Ulysses was published in 1922, not 1918.

You didn't jokingly say this so I'll assume you're serious. The racial stereotype is that black men don't swim.

And FYI Wayne Brady, Elmo Lincoln was the first movie Tarzan in 1918.

Yogi and radx make the only real point necessary here and that's that information, DIGITAL information especially, is floating about and cannot be contained exclusively, EVER. It 'IS'....You can't control the never-ending, ever-present flow of it BUT-

Certain people will use information for good, some for evil, some to control, some to enlighten and with a view to evolution and meaning, and LIFE.

Death to those who would that information be used for anything but what it is: The free-flow of bits and bites and the purest life-energy.

In the beginning, was the word.

Oh and for shinyblurry: We'll probably never know the 'need-to-know' factors involved in making a decision for ourselves about Snowden and you are correct in intuiting that there is something fishy with Snowden and with all of this. The righteous or, average folks on the planet simply DO NOT have the appropriate clearance to 'know.'

ANY president does not even have this clearance and this is why he wants Snowden back, to face a mock-trial under the mock government's 1918 Espionage act allegations and why the mock so-called journalists can continue to disseminate information that protects and promotes the machine. All are basically being blackmailed into serving this beast, which protects and insulates the most egregious and vile of humanity, so that they may be free and you may be not.

Not the Largest Man Made Non Nuclear Explosion
Halifax has you beat.
The Halifax Explosion occurred on the morning of Thursday, December 6, 1917. SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship fully laden with wartime explosives, collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the Narrows, a strait connecting the upper Halifax Harbour to Bedford Basin. Approximately twenty minutes later, a fire on board the French ship ignited her volatile cargo, causing a cataclysmic explosion that devastated the Richmond District of Halifax. Approximately 2,000 people were killed by debris, fires, and collapsed buildings, and it is estimated that nearly 9,000 others were injured.The blast was the largest man-made explosion prior to the development of nuclear weapons with an equivalent force of roughly 2.9 kilotons of Trinitrotoluene (TNT). In a meeting of the Royal Society of Canada in May 1918, Dalhousie University's Professor Howard L. Bronson estimated the blast at some 2.4 million kilograms of high explosive.

This video got me interested in exactly why 10 000 Japanese people would choose to perform a notoriously difficult piece, in German.

The Japanese call the piece Daiku and perform it every year in December. The largest of these gatherings is most likely the one in this video, "Suntory Presents Beethoven's 9th with a Cast of 10000," in the Osaka Castle Hall. It could also be the special concert from December 2011 which was dedicated to victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and in fact the pictures of that event look quite like this video.

It turns out that it is because in the first world war Japan was allied with Britain, and ended up with some German prisoners of war in Japan. In June 1918, German POWs gave a legendary concert in Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, where they played the Ninth. Since then it has become quite popular in Japan.

There is an article from 2010 in www.japantimes.co.jp on this subject.

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Thank-You!
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Aw, I always liked Mike on 60 minutes.

*quality *doublepromote

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>> ^Boise_Lib:

Israel was founded in 1948, not 1918.


It looks like the British might of been doing their own Zionist stuff before the war resolved.

http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/feisal1.html

just a quick search, might need to do some more reading when I get home...though, tbh...that whole area of violence tends to irritate me instead of enlighten me, usually don't touch it.

Israel was founded in 1948, not 1918.

For the record: 1918

Interesting You know, your visit could well have coincided with the time frame I was talking about listening to "And the band played..." in music class. I'm not entirely sure why the band played Waltzing Matilda (but that link might have some clues). In 1918 the real Australian anthem was "God save the King", our current one wasn't chosen until 1974, but I think Matilda has always been popular. The link to Gallipoli is interesting too. After the war, Mustafa Kemal, who had been commander of the Turkish forces on the day of the invasion wrote a tribute to the Australian troops quoted at the Australian war memorial's web site, http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/ataturk.asp

"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side now here in this country of ours... you, the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land. They have become our sons as well."

P.S. I got side tracked and forgot that I meant to send you a link to "I was only 19", another sad Australian ballad about returned soldiers.
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I've known it was sort of the un-official national anthem for Australia since I was little (I was there when I was 9yrs old), so I guess I've always heard it in an Australian voice.
I also had a music box as a child that had Waltzing Matilda as it's song.

How well known it is to others, I don't know. I always seem to be the one that collects odd little facts.

Lol, nice accent, btw.

Cheerio!

First of all, just because there haven't been a great number of deaths from H1N1 yet doesn't automatically mean were out of the woods. There is a good evolutionary potential for it to mutate to something worse.

Secondly, who says that H1N1 is the only potentially dangerous virus out there? Even if the H1N1 virus never mutates into something terrible, it doesn't mean that other viruses won't. So we need someone who has a better understanding of them at the helm, or at least someone who doesn't think his knowledge of virology he acquired 50 years ago is still completely true today.

Finally, if there is a deadly pandemic like the 1918 Spanish flu, you better believe there should be mandatory vaccinations. If hospitals everywhere are overflowing with flu patients, then public health is overwhelmingly more important than the rights of one person to say no to vaccinations. One person's liberty doesn't trump my right to live. Typhoid Mary would be the poster child for Ron Paul's approach to disease control.

Should we wait until a deadly pandemic breaks out before we let market forces do their supply/demand dance? Or can we encourage sensible approaches to serious public health issues? Time after time, when vaccination rates drop, disease morbidity and mortality go up. We can't let a political/economic theory dictate public health policy. >> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Being that we are all still alive from the swine flu epidemic, I would say that it was most likely completely overblown. If you have watched other videos from him on the matter, you will of learned that 20 years ago there was a similar fear endued rather than data endued pandemic. In that case, the cure killed more people than the illness. Furthermore, if you watched any of his stuff, you would learn that he isn't against vaccines, he is just against making them federally controlled. Saying everyone gets a flu shot doesn't mean it is actually possible as the MASSIVE shortages on H1N1 showed. It didn't matter that the government was mandating it for certain people as there simply wasn't enough. Once again, he isn't against vaccination, merely legal mandate of them.
But ya, age is pretty interesting. If you look at him though, he hardly seems at the end of his rope yet. Some people get those lucky genes, he seems to be one of those few. He was actually an Olympic level runner when he was much younger.