Photo Nick Kaye. Polecat Retreat St Leonards Road, Leicester

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Saw this on a poster but where does it come from?

More at Serendipity Luck and Coincidence

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I’ve discovered a fair bit of weirdness associated with Zzyzx Road including an evangelist and the endangered Mohave tui chub, it’s had TWO films made about it read more by clicking here if you dare!

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For you to be alive you need to have an unbroken chain of ancestors, so your forefathers survived plagues, wars, illnesses, accidents, wars, starvation and so on. You had an ancestor alive at the same time as Jesus, you had an ancestor who walked out of Africa, an ancestor who first fashioned a stone tool.

Seems miraculous and yet mathematically it has no significance as the same is true for every other human alive today.

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The Battle of Hürtgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) is the name given to the series of fierce battles fought between U.S. and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest, which became the longest battle on German ground during World War II, and the longest single battle the U.S. Army has ever fought in its history.

The Hürtgen Forest cost the U.S. First Army at least 33,000 killed and incapacitated, including both combat and noncombat losses; Germans casualties were between 12,000 and 16,000.

This battle was completely over-shadowed by the Battle of the Bulge, many of those that died here in the most miserable conditions were heroes from D-Day and they should not be forgotten.

I’d never heard of this until just recently learn much more here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hurtgen_Forest

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Going to School with the 101st Airborne Little Rock

Photo Wikicommons US Government Public Domain

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Mother Maybelle Carter playing Wildwood Flower at the Johnny Cash show. Also featuring the Carter sisters Anita Carter & Helen Carter. June was not there because she was pregnant of John Carter Cash.

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There is no reference in the Bible to what Jesus did between the ages of 12 when he was discussing religious matters with the elders and 30 or so when he appeared as a prophet, this is a recognized fact. All we know is that when Jesus came to preach in his home town Nazareth that while the people were not exactly welcoming they were amazed by the change, surely that is just Joseph the Carpenter’s son but how come he has all this knowledge? Jesus wryly remarked that “The only place a prophet isn’t honored is in his hometown and in his own house“.

So what happened in between we shall probably never know but there are wild theories ranging from going to India, to England (William Blake : And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon England’s mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On England’s pleasant pastures seen), to even North America!

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An Astonishing Number Of Everyday Expressions Come From The Bible
Of course you know the well known ones An eye for an eye and Turn the Other Cheek but did you know that Sign of the times or Twinkling of an eye or Drop in the Bucket and many other apparently modern phrases also originate from the Bible?

See more here

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You know where you desperately trying to get something done, but you aren’t sure exactly what it is. Woke up exhausted.

It seemed to be something to with some PHP programming I’m doing and (inexplicably) preparing something for Barack Obama and family even I though I kept thinking surely an American President has people who this kind of stuff for him already.

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