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Snow Patrol_Please Just Take These Photos From My Hands
The yellowed page of the books and books I'd forgotten that I had
These paperbacks they know their age they smell of weight and time that's resting warm
The opened box beside the endless box parade that haunts my house
Is fit to split with photographs that tell the wanderlust of years smashed on to years
Writer(s): Jonathan Graham Quinn, Paul Wilson, Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly, Tom Simpson
Picture taken @ Chesapeake Bay maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Epsilon/78/161/21
Quarry Bank Mill Gardens, Stylal, Cheshire.
Quarry Bank Mill Gardens Coordinates.53°20′38″N 2°14′58″W.
Quarry Bank Mill (also known as Styal Mill) in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile factories of the Industrial Revolution. Built in 1784, the cotton mill is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. Quarry Bank Mill was established by Samuel Greg, and was notable for innovations both in machinery and also in its approach to labour relations, the latter largely as a result of the work of Greg's wife, Hannah Lightbody. The family took a somewhat paternalistic attitude toward the workers, providing medical care for all and limited education to the children, but all laboured roughly 72 hours per week until 1847 when a new law shortened the hours.
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I changed the skin and I really like it
I finally decided on all the variety of skins from theSkinnery and chose the most suitable for me
I love these round big eyes...
VV Lightbody - vvlightbody.bandcamp.com/
Polaroid Week - Day 3
Polaroid Spectra / Polaroid Originals Spectra Color Film
1.1.11
...and so it beings.
For once I want to be the car crash
Not always just the traffic jam
It's my time to shine, I want to be noticed. I don't want to just fall into the "norm", I want to stand out. This song is about taking the opportunity given to you. 2011 will be MY YEAR. Oh and my love for Gary Lightbody helped me pick this song ha.
I am trying the 365 project again, but it's not going to be just self portraits.
This year I will focus on my photography.
Here we go!
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"Tu n'es personne si tu ne t'aimes pas toi-même, tu ne t'approches pas de Dieu si tu ne t'approches pas d'abord de ton corps."
[José Saramago] in L'Evangile selon Jésus-Christ
"You're nobody if you don't like yourself, you don't come near to God if you don't first come near your body."
[José Saramago] in "the Gospel according to Jesus Christ"
I came across this beautiful wall mural in Kilmarnock of Lady Ann Livingston Boyd who was the Countess of Kilmarnock ~ she was born in 1709 and died in 1747.
The mural was designed by local artist, Tom Lightbody!
365/2025 - Still The Wheel Turns ...
Stay Safe and Healthy Everyone!
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... Thanks to you all!
Rema, barqueiriño, rema,
bótame desta mar fóra,
que me di meu corazón
que hei de morrer na Marola.
Cantiga popular galega.
MÚSICA: Jock o'Hazeldean - Gary Lightbody & John McDaid
2767 Herschel Street, Riverside, Jacksonville, FL. One of the oldest homes in the neighborhood, purchased and restored by Richard Ceriello in 1985.
Love playing with light in SL :)))
Very little Photoshop and editing.. just light/contrast adjustment.. helped hair with some brushes ... plus bit of light beams .. most is all created in Secondlife inworld studio :))))
Pose: .:B&F:.
Created for exibition at slurl.com/secondlife/Twilight
Paying Attention
Wandering back through time recently, as I opened countless timeworn envelopes of faded photographs, I found a previously unseen picture of 'Taid' my grandfather, stood years before I was born, in the exact spot where we often stop now whenever we're down in Cornwall. West Looe to be specific. And now I come to think about it, the exact same feeling occurs when we're in other places, way too numerous to mention.
The feeling, not something men would normally talk about, for obvious reasons, is one of a tingling sensation up and down the spine and spreading over the top of the head. Like many such bodily sensations, it comes without explanation or clear rational, it just nudges, subtly as though to say, “Pay attention 007!”
Another such place where the nudge occurs is pictured in the photo attached; The Royal Albert Dock, as it's known these days. And through another spot of digging and delving into the hand-me-down possessions Taid had carefully left before his departure to places unknown back in 1984, I found records of his working life in Liverpool, just a mile or so up the road from Albert Dock at George Hadfield's dockside factory on Lightbody Street, Bootle.
In the photo, looking Northwards through the gaps in the pillars from Atlantic Pavilion towards Hartley Bridge, the Maritime Museum now occupies the building that once housed the offices of a Mr Richard Abel of Runcorn. Mr Abel ran a sand and gravel business as well as a boatbuilding yard in Runcorn where generations of his family built Mersey Flats, the region's famous wooden barges.
Serendipitously, or coincidentally if you’re that way inclined, another poignant photo had already turned up, this time of the Women War Workers in 1917 at George Hadfield's factory. They're stood aboard a Mersey Flat barge, shovels in hand. And I can’t help wondering, as I stand in Albert Dock and look towards where Mr Abel’s office was, if Taid had also visited Albert Dock through the course of his work. The ‘Pay Attention’ nudge is strong here.
No doubt if we do enough digging into the dusty records held in Liverpool’s various historical archives, we’ll find out for sure if there was in fact a trading connection between George Hadfield’s and Richard Abel’s businesses. All I can say for certain is that every time I work on the project or think about Mersey Flat OAKDALE and her maritime heritage in and around Liverpool, the thoughts are always accompanied by the nudge, let's call it a very strong sense of having been here before.
As Yogi Berra, the American baseball catcher once famously said, “It’s like deja vous all over again!”
“Quarry Bank Mill (also known as Styal Mill) in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile factories of the Industrial Revolution. Built in 1784, the cotton mill is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. Quarry Bank Mill was established by Samuel Greg, and was notable for innovations both in machinery and also in its approach to labour relations, the latter largely as a result of the work of Greg's wife, Hannah Lightbody. The family took a somewhat paternalistic attitude toward the workers, providing medical care for all and limited education to the children, but all laboured roughly 72 hours per week until 1847 when a new law shortened the hours.
Greg also built housing for his all of his workers, in a large community now known as Styal Estate. Some were conversions of farm houses, or older residences but 42 new cottages, including the Oak Cottages (now Grade II Listed), were built in the 1820s when the mill was being expanded.
The National Trust, which runs the mill and Styal Estate as a museum that is open to the public, calls the site "one of Britain's greatest industrial heritage sites, home to a complete industrial community". According to the Council of Europe, the mill with Styal village make up "the most complete and least altered factory colony of the Industrial Revolution. It is of outstanding national and international importance". Wikipedia
The Laser 5000 is a double-handed, dual trapeze skiff with an asymmetrical spinnaker . It derives its name from its length of 5 metres. Losing out to the Bethwaite-designed 49er for selection as an Olympic class for the 2000 Games, it was one of 11 designs that took part in the ISAF High Performance Olympic Dinghy Evaluation Event in 1996.
It was designed in the early 1990s by Phil Morrison. The design was informed by Morrison's earlier experimental Gemini design he had designed and built with Bill Twine and Nick Lightbody in Berwick, East Sussex in 1979. The class is strongest in the UK and Europe.
Like many of the successful sail lofts in the world, Hyde Sails grew from racing and in particular racing one-design dinghies. But the challenge of making sails of exactly the right shape, with top class materials and faultless craftsmanship permeates through all the sails we make from racing yacht to old gaffer.
Established over 55 years ago as Musto and Hyde, the red Flying Dutchman logo reflected Keith Musto's Olympic success in that iconic dinghy. He went on to establish his very successful clothing range while the sailmaking business spread to encompass sailmaking for all types of boat of all types and sizes. Hyde Sails have one of the biggest product ranges of any sailmaker in the world from Optimist dinghies to round the globe cruisers.
Built in 1784, the cotton mill continued in production until 1959.
It was established by Samuel Greg, and was notable for innovations both in machinery and also in its approach to labour relations, the latter largely as a result of the work of Greg's wife, Hannah Lightbody. The family took a somewhat paternalistic attitude toward the workers, providing medical care for all and limited education to the children, but all laboured roughly 72 hours per week until 1847 when a new law shortened the hours.
This sign in a waiting room startled me...
If it hadn't been for Winnie Churchill, I would be long dead.
If it hadn't been for Abe Lincoln, the North American continent would have been a major place of intolerable and unending pain and suffering for many millions. Much worse than it is today, and for vastly different reasons.
We know that Lincoln's bouts with severe depression were quite debilitating. I believe they were made worse by some common cure of the day... He finally stopped taking it when he realized it was making him worse.
Robin Williams took his own life, which still saddens me... So did Hemingway. Each left a marvelous legacy...
Without Isaac Newton, would the world of Physics have bloomed? "It ain't necessarily so!" Oh, that's Gershwin!!
I love Vincent Van Gogh!!!! Starry Starry Night...
The list goes on.
Here's the website listed on the poster:
And, here's a list I found on Wikipedia for just Major Depressive Illness:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_major_depressiv...
[This link no longer works. Here is a possible replacement link. I am not sure if the list is the same:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_bipolar_disorder]
Please note that some letters of the alphabet have no entries. I don't know if that is intentional on Wiki's part.
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John Adams, 2nd President of the United States and a founding father[1][2][3]
Caroline Aherne, British comedienne[4]
Alan Alda, American actor and author[5]
Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut, the second man to set foot on the moon[6]
Woody Allen, American film director and comedian[7][8]
Claus von Amsberg, German diplomat and husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands[9]
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer[10]
Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator and film director[11]
Malcolm Arnold, British composer[12]
ASAP Rocky, Rapper
Richard Ashcroft, English singer-songwriter[13][14]
Isaac Asimov, American author and professor[15]
Julian Assange, Australian publisher and editor (WikiLeaks)[16]
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Parveen Babi, Bollywood actress.[17]
Alec Baldwin, American actor[18]
Christian Bale, British actor[19]
Maria Bamford, Comedienne and voice-over actress[20][21]
David Banner, American hip hop artist[22][23]
Charles Baudelaire, French poet[24]
Amanda Beard, American Swimmer and Olympic Gold Medalist[25]
Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director[26]
Halle Berry, American actress.[27]
Beyoncé, American singer[28]
William Blake, British poet and painter[29]
David Bohm, British quantum physicist[30]
Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher[31]
Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norwegian politician and former Prime Minister of Norway[32]
Jon Bon Jovi, American rock singer and songwriter[33][34]
Nathaniel Borenstein, American computer scientist[35]
Lorraine Bracco, American actress[36]
Terry Bradshaw, American football player,[37] Football Analyst, Sports Anchor
Wayne Brady, American comedian[38]
Zach Braff, American actor[39]
Frank Bruno, British boxer[40]
Art Buchwald, humorist[41]
Joe Budden, American hip hop artist[42]
Delta Burke, American actress[43]
Robert Burton British academic, (author of The Anatomy of Melancholy)[44]
Barbara Bush First Lady of the United States 1989–93 and Second Lady 1981–1989.[45]
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Beverley Callard, British television actress, Coronation Street[46]
Anthony Callea, Australian pop singer[47]
Alastair Campbell, British journalist and political aide[48]
Anna-Varney Cantodea, musician[49]
Truman Capote, American writer known for Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood.[50]
Drew Carey, American comedian and actor[51]
Clarke Carlisle, English professional footballer[52]
Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian[53]
Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer-songwriter[54]
Johnny Carson, American television presenter.[55]
Helena Bonham Carter, British actress[56][57]
Dick Cavett, American talk show host[58]
Raymond Chandler, writer of detective fiction[59]
Iris Chang, Chinese American writer and historian[60]
Ray Charles, African-American singer[61][62]
David Chase, American writer, director and producer[63]
Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator and Governor of Florida[32]
Melanie Chisholm, English pop singer-songwriter[64]
Agatha Christie, English crime writer[65]
Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister[66]
Eric Clapton, English musician[67]
Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana)[68]
Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter[69]
Stan Collymore, British footballer[70]
Joseph Conrad, Polish writer[71]
Catherine Cookson, English novelist[72]
Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States.[73]
Billy Corgan, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)[74]
Jeb Corliss, American professional skydiver and BASE jumper[75]
Chris Cornell, American musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave)[76]
Courteney Cox, American actress[77]
Sheryl Crow, American singer-songwriter[78]
Rivers Cuomo, American musician (Weezer)[79]
Ian Curtis, English musician (lead singer of Joy Division)[80]
Louis C.K., American comedian[81]
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Roméo Dallaire, Canadian general, senator and humanitarian[82]
Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor[83]
Charles Darwin, British naturalist[84]
Larry David, American actor, writer, comedian and producer[85]
Jonathan Davis, lead singer of Korn[86]
Osamu Dazai, Japanese author [87]
Edgar Degas, French painter[88]
Ellen DeGeneres, American comedian and talk show host[89]
John Denver, American musician[90]
Johnny Depp, American Actor[91]
Diana, Princess of Wales[92]
Charles Dickens, British writer[29]
Barry Dickens, Australian novelist and playwright; wrote a memoir about his battle with depression[93][94]
Emily Dickinson, American poet[2][95]
Monty Don, English television presenter, writer and speaker on horticulture[96]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist[97]
Graeme Dott, Scottish professional snooker player[98]
Nick Drake, British musician[99]
Doug Duncan, American politician, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Maryland in the 2006 elections[32]
Kirsten Dunst, American-German actress[100]
Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, poet and artist[101]
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Thomas Eagleton, American U.S. Senator from Missouri[102]
Blake Edwards, American film director, screenwriter and producer[103]
Richey Edwards, guitarist and lyricist (Manic Street Preachers)[104]
James Ellroy, American crime writer[105]
Eminem, American rapper[106]
Robert Enke, German football player[107]
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Chris Farley, American actor and comedian[108]
William Faulkner, American author[109]
Craig Ferguson, Scottish-American talk show host[110]
Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher of science[111]
Lupe Fiasco, American rapper[112]
F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author[113]
Harrison Ford, American actor[114]
Michel Foucault, French philosopher[115]
Stephen Fry, English comedian, actor and writer[116]
Vic Fuentes, singer and guitarist for Pierce the Veil[117]
Jackson C. Frank, songwriter, musician and guitarist on the UK folk scene.
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Peter Gabriel, British singer and band member of Genesis[118]
Geoff Gallop, Australian politician[119]
Romain Gary, French-Lithuanian-Polish novelist and diplomat[120]
Gaston Gaudio, Tennis player and 2004 French Open champion[121]
Paul Gauguin, French painter[122]
Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer, diagnosed after murdering his wife, her lover, and his own son[123]
Paul Getty, British philanthropist[124]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor[125]
Tipper Gore, Former Second Lady of the United States[113]
Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter[126]
Spalding Gray, American actor and writer[127]
Graham Greene, British writer[128]
Zack Greinke, American MLB pitcher[129]
Ken Griffey Jr., American MLB player[130]
Eddie Griffin, American NBA Player[131]
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Jon Hamm, American actor[132]
Tony Hancock, English actor and comedian[133]
Glen Hansard, Irish singer-songwriter and actor [134]
Andrew Hansen, Australian comedian (part of The Chaser team)[135]
Johann Hari, British journalist[136]
Herbert Hart, British philosopher[137]
Elizabeth Hartman, American actress[138]
Anne Hathaway, American actress[139]
Friedrich August Hayek, Austrian economist[140]
Ernest Hemingway, American writer[29]
Margaux Hemingway, American actress; granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway[141]
Bill Hicks, American comedian and musician[142]
Audrey Hepburn, British actress[143]
Geoffrey Hill, English poet[144]
John Hinckley, Jr., American would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan[145]
Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish songwriter and keyboardist of Nightwish[146]
Sir Anthony Hopkins, British actor[147]
Vladimir Horowitz, American pianist and composer[148]
Frankie Howerd OBE, British comedian[149]
Michael Hutchence, Australian singer–songwriter[150]
Sir Julian Huxley, British biologist, author and administrator[151]
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Janis Ian, American singer-songwriter[152]
Natalie Imbruglia, Australian singer-songwriter, actress and model.[153]
Jack Irons, American musician, drummer for the bands Eleven, Pearl Jam, and Red Hot Chili Peppers[154]
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Janet Jackson, American singer[155]
Henry James, American writer[156]
William James, American philosopher and psychologist[157]
Jim Jefferies, Australian comedian
Richard Jeni, American comedian and actor[158]
Billy Joel, American musician[159]
Daniel Johns, Australian musician[160]
Samuel Johnson, British lexicographer, biographer, essayist and poet[161]
Daniel Johnston, American musician[162]
Angelina Jolie, American actress[163]
Bruce Jones, English Television actor Coronation Street .[164]
Kevan Jones, Labour Party MP for North Durham[165]
Ashley Judd, American actress[166]
Jung Da Bin, Korean actress[167]
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Franz Kafka, Czech writer[168]
Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor[169]
Sarah Kane, British playwright[170]
Hamid Karzai, Afghan President[171]
Charlie Kaufman, American screenwriter[172]
Susanna Kaysen, American writer[173]
Demi C. Kazanis, DDS American movie actress, philanthropist, dental surgeon
John Keats, British poet[174]
Kid Cudi, American hip hop artist[175]
Kool Keith, American hip hop artist[176]
Jack Kerouac, American poet[177]
Marian Keyes, Irish writer[178]
Alicia Keys, American singer-songwriter[179]
Anthony Kiedis, American musician, lead singer for funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.[180]
Stephen King, American author [181]
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter[182]
Anne Kirkbride, English television actress Coronation Street[183]
Cris Kirkwood, American musician, Meat Puppets bassist.
John Kirwan, New Zealand rugby player, former All Black, currently coach of Japan national rugby team.[184]
Joey Kramer, American musician (Aerosmith)[185]
Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director[186]
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Alan Ladd, American actor[187]
Lady Gaga, American singer-songwriter and actress [188]
Kendrick Lamar, American hip hop artist[189]
Michael Landsberg, Canadian sportscaster[190]
Hugh Laurie, British actor[191]
Denis Lawson, British actor[192]
Jenny Lawson, American author and blogger[193]
William Lee, African American man slave and valet to George Washington.
John Lennon, MBE, British singer-songwriter[194]
Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer[195]
David Letterman, American comedian and television presenter[196]
Lee Joon-gi, Korean actor[197]
Meriwether Lewis, American explorer[198]
Richard Lewis, American comedian and actor[199]
Gary Lightbody, Northern Irish singer of Snow Patrol[200]
Lil' Chris, English singer-songwriter[201]
Abraham Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 16th President of the United States[202]
Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States[203]
Heather Locklear, American actress[204]
Oscar Lopez, Chilean-Canadian folk guitarist[205]
Demi Lovato, American singer and actress[206]
Courtney Love, American singer and actress (Hole)[207]
H.P. Lovecraft, American cosmic horror author.
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Claudio Magris, Italian writer[208]
Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer[209]
Rafe Mair, Canadian broadcaster and cabinet minister[210]
Shirley Manson, Scottish singer of Garbage[211]
John Marsden, Australian novelist and educator known for the Tomorrow series.[212][213]
Heather Matarazzo, American actress[214]
Henri Matisse, French painter[215]
Guy de Maupassant, French writer[216]
Brian May, British guitarist[217]
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer and poet[218]
Garry McDonald, Australian actor known for Mother and Son and The Norman Gunston Show[219][220]
Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor[221]
Herman Melville, American writer[222]
Paul Merton, English comedian[223]
Charlotte Mew, British poet[224]
Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor[225]
John Stuart Mill, British political philosopher[226]
Spike Milligan, Irish comedian and writer[227]
Kylie Minogue, Australian singer[228]
Joan Miró, Spanish painter[229]
Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor[230]
Moby, American DJ and musician [231]
Marilyn Monroe, American actress and sex symbol[232]
Alanis Morissette, Canadian musician and songwriter[233]
Morrissey, British singer and former frontman of The Smiths[234]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer[235]
Bill Murray, American actor[236]
Les Murray, Australian poet.[237][238]
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Isaac Newton, British physicist[239]
Matthew Newton, Australian actor[240]
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher[29]
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Graeme Obree, British cyclist[241]
Conan O'Brien, American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer[242]
Bill Oddie, British comedy performer and naturalist[243]
Eugene O'Neill, American playwright[244]
Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist ('father of the atomic bomb')[245]
Marie Osmond, American musician[246]
Ronnie O'Sullivan, English snooker player[247]
Patton Oswalt, American comedian and actor[248]
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Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress[249]
Dolly Parton, American country singer and actress[250]
Jenny Pat, Chinese-Japanese Discovery Channel TV personality and famous art dealer[251]
Ryan Phillippe, American actor[252]
Deepika Padukone, Bollywood actress [253][254]
T. Boone Pickens, Jr., American oil tycoon[255]
János Pilinszky, Hungarian poet[256]
Brad Pitt, American actor[257]
Sylvia Plath, American writer[29]
Edgar Allan Poe, American poet and writer[29]
Jackson Pollock, American painter[258]
Charley Pride, American country music singer.[259]
Bill Pulsipher, American baseball player[260]
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Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist[261]
Charlotte Rampling, English actress[262]
Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist and philosopher[263]
Trent Reznor, American musician[264]
Christina Ricci, American actress[113]
Anne Rice, American writer[265]
Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet[266]
John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist[267]
Mark Rothko, American painter[268]
Hans Rott, Austrian composer[269]
Ronda Rousey, female UFC fighter [270]
Jessica Rowe, Australian journalist and television presenter[271][272]
J. K. Rowling, British writer[273][274]
Winona Ryder, American actress[275]
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French author of The Little Prince[276]
J. D. Salinger, American author of The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey[277]
Jim Salinger, New Zealand climate change scientist[278]
Frankie Sandford, English Pop singer[279]
Siegfried Sassoon, British poet and soldier[280]
Terry Sawchuk, Canadian goaltender[281]
Charles M. Schultz, American cartoonist [113]
Robert Schumann, German composer[282]
Jean Seberg, American actress[283]
Hubert Selby, Jr., American writer[284]
Brian Sewell, English art critic[285]
Anne Sexton, American poet[286]
Amanda Seyfried, actress[287]
Brooke Shields, American actress[288]
Sarah Silverman, American comedian[289]
Elliott Smith, American musician[290]
Brittany Snow, American actress[291]
Andrew Solomon, American author[292]
Britney Spears, American pop singer[293]
Rick Springfield, American singer-songwriter[294]
Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter[295]
Charles Spurgeon, Reformed Baptist Preacher[296]
Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer of My Dying Bride[297]
Nicolas de Staël, French painter of Russian origin[298]
Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains, Mad Season)[299]
Vivian Stanshall, British humourist and musician (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)[300]
Peter Steele, American musician[301][302]
Gwen Stefani, American pop singer[303]
Rod Steiger, American actor[304]
Michael Stipe, American musician, frontman for R.E.M..[305]
August Strindberg, Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter[306]
William Styron, writer[307]
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Tablo (Daniel Armand Lee), Korean-Canadian hip hop artist (Epik High)[308]
Amy Tan, American writer[309]
Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician
Catherine Tate, English comedienne and actress[310]
Corey Taylor, American singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour[311]
James Taylor, American singer-songwriter[312]
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer[313]
Emma Thompson, British actress and screenwriter[314][315]
Uma Thurman, American actress[316]
T.I., American Rapper[317]
Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer[318]
Georg Trakl, Austrian poet[319]
Marcus Trescothick, England cricketer[320]
Lars von Trier, Danish film director[321]
Mark Twain, American writer[29]
Mike Tyson, American boxer[322]
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Ville Valo – Finnish singer (HIM)[323]
Vincent van Gogh – Dutch artist[324][325]
Eddie Vedder – American musician, vocalist of Pearl Jam[326]
Ned Vizzini – American writer[327]
Kurt Vonnegut – American author[328]
Joey Votto – Canadian baseball player[329]
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David Foster Wallace, American writer[330]
Mike Wallace, American journalist on 60 Minutes[331]
David Walliams, British actor, writer and comedian[332]
Evelyn Waugh, British novelist and journalist[333]
Ruby Wax, American Comedienne[334][335]
Gerard Way, American singer and comic book writer, frontman of the rock band My Chemical Romance[336]
Denise Welch, English actress and television presenter[337]
Jonathon Welch, Australian opera singer and choirmaster for the Choir of Hope and Inspiration (formerly known as The Choir of Hard Knocks)[338]
Pete Wentz, Bassist and lyricist for rock band Fall Out Boy[339]
Billy West, American voice artist[340]
Delonte West, American basketball player[341]
Jerry West, American basketball player and executive[342]
Wil Wheaton, American actor and author[343]
Dan White, American killer of Harvey Milk and George Moscone[344]
Walt Whitman, American poet[345]
Kevin Whitrick, British electrical engineer[346]
Kenneth Williams, British Comedian[347]
Robbie Williams, British pop singer[348]
Robin Williams, American comedian and actor[349]
Tennessee Williams, American playwright[350]
William Carlos Williams, American poet[351]
Alan Wilson, American musician (Canned Heat)[352]
Brian Wilson, American musician (Beach Boys)[353]
Owen Wilson, American comedian and actor[354]
Gregory Wilton, Australian politician[355]
Dean Windass, British football player[356]
Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host[357]
Reese Witherspoon, American actress and producer[358]
Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer[359]
Lewis Wolpert, British developmental biologist, author and broadcaster[360]
Virginia Woolf, British novelist[361]
Elizabeth Wurtzel, American writer[362]
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Michael Yardy, England cricketer[363]
Boris Yeltsin, first President of Russia[364]
Thom Yorke, English musician, lead singer of Radiohead[365][366]
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Arcturian Light Body Installation
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Quarry Bank Mill
Quarry Bank Mill is in Styal, Cheshire. It is one of the best preserved textile mills of the Industrial Revolution, it is now a museum of the cotton industry run by the National Trust. Built in 1784 it is a designated Grade II listed building.
The mill was established by Samuel Greg and was notable for the innovative approach to labour relations, largely as a result of the work of Greg's wife, Hannah Lightbody.
Situated just to the south of Manchester Airport. The mill is on the banks of the River Bollin, which provided water to power the waterwheels. It was connected by road to the Bridgewater Canal for transporting raw cotton from the port of Liverpool.
All floors of the mill are wheelchair accessible via a glass lift.
Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.
I love this shot, here's the write-up on it:
May 9, 1960. One of the landmark images in the history of modern architecture: Julius Shulman's nighttime shot of Ann Lightbody and Cynthia Murfee in Case Study House No. 22, the Stahl residence in the Hollywood Hills, overlooking Sunset Boulevard. Architect: Pierre Koenig.
The photo, taken with a Swiss-made Sinar 4x5 view camera, is a double exposure: Seven minutes for the background, then a flash shot for the interior, the house lights having been replaced with flashbulbs.
Seen at: www.shorpy.com/
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The Ankh represents the first key to the Mysteries “The Creation of Everything”. The Ankh means more than Life – it is the most ancient symbol of a code of sounds and primordial deities. The Ankh is actually the Names of the so called “chaos” Deities of the Khemnu or Ogdoad: Amen/Amenet, Nun/Nunet,Ku/Kukhet,Heh/Hehet. – This resolves itself to ANKH. The Ankh itself has four distinct sides and one of them is the Loop Nun/Nunet. These four pairs in were thought to be the Children of Tehuti and Maat. Both Tehuti (Vibration), Maat (Order) and the four pairs themselves have their own forces. Amen/Amenet is the hidden spark of life and its opposite , Nun/Nunet – is the primordial unformed mass and its opposite, Ku/Kukhet is the qualities of Light and its opposite, and Heh/Het is the qualities of infinity and its opposite. At some point the Eight fuse themselves together bounded by Maat and Tehuti and a Deity Ptah is formed out of this chaos – (the God Particle), he steps on a mound, Aton is formed and lands on his shoulder then The Ennead is created or the 9 deities. This is called the “First Time” or Sp Tepii, Zep Tepi, Sep Tepii, Sep Tepi. Ancient Kemet is both Scientific and Spiritual. The Mysteries System of Egypt is also both Scientific and Spiritual. To begin self mastery one must understand how everything began. A child in Ancient Egypt would be told the creation stories, I described and grow up understanding Science and Spirituality. An African Child in the Diaspora would be taught one of the Major Western Religions and grow up with religion and later learn science and have to juggle between the two. Here is the beginning key to re-orientating African Thought, Practice, Spirituality, Redemption and Self Mastery.Here we see the most common usage of the Ankh – Here is the Symbol, the N – water ripple and the KH – Placenta?. The N can be pronounced, and the KH is pronounced. The sound of its symbol begins with the A similar the extend arm glyph. This I have to check. At any rate, the ripple water identifies it with possibly water, or wave. The Placenta has obvious meanings of birth. I am currently attempting to find out why the KH symbol is the placenta. It does not look like a Placenta at all. I have found that the KH sound is used in the Mdu Ntr of the placenta so that is why the symbol is referred to as a placenta. Obviously, the Ancient Egyptians knew about the placenta and knew how to draw it – it is found in the Narmer Pallete and the Wepwawet Standard in the Step pyramid. The symbol that is known as the sieve or placenta obviously has a meaning that contributes to the placenta, but may not necessarily be the placenta.
Sekou Fortune who helped me discover the Secret of the Ankh and our new researcher Alfred “Djehuti” Thompson II – Bro. Al, made an amazing contribution while we were at the ASCAC conference in Washington in August. They discarded Gardiner’s and Budge naming of the KH sound as Placenta. They said that it could not be a Placenta for the following reasons: 1) the symbol is in equal parts 2) The people of Kemet knew how to draw a placenta 3) Cosmologically the placenta would have no place in the creation of everything – women and man were not created. 4) They challenged that symbols in relationship to the Ankh have cosmological references and the KH symbol may very well be Matter itself.
The ankh (/æŋk, ɑːŋk/; Egyptian ˁnḫ), also known as "crux ansata" (the Latin for "cross with a handle") is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic ideograph symbolizing "life".The ankh is an oval or point-down teardrop set atop a T shape. The origin of this image is highly debated. Some have suggested that it represents a sandal strap, although the reasoning behind such a use is not obvious. Others point out the similarity with another shape known as a knot of Isis (or a tyet), the meaning of which is also obscure.The Secret of the Ankh is a pathway into the Mystery Systems. The Secret of the Ankh leads to the what is called called the God Particle or what is alled the Higgs Particle but told in mythos by the Ancient People of the Nile. The Secret of the Ankh also is in line with the Infinity Puzzle of Frank Close this where infinity (Heh) and its opposite nothingness (hehet) and Nwn (Dark Radition) and its opposite Nwnt (anti-matter) or and the resultant matter is analyzed in creation . I believe that I have decoded the Symbol of the Ankh. My findings are that the Ankh can no longer be viewed as just meaning life, but the creation of Life itself. The Cosmological Origin was first discovered by myself and my friend Sekou Fortune. I later expanded the base findings into a Blog that can be shared and read.
To summarize the concept in Part I
(1)The Ogdoad Primordial Eight are the elements that created the Divine Creator according to the Egyptians. This is taken from one of the oldest cosmologies -of Hermopolis or Khmnu.
(2) Aspects of this story are used in the creation of Ptah, Ra, Amen, Aten in the other creations stories. These all deal with just the creation of the Creator not with what existed before creation.
(3) The symbol for the Ankh is the symbol with the Circle on top of the cross hairs – followed by the Mdu Ntr sounds of N and KH.
(4) From the breakthroughs of translations we know the symbol was pronounced NKH or ANKH. The A is disputed and may have been added for convenience of pronunciation. Even if the Ankh is a triliteral – at this point there is no definitive way to show how it was pronounced.
(5) If we return to the Ogdoad, the eight pairs are Amen Amenet, Nun, Nunuet, Kek, Kekhet, and Heh, Hehet. My theory is that the symbol took the names of the Ogdoad into consideration for its pronunciation. One must remember first that the Mdu Ntr is in fact the Sacred Words of the Ntrs. So there must be some root words are sounds that were used in the beginning and will continue to be used for words describing creation.
(6) The Ankh not only is a symbol of Life but the elements that create life. These elements are the Ogdoad and the Odgoad is essential for Life. The symbol Ankh is connected to the Ogdoad and I believe it gets its name from the Odoad. This is the secret of the Ankh.
(7) I understand that there is controversy of me creating the mnemonic ANKH to represent the Khemennu (The Primordial Eight). However, in Nile Valley Cosmology it is in fact the Eight that created life. So the mnemonics do not take away from this concept even though their is no prove that the Nile Valley Africans thought this way but we can be sure the Ankh symbol is written with the water sign (N) and the (KH) – whether this meant waves and particles is another thing. This is my Theory.
Let us continue.
I want to pause here so that I can correct three important points that may come up as a criticism. First, in order to help the reader find relevant source material, I use the work Ogdoad. However, the Nile Valley Mdu Ntr term with the most primary information is Khemenu and that a scholar looking for primary resources should always look for primary material first and secondary material second. The information on the Khemenu is should ultimately be referenced from what it means in the Original Language. Here is an example, Egypt is referred to the Land of the Ancient People in which we are talking about. However, the name of the land referred in text by the people is Kemet, Ta Seti, Ta Mery. We could call the people Egyptians but they call themselves the Rmt or Kmtw.
Two – I will say that the Ankh must be re-translated to the Khemenu (The Eight, 4 pairs). and I may get criticism from those unfamiliar with primary text and say that Amun is never first because Nun was. One should always stand from a position of being well researched. At anytime, that I have to defend the order of the Khemenu, I can do so with primary sources. I will say at this time that Amun/Amunet was the primordial Wave by themselves and they created NUN. Amun/Amunet exist in at least two dimensions and their later reality becomes Eight as they now split tow Amun/Amunet, Nun/Nunet, Kek,Keket and then HeH.HeHet.
Third, I will say the symbol the Ankh is actually the Eight, the Khemenu or the European name Ogdoad and will have again criticism. I have included a letter from Dr. Mario Beatty which I use as constructive criticism. However, Amun is always hidden and we do not know if the Symbol was actually pronounced as Ankh or Nkh – So Since Amun is hidden let us make that sound invisible and pronounce the symbol NKH for these purposes. NKH is a formula that includes the Khemenu for several reasons. The reaction of the Eight creates the Light that Created Life. In addition, the Khemenu are seen holding the Symbol sometimes all Eight or sometimes just 4 or the Eight. In Addition as I will show that the Mdu Ntr of the Symbol contains the N (Wave) and the KH (particle/seive) and these are quantum physic properties of the duality of Waves and Particles. Lastly, the Khemenu appears in Precreation, Creation, Life, and Afterlife scenes in Text and in Plates.
At this time – I will not touch my original theses until I publish my work – I hope that these satisfies initial criticism and those that want to criticize I find have not read enough primary sources to rule out anything that I am saying for the Nile Valley African often renews or make better their thoughts in later text to cure what was hidden in earlier text. So the Khemenu Cosmology was made better later.
Wherever the Ankh is translated in Ancient Egypt Literature it must be re-translated with the following insight: The Ankh is the Life Code; The Egyptian’s so-called “Infinities or Chaos” Gods: Amen/Amenet, Nun/Nunet,Kuk,Kukhet, Heh/Hehet – the Ogdoad.; The Meaning of Life is no longer just a flat definition but a multi-dimensional definition of the scientific and possibly spiritual definition of how life was created itself.
First though it may appear my work is not about phonetics, not about linguistics but linguistics have some bearing. The Secret of the Ankh can be approached two ways that lead to the same result.
First I will look at the Ogdoad – the Primordial Eight and how these elements resolve themselves into Life.
Second, I will look the Mdu Ntru symbol for the sound N which is a Wave and the Mdu Ntr symbol for the sound KH which Gardiner says incorrectly is a placenta but probably matter – are key elements of the symbol ANKH or NKH – Wave plus Matter produces the elements of Life or the God Particle. This is essentially a well proven theory of Dr. Oyiboe, as part of his GAGUT -Grand Unifying Theorem. I will use Dr. Oyiboe’s expression but expand on it.
The Egyptian gods are often portrayed carrying it by its loop, or bearing one in each hand, arms crossed over their chest. The ankh appears in hand or in proximity of almost every deity in the Egyptian pantheon (including Pharaohs).There are also images of gods pouring water over the head of the pharaoh as part of a purification ritual, with the water being represented by chains of ankhs and was (representing power and dominion) symbols. It reinforces the close connection the pharaohs had with the gods in whose name he ruled and to whom he returned after death.
The ankh symbol was so prevalent that it has been found in digs as far as Mesopotamia and Persia, and even on the seal of the biblical king Hezekiah.
The symbol became popular in New Age mysticism in the 1960s.
Unicode has two characters encoding the symbol: U+2625 ☥ in the widely-supported Miscellaneous Symbols block and U+132F9 in the more recent Egyptian Hieroglyphs block.
There have been many suggestions and theories as to the origin of the ankh symbol.Pharaoh Akhenaten embraced a monotheistic religion centered on the worship of the sun disk, known as the Aten. Artwork from the time of his rule, known as the Amarna period, always includes the Aten in images of the pharaoh. This image is a circular disk with rays terminating in hands reaching down toward the royal family. Sometimes, although not always, the hands clutch ankhs.
Again, the meaning is clear: eternal life is a gift of the gods meant most specifically for the pharaoh and perhaps his family. (Akhenaten emphasized the role of his family much more than other pharaohs. More often, pharaohs are depicted alone or with the gods.
Alan Gardiner (1957) explains the hieroglyph as a depiction of a sandal-strap (ˁnḫ) which came to be read phonetically and could be used (as "rebus writing") for the similar word ˁnḫ "live", a triliteral root probably pronounced /ʕánax/ in Old and Middle Egyptian.This verb and its derivatives are likely ancestral to the Coptic words ⲱⲛϩ ōnh "to live, life" and ⲉⲛⲉϩ eneh "eternity".
One of the earliest proposals was that of Thomas Inman, first published in 1869, according to which the symbol combines "the male triad and the female unit".[6] E. A. Wallis Budge (1904) postulated that the symbol originated as the belt buckle of the mother goddess Isis.
Andrew Hunt Gordon and Calvin Schwabe, in their 2004 book The Quick and the Dead, speculated that the ankh, djed, and was symbols have a basis in "cattle culture" and with semen (thought to originate in the spine) being equated with “life”, with the ankh representing the thoracic vertebra of a bull (seen in cross section), the djed representing the sacrum of a bull's spine, and the was representing a staff made from a bull’s penis.
Crux ansata in Codex Glazier
The ankh appears frequently in Egyptian tomb paintings and other art, often at the fingertips of a god or goddess in images that represent the deities of the afterlife conferring the gift of life on the dead person's mummy; this is thought to symbolize the act of conception.[citation needed] Additionally, an ankh was often carried by Egyptians as an amulet, either alone, or in connection with two other hieroglyphs that mean "strength" and "health" (see explication of djed and was, above).[citation needed] Mirrors of beaten metal were also often made in the shape of an ankh, either for decorative reasons or to symbolize a perceived view into another world.[citation needed]
A symbol similar to the ankh appears frequently in Minoan and Mycenaean sites.[where?] This is a combination of the sacral knot (symbol of holiness) with the double-edged axe (symbol of matriarchy) but it can be better compared with the Egyptian tyet which is similar. This symbol can be recognized on the two famous figurines of the chthonian Snake Goddess discovered in the palace of Knossos. Both snake goddesses have a knot with a projecting loop cord between their breasts. In the Linear B (Mycenean Greek) script, ankh is the phonetic sign za.
The ankh also appeared frequently in coins from ancient Cyprus and Asia Minor (particularly the city of Mallus in Cilicia).[12] In some cases, especially with the early coinage of King Euelthon of Salamis, the letter ku, from the Cypriot syllabary, appeared within the circle ankh, representing Ku(prion) (Cypriots). To this day, the ankh is also used to represent the planet Venus (the namesake of which, the goddess Venus or Aphrodite, was chiefly worshipped on the island) and the metal copper (the heavy mining of which gave Cyprus its name).
Coptic Christians preserved the shape of the ankh by sometimes representing the Christian cross with a circle in place of the upper bar. This is known as the Coptic ankh or crux ansata.
The most commonly repeated explanation is that it is a union of a female symbol (the oval, representing the vagina or uterus) with a male symbol (the phallic upright line), but there's no actual evidence supporting that interpretation.
Sex, and specifically the orgasm, is more that just something that feels good and allows procreation. There are many other functions, such as the release of dysfunctional energy within the body, which can help to keep one from becoming diseased. There is the function that opens the higher chakras, and under the right conditions allows a person to begin the process of enlightenment. And further, if two people, lovers, practice sacred sex, the entire experience can lead them together into higher consciousness and into worlds beyond this plane.
In relationships, a simple sexual principle, as taught by the ancient Egyptians, can change the energy level within your body and help to bring strength and vitality into your bodies and your relationship.
The full subject in detail of Egyptian Tantra is incredibly complex, and cannot be completed in an article of this scope. But we can speak of the heart of the matter — the human ankhing experience as practiced by the ancient Egyptians.
And so, adapted for our readers from The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, Volume II, I offer this insight to assist two lovers — or even yourself, alone — to begin to find the higher path. This practice will not directly show you the true path. But it will increase your life-force energy, making you stronger, more alive, and more conscious. And perhaps — if you believe the Ancient Egyptians — it may lead you into eternal life.
—Drunvalo
Egyptian Sexual Energy and the Orgasm
It was believed in ancient Egypt that the orgasm was the key to eternal life, and that it was intimately connected with the chakra system. A chakra is an energy vortex connected to the entire human energy field, and the Universal Heart Chakra is the fifth of thirteen chakras. (There is also a system of eight chakras; in that system, the heart chakra is number four.) The Egyptian system held that the orgasm was intimately connected to this fifth, or Universal Heart Chakra.
First, we will explain the connection to eternal life.
Most people in the world are ignorant about what happens to their sexual energy after they have an orgasm. Usually, the energy moves up the spine and out the top of the head directly into the eighth or thirteenth chakra (same chakra, different system). In a few rare cases, the sexual energy is released down the spine into the hidden center below the feet, the point opposite the one above the head. In either case, the sexual energy — the concentrated life-force energy called prana in Hinduism — is dissipated and lost. It is similar to discharging a battery into a ground wire. It is no longer in the battery and so it is gone forever. This is what all the world's Tantric systems that I am aware of believe, that orgasm brings one a little closer to death because a person loses his or her life-force energy in the orgasm and is made weaker. But the Egyptians found long ago that it does not have to be this way.
It is for this reason that the Hindu and Tibetan Tantra systems ask the male to avoid ejaculating. Instead, they speak of these tiny invisible tubes where, when a student learns to control the orgasm and the flow of their sexual energy, the sperm migrates up to the higher centers.
Both of these systems, and also the Chinese Taoist Tantra system, are all primarily concerned with the sexual energy flow, sometimes referred to as ''sexual currents.'' They are primarily concerned with what happens as the sexual energy is moved before the orgasm, but they all have entirely different views of this energy compared to the Egyptians.
The Egyptians believed that orgasm is healthy and necessary, including the release of sperm in males, but that the sexual energy currents must be controlled in a deeply esoteric procedure that is unlike any other system. They believed that if this energy is controlled, the human orgasm becomes a source of infinite pranic energy that is not lost. They believe that the entire Mer-Ka-Ba or lightbody (the field of energy surrounding and interpenetrating the body) benefits from this sexual release. They even believe that under the right conditions the orgasm will directly lead to eternal life, and that the ankh is the key.
Egyptian ankhWhat is the ankh, and what has the ankh to do with sexual energy? It is complicated to explain, but we will simplify. First the ankh itself is a shape that looks like the figure at right.
In order to see and understand what took thousands of years for the Egyptians to grasp, we will begin with the fifth, Universal Heart Chakra. This lower heart chakra, the chakra of Unconditional Universal Love, is the first place where the energy completes itself. Each chakra has a ''direction'' associated with it, as the life-force energy rotates its way up the body in a pattern similar to the DNA molecule. In the lower heart chakra, the fifth place of a thirteen chakra system, the energy is facing the same direction as it began, and thus the circle is complete.
Energy Flow Diagrams
In the three views above, you can see how the rotation of energy either around the body, as in (a), around a circle, as in (b), or in a sine wave, as in (c), all complete themselves in five steps.
Ankh ViewsThe fifth or heart chakra is the first chakra that completes itself and has the energies of both front-to-back and left-to-right. If you could see these energies — and the Egyptians could — from above the head, as in (a), at left, they would appear as this symbol. It needs to be understood that these are actual energy lines around the body coming from the fifth chakra.
If you were to see these energies from the front view of a human, they would appear as in (b) at left. In the center of the cross there is a hidden energy line coming straight off the page and also moving in the opposite direction away from the reader.
Notice that both of the above examples are Christian symbols that come from the heart chakra. However, if you could see the same energies from the side of a human being, they would appear different than you would expect. There is another energy-flow ''tube'' there (in Chinese medicine it's called a ''meridian'') that the Egyptians discovered long ago. It looks like (c).
I find it very interesting that the Christians must have understood what we are talking about here, for on the robes of many Christian priests, at certain times of the year that are usually associated with resurrection, you will see the following symbol.
This symbol (d) shows all three views — the top, front, and side simultaneously. I believe the Christians omitted the complete loop of the ankh so that they would not directly show a connection with the old Egyptian religion, since they were breaking away from that tradition. But it is obvious that they knew.
Now that you know that this ankh energy conduit is located in the human energy field and where, you will be able to understand the reason for the Egyptians' sexual conduct, which we are about to explain.
First let me explain something about the ankh before I speak about its relationship to sexual energy. When I toured the museums in Egypt, I personally observed over 200 Egyptian rods.
Egyptian rodThese rods (pictured at right) were mostly made of wood, although other materials were sometimes used. They had a tuning fork on the bottom end, and the top end had four different types of devices that could be attached. One of these devices was in the shape of the ankh. What we found is that if you put the ankh on the top of the rod, which is like the human spine, the vibration from the tuning fork lasts a great deal longer. The energy seems to wrap around back into the rod along the curve of the ankh, moving downward as it returns, thereby sustaining the energy.
I was in Holland a couple of years ago, and there some people had made some rods out of copper with a high-quality tuning fork at the bottom and a threaded end at the top, so that different end pieces could be screwed on. I experimented with this rod. Using it without a top piece, I struck the tuning fork and timed how long it would vibrate. Then I screwed on the ankh and struck the tuning fork again. With the ankh on top, the rod vibrated almost three times longer. If you apply this idea to the human spine, you can see why the energy of the orgasm enhances the entire human system and the energy wraps itself back around and back into the human meridians.
This is the key to why the Egyptians performed the particular sexual practices we are about to explain. They found that if they had an orgasm and let it go out the top or bottom of the spine, the sexual energy was lost. But if the sexual energy was guided by consciousness to move into the ankh conduit, it would come back into the spine and continue to resonate and vibrate. The life-force energy was not lost. In actual experience, it seems to increase the energy. One does not feel depleted after sex, but rather recharged.
You can talk about it all day, but if you try it one time, you will understand. However, it is not easy to do in one test. For the first few times, the sexual energy will often shoot past the point of the fifth chakra and continue on up and out of the body. So it takes practice. Once it is learned, I doubt seriously if you would ever have an orgasm any other way. It's too powerful and feels too good. Once your body remembers this experience, it is not likely to revert back to the old way.
Instructions for the Egyptian Orgasm
Here is exactly how to achiever the ankhing associated with the human orgasm. Whatever you do sexually before the orgasm is completely up to you. I am not here to judge you — and definitely the Egyptians would not, since they believe in knowing all sixty-four sexual modes before you enter the King's Chamber to ascend to the next level of consciousness. This is their idea, but it is important to know that it is not necessary. You can reach the next level of consciousness without knowing this information. However, from their point of view, the idea of ankhing is of paramount importance in achieving eternal life. You will have to decide for yourself if it is something you wish to practice.
The moment you feel the sexual energy about to rise up your spine, take a very deep breath, filling your lungs about 9/10th full, then hold your breath.
Allow the sexual energy of the orgasm to come up your spine. But at the moment it reaches the fifth chakra (located just a couple of finger-widths above the sternum), with your willpower you must turn the flow of sexual energy 90 degrees out the back of the body. It will then automatically continue inside the ankh tube. It will slowly turn until it passes exactly through the eighth (or thirteenth) chakra, one hand-length above the head at 90 degrees to the vertical. It will then continue to curve around until it returns to the fifth chakra, where it began, only this time in the front of the body.
Even if you don't understand what was just said, it will happen automatically if you get it started out the back of the body at the fifth chakra, and it will automatically come back around to the front of the body and reconnect at the fifth chakra. You just have to make it turn 90 degrees so that it begins.
It will often slow down as it approaches its point of origin, the fifth chakra. If you can see the energy, it comes to a sharp point. When it approaches the fifth chakra from the front of the body, there is sometimes a tremendous jolt as it reconnects with this chakra again. All this takes place while you are holding your first breath.
The instant the sexual energy reconnects with its source, the fifth chakra, take in the full breath. You had filled your lungs only 9/10th full, so now you fill your lungs as completely as you can.
Now exhale very, very slowly. The sexual energy will continue on around the ankh channel as long as you are exhaling. When you reach the bottom of this breath, you will continue to breathe very deeply, but a change happens here.
It is here that, if you know the Lightbody work of the Mer-Ka-Ba, you would begin to breathe from the two poles using Mer-Ka-Ba breathing. But if you are like most people and don't know this work, then continue to breathe deeply until you feel the relaxation begin to spread throughout your body. Then relax your breath to your normal rate. Feel every cell becoming rejuvenated by this life-force energy. Let this energy reach down into the deepest physical levels of your body structure even past the cellular level. Feel how this beautiful energy surrounds your very being and brings health to your body, mind and heart.
Once the relaxation begins, slow your breath down to a normal shallow breathing.
If possible, allow yourself to completely relax or even sleep for a while afterward.
If you practice this for even one week, I believe you will more than understand. If you practice it continually, it will begin to give health and strength to your mental, emotional, and physical bodies. It will give great strength and power to your Lightbody, as well.
If for any reason this practice does not feel right, stop and return to normal. It just is not time.
It was this discovery of the secret tube that fostered the Ancient Egyptians' belief that eternal life was intimately connected to this particular energy-flow. It is this ankhing of their sexual energy through this tube, in an extremely deliberate procedure, that I have been taught to emulate.
Slowing for Hamilton Bus Station, Central SMT BL296 is passed by a speeding Bedford TK tipper lorry, as it trundles along Brandon Street, bound for Anderston Cross in central Glasgow. In the background an ERF LV articulated truck is halted at the traffic lights outside of Bairds department store in Duke Street.
Photo: 19th May 1979.
This sign in a waiting room startled me...
If it hadn't been for Winnie Churchill, I would be long dead.
If it hadn't been for Abe Lincoln, the North American continent would have been a major place of intolerable and unending pain and suffering for many millions. Much worse than it is today, and for vastly different reasons.
We know that Lincoln's bouts with severe depression were quite debilitating. I understand they were made worse by a common cure of the day... He finally stopped taking it when he realized it was making him worse.
Robin Williams took his own life, which still saddens me... So did Hemingway. Each left a marvelous legacy...
Without Isaac Newton, would the world of Physics have bloomed? "It ain't necessarily so!" Oh, that's Gershwin!!
I love Vincent Van Gogh!!!! Starry Starry Night...
The list goes on.
Here's the website listed on the poster:
And, here's a list I found on Wikipedia for just Major Depressive Illness:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_major_depressiv...
[This link no longer works. Here is a possible replacement link. I am not sure if the list is the same:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_bipolar_disorder]
Please note that some letters of the alphabet have no entries. I don't know if that is intentional on Wiki's part.
A
John Adams, 2nd President of the United States and a founding father[1][2][3]
Caroline Aherne, British comedienne[4]
Alan Alda, American actor and author[5]
Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut, the second man to set foot on the moon[6]
Woody Allen, American film director and comedian[7][8]
Claus von Amsberg, German diplomat and husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands[9]
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer[10]
Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator and film director[11]
Malcolm Arnold, British composer[12]
ASAP Rocky, Rapper
Richard Ashcroft, English singer-songwriter[13][14]
Isaac Asimov, American author and professor[15]
Julian Assange, Australian publisher and editor (WikiLeaks)[16]
B
Parveen Babi, Bollywood actress.[17]
Alec Baldwin, American actor[18]
Christian Bale, British actor[19]
Maria Bamford, Comedienne and voice-over actress[20][21]
David Banner, American hip hop artist[22][23]
Charles Baudelaire, French poet[24]
Amanda Beard, American Swimmer and Olympic Gold Medalist[25]
Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director[26]
Halle Berry, American actress.[27]
Beyoncé, American singer[28]
William Blake, British poet and painter[29]
David Bohm, British quantum physicist[30]
Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher[31]
Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norwegian politician and former Prime Minister of Norway[32]
Jon Bon Jovi, American rock singer and songwriter[33][34]
Nathaniel Borenstein, American computer scientist[35]
Lorraine Bracco, American actress[36]
Terry Bradshaw, American football player,[37] Football Analyst, Sports Anchor
Wayne Brady, American comedian[38]
Zach Braff, American actor[39]
Frank Bruno, British boxer[40]
Art Buchwald, humorist[41]
Joe Budden, American hip hop artist[42]
Delta Burke, American actress[43]
Robert Burton British academic, (author of The Anatomy of Melancholy)[44]
Barbara Bush First Lady of the United States 1989–93 and Second Lady 1981–1989.[45]
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Beverley Callard, British television actress, Coronation Street[46]
Anthony Callea, Australian pop singer[47]
Alastair Campbell, British journalist and political aide[48]
Anna-Varney Cantodea, musician[49]
Truman Capote, American writer known for Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood.[50]
Drew Carey, American comedian and actor[51]
Clarke Carlisle, English professional footballer[52]
Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian[53]
Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer-songwriter[54]
Johnny Carson, American television presenter.[55]
Helena Bonham Carter, British actress[56][57]
Dick Cavett, American talk show host[58]
Raymond Chandler, writer of detective fiction[59]
Iris Chang, Chinese American writer and historian[60]
Ray Charles, African-American singer[61][62]
David Chase, American writer, director and producer[63]
Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator and Governor of Florida[32]
Melanie Chisholm, English pop singer-songwriter[64]
Agatha Christie, English crime writer[65]
Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister[66]
Eric Clapton, English musician[67]
Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana)[68]
Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter[69]
Stan Collymore, British footballer[70]
Joseph Conrad, Polish writer[71]
Catherine Cookson, English novelist[72]
Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States.[73]
Billy Corgan, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)[74]
Jeb Corliss, American professional skydiver and BASE jumper[75]
Chris Cornell, American musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave)[76]
Courteney Cox, American actress[77]
Sheryl Crow, American singer-songwriter[78]
Rivers Cuomo, American musician (Weezer)[79]
Ian Curtis, English musician (lead singer of Joy Division)[80]
Louis C.K., American comedian[81]
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Roméo Dallaire, Canadian general, senator and humanitarian[82]
Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor[83]
Charles Darwin, British naturalist[84]
Larry David, American actor, writer, comedian and producer[85]
Jonathan Davis, lead singer of Korn[86]
Osamu Dazai, Japanese author [87]
Edgar Degas, French painter[88]
Ellen DeGeneres, American comedian and talk show host[89]
John Denver, American musician[90]
Johnny Depp, American Actor[91]
Diana, Princess of Wales[92]
Charles Dickens, British writer[29]
Barry Dickens, Australian novelist and playwright; wrote a memoir about his battle with depression[93][94]
Emily Dickinson, American poet[2][95]
Monty Don, English television presenter, writer and speaker on horticulture[96]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist[97]
Graeme Dott, Scottish professional snooker player[98]
Nick Drake, British musician[99]
Doug Duncan, American politician, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Maryland in the 2006 elections[32]
Kirsten Dunst, American-German actress[100]
Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, poet and artist[101]
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Thomas Eagleton, American U.S. Senator from Missouri[102]
Blake Edwards, American film director, screenwriter and producer[103]
Richey Edwards, guitarist and lyricist (Manic Street Preachers)[104]
James Ellroy, American crime writer[105]
Eminem, American rapper[106]
Robert Enke, German football player[107]
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Chris Farley, American actor and comedian[108]
William Faulkner, American author[109]
Craig Ferguson, Scottish-American talk show host[110]
Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher of science[111]
Lupe Fiasco, American rapper[112]
F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author[113]
Harrison Ford, American actor[114]
Michel Foucault, French philosopher[115]
Stephen Fry, English comedian, actor and writer[116]
Vic Fuentes, singer and guitarist for Pierce the Veil[117]
Jackson C. Frank, songwriter, musician and guitarist on the UK folk scene.
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Peter Gabriel, British singer and band member of Genesis[118]
Geoff Gallop, Australian politician[119]
Romain Gary, French-Lithuanian-Polish novelist and diplomat[120]
Gaston Gaudio, Tennis player and 2004 French Open champion[121]
Paul Gauguin, French painter[122]
Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer, diagnosed after murdering his wife, her lover, and his own son[123]
Paul Getty, British philanthropist[124]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor[125]
Tipper Gore, Former Second Lady of the United States[113]
Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter[126]
Spalding Gray, American actor and writer[127]
Graham Greene, British writer[128]
Zack Greinke, American MLB pitcher[129]
Ken Griffey Jr., American MLB player[130]
Eddie Griffin, American NBA Player[131]
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Jon Hamm, American actor[132]
Tony Hancock, English actor and comedian[133]
Glen Hansard, Irish singer-songwriter and actor [134]
Andrew Hansen, Australian comedian (part of The Chaser team)[135]
Johann Hari, British journalist[136]
Herbert Hart, British philosopher[137]
Elizabeth Hartman, American actress[138]
Anne Hathaway, American actress[139]
Friedrich August Hayek, Austrian economist[140]
Ernest Hemingway, American writer[29]
Margaux Hemingway, American actress; granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway[141]
Bill Hicks, American comedian and musician[142]
Audrey Hepburn, British actress[143]
Geoffrey Hill, English poet[144]
John Hinckley, Jr., American would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan[145]
Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish songwriter and keyboardist of Nightwish[146]
Sir Anthony Hopkins, British actor[147]
Vladimir Horowitz, American pianist and composer[148]
Frankie Howerd OBE, British comedian[149]
Michael Hutchence, Australian singer–songwriter[150]
Sir Julian Huxley, British biologist, author and administrator[151]
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Janis Ian, American singer-songwriter[152]
Natalie Imbruglia, Australian singer-songwriter, actress and model.[153]
Jack Irons, American musician, drummer for the bands Eleven, Pearl Jam, and Red Hot Chili Peppers[154]
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Janet Jackson, American singer[155]
Henry James, American writer[156]
William James, American philosopher and psychologist[157]
Jim Jefferies, Australian comedian
Richard Jeni, American comedian and actor[158]
Billy Joel, American musician[159]
Daniel Johns, Australian musician[160]
Samuel Johnson, British lexicographer, biographer, essayist and poet[161]
Daniel Johnston, American musician[162]
Angelina Jolie, American actress[163]
Bruce Jones, English Television actor Coronation Street .[164]
Kevan Jones, Labour Party MP for North Durham[165]
Ashley Judd, American actress[166]
Jung Da Bin, Korean actress[167]
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Franz Kafka, Czech writer[168]
Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor[169]
Sarah Kane, British playwright[170]
Hamid Karzai, Afghan President[171]
Charlie Kaufman, American screenwriter[172]
Susanna Kaysen, American writer[173]
Demi C. Kazanis, DDS American movie actress, philanthropist, dental surgeon
John Keats, British poet[174]
Kid Cudi, American hip hop artist[175]
Kool Keith, American hip hop artist[176]
Jack Kerouac, American poet[177]
Marian Keyes, Irish writer[178]
Alicia Keys, American singer-songwriter[179]
Anthony Kiedis, American musician, lead singer for funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.[180]
Stephen King, American author [181]
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter[182]
Anne Kirkbride, English television actress Coronation Street[183]
Cris Kirkwood, American musician, Meat Puppets bassist.
John Kirwan, New Zealand rugby player, former All Black, currently coach of Japan national rugby team.[184]
Joey Kramer, American musician (Aerosmith)[185]
Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director[186]
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Alan Ladd, American actor[187]
Lady Gaga, American singer-songwriter and actress [188]
Kendrick Lamar, American hip hop artist[189]
Michael Landsberg, Canadian sportscaster[190]
Hugh Laurie, British actor[191]
Denis Lawson, British actor[192]
Jenny Lawson, American author and blogger[193]
William Lee, African American man slave and valet to George Washington.
John Lennon, MBE, British singer-songwriter[194]
Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer[195]
David Letterman, American comedian and television presenter[196]
Lee Joon-gi, Korean actor[197]
Meriwether Lewis, American explorer[198]
Richard Lewis, American comedian and actor[199]
Gary Lightbody, Northern Irish singer of Snow Patrol[200]
Lil' Chris, English singer-songwriter[201]
Abraham Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 16th President of the United States[202]
Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States[203]
Heather Locklear, American actress[204]
Oscar Lopez, Chilean-Canadian folk guitarist[205]
Demi Lovato, American singer and actress[206]
Courtney Love, American singer and actress (Hole)[207]
H.P. Lovecraft, American cosmic horror author.
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Claudio Magris, Italian writer[208]
Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer[209]
Rafe Mair, Canadian broadcaster and cabinet minister[210]
Shirley Manson, Scottish singer of Garbage[211]
John Marsden, Australian novelist and educator known for the Tomorrow series.[212][213]
Heather Matarazzo, American actress[214]
Henri Matisse, French painter[215]
Guy de Maupassant, French writer[216]
Brian May, British guitarist[217]
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer and poet[218]
Garry McDonald, Australian actor known for Mother and Son and The Norman Gunston Show[219][220]
Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor[221]
Herman Melville, American writer[222]
Paul Merton, English comedian[223]
Charlotte Mew, British poet[224]
Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor[225]
John Stuart Mill, British political philosopher[226]
Spike Milligan, Irish comedian and writer[227]
Kylie Minogue, Australian singer[228]
Joan Miró, Spanish painter[229]
Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor[230]
Moby, American DJ and musician [231]
Marilyn Monroe, American actress and sex symbol[232]
Alanis Morissette, Canadian musician and songwriter[233]
Morrissey, British singer and former frontman of The Smiths[234]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer[235]
Bill Murray, American actor[236]
Les Murray, Australian poet.[237][238]
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Isaac Newton, British physicist[239]
Matthew Newton, Australian actor[240]
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher[29]
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Graeme Obree, British cyclist[241]
Conan O'Brien, American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer[242]
Bill Oddie, British comedy performer and naturalist[243]
Eugene O'Neill, American playwright[244]
Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist ('father of the atomic bomb')[245]
Marie Osmond, American musician[246]
Ronnie O'Sullivan, English snooker player[247]
Patton Oswalt, American comedian and actor[248]
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Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress[249]
Dolly Parton, American country singer and actress[250]
Jenny Pat, Chinese-Japanese Discovery Channel TV personality and famous art dealer[251]
Ryan Phillippe, American actor[252]
Deepika Padukone, Bollywood actress [253][254]
T. Boone Pickens, Jr., American oil tycoon[255]
János Pilinszky, Hungarian poet[256]
Brad Pitt, American actor[257]
Sylvia Plath, American writer[29]
Edgar Allan Poe, American poet and writer[29]
Jackson Pollock, American painter[258]
Charley Pride, American country music singer.[259]
Bill Pulsipher, American baseball player[260]
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Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist[261]
Charlotte Rampling, English actress[262]
Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist and philosopher[263]
Trent Reznor, American musician[264]
Christina Ricci, American actress[113]
Anne Rice, American writer[265]
Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet[266]
John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist[267]
Mark Rothko, American painter[268]
Hans Rott, Austrian composer[269]
Ronda Rousey, female UFC fighter [270]
Jessica Rowe, Australian journalist and television presenter[271][272]
J. K. Rowling, British writer[273][274]
Winona Ryder, American actress[275]
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French author of The Little Prince[276]
J. D. Salinger, American author of The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey[277]
Jim Salinger, New Zealand climate change scientist[278]
Frankie Sandford, English Pop singer[279]
Siegfried Sassoon, British poet and soldier[280]
Terry Sawchuk, Canadian goaltender[281]
Charles M. Schultz, American cartoonist [113]
Robert Schumann, German composer[282]
Jean Seberg, American actress[283]
Hubert Selby, Jr., American writer[284]
Brian Sewell, English art critic[285]
Anne Sexton, American poet[286]
Amanda Seyfried, actress[287]
Brooke Shields, American actress[288]
Sarah Silverman, American comedian[289]
Elliott Smith, American musician[290]
Brittany Snow, American actress[291]
Andrew Solomon, American author[292]
Britney Spears, American pop singer[293]
Rick Springfield, American singer-songwriter[294]
Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter[295]
Charles Spurgeon, Reformed Baptist Preacher[296]
Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer of My Dying Bride[297]
Nicolas de Staël, French painter of Russian origin[298]
Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains, Mad Season)[299]
Vivian Stanshall, British humourist and musician (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)[300]
Peter Steele, American musician[301][302]
Gwen Stefani, American pop singer[303]
Rod Steiger, American actor[304]
Michael Stipe, American musician, frontman for R.E.M..[305]
August Strindberg, Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter[306]
William Styron, writer[307]
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Tablo (Daniel Armand Lee), Korean-Canadian hip hop artist (Epik High)[308]
Amy Tan, American writer[309]
Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician
Catherine Tate, English comedienne and actress[310]
Corey Taylor, American singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour[311]
James Taylor, American singer-songwriter[312]
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer[313]
Emma Thompson, British actress and screenwriter[314][315]
Uma Thurman, American actress[316]
T.I., American Rapper[317]
Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer[318]
Georg Trakl, Austrian poet[319]
Marcus Trescothick, England cricketer[320]
Lars von Trier, Danish film director[321]
Mark Twain, American writer[29]
Mike Tyson, American boxer[322]
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Ville Valo – Finnish singer (HIM)[323]
Vincent van Gogh – Dutch artist[324][325]
Eddie Vedder – American musician, vocalist of Pearl Jam[326]
Ned Vizzini – American writer[327]
Kurt Vonnegut – American author[328]
Joey Votto – Canadian baseball player[329]
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David Foster Wallace, American writer[330]
Mike Wallace, American journalist on 60 Minutes[331]
David Walliams, British actor, writer and comedian[332]
Evelyn Waugh, British novelist and journalist[333]
Ruby Wax, American Comedienne[334][335]
Gerard Way, American singer and comic book writer, frontman of the rock band My Chemical Romance[336]
Denise Welch, English actress and television presenter[337]
Jonathon Welch, Australian opera singer and choirmaster for the Choir of Hope and Inspiration (formerly known as The Choir of Hard Knocks)[338]
Pete Wentz, Bassist and lyricist for rock band Fall Out Boy[339]
Billy West, American voice artist[340]
Delonte West, American basketball player[341]
Jerry West, American basketball player and executive[342]
Wil Wheaton, American actor and author[343]
Dan White, American killer of Harvey Milk and George Moscone[344]
Walt Whitman, American poet[345]
Kevin Whitrick, British electrical engineer[346]
Kenneth Williams, British Comedian[347]
Robbie Williams, British pop singer[348]
Robin Williams, American comedian and actor[349]
Tennessee Williams, American playwright[350]
William Carlos Williams, American poet[351]
Alan Wilson, American musician (Canned Heat)[352]
Brian Wilson, American musician (Beach Boys)[353]
Owen Wilson, American comedian and actor[354]
Gregory Wilton, Australian politician[355]
Dean Windass, British football player[356]
Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host[357]
Reese Witherspoon, American actress and producer[358]
Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer[359]
Lewis Wolpert, British developmental biologist, author and broadcaster[360]
Virginia Woolf, British novelist[361]
Elizabeth Wurtzel, American writer[362]
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Michael Yardy, England cricketer[363]
Boris Yeltsin, first President of Russia[364]
Thom Yorke, English musician, lead singer of Radiohead[365][366]
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Rarely ever post boys I'm into, but he's pretty so I had to share. Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol. Yes, I love the rocker boys. It's an illness
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A long hot afternoon on a pebble beach in Guernsey, with no swimming costume, is enlivened by a topless swim in the cool waters followed by the return of the dry bra by it's custodian.
I photograph whatever I find interesting and/or beautiful.
I first spotted this holidaying group in the distance when the bys were using the bra as a target for peeble throwing. Later the two girls came back from their cooling swim and waited in the shallows for one of the boys to deliver the awaiting bra. He was a comedian. It made an amusing end to the afternoon at the beach.
(from 1900 Hendersons Directory) - Maywood - A suburb of Victoria on Saanich road, 2 miles from Victoria post office and 1/2 mile north of city limits, reached by B.C. Electric Railway. Baptist Mission and public school. Has Anglican church (St. Mark's). Population in 1900 was 400.
- (article from the - Victoria Historical Society Publication NUMBER 39 SPRING 2014) - The Maywood district of Victoria and Saanich was along Douglas Street, between the intersections of Burnside and Cloverdale, opposite the Baker Brick and Tile yard which later became the Mayfair Shopping Centre. There was almost nothing in the area in 1908 but the 1909 Vancouver Island Directory lists a Mrs. Mary Wilson Iredale as postmistress of the Maywood P.O. at 3128 Douglas. She was also listed as a grocer. The address given was on the west side of Douglas between Speed Avenue and Alpha Street. Whether Mrs. Iredale called her operation the Maywood Grocery or not is unknown but her phone number was 619. Link - victoriahistoricalsociety.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/0...
- from 1908 "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada" - MAYWOOD, a post office on Vancouver Island, B.C., near Victoria, the capital.
The Post Office at Maywood, B.C. was established - 1 November 1894 - and closed - 31 July 1918.
/ MAYWOOD / OC 7 / 07 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer was proofed - 19 November 1894.
Postcard was sent from Vancouver, B.C. on the 5th October 1907 (machine cancel).
Message on postcard reads: Dear Mother: I will be home on Monday's boat if all goes well. Mollie - P.S. Maude can come down and meet me if she likes.
Addressed to: Mrs. James Owens / Maywood P.O. / Victoria, B.C.
Canada Census, 1911
Name - James Kennedy Owens
Event Place - Nanaimo Sub-Districts 1-28, British Columbia, Canada
Gender - Male
Age (Estimated) - 53
Marital Status - Married
Religion - Presbyterian
Relationship to Head of Household - Head
Birth Date - 27 Feb 1858 - d. 16 October 1912 in Victoria, B.C.
Birthplace - Ballymena, Co Antrim, Ireland
Immigration Year - 1885
Anne Owens (Anna Lightbody) - Wife age 51 - b. March 1860 in Bangor, Ireland - d. May 8th 1920 aged 60 yrs
Mary Owens - Daughter age 41 - b. January 1870 in Ireland
Robert Owens - Son - age 26 - b. February 1885 in Ireland
Norman Owens - Son - age 24 - b. July 1887 in Ontario
Maude Owens - Daughter - age 21 - b. March 1890 in Ontario
James Owens of Bangor, Ireland and Anna Lightbody of Bangor, Ireland were united in the Bonds of Holy Matrimony
at St. Ann's Church Belfast on the 21st day of July in the year of our Lord 1878. Link to the family bible with LOTS of information on the James Owens family - www.biblerecords.com/owens.html
Possibly my favourite photo I've ever taken of him :P
Snow Patrol at the LG Arena in Birmingham as part of their Fallen Empires tour.
My first time at the barrier and the first time shooting with the Canon S100 - and it did not disappoint!
As always the band were amazing, the light show was gorgeous and we had so much fun.
Quarry Bank Mill (also known as Styal Mill) in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile factories of the Industrial Revolution. Built in 1784, the cotton mill is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.[1] Quarry Bank Mill was established by Samuel Greg, and was notable for innovations both in machinery and also in its approach to labour relations, the latter largely as a result of the work of Greg's wife, Hannah Lightbody. The family took a somewhat paternalistic attitude toward the workers, providing medical care for all and limited education to the children, but all laboured roughly 72 hours per week until 1847 when a new law shortened the hours.
Hi guys! Two new cover from the last Taylor's album, they are with 'Begin Again' my favourite from RED. Simple like always but cool don't you think? :)
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I had the pleasure to meet Gary while he was in Stockholm with his band Snow Patrol. A very humble and open guy.
Quarry Bank Mill (also known as Styal Mill) in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile factories of the Industrial Revolution. Built in 1784, the cotton mill is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.[1] Quarry Bank Mill was established by Samuel Greg, and was notable for innovations both in machinery and also in its approach to labour relations, the latter largely as a result of the work of Greg's wife, Hannah Lightbody. The family took a somewhat paternalistic attitude toward the workers, providing medical care for all and limited education to the children, but all laboured roughly 72 hours per week until 1847 when a new law shortened the hours.
Built in 1929/30 Scammell 100 tonner Reg No KD 9168 is seen here during a lay over in Bootle en route to Liverpool Docks in 1947 while moving a ‘Liberation’ class steam locomotive weighing 75 tons, which had been built at the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows,
KD 9168 was originally supplied to Marston Road Services of Lightbody Street, Liverpool in M.R.S. livery in 1930.
Originally powered by a Scammell 4-cylinder 86 bhp petrol engine which only gave it 0.75 mpg the fuel consumption was so great that three fuel tanks had to be fitted holding a total of 103 gallons.
In 1932, Pelican Engineering Co. (Sales) Ltd., of Leeds, replaced the original petrol engine with a Gardner 6LW diesel engine which increased the power from 86 bhp to 105bhp and the fuel consumption to 4 mpg.
Later when M.R.S. bought Edward Box for their company name and operators licence it was repainted in Edward Box livery.
After a number of years KB 9168 was eventually absorbed into the Pickford's fleet before passing to Jack Hardwick of Ewell, who restored it and entered it in numerous vintage vehicle rallies.
KD 9168 now resides in the British Commercial vehicle Museum in Leyland, Lancs as can be seen in the picture below.
Photograph courtesy of the late Edward Beck Snr.