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![]() In the marketplace of religions Jesus had to compete with pagan gods who did miraculous stuff but that doesn’t mean Jesus was a carbon-copy of Horus, Osiris, Dionysus, Tammuz, or any other god. I think there are several pagan elements in the birth stories of Jesus: the star over Bethlehem, the virgin birth, the angels talking to the shepherds. No religion exists in a vacuum and Christianity is no exception to that. ![]() It is possible that the Sami people of Northern Europe contributed in some way to the Santa Claus myth (and they do have shamans), but they didn’t invent Santa. Nick rode a horse (most likely borrowed from the Norse god Odin!). This argument is even more nonsensical because reindeer weren’t introduced into the Santa mythos until the Nineteenth Century. ![]() Since reindeer exist in Siberia, shamans of that area are also credited with introducing reindeer to Santa’s sleigh. ![]()
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![]() Such is anadolu yakasi escort bayan the setup to a type of romantic comedy. To make matters worse, the devil steals the moon. Within a couple of sentences a witch has taken off and is stealing all of the stars from the skies. A clear winter night had come the stars peeped out the moon rose majestically in the sky to light good people and all the world so that all might enjoy singing kolyadki and praising the Lord. The last day before Christmas had passed. ![]() But I must say it was better to be sick on Christmas Eve than to go through what Gogol puts his characters through in The Night Before Christmas. I agree: being sick on Christmas Eve is no fun. I should have posted this yesterday, but at the stroke of midnight December 23 – 24 I got incredibly sick. The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol ( Noch, pere Rozhdestvom, 1832) translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett (1926) New Directions (2011) 80 pp ![]()
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Blizzard of Glass by Sally M. Walker7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() An aide approached and hurriedly called him to the telephone. Phelan was attending a meeting at the Massachusetts Statehouse that December morning as part of his committee work. The committee had one overriding goal: to make sure the war did as little damage to Massachusetts as possible. prepared to enter World War I, Phelan agreed to serve on the governor’s Committee on Public Safety. He had risen in the firm of Hornblower & Weeks from the position of clerk to partner on the strength of his hard work.Įarlier in the year, as the U.S. So on the strength of that one cryptic telegram from George Graham, Massachusetts quickly assembled a massive relief team and sent it to Halifax. ![]() The explosion had destroyed most telegraph lines to Halifax, and the Canadian government took over the few remaining. One of the casualties of the Halifax explosion was communication. Not time to explain details but list of casualties is enormous.” The message read simply: “Organize a relief train and send word to Wolfville and Windsor (towns near Halifax) to round up all doctors, nurses, and Red Cross supplies possible to obtain. Governor McCall in 1918 amid the reconstruction following the Halifax explosion. ![]()
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Leon craig parallel hells7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Livia orchestrates a Satanic mass to distract herself from a recently remembered trauma, and two lovers must resolve their differences in order to defy a lethal curse. Having written non-fiction for the TLS and the White Review and contributed a story to the Queer Life, Queer Love anthology, Parallel Hells is the deliciously strange debut from Leon Craig. An Oxford historian, in bitter competition with the rest of her faculty members, discovers an ancient tome whose sinister contents might solve her problems. : Parallel Hells (9781529371420) and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. In the 13 darkly audacious stories of Parallel Hells,we meet a golem, made of clay, learning that its powers far exceed its Creator's expectations a ruined mansion which grants the secret wishes of a group of revellers and a notorious murderer who discovers her Viking husband is not what he seems.Īsta is an ancient being who feasts on the shame of contemporary Londoners, who now, beyond anything, wishes only to fit in with a group of friends they will long outlive. Some say that hell is other people, and some say hell is loneliness. In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identity, love, power and the complicated nature of being human. Its the queer horror book of your dreams Kirsty LoganIrresistibly strange and inventive, Parallel Hells is a collection of dark and delightful stories. In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identity, love. ![]()
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Best chekhov short stories7/7/2023 ![]() His first story was published in March 1880 by a magazine called Dragonfly, which later that year published nine of his stories, most of them signed as “Antosha Chekhonte”. In an attempt to increase his income in Moscow, Chekhov wrote for the humor magazines he liked. He soon took his father’s place as head of the family, a responsibility he carried for the rest of his life.Īfter graduating in 1884, he began working at the hospital in Chikino, Russia, but in December of that year he began coughing up blood, the first symptom of the tuberculosis that eventually caused his death. ![]() Chekhov immediately entered the medical faculty of Moscow University. In August 1879 he joined his parents in Moscow, where his father was a laborer and his mother was a part-time seamstress. Chekhov, then sixteen years old, stayed behind to finish his studies. ![]() In 1876, his father’s business failed and the family moved to Moscow, Russia, to start over. ![]() The young Chekhov and his siblings worked in the family store and studied at the local school. He was the third of six children of Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov, a grocery store owner.Ĭhekhov’s grandfather was a serf who bought his family’s freedom in 1841. ![]() Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in Taganrog, southern Russia, on the Sea of Azov, on January 17, 1860. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Remarkably, however, another product of Whistler’s moral waywardness, a son called Charles James Hanson (apparently born of another woman) was later brought up by Jo. ![]() Not surprisingly perhaps, Jo’s relationship with Whistler broke down after they both met again in London. Jo wa s one of the two women in sapphic pose that Courbet portrayed in Le Sommeil before offering her anatomy for the famous L’Origine du Monde (not a painting for the faint-hearted). Courbet spent much of his time a t the Brasserie Andler at 24, rue Hautefeuille (addre ss no longer exists), and no doubt Jo was dragged along there during her short stay. She turned up at Courbet’s studio at 32, rue Hautefeuille (6 th arrondissement, address no longer exists) for the first time in August 1866 and probably started an affair with him. Jo called on Courbet in Paris in 1866, at a time when Whistler had left Europe for Chile (possibly to avoid a possible round up of Fenian sympathizers, for Whistler was a friend of John O’Leary). Courbet became captivated by Hiffernan, and she quickly agreed to pose for him, resulting in Portrait de Jo, la belle Irlandaise. ![]() ![]() Jo and Whistler met the French painter Gustave Courbet In the seaside resort of Trouville in the autumn of 1865. ![]()
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The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She makes a copy of the picture and sends it in a package to Lipsha, who is living in Fargo, North Dakota and working at a sugar beet factory. The story begins with Lulu Lamartine, Lipsha's grandmother, walking to the post office and removing the wanted poster of her son, Gerry Nanapush, from the wall. The Bingo Palace alternates between two narrators, Lipsha and presumably the tribal spirits who watch over Lipsha. This book is the fourth in the series, followed by Tales of Burning Love, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Four Souls, and The Painted Drum. Published in 1994, the narrative is categorized under the romance genre, although it includes themes of tradition and spirituality. The Bingo Palace primarily follows Lipsha Morrissey, the story's protagonist, as he returns from life in the city to his home on the reservation and becomes reconnected to his spiritual and cultural roots while pursuing a new love interest. In The Bingo Palace, American novelist Louise Erdrich writes in the same vein as her previous fiction books in the Love Medicine series- Love Medicine, Tracks, and Beet Queen-which document the complex realities of daily life on a fictional Chippewa, or Ojibwe, reservation in North Dakota. ![]()
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Uni the unicorn dream come true7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() "A bunch of schools in the CAA and mid-major conferences were recruiting me. "I kind of kept everything to myself because it was a stressful process," O'Boyle said. But Rhoades and his staff didn't forget about O'Boyle and offered him a scholarship to Penn State. When Rhoades left VCU to become Penn State's coach, replacing Micah Shrewsberry, who departed to become head coach at Notre Dame, O'Boyle was a bit upset, thinking an opportunity had by-passed him. O'Boyle said he garnered interest from some mid-major schools, one of which was Virginia Commonwealth University and head coach Mike Rhoades. But you can do anything if you put your head to it."Īt the beginning of the season, O'Boyle entered the NCAA transfer portal on the advice of then-Lafayette head coach Mike Jordan since Lafayette does not have a graduate school. Who ever thought I'd be at Penn State one day? It's something I wouldn't have dreamed of. ![]() Hopefully, it inspires young kids to keep working hard. "It's great for myself and those two girls to do it. "It's interesting to see all these players putting in this hard work and taking that next step, getting to that next level. ![]()
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Drive by Daniel H. Pink7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() These extrinsic (or external) rewards work well for routine tasks.īut in the new information economy, this model is now outdated. Pay a person more per widget they make, and that person will crank out more widgets. Because human work in factories was easy to measure, it was easy to see how work policies changed productivity. This system worked well in the era of industrialization. Within management, this gave rise to the “carrots and sticks” model - reward the behavior that you want, and punish the behavior you don’t want. On a higher level, we also seek reward and avoid punishment. Starting with the basics: humans, like any other animal, have a foundational desire to survive. Why do people do what they do? What drives behavior? Understanding this is important for guiding your own behavior to achieve your goals, and driving other people’s behavior to meet the organization’s goals. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of Drive ![]() |