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LIFE IN THE 1500'S
Post Date: 2008-09-06 14:11:00 by richard9151
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I can't verify this as absolute fact, but it makes a good read. LIFE IN THE 1500'S The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about life in the1500s: Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the ...
An American hero....A man's man.
Post Date: 2008-09-06 11:51:05 by Christian Soldier
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He wouldn't have ran off that bus in Manitoba when that sleeping young man was decapitated by that chink!
Russian archaeologists find long-lost Jewish capital
Post Date: 2008-09-05 12:07:02 by Eoghan
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Russian archaeologists said Wednesday they had found the long-lost capital of the Khazar kingdom in southern Russia, a breakthrough for research on the ancient Jewish state. "This is a hugely important discovery," expedition organiser Dmitry Vasilyev told AFP by telephone from Astrakhan State University after returning from excavations near the village of Samosdelka, just north of the Caspian Sea. "We can now shed light on one of the most intriguing mysteries of that period -- how the Khazars actually lived. We know very little about the Khazars -- about their traditions, their funerary rites, their culture," he said. The city was the capital of the Khazars, a ...
Katrina Diary
Post Date: 2008-09-04 13:30:57 by Tauzero
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Katrina Diary A first-hand account from someone who saw it all. by James Hendrickson Twelve years ago, I came to New Orleans, a 23-year-old professional cook, looking for something more exotic than my home-town of Minneapolis. What better place, I thought, than the opposite end of the Mississippi River: New Orleans. Over the years, I learned Cajun cooking and French/Italian Creole in French Quarter restaurants. I rose to the level of chef de cuisine in one of the legendary Brennan family restaurants, the same family that groomed Emeril Lagasse and Paul Prudhomme. I don’t claim to be another Emeril or Prudhomme, but the experience and knowledge I gained in New Orleans was priceless. ...
Historian suggests Southerners defeated Confederacy
Post Date: 2008-08-24 18:03:11 by Sam Houston
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Q & A - DAVID WILLIAMS Historian suggests Southerners defeated Confederacy Valdosta State professor pens ‘Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War’ By JIM AUCHMUTEY The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday, August 24, 2008 Generations of students have been taught that the South lost the Civil War because of the North’s superior industry and population. A new book suggests another reason: Southerners were largely responsible for defeating the Confederacy. In “Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War” (New Press, $27.95), historian David Williams of Valdosta State University lays out some tradition-upsetting arguments that might make the ...
Documentary: The History of the National Security State
Post Date: 2008-08-24 14:24:46 by Tax Pro Tester 2
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Documentary film: The History of the National Security State Gore Vidal, xCIA analyst Ray McGovern, Colin Powell's former chief of staff Larry Wilerson, and others. Watch the film preview here, and obtain a free copy.
CURTAIN COMES DOWN ON BAY MEADOWS
Post Date: 2008-08-18 20:46:11 by rowdee
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Bay Meadows' 74-year-long existence came to an end on Sunday evening. Bringing down the curtain, not only on the San Mateo County Fair, but on an era in California racing history, was the aptly named $63,450 Last Dance S. Just as appropriately, YOU LIFT ME UP (Lord Carson), from the barn of perennial Northern California kingpin Jerry Hollendorfer, rolled to a 2 1/2-length score. With Frank Alvarado in the irons, the sophomore filly negotiated 1 1/16 miles on the firm Longden Turf Course in 1:44 2/5 in the last race ever conducted at the historic facility. Bay Meadows owed its existence as a racetrack to William P. Kyne. In the wake of his tireless efforts, pari-mutuel wagering was ...
On This Day: 15 August (1945)
Post Date: 2008-08-15 11:45:17 by X-15
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1945: Allied nations celebrate VJ Day Japan has surrendered to the Allies after almost six years of war. There is joy and celebration around the world and 15 August has been declared Victory in Japan day. The end of war will be marked by two-day holidays in the UK, the USA and Australia. After days of rumour and speculation, US President Harry S Truman broke the good news at a press conference at the White House at 1900 yesterday. He said the Japanese Government had agreed to comply in full with the Potsdam declaration which demands the unconditional surrender of Japan. Supreme Commander General Douglas MacArthur will receive the official Japanese surrender, arrangements for which are ...
REAGAN'S AMERICA Chapter 8 The Poison Is Dumped Abroad. "There's a Fire in our Front Yard"
Post Date: 2008-08-11 16:32:27 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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TABLE OF CONTENTS REAGAN'S AMERICA by LLOYD DEMAUSE Chapter 8 THE POISON IS DUMPED ABROAD "There's a Fire in our Front Yard" 136 Once the enemy had been designated, Reagan's America lurched into its "upheaval" phase. The more Reagan prepared for war, the higher his polls climbed.(1) "He has Washington spooked," reported Time. "There has been nothing quite like this since Franklin Roosevelt." Visitors to America, they said, "would have thought Reagan was kind of a laid back god" from the support given his new get-tough policies.(2) The media fueled the rising war hysteria with bellicose headlines. "REAGAN SOUNDS THE ...
Live Not By Lies
Post Date: 2008-08-09 10:23:07 by buckeye
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Live Not By Lies Alexander Solzhenitsyn As printed in The Washington Post, p. A26 Monday, February 18, 1974 Following is the full text of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's essay ``Live Not By Lies.'' It is perhaps the last thing he wrote on his native soil [before the collapse of the Soviet Union] and circulated among Moscow's intellectuals [at that time]. The essay is dated Feb. 12, the day that secret police broke into his apartment and arrested him. The next day he was exiled to West Germany. At one time we dared not even to whisper. Now we write and read samizdat, and sometimes when we gather in the smoking room at the Science Institute we complain frankly to one another: ...
Mary Rose 'sank because Spanish crew did not understand orders'
Post Date: 2008-08-05 04:19:59 by X-15
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The Mary Rose sank because of a disastrous misunderstanding between its captain and his Spanish-speaking crew, according to new research. Forensic examination of the crew's skulls, which were found next the 16th century wreck in The Solent, has revealed that Henry VIII's flagship was mainly crewed by foreign sailors, thought to be either mercenaries or Spanish prisoners of war. Historians have always believed that the warship sank when it performed a sharp turn during a battle with the French in July 1545 and heeled so steeply that water flooded through the open gun ports. But the new theory suggests that the gun ports may only have been open because the crew spoke little English ...
Defence admits to nuclear exposure (U.K.)
Post Date: 2008-08-05 04:13:31 by X-15
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BRITISH Defence chiefs have admitted servicemen were exposed to dangerous radiation levels during nuclear tests in Australia and the South Pacific in the 1950s. The dramatic admission, made after years of denials, features in papers filed with the High Court in London by Ministry of Defence lawyers. The Sunday Mirror newspaper said the court papers reveal that the Ministry of Defence now believes that nuclear tests were responsible for the deaths of some British servicemen. However, the MoD insists that only 159 men were affected out of the 20,000 who were present. About 800 former servicemen from Britain, New Zealand and Fiji earlier this year launched a multi-million dollar lawsuit ...
Shah of Iran on Persian Gulf, and American Jewish Lobby
Post Date: 2008-08-04 23:04:04 by Old Friend
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NORTH TO ALASKA-JOHNNY HORTON
Post Date: 2008-07-31 13:37:03 by HOUNDDAWG
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Way up north, (North To Alaska.) Way up north, (North To Alaska.) North to Alaska, They're goin' North, the rush is on. North to Alaska, They're goin' North, the rush is on. Big Sam left Seattle in the year of '92, With George Pratt, his partner, and brother, Billy, too. They crossed the Yukon River and found the bonanza gold. Below that old white mountain just a little south-east of Nome. Sam crossed the majestic mountains to the valleys far below. He talked to his team of huskies as he mushed on through the snow. With the northern lights a-running wild in the land of the midnight sun, Yes, Sam McCord was a mighty man in the year of nineteen-one. ...
The Brothels in Auschwitz
Post Date: 2008-07-30 17:35:33 by X-15
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Fifteen minutes in Block no. 24 Houses of prostitution for the use of prisoners functioned under SS supervision in the German concentration camps for several years. Until recently, however, there was a reluctance to speak about them. “A prisoner functionary was assigned to stand downstairs,” says a former Auschwitz prisoner who was a client in the camp bordello. “You handed him a special coupon worth two camp marks. That’s how much it cost. After a cursory venereal-disease check, if everything was in order, the SS man on duty gave you the number of one of the rooms. You got a tag with the number on it and went upstairs. Each girl had her own room. Two marks was the ...
Did we really land on the Moon?
Post Date: 2008-07-30 09:30:13 by Christian Soldier
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This short video is just a taster. If you download the UTorrent program and go to torrentz.com I recommend downloading Astronauts Gone Wild. I was sceptical at first, but after watching all that Bart Sibrel has put out, I'm 100% convinced that we never landed on the Moon.
Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Post Date: 2008-07-25 03:28:08 by wudidiz
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Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Black lawmakers question college loans named for Confederate general
Post Date: 2008-07-25 01:25:27 by X-15
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A college loan program created by the Alabama Legislature in 1955 to honor Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson is still handing out money -- much to the surprise of black legislators who consider it an outdated relic. State audits show the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Fund has awarded 53 interest-free college loans of $1,000 each since October 1989. The longest-serving black member of the Alabama Legislature said he didn't know about the fund. "I don't think we should be spending any funds on Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis or any other Confederate leader. They fought to maintain the institution of ...
A Photo Essay on the Great Depression
Post Date: 2008-07-23 23:42:17 by christine
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www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/photoessay.htm
THOUSANDS OF CURRENCIES WERE CREATED DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Post Date: 2008-07-19 14:22:17 by Uncle Bill
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American Response to the Great Depression
CONVERSATION BETWEEN CIA AND EXPOSE AUTHOR
Post Date: 2008-07-16 10:00:05 by HOUNDDAWG
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Commenced: 11:10 AM CST
Concluded: 11:47 AM CST
GD: Ah, good morning to you, Robert. How is life treating you today?
RTC: Good morning, Gregory. There are good days and bad days. I’m not sure about today.
GD: Certainty is illusion, Robert. I was talking to an old friend of mine last night. He’s down at Norfolk. Was Navy but retired. I went to school with him. King’s Point and then the NSG.
RTC: King’s Point is Merchant Marine.
GD: I know. They have a reserve commission and they can activate it if they want to. He did. Nuclear vessels surface and then the NSG. He was the Naval Attaché in the Dominican Republic. Worked on the Trujillo assassination. But that’s ...
Nazi photos reveal devastation of WWII Allied bombing raids on Germany
Post Date: 2008-07-15 23:58:28 by X-15
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The aerial photos, which show Germany before and during the bombing campaign, have been described as the most comprehensive record yet of the damage caused to the country's pre-war cultural splendour. The pictures, which have only recently come to light, were commissioned by the Nazis to help with plans to reconstruct cities after the war. Pictures of Dresden show the spectacular baroque Church of Our Lady before it was destroyed by controversial allied fire bombing, which killed up to 40,000 people. The church was recently reconstructed as a symbol of reconciliation between former warring enemies. Other photos capture Stuttgart and its Flemish late gothic town hall, before most of ...
Dual Citizenship -- Loyal to Whom?
Post Date: 2008-07-03 07:25:11 by Disgusted
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Dual Citizenship -- Loyal to Whom? by Dan Eden Someone wrote and asked me, "Why are there Israeli- but not Mexican-American Dual Nationals?" Well, here's my take on this. I'd also like your views and opinions. Unless we are Native American Indians, all Americans have their origins in some other country. Both of my parents were from England. They were proud to be "British" but they were most proud of achieving their American citizenship. Sure, we had pictures of the Queen and nick-nacks with the Union Jack on them. My mother even celebrated the traditional 4 o'clock tea time and was good at making Yorkshire Pudding. In the late 60's my older ...
The Anti-God U.S. CON-stitution
Post Date: 2008-06-28 06:57:52 by Artisan
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Jesus states in the Book of Matthew chapter five verses 33-37 the following; >>Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: But I say unto you,Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. In other words, always tell the truth. Let every word you speak always be the truth, ...
THE NEGRO CRIME RATE: A FAILURE IN INTEGRATION
Post Date: 2008-06-27 23:07:13 by Tauzero
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THE NEGRO CRIME RATE: A FAILURE IN INTEGRATION THEY are afraid to say so in public, but many of the North's big-city mayors groan in private that their biggest and most worrisome problem is the crime rate among Negroes. In 1,551 U.S. cities, according to the FBI tally for 1956, Negroes, making up 10% of the U.S. population, accounted for about 30% of all arrests, and 60% of the arrests for crimes involving violence or threat of bodily harm—murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. In one city after another, the figures—where they are not hidden or suppressed by politicians—reveal a shocking pattern. Items: New York (14% Negro). Of the ...
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