| From: | Cornelius Andersen |
| To: | Hailey Vincent |
| Date: | 18, 0:16 |
| Subject: | Re: That was lovely |
Next time, I promise.
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Nat Turner’s first vision was a striking one: the Spirit appeared to him and told him to take up Christ’s cross and suffer in his place, metaphorically. Turner interpreted this as a call to arms, and began laying plans for a rebellion (which would eventually bear fruit in August of 1831). For the meantime, Turner continued to work in slavery, building his forces and biding his time, and growing ever stronger in his faith. How much he suffered we can only guess at, but based on the events of the slave rebellion he led, it must have been a great amount. Referenced in: Ah Yeah — KRS One
Yeah, it has been a bit more often since she got back from her holiday. I was thinking she was just catching up on work, but maybe there’s more to it than that? Born Israel Isidore Baline, the composer better known as Irving Berlin was 101 years old when he died. His family came to America in 1893, fleeing the anti-Jewish pogroms of Russia. They settled on the Lower East Side of New York City, where the family got involved in music and Irving’s talents as a musician first came to light. Over the course of his life, he wrote more than 1800 songs, which included the scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 Hollywood films, including songs such as “White Christmas” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business” and such classic musicals as “Annie Get Your Gun”. His music was nominated for Academy Awards on eight separate occasions, but he never won one. It doesn’t seem to have bothered him much, although he did retire from songwriting in the Sixties and spent the rest of his life in relative obscurity in his beloved New York City. Referenced in: Green Onions – The Blues Brothers
According to the history books, the Victorian Gold Rush – the industry that figuratively and literally built Melbourne – was kicked off with the discovery of gold in the area now known as Warrandyte in 1851. History records that it was a relatively small deposit, quickly eclipsed by the much larger deposits in Ballarat, Bendigo and Castlemaine. These history books are written by the same people who also write the chemistry textbooks that fail to include the 47-and-a-halfth element. Indeed, one searches in vain for a mention of this rare and highly valuable substance – a substance called, not coincidentally, Warrandyte – anywhere in the works of chemists. Alchemical textbooks from Muslim Spain tell of a substance known as warranivius which is believed by some commentators to have been an early discovery of Warrandyte, found at one small location near Bogana in Egypt. However, its modern scienctific history begins with the isolation of the element for the first time by G.H. Warren in a laboratory outside of Bristol. At that point, the Egyptian deposits had long since been worked out, and the hunt was on for another source. In 1851, one was found: at what it now called Warrandyte in Victoria. This discovery was quickly hushed up. Fires were artificially created in the area, and claimed to be an offshoot of the Black Thursday fires that were then raging nearby to the area. This kept people away from the area long enough for the deposit to be carefully concealed – a house was built over the mine entrance, and small quantities of the precious element were removed intermittently and stealthily. Although it was too late to avoid work of the metal’s discovery from getting out, it was put about that gold had been discovered at a place called Warrandyte, rather than Warrendyte being discovered at an otherwise undistinguished tributary of the upper Yarra. This scheme, masterminded by a leading family of property developers – whose name was also obscured, although they are believed to have changed the family name to something more French-sounding – was entirely successful, and few people today have any idea of the extremely profitable deception that was carried out in (and for) Warrandyte. Suburbs near Warrandyte:
Well, I’ll tell you one thing: being called Gerry doesn’t make me happy. I don’t understand you at all, Peet. You don’t even work here – why do you have such a chip on your shoulder about this place? Gerrit To this day, there is no clear explanation of his motives, but the facts in the case are these: on May 10, 1941, Rudolf Hess – the third most powerful man in Nazi Germany behind Hitler and Goring, flew a plane to Scotland, where he crash landed and was taken into custody. He had come on a mission of peace, trying to secure an end to hostilities between Germany and the United Kingdom. However, his offer was quickly disavowed by the German government, and Hess stripped of al authority. He spent the rest of the war as a p.o.w., and stood trial alongside the other surviving Nazis at Nuremberg. It seems that he had experienced some sort of guilt-motivated nervous breakdown, causing him to undertake his quixotic mission. It remains an open question whether his guilt was about the war by itself, or also about the Holocaust. Referenced in: Green Onions – The Blues Brothers
Voke
Sooner would be better. Can you do tomorrow? “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health” was first published by L. Ron Hubbard in 1950. It is a canonical text of Scientology, often referred to as “Book One” of the Scientological holy books. One of the best-selling self-help books in American history, it is also one of the most widely reviled, as the Church of Scientology, like all churches, does not lack for enemies. “Dianetics” itself is a mixture of biology and psychology, none of it more recent than 1949, and most of it soundly debunked – in some cases, even before the book was written. In particular, the book is frequently criticised for its lack of either qualifiers to its claims or evidence to support them. No doubt all these critics are merely dupes of Xenu and his thetans. Referenced in: U.S. Forces — Midnight Oil
A bog-standard amphetamine with a cool name, Jumpstart is one of the most popular stimulants in the City. It’s even legal for some professions, such as journalists. |
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