On September 9, 1919, Boston Police Department officers went on strike at 5:45 p.m. Of the department’s 1,544 personnel, 1,117 (72 percent) refused to report for work. Governor Coolidge assigned 100 members of the state’s Metropolitan Park Police Department to replace the striking officers, but [...]
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May 22nd, 2020 - 6:55 am § in Misc.
Summer Soon
Original Cover Painting for Tarzan Comics by Mo Gollub – (Dell, 1955). This is a cover painting of Tarzan facing down a snarling leopard high in the treetops. Oil on artboard, from Jockohomo[...]
May 17th, 2020 - 5:09 am § in Misc.
Sunday Revelations
An elderly lifelong bachelor who lives with hundreds of other old, single men in a stylish European capital city has given strict orders to the world’s women and married heterosexual couples on the allowable methods for human impregnation. Dressed in flowing silken capes and a bejeweled silken hat[...]
April 19th, 2020 - 4:58 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Roots and Faith
“Murano” Pig in spanish, used to refer to hidden Jews after the expulsion of 1492. from The Smithsonian Some people in the valley were reluctant to confront such questions, at least initially, and a handful even rejected the overtures of physicians, scientists and historians who were sud[...]
April 5th, 2020 - 9:12 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: copying the Torah
The Hebrew alphabet is over 3000 years old and is about the same age as the Torah itself, There is even reason to believe it was invented so the Torah could be written by scribes but read by everyone since the Hebrew alphabet with the first vowels, was easily learned by common people. In fact [...]
March 8th, 2020 - 12:10 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: What Happened to the Buddhist Teaching of Detachment?
The Buddha Taught His Followers to Detach Themselves From Material Items. Among the surging crowds in the streets of Phnom Penh are Buddhist monks, who are angry about the mysterious theft of a golden urn, believed to hold ashes of the Buddha himself. As the New York Times reported, monks blame a [...]
January 21st, 2020 - 8:33 am § in Misc.
Female Hypocrisy
Three women Cosplayers are shocked. shocked A dozen women in belly-baring outfits stood silently in front of Dwayne Johnson as he promoed his new movie “Hercules.” Three women Cosplayers are shocked. shocked that they have been groped, followed and unwillingly photographed while [...]
December 29th, 2019 - 4:09 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: The Mother of G_d
from biography.com Little is known about the origins of Nefertiti, but her legacy of beauty and power continue to intrigue scholars today. Her name is Egyptian and means “the beautiful one has come.” Some evidence suggests that she hailed from the town Akhmim and is the daughter o[...]