Connor Macleod was born in Scotland in the year 1518 "in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel." In 1536, his clan is in conflict with the Clan Fraser, and Connor rides alongside his fellow Macleods into his first battle. The Frasers are working with a seven foot giant of a man known as The Kurgan , who recognizes that Connor is a pre-Immortal and hopes to use the battle to kill him before he becomes aware of his abilities..On the battlefield, Connor feels a strange, painful sensation, especially when he sees the Kurgan on top of a hill, and thunder and lightning also appear...
The historical origins of a concept of a cycle of repeated reincarnation are obscure but the idea appears frequently in religious and philosophical texts in both India and ancient Greece during the middle of the first millennium B.C.. Orphism, Platonism, Jainism and Buddhism all discuss the transmigration of beings from one life to another.The concept of reincarnation is present even in the early Vedic texts such as the Rig Veda but the concise idea of it is said to have originated from the Shramana traditions.
"Who Wants to Live Forever" is a song used to frame the scenes where Connor MacLeod must endure his beloved wife Heather MacLeod growing old and dying while he, as an Immortal, remains forever young..Immortality is the ability to live forever, or eternal life..Biological forms have inherent limitations which medical interventions or engineering may or may not be able to overcome. Natural selection has developed potential biological immortality in at least one species, the jellyfish Turritopsis nutricula...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Prometheus Unbound is a 4-act lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1820. It is concerned with the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus, who defies the gods and gives fire to humanity , for which he is subjected to eternal punishment and suffering at the hands of Zeus..Tummo may also be rendered in English approximating its phonemic enunciation as 'Dumo'..Matter creation is the process inverse to particle annihilation. It is the conversion of massless particles into one or more massive particles. This process is the time reversal of annihilation.. Since all known massless particles are bosons and the most familiar massive particles are fermions, usually what is considered is the process which converts 2 bosons (e.g. photons) into 2 fermions (e.g., an electron–positron pair)..Reproduction (or procreation) is the biological process by which new "offspring" individual organisms are produced from their "parents"...
In 2031, Dr. Buchanan and his team work to develop the ultimate weapon, an energy beam that will completely remove whatever it is aimed at. Buchanan hopes he can create a weapon so powerful that it will end all war and have the added benefit of no impact on the environment. Unfortunately, the prototype has unpredictable side effects, creating erratic global weather patterns and rifts in space and time that have caused some people to vanish. As he drives home from the testing facility, Buchanan himself is caught in one such rift..Gene mapping, also called genome mapping, is the creation of a genetic map assigning DNA fragments to chromosomes..2 different ways of mapping are distinguished. Genetic mapping uses classical genetic techniques (e.g. pedigree analysis or breeding experiments) to determine sequence features within a genome. Using modern molecular biology techniques for the same purpose is usually referred to as physical mapping..Recombinant DNA (rDNA) molecules are DNA molecules formed by laboratory methods of genetic recombination (such as molecular cloning) to bring together genetic material from multiple sources, creating sequences that would not otherwise be found in biological organisms..Following transplantation into the host organism, the foreign DNA contained within the recombinant DNA construct may or may not be X - pressed..Recombinant DNA is widely used in biotechnology, medicine and research..A creation myth is a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
An unemployed actor with a reputation for being difficult disguises himself as a woman to get a role in a soap opera.. Ra - Leased..South Korea 10 September 1983 ...
September 1 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union Su-15 interceptor near Moneron Island when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald - US performs nuclear test - Ian MacGregor becomes chairman of the National Coal Board \ 4 – 6 men walk underwater across the Sydney Harbor – 82.9 km in 48 hours - "Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" closes at Royale NYC after 747 perfs / 6 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace \ 8 - The National Health Service privatises cleaning, catering and laundering services in a move which Social Services Secretary Norman Fowler predicts will save between £90 million and £180 million a year / 11 - The SDP Conference voted against a merger with the Liberals until at least 1988- USSR performs nuclear test \ 16 – Ronald Reagan announces that the Global Positioning System (GPS) would be made available for civilian use / 17 – Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first African-American to be crowned Miss America, in Atlantic City, New Jersey \ 18 – The rock group Kiss officially appear in public without makeup for the first time on MTV - Lebanese & Syrian army battle / 19 – Saint Kitts and Nevis becomes an independent state \ 21 - The England national football team lose 1-0 to Denmark at Wembley Stadium in the penultimate qualifying game for Euro 84, making qualification unlikely / 22 - Docklands redevelopment in East London begins with the opening of an Enterprise Zone on the Isle of Dogs - USSR performs nuclear test \ 23 - Gulf Air Flight 771 crashes in the United Arab Emirates after a bomb exploded in the baggage compartment, killing 117 - Violence erupts in New Caledonia between native Kanaks and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of independence / 24 – The Red Hot Chili Peppers launch their first, self-titled, album - USSR performs nuclear test \ 25 – Maze Prison escape: 38 Irish republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of HMP Maze, in the largest prison escape since World War II and in British history / 25–26 – Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a missile attack warning as a false alarm \ 26 - The Soyuz T-10a mission ends in a successful pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown. the escape tower system, attached to the top of the capsule containing the crew and Soyuz spacecraft fired immediately pulling the crew safe from the vehicle, a few seconds before the rocket explodes, destroying the launch complex - The Australian yacht Australia II wins the America's Cup, the first successful challenge to the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defence of the sailing trophy / 27 – The GNU Project is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups \ 30 - In the latest crackdown on football hooliganism, 7 men (all members of the notorious Subway Army, a football firm associated with Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.) are convicted of taking part in a fight near the club's stadium...
Bradley Manning, the US soldier who leaked secret US government documents to the Wikileaks website, has announced an intention to live as a woman.."I am Chelsea Manning," Pte First Class Manning said in a statement to NBC's Today programme. "I am a female"..During the court martial, Pte Manning's former Army supervisor testified that Pte Manning had sent him a photograph of himself wearing a blond wig and lipstick...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Dr. Henry Jekyll, in attempting to find a toxin that will wipe out all common diseases, accidentally stumbles upon a formula that transforms him into a gorgeous but evil woman..Ra - Leased Sweden 31 May 1972 ...
May - The Burundian Genocide against the Hutu begins; more than 500,000 Hutus die \ 2 - US performs nuclear test – Fire in a silver mine in Idaho kills 91 / 3 - In the 1st UEFA Cup final, Tottenham Hotspur beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-1 in the first leg at the Molineux \ 5 – An Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo, Sicily; 115 die / 7 – General elections are held in Italy \ 8 – U.S. President Nixon orders the mining of Haiphong Harbor in Vietnam / 11 - John Lennon says his phone is tapped by FBI on Dick Cavett Show - US performs nuclear test \ 13 – Fire in a nightclub atop the Sennichi department store in Osaka, Japan, kills 115 / 15 - Okinawa is returned to Japan after 27 years of United States Military occupation - "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 6 performances - Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt) \ Governor Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur Herman Bremer at a Laurel, Maryland political rally / 16 – The 1st financial derivatives exchange, the International Monetary Market (IMM), opens on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange \ 18 – 4 troopers of both SAS and SBS are parachuted onto the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, 1,000 miles (1,600 km) off Britain in the Atlantic, after a bomb threat and ransom demand, which turns out to be bogus– Queen Elizabeth last met her uncle, Edward, Duke of Windsor, at his Paris home / 19 – 3 out of 6 bombs explode in the Springer Press building in Hamburg, Germany, injuring 17; the Red Army Faction claims responsibility \ 21 – In Rome, Laszlo Toth attacks Michelangelo's "Pietà" statue with a sledgehammer, shouting that he is Jesus Christ / 22 - Ceylon becomes the republic of Sri Lanka under prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, when its new constitution is ratified - Ferit Melen forms the new (interim) government of Turkey (35th government) \ 23 – The Tamil United Front (now known as Tamil United Liberation Front), a pro-Tamil organization, is founded / 24 - Rangers lift the Cup Winners Cup, defeating Dynamo Moscow in the final at the Nou Camp. Their supporters invade the pitch, with the team banned from defending the trophy the following season - A Red Army Faction bomb explodes in the Campbell Barracks of the U.S. Army Supreme European Command in Heidelberg, West Germany; three U.S. soldiers (Clyde Bonner, Ronald Woodard and Charles Peck) are killed - The Magnavox Odyssey video game system is 1st demoed, marking the dawn of the video game age; it goes on sale to the public in August \ 26 - Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT I treaty in Moscow, as well as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and other agreements - The Watergate first break-in, the "Ameritas dinner", fails -Wernher von Braun retires from NASA, frustrated by the agency's unwillingness to pursue a manned trans-orbital space program - Willandra National Park is established in Australia- US performs nuclear test / 27 – A 2nd Watergate break-in attempt fails \ 28 – Edward, Duke of Windsor, died of cancer in France at the age of 77, 35 years after his abdication as king / 30 - The Angry Brigade goes on trial in the United Kingdom - 3 Japanese Red Army members kill 24 and injure 100 in Lod Airport, Israel – Official Irish Republican Army declared a cease fire in Northern Ireland...
The Hyde-Inland M2 was the highest-rate United States submachine gun design submitted for trials at Aberdeen Proving Ground in February, 1941..Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886..Harold Fredrick Shipman (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004) was a British doctor and one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history by proven murders with up to 250 murders being ascribed to him..He became a GP at the Donneybrook Medical Centre in Hyde, Greater Manchester, in 1977...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Now present day, IKON, an obsolete Soviet communications satellite is about to fall out of orbit, and NASA is instructed, for political reasons, to capture it, rather than allow it to crash.. The on board systems respond, but are so archaic that nobody at NASA understands them..The mission goes ahead with two crews, old and new, flying the space shuttle, which is also named Dædalus.. They capture the satellite, but discover that it is armed with 6 nuclear missiles, a dangerous and still active relic of the Cold War and a violation of the Outer Space Treaty...Ra - Leased 6 October Portugal - 2 Nov Slovenia - 3 November Japan - 7 December Slovakia - Re - Ra-lease 22 December 2000 USA...
October 1 – The 2000 Summer Olympics close in Sydney, Australia – Reggie Kray dies of cancer in a Norwich hotel at the age of 66 \ 4 – After 41 years, production of the Mini car ends at the Longbridge plant owned by MG Rover in Birmingham / 7 – Wembley Stadium closes after 77 years \ 11 - The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown.- Jim Wallace becomes Acting First Minister of Scotland / 12 – In Aden, Yemen, USS Cole is badly damaged by 2 Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, who place a small boat laden with X - plosives alongside the United States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39 \ 17– A Great North Eastern Railway InterCity 225 train derails south of Hatfield station, killing 4 people / 30 – This is the final date during which there is no human presence in space – Sven-Göran Eriksson accepts an offer to take charge of the England team for 5 years \ 31 – Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment in the Chiang Kai Shek International Airport, resulting in 83 deaths- A chartered Antonov An-26 X - plodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50 - Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the 1st resident crew to the International Space Station...
November 2 – The first resident crew enters the International Space Station / 7 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office \ United States presidential election – The theft of £350 million worth of diamonds from the Millennium Dome is foiled by police / 11 – Kaprun disaster, Austria: A funicular fire in an Alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers and snowboarders \ 15- A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people / 16 – Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting U.S. President to visit Vietnam \ 17 - A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage / 18 – Marriage of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones \ 25 - 2000 Baku earthquake took place / 26 – Rio Ferdinand, the 22-year-old , becomes the nation's most X - pensive player \ 27 – Damilola Taylor, a 10-year-old school boy originally from Nigeria, is stabbed to death on his way home from school in Peckham, London ...
December 1 – Vicente Fox takes office as President of Mexico / 2 – 2 teenagers and a 39-year-old man are released on police bail after being arrested in connection with the Damilola Taylor killing \ 12 – Bush v. Gore: The U.S. Supreme Court stops the Florida presidential recount, effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to George W. Bush / 15 - Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel opens at the Disneyland Resort - The 3rd and final reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down and the station is shut down completely \ 22 – Madonna, 42, marries 32-year-old Guy Ritchie at Skibo Castle in the Scottish Highlands / 24 – Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings: 18 people are killed in multiple Islamist bomb attacks on churches across Indonesia \ 29 – Arctic weather conditions blight Britain / 30 - Rizal Day bombings- killing 22 and injuring about 100 \ 31 – The Millennium Dome closes its doors one year to the day of its opening...Gerontologist Aubrey De Grey starts the Methuselah Foundation, an organization dedicated to anti-aging and life extension...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
George Jay Gould I (February 6, 1864 – May 16, 1923) was a financier and the son of Jay Gould. He was himself a railroad executive, leading both the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGW) and the Western Pacific Railroad (WP)...In later years, the DRGW and WP would work together on trains that were passed off to each other in Salt Lake City, Utah, including the prestigious passenger train, the California Zephyr..He died of pneumonia on May 16, 1923, on the French Riviera after contracting a fever in Egypt after visiting the tomb of Tutankhamen...He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York..An American serving in the French Foreign Legion on an archaeological dig at the ancient city of Hamunaptra accidentally awakens a Mummy..Ra - Leased Malta 4 August - Indonesia 7 August - Italy 27 August - Slovenia 2 Greece 3 September 1999...
World War II broke the malaise. During the war, troop movements and restrictions on automobile fuel generated a sixfold increase in passenger traffic from the low point of the Great Depression.. After the war, railroads rejuvenated overworked and neglected fleets with fast and often luxurious streamliners – epitomized by the Super Chief and California Zephyr – which inspired the last major resurgence in passenger rail travel...
1999 August 7 – Hundreds of Chechen guerrillas invade the Russian republic of Dagestan, triggering a short war \ 11 Salt Lake City tornado: A very rare F2 tornado strikes Salt Lake City, killing 1 - A total solar eclipse is seen in Europe and Asia / 15 - Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tens - Morocco \ 17 – 1999 İzmit earthquake: A 7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit and levels much of northwestern Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000. This is the 1st of a long series of unrelated but frequent earthquakes throughout the world during the years 1999 and 2000 / 31- A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including 2 on the ground...
September 7 - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hits Athens, killing 143 and injuring more than 2,000 \ 8 – The 1st of a series of Russian apartment bombings occurs. Subsequent bombings occur on September 13 and 16, while a bombing on September 22 fails / 21 – The 921 earthquake, also known as the Jiji earthquake (magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale), kills about 2,400 people in Taiwan \ 23- NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter - Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm / 30 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo...
The California Zephyr was marketed (especially to families) as "...a vacation unto itself." Train hostesses, while not new to the industry in the late 1940s, were elevated to a new level on the CZ in the form of the "Zephyrette." The "Zephyrettes" functioned as social directors, tour guides, babysitters, nurses—in short, they filled just about any role required to ensure that the passengers had a memorable trip.. A pool of about 12 women was assigned at any one time to the CZ in this capacity...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Foster is stranded on the Moon and another astronaut is killed following an attack by aliens under cover of a meteor shower. Foster has lost contact with the Moonbase and is assumed to be dead so there is no search party. Then he meets an alien, also stranded, and the 2 have to work in a bizarre alliance in order to survive..Ra - Leased 6 Jan 1971...
January 2 - Ibrox disaster: A stairway crush at the Rangers vs. Celtic football match in Glasgow, Scotland kills 66 \ 8 – 29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at San Clemente Island, Calif - Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September / 12 – The landmark television sitcom All In The Family debuts on CBS \ 19 - "No, No Nanette" opens at 46th St Theater NYC / 20 - John Lennon meets Yoko Ono's parents in Japan \ 21 - "Alias Smith & Jones" premieres on ABC TV / 22 - John & Yoko record "Power to the People" \ 24 – The Guinean government sentences to death 92 Guineans who helped Portuguese troops in the failed landing attempts in November 1970; 72 are sentenced to hard labor for life; 58 of the sentenced are hanged the next day / 25 - In Uganda, Idi Amin deposes Milton Obote in a coup, and becomes president - In Los Angeles, Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders \ 31 – "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on UK pop chart - Apollo program: Apollo 14 (carrying Shepard, Roosa, and Mitchell) lifts off on the 3rd successful lunar landing mission - What do you get for the man who has..Eve rything...
Earth is being visited and attacked by aliens from a dying planet and humans are being covertly harvested for their o-rgans by the aliens..Organ trade is the trade involving inner human organs (heart, liver, kidneys, etc.) for organ Transplantation...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
In Ancient Egypt, Ema "Emmy" Heshire hides in a pyramid from her mother, who wants her daughter to marry against Emmy's will. Emmy prays for the gods to get her out of the mess and to find her true love.. The gods answer her prayer by making her disappear..Ra Leased Argentina 5 March 1987 - West Germany \ Australia 11 June 1987- Sweden 7 Finland 21 August - Portugal February (Fantasporto Film Festival) 22 October 1988 ...
March 6 – Zeebrugge disaster: Roll-on/roll-off cross-channel ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes off Zeebrugge harbor in Belgium; 180 drown - - 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100 \ 7 - Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 / 9 – The Irish rock band U2 releases their studio album The Joshua Tree \ 12 - "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ perfs- USSR performs nuclear test / 18 – Woodstock of physics: The marathon session of the American Physical Society’s meeting features 51 presentations concerning the science of high-temperature superconductors- US performs nuclear test \ 19 – Winston Silcott, a 28-year-old black man, is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of PC Keith Blakelock in the Tottenham riots 17 months ago / 23 – 31 people are injured when a suspected IRA bomb explodes at a British army barracks in Rheindahlen, West Germany \ 24 – Michael Eisner, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, and French Prime Minister and future President of France, Jacques Chirac, sign the agreement to construct Euro Disney Resort / 30 – Christie's auction house in London sells one of Vincent van Gogh's iconic Sunflowers paintings for £24,750,000..
June 12 – During a visit to Berlin, Germany, U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall - Central Afr Rep X-emperor Jean-Bédell Bokassa sentenced to death \ 17 – With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct / 19 - ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed - Ben & Jerry Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia \ 22 – Race riots break out in the Chapeltown area of Leeds / 27 – A commercial HS 748 (Philippine Airlines Flight 206) crashes near Baguio City, Philippines, killing 50 \ 28 - Iraqi warplanes dropped mustard gas bombs on the Iranian town of Sardasht in 2 separate bombing rounds, on 4 residential areas - An accidentally on purpose X - plosion at Hohenfels Training Area in West Germany kills 3 U.S. troopers - "Dreamgirls" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 177 performances / 29 - The 14th Bond film is released – South Korean president Roh Tae-Woo makes a speech \ 30 – Canada introduces a one dollar coin, nicknamed the "Loonie"...
August 1 - Tyson beat Tucker in 12 - Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America / 2 - USSR performs nuclear test \ 8 - Pakistan all out 708 v England at The Oval, Botham 3-217 /9 – Hoddle Street Massacre: Julian Knight, 19, goes on a shooting rampage in the Melbourne, Australia suburb of Clifton Hill, Victoria, killing 7 people and injuring 19 before surrendering to police \ 10 - Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully / 14 -All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid - Aéropostale – The 1st Aeropostale clothing store opens in New York City, New York, specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories - "Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Szeged Hungary \ 16 - Northwest Airlines Flight 255 (a McDonnell Douglas MD-82) crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan just west of Detroit killing all but 1 (4-year old Cecelia Cichan) of the 156 people on board - The followers of the Harmonic Convergence claim it was observed around the world /17 – Rudolf Hess is found dead in his cell in Spandau Prison. Hess, 93, is believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself with an electrical cord \ 18 - Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24) / 19 - ABC News' chief Middle East correspondent Charles Glass accidentally on purpose escapes his Hezbollah kidnappers in Beirut, Lebanon, after 62 days in captivity - Order of the Garter is opened to women \ 22- Madonna's "Who's That Girl," single goes #1 / 31 – Michael Jackson releases his hit album Bad Cha'mone Mo Fo Selecta...
The Harmonic Convergence is the name given to the world's first globally synchronized meditation, which occurred on August 16–17, 1987, which also closely coincided with an exceptional alignment of planets in our solar system..The Sun, Moon and six out of eight planets formed part of the grand trine, that is, they were aligned at the apexes of an equilateral triangle when viewed from the Earth...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
In 1901 Corleone, Sicily, 9-year-old Vito Andolini’s family is killed after his father insults local Mafia chieftain Don Ciccio. He escapes to New York and is registered as "Vito Corleone" on Ellis Island..The island has been closed to the public since Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 with re-opening date at some point of 2014..Ra -Leased 20 December 1974 USA - 14 February Brazil - Japan 26 April 1975...
1974 December 1 – A Boeing 727 carrying TWA Flight 514 crashes 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Dulles International Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on board /10 - Friedrich Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics with ideological rival Gunnar Myrdal "for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." - Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun \ 16 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR / 27 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR \ 28 - 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed..
1975 February 1- "Hoppy, Gene & Me" peaks at #65 - "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances / 4 – The Haicheng earthquake, the first successfully predicted earthquake, kills 2,041 and injures 27,538 in Haicheng, Liaoning, China \ 6 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site / 9 – The Soyuz 17 crew returns to Earth after 1 month aboard the Salyut 4 space station \ 11 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the opposition UK Conservative Party. Thatcher, 49, is Britain's 1st female leader of any political party / 18- Italy broadens abortion law / 20 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR \ 21 - John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album / 26 – A fleeing Provisional Irish Republican Army member shoots and kills off-duty London police officer Stephen Tibble, 22, as he gives chase \ 28 - A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site...
April 4 - Vietnam War: The first military Operation Babylift flight, C5A 80218, crashes 27 minutes after takeoff, killing 138 on board; 176 survive the crash - Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico / 5- "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 perfs \ 13 - Bus massacre: The Kataeb militia kills 27 Palestinians during an attack on their bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon, triggering the Lebanese civil war- Penguins 5-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 1-0 lead / 17 – The Communist Khmer Rouge guerilla forces capture Phnom Penh, prompting a forcible mass evacuation of the city and starting the genocide - Penguins 6-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-0 lead \ 18 - John Lennon releases "Stand by Me" /19- India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR \ 20 - Penguins 1-Isles 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead / 22 - Penguins 2-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-2 lead \ 23- "No Man's Land," premieres in London / 24 - Penguins 1-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site \ 25 - USSR performs underground nuclear test / 27- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR \ 30 – Vietnam War and the Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces from North Vietnam take Saigon, resulting in mass evacuations of Americans and South Vietnamese...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
In the dreams of his victims, a spectral child murderer stalks the children of the members of the lynch mob that killed him...Ra - 16 November 1984 US 0f A...
November 3 - 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India - Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated \ 9 – Cesar Chavez delivers his speech, "What The Future Holds For Farm Workers And Hispanics", at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco - Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed / 19 – A series of explosions at the Pemex Petroleum Storage Facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec, in Mexico City, ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people \ 20 – MJ receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame directly in front of Mann's Chinese Theater. Jackson leaves after only 3 minutes at the request of security, as the crush of 5,000 onlookers becomes a safety concern / 23 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR - The Oxford Circus fire traps around 1,000 passengers \ 26 - US & Iraq regain diplomatic relations / 28 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States – The Bring Me Sunshine charity concert at the London Palladium, in memory of Erk \ 29 - Javed Miandad completes twin Test Cricket tons, v NZ, Hyderabad / 30 – The Tamil Tigers begin the purge of the Sinhalese people from North and East Sri Lanka; 127 are killed - Tension in the miners' strike increases when 2 South Wales miners are charged with the murder of taxi driver David Wilkie...
Spectral evidence is a form of evidence based upon dreams and visions. It was admitted in court during the Salem witch trials by the appointed chief justice, William Stoughton...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Johnny Utah is a former Ohio State quarterback and rookie FBI Agent... He and his veteran partner, Angelo Pappas , are investigating a string of bank robberies by a gang known as the X-Presidents (during their robberies they use masks of former Presidents to disguise their true identities).. They only raid the cash drawers in the banks they rob--never going for the vault--and are out in 90 seconds..
Pursuing Pappas' theory that the criminals are surfers, Johnny goes undercover to infiltrate the surfing community. Knowing nothing of the sport/lifestyle, he persuades orphan surfer girl Tyler to teach him to surf. In the process, Johnny develops a complex friendship with Bodhi , the charismatic leader of a gang of surfers, Roach , Grommet and Nathaniel who accept Johnny when they realize he is a former college football star. As he masters the art of surfing, Johnny finds himself increasingly drawn to the surfers' adrenaline-charged lifestyle, Bodhi's philosophies, and Tyler..Ra Leased 22 November 1991 UK ...
November - Computer retailer PC World opens its first store in Croydon, Surrey + Alan Sked forms the Anti-Federalist League, a political party aiming to field election candidates opposed to the Maastricht Treaty \ 1 - New Dutch Regulations Traffic rules & Traffic signs enforced + Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa / 2 - J Jackson releases "Word to the Badd!!" Yes, every family fights so + He is currently involved in several charity projects and has been working on initiatives to help O-rphaned Children around the World - He converted to Islam in 1989 after a trip to Bahrain + married Halima Rashid, a Wealthy Afghan Native.. The 2 currently live in Los AngelesHorse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs - He wrote the memoir You Are Not Alone: Michael Through a Brother's Eyes "Smile" \ 5 - Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands+ The United States Senate confirms Robert Gates as Director of Central Intelligence / 6 - KGB officially stops operations + CPSU, and its republic-level division, Communist Party of the Russian SFSR, banned in the Russian SFSR by Presidential decree N 169 - "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" opens at Gershwin NYC for 32 perfs- Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii- Maximus 2.0 BBS released- Robert M Gates, becomes 15th - Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist P \ 7 - Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces he has HIV +The last oil well fire in Kuwait is extinguished - 1st report on carbon nanotubes is published by Sumio Iijima in the journal Nature / 8 – HONG KONG begins the forcible repatriation of Vietnamese boat people, starting with a group of 59 who were flown to Hanoi \ 9 - On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, 10's of 1000's of protestors demonstrate against attacks on immigrant workers / 12 - Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die \ 14 - American and British authorities announce indictments against 2 Libyan intelligence officials, in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103 + Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after 13 years of exile - Kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry and Thomas free / 16 - 2 IRA bombers die in St Albans, Hertfordshire, when a bomb X-plodes prematurely \18 - The forces of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Serb paramilitaries take the Croatian town of Vukovar after an 87-day siege, and kill more than 260 Croatian POW's + An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend district of Azerbaijan - Süleyman Demirel of DYP forms the new government of Turkey (49th government, coalition partner CHP) / 24 - Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury dies from pneumonia induced by AIDS + KISS drummer Eric Carr dies from complications of heart cancer - Monica Seles, sets female tennis record winning $2,457,758 in a year \ 26 – National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities according to their Azeri names - Julin Bristol, the last UK nuclear test, takes place at the Nevada Test Site / 27 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution opening the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia + Freddie Mercury is cremated after a funeral service at West London Crematorium - The Government announces that joyriders face a maximum penalty of 5 years - Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ \ 28 - First performance of Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George III in London / 30 - Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide- 93 cars & 11 truck accident near SF during a dust storm, 17 die...
Entered 18 November 1990 + "Ice Ice Baby" is a hip hop song written by American rapper Vanilla Ice and DJ Earthquake - Peaked 25 November 1990...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Are you crazy - Do you have any idea how much paperwork there is for suicides+ I can feel the wind - Today my friend, you diary entry will read + "Took a prozzie hostage and was shot by 3 armed bastards"..There's nothing on this harddrive but the time and date...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
The 7th Sign (1988) ... In the Epic of Creation, it is said that there are 300 lgigu of heaven"..The Annunaki are mentioned in The Epic of Gilgamesh when Utnapishtim tells the story of the flood... The 7 judges of hell are called the Annunaki, and they set the land aflame as the storm is approaching...
The Prophecy (6/11) Movie CLIP - Questioning the Kids (1995) HD..According to later Assyrian and Babylonian myth, the Anunnaki were the children of Anu and Ki, brother and sister gods, themselves the children of Anshar and Kishar (Skypivot and Earthpivot, the Celestial poles), who in turn were the children of Lahamu and Lahmu (" Muddy - O-nes"), names given to the gatekeepers of the Abzu (House of Far Waters) temple at Eridu, the site at which the creation was thought to have occurred.."The Hebrew word for angel is "malach," which means messenger, for the Angels are God's Messengers to perform various Missions"...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
A fertility clinic visit becomes an unfathomable nightmare for a woman who's impregnated with the Devil's DNA Spawn... is centered upon the interweaving lives and misadventures of 7 lost youths who wander the Melbourne streets at night.. Their mothers await their return home..Eva Lazzaro (born 23 June 1995) in Melbourne, is an Australian actress.. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Caylin-Calandria in the 2006 film Jindabyne and Stacey in the 2009 film Blessed..her first short film as director was "Alice's Baby" based on her own experience with her mother's Misscarriage...
June 1 – The busiest hurricane season in 62 years begins / 4 - 8th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,331,000 \ 7 - The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines / 9 - Andrew Richards, a 26-year-old serial sex offender of West Glamorgan, becomes the first person to be convicted of male rape under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994\ "9th" - Brady Bunch Movie, (1995), premieres in UK + Congo,premieres in USA - Dumb & Dumber , premieres in Sweden + Killer (1994) - Kiss of Death + Man of the House (1995) - Neak Sre (1993), premieres in UK + Party Girl premieres in - Smoke (1995) - Wigstock The Movie (1994), premieres in USA \ 10 - "Month in the Country" closes at Roundabout Theater / 13 – French President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia + NJ Devils beat Phila Flyers, to go to their 1st Stanley Cup finals \ 15 – A powerful earthquake, registering a moment magnitude of 6.2, hits the city of Aigio, Greece, resulting in several deaths and significant damage to many buildings + "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" opens at Plymouth NYC for 55 perfs / 16 – The IOC selects Salt Lake City to host the 2002 Winter Olympics \ 26 - Gunmen ambush Egyptian pres Hosni Mubarak, escapes unharmed- Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup / 29 - Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo circumnavigation from the Northern Hemisphere + The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937 - According to UNSCOM, the unity of the UN Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with Iraq than in disarming the country + George Foreman loses IBF boxing title, refused to fight Axel Schulz- Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL game (vs Calgary Stampeders) + Indians' Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000 hits...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Anneliese Michel (21 September 1952 – 1 July 1976) was a German Catholic woman who underwent an X-orcism the investigation and court case which followed attracted public attention and the film The Exorcism of Emily Rose is loosely based on her.. When Michel was 16, she had her 1st epileptic attack and was diagnosed with temporal lobe Epsilon.. She was soon in depression and was treated at a psychiatric hospital..By 1973, she became intolerant of various religious objects and began to hear voices..(Whos That Girl) Her condition worsened despite taking various medications and she became suicidal.. Her family was soon convinced she was possessed and appealed to a Catholic priest for an exorcism, which was rejected at first.. In 1975, after much hesitation,2 priests got permission from the local bishop and performed exorcism rites on her secretively...
Anneliese was born on 21 September 1952 in Leiblfing, Bavaria, West Germany to a Catholic family...
In 1984, the bishops made a petition to theVatican regarding the exorcism rite and a commission passed on the decision that she was not possessed..Her grave still became a pilgrimage centre for fringe believers.. Ulrich Niemann, a Jesuit priest, doctor and psychoiatrist, whom priests call in exorcism cases, told The Washington Post, "As a doctor, I say there is no such thing as possession...In my view, these patients are mentally ill. I pray with them, but that alone doesn't help.. You have to deal with them as a psychoartist.. But at the same time, when the patient comes from Eastern Epsilon and believes that he's been impaired by Evil, it would be a mistake to ignore his belief system.." Niemann further said that he does not think he is an exorcist and does not perform the Roman ritual of 1614.. The number of officially sanctioned exorcisms has decreased in Germany due to this case, in spite of Pope Benedict XVI support for wider use of it compared to Pope John Paul II, who previously made the rules more strict involving only rare cases in 1999..
The Rite + She Doesn't Need a Priest - Talitha is an uncommon feminine name meaning "little girl" in Aramaic, given in reference to the Biblical story in the Gospel of Mark in which Jesus Christ was said to have resurrected a dead child with the words "Talitha cumi" or "Talitha kum" or "Talitha koum," meaning "Little girl, I say to you, arise!"..The traditional star name "Talitha" derives from the Arabic phrase, القفزة الثالثة (al-qafzat or at-tālitah) meaning "The 3rd leap (of the gazelle)", referring to an Arabic asterism.. It refers to 2 stars in the Ursa Major constellation...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
In astronomy, voids are the vast empty spaces between filaments (the largest-scale structures in the Universe), which contain very few, or no, galaxies...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
The EPA (environmental protection agency) and OSHA took air samples in the days following September 11th, they reported that they found no excessive levels of asbestos contrary to other findings....
With the anniversary of September 11th literally just around the corner, unanswered questions still remain for families who lost loved ones during the tragic event, as well as from families...
In 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a series of lower court rulings that restrict the United States Navy's use of sonar in submarine detection training exercises off...
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