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[AdamSmith]

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[MsAnn]

                                                      "For the love of God"

 

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[RA1]

25 minutes ago, AdamSmith said:

I was thinking of Chuck's conviction on violation of the Mann Act.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/chuck-berry-is-arrested-on-mann-act-charges-in-st-louis-missouri

Why else would one transport a 14 YO girl cross state lines?   It is too cold in December for ice cream. 

Best regards,

RA1

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[RA1]

5 minutes ago, MsAnn said:

                                                      "For the love of God"

 

Apparently, AS, you spiced it up a bit much for some. 

Best regards,

RA1

[AdamSmith]

1 minute ago, RA1 said:

Why else would one transport a 14 YO girl cross state lines?   It is too cold in December for ice cream. 

Best regards,

RA1

It really was a cocked-up [sorry  ] charge.

One that knocked a bitterness into him that never left him.

That linked article accurately gives the essence of it all.

[RA1]

I read it and agree it was a cooked up charge.  Racial and other injustice seldom is beneficial. 

Best regards,

RA1

[AdamSmith]

1 minute ago, RA1 said:

Apparently, AS, you spiced it up a bit much for some. 

When an Amurrican goes into a Korean restaurant in the US, my former boss (who being from Australia knew everything  ) revealed to me (us sitting in just such a very nice family-run Korean eatery in Cambridge, MA) that if you want natively hot Korean dishes -- not the denatured stuff they know to serve us round-eyes -- you have to ask for it as:

Singapore-hot.

[This is a true fact.]

[RA1]

I have known similar Ozzies.  On a similar note I had the most authentic Chinese food while in Brunei at a family type place hosted by Limeys who knew the drill.  One needs to have numbers at such places to be able to enjoy a bit of everything. 

 

Best regards,

RA1

[MsAnn]

[AdamSmith]

42 minutes ago, MsAnn said:

                                                      "For the love of God"

 

'For the love of God, Montresor!'

[AdamSmith]

Again...

Per me si va ne la città dolente,
per me si va ne l’etterno dolore,
per me si va tra la perduta gente.

Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:
fecemi la divina podestate,
la somma sapienza e ‘l primo amore.

Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create
se non etterne, e io etterno duro.
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate.

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[AdamSmith]

51 minutes ago, RA1 said:

the most authentic Chinese food

Think I have mentioned before that while resident at Jale in New Haven, I had two great assets: a friend with a car, and another friend whose girlfriend was a student whose parents had immigrated here from Sichuan province in their 20s. Thus this girlfriend spoke/read Cantonese.

So just about every Saturday afternoon, we would load into the car and speed down to NYC. First the contemporary art museums (you never knew what madness might be in the new temporary exhibits there, and then seeing the Old Standbys never grew old either), then go on down into Chinatown for dinner. Where we had a standby favorite restaurant, where our Cantonese guide would order not off the printed sweet/sour English menu, but the native-character vertical-strip menus pasted to the wall up near the ceiling.

Never ate better in my life!

...One recalls Nixon's advice to Reagan before RWR's first trip to China:

'Don't ask what it is, just eat it.'

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[AdamSmith]

5 hours ago, MsAnn said:

EXACTLY what he looked & sounded like when I saw him live (him age 53) in 1982 at the Agora Ballroom in New Haven.

thk u!

[AdamSmith]

Israel brings Dead Sea scrolls to life with upgrade of digital archive

Website includes 10,000 new images, more manuscript descriptions and translated content, and a faster search engine

Ian Black in Jerusalem

First published on Tue 4 Feb 2014 14.54 EST

 This article is 3 years old

In an extraordinary marriage between high-tech wizardry and ancient history, Israel's national antiques authority has launched an updated version of its digital library of the Dead Sea scrolls, showcasing thousands of high-quality photographs of one of the world's most spectacular archaeological finds.

The expanded online resource, which is accessible from personal computers and mobile phones, presents hundreds of scroll fragments imaged with a camera that was developed specifically for this purpose. Only five expert curators worldwide are authorised to physically handle the scrolls.

Among the scrolls is an early copy of the book of Deuteronomy, which includes the 10 commandments. The first of the scrolls were discovered in a remote cave at Qumran in the West Bank close to the Dead Sea in 1947 – a year before Israel's war of independence and the Palestinian "Nakba".

Housed in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in a dedicated facility called the Shrine of the Book, the scrolls include part of the first chapter of the book of Genesis, dated to the first century BC, which describes the creation of the world; a number of copies of Psalms scrolls; tiny texts from the second temple period; letters and documents hidden by those fleeing Roman forces during the Bar Kochba revolt; and hundreds more ancient texts that shed light on biblical studies, the history of Judaism and the origins of Christianity.

The upgraded website includes 10,000 new multispectral images, extra manuscript descriptions, content translated into Russian and German in addition to the current languages, a faster search engine, and easy access from the site to the Facebook page and to Twitter and more, said the Israel Antiques Authority (IAA).

"The novelty is the quality of the pictures through a system that was created especially for the scrolls," said Pnina Shor, curator and head of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at the IAA. "These are the best possible images of thousands of fragments. They are exactly like the originals. The technology was invented for Nasa. It is a living site and a uniquely comprehensive one for documents this old."

By the early 1960s Bedouin treasure hunters and archaeologists had found the remains of hundreds of manuscripts made up of thousands of fragments in the Judean desert along the western shore of the Dead Sea. These fragile pieces of parchment and papyrus were preserved for two millennia by the hot, dry climate and the darkness of the caves.

The texts are written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Nabataean. The manuscripts have been dated to various periods between 408 BC and 318 AD.

"The scrolls provide an unprecedented picture of the diverse religious beliefs of ancient Judaism, and of daily life during the turbulent Second Temple period when Jesus lived and preached, on biblical studies, the history of Judaism and the origins of Christianity," says the IAA website.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/04/israel-dead-sea-scrolls-digital-archive

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[Guest Larstrup]

 Skimming through this the thread from a week ago, allows me to pronounce @MsAnn as  having the best door shutting,  in your face,  GIF ever! It  used to be so subtle. But no longer. She’s become a slammer girl.   and I like it!

but I suspect my moments from last week are squarely equated upon my reactions to lucky.  

 Truth is, Lucky has never been a “liker” of any of my posts here, or elsewhere, aside from his seductive need to do so  when convenient for him. and probably anyone else for that matter. Lucky is just being who he currently is - the resident poster who has nowhere else to go but here, and against others who find this a successful place to post.

All of us have the capacity to be a cunt. I’m probably most likely included in that group. But I have never gone out of my way like lucky has to include himself in that group.

So everybody just relax and remember this:

 

[AdamSmith]

6 minutes ago, Larstrup said:

 Skimming through this the thread from a week ago, allows me to pronounce @MsAnn as  having the best door shutting,  in your face,  GIF ever! It  used to be so subtle. But no longer. She’s become a slammer girl.   and I like it!

She is (and has ever been, in the most deliciously, drily, cutting of ways) the Mistress of the House in that regard.

 

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