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Next stop: Colosseum!
“Mind the gap of two millennia”
Rome’s spectacular new metro station, just inaugurated ???pic.twitter.com/95jU14OQAy
— Mambo Italiano (@mamboitaliano__) December 18, 2025
And… good or bad it was a big deal.
LOTR: THE RETURN OF THE KING was released 22 years ago today. The final film in Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy, and among the most successful movies ever made, a day may come when the story of how it was made fails to entertain. But it is not this day…
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— All The Right Movies (@ATRightMovies) December 17, 2025
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
White to move and mate in 4. Tricky.
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1. Qc4+ b5
2. Qc6+ Qb6
3. axb5+ Ka5
4. Ra4#
**sigh** why don’t we build anything beautiful anymore? I say that as a carpenter who assists in building many of these ugly buildings.
Q C4+ P B5
Q C6+ K A5
RxP+ QxR
QxQ++
1) Q-c4 check, P-b5
2) PxP check
If K-b7, then 3) Q-c6 mate
If K-b6, then 3) Q-c6 check, K-a5, 4) R-a4 mate
If K-a5, then 3) R-a4 check, K-b-6 and 4) Q-c6 mate