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The history of doctoring photographs dates back to the 1860s, only a few decades after Niepce created the first photograph in 1814, photographs were already being manipulated. The nearly iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln’s head and the Southern politician John Calhoun’s body.
Source: Photo Manipulation Throughout History: A Timeline | Ethics in Photo Editing
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False reality has been created through “the media”, under the control of the New World Order of banks and corporations. The agenda of these parasites and perverts is nothing less than a global-socialist-military-industrial police state. The price of membership in the brain-dead slave-society of the media mind-controlled “masses” is Freedom, Self-determination, and Spiritual Immortality.
False reality has been created through “the media”, under the control of the New World Order of banks and corporations. The agenda of these parasites and perverts is nothing less than a global-socialist-military-industrial police state. The price of membership in the brain-dead slave-society of the media mind-controlled “masses” is Freedom, Self-determination, and Spiritual Immortality.
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ABRACADABRA
“By Abracadabra we signify
An infinite number of things.
‘Tis the answer to What? and How? and Why?
And Whence? and Whither?— a word whereby
The Truth (with the comfort it brings)
Is open to all who grope in night,
Crying for Wisdom’s holy light.
Whether the word is a verb or a noun
Is knowledge beyond my reach.
I only know that ’tis handed down.
From sage to sage,
From age to age—
An immortal part of speech!
Of an ancient man the tale is told
That he lived to be ten centuries old,
In a cave on a mountain side.
(True, he finally died.)
The fame of his wisdom filled the land,
For his head was bald, and you’ll understand
His beard was long and white
And his eyes uncommonly bright.
Philosophers gathered from far and near
To sit at his feet and hear and hear,
Though he never was heard
To utter a word
But “Abracadabra, abracadab,
Abracada, abracad,
Abraca, abrac, abra, ab!”
‘Twas all he had,
‘Twas all they wanted to hear, and each
Made copious notes of the mystical speech,
Which they published next—
A trickle of text
In the meadow of commentary.
Mighty big books were these,
In a number, as leaves of trees;
In learning, remarkably— very!
He’s dead,
As I said,
And the books of the sages have perished,
But his wisdom is sacredly cherished.
In Abracadabra it solemnly rings,
Like an ancient bell that forever swings.
O, I love to hear
That word make clear
Humanity’s General Sense of Things.”
~ Jamrach Holobom
from THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY by AMBROSE BIERCE, written between 1888 – 1906
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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – circa 1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and compiled a satirical lexicon, The Devil’s Dictionary. His vehemence as a critic, his motto “Nothing matters”, and the sardonic view of human nature that informed his work. In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. While traveling with rebel troops, he disappeared without a trace.
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“Reading a book is like being inside the mind of the author. Great writers read more books than they write.” ~ LRS
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If you do not already appreciate the marvel of biological engineering found in life forms on Earth, and the inherent “harmony” of the physical universe, this sound recording may give you an new perspective.
Crickets have a short life span compared to humans. A composer by the name of Jim Wilson recorded the sound of crickets and then slowed down the recording to the relative equivalent of the human lifespan. The crickets sound like they are singing the most beautiful chorus of a human voice choir, in perfect harmony. Though you may think it is human voices, everything you hear in this recording is in-fact crickets themselves!
This recording contains two tracks played at the same time: The first is the natural sound of crickets played at regular speed while the second is the slowed down version of crickets’ voices.