"He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." Curiouser & Curiouser...
"He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."
One of the best first lines in literature by Rafael Sabatini in "Scaramouche" (1921).
Have you ever wondered about our relative place in the universe? Click on any of the above to see our world in scale with the cosmos.
As any battlefield general will tell you, an enemy that can't move is an enemy defeated. The US military believes suburbia may be the next hotbed of threats to our national security and have developed a radio signal that will jam garage doors closed. This way, when THEY come to get you they know you'll be home.
The Pentagon is funding research into neural implants with the ultimate hope of turning sharks into "stealth spies" capable of gliding undetected through the ocean.
The Sultan's Elephant. A play combining 40 foot tall marrionettes and live actors performed on the streets of London over four days by Royal de Luxe.
Penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems. Its incredible what you can find on the internet while running a search on a completely unrelated subject.
More than a hundred years ago an extraordinary mechanism dating from the first century B.C.was found by sponge divers at the bottom of the sea near the island of Antikythera. It astonished the whole international community of experts on the ancient world. Was it an astrolabe? Was it an astronomical clock? Or something else?
Recently, x-ray imaging technology has revealed that the device contains hidden text not seen for two thousand years. So- Do they finally know what the device was built to do?
The power of the Bard lives on! The lovelorn write Juliet for advice to this day and either send or leave the letters at a house in Verona where some claim the historical Juliet (if she ever existed) lived. More...
Secrets... This site recieves postcards from anonymous senders who need to share a secret. They can be any secret so long as they are true and have never been revealed to anyone else.
A collection of the postcards is available in a book.
I often wonder if anyone in my family history took an interest in art. Then I discovered this man, René Mederos, who I believe is my father's cousin. René was a propaganda artist for the Cuban government. (My father never spoke of family who stayed in Cuba to support the communist government of Fidel Castro).
René's poster art is apparently quite well known and coincidentally, he is featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Museum of New Mexico. Of course, he also shares a name with my favorite historical figure [see below].
In 1993 two small cosmic missles the size of a grain of pollen and a million times denser than lead punctured the earth at 900,000 mph and set off earthquake detectors at both the points of entry and exit. Read more about "strangelets" here. Also, learn more about the "killer strangelet" and "the end of all that is" here.
Happy New Year 2006! We are better and smarter than we think. Life is good and we are lucky to live in America. Next time you sit down to dinner angry, sad or upset, remember that in most of the rest of the world it can be a real struggle to put food on the table for the family. So much so that eating is always a joyful occasion. Nowhere but in America can someone actually bring themselves to cry at the table.
I am fascinated by the life of René d'Anjou, [1409-1480] who launched, and possibly directed, the careers of Joan of Arc, Christopher Columbus and Cosimo d'Medicci. In 1996 I found this stained glass portrait of René and his wife in the Museum of Fine Arts of Dijon in the Ducal Palace.
I had read that René had commissioned it as a gift for his genteel captor, the Duke of Burgundy upon the occasion of René's induction into the Duke's Order of the Golden Fleece and that it had been installed in the Sainte-Chapelle adjacent to the palace. I was most upset to discover the church had been destroyed and absolutely delighted when I saw that this piece had survived. The museum had not identified the portraits and when I did so the curator scoffed and sneered (French national pastimes you know). It probably reads "unknown personages" to this day.
A kinder, gentler US military is funding research into non-lethal chemical weapons that would, for example, attract biting insects, rodents etc., to harass enemy troops or a chemical that would cause severe and lasting halitosis so troops hiding out as civilians can be readily identified.
Unfortunately, a proposal to develop an aphrodisiac that would induce enemy troops to engage in wanton homosexual behavior (apparently *snicker* this would adversely affect morale and discipline) was rejected out of hand. Accidentally exposing our own troops was probably a concern although, considering most gay porn actors have served in the military, perhaps it was rejected because the military already has its own supply. More at this site.
Freemasons had a huge influence on the birth of our nation. It seems they had a hand in the creation of the nations of Latin America as well.
Can you spot the eye in the pyramid in these coats of arms for El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua? And of course, the Cuban flag? Ask me about Cuban Masons sometime.
This man, Francis Tumblety, was almost certainly Jack the Ripper. Oddly enough, he is buried in Rochester, NY. Do you want to know why?
This gentleman is GaryElvis.He portrays the king 365 days a year and apparently 24hrs. a day as well. He owns a sign company in Tampa, FL and when he showed up to install the signs for the store I had designed there - at 10p.m. - he was in full rhinestone and sunglasses regalia. The photo is of his car door. There's music and much more at his site.
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