Do you Allies have as much fun as this in trenches??
(na I think not :)
“So glad you joined us, Bulgaria, you really know how to party!”
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(I am looking for the original source.)
Dirty thunderstorms
A dirty thunderstorm (also, Volcanic lightning) is a weather phenomenon that occurs when lightning is produced in a volcanic plume. A study in the journal Science indicated that electrical charges are generated when rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in a volcanic plume collide and produce static charges, just as ice particles collide in regular thunderstorms.
The very people you’ve targeted with your hateful words are the same people who comprise the voter base that pushed Virginia from red to solidly purple and elected President Obama not once, but twice.
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| — | Melissa Harris-Perry, in her “Open Letter” to E.W. Jackson, the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor in Virginia. (via msnbc) |
I have never believed in religion. Religions are all limited because they concentrate only on one aspect of truth. That is why they are always fighting amongst one another, because they all think they are in sole possession of the truth. But I say there is no end to knowledge, so there is no use in trying to confine it to one scripture or one holy book or one experience. This is why I say, when people ask what religion I follow, ‘I don’t believe in Sampradaya (sect) , I believe in Sampradaha (incineration)’. Burn down everything which is getting in the way of your perception of truth.
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| — | Robert Svoboda, ‘AGHORA - At the Left Hand of God’ (via girlgoesgrrr) |
In NBC’s series “Hannibal” one of the episodes mentions a Viking torturing technique known as blood eagle. So in case you were wondering…
The blood eagle - ritual associated with Odin where the back is cut open, the rib cage spread apart and the lungs pulled out all while the victim remains alive. It is supposed to be the classic example of Viking and therefore pagan barbarity. There is just one problem — other than in the fertile imagination of 12th century and beyond writers, there is actually very little concrete evidence that it happened.
Carving a blood eagle is now considered to be a 12th century misinterpretation of skaldic verse. In short a 12 century Christian invention to show how dreadful and terrible the pagan Vikings were.
image (click for larger view): A section from the Stora Hammars I stone from Gotland,Sweden. The illustration shows a man lying on his belly with another man using a weapon on his back. There is a Valknut above him, and two eagles, one of which is held by a man to the right.
