Tag: germany
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‘wonderful blood’: christian cannibalism in the middle ages
from strangehistory.net: Christian ‘cannibalism’ refers to the Eucharist when Christians (or at least non-Protestant Christians) believe that the bread and wine transmute, in mass, into the blood and body of Christ. Modern Christians are for the most part blasé about this: no one really thinks of the Eucharist as eating the flesh of another human…
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1927 metropolis: silent sci-fi movie ahead of its time
The most expensive silent movie ever made, Metropolis, a dystopia of class struggle still impresses with its special effects. History of the film is equally interesting. The original Metropolis had a running time of 153 minutes, but was cut shortly after premiere with the lost footage only having been recently recovered. A Wikipedia entry informs,…
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greece risks meltdown after bailout vote bombshell
video: greek bailout referendum stirs strong feelings* from reuters: The Greek government faced possible collapse on Tuesday as ruling party lawmakers demanded Prime Minister George Papandreou resign for throwing the nation’s euro membership into jeopardy with a shock call for a referendum. Caught unawares by his high-risk gamble, the leaders of France and Germany summoned…
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Google Cracks ‘Unbreakable’ Code of 1866 Secret Society Manuscript
The Copiale cipher is an 105-page coded document found in an East German archive, and dated to 1866 – but the code used to shield its mysteries has remained unbroken, until now.
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how revolutionary tools cracked a 1700s code
google cracks ‘unbreakable’ code of secret society manuscript from nyimes: It has been more than six decades since Warren Weaver, a pioneer in automated language translation, suggested applying code-breaking techniques to the challenge of interpreting a foreign language… That insight led to a generation of statistics-based language programs like Google Translate — and, not so…
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10/6 Newspurge: Cause Together We Can Make It Great
history/mystery: germany reopens 100s of cases of nazi death camp guards* video: hitler letter bought by simon wiesenthal center for $150k* media/memes: video: ‘the simpsons’ future looks dim; fox exec says this could be the last season* nbc’s playboy club canceled after 3 episodes* estevez says new film ‘the way’ inspired by ‘wizard of oz’*…
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7/14 Pop Occulture: Abuse, Atheists & Hip-Hop Masons
German Catholic church opens sexual abuse files, some dating back to the end of WWII // ‘If you see something, say something’ campaign: DHS is expanding campaign to the Jewish community // Why we’re drawn to Harry Potter’s theology // Christian rapper says Jay-Z has some ‘explaining to do’
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6/23 binge & purge: cruelty, control & the cost-effective clean 15
house rebukes looming fda frankenfish approval* pesticide spraying near streams to expand under house bill; hr872 lets farmers bury ‘clean water act’* utah man accused of eating live rat, posting video online charged with animal cruelty* chicago grocers accused of $500k food stamp fraud* conagra foods’ net income increases, warns high costs could hurt future…
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e.coli won’t have ‘significant impact’ on organic food industry
organically grown food leading to added health concerns from bloomberg: A deadly E.coli outbreak that is being blamed on sprouts grown without chemicals probably won’t dent people’s support for the organic food industry in the long term, according to London-based analyst Organic Monitor. The outbreak has killed 22 and made 2,263 people ill, according to…
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5/26 Binge & Purge: Declarations, Doomsday & Marmite
A modern declaration of independence: A real revolution starting in our own backyards // Keepers of the seeds: How seed-saving native farmers preserve agricultural heritage // Factory farms produce 100x more waste than all people in US combined – and it’s killing our drinking water // Hedge fund managers pour assets into farmland as doomsday…
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Egypt to Officially Request Germany to Return Nefertiti Bust
Minister of Antiquites Zahi Hawass said he would send the German government an official request next week to return the Nefertiti bust that is displayed in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin.
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the bittersweet wars: battle pits cocoa speculators vs chocolate makers
from spiegel.de: Food commodities — from wheat to rice to soybeans — have become objects of speculation. While cocoa speculators are threatening the survival of some of Germany’s oldest chocolate makers, entrepreneurs in Ghana are trying to give farmers a larger share of the profits.
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2010: the year the internet went to war
from threat level: It was a year without parallel. Threat Level’s bread-and-butter themes of censorship, hacking, security, privacy, copyright and cyberwar were all represented in tug-of-war struggles with unprecedented outcomes. Google defeated China’s censors, but caved to corporate censorship in the United States. The largest computer-crime case ever prosecuted ended in the nation’s longest prison…
