nourishing obscurity

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You’ll recall this post on U.S. gothic steampunk and the explanation which went with it.  Well, here in Britain [and it does include the various countries], it’s going strong.  One centre is the Lincoln Asylum and there is always the Whitby Festival in April.

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There was a game of football downunder yesterday which I just found the score to: Geelong: 37.11.233 Melbourne: 7.5.47

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You might need to click to zoom these Mail pics but do you immediately notice something quite worrying about these couples?  Apart from the money and fame, I mean – in the way they relate to each other?

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Via Sue. Last week, I picked up a copy of the first Cadfael mystery, in which [spoiler alert] a young zealot is so enraged by the obstruction an old man puts in the way of moving the bones of a saint, that he lies in wait and murders him, in the interests of the saint [...]

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[This pic's huge.  You might like to click to zoom.]

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I saw them live in a Masonic hall – the things we do, eh?  What do you think of Tina’s bass in the next track?

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Drawing this to a conclusion, a word or twenty from a debunker.  Not all of what he said was laughable and some of it must be added to the whole tale to get to the truth. The smoke If this is the WTC 7, as the man claims and not another building, then there is [...]

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The following text is taken mainly from the comments thread – you’ll be able to work out which is which: The raging inferno Would-Be-Debunker: Typical truther drivel. I wonder why he fails to mention that Chief Palmer and his crew had barely reached the lowest part of the impact zone when the tower collapsed. # [...]

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Let’s start with two things which can’t be disputed: 1. Larry Silverstein, the controller of the destroyed WTC complex, stated plainly in a PBS documentary that he and the FDNY decided jointly to demolish WTC 7 late in the afternoon of 9/11. In the documentary “America Rebuilds“, aired September 2002, Silverstein makes the following statement:

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The BBC’s Jane Standley  said, in a later interview [below]: “It’s very unfortunate that this whole conspiracy – kind of – ridiculous situation has grown out of what’s really a very small and very honest mistake.” And what was that very small and very honest mistake, do you remember? She was filmed by the BBC [...]

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Really interesting, this issue of aesthetics.  Commenters say: #  If existing architecture was all of one style eg thatched cottages, Cotswold stone, single storey etc, [then it's an eyesore] but have just taken a walk down the road with Google man, there are quite a few different looking eclectic style houses anyway.

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