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Taavi: We have been playing together for five years. So far it has been mainly a flute/piano duo. But now we added electronics too and it really does open up even more repertoire and challenges. The process with POLES started with a three-week rehearsal period in Morelia, Mexico where we were in residency in the electr... | English | NL | 8a82c1c961f9883550fd68ebdc2bce6eba89a3458acb33527801de7822122c9a |
Beyond the urban sprawl of Greater Manchester, Alderley Edge is the first piece of true countryside one comes across as one travels south. Despite the developments of recent years, it has retained its village atmosphere. A mile or so further south, Nether Alderley has remained a rural hamlet with a long, recorded histo... | English | NL | 629c607de3e326171d78d7404adb56b9bd9e896f927a9b1fa23b1dc06140ceae |
It has been a while since I posted, I know, but in my defense I have been very busy. And traveling. And dealing with family matters. Typical stuff. Today’s scripture selections are chosen because they were the readings at a recent wedding I attended. The bride and groom are some former commenters here, who went by the ... | English | NL | 962a0f2c6183c8a66a914afe0d4825205c6bfd48dd4e8c2a5f78d2885dc38104 |
A man was attacked by a mountain lion in Utah while hunting last week. As he started walking to begin his elk hunt, he heard a growl. In the treeline, 10′ away, a mountain lion was ready to pounce and attack.
Cody Hardman says he used one arrow to try and shoot it in self defense, but time was short and he missed. The ... | English | NL | 0bb47b0b33c129699d1e45e8059831e93a705117b3aeb7151c47a0e2298dcc8e |
In Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones, the author encapsulates individual’s experiences of discovering who they are and what they are capable of from the perspective of Esch, the story’s main protagonist. During this final chapter, Ward uses the word “salvage” when it comes to rebuilding and starting over. Hurricane Katri... | English | NL | 345e37f85144d53449db96cd0810b9dcbdf70a8087198dd4d7b84680a48286bc |
This story follows Leisa, a social worker in Baltimore, who has found herself on shaky ground with her long-time partner Nan. The book opens with Leisa working the case of a young girl, Mariela, being found in her apartment with her mother’s corpse, where she had been for the last two weeks. Understandably, the girl is... | English | NL | 05816f040a43e9c2a58089bedd016442ac040e0591df9d75eb7aaf22f23ec4e5 |
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Today is going to be a new and complicated day as far as love is concerned. This March comes full of changes for Virgos that can materialize differently depending on the case.
Today many of them will feel that the time has come to seriously think about their relationship. If something is charac... | English | NL | 256aa7a9febefbf15a96a3dcb783a7ad69c1cdf057f1e715f811f7c1a43c92a6 |
For Christians, it's Easter time. I won't be talking about Christian traditions though, and not religion either. What I will be talking about is something found in the Christian bible that goes something like this:
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
The above command, however, is not unique to the Christian... | English | NL | 215532552a76773d437abb97def9e8cdf48d1738cb631103be7f2d04764796b8 |
"The house which I am about to build will be great, for greater is our God than all the gods. "But who is able to build a house for Him, for the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain Him? So who am I, that I should build a house for Him, except to burn incense before Him? "Now send me a skilled man to work in ... | English | NL | 7fa7334a67480d493654c9c5c22304e1a43828afb080fab35da16c1e61deb6e2 |
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983.
Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Jacqueline Carroll (née Shelton), a teacher of arts and black literature... | English | NL | ebc63fffe0164c2d42ff21db285668a0930ea064ec21bb66d2902d4d1ee87500 |
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Harry looked disconcertingly at the package that had been delivered that morning. He wasn’t sure if he should open it or not. He was a little afraid to.
“Harry?” Neville Longbottom asked as he entered the Room of Requirement where they had ... | English | NL | 067a7a12a22c75caeae1fd5a1734805a71467f7f687c31c8a03310fdec656d10 |
‘They’ve all been in prison’. Ollie was always at his most relaxed when he was saying something outrageous. ‘Who have?’ Dan was intrigued. ‘Kazzie’s brothers. They’re burglars. She says they do it for the excitement really. I’m joining them when I’m older’. ‘Kazzie won’t let you’. Dan was sure of that. ‘Kazzie won’t kn... | English | NL | 5e01e5ff56bac97c83f86940b2edc402752b53a058af07e132ad499f4f751f5b |
My brother Abu was the first one who saw it. Look! he shouted. The sky is red! We rushed to the window and saw an amazing spectacle. The night sky had indeed taken on a deep red colour.
That was one of my earliest recollections of the Japanese Occupation. Several ships had been set on fire in the Penang harbour and the... | English | NL | b5350ff7fe5c223001fb940eb27af303dd38f75e6b9fc5465e03debb91eb4d6d |
‘I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.’ – Sylvia Plath
Rejection is a painful reality but why not have a little fun with it, so I decided to rewrite rejection letters as vignettes. Please enjoy my missed connections with literary agents.
You were my ideal, flawed yet perfect. I imagined you read Zadie Smith, L... | English | NL | 34689269c40501085e10dec7bd0195b1d3ca9c07b4404aab102ea4c35788d845 |
When the Son of God came to earth, the people who encountered him struggled to know how to relate to him. This was because they didn’t know how to relate to each other. From the time humans rebelled against God, their souls have been hungry. They’ve developed methods to salve but never satisfy their hunger. One method ... | English | NL | ebb34b44dd03016f5cbce9949f2eccf0628c20ac0cf438f226073e982346d01d |
The problem with a heart is that it can break be torn and leave us feeling deep pain and longing for what once gave us so much joy and happiness.
A man may try to avoid this by shutting down some of that joy when he feels it again, he may seek out fake joy in drugs and alcohol hoping that it will at least make the pain... | English | NL | 82e329224cf23daf4b15f54d1472b1facbf30481903b240810ab3e2212c2ccad |
Do you ever have a thought or an idea that you like and you know it’s a good one, but, somehow you just never put it into action? As I think about that, I know I’ve missed some good investment opportunities by just never “pulling the trigger”. Sorry, Connie, but I’ve bombed some chances to say something really nice and... | English | NL | 58c63f37f0c06e98a6c8dede240f715d2bb9a2344c48ec9455725d286056bb70 |
Ian McEwan is one of Britain’s most celebrated writers.
The author of novels including The Cement Garden (1978), the Booker Prize—winning Amsterdam (1998), and most recently, Atonement (2002), McEwan began writing in 1970. When his first book, First Love, Last Rites (1975), received the Somerset Maugham Award, it was l... | English | NL | 92f47ee6167d20dd1fd00d15a0a74f36acf0b29450271bddd43bb4cf9a3c8649 |
Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth. Eight years prior to the film's beginning, Anne – at the age of 19 – was engaged to Wentworth. However, her father Sir Walter Elliot and especially the family friend Lady Russell persuaded Anne in breaking off the engagement. Despite mutual feel... | English | NL | 841603fde7025f6bcc242a9180fd10b0c987a621f0c38d004180bf970c9500bf |
- I'm a genius!
- -- Iron Man src
When Nick Fury created Avengers Academy, Tony Stark was the first student to be recruited, upon arriving at the Academy the first thing he did was begin construction of the Academy's very own Stark Tower so he could keep his way of living and his gadgets while staying at the Academy.
A... | English | NL | 063e5088f1add35f4d55549aef39c7b0b2fc528cc80d2c703a29768042f5d941 |
David Albahari is one of the most prominent writers of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and his books, thirteen novels and eleven short story collections, have won many awards, among them the NIN Award for the best novel published in Yugoslavia in 1996. Albahari was born in Kosovo in 1948. In 1994, ... | English | NL | 489b6f1141bca5284883bb9a05b51e647dc7e3cd5196933de8b8a22daa4635d8 |
King Henry VIII: Accomplished Leader and Number 1 Gambler of England
King Henry VIII is remembered for many things including initiating England’s reformation and separation from the Roman Catholic Church in addition to having six wives over the course of his lifetime.
One commonly unknown fact about him, that’s vital t... | English | NL | 3346d780fe2d402dbd1a22d3fe66b9acfb6a73fd2092266328a7f36eb1aba9b2 |
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Through it all, he never forgot his first love. The one who stole his heart then shattered it when he least expected.
When Sienna left Ford and mated with another, she thought she’d found her companion for eternity. Except, her life didn’t play out that way. Her mate was killed, leaving Si... | English | NL | b0ef8bccbf78f4f546f066fb178bcfc6273e8723e4a08ba1afbcc28a931da241 |
Born in Lincolnshire, he moved with his mother and stepfather to Sheringham, in Norfolk, at the age of 11. A George Formby fan and self-taught guitarist, after joining the post office in 1953 he began to write comic, yet closely observed, songs about rural life, which he sang in a heavily accented Norfolk voice. The su... | English | NL | 7326ba3ceb12293161c85fd461d3add6cbe5f564898899eee25d24bd7497f533 |
I started this book fully prepared to dislike it. Between the cover and the description, it seemed like a lot of Bad Waiting to Happen. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Which just goes to show, you can't judge a book by its cover.
Disclaimer: A received a copy for an honest review from NetGalley. Also, this review ... | English | NL | ae3947b4fc08af3e72a1297088f67232cc599252eb566ca567ba33b3a9597bdd |
The Obelisk in St. Peter’s Square, was originally erected at Heliopolis, by the Egyptian King Nuncores; the Emperor Caligula (37-41 A.D.) had it brought to Rome and raised in his circus, which later on was named after Nero; here it was dedicated to Augustus and Tiberius as is stated on its pedestal. Guide of Rome.
Amon... | English | NL | c4f237cede2e2a27bb04c05757eacd2cce5302e9bcb5af6fe5c76c2fa7ee1916 |
In his past life, Nie Li was the strongest Demon Spiritist and stood at the pinnacle of the martial world. However, he lost his life during the battle with the Sage Emperor and the Six Deity Ranked Beast.His soul was then brought back to when he was still 13 years old. Although he's the weakest in his class with the lo... | English | NL | 11d7989d8da265d3cba9a48a9748284e8425b8aa8d0202b0adf67535ad48fba1 |
Subtitled A Supernatural Romance, I read this for the Random House Bingo Reading Challenge for 2014 mainly because what I read in advance said it was a book about magic. The write up neglected to say what a fine, creative piece of writing it was!
Laura is getting ready for school and daydreams of washing her hair and s... | English | NL | f6b5265dbe057e50aa7e27eaffc9da6805a0068999557e7231d2a2c0694250fd |
"Nobody else could play a slide like
Robert Nighthawk was one of the blues premier slide guitarists playing with a subtle elegance and a fluid, crystal clear style that was instantly recognizable. Nighthawk influenced a generation of artists including Elmore James, Muddy Waters, B.B. King and particularly Earl Hooker. ... | English | NL | 8f495efd88187c99234c2ab97af018372284f5b0a644cdd72e629d43b464b018 |
hunger, and thirst—the seven dread jaws of poverty—yawned about her, and he was Saint George fighting the dragon. He triumphed over poverty. How? By his deformity. By means of his deformity he was useful, helpful, victorious, great! He had but to show himself, and money poured in. He was a master of crowds, the soverei... | English | NL | 910140b343069cb628c280b11a12e9e1b76ea34bce94578ab9e6fe467fcf56fc |
Madame Marissa does not like to lose. She lost in the competition she had entered because of her slave. She blamed him for her loss as she had given him the responsibility to carry out research for her. It turned out the research he had done was not good and it led to her loss. She was furious and she crushed him into ... | English | NL | 1ada2d9f173451cf0af21b81b02ca00f69daa40627ff8f488c6bfac44f7068a1 |
1690 - 1764 (21 Elul 5524) JONATHAN EYBESHUTZ (Poland-Bohemia)
Kabbalist, author, and rabbi. He became head of the Prague yeshiva at the age of twenty-one and was considered a brilliant authority on many subjects. He was proficient in several languages, wrote poetry, and promoted the study of Hebrew and science. Eybesh... | English | NL | 8d2b443c956c874caeec42957f8de6e7e90f60b692dc930794d043fabdb18b9c |
Since the Oscar nominations were announced for 2019, Rami Malek was a favourite with the bookies to win Best Actor. The odds of Malek winning his very first Oscar was 5/6, while the odds of Christian Bale winning were 7/4.
Rami Malek’s role in Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury got him the nomination for the Golden G... | English | NL | 996df1caa8e0c242f6cbfdaba5faf6e7e43b7bad0fdae17505bd5e555f1400d1 |
It resembled this each time she got back home from keeping an eye on the Gatwick Escorts. She would run upstairs to her room and get stripped. Now and again she would put on babydoll night robe, or underwear and a robe, and in some cases she would simply slither between the sheets stripped like Escorts in Gatwick. This... | English | NL | b04551329e05afea93ef967bfb47fb3e6e3aca8ca87c1462c866a44026aea269 |
The African Clawed Frog is also known by many other names such as the African clawed toad, the xenopus and the African claw toad. It is a water frog that is indigenous to South Africa. What defines this frog from others is the distinctive three claws on the hind feet that are sharp and used to tear apart its prey. Know... | English | NL | e9e06c98276ea1d2ceddb9c9f08aacf18c1607e1ccc71577ff3c327f2bcf8de9 |
Everybody, at some point in their life, wants a miracle. But it is usually when all hope is gone; when every cure has been tried and every test has been taken; when all of our best thoughts and efforts appear to have been in vain; when we stand empty-handed, perplexed and desperate ~ at that exact point we are finally ... | English | NL | 27ea70b159c695faf0cf1034ef0aacd0639bb7baeececb22ee6271342a855c65 |
[Continuation of a letter begun on 7th January]
Thursday. We expected James yesterday, but he did not come; if he comes at all now, his visit will be a very short one, as he must return to-morrow, that Ajax and the chair may be sent to Winchester on Saturday. Caroline’s new pelisse depended upon her mother’s being able... | English | NL | 506b41975e0eaa025ac466bff55704776c9a8b2867746da7d10fc186ba02b590 |
Date of Birth : May 12th 1950
Whereas many stars are bitten by the acting bug early in life, Gabriel Byrne did not become interested in the craft until he was in his late twenties. Since then, he has worked steadily as a leading and supporting actor in a wide variety of Hollywood and international films, gaining a repu... | English | NL | 0960a8283917845bc381a99c76a935dd2d5daab796e83be36ef49aa8b234b548 |
It is finished! What’s finished? Sin is finished. You mean we can indulge in all kinds of base and anti-social behaviour and know we won’t go to hell? On the other hand, we can strip off anything that slows us down…especially those sins that wrap themselves tightly around our feet and trip us up…’ (Hebrews 12: 1-2) and... | English | NL | a04ed3ce96642f2e66c61df8d81e611c7dc349aaf4b6824498936bd824070cb9 |
eikon - blessing everyone
There are many things about Easter that do not make sense.
- The name: Easter, most likely comes from the goddess of spring and sunrises
- The bunny: apparently this comes from German Lutherans this was a bunny who wore clothes, carried colored eggs and judged whether kids were good or not. If... | English | NL | 6fc71312ad7d5c3f284422db98cfdcfdf52d3f7d3edef9c952e8aac246976803 |
guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 February 2010 18.41 GMT
Author, academic and wartime intelligence officer at Bletchley Park
Peter Calvocoressi in 1942. He was seconded to the Nuremberg war trials in 1945.
Peter Calvocoressi, who has died aged 97, was best known as an Ultra intelligence analyst at the Bletchley Park codebreaki... | English | NL | 881e002eddfd03fe4840a528e6d7ffdc409372b3a51acb64b8e18cd994b9950d |
The Dark Yin Seal: Release is a powerful sealing technique designed and created by Seiji Kuragari. Similar to Tsunade's Yin Seal, over a period of time, the large amounts of excess chakra he's consumed will been focused into a seal mark on the back of his right hand. On the release command, the seal will disperse and t... | English | NL | 12ba1f0003ed06e66b763281bd35719ef1d339eb00456a78e0677cd6003d39c1 |
Is Commodore of the Royal Cruising Club, which he was largely instrumental in founding in the year 1880. He was for some years Secretary, and has carefully nursed the club into its present strong position. Mr. Underhill was born in 1850, and educated at Chudleigh Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin, of which he ... | English | NL | 052b45eca6d98c3eb13786346e5d92faa19bdc9332b6e556f116349db73da3f2 |
The New Yorker, September 25, 1965 P. 46
A fiction of the absurd account of an episode in a love affair. Edward, from New York, had a red beard, was 34 years old, & had a wife in Maine. Edward and Pia went from London to her farm in Markaryd, Sweden. Pia was pregnant & vomited often. When Edward inhaled sharply there w... | English | NL | 898fb0538a19a1cf477d59c9e8c0ed762f20c78a7bb5c5de3029a0a3088df4b1 |
The New Yorker, February 21, 1931 P. 9
Eugene Leri, headwaiter of the St. Regis, who speaks Latin fluently and who has, had an interesting and varied life. His father was vice-mayor of the Italian University of Rome, and later became a judge in the ecclestiastical court. He conversed freely in Latin, but in time, the w... | English | NL | c94d7a0d896b8609473615bdc41d740988b7d5db527d5ce467c8e1bcd7729c05 |
The head of a female Amazon warrior has been found by British and Italian archeologists. The statue was found in the debris at Herculaneum, a town destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
It is the first time an ancient Roman statue has been found with the colors preserved. According to Jane Thompson, the... | English | NL | 5587f6c6dae2ac01a5f41fcad4584f986f218b88ca94df037d0b1e5fab8824d6 |
Born into a family full of teachers, Cara grew up in North Florida in a tiny community, where, like so much of the country, educational inequity is pervasive and truly based on one’s zip code. She left that community to go to college at Rice University, and she never considered becoming a teacher until she worked as a ... | English | NL | 05cead4e1b9243fd39c881c3a4a5b04233a7bc37610c8f38f0687f0ef5edeae4 |
Last year, I wrote an article entailing the reasons as to why I believed that the movie Birdman would be a golden opportunity to cast a humorous, satirical eye on the superhero saturated market of Hollywood. By virtue of the actors that had been announced — I had wagered that the performances would be strong and highly... | English | NL | 6e2a4d8ff4b1a844ce1a8fc80fdf4edfac9433cb26a0d2655020e60635f58e26 |
Hymns received by João Pedro. Bi-lingual edition.
About João Pedro:
João Pedro was a companion of Mestre Irineu, and sat at the door in his salão, João Pedro received healing from Mestre Irineu, after struggling for many years with disease and hardship. He received the hymns of O Menino Jesus in the evenings while clea... | English | NL | d3a0a145243d24e9cbe9355418bcba4ea06a95feec77bfc6498dc35f48c88d45 |
One of our folks, Thumper, was explaining to me his life. He said that he had raised fifteen children, paid all the bills and maintained a household for decades. After his final child was settled, he never wanted to pay a bill again, so he decided to become homeless. He lives a quiet, very simple life, and generally co... | English | NL | cc764f3de7feb9dd9b6f4e8dab66d75d319bd010405c901dfaddb0e6fb4cba83 |
The format of the work is interesting, though. Two of the sections (II and IV) explicitly end with a prompt ("What do you think?" and "What do you think about this?"), suggesting that what we have here is something like prompts to get students thinking about certain subjects. Indeed, you could take any of the four sect... | English | NL | e2cca00c5d2a11c6560ba1ee2acbf762d9e11790a00c38a43483ab060a7118eb |
I have always loved the sound of a rooster crowing in the morning. Their lively sounds wake up the morning like nothing else. Now where I live roosters and chickens and farm animals are not allowed to be kept, but one short road away from our neighborhood are homes on five to ten acre lots where you can keep horses and... | English | NL | 6da4c1a6d6e21578f7d0fb429df0097f285a89b147c6d175d3eafb7cf86fcd31 |
So when I took that class at Gulf War, I was immediately excited when I saw the information that the teacher was presenting. Sad to say I actually remembered having run across it a couple of years earlier, while looking for something else. It was one of those things that I planned to “get back to”. I tried to explain t... | English | NL | 311a91d20f405a9806ec8d51ee0cddc30f9e0031d846ebbcb1e7a0b397c0aef3 |
Academy Award champion for 1974’s “The Godfather Component II.” He also have scored 1972’s “The Godfather” and Franco Zeffirelli’s Shakespeare films. He was a musical prodigy from an early on age, composing his initial oratorio when he was 11. He started performing immediately after. He have scored over 150 movies, wri... | English | NL | f8498af619df974acc53c5820bf3193fd7801ba68348551009a65d9025225341 |
The Divine Comedy has been visually interpreted by countless artists in the last seven centuries, however, few have stood out. First came Sandro Botticelli, then Gustave Dore, Francesco Scaramuzza, Amos Nattini, and also the great Salvador Dali. Now, a contemporary artist, Dino di Durante, has taken the challenge again... | English | NL | e5ce4f4ba3ff51d3e97ef55788cc978558c57f7ad1f9f0747977da2a9172cc03 |
Oh, thank you Jesus for your ears that heard the sinner’s cry and the plea of the sick. You dear Jesus also heard the voice of the Father and made know His will and way.
Thank you Jesus that even today you hear our prayers and cry and come in your mercy and grace to meet our needs in your riches in glory.
The following... | English | NL | ac373136296a475d6ff6232a49915aaa61827dfbc1f4c783157d37a611510701 |
I don't want to give away too much about this book, but I'm happy to now reveal the title.
Book five will be called Consort to the Shadows.
I'm quite happy with this title, because it is something that people will be able to pronounce. I've heard all sorts of variations of my book titles before: RAY-fen instead of RAH-... | English | NL | bb1728c5d4c33ed214b00add90efb8dbbdbf1279765b7486c6f68a44c652cb2f |
We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the d... | English | NL | ed691e329af1e289f9a80c62ac0bfe7b8da0c889fe38f0e8f9bfc2025268076d |
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Trevor Boyer 1948
Born in Yorkshire 1948 Boyer studied at Wakefield School of Art following which he worked as a commercial artist. After 9 years in that position he became freelance, specialising in his childhood interest of birds. His works have been published in a number... | English | NL | 3a15f67ead194dd37d9893c06570a2635b8746bce139e4b14e49efebae147f61 |
The Painting that I submitted is titled Holy and was created as part of a series of works which explore aspects and qualities of the nature of God. When I painted this particular piece I was contemplating God's holiness, purity and what it means that he is triune. When considering these qualities we immediately become ... | English | NL | e9d11434bf135b685150e93e94e6266af820ef351590bf98fa0f8d71d90cab4b |
Kevin Williams thought cancer was something that happened to other people. At 35, he thought he was too young to get cancer. He felt great, was active, and lived a healthy lifestyle.
Cancer, he thought, couldn’t happen to him.
He was wrong.
At 35, Williams, a husband and father of two, was diagnosed with chronic myeloi... | English | NL | f59a9eac4f2bba5d8601657785946bad3076a887f77e71121a38809831c6d6cd |
(c) Terry Floyd Johnson, 2014
This morning, 8/21/1, around 5am to 6:15 am, I slipped into a vision-memory, which I’ve never had before:
1. I felt it is time, for Hitler to make his return, or the world caught up with the Time journey Hitler and his Mistress did, to bring them into the future, when the world would once ... | English | NL | 5bf64d52e1c0aad2a6d61809b0d9c6fed685b10dba46f7d9157a0470ba41f9a7 |
Following on from our last post Caii Julii Caesaris quae extant showed the wear of its travels. The stitching was tight and the pages were clean. The boards were in relatively good shape as were the marbled end-papers. But it was missing its spine and the cover had a few missing pieces.
It is always our goal to use as ... | English | NL | a59f754a780ac55c9ff20b8c51ce8b34ff873fe1d293dab68ecd291b0fb2245a |
Born in Bagheria, Sicily, Antonino Sciortino began to learn the craft of a smith in his brother’s workshop being only eight years old. At the same time, he becomes very keen on dance, attending a dance school in Palermo. At the age of 18 he moves to Rome to continue his dance studies while working as a smith to make a ... | English | NL | d69264a0816702ca83debd305476022fec79f7f72ece848d557f839d0fec3d85 |
Editor’s note: In this occasional series, the Reporter-Herald shares the stories of Loveland-area veterans of World War II. All stories are archived on reporterherald.com, in the roundup section found under the “Web extras” menu.
Walter Hayward came through the Second World War without a scratch, but he remembers when ... | English | NL | 590a4f7168c4c0f802fe5b5fc1ca95321dec4fcdefd2453dfc66e6d216e7db4b |
PFLAG is the extended family of the LGBTQ community. We're made up of LGBTQ individuals, family members and allies. Because together, we're stronger.
A native Californian, Kathy was raised in the Southern California area, graduating from UCLA in 1978, with a bachelor degree in Economics. Professionally, her career jour... | English | NL | 86995faea10d85a60c649abf7e227b256af9943f1f1a678337c6531521954ef8 |
The school was established as a women’s college by legislative enactment on February 18, 1891. First, it was a State Normal and Industrial School and it opened October 5, 1892. The school provided instruction in business, domestic science, and teaching with a student body of 223 and a faculty of 15 in its first year. R... | English | NL | ac6b27b4a984fa736b886da29f31c5af677fc6bd81d14807f4f4d587c2c04ba3 |
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Speaking of Jesus' Second Coming, Matthew 24:36 (and Mark 13:32) tells us, "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."When Jesus spoke th...
Unlike my theologian fri... | English | NL | 12f708fb35316506093ca9135ba9d0aa36d93f665c1218b269f00eeb00f5f5ce |
Anthony Swanson was the youngest son of an elite line of business royalty. He and his three brothers were held to a higher standard than most children. A lot was expected of them. The Swansons were a notorious bloodline of entrepreneurs - every Swanson was expected to take over the family business or create one of thei... | English | NL | f94ddc47e7292e3a58539329155bc684e00df2badec5316728d25798205aaac8 |
Oberon Dmitri Fox came into the world on June 10th, 2005. He was the only child of Elizabeth and Angelo Fox. Elizabeth and Angelo were Hogwarts sweethearts who fell on some hard times post-graduation. Thus, they had to delay the start of their child-rearing days, and so Oberon was an only child. It wasn't a shock to th... | English | NL | 29107255047cf33a797faaf169d0f7b2c7c963a1fd7d678bb1543b0b6701a986 |
“Greetings. We are the Arcturian Council. We are pleased to connect with all of you.
There has been a shift in the energy that you experience coming from your sun. You have made it to this point because of your willingness to go within yourselves and experience the light that is within you. As the light that is within ... | English | NL | 1585c75e0bf8c4c8754dfb454def967ca9ed9dc31329ed4b0fb42d231d35e5eb |
Acts 8: 26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” 27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone... | English | NL | 6a11062dc112d91999fa0c296ed0b5d2fabb55fa5109689ad9f8cf2fdaeb3360 |
“Hey,” Laurel said, “I love my outfit.” She spun in a circle so they could admire her from all angles.
“You are always beautiful,” Zander said as he lifted her hand and kissed her knuckles. “If I would have met you when you looked like this, I would have been afraid to do this,” he leaned down and kissed Laurel’s berry... | English | NL | d6d502dfc293b52e2a5c9d7d9ab415be6ce74daa7c97418a021df9af33f36282 |
Biographical / Historical
Robert Sage was born in 1946 at Dallas, Texas. In 1967, he volunteered for service in the U.S. Army. Sage spent two years in Southeast Asia, stationed at Dong Tam and Tan An with A Company 15th Engineers (Combat) from 1968-1969, and 571 Combat Engineers 3/9th Infantry from 1969-1970. Sage was ... | English | NL | 7daa31fd2af3275896f3c13326967184eb0fd384ba9e0e4a6a700f95cccad8a5 |
1207 it was divided between four Italian adventurers; after forming part of the duchy of Naxos in 1537, it passed under Turkish rule in 1566.
The public credit was pledged at home and abroad to fill the pockets of the adventurers, and the wildest excesses were committed under the guise of administrative acts.
He also d... | English | NL | 1e536b1f5c8e8267b34c270e1b46317f4ed69801aa83baca2a93934e3ced33b9 |
1890 – 1969 (August 2)
Patrick J. Campbell, son of Patrick Campbell and Katherine Heney, was born in South Philadelphia on December 13, 1890. Among his siblings were three sisters who became members of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Patrick received his early education in South Philadelphia’s Sacred ... | English | NL | 7b1e37149a4aa706d5d4da10b60ee2bb3400242dabb739b415d567cf6bea5fa1 |
NO. 17677 • 21 December 1927 – 29 October 1951
Killed in Action October 29, 1951 in Korea, aged 23 Years.
The tense, anxious days of waiting for Bud's next letter were over. The dreadful message came twenty four days from the date he had last written, October 17th.
Bud had been so faithful writing to us every week sinc... | English | NL | 782cd2e28b2ae497da70e1765eb629b6eb1322e36ed6b3d72e5d83bb8be0cff0 |
Based on a controversial-in-1851 novel which was apparently filmed before in 1975, though IMDB has little to say about that version. Opens in 1835 Paris, great viscount Michael Lonsdale is visiting sex queen Senora Vellini (Asia Argento playing Spanish, the best work I’ve seen from her) when he spies young Ryno de Mari... | English | NL | f8e21fabb759fe8e1cc9314cf2e6fb0b38f00f171108d769ac701dd8df84a0e2 |
Ten years later
“You did this?!” I screamed as the culprit giggled in my arms.
“Momma, stop.” She laughed.
“Not until you tell me that you did this.” I I told her tickling her as a smile crept on my face.
“No, no. Daddy did it.”
I stopped ticking my daughter and she smiled up at me. “Honey, you know daddy’s not here.” ... | English | NL | 152a2ef913428ffedc536f13359128d7a9a70928ec01e4ae76a863ab3113c109 |
At the National Archives, located at Kew in London, there are a number of documents relating to Scarborough Aquarium, the palatial underground complex designed by Eugenius Birch which opened in 1877 underneath the Cliff Bridge. The structure was destroyed in the 1960s to make way for the underground car park that stand... | English | NL | f28ff14c47b9cd196af1c77c4358aaba4c3972e89fc2cd0a215d40e6234301bb |
“Every minute, 100 people’s soul will go down to hell in China. Is there something that we can do to help them?” are the words that Francisco Borboa heard from an missionary. The start of a difficult decision between going to medical school and become a doctor or be a missionary to save souls in China.
Born in the year... | English | NL | cbc9a0a36d61a3a22bc916afb28955d85180c0b52c577f0a0da2e96daeb3e60b |
While there are tons of services out there. Finding the right one would require a good amount of knowledge to guide us into what we seem managing into it. San Antonio custom jewelry repair is something that you should do in every way that we find that seem quite possible.
Even though some of the things that we can find... | English | NL | 3aafbada0ac9f635b44f5cc1581f916b84129a0125f4bb74664b906746e53566 |
Who doesn’t like Twins in anime? Not only do they usually spice up the anime a bit, it gives the creators some fun plots to work with. Below are my list of favorite twins while watching anime since I was a kid.
Anime "Best of" Genre List
1. Ryou and Kyou Fujibayashi from Clannad
They are the purple headed twins in the ... | English | NL | d56d3e10764483d55a6493f51f2fdeea573e019e594b2078a620d48f2eb299c5 |
A black jacket hood pulled low covers half his face and hides his distinguished silver and charcoal hair today, but I can still see his thin grey mustache and beard. A narrow cheekbone rests on his right shoulder and his chest rises and falls in deep peaceful sleep. He has been curled up in a black leather arm chair be... | English | NL | 3486b121a686dcbca2dffe83799272fcaa44266719565a327a8a810afeeb49a5 |
[Police officers Sadler and Connie are attending a colleague’s wedding while in the middle of a major investigation]
‘Do you want to go for a walk? It’s at least another half an hour before we eat. I’ve just checked.’
Connie looked at Sadler in surprise. ‘It’s freezing outside. I’ve only got this dress and my coat. Whe... | English | NL | fdad057058f9acc6716e9b410ad44a923a2f62c1c05dbbf5d242a1971fb54056 |
NO. 17672 • Jun 21, 1926 – Jan 19, 2011
Died in Walnut Creek, CA
Cremated & Inurned
John Samuel 'Jack' Hamel was born on Jun 21, 1926, to Kenneth and Mary Alice Hamel in Toledo, OH. When he was in third grade, a learning experience caused him to come home and tell his parents that he was an artist. Later in life, he wa... | English | NL | 45a7515e2c42978d135ff5577c1b9a4afba5ab9ea09e6dd626d25151890e3bf0 |
A Voice in the Dark (originally titled Dark Zoey) is an ongoing comic book series that is written, drawn, toned, and lettered by Larime Taylor. The comics follow a young girl with an unexplained urge to murder those around her.
Taylor was born with Arthrogryposis, a condition which affects movement – and works with his... | English | NL | 42cb88ded021e89f630cffef66d9313b5efa42fbf4cde4b0a7409b7c828759be |
This is a hand-painted pack that is supposed to have been made in a prisoner-of-war camp in or after WWI, but it might also be from WWII.
The painter seems to have had packs made by Piatnik, Vienna, in his mind: You can see Piatnik's horse rider logo on the Ace of Hearts, and there is 'IN' and 'W' (for 'IN WIEN', in Vi... | English | NL | d4eca04e83e46437b1d05b1033fa57f99bfe2d08d770a26d63d64c000d7b13f7 |
This story of Abraham turning weary travelers into honored guests was the Bible’s main lesson on our need to be hospitable to strangers.
In spite of the heat, Abraham ran out to greet the strangers. Then, instead of presenting himself as a kindly host, he bowed, and he insisted that it would be very kind of the strange... | English | NL | 49681beab9ba577dbf016793e67620a895b31c97d380d15da584deef94ad3ff6 |
This month’s issue of Detective Comics was very enjoyable.
Writer John Layman uses this issue effectively to tell a single issue story that was entertaining from start to finish.
The story is about a former girlfriend of Batman named Mio, she is from from Bruce Wayne’s past, back while he trained in Southeast Asia.
Des... | English | NL | 6c577e04440756d2d2155251bb084eebc1b2b1e068668851392902c73814682f |
“As a mother, what do you think will be the best teachings you can pass on to your children?”
The mother is the first teacher of her child, as a mother I think the best teachings I can pass on to my children are good values that would lead them to a good path in life.
What the children have learned when they were young... | English | NL | 6c2b58b7988742b5a853a8efc43f9caa612569c5bd2bf2d1941a18e9b7bc14c7 |
“That thing is pretty old, isn’t it, Dr Hall?” Eve gestured towards his tatty leather-bound folder with the lightest little smirk on her face that he did not notice. “If that thing could talk, eh?” After a moment she wondered if she had actually cracked that joke out loud because he made no response. And that’s probabl... | English | NL | deac9efa560d7cb0ebe690d5ab3d1fcfc5e49ad496513b050a7e128ed042f7af |
Ronald P. Vargo has served as a non-employee director of our board since January 2012 and as Lead Independent Director since 2015. Mr. Vargo served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ICF International, Inc. (ICF) from April 2010 to May 2011. Prior to joining ICF, Mr. Vargo served as the Executiv... | English | NL | c02e7854c0a63d3da222b2916091afd158dc8a4d9eda2b07ba8b161da3742b25 |
This week I was assigned to read the following: Diary of a Madman by Lu Xun, Sealed Off by Zhang Ailing, and Man of La Mancha by Chu T’Ien-Hsin. These stories are completely wonderful these stories are. They completely submerged me and had my full attention throughout. The theme I recognized from all three readings was... | English | NL | 2d903ecfaad4f84ed70fbdae47d7952585089a87eab31286d3f23f9fd41a4a10 |
I exited my apartment and began to walk. Oversized flakes of snow fell in bunches all around me. To an eye tainted by trauma, the cascading snow mimicked the appearance of falling ash from an angry sky. Suddenly, even the peaceful freefall of porcelain white snow acted as a transport through time. I was now remembering... | English | NL | fc2af120d3a27b6957aef59c3f1c71ad1573a0da47a69a095725c9ad854a6b15 |
Guitarist brings Bach and bop to Bathurst Street
Though he is the master of all styles, Jozsef Botos’ heart is in classical guitar
Jozsef Botos takes his guitar in hand, begins plucking the strings and the sounds of the jazz standard, Out of Nowhere, fill the air of his apartment. Once free of the melody, he begins wea... | English | NL | 903e0f645d1d96fe2267b163ccabc0376f4d8a98d0427d3d40a2814616243aab |
I'm in fact a big fan of mangas, however Xianxia is not my type so I've checked out a few manga. Despite of this I will certainly inform that Tsuyokute New Saga manga is really excellent to a lot of manga fans and geeks.
This is component 1 of my review of this manga - About the Story:
"Tsuyokute New Saga manga" includ... | English | NL | 98beb139a821e28dc709e0e8de9fe3806a9bd544268dfea63c74bbbb93a468ce |
A game that Miru likes is our own version of hide-and-seek. I carry her on my back and pretend to be looking for her. Calling her softly then louder, bending over and looking around corners, in portico’s and behind trees. I continue and wonder what she would think. Does she realize it is a game? Does it appear to her, ... | English | NL | f282121dcea5afca82b847a0f122f990c12964f6d14ef614ba91339b6d879303 |
U.S. Supreme Court McDonald v. Smalley, 26 U.S. 1 Pet. 620 620 (1828)
McDonald v. Smalley
26 U.S. (1 Pet.) 620
APPEAL FROM THE
CIRCUIT COURT OF OHIO
Where the record from the court below contained the whole proceedings in the case and exhibited all the matters either party required for a final disposition of the case, ... | English | NL | 866c1716a5c7a89bdcc79d49bbfd527e4189a1f5ec7a014d7656164db37d265a |
Oedipus – Free Will Vs Fate Essay
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Oedipus as the Puppet and the Puppeteer The misfortunes that befall Oedipus the King in Sophocles’ play show a fundamental relationship between the will of the gods and man’s free will. The ancient Greeks believed that the gods rule... | English | NL | f3b89ff108bb58e92859fff98e7957c8b70ddb28ba9e4b9f5ffea2c116b985f0 |
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