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Holy Bloodline
Posted Friday, May 11, at 1:43 PM The 1982 book HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln, speculates that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalene and they had a female child. Mary Magdalene and the child fled to southern France after the crucifixion where the descendents of Jesus eventually established the Merovingian Dynasty (447-751) in France and were protected by a secret society called the Priory of Sion. ...
Where Animals are People too Somewhere around 500 BC, a brilliant Greek mathematician and philosopher named Pythagoras was walking along a street in Croton when he came upon a man abusing a dog. He demanded a halt to the mistreatment by proclaiming that the dog was the soul of a friend, claiming he was certain of it when he heard the dog's voice...
Southern Engineer Exam Do you have no life and can prove it mathematically? Are you in the habit of destroying things just to see how they work? Do you assume people around you yawn because they don't get enough sleep? Can you translate a foreign language into octal and binary?...
Giants on Earth I lived in southern California in 1975-1987. One night I watched a local TV report about the remains of giants discovered on Catalina island (just off the coast of L.A.) in the late 19th century. They were 7 to 9 feet tall, with red hair and had a double set of teeth. ...
Layover in Nashville March 25, 2012 -- William Todd, age 24, was riding a Greyhound Bus from his home in Kentucky, where he is a wanted fugitive. During a layover in Nashville, Tennessee, he decided to spend some time in the Music City amusing himself. 3:05 AM -- Todd breaks into a business -- he steals a shotgun, a revolver, a Taser and a T-shirt -- he shoots up the place and sets it on fire, burning it to the ground...
Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan On March 27, 2012, it was announced that Jane Fonda will play the role of Nancy Reagan, wife of the late President Ronald Reagan, in an upcoming film titled THE BUTLER, a historical drama about the life of Eugene Allen, who worked as a butler in the White House under eight presidents...
Happiest Nations Adrian White, an analytic social psychologist at the University of Leicester in England, has collected data from more than 100 studies around the globe and created a list that ranks 178 countries on the basis of happiness -- the subjective perceived well-being of the populace within each country...
Vince Foster Mystery Vince Foster was born in Hope, Ark., and had been a childhood friend of Bill Clinton. Later, he worked at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock with Hillary Clinton. When Bill Clinton became President of the United States, Foster became White House Deputy Council and overseer of various Clinton legal entanglements...
Within the Zone of Silence In 1970, a U.S. Athena missile was fired from a location in Utah, scheduled to land in the White Sands Missile Base in New Mexico. It went 900 miles off course, without apparent explanation, and crashed in the Sonora Desert in Mexico, over a hundred miles south of the Big Bend area in Texas...
Who Said it -- #2 1) "I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion." A) George Carlin B) Britney Spears C) Albert Einstein D) Mahatma Gandhi E) Charlie Sheen 2) "Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again." A) Johnny Yuma B) Johnny Depp...
Communicating with Spirits Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 - 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher and mystic. He was the world's pre-eminent scholar and scientist of his day. Many artists, writers and scholars were influenced by Swedenborg, including Carl Jung, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Blake, Immanuel Kant, Helen Keller, Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.B. Yeats...
Placing a Face After high school in the suburbs of Minneapolis in 1962, I went to the University of Minnesota for a couple of years, then to college in Miami for another year in a specialized field, worked in St. Paul as computer programmer for another year, was drafted into the U.S. Army (Vietnam Era) for two more years, went back to my civilian job for another 9 months, then back to the University of Minnesota for a few more years to get a B.S and an M.S. degree...
Overthrowing FDR Major General Smedley Butler (1881 - 1940), left school 38 days before his 17th birthday and joined the U.S. Marines during the Spanish-American War. The former commandant of the Marine Corp. was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history at the time of his death. He is one of only 19 men to have received the Congressional Medal of Honor twice...
Escaping Third Density The density upon which one resides is dependent on one's development of consciousness. The human race on Planet Earth presently resides on the Third Density. To have a Third Density consciousness implies a sense of self-awareness, a sense of individuality and the capacity to discern one's soul evolution...
A Big Bag of Wind Marlon Brando, considered by many to be the most gifted actor of all time, died on June 2, 2004, at the age of 80. He made 40 movies -- some were outstanding, some were clunkers. He was nominated for an Oscar a half dozen times, winning twice. "Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse." Marlon Brando...
Gladiator High School My 50th high school reunion will take place in August of 2012. I wrote an article for the reunion committee to be placed in the reunion booklet. In the process, I ran across an old newspaper column I wrote in April of 2005, also about my high school -- as follows...
VP Follies Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States (1789-1795), in the cabinet of George Washington. Politically, he was a Federalist. His portrait appears on the 10-dollar bill. Aaron Burr was a U.S. Senator from New York (1791-1797) and Vice President of the United States (1801-1805) under Thomas Jefferson. Politically, he was a Republican. His portrait appears mostly in museums...
13th Sign of the Zodiac The ancient Sumerian Empire has been called the Cradle of Civilization. It began some 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia (ancient Babylon, modern day Iraq). The Sumerians were the first known people to develop a written language. They were also the first people to utilize the sexagesimal numbering system, based on the number 60. It was the ancient Sumerian who divided time into 60 seconds and 60 minutes. They divided a circle into 360 equal sections (6 times 60), called "degrees."...
The Battle of New Orleans In the early 1800s, New Orleans was populated by French, Spanish, African, Anglo and Creole people, pursuing economic gain and a joyous life. In 1803, Great Britain became embroiled in the Napoleonic Wars with France. Since the end of the American Revolution in 1783, the Americans had been irritated by the failure of the British to withdraw from their territory and declared war on the British Empire in June of 1812...
A Life of True Conscience and Obligation Those who are anointed as supreme leaders from birth are rarely tempted to be thoughtful human beings. Another anointed supreme leader of North Korea has emerged this week to continue the great works of his father and grandfather. Japan occupied Korea during World War II. When the war ended in 1945, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel with the USSR controlling the north and the USA controlling the south. The Koreans were not consulted...
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Bret Burquest is a former award-winning columnist for The News (2001-2007) and author of four novels. He has lived in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Memphis and the middle of the Arizona desert. After a life of blood, sweat and tears in big cities, he has finally found peace in northern Arkansas where he grows tomatoes, watches sunsets and occasionally shares the Secrets of the Universe (and beyond) with the rest of the world.
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