Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Nova Bréscia: Brescians in Brazil II
Família Delazeri, imigração italiana na Serra Gaúcha.
Jatir Delazeri
Resgatando mais um pouco da historia da família imigrante Delazeri, a qual faz parte da imigração italiana na Serra Gaúcha.
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In Portuguese, but very interesting photographs of this clan though the course of time. I don't know the origin of the music, or as to whether or not it was sort've a "Brazilianized" version of old folk music? Great photos at the end as well!
The only specific locations in North America, that I know of, which had a sizable number of Brescian immigrants was the American side of the Great Lakes region (such as Upper Michigan) and the Pacific Northwest.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Nova Bréscia: Brescians in Brazil
NOVA BRÉSCIA VISTA DE CIMA
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Nova Bréscia - "New Brescia" in Latin, founded 1964
Not surprisingly, wherever they go, everything rises up around them. The hard work, the intelligence, the creativity; a culture-bearing people. This is a rural area, the kind of place where there always is talk of the lack of opportunities, but they're the kind of people who just make things happen. The first settlers arrived in 1902, but it became official in 1964.
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Rio Grande do Sul - "Great Southern River"
Nova Bréscia is located in the Rio Grande do Sul state in Brazil, which is the southernmost state. Often people from Brescia, and other people from the Padan plane, immigrated in order to find affordable farm land. I once read that some Brescians in the early twentieth century had migrated to a then sparsely populated Turkey, probably for the same region. There are approximately 10,000 Brescians in Brazil.
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Festival Do Chrrasqueiro
Is the actual origin of the churrasquiero from the traditional Brescian spit? That's what this piece seems to suggest, although I don't know. A lot of people arrive for the festival; not every person in these videos is Bresican. The whole general region there is mainly Portuguese, Italian, German, and African. Most of the faces seem to clearly be Brescian. Outside of the semi-tropical vegetation, the town looks much like a town in rural Brescia. Such a different landscape from the Northwoods environment where my family settled, although it's similarly rural.
FestivalDoChurrasqueiro.com.br
'Lo Spiedo Bresciano: The Brescian Spit'
Os Churrasqueiros de Nova Bréscia
Encontro dos Churrasqueiros de Nova Bréscia
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Nova Bréscia[Translated by Bing Microsoft Translator. It's not an exact match, with Portuguese, Italian, and English translating back and forth a little too much in a few places.]
Nova Brescia is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul,colonized by Italian immigrants. It is located at a latitude of 29º12'52" south and at a longitude of 52º01'39" west, being at an altitude of 313 meters. Its population was 3,184 according to the 2010 IBGE census.
It has an area of 102.183 km².
New Brescia is known as the capital of lies, holding every two years the Festival da Mentira ("Festival of Lies"),where the person who tells the biggest lie wins, but who manages to leave viewers in doubt about its veracity. It is also known for being the capital of the churrasqueiros.
History
Municipality created on December 28, 1964, according to State Law Number 4,903. On April 11, 1965, the first mayor, João Arlindo Deves, was graduated, having as deputy Alfredo Silvestre Macagnan. The first chamber of aldermen was composed of João Sbardelotto, Benjamin Giongo, Guido Dalpian, Alcides Armando Laste, Isidoro Berti, Alcides Zambiasi, Maximiliano Salami and Arlindo Simonetti.
"Noi italiani lavoratori,/ Allegri andiamo in Brasile./ E voialtri d'Italia signori,/ Lavoratelo il vostro badile./ Se volete mangiare." We Italian workers/ Let's go happy for Brazil./ And you nobles from Italy,/ Get your shovel/ If you want to eat.
This was the spirit, this was the chant of the Italian immigrants on their ships. They were fleeing Italy like a prison. There was so much abundance of manpower in Europe that more than 10 million Italians immigrated to the New World between the 1810s and 1930s. In Brazil, from 1875 to 1935, 1.5 million entered, of which 100,000 came to Rio Grande do Sul, with the most diverse qualifications.
The immigration of the Italians is linked to the process of unification of Italy and the victory of capitalism over the "small kingdoms and their agrarian structure", deeply affecting the families who lived on the land. From Brescia, located in the Region of Lombardy, many Italians arrived in Rio Grande do Sul, giving birth to the city of New Brescia.
Exactly in 1895, the Italian families of De Maman, Mezacasa, Casaril and Daroit, coming from the municipalities of Bento Gonçalves, Antonio Prado and Veranópolis, climbed steep paths and settled in the locality of Arroio das Pedras, where today is the town of Linha Tigrinho Alto, an initial landmark of the colonization of the municipality of New Brescia, with its current 33 communities.
The city of New Brescia began around 1902, when the first settlers, the Italians born Santo Titton and João Dalnora, plus the Brazilians Felisberto de Freitas and João Machado, arrived there.In these places there were only woods and pickets. It wasn't easy for the young community of settlers to settle down. These pioneers came bringing their families and their changes upon horses. They suffered a lot to build their wooden houses, for the planks were sawn by hand. There were no bricks or building materials. To buy groceries not produced on site, it was necessary to go on horseback, along a road full of curves and steep slopes, to Arroio Grande, now Enchanted.
In 1906, more settlers arrived, among them Antonio Dall'Oglio, Batista Recco, João Magagnin and others who added to those who were already on site, in order to explore the land through agriculture. The main crops were wheat, corn and beans. The commercialization of the products was carried out in the neighboring cities, transported on mules that formed long fias on the paths through which only one animal passed at a time. Later, when the roads were widened and flattened, carts pulled by oxen or horses began to be used. Only in 1914 was opened the current road that connects New Brescia to Encantado; before, the route was made by the Tigrinho Line.
The first church in New Brescia was built of basalt stone, but had to be demolished a few years after its construction in the early 1930s. The current mother church, also built of stone, had its foundation stone laid in 1936 and was inaugurated in 1952.
In 1924 came the first doctor, Dr. José Lorenzin; in the same year the first pharmacy appeared. Until then, when necessary, patients who could not keep on top of a horse were loaded on padiolas until Encantado or Arroio do Meio. In 1938 the São João Batista Charity Hospital was founded, which operates to this day.
The years passed and the city grew. In 1964 came emancipation: New Bréscia ceased to be a district of the municipality of Arroio do Meio and gained its autonomy.
Shortly before a new story had begun: the saga of the churrasqueiros.
New Brescia is now nationally known as the land of the best churrasqueiros in Brazil. Countless are the houses specialized in barbecue scattered throughout Brazil; and there are countless in other countries, especially in the United States.
In the 1960s, the municipality had around 11,000 inhabitants. Today there are just over 3,000, due to the exodus of many residents, but mainly due to the emancipation of several districts, which constituted autonomous municipalities.
Currently it is estimated that more than 10,000 Brescians spread throughout Brazil and the world in various activities. They stand out mainly in the branch of steakhouses and restaurants, which followed the example of Albino Ongaratto, from Linha Alegre, who decided to drop the hoe, the fight against mountainous terrain, unpredictable bites in the winter months and the indomable force of prodigious nature, thus initiating a massive rural exodus, which we can call as the saga of churrasqueiros.Currently the municipality of New Brescia stands out for its quality of life. According to recent data, the HDI (UN Human Development Index) the municipality of New Brescia is in 1st place in the Taquari Valley and among the first in the state.
Monument to the churrasqueiro
New Brescia is also known for offering the world the best churrasqueiros in Brazil. The fame of Brescians is very great, even paying homage to the churrasqueiro in the city center.
On the monument there is a sign, which reads:
To you churrasqueiro who represent so well the Brescians community in every corner of the country, our gratitude and gratitude.
Economy
The service sector is the main economic activity of the municipality, corresponding to 52.4% of GDP. In second place, there is the agricultural sector, with 37.4% of GDP, with special emphasis on poultry farming, with New Brescia being the municipality with the highest production of birds in the state, with about 40 million birds per year. In recent years, the industrial sector has also developed, representing about 1% of GDP, with companies in the textile, furniture, timber, metal-mechanical and food sectors.
Culture
Sovereigns
The new court of sovereigns of the municipality was elected on April 29, 2017, in a ball held at the Municipal Sports Gymnasium, as a program of the festivities in commemoration of the 52nd anniversary of the city. Nine beautiful girls took the catwalk, but only three were crowned. The queen elected is Camila Laste and princesses Dainar Amaral and Jaine de Oliveira Simonetti.
Nova Brescia, Terra dos Churrasqueiros
Jatir Delazeri
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Thursday, May 14, 2020
Strawberry Moon 2020
Gate of All Nations
The Gate of All Nations (Old Persian : duvarthim visadahyum) also known as the Gate of Xerxes, is located in the ruins of the ancient city of Persepolis, Iran.
The construction of the Stairs of All Nations and the Gate of All Nations was ordered by the Achaemenid king Xerxes I (486-465 BC), the successor of the founder of Persepolis, Darius I the Great.
Building
The structure consisted of one large room whose roof was supported by four stone columns with bell-shaped bases. Parallel to the inner walls of this room ran a stone bench, interrupted at the doorways. The outside walls, made of broad mud block, were bedecked with frequent niches. Each of the three walls, on the east, west, and south, had a very large stone doorway. A pair of massive bulls secured the western entrance; two Lamassu in the Assyrian style, albeit, of colossal proportions, stood at the eastern doorway.
Engraved above each of the four colossi is a trilingual inscription attesting to Xerxes having built and fulfilled the gate. The doorway on the south, opening toward the Apadana, is the widest of the three. Pivoting devices found on the inner corners of all the doors indicate that they must have had two-leaved doors, which were possibly made of wood and covered with sheets of ornamented metal.
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QUOTE"Don't let yourself be controlled by three things, people, money or past experiences."
-- fb.com/be.positive.enjoy.life
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Not only does this suit keep you safe, but it makes sure you never have to hug people you don’t like again. It’s believed that this vintage armor wasn’t used to traipse through the Siberian woods in search of a bear, but rather it was worn when a bear hunter was seeding the area for bears so to speak. According to a commenter on the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation message board:
"I suspect it is more likely to be for bear bating than hunting, since I can't imagine anyone could run around the woods in it. It consists of leather pants and jacket (and an iron helmet) studded all over with 1-inch iron nails about 3/4 in. apart. The nails are held in place by a second layer of leather lining the whole thing and quilted into place between the nails."
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Queen of Hearts (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
The Queen of Hearts is a fictional character from the 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. She is a foul-tempered monarch whom Carroll himself describes as "a blind fury", and who is quick to give death sentences at the slightest offense. One of her most famous lines is the oft-repeated "Off with his/her head!" / "Off with their heads!"
The Queen is referred to as a card from a pack of playing cards by Alice, yet somehow she is able to talk and is the ruler of the lands in the story, alongside her husband, the King of Hearts. She is often confused with the Red Queen from the 1871 sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, although the two are very different.
Red Queen (Through the Looking-Glass)
The Red Queen is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's fantasy 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass. She is often confused with the Queen of Hearts from the previous book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), although the two are very different.
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A walk to remember ( Who's gonna tell you when, it's too late )
Dragos Danut
Video : proiectii din A walk to remember .
Muzica : The Cars - Drive .
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Fitness guru Jennifer Nicole Lee
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'Top 10 Most Famous Pirate Flags And Their Meanings'
Chris Edwards - Vispronet.com - November 2, 2018
Almost since the end of the Golden Age of Piracy in 1720, pirates have captured the imagination of the public. When it comes to pirates, perhaps nothing has captured people’s attention more than one of the most famous pirate flags in existence, the Jolly Roger.
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| Baháʼí Faith - Universal House of Justice - Israel |
Members of pacifist Baháʼí Faith persecuted in Iran
The Baháʼí Faith is a religion teaching the essential worth of all religions, and the unity of all people. Established by Baháʼu'lláh in 1863, it initially grew in Persia and parts of the Middle East, where it has faced ongoing persecution since its inception. It is estimated to have between 5 and 8 million adherents, known as Baháʼís, spread throughout most of the world's countries and territories.
Baháʼí Faith
Universal House of Justice
Baháʼu'lláh
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'Baha’i Woman Blindfolded During Interrogations, Imprisoned Under “National Security” Crimes'
IranHumanRights.org - September 26, 2019
Man Pressured to Make False Confession, Charged With National Security Crimes for Running Peaceful Baha’i Social Media Channels
A Baha’i woman started serving a prison sentence and a Baha’i man was charged with national security crimes for his peaceful social media activities amidst the Iranian judiciary’s ongoing persecution campaign against the minority faith.
Mitra Badrnejad (Zohdi), 51, reported to prison in the city of Ahvaz, southwestern Iran, on September 22, 2019, to begin serving a one-year prison sentence for being a follower of the banned faith after being subjected to “psychological torture” in the custody of the Intelligence Ministry, her son, Rouzbeh Zohdi, informed the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).
“My mother’s attorney defended her in court and noted that there was no evidence that she had committed any crime,” Zohdi said. “But the judge responded, ’I want to go back to the time at the beginning of the [1979] revolution when judges issued much better sentences against you people,” he said. “What the honorable judge was referring to was the mass execution of Baha’is in the early days of the revolution.”
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'Baha’i Faith Members Sentenced to 12 Years Imprisonment in Kerman'
Iran-hrm.com - September 23, 2019
Two Iranian Baha’i women, Kimia Mostafavi and Kiana Rezvani, were sentenced to a total of 12 years in prison.
According to the verdict issued by the Revelutionary court of Kerman, the Baha’i women were each sentenced to five years in prison for “membership in Baha’i community” and one year in prison for “spreading ropaganda against the state in favor of opposition groups.”
If the Appeals Court upholds the sentences, the Baha’i women would have to serve five years behind bars each, according to Article 134 of Iran’s Islamic Penal Code, which imposes the maximum punishment for the charge that carries the heaviest sentence in cases involving multiple convictions.
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'The Unraveling of a Billionaire'
Brad Puet - Grryo.com - April 11, 2013
The Unraveling of a Billionaire by BP and Victoria
Let us set the stage.
We both had planned a street shoot the other day. The plan was to take a favorite route in the city – Pike Place Market through to Westlake, up and down Pike and Pine St. The light in the beginning of the day was great but by the time we got out to shoot, it had become more overcast. We both didn’t have our Mophie packs and we both started out with less than 100%, with V starting out with a whopping 23%. We monitored the batt levels and did the best we could.
V: If you’ve ever gone on an IG walk with me, you know I generally come unprepared with a low battery and decaffeinated. This day was certainly no different.
B: By the time V hit under 10% it was time to juice up. Note: If V’s phone didn’t need a charge, our story would’ve never happened, so we decided to hit the Starbucks, power up, and catch up.
V: While Brad was off being gentlemanly, purchasing our coffee, I sat at a table next to Bill. He glanced over at me with a warm smile. He complimented me on my chucks and said he wore the same ones when he was a youngster. We laughed about how styles just recycle themselves, but agreed my kicks were classics. I noticed his formal wear and how he seemed out of place in our “Keens and Northface” city, but I appreciated the fact that someone would get dressed in a full suit and go to a local coffee shop to simply work on his computer.
B: Before I sat down I saw Bill next to the table that V had been sitting at. He was real focused on his typing, tapping away at the keys, one finger at a time style. He also had a great hat and was dressed up real dapper like. I opened up ProCamera, focused, set exposure and took a couple shots. Figured I had to catch this scene. Thought this would be the end of it, not knowing that the conversation with Bill would give backstory to the photo. Initially V and I chatted it up and Bill paid no mine to us, nor us to him. At one point, he got up and asked us to watch his laptop and flip phone as he needed to go across the street. We did. We continued to chop it up and again paid no mine when he returned. I cracked a joke that I had used his minutes to call Uruguay (chuckle here, chuckle there) but for the most part that was it.
Meet J. William Oldenburg.
Bill started to pack up his things and on his way out he wished us a blessed day and before he got too far, BP asked him for his name.
“Bill, Bill Oldenburg.”
Little did we know that we was speaking to a billionaire. Well someone who used to be a billionaire.
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J. William Oldenburg, among many other things, was the owner of the Los Angeles Express football team in the USFL in 1984. Upon purchasing the team--unprecedented in the history of professional football--he fielded an NFL-caliber offense really in a matter of months! The USFL owners were pretty much given free reign to spend and make moves at will. Overnight, top draft prospects and future Hall of Famers Steve Young and Gary Zimmerman were signed away from the NFL. Numerous other top offensive draft prospects were signed, as well as NFL players. They had territorial rights to southern California and the southwest as far as college and pro talent. They brought in proven veteran John Hadl as head coach, and legendary offensive guru Sid Gilman to work with the offense. Overnight they had a huge talented offensive line and fleet ex-college all-stars at every position!
However, sports isn't like other business or financial transactions. It's organic, and even the best talent usually takes a year or two to gel, especially as a cohesive unit. When they didn't immediately start dominating, Oldenburg asked Gilman what was wrong? Sid Gilman tried to explain to him that this was a very young team that needed seasoning. J. William Oldenburg had signed Steve Young to a 25 year/50 million dollar contract! Unfortunately, the only real accomplishment of the team was winning a conference championship game against the defending league champion Michigan Panthers. In one of the most exciting games in pro football history, they won 27-21 in triple overtime; now of course forgotten like the USFL which folded the next year due mostly to excessive Oldenburg-like spending.
J. William Oldenburg was the owner barely a year before his own problems caught up with him and the team fell apart as quickly as it was built:
Offseason disaster
Then, just as quickly as the Express rose, they fell. Midway through the season, the FBI began investigating Oldenburg's financial dealings. Multiple exposés by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times revealed Oldenburg not only had a habit of luring savings and loans into questionable deals, but was also nowhere near as well off as he had long claimed.
It later emerged that league officials had dispensed with their usual exhaustive due diligence of potential owners before approving Oldenburg's bid to buy the Express. They were so determined to ensure an apparently solid owner in the nation's second-largest market that they did not conduct any meaningful vetting of Oldenburg's finances. While Oldenburg had gained a reputation as the enfant terrible of the league, no one even suspected that he was a fraud until the FBI and newspaper investigations revealed that he had virtually no money. When he applied to buy the Express, he claimed to have net worth of $100 million, which on paper would have given him more than enough net worth to buy the team. Subsequent investigations suggested that much of that figure came from buying a piece of property for a discount, then selling it to a small bank that he owned for ten times its actual worth.
Late in the season, just days after the Times article, Oldenburg told league officials that he could no longer afford to pay the Express' bills. The league required all owners to post a $1.3 million letter of credit for just such an emergency; it tapped into the Express' letter of credit to cover expenses. The owners also agreed to chip in $500,000 to keep the team going through the playoffs. Even this wasn't enough to prevent their equipment from being confiscated after the Western Conference title game because Oldenburg had failed to pay an equipment company $13,000. By the time that Oldenburg had walked away from the team, office employees and landscaping contractors were going unpaid.
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Vixen - Edge Of A Broken Heart (Official Video)
12,319,761 views
VixenVEVO
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"The greatest female rock band ever"
-- Neil's Vixen page
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I've seen many of the bands that I've put up here in person. I guess I just never felt the need to state it here. I saw Vixen in person. They were right in the middle of a tour, which had to be postponed.
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What's the deal with humans and rabbits?Many people have a strong fondness for rabbits. Like it or not, rabbits are rodents, a common prey animal, and whose fur and meat are commonly used by people the world over. In fact, they're even harvested in part for "rabbit's feet" good luck charms. In other words, for an animal which we apparently love so much, we sure treat them harshly! On the trails nearby me, I see them forging at all hours of the day and night. A couple of evenings ago I was walking along a trail at 2 AM, and I encountered some of them in front of me. Sometimes they run, and sometimes surprisingly they just sit stationary... listening. I shined my flashlight on one of them. Momentarily I tried to comprehend the appeal of the rabbit. It was a small brush rabbit, brown-grey in color, with of course the long ears, white cotton tail, the whiskers and that munching action going on, the big eyes, etc.
One thing is for certain, they are not rats. Rats are a threat to us, and can literally ween themselves in human waste filled sewers, and invade our homes. A true threat. Rabbits may also be rodents, but they are not dirty in that manner, are no threat to us unless they have access to our gardens, and are aesthetically appealing. It probably wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that they're "innocent vegetarian gatherers." When I was a small boy, I used to have a rabbit's foot key chain. It was dried out, dyed red, and well made. Many years later, I think someone lifted it from my belongings. Last year in a lock store I saw the same brand of them. The exact same, obviously manufactured by the same company from many years earlier. They were different colors, but I had to have the red one again. I wonder how many rabbits have been, lets face it, sacrificed for the sake of "the rabbit's foot industry?" I'm sure they probably purchased the feet from companies which also process the meat and fur as well.
We view the rabbit as possibly the most docile animal. The very symbol of serenity. Being a prey animal, rabbits are never 100% comfortable with humans... although they seem to lend trust after a long time. I remember my late sister had a rabbit. It was relatively small, light tan in color, a female. One day a feral cat jumped right inside of it's pen and attacked it before being run off. Although she physically healed from the attack, she could never be held and petted again. She would even bite if anyone tried to pick her up. She was psychologically scarred for life. In comparison, cats are not prey animals. They are predators, with good eyesight, very aware of their surroundings, and difficult for larger animals to prey on. Unlike the always-the-prey rabbit.
I remember in the film 'Fatal Attraction' where the child's pet white rabbit was discovered bloody and boiling in a kitchen pot. Geez, that was worse than a person getting off'd in a film! Of course, the prop used was not a real rabbit, but there was a certain horror to it. You just can't kill white rabbits. I remember one time on a message board I was on, someone put up a photo of a fluffy white rabbit with dark red eyes. Albino I guess. Some white rabbits are albino, most are not. One young woman posted something like "If someone showed me a baby (human) and this rabbit, I would hug the bunny first." Wow. That's saying a lot for, lets face it, a common prey animal. Why do we love them so much? Probably because of the traits mentioned earlier.Within nature, within the cycle of life, from our own entitled perspective.... bad things can occur swiftly and abruptly. I remember going to camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains as a child. Five or ten minutes after all of us got off the bus, one girl was attacked by bees. Even in a wooded landscape devoid of bear and wolves, there are plenty of dangers. Another example, a bite by a rattlesnake could be extremely dangerous; as well as poison oak, sun exposure, risk of injury, getting lost, lack of food and water, spider bites, etc. When I was along that dark trail the other early morning hour, the rabbits represented the docile aspect of nature.... like symbolically running into a few little old friends. We love them because of their dainty aesthetics, their docile nature and energy, and that they are no threat to us. As pets, we can artificially protect them and preserve that passive aspect of nature in our lives.
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Full Video - The Nature of Witchcraft HD - Derek Prince
115,404 views - March 3, 2020
Derek Prince Ministries
In this video Derek Prince teaches about the nature of witchcraft by explaining the root, trademarks and the power of this satanic power. These are all important things to know when we fight the spiritual warfare.
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Take It from Someone Who Used to Talk to Satan: Halloween Is a Bad Idea
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Of course, these are--in my opinion--pitiful examples of theological anti-Pagan points of view. They're still interesting to listen to, to observe the smugness, and unravel the how and why? How could, for example, a 40,000 year old tradition be a part of a 2,000 year old tradition from another part of the world? Unlike Derek Prince or John MacArthur, John Ramirez and Bill Schnoebelen are opportunists who exaggerate their involvement in "Satanism" for financial gain. It's one of the oldest tricks in the book; creating a boogeyman in order to galvanize the target population into "fighting the good fight" (translation: $$$).
I remember in the western series 'Deadwood', the Native Americans were frequently referred to as "dirt worshippers." Well, define "dirt?" It's not the dirty streets of a downtown metropolis, it's the soil, the rocks, the water, the plants, the trees, the animals..... the earth. The duality of gentle and harsh. Evangelical Christians deny even being part of this world. Now that is one big difference in worldview. The various prevailing ideologies that we must live under, just like with everything else, believe in smothering and dominating nature. Every now and then a lion, bear, hippo, shark, piranah, poison ivy, cactus, hurricane, jagged cliff, blazing sun, earthquake, flood, or lightening give them just a glimpse of how comparatively small and weak they really are.
Just last evening, about 9:30, I was sitting out on our deck in the back having my last 20 ounces of water for the day. As I've said before, it's located outside the tall backyard fence and close to the edge of a state park. Finally we're getting some weather in the 60s at night, so it's comfortable to just sit out there for a long time in just a t-shirt. I heard some animals walking around in some brush out in the darkness. Just the fact that there are many coyotes about at night is enough to take notice. However, these were the sounds of smaller animals. There's a certain simple mystery there. The mystery of the darkness.
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Soap legend Susan Lucci
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'Let it snow! Winter storm drops snow on Haleakala, Big Island summits'
Ben Gutierrez - HawaiiNewsNow.com - February 6, 2020
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - A deep cold front dropped snow on the summits of Haleakala on Maui, and Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the Big Island, resulting in snowcaps on Hawaii’s three tallest mountains.
The National Weather Service in Honolulu had those summits under a winter storm warning through noon Friday.
A dusting of snow fell on summit of Haleakala, which tops out at about 10,023 feet. The road to the summit was closed for much of the day Friday because of icy conditions.
Meanwhile, snow accumulations of up to 6 inches is in the forecast for the Big Island summits.
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Like a lot of people, I've always been fascinated by snow topped mountains in parts of the world where you would least expect snow or ice. For example, Mt. Kilimanjaro in central Africa or the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. If you check the images in the above link, there are five images from the actual peaks of those Hawaiian mountains, which reflect the wide flat ground surface and are very different that the deceptive view from afar. If you were just beamed to the top of Mauna Kea, you wouldn't have the faintest idea of where you were, least of all Hawaii! During the winter I can see from my home the snow topped peaks of Mt. Diablo.
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Too Late To Turn Back Now
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose - Topic
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group
Too Late To Turn Back Now · Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
The Story Of Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
℗ 1972 Capitol Records, LLC
Released on: 1996-01-01
Producer: Bob Archibald
Composer Lyricist: Eddie Cornelius
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Reincarnation Talk with Phil Quinn
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The beautiful Lyssa Chapman
'Murders in the Night'
TexasMonthly.com - 2016
[Illustration by David Palumbo]
An exclusive excerpt from 'The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer' reveals a forgotten time in Austin history, when a series of brutal, unsolved slayings terrified officials and left them wondering if a madman was on the loose.
Beginning on December 31, 1884, Austin was the setting for a killing spree unlike any ever before seen in American history.
Over the course of a year, seven female residents, along with the boyfriend of one of the victims, were attacked with knives, axes, bricks, or iron rods. Police officers were baffled. They took bloodhounds to the scenes of each murder, but the dogs could find no trails. Private detectives were hired to conduct their own investigations, but they too failed to find any leads.
Because the first victims were black, Austin’s white residents initially believed that what was taking place was a “Negro problem.” Some city leaders theorized that a “gang” of depraved black men was committing the crimes, going after black women for reasons of its own.
But then came Christmas Eve 1885.
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'The most famous unsolved crimes in every state'
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On an episode of Investigation Discovery's Deadly Woman entitled 'Jilted and Jealous', the 1861 New Mexico case of Paula Angel was featured. Had this "crime of passion" case occurred today, she may have been sentenced to twenty years in prison, and only serve seven.
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'Top 10 Dreadful Accounts Of Women Condemned To The Gallows'
Adam R. Ramos - ListVerse.com - February 13, 2017
Capital punishment has long been a contentious topic in US history—and never more so than when the condemned is a woman. The following is a list of women whose crimes in a cruel and unforgiving era afforded them no leniency, leading them to the gallows.
10. Paula Angel
Martin Miguel was a 22-year-old man who had a wife and five children. He came from a prominent New Mexico family and though his life appeared to be the epitome of bliss, he secretly carried on a turbulent affair with Paula Angel. When he decided to end their romance in 1861, Paula viciously stabbed Miguel to death with a butcher knife. She was immediately arrested, and five days later, Gov. Abraham Rencher issued a warrant for her death.
She spent the remainder of her days being taunted by a jailer who repeatedly chanted, “I’m going to hang you until you’re dead, dead, dead.” On the day of her execution, she—along with the coffin in which she would soon be buried—was loaded onto a wagon and brought to a cottonwood tree. After the noose was fastened around her neck, the horses pulled the wagon away, leaving Paula to hang. However, the sheriff had forgotten to tie Paula’s hands together, causing her to desperately grasp at the noose.
The horrified crowd that had gathered pleaded for mercy, yet their sympathetic cries fell on deaf ears. Her execution was momentarily halted for the sheriff to re-tie her hands. The second attempt was a success, and to date, Paula was the only woman ever hanged in New Mexico.
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Execution
Angel was hanged in Las Vegas on the morning of April 26. No gallows were available, so she was instead tied to a cottonwood tree and placed on a wagon attached to a team of horses. Antonio Abad Herrera, the county sheriff and executioner, didn't want to tie her arms, so when the wagon began moving she was able to grab hold of the noose. Herrera attempted to pull her downward, but the crowd prevented him from doing so and cut her free. There was potential for a riot, as some in the crowd believed that she was entitled to be released, but order was maintained and the second attempt was successful.
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Back in that time period if something occurred which prevented an execution from taking its course, then according to unwritten law it was considered "an act of God," and the person was usually set free. The sheriff was breaking both protocol and the law by not tying her hands and by viciously trying to pull her down to kill her. It would have been interesting if someone had just covertly shot him in the foot maybe, so he probably wouldn't have finished the hanging and she may have just been allowed to go free. So many times individuals of great wealth can really mess with ordinary people whom they become involved with. I've observed it myself many times, so I have a little bit of a hard time sympathizing with Martin Miguel. Also, it sounds like his prominent family may have been the reason that the court system was so enthusiastic about executing Paula Angel.
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The case of Paula Angel received little contemporary attention due to the ongoing American Civil War. Angel was virtually forgotten until 1961, when an article was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican to commemorate the 100th anniversary. Some sources have described Angel as the only woman to have been legally executed in New Mexico. This is in fact only true of New Mexico as a part of the United States – two Puebloan women had been hanged in Santa Fe in 1779, under Spanish colonial rule.
Until relatively recently, there was no direct evidence that an execution had even been carried out, only folk and oral traditions. Historian Robert Tórrez found the original warrant for Angel's execution in the Huntington Library of California, but it initially appeared to contain nothing to suggest the sentence had been carried out. However, it was subsequently determined that the microfilm of the warrant only included one side. When the original document was examined, Sheriff Herrera's handwritten confirmation of execution was found on the reverse.
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A comprehensive account of all information in this case can be found on the Paula Angel webpage at Murderpedia. According to folklore, the cottonwood tree used to hang Paula Angel shed blood red leaves after her hanging. Usually the fallen leaves are a golden color.
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Eric Clapton - "Forever Man" [Official Music Video]
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Tarpon Springs: The "Greek Island" of the United States
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http://GreekReporter.com - Where the Atlantic Ocean ends, the Aegean sea begins. Discover Tarpon Springs, the most Greek village in the United States, created thanks to a few sponge divers that arrived in Florida in the early 1900's and thriving till today.
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Angels: Messengers of The Gods (Documentary)
952,390 views - March 11, 2018
DocSpot
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'Wolf howls are like unique fingerprints that can be identified by computers'
Michael Graham Richard - TreeHugger.com - July 25, 2013
New computer software can recognize individuals with 100% accuracy
Wolves are always controversial, but as top predators in many ecosystems, they play an important role that shouldn't be underestimated (like sharks in the sea, another controversial species that needs our help). There's an inuit saying that goes something like: "The wolf keeps the caribou strong."
Conservationists who study wolves to better understand and protect them need to follow wolves around, but that's not easy. The most reliable way is to capture a wolf and fit it with a GPS collar, but that's not easy to do and costs a lot of money. Or they can look for wolf tracks in the snow (when there's snow), but that's also definitely not ideal.
But now, thanks to sophisticated software, recordings of wolf howls - calls and responses - can be analyzed and individual wolves can be identified with a very high degree of accuracy.
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'Return of the Wolf' (Paula Wild; 2018)
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
5,965,019 views - January 31, 2013
The Best Of - Home Of Classic Music
Southern rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded "Simple Man" in 1973 and it featured on their debut album
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