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Posts Tagged ‘Misc.’
October 22nd, 2017 - 10:10 pm § in Misc.
Sunday Revelations: Why is the LAST Sunday?
Why is the LAST Sunday? from Wikipedia, Great Disappointment and Adventist In August 1844 at a camp-meeting in Exeter, New Hampshire, Samuel S. Snow presented a message that became known as the “seventh-month” message or the “true midnight cry.” In a discussion based on scrip[...]
October 17th, 2017 - 12:46 pm § in Misc.
Slur of the Day: An M word for Gypsies
Mustalainen (sing.)/Mustalaiset (pl.) derived from the Finnish word for “Black”, it is a word for the Finnish Kale – a group of the Romani people that lives primarily in Finland and Sweden. It is nowadays sometimes considered an offensive term, and in common and official context romani[...]
[...] October 15th, 2017 - 12:34 am § in Misc.
The AVE Challenge: Who wrote this description of Americans?
“They eat one another, the victor [eats] the vanquished,” he wrote. “I know a man… who was reputed to have eaten more than 300 human bodies…” The women are intensely desirable: “none… among them who had a flabby breast,” but they are also monster[...]
October 12th, 2017 - 10:44 am § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge
Who invented instant coffee? A. Ben Franklin B. George Washington C. Thomas Jefferson D. Dolly Madison E. Paul Revere[...]
October 11th, 2017 - 12:27 pm § in Misc.
Photography: Chocolate
Denise Acabo in her chocolate shop in the Moulin Rouge area of Paris Photography: Vladimir Antaki/Barcroft Media. See more of the remarkable work of Vladimir Antaki.[...]