Categories Articles and Tweets Tweets - Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) / Twitter RT by @mikenov: This morning Pope Leo XIV met Bob Dylan 📸: Vatican Media Post author By wawiimuy Post date November 4, 2026 Listen to this article This morning Pope Leo XIV met Bob Dylan 📸: Vatican Media — @CatholicSat Nov 4, 2026 ← RT by @mikenov: ᴠ ɪ ɴ ᴛ ᴀ ɢ ᴇ ᴍ ᴏ ᴏ ᴅ This is the Pacific in 1969. Against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, a few young sailors on the USS Hornet take a rare break from the tension at sea. They’re just catching some sun, but the helicopters on deck are a constant reminder of where they are. It’s these brief, normal moments from another era that really stay with you. The friendships, the quiet afternoons, the heavy reality just out of frame. They were so far from home, caught up in a massive moment in history. Photograph by Lynn Pelham for LIFE, 1969. → RT by @mikenov: Peljidiin Genden (1892/1895-1937) was a Mongolian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Mongolia from 1932 to 1936. He is best known for his fierce resistance to Soviet domination and his dramatic, albeit fatal, confrontation with Joseph Stalin…. He served as the chairman of the State Small Khural (effective head of state) in 1920s before becoming Prime Minister in 1932. To help Mongolia recover from forced collectivization revolts, Genden implemented a policy modeled on Vladimir Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP), loosening strict communist economic controls and easing pressure on the population. Genden was a practicing Buddhist who famously stated that the only tw