The Lyrids reach their peak on the night of April 21-22, 2021, when you can expect to see an average of 10 meteors per hour in dark, clear skies between midnight and dawn.
According to 'Seasons & Cycles', the best time will be just before dawn
Every year on Easter, legend has it that a long-eared, cotton-tailed creature comes to deliver festive baskets full of treats, toys, and delicious candy to children — and even lays colorful eggs for them to find! Among other Easter traditions like hot cross buns and egg hunts, the Easter Bunny has long been a well-known and popular symbol associated with the religious holiday — but have you ever wondered about the Easter Bunny's origins, and how exactly the cute, fluffy woodland creature became such a prevalent symbol of Easter?
Surprisingly, there's a lot of history behind the mythical story of an egg-bearing rabbit on Easter Sunday (and it's not just because he's cute!). The Easter Bunny actually has a long and deeply rooted history in the Christian holiday — and even in pagan traditions. Here's what to know about the fascinating origins of the Easter Bunny before you welcome the holiday with chocolate rabbits and plenty of bunny-shaped treats — including where the character comes from, why he's associated with Easter eggs, and how he became such a beloved symbol of the holiday over the years.
On the previous piece, I mentioned the golden moonlight that one can see when the night conditions are right. I also mentioned the illusion of "green moonlight" under the same conditions. While adding that there was an almost theoretical "blue moonlight" which possibly can be perceived. Just after publishing that, on Saturday, I went on a twilight/night hike with perfect conditions: almost full moon, particularly bright moonlight, moon positioned above at a slight angle, no wind or breeze, and a clear sky.
Upon reaching one point with a fabulous night view of the San Francisco Bay, I noticed that I could make out that the water was of a dark blue color under the moonlight in certain spots; not the blue water when illuminated by the sunlight. That got me thinking about what I had written, that there was at least the illusion of blue moonlight. Just by the night sky being of a dark blue hue also leads to an additional concept of blue light.
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The little brush rabbits are very active at night, and can be see along the trail. Although rabbits are common prey animals, and I've observed so many of them over the years, I had never seen any evidence of any of them perishing. The very next day, yesterday, I came across a body; probably a victim of coyotes. Ever since the coyote population increased in recent years, there has been an absence of wildcats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes in the area. They were once at least easy to spot along the trails.
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The beautiful Traci Lords
Still known more for what she did as an underage youth rather than for 98 mainstream and b-film characters as an actress, and other bodies of work as a producer, director, composer, writer, voice characters, and makeup artist in the industry; as well as a recording artist, model, activist, and business woman. Even the IMDb at least allows her "Traci Lords is a study of a determined and complex woman with a very controversial background."
In this compilation upload, I selected just some of the times throughout the years when Anthony talks about his bizarre childhood, and his doting mother and father.
"Holy shit, Ant's stories are national treasures. I'm laughing so hard I need my inhaler." -- xcalabur18
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Classic reality TV
Two programs, which I guess what could now be called classic reality television, are back again with all new episodes on A&E. 'Intervention' premiered on March 15, and 'Storage Wars' will premiere on April 20. It never ceases to amaze me how obstinate those with narcotic abuse problems are on this program, but if they didn't react in that manner nobody would watch. 'Storage Wars' has quite a cast of characters. I was thinking that all of the other storage auctions out there have probably been so flooded with people since this program started ten years ago.
I've called thousands of scammers over the past few years and this guy is easily the angriest. After spending 10 hours with "Steve" I'm pretty sure he lost his mind... and his voice.
One Shining Moment · David Barrett One Shining Moment (Ncaa Basketball Anthem) ℗ 2004 End Around Records Released on: 2004-03-09 Music Publisher: Hodges Song Supply / ASCAP
Festival of Tana: May Eve (evening of April 30th) and May 1st.
There are four springfests coming straight out of the ancient pagan world: Imbolc (February 1), Lupercalia (February 15), Ostara (March 19-23), and Beltane (May 1). Imbolc was the start of spring to the ancient Gaels. I suspect that after being snowed in for several months, it was more in anticipation of the coming warm weather. Roman Lupercalia was originally more pastoral, based on the approaching spring weather allowing for livestock to graze. Ostara was the start of spring to the Teutons. Beltane was the actual start of warm weather in more of practical way of looking at it.
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Full Worm Moon
The evening of Sunday, March 28
However, occurring at 2:50 PM est, it will basically be just as bright on Saturday night/Sunday morning. Technically, the point at which the Moon is “full” lasts only an instant. To the naked eye, though, the Moon can appear to be full for upwards of three days. I take this to usually mean the evening prior, the official date, and the evening after.
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'Christmas Eve', an 1878 painting by J. Hoover & Son.
Below another 'Christmas Eve' by the same artists. In many locations, for example the Midwest, it's still very much snowing throughout March.
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DVDs outdated!!?
As you've may have noticed, DVDs of full seasons of television programs are often simply no longer available. It doesn't seem very long ago that so many people were in love with the idea that if they couldn't get to see their favorite programs, that they could just purchase the whole season and either binge watch them or just watch at their own leisure. There were many who preferred to wait and just buy the DVD at the end of the season. Well, many sources have announced that with streaming services available online, DVDs are an outdated media. Part of the idea is that the cost to prepare all of these programs for distribution doesn't not match the projected sales anymore.
This still doesn't seem like a satisfactory answer to me! Are people so shallow what they can no longer distinguish between the latest streaming fad to programs that they would like to own? Why do they see some streaming service as their own electric library? What if someone doesn't want to watch movies online? I guess I just can't quite grasp as to why they don't have specific movies and programs they wish to own? I get the music thing, but books are the same thing. It seems impractical to me to require some electronic reader to read a book; yet another device that must be charged, instead of just pulling a book off the shelf for reference.
I know that if someone wanted to purchase the entire collection of say 'Bonanza', that it would be available. However, the half dozen or so tv series that I wish to own are not available. A couple of them aren't even available on Amazon Prime; although I suspect that they would be available on the new Discovery Plus streaming service. Why I want to save just these very few tv series is my own business! I just want to own them. I have also read that as time has gone on, the producers are more and more reluctant to release tv series because they can easily be copied, and they want to horde the product for themselves... to maximize the profit. I don't see why Amazon, Discovery, or Netflix can't just make films and tv programs available to burn onto CDs.... and just charge extra for the service? They could overcharge and make a mint! Each party could get what they want.
Although there always seems to be what are almost "built in excuses" whenever something is discovered beyond what is known to the public, such as the Zuiyo-maru carcass or the Montauk Monster, the preponderance of evidence tells a different tale.Although its doubtful that a plesiosaur type creature--with a brain the size of a walnut--would have the cunning to remain out of sight from humans, I think there are large deep sea creatures.
Nothing Gold Can Stay is a poem by Robert Frost (1874-1963), written in 1923.
In The Outsiders, it is recited by Ponyboy Curtis to Johnny Cade while they are hiding at the old church.
Johnny later refers to the poem in his last words to Ponyboy "Stay gold!" and in his letter which Ponyboy received after Johnny's death.
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'Nothing Gold Can Stay' Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
This park’s logo features the head of a Eurasian lynx, and it’s fitting that the official symbol is an animal and not, say, a broad forest or tall mountain. Sure, there’s plenty of countryside to admire in Poland’s Bieszczady National Park, and because the place is rather remote, the animals are abundant. Aside from the iconic Eurasian lynx, bears, grey wolves, and wild boars flourish here. The European wildcat also roams the area—a rare species that looks uncannily like a slightly stouter, fluffier, housecat. (Sorry, they can’t be domesticated.)
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"Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
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The mysterious world of root systems
Root systems--from all types of trees, bushes, shrubs, plants, grass, etc--are far more complex than had previously been known. In the same manner in which a tree branches into the air, it also branches into the soil. All of these root systems mingle, merge, and become tangled in the world that we cannot see. For example, wines which are produced from vines planted nearby eucalyptus trees take on a "eucalyptus taste." Why would that be? All of the different roots, great and small, absorb water and nutrients from the soil. It's possible and probably likely then that the minerals and nutrients from decomposed eucalyptus leaves, through absorption, passes that taste through the vines and to the grapes.
However, it's becoming established now that there is much more to this subject. All of the various trees, shrubs, plants, etc.... actually cooperate and help each other! For example when one plant life-form is in need of a particular nutrient or mineral, it communicates this need through a chemical process, and one of the other plant like-forms tied together within it's root system will actually pass it onto them. I know, it's hard to believe, but it's true. Often it's the larger plant life-forms which cater to the smaller ones in this manner, and this system revolves around the trees. The trees are the gentle giants around which this process works. It's like a loving community of selfless lifeforms, always providing for each others needs if they can.
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The Green Moon
Sometimes under a clear night sky with a prominent moon, especially a full or almost full moon during the warm weather of a still night, the moonlight appears in a light golden color as it illuminates the landscape. Through the imagination, and there could be a scientific basis for it, it can appear as an almost light bluish light.
During the past several evening hiking, I did observe that the moonlight actually appeared in a greenish hue. This was due to the very green foliage of spring. This illusion of green light still seemed magickal to me amid the stillness; the moon lovingly shining light upon the new spring life.
I tend to believe that moonlight itself is healthy for you. The sunlight reflecting off the moon represents the energy from an intermingling of male and female spiritual energy. I think through this reflected light, the moon passes down the gentleness of the divine feminine to the life on earth. Even if we just look at this within the confines of modern science, in the same manner that a house plant can absorb and shift its leaves toward indirect sunlight, plants are indeed absorbing some nutrients from the moonlight... even if it's perhaps just 15% of what indirect sunlight can provide it during the daylight hours. Of course, this would be only if the conditions were available (clear sky, prominent moon above, etc). However, I think there is much more to this.
More than mere moonlight, a prominent or full moon deeply affects the magnetic pull of the earth; for example the tides, or even how it affects our bodies. Although it does not have the brightness of the divine masculine energy of the sun, it more than makes up for it in other ways. It affects menstrual cycles, now proven by mainstream science. It affects our chakras, our blood, our brains, body functions, our energy, our emotions, etc. This is all separate from the moonlight itself; still I think our health can also benefit by absorbing the moonlight.... including spiritual and mental health.
At the RCA Studio's , in New York. It was only Take #28, that elvis was completely satisfied with, so this is the one. It's written by; Otis Blackwell. It became a big hit, all over the world, and is therefor aviable on a lot of cd's.
Here are some of the including: Elvis 75 - 100 Track, ELV1S 30 #1 Hits, Hitstory - Elvis Presley, The King Of Rock N' Roll - The Complete 50's Masters, Artist Of The Century - Elvis Presley, Elvis - The king and on The Essential ELVIS PRESLEY- which is where thisversion is from.
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You know I can be found, sitting home all alone, If you can't come around, at least please telephone. Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.
Baby, if I made you mad for something I might have said, Please, let's forget the past, the future looks bright ahead, Don't be cruel to a heart that's true. I don't want no other love, Baby it's just you I'm thinking of.
Don't stop thinking of me, don't make me feel this way, Come on over here and love me, you know what I want you to say. Don't be cruel to a heart that's true. Why should we be apart? I really love you baby, cross my heart.
Let's walk up to the preacher and let us say I do, Then you'll know you'll have me, and I'll know that I'll have you, Don't be cruel to a heart that's true. I don't want no other love, Baby it's just you I'm thinking of.
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true. Don't be cruel to a heart that's true. I don't want no other love, Baby it's just you I'm thinking of.Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel
-- Carl Jung, from lecture: 'Ending Your Inner Civil War'
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"This is who I'm making fun of... when I make a joke on twitter on the day of a tradgedy. The people who see something horrible happen in the world, and they run to the internet, and they run to their social media, their facebook, their twitter, whatever they got, and they all write down the exact same thing: 'My thoughts and prayers. My thoughts and prayers with the people in Aurora. My thoughts and prayers with the families in Boston'. Do you know what that's worth? F*****g nothing. "F*****g less than nothing. Less than nothing. You're not giving any of your time, your money, or even your compassion. All you are doing. All you are doing is saying: 'Don't forget about me today'." -- Anthony Jeselnik on Netflix
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If You Understand This Everything Will Make Sense | Gregg Braden
http://www.missinglinks.com Explore the deep truths of our origin, history, destiny and fate, with celebrated author and researcher Gregg Braden. Connect science and spirituality to reveal a new understanding of humanity’s history, the origins of civilization and the power of our heart’s intelligence.
We are playing a necessary learning game here in order for our soul to ascend
Our life plan within the simulation of this world provide and facilitate our true purpose here
"When we think about our simulation, and we think of the descriptions of Heaven, the word itself was left to us about twenty-five hundred years ago. What does that mean to us in terms of the simulation? Well, simulation is a localized experience, but it tells us:
'We're not really here. You're not really here. We exist somewhere outside of the simulation, and we are projecting our energetic body--what we call our spirit, or our soul, or our avatar--into this experience so we can learn something here that apparently we cannot learn where we come from, and apparently we're going to need where we are going'."
-- Gregg Braden; five-time New York Times best-selling author, researcher, educator, lecturer and internationally renowned as a pioneer bridging science, spirituality, and human potential
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Duncan Trussell Explains Ritual Magick to Joe Rogan
The Carpathian Mountains are the second largest mountain range in Europe that stretch across 7 countries, one of them being Ukraine! My diverse tour with Cobblestone Freeway allowed me to breathe in the fresh air of the Eastern Carpathian Mountains and enjoy natural beauty, traditional villages, and experience a lifestyle that has remained unchanged for centuries. The journey was a memorable one and here are my favorite highlights!
[Written contributions by Wendy Andrew & Rod Groom]
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Angelic Intervention - "The Adjustment Bureau?"
In 1975, in downtown San Francisco, a 19 year old Katie Mahon was walking down a busy street when she was approached by a man who asked her for help. Unbeknownst to her, this man--if we should even allow him the title of "man"--was none other than Ted Bundy.... as in very literally.. Ted Bundy himself! Through continued pleading using his psychopathic charm, Bundy was able to lure the naive teenager up into an empty floor of a hotel to a pay phone. I don't recall what he wanted in particular, but it had to do with a story about needing to make an emergency phone call. When completely alone, his demeanor completely changed. Katie Mahon was about to die.
Prior to Bundy's execution in Florida, he tried to barter for his life by claiming that there were many other victims; that he could show authorities the burial locations in numerous western states, including California. Although thought to have murdered about forty women, it's likely that it was more like one hundred. He was one of four known male serial killers who probably murdered 80-100 females (Gary Ridgway, Rodney Alcala, Samuel Little). A man who once had to spend the night with Bundy in a jail cell--not a prison cell, but a county jail cell which temporarily housed those awaiting legal processing--told an interesting story about Bundy. He said that Bundy had started to transform in some way. That his facial expression became eerie, his muscle tone and posture changed, and he started to sweat and stink. This gives some insight into how this ordinary looking person could become a murderous beast. His parents were father-daughter, which must have contributed to what he became.
Alone on a deserted hotel floor with Ted Bundy who was already going through his eerie transformation, there is little question that Katie Mahon was about to be murdered. Bundy no doubt had chosen this location prior. He was just about to take another victim. Suddenly the elevator just rings and opens! What was seemingly a man in a bellman's uniform then looked at them and said: "Katie, don't you think it's time to get going now?" Still half in shock, she walked towards the elevator and got in as Bundy stood there, and they retreated to safety. He escorted her back onto the street, and when she turned to thank him... he had vanished.
There are only two possibilities: 1) This bellman was actually a man with psychic abilities who somehow foresaw the details of what was to happen, and acted on it. I suppose that it was possible that he really could have been a bellman who worked at the hotel; 2) This bellman was actually an angel who intervened for some reason, and to me that's much more likely to have been the case. For whatever reason, she was not supposed to die that day. It simply was not meant to be, and an angel intervened. I suspect that had Bundy still attacked her, that the angel would have been able to stop him.
This wasn't entirely unlike the film 'The Adjustment Bureau', where adjustments must be made to keep things straight. Once I lost about three hours, and maybe it was part of some adjustment; perhaps to fix a timeline. Although ultimately I think our system of lifelines is good, we are here to learn lessons for soul ascention, and that unfortunately includes suffering and tragedy. The chief purpose of this world to for our souls to have learning experiences. That's why this coming corporate-marxist surveillance society cannot work. In the coming years something will occur and it was disappear, and there will be nothing that the power structure can do about it.. just like there was nothing that Ted Bundy could do about it on that day. It simply was not meant to be.
I've really only seen her in 'Gone Girl' and 'Jack Reacher', but I can't really get a take on her. She appears a little mousy in photographs, but she can pull off the femme fatale role. She's intelligent, alluring, and can get rough.
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'3 From Hell'
I finally watched '3 From Hell'. Rob Zombie went full-on Charlie Manson with this, and the ending leaves the door open for more. Sadly, Sig Haig wasn't really able to continue his role as Captain Spaulding, a great B-horror character. Baby was outright deadly in this, if she wasn't enough before. Sheri Moon Zombie is an underrated actress, being somewhat ridiculed for appearing in all of Rob's film. In the right role, she can be bigger than life. Bill Mosely has played so many creepy characters, but he's a bigger-than-life alpha-bad guy as Otis Driftwood; his appearance is completely different than in 'House Of 1000 Corpses'. The series had stated out as more of a dark-metaphysical flick.
Scientists have extracted DNA from the teeth of mammoths that roamed the Earth 1.2 million years ago.
The prehistoric DNA samples, which were recovered by scientists from Sweden, far exceed the age of the 700,000-year-old DNA samples previously recovered from ancient horse remains.
The 1.2 million-year-old DNA was extracted from the teeth of three separate mammoth specimens that had been unearthed in the Siberian permafrost all the way back in the 1970s.
"This is by a wide margin, the oldest DNA ever recovered," said Prof Love Dalen - an evolutionary geneticist from the Center for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm.
I believe a lot of people think of mammoths as an animal which existed up to a mere 10,000 years ago, back to the last glacial movement. It's hard to imagine this animal being around 1.2 million years ago, and no doubt beyond that. What's interesting is that the DNA was extracted, which means that anything is possible in the future. These particular mammoths most likely can be cloned at some point; a giant prehistoric mammal which would be the larger than any land animal alive today. I'm aware that the concept is to have a female elephant serve as a stand-in surrogate for it using modern cloning techniques--but the offspring would be something of a hybrid apparently, since there are no mammoths to use--but there will eventually be a way to skirt around all of that at some point and just go for the straight up clone.
℗ A Geffen Records Release; ℗ 1971 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Released on: 1972-01-01
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'Groundhog Day' and Reincarnation
The 1993 film 'Groundhog Day' staring Bill Murray and Andie McDowell has become at late winter tv classic. The film is clearly a reference to reincarnation, and the premise even touches upon a big part of the essential reason for our soul's reincarnation journey; to keep doing it again and again until we finally get it right. Even the sequence where he tries to do what he can to help the dying man, even though he died anyway, still hinted at a part of the lesson. This is all something that we need to learn before our soul can ascend to where it needs to go. We are here to learn about love, compassion, and suffering.
Part of the lesson is to suffer, which is hard to grasp. This is all aside from certain powerful forces in the world who weaponize everything and produce fake values, compassion, morals, etc. It's about the individual soul. The producers must have done there research. Hollywood partly serves as an occult oracle; dispensing many aspects of the truth for those who wish to receive it. Some say that powerful dark occult forces feel that they must do this in order to avoid the cosmic consequences of their actions; having "told us" the codex of the world, including what they themselves are all about.
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'Dark Side of the Ring' (now playing on Vice)
Season 3 of 'Dark Side of the Ring' is now playing on Tuesday evenings on the Vice channel... a George Soros charity. Even if you don't care about wrestling, it's still interesting to hear about the stories. Sometimes it's fun to, metaphorically-speaking, "go to someone else's HS reunion." Wrestlers are type-A personalities, so it always makes for some interesting documentary.
Also on Vice TV, premiering on March 29, is season 2 of 'The Devil You Know'. Season one was about the bizarre story of "Pazuzu Algarad" and his Satanic cult, and this season apparently will be about a "reptilian cult" involving Sherry Shriner. I have no idea if this will be with her cooperation, or an attack piece on her. As far as I know, she's done a lot of good in recent years exposing cults in high places. If this is about putting her in a negative light, then they may as well do one next year going after Mike Rinder! We'll just have to see..
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Bald Eagle in Africa?
This is actually an entirely different eagle; the African fish eagle. It appears very similar to the American bald eagle. It feeds mainly on fish. With the bald eagle, the white feathers only cover the head area; with the fish eagle, the white feathers cover the whole neck and shoulders.
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Another good example of a cruel joke someone can play on themselves, how about when you wash a big lead of clothes, hang them up, and then realize that you forgot to use laundry detergent.... and had to wash them all over again..
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Bonnie Tyler - It's A Heartache (Official HD Video)
Official remastered HD video for 'It's A Heartache' by Bonnie Tyler.
Released in 1978, It's A Heartache was a global smash hitting number one in Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Brazil and Argentina and number four in the UK, number three in the US and number 2 in Germany. Along the way it sold 6 million physical copies worldwide (including a million in France and the US and 1/2 a million in the UK).
The song has been covered many times by a diverse list of artists including Rod Stewart, David Johanson (of the New York Dolls,), Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes, Glaswegian Indiepopsters Arab Strap, rocker Gene Vincent and, most recently, pop superstar Miley Cyrus.
Lyrics;
It's a heartache Nothing but a heartache Hits you when it's too late Hits you when you're down It's a fool's game Nothing but a fool's game Standing in the cold rain Feeling like a clown It's a heartache Nothing but a heartache Love him 'til your arms break Then he let's you down It ain't right with love to share When you find he doesn't care for you It ain't wise to need someone As much as I depended on you Oh, it's a heartache Nothing but a heartache Hits you when it's too late Hits you when you're down It's a fool's game Nothing but a fool's game Standing in the cold rain Feeling like a clown It ain't right with love to share When you find he doesn't care for you It ain't wise to need someone As much as I depended on you Oh, it's a heartache Nothing but a heartache You love him 'til your arms break Then he let's you down It's a fool's game Standing in the cold rain Feelin' like a clown It's a heartache Love him 'til your arms break Then he let's you down It's a fool's game
1) Jaguar: More compact than other big cats, extremely thick and muscular, speed, agility, killer instinct; the jaguar has it all. I saw a video once of a huge dog who freed himself of his restraints and attacked a jaguar, catching it somewhat off guard. The jaguar battered it a few times with its quick and powerful forepaws, and the dog stepped back to re-evaluate the situation. As he did, the jaguar locked itself in position like a boxer, and started to advance. As the dog hesitated, the jaguar jumped onto it's back; locking itself onto the dog with its wrapping forepaws and claws, it's teeth clamped to the neck, and with its hind legs resting against the dogs back. From this position it was clear, the one huge advantage that big felines have over almost all canines... the size, length, muscle, power, speed, claws, and grip of the arms. The jaguar then moved it's jaws around the dogs head, crushing it's skull.
Jaguars routinely kill caimans in the Amazon, and they can do it right in the water. They can kill boa constrictors; outmaneuvering them and wearing them out, then holding their heads under water and drowning them. Since Jaguars exist in Mexico, and a few in the southwestern states, I'm including them with North American canines and felines. Jaguars are closer to lions in size and strength than they are to leopards or mountain lions. I saw one video of a tiger and jaguar who were caged together for some reason, perhaps to transport them to or from a zoo. The tiger was at least 50% larger, probably a little more. They aggressively grappled and sparred with each other. The jaguar more than held its own; no fear whatsoever.
2) Mountain lion: The mountain lion would be a clear #2 pick, and taking into consideration that canines and felines can occasionally be "spooked out" when faced with smaller aggressive animals. They might retreat, mostly due to their evolutionary strategy. They seek food, they will kill for it, but they don't want any major fight. Even a victory in a fight might cause an injury which would prevent them from hunting. Also, a pack of coyotes can chase and sometimes wear out a mountain lion; in which case any one-on-one matchup wouldn't even be in the offering. A mountain lion might even avoid a raccoon who is willing to put everything on the line to fight for its life. Generally, a mountain lion can usually kill a wolf, which it may go after if it can get a one-on-one with it... if it was hungry enough.
3) Wolf: They are still the most formidable canine, although the African hunting dog might have something to say about that. Wolves are big, powerful, and aggressive. I'm guessing that they could kill a 60 pound lynx 51% of the time in a one-on-one confrontation. Most in the know consider a wolf-vs-lynx to be a tossup. Still, this is all a generalization. I've seen wolverines fend off a much larger wolf rather easily. A lone wolf will leave alone a very aggressive smaller animal like a badger most of the time.
4) Lynx: Although I put them at #4 here, actually a lynx can carry itself quite well against a mountain lion or wolf. It has so many weapons; unequaled athleticism, long thick powerful limbs, powerful jaws for it's size, razor sharp teeth and claws, blinding speed, damaging bunny kicks, they're all over their opponent like the Tasmanian Devil from the old cartoons. No animal in nature wants to fight a lynx one-on-one. One whack from a lynx's powerful arm, with those little razors, will send anyone to the hospital. Wolves and lynxes avoid each other, and for good reason.
5) Bobcat: Even though the general consensus is that bobcat-vs-coyote is a tossup, I'm guessing that the bobcat wins a one-on-one 51% of the time. They have the same weapons as a lynx, but they're almost 50% smaller. With a pack of coyotes, it's a different story. Trained hunting hounds can easily track and wear out a bobcat. I'm only referring to one-on-one confrontations here. Canines usually have an edge in stamina.
6) Coyote: I saw one video of a person who let their pitbull loose in a park. Along comes a lone coyote, and the pitbull runs after it. The coyote easily outmaneuvered it using its great agility. Then the coyote got in position, lowering it's head, locking it's eyes on its opponent. The pitbull just stared back, but didn't go in.
7) Fox: Foxes routinely kill feral cats or pet house cats. Only a particularly big and/or aggressive cat can stand up to a fox. Even if we took a one-on-one between a wild fox and a big powerful alley cat, it might be a tossup. The cat has speed and agility on it's side, while the fox is actually a faster runner in the open field. If the cat runs, then the fox can kill it with a chase and bite to the neck. Still, the fox always seems wary of the cats paw speed and apparently the damage it can inflict with its sharp claws.
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Pitbull vs. Lynx
IF it happened. The ultimate one-on-one matchup would be a trained, vicious, American pit bull terrier vs. a wild Canadian lynx... both 60 pounds. The pitbull has aggression, boundless determination, and a powerful jaw with a powerful neck to compliment it, on its side. The lynx has a lethal combination of power, blinding speed, and razor sharp claws and teeth on its side. The pitbull could win if it was able to get a good bite in early, and capitalize on it. There is zero chance that the pitbull can win without suffering major injuries. The lynx could win by avoiding the pitbull's jaws, which the odds are that it would.
The pitbull would not quit, so the lynx would need the stamina to inflict a plethora of injuries on it while avoiding it's jaws. The whole matchup would depend on whether or not the pitbull could get a bite and maintain a grip on the lynx. Both are absolute devils in a fight. I saw one video of a mountain lion who tried to ambush a lynx. The lynx reacted quickly, firing back lightening fast swipes, staring the lion down with a scary snorting growl. The lion retreated. I know there are so many pitbull die hards out there, but 85% of the time--all things being equal--a pitbull can't do anything with a lynx.
Every now and then somebody reports stepping out of normal time
and space. It does not seem to matter where they live or their
background--the veil of ordinary reality drops and they suddenly slip
into the past or future, usually seamlessly and unknowingly,
experiencing a temporary and accidental form of time travel. Von Braschler, a former faculty member at Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, joins Richard Syrett (Twitter)
to discuss step-by-step exercises to prepare you to experience time
shifts, to help set them up, and to enhance the experience when you have
slipped through time. Followed by psychic Michael Bodine
who calls himself a "future guy." He looks ahead in time to deal with
what is coming up. Bodine will share his future predictions and what it
was like to grow up in a psychic family.
6-10pm PT: Art Bell - Somewhere in Time returns to 3/15/01 when (the late) Evelyn Paglini talked about Wicca, paganism, and blood sacrifice.
I had a missing time experience which was published in one of the books of the late author Brad Stieger. Although I don't want to publish the occurrence here right now, I can say that it wasn't aliens. I know exactly when it occurred; I was fully awake; there were people around me; I lost four hours. Maybe it was like the "Adjustment Bureau," fixing things a bit? Perhaps someone needed a miracle, so some stuff needed to be rearranged?... or maybe something bad was going to happen to me and some strings were pulled to save me by removing the event?
Yeah, maybe I was kept in that place to prevent me from walking into that hypothetical "liquor store robbery gone bad"..? Well, if so, I never said "thank you"... so THANK YOU to whomever... if that was the case. I have no psychic or empathic abilities, but I think I occasionally have connected to frequencies which have allowed me to tap into things; I've witnessed or experienced the paranormal throughout my life. Nine years ago I experienced a very strange series of synchronistic events over a few weeks. I think it was a message that I was supposed to receive. Anyway, I just don't talk about those experiences; I can't prove it.. so..
Easter - April 4th
