Category Archives: history

Passing Judgment Over Passover

April 4, 2023 – 8:10 am

Passover is the most important religious holiday on the Jewish Calendar. For Millenia Passaich has celebrated the Angel of Death passing over the first-borns of the Hebrew to murder the first-born of the Egyptians. This last plague of Moses freed the bonded Hebrews from the Land of the Pharaohs. The actual date has been lost […]

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LOUIE LOUIE by Richard Berry

November 4, 2022 – 6:58 pm

The origin LOUIE LOUIE was released by Richard Berry in April of 1957. Over 55 years ago and the 45 sold 40,000 copies. There was no fuck in it like the later cover by the Kingsmen. Berry sold his rights to Flip records for $750. And they stole all his money. You know who ‘they’ […]

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BBC NEWS History of WTC

September 9, 2022 – 3:18 pm

To view this homage to the world trade towers please go to the following url http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14634600

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Handwriting History

July 3, 2022 – 3:27 am

Historians attributed authorship of the Declaration of Independence to Thomas Jefferson, despite the Second Continental Congress appointing Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston to aid in the writing of this document. Jefferson wrote the first draft from June 11 to June 28, after which John Adams and Benjamin Franklin revised the text. […]

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Punk Rock Thailand

June 3, 2022 – 3:09 pm

Back in the last decade I received an email from Willem Dafoe mentioning his having read Legs McNeil’s punk opus PLEASE KILL ME. “Just finished kind of fun- kind of junky- no pun intended PLEASE KILL ME- An Uncensored History of Punk. All interview excerpts-a lot of bragging about drugs and who fucks who. Some […]

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