Category Archives: UNIVERSES

Universes are comprised of thoughts, ideas, dreams, illusions, delusions, which may also include stars, space, time, energy and objects. Or not. These are the universes of the author Lawrence R. Spencer, and others for whom he has an affinity.

...and other stuff, ART, LIVES, READING MATTER, UNIVERSES

SPECTACULAR SPIDERS OF NICKY BAY

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Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and cheliceraewith fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica, and have become established in nearly every habitat with the exception of air and sea colonization. As of 2008, at least 43,678 spider species, and 109 families have been recorded.

VISIT THESE WEBSITES OF NICKY BAY TO SEE MORE SPIDERS (and other insects)!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickadel/sets/72157632977332646/

http://sgmacro.blogspot.com/

http://sgmacro.blogspot.com/2013/07/ultraviolet-fluorescence-in-spiders.html

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The Royal Murder of Diana Spencer

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As a distant relative of the “royal” Spencer family, which includes the soon to be groom, whose mother is the late Princess Diana ( whose maiden name was Diana Spencer), I feel honour-bound to remind the mindlessly adoring public that British Royalty is a nest of vipers and assassins.  Woe and beware to Kate Middleton and her family….

Watch the videos on the site below for details of the murder of Prince Di:

http://www.disclose.tv/forum/the-murder-of-princess-diana-the-truth-about-royal-family-t50222.html


The Murder of Princess Diana The Truth About Royal Family

...and other stuff, ART, BULLSHIT, FREE ADVICE, LIVES, POETIC NONSENSE, READING MATTER, UNIVERSES

AN IDIOT IN THE 33rd DEGREE

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In November of 1905, an enraged Mark Twain sent the following superb letter to J. H. Todd, a salesman who had just attempted to sell bogus medicine to the author by way of a letter and leaflet delivered to his home. According to the literature Twain received, the “medicine” in question — called “The Elixir of Life” — could cure such ailments as meningitis (which had previously killed Twain’s daughter in 1896) and diphtheria (which killed his 19-month-old son). Twain, himself of ill-health at the time and very recently widowed after his wife suffered heart failure, was understandably furious and dictated this reply to his secretary, which he then signed.   

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Transcript follows:

Nov. 20. 1905

J. H. Todd  
1212 Webster St.
San Francisco, Cal.

Dear Sir,

Your letter is an insoluble puzzle to me. The handwriting is good and exhibits considerable character, and there are even traces of intelligence in what you say, yet the letter and the accompanying advertisements profess to be the work of the same hand. The person who wrote the advertisements is without doubt the most ignorant person now alive on the planet; also without doubt he is an idiot, an idiot of the 33rd degree, and scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link. It puzzles me to make out how the same hand could have constructed your letter and your advertisements. Puzzles fret me, puzzles annoy me, puzzles exasperate me; and always, for a moment, they arouse in me an unkind state of mind toward the person who has puzzled me. A few moments from now my resentment will have faded and passed and I shall probably even be praying for you; but while there is yet time I hasten to wish that you may take a dose of your own poison by mistake, and enter swiftly into the damnation which you and all other patent medicine assassins have so remorselessly earned and do so richly deserve.

Adieu, adieu, adieu!

Mark Twain

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REPOSTED FROM:    http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/01/youre-idiot-of-33rd-degree.html

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SHARE WATER

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Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 satirical science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and eventual transformation of—terrestrial culture. The title is an allusion to the phrase in Exodus 2:22. According to Heinlein, the novel’s working title was The Heretic. Several later editions of the book have promoted it as “The most famous Science Fiction Novel ever written”.  Heinlein got the idea for the novel when he and his wife had some brainstorming one evening in 1948, and she suggested a new version of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, where a human child is raised by Martians instead of wolves. He decided to go further with the idea, and worked on the story on and off for more than a decade before it was complete.  In 1962, this version received the Hugo Award for Best Novel.  The book was a success from the start. Eventually Stranger in a Strange Land became a cult classic.