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Will the real St. Valentine stand up

Like all pre-mass communication celebrities, St. Valentine' identity is a little blurry. So much so, that it has never been established for which of the 3rd century martyrs associated with the 14th of February the first official Saint Valentine's Day in 496 AD was declared. Was it the Bishop of Terni (then called Interamna), the Valentine who died in Africa or the priest imprisoned and executed in Imperial Rome.

Folk history, it seems, chose, the young priest who “betrayed” the Emperor Claudius… Continue

Posted by Kevin Chilton on February 14, 2008 at 7:00pm

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Dusting off the Crystal Balls

It’s that time of year again; the season for scrying the murky mesh of probabilities that will help determine our future. And of course we techies are renowned for our unerring ability to completely miss the target,
as the following examples show:



  1. “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” —

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Posted by Kevin Chilton on February 9, 2008 at 3:38pm — 5 Comments

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St Nick & Black Pete are in Town

So, I’m out shopping in town on what I thought was a normal Saturday afternoon, when suddenly the city goes medieval on me (check out the videos I uploaded).




The streets are suddenly full of black-faced characters in brightly-coloured clothing throwing sweets at me, and when I arrive in the Grote Markt, there’s some geezer dressed as an Archbishop or something with a gang of what look like
clowns jiving it up on the balcony.



Now I know the Dutch love their festivals, but what

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Posted by Kevin Chilton on November 20, 2007 at 6:36pm

hugh

Debate on Samhain in GfA

Hallo Helmut,



Helmut Groschwitz wrote:

> Hallo,

>

> ...

>> danke für den interessanten Link. Mich würde aber auch interessieren,

>> inwieweit die Begehung des Festes im Sinne des alten irischen Samhain in

>> Deutschland verbreitet ist. Kennt da jemand Zahlen?



> Wie ist das gemeint? Der Kulturtransfer vom irischen Halloween (von All

> Hallow's Eve = Abend vor Allerheiligen)



Nein, ich rede nicht v… Continue

Posted by hugh on October 30, 2007 at 7:37am

hugh

Link to other blog

Well, here is the old blog... maybe not so exciting in the
artistic sense, but a few interesting points about STEORN and
Heim Theory and one or 2 other thingees:



http://hdeasy.blogspot.com/

栀琀琀瀀㨀⼀⼀琀⸀

Posted by hugh on October 24, 2007 at 2:55pm

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