A Brief History On April 10, 1904, a Cambridge educated Englishman finished translating The Book of the Law which had been allegedly given to him by a messenger of the God, Horus! Digging Deeper Aleister Crowley was born into privilege in England and studied philosophy and literature at Cambridge. Known to revel in his bisexuality, Crowley dabbled in poetry, painting, writing novels and plays, mountaineering, experimenting with drugs, and the occult. Remembered primarily as the founder of the religion known as Thelema, Crowley claimed to be the prophet of the God Horus and that Crowley’s mission was to guide mankind…
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On April 9, 2005, Prince Charles, heir to the throne of the United Kingdom, married Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony. Remember, this guy is going to be King and thus “Defender of the Faith” and he does not get a church wedding? Normally, royal weddings are festive occasions celebrated by the entire commonwealth, but in this case resentment against Charles and Camilla over the loss of the beloved Princess Diana made this wedding a dud. Sometimes, for a variety of reasons, weddings are just not all that popular or respected. Here are 10 unpopular or weird weddings. Digging…
A Brief History On April 6, 2011, Mexican law enforcement authorities dug up 59 bodies of innocent people murdered by the Los Zetas drug cartel, and before they were done by June had dug up a total of 193 bodies! Digging Deeper Digging deeper (deep enough to find 193 victims!), we find a murderous and ruthless drug gang, Los Zetas, operating in the area of San Fernando, Mexico at a place called La Joya Ranch. As if that is not cracked enough, the female victims had been sexually assaulted, and the male victims had been forced to fight to the…
A Brief History In a startling April Fools prank, the BBC program Panorama aired on April 1, 1957 and showed an astonished British audience farmers growing spaghetti on trees in Switzerland! Digging Deeper We all know people that just wait each year for April 1st to play their pranks on us, but a reputable and serious television show? Spaghetti was not in wide use in Britain in the 1950’s, so many British people were unaware of how spaghetti noodles are made, which of course is like all other noodles, with wheat flour, water and other ingredients. Seeing Swiss farmers seemingly…
A Brief History On March 31, 1923, the first U.S. dance marathon ended in New York City but began a strange fad with sometimes fatal consequences! Digging Deeper Less than a decade later, in 1932, a young woman dropped dead after dancing non-stop for 48 hours in a dance marathon! And when the police raided a ballroom during a Marathon World Championship, the promoters simply transferred the contestants, who were still dancing, into a van. From there they were taken onto a sloop, a small sailing ship, which sailed out of territorial waters and so beyond the area of police…