this statue and said he would have given 10 years of his life to have made it... It is called the Veiled Christ, and it has been called the most beautiful sculpture in the world. It sits in the Cappella Sansevero in Naples, a single block of marble carved in 1753 into the body of the dead Christ, lying beneath a shroud so thin and so perfectly rendered that, beneath it, you can see the swelling of the veins, the hollow of the closed eyes and the wound in the side. Prince Raimondo di Sangro had first hired a famous sculptor, Antonio Corradini, to carve it. Corradini died with nothing finished but a small terracotta sketch. The prince then handed the commission to a young and almost unknown Neapolitan named Giuseppe Sanmartino, and what Sanmartino produced was so far beyond what anyone expected that people refused to believe it was carved at all... The veil, they said, could not be marble. It had to be a real cloth that the prince, a notorious alchemist, had somehow turned to stone with a secret chemical process. The legend has never fully died, and Raimondo di Sangro did everything to deserve it. He was the head of the Neapolitan Masonic lodge, a polyglot who read Arabic and Hebrew, an inventor who built an "eternal flame" from chemicals of his own making. In the crypt beneath the chapel he kept two of his strangest creations: the "anatomical machines," two full human skeletons wrapped in astonishingly detailed reproductions of the entire human circulatory system, every artery and vein. For two centuries people believed he had somehow petrified the bodies of two living servants. Modern study has shown the skeletons are real, but the vascular systems were made by human hands. There is one more legend: it is said that when the Veiled Christ was finished, the prince had Sanmartino blinded, so that he could never create anything so beautiful again. It is almost certainly not true. But people have repeated it for two hundred and fifty years, because they needed an explanation for how a thing like this could exist, and be made only once, by a man almost no one had heard of, and never be equalled by anyone since... I write a weekly newsletter for over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us at the link below, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible: Thanks for reading.

James Lucas

66,112 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Hello Hugh Thomas , let’s do it one by one, sample by sample, stone by stone. Whenever an artificial stone recipe of mine reaches a certain stage that’s the results are comparable to the natural version I’ll send a cast sample to you (with its mold) to analyze. The first one could be this perfectly chiseled fake limestone cube. As you can see you can’t fit a razor blade between the stone and the cheap silicone mold from Temu. This proves my micro chiseling skills. The recipe is public, you don’t even need my cube, you could create your own - but you won’t. So I’ll send this cute cube to you. The “secret” recipe is: I started from wood ash lye, also called potash, or K2CO3, by slowly dripping water through hard wood ash. Hard wood ash from your fireplace, yeah. Then I added slaked lime, and the chemical reaction produced fine, molecular level CaCO3 particles, fine limestone floating in the liquid. FYI: the secret chemical reaction is, and was in the ancient times as well: K2CO3 + Ca(OH)2 = CaCO3 + 2KOH Yummy! Next step: I let the limestone particles settle, and poured the KOH, potassium hydroxide solution above (that also formed in the liquid, see above) into the kitchen sink as it is a very good drain cleaner indeed. I added water and poured it into the sink several times, trying to clean the slurry from the KOH. So yes, the cube is from almost pure limestone, CaCO3 - with some residual KOH contamination. The KOH contamination can be reduced infinitely, I just stopped after 4 rounds. (Pro tip: put the slurry into a filter bag and put the bag into a mountain creek for an hour.) The next step is filtering and pressing the remaining liquid from the slurry. Because it’s a wet mess at this point. Pressure is a key factor to success! At least one thing is accurate from the universal canon: no pressure-no stone. How do I know? By trying and failing a few (dozen) times. So I poured the white limestone slurry into a sock 🧦 and pressed and squeezed it by hand - and that was JUST enough pressure for the magic to happen 😮 It looks like nature/god is on our side, everything is working as it was designed this way. Then I put the almost dry limestone paste into this Temu mold. Fun fact: it still contains a lot of water which will eventually be pressed out as the crystallization progresses, so we’ll need to get rid of that water through a hole, a nub. But there is no hole 🕳️ on this Temu mold so I poured the excess liquid from the top a few times. Hardening time=drying time=crystallization time : 1 week. The important lesson I learned from this experience is as follows: I tried to understand why this sludge turned into hard stone, because, as we were told, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, and my understanding is this: wood ash lye does two different magics in parallel for this to happen: 1. It magically contains the right kind of contamination to facilitate calcite crystal formation and 2. The incredibly high pH (remember, 2 molecules of KOH are produced from 1 molecule of K2CO3!) in the liquid boost the calcite formation even more. ———- My only request from you and your colleagues concerning this analysis is full, 100000% transparency. And be honest. I know something you clearly don’t: you have lost this battle already. We need the data fast, not in 4 years or something. Transparency means sharing whatever you find here on X, without scientific drama and pullbacks. We don’t need a 947 pages scientific paper. We need the results, the data only. BTW: I already know what you will find: a “special type of natural limestone” with some minimal potassium contamination🤣🤣🤣 Now feel free to DM me, let this scientific analysis happen! And thank you for your offer!

Hello Hugh Thomas , let’s do it one by one, sample by sample, stone by stone. Whenever an artificial stone recipe of mine reaches a certain stage that’s the results are comparable to the natural version I’ll send a cast sample to you (with its mold) to analyze. The first one could be this perfectly chiseled fake limestone cube. As you can see you can’t fit a razor blade between the stone and the cheap silicone mold from Temu. This proves my micro chiseling skills. The recipe is public, you don’t even need my cube, you could create your own - but you won’t. So I’ll send this cute cube to you. The “secret” recipe is: I started from wood ash lye, also called potash, or K2CO3, by slowly dripping water through hard wood ash. Hard wood ash from your fireplace, yeah. Then I added slaked lime, and the chemical reaction produced fine, molecular level CaCO3 particles, fine limestone floating in the liquid. FYI: the secret chemical reaction is, and was in the ancient times as well: K2CO3 + Ca(OH)2 = CaCO3 + 2KOH Yummy! Next step: I let the limestone particles settle, and poured the KOH, potassium hydroxide solution above (that also formed in the liquid, see above) into the kitchen sink as it is a very good drain cleaner indeed. I added water and poured it into the sink several times, trying to clean the slurry from the KOH. So yes, the cube is from almost pure limestone, CaCO3 - with some residual KOH contamination. The KOH contamination can be reduced infinitely, I just stopped after 4 rounds. (Pro tip: put the slurry into a filter bag and put the bag into a mountain creek for an hour.) The next step is filtering and pressing the remaining liquid from the slurry. Because it’s a wet mess at this point. Pressure is a key factor to success! At least one thing is accurate from the universal canon: no pressure-no stone. How do I know? By trying and failing a few (dozen) times. So I poured the white limestone slurry into a sock 🧦 and pressed and squeezed it by hand - and that was JUST enough pressure for the magic to happen 😮 It looks like nature/god is on our side, everything is working as it was designed this way. Then I put the almost dry limestone paste into this Temu mold. Fun fact: it still contains a lot of water which will eventually be pressed out as the crystallization progresses, so we’ll need to get rid of that water through a hole, a nub. But there is no hole 🕳️ on this Temu mold so I poured the excess liquid from the top a few times. Hardening time=drying time=crystallization time : 1 week. The important lesson I learned from this experience is as follows: I tried to understand why this sludge turned into hard stone, because, as we were told, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, and my understanding is this: wood ash lye does two different magics in parallel for this to happen: 1. It magically contains the right kind of contamination to facilitate calcite crystal formation and 2. The incredibly high pH (remember, 2 molecules of KOH are produced from 1 molecule of K2CO3!) in the liquid boost the calcite formation even more. ———- My only request from you and your colleagues concerning this analysis is full, 100000% transparency. And be honest. I know something you clearly don’t: you have lost this battle already. We need the data fast, not in 4 years or something. Transparency means sharing whatever you find here on X, without scientific drama and pullbacks. We don’t need a 947 pages scientific paper. We need the results, the data only. BTW: I already know what you will find: a “special type of natural limestone” with some minimal potassium contamination🤣🤣🤣 Now feel free to DM me, let this scientific analysis happen! And thank you for your offer!

Marcell Fóti 🪨

38,468 Aufrufe • vor 26 Tagen