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Bombing Mindanao, 1944 |
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We cruised along in our B-24 at the now slow speed of 160 mph, a very long over ocean fright from miniscule Owi Island (between Biak & New Guinea) to Mindanao. Mindanao is the large forested, mountainous southern island of the Philippines (a bit bigger than both Irelands) where the Japanese had built up powerful military defenses, especially in the many bays where they could hide ships & troops. They |
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Rendez-Vous With Joan of Arc |
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I had a friendly rendez-vous with Joan of Arc this summer, 1997, while DJ and I were hiking in the Vosges Mountains of northeastern France. Maybe you'd like to read about it, maybe not. Perhaps you can figure it out. I've been a Deist for about 50 years, like many of the most important founders of our country; George Washington, Tom Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Tom Paine, Ethan Allen, Madison and Monroe, and later on Abe Lincoln; but that unexpected photographic meeting in Domremy has me bemused and wondering.
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Shove Lorelay from the Steeple |
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Did you see that story on BBC online in January this year, '98? A group of drunken, horny young Spanish guys picked up pretty little Lorelay, carried her 50 ft. up the church steeple & shoved her out of a window. That's six stories high! |
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Western Democracy |
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Our western democracies are the finest societies created by our forebears since the destruction of ancient democratic Greece; but are popular democracy & our precious freedoms being butchered by plutocracy, as they were in ancient Greece? |
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Did Yeshu Love His Mother? |
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This historical study is available by email; "Just ask & ye shall receive", email haste, not slugmail haste. Who the hell is Yeshu anyway? |
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