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On 5 November, Maxwell was last in contact with the crew of Lady Ghislaine at 4:25 a.m. local time, but was found to be missing later in the morning. It has been speculated that Maxwell was urinating into the ocean nude at the time, as he often did. He was presumed to have fallen overboard from the vessel, which was cruising off the Canary Islands, southwest Spain. Maxwell's naked body was recovered from the Atlantic Ocean and taken to Las Palmas.
originally posted by: RookQueen
a reply to: FlyingFox
I forgot to mention she says Flynn created Q.... and brought all these guys in on it. But the only proof I've seen is some texts between her and Keshel. I do not know if he was separated at the time from his wife but that doesn't equal fraud to me.
originally posted by: RookQueen
a reply to: crankyoldman
Do you now or have you ever had vivid memories from a young age say 2 or 3?
originally posted by: Caled
I saved it for two reasons. One, the owl in the background. And two, I wanted to see if it would appear anywhere else on the Internet through reverse image search. Spoiler; it didn't.
If Joe Biden were to ask the framers of the constitution what qualities he should look for in a running mate, they might single out one in particular: a love of lucubration. It literally means working by candlelight. This “nocturnal study,” as Samuel Johnson called it, was an important part of the political lingo of the 1780s and might just be one of the best measures of one’s fitness for executive office.
The reason is that Biden goes to bed very early.
The framers learned about its benefits from reading Quintilian, the ancient Roman writer whose Institutes of Oratory sat on Thomas Jefferson’s shelf. Quintilian waxed poetic about “the advantage of lucubration, when the silence of the night, a shut up chamber, and one light, keep the mind, collected, as it were, upon its subject.”
The eighteenth century’s most famous historian, Edward Gibbon, noted that lucubration was an important part of a leader’s routine. His "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" savaged nearly every emperor except Marcus Aurelius, who he thought one of the greatest politicians in human history. The reason? “The virtue of Marcus Aurelius was…the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration.” George Washington owned a copy. (Jefferson did, too.)
The reason is that most people are being told to stay home, watch TV or look at a Compter screen be it a phone or a laptop. How many people are reading books?
John Adams too thought lucubration was essential to good governance, though after four difficult years in office he became frustrated the public didn’t understand this. “My Lucubrations have done no good that I know of,” he wrote in 1800. “Mankind have found more amusement in Shedding blood than in reading.”
So if one night a future President Biden ever finds himself to be a “Sleepy Joe,” it could be useful to have a night owl up the street at the Naval Observatory reading, contemplating, and using Quintilian’s “silence of the night” to help chart a wise course for the nation. An effective executive branch might well depend on a little lucubration.
Report: Scottish Government’s Vax Passport Sending People’s Private Data To Amazon, Microsoft
The Daily Record reports, “We have learned the NHS mobile phone app which presents the personal medical information in the form of a QR Code shares data with companies including Amazon, Microsoft, ServiceNow, Royal Mail and an AI facial recognition firm.”
Users of the vaccine passport app were not informed their data would be shared, according to the report.
originally posted by: hangedman13
a reply to: crankyoldman
Cranky you reminded me of a Mandela Effect I experienced last night at a buddy's apt. A good friend of some six or seven years and I go and visit him and his dog about once a week. SO I have been at his place quite a bit over the years. Well he is a big Marvel movie fan and has tons of posters and his own personal artwork hanging on his walls. I usually sit in the same place and see the same drawings & artwork from where I sit. But last night I saw a poster I didn't recognize on the wall and asked him about it, turns out he has had it for years? I know that wasn't hanging in that spot last time I was there. The odd part is [beyond the Mandela Effect] he and his family are sensitives and we were discussing paranormal issues with his mother over the phone prior to me noticing the odd poster. During that conversation my "spidey-sense" was tingling like we irritated the entity he has around him. [ Numerous recent paranormal experiences] Some odd connections were made during our discussion and it almost seemed like I got shunted somewhere else for my efforts. Not the first time I've found out something was off around me either.
According to The Island Packet of Hilton Head, Wood acknowledged forming The Tomotley Crew LLC, through which he purchased more than 2,000 acres in the area, including Tomotley Plantation. The $7.9 million property of more than 1,000 acres includes a 14-acre lake and half-mile entry ways lined with live oak trees that were planted in 1820.
Mummy’s older than we thought: new find could rewrite history
The ancient Egyptians were carrying out sophisticated mummifications of their dead 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new evidence which could lead to a rewriting of the history books.
The preserved body of a high-ranking nobleman called Khuwy, discovered in 2019, has been found to be far older than assumed and is, in fact, one of the oldest Egyptian mummies ever discovered. It has been dated to the Old Kingdom, proving that mummification techniques some 4,000 years ago were highly advanced.
The sophistication of the body’s mummification process and the materials used – including its exceptionally fine linen dressing and high-quality resin – was not thought to have been achieved until 1,000 years later.