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Knot a BlogWritings of someone who used to wear neckties... 11月5日 The Real Wolfman"The Real Wolfman: The Beast of Gévaudan" - Just what was the man or wolf or wolfman that killed over 100 people?
In July of 1764, a fourteen-year-old girl in the south of France made sad history by being the first human victim of a mysterious creature (or creatures) that came to be known as the Beast of Gévaudan. To this day, no one knows what killed or wounded over a hundred people in southern France across the next three years. Read more...
10月28日 My Sexy Halloween Striptease: Free Stuff for HalloweenMy Sexy Halloween Striptease - Although I never have liked Halloween, I have gotten into the Halloween spirit this year, and so I'm going to try something new with my first online striptease. Read more...
100 Halloween Movies for Free: 100 Horror Movies to Watch for Free - There is no trick here, just 100 very special treats, 100 old horror movies that you can watch for free in streaming video online. Read more... (Actually, there are 101 movies!)
Classical Music for Halloween: Fifty Pieces - The title says it all: fifty pieces of classical music that are appropriate for Halloween. Read more...
War of the Worlds: Free Old Time Radio for Halloween - Although television effectively killed off the golden age of old time radio, the Internet has, strangely, brought it back to life. In MP3, the Internet's compressed audio format, old time radio programs are streamed and downloaded quickly. Read more...
Free Books for Halloween: Two Dozen Writers and Their Free Spooky Tales - Notice that since we are looking for free books, we are limited to older works, so, no Stephen King, no Anne Rice. But, we do have some free books that you can read on your Kindle. Read more...
Free Audiobooks for Halloween - On the Internet, you can find free audiobooks; with Librivox, you can create free audiobooks for others. Read more...
Harry Houdini's Murder and Last Halloween Séance Appearance - Harry Houdini really died on Halloween 1926. Among the mysteries surrounding his death: was he murdered? Did he really return for a final appearance ten years later? In this article, you can find links to books by Houdini, a 1914 audio recording of Houdini himself, and a half-hour audio documentary about the Mrs. Houdini's final séance. Read more...
For a special treat, Watch for Free the Movies of Harry Houdini. There's nothing about Halloween here, but there is a chance to learn about two of Harry Houdini's careers you may not know about: his career in movies (actor, writer, director) and his career in aviation. Read more...
5月7日 Buddhism for Mother's DayMother's Day for Buddhists
Honor Your Mother in a Buddhist Way Many people in the West who have chosen the Buddhist path see their relationships with their families suffer. Mother's Day is a great time to show your parents that by following a path of spiritual development that is different from theirs, you are not rejecting them. Read more...
Buddhist Resources for Anyone's Mother's Day Your Mother Doesn't Have to Be Buddhist to Enjoy These Mother's Day Treasures In the gentle heritage of Buddhism, you can find beautiful resources for Mother's Day that you can enjoy and share with your mother, no matter what faiths you and she may have. Read more...
Buddhism for Non-Buddhists Of all spiritual traditions, Buddhism seems less concerned with demanding that others accept its teachings.
Read more... 5月4日 Lobelia and Saw Palmetto: Two Helpful Herbs... or maybe not?Lobelia or "pukeweed" has a background as a medicinal herb. In some doses, however, it can be fatal, and even a very small piece (which I chewed to prepare this article) has a memorably awful taste. It was one of the herbs Native Americans used to purify themselves by making themselves vomit. Nowadays dismissed as a weed, it was a traditional favorite in English country gardens. Read more... Saw palmetto is an herbal remedy used for generations not only as an aphrodisiac but also to treat symptoms of urinary tract and testicular infection, coughs and respiratory congestion. Although there are unsupported reports that it helps with metabolism, digestion, appetite and sexual dysfunction, it is best known for treating enlarged prostate (benign prostate hyperplasia or BPH), which across their lifetimes affects about half of all men, who dread its symptoms of painful urination. Prescribed for women and men for various symptoms, in herbal tradition and modern medicine it is an asset for men's health. Read more...
4月30日 Keira Knightley's Anti-Domestic Violence Advertisement is Too Violent for TVBritish broadcasters and domestic violence activists are squaring off over a shocking public service advertisement featuring actress Keira Knightley of Bend It Like Beckham and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. "CUT - the movie," directed by Joe Wright (more - he and Knightley worked together on such films as Atonement), show Keira Knightley as she is brutally assaulted by a man who appears to be her boyfriend or husband, after she returns home from a day at work on a movie set.
Read more... 4月28日 Gnostics and GnosticismLearn about the Gnostics and Gnosticism in this series of articles that I wrote. Notice that I also created an audiobook of the Gospel of Thomas.
Click on these titles to read (or hear) more.
12月10日 Happy 100th Birthday, Olivier Messiaen!Olivier Messiaen (December 10, 1908 - April 27, 1992) was a French composer, teacher, organist, and ornithologist (a student of birds). He created some of the most memorable music of the twentieth century, drawing on influences as varied as his intense Roman Catholic faith, his studies in music from around the world, his interest in electronic instruments, and his love of the songs of birds.
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There is more to my life than neckties. Copyright © 2008 by Michael Segers, all rights reserved. 8月28日 Use the Subjunctive Verb to Write Precisely and ElegantlyIn 1964, Tevye, an impoverished milkman, first charmed Fiddler on the Roof audiences with his plaintive, "If I Were a Rich Man." Some four decades later, Gwen Stefani sang an updated version, "If I Was a Rich Girl." Now, let's drop the last word in each title. Who is right?
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There is more to my life than neckties. Copyright © 2008 by Michael Segers, all rights reserved. 8月22日 Tropical Storm Fay8月21日 Natural Medicine - Not Naturally SafeMany people believe that natural medicine is naturally good and often it is. But just because something is natural does not mean that it is safe. After all, tobacco is natural, and so is rattlesnake venom.
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There is more to my life than neckties. Copyright © 2008 by Michael Segers, all rights reserved. 8月17日 Alzheimer's Disease: The Family CurseAlzheimer's disease leads to a loss of mental ability severe enough to interfere with normal living and scars people's experience of their whole lives. The decrease in memory robs them of their past, the loss of ability to reason robs them of their present, and the inability to plan takes away what future the disease leaves them.
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There is more to my life than neckties. Copyright © 2008 by Michael Segers, all rights reserved. 8月9日 Barack Obama: A Sinister Candidate for PresidentThis year, the Democratic Party has selected a truly sinister candidate, Barack Obama, a sinister and outright gauche candidate.... It should be noted that he follows such sinister presidents (from both parties) as Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush (the First), and Bill Clinton... and to go back a little further, Harry Truman, Herbert Hoover, and James Garfield.
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There is more to my life than neckties. Copyright © 2008 by Michael Segers, all rights reserved. 7月2日 A Very Special ClockThere is more to my life than neckties. Copyright © 2008 by Michael Segers, all rights reserved. |
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