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We come from the future. Section XI - Miscellaneous Phrases. I escaped from Auschwitz | World news. On 20 June 1942, the SS guard stationed at the exit to Auschwitz was frightened. In front of him was the car of Rudolph Höss, the commandant of the infamous concentration camp. Inside were four armed SS men, one of whom – an Untersturmführer, or second lieutenant, was shouting and swearing at him. "Wake up, you buggers! " the officer screamed in German. Yet had he looked closer, the guard would have noticed something strange: the men were sweating and ashen-faced with fear. Almost 70 years later, prisoner 918 is holding forth in the home of the scouting association, Baden Powell House in London.

Piechowski had a happy childhood in the town of Tczew, swimming with friends in the nearby river Vistula or playing with bows and arrows in the park with his two brothers. When the Nazis invaded the country nine years later, in 1939, the scouting movement was seen by the invaders as a symbol of nationalism – and a potential source of resistance. How did people cope? Matt Wilson's High-Minded BS » 2010 » October. Grimm's Fairy Tales eBook - Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm. Copy Editing: One-Day Intensive — Cheryl Della Pietra — New York, NY – mediabistro.com Courses and Seminars.

Corante: technology, business, media, law, and culture news from the blogosphere. He Is Not An Edward. by ~badspoon on deviantART. I FUCKED ANN COULTER IN THE ASS, HARD. What's Genocide? List of collective nouns by collective term A-K. A skein of geese This is a list of traditional or whimsical collective nouns. The large number of collective nouns in English is based on a tradition of venery (words for groups of animals) which arose in the Late Middle Ages. Standard terms for particular groups are listed first in each group and shown in bold.

See also[edit] References[edit] Hunter S. Thompson Essay. “Open Letter To The Youth Of Our Nation” 1955 | Hunter S. Thompson Books. Hunter wrote this essay in 1955 for The Athenaeum Literary Association’s bound yearbook, it won third prize in The Nettleroth contest. Great writing for a 18 year old, and makes for a funny read too. Young people of America, awake from your slumber of indolence and hark-en the call of the future! Do you realise you are rapidly becoming a doomed generation? Do you realise that the fate of the world and of generations to come rests on your shoulders? Do you realise that at any time you may be called on to protect your country and the freedom of the world from the creeping scourge of communism?

How can you possibly laugh in the face of the disasters which face us all from all sides? I say there is no excuse for a feeling of insecurity on your part;there is no excuse for juvenile delinquency; there is no excuse for your attitude except that you are rotten and lazy! I warn you, if you don’t start now it will be too late, and the blame for the end of the world will be laid at your feet. Become the Creeper. About a year ago I met this pretty great girl. We were coworkers and we hung out all the time at work. It was one of those situations when we were at lunch other people would ask where the other was, since they were so used to seeing us together. This girl, lets call her Ashley, was so much fun to be with. I could completely geek out on her about whatever new game was coming out and what TV series we were plowing threw on Netflix. Avatar was coming out and she was so excited to see it, talked about it everyday and yeah the movie looked really cool.

It was about a week before the movie and it was time to ask her, do or die. Finally the familiar sound, the chime of a new message, I can’t look so I quickly cover the message and sit there to ponder what she wrote, I think positive, she wants me . Welcome to museSpace! Welcome to the Polyglot Project. Girls Gone Reading. Diego Goldberg :: The Arrow of Time. Love letters. The Anagram Dictionary. T h e a n a g r a m d i c t i o n a r y Online Dictionary - Orchy G'day all... A long time ago I decided to make use of an electronic scrabble dictionary by using it to build an anagram dictionary. Anything with that many words is going to show up on a huge number of web spider searches.

No Title Hi! With this little message, the file is not only coming up eventually in a fair proportion of all searches, but it also had a summary that aroused people's curiosity. I had no intention of experimenting with the web or trying to lure web users into my den. It's interesting the number of anagrams that are fitting: Eternity and entirety, backward and drawback, discern and rescind, demand and madden, comedian and demoniac, American and cinerama, aspirate and parasite, oldies and soiled, lust and slut, to name a few of many hundreds.

Abbe babe abed bead bade abel elba bale able bela abet beat beta bate abhorred harbored abhorrer harborer abides biased able abel elba bale bela abler baler blear blare aces case. Five zombies. Four bullets. Two zombies. Save The Words. Tip of My Tongue - Chirag Mehta : chir.ag. The Recently Deflowered Girl – Edward Gorey | Bitten Nails Design & Illustration. Click this for the related blog post. My music. Humor and Hypocrisy from the World of Politics. McSweeney's Internet Tendency: First Drafts of the Parables of Jesus. Jesus said, “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.

But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” One of the disciples asked, “What of the man who builds his house inside the house built on the rock? Surely his house will be even less damaged by water and wind.

And Jesus said, “No, don’t do that.” At that time a man said unto Jesus, “Jesus! Jesus said, “The Father’s kingdom is like a shepherd who had a hundred sheep. “Wait, what?” And the man became a pillar of salt. “It doesn’t matter,” said Jesus. “But what do you think about this?” “The first!” Plague Words and Phrases. Why Atheists Are More Intelligent Than the Religious. It is natural to believe in God, so more intelligent individuals are more likely to be atheists. Religion is a cultural universal, and its practice is observed in every known human society.

However, as I explain in earlier posts (Why do we believe in God? Part I , Part II ), recent evolutionary psychological theories suggest that religiosity may not be an adaptation in itself but may be a byproduct of other evolved psychological mechanisms variously called the “animistic bias” or the “agency-detector mechanisms.” These theories contend that the human brain has been selected to agency – personal, animate, and intentional forces – behind otherwise natural phenomena whose exact causes cannot be known. This is because agency – and making a Type I error of false positive – makes you a bit paranoid, but being paranoid is often conducive to survival. If these theories are correct, then it means that religiosity – belief in higher powers – may have an evolutionary origin.

A. Victoria Mixon, Editor » Blog Archive » 10 Things To Do To Become a Better Writer in 10 Days. 20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the World. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. The sentence's meaning becomes clearer when it's understood that it uses three meanings of the word buffalo: the city of Buffalo, New York, the somewhat uncommon verb "to buffalo" (meaning "to bully or intimidate"), as well as the animal buffalo. When the punctuation and grammar are expanded, the sentence could read as follows: "Buffalo buffalo that Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

" The meaning becomes even clearer when synonyms are used: "Buffalo bison that other Buffalo bison bully, themselves bully Buffalo bison. " Sentence construction Bison engaged in a contest of dominance. A comic explaining the concept The sentence is unpunctuated and uses three different readings of the word "buffalo". Marking each "buffalo" with its use as shown above gives: Buffaloa buffalon Buffaloa buffalon buffalov buffalov Buffaloa buffalon. "New York bison New York bison bully, bully New York bison", or:"New York bison whom other New York bison bully, themselves bully New York bison". Usage. Political essay by 93-year-old tops Christmas bestseller list in France | World news. The mother of Stéphane Hessel, a diplomat after the second world war, inspired the novel Jules et Jim - adapted by Francois Truffaut. Photograph: The Ronald Grant Archive Proving that age is no boundary to publishing success, the French book world has been taken by storm by a surprise Christmas bestseller: a political call to arms by Stéphane Hessel, 93.

The unlikely publishing sensation is a former resistance hero whose 30-page essay, Indignez-vous! , calls on readers to get angry about the state of modern society. Launched in October by Indigène, a small publisher working out of an attic in Montpellier, southern France, the book had a tiny first print-run, 6,000, and sold for €3, unprecedentedly cheap in a country where book prices are regulated and kept high by the law. Hessel's success has stunned France. The book's soaring sales reflect a general mood of French exasperation at the social inequalities of Nicolas Sarkozy's presidency.