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Adnan Khashoggi [People]
Alwaleed bin Talal [People]
This Saudi prince is perhaps best known for offering $10 million to help rebuild New York after the 9/11 after stating that the attack was caused by US policies in the midlle east. Alwaleed's offer was turned down by Rudy Guiliani, an act that won Rudy praise from Fox News, the parent company of which Alwaleed now owns 7 percent, a fact which appears to be having some effect on how Saudi-related news is being presented on Fox.
Gary Underhill [Strange Deaths and Disappearances]
Hadron [Entities]
Hale Boggs [Strange Deaths and Disappearances]
L. Fletcher Prouty [People]
Lee Bowers, Jr. [Strange Deaths and Disappearances]
Marilyn Moon Walle [Strange Deaths and Disappearances]
Organ Harvesting Scandals [Medical Matters]
Attorneys Lawrence R. Cohan and Melissa Fry Hague filed a civil complaint in Common Pleas Court yesterday on behalf of Carter’s son against McCafferty, the Garzone brothers and other key figures in the national body-parts scandal.
Carter’s son, William, learned about a year-and-a-half after she died that his mother’s body had been harvested at Liberty Cremation .
Porphyria [Medical Matters]
PROMIS [Items]
Scroll and Key: 1840's [Membership Lists]
1842
1893 Theodore Philip Barber: Brattleboro, VT
1880 Leonard Case, Jr: Cleveland, OH
1871 Isaac Ellmaker Hiester: New Holland, PA
1889 John Harbeck Meeks: Essex Co., NJ
1863 Samuel Buel Mulford: Montrose, PA
1859 Jacob Perkins: Warren, OH
1866 John Addison Porter: Philadelphia, PA
1896 Theodore Bunyon: Essex Co., NJ
1892 Henry Austin Scudder: Osterville, MA
1868 David Gould Sherman: Ware, MA
1866 Russell Smtih: New Haven, CT
1889 Charles Stewart Stone: Boston, MA
1843
1864 John Jacob Brandegee: New London, CT
1905 David Judson Ely: Rochester , NY
1880 Isaac Mills Ely: Rochester, NY
1900 Edward Whiting Gilman: Norwich, CT
1879 Gordon Hall, Jr.: New Haven, CT
1864 John Myers Huntington: Norwich, CT
1895 Anthony Quinton Keasbey: Salem, NJ
1896 William Lathrop Kingsley: New Haven CT
1902 Frederick Munson: Bethlehem, CT
1854 John Frederick Nourse: Beverly, MA
1899 Edward Wright Robbins: Berlin, CT
1879 Eli Sims Shorter: Irwinton, AL
1889 John Warburton Skinner: St. Louis, MO
1844 Franklin Taylor: Westport, CT
1891 Henry Aster Weeks: New York, NY
1844
1858 Charles Willliam Blincoe: Leesburg, VA
1907 Edwin Adolphus Bulkley: New Haven, CT
1896 Theron Gaylord Colton: New WHave, CT
1853 James Linton Cunningham: Chambers Co., AL
1879 Henry Postlethwaite Duncan: Natchez, MS
1846 Denison Olmsted, Jr.: New WHaven, CT
1850 Hollis Russell: Bingham, ME
1892 Howard Smith: New Orleans, LA
1850 William Smith: Onodanga Co., NY
1900 William Manlius Smith: Manlius, NY
1850 James Ellison Van Bokkelen: Newbern, NC
1912 Jonathan White, Jr.: Randolph, MA
1896 Cyrprian Porter Willcox: New Haven, CT
1845
1892 William George Anderson: Lousiville, KY
18446 William Augustus Bigelow: New York, NY
1846 Samuel Sitgreaves Bowman: Lancaster, PA
1884 James Beene Brinsmade: New York, NY
1904 William Elijah Downes: Milford, CT
1885 Basil Duke: Scott Co., KY
1898 Jonathan Sturges Ely: New Yor, NY
1893 Carter Henry Harrison, Jr.: Lexington, KY
1895 Francis Ives: Hamden, CT
1884 George Crawford Murray: Monmouth co., NJ
1894 Lyman Decatur Norris: Ypsilanti, MI
1898 Edward Olmstead: New Haven, CT
1846 John Howard Olmstead: New Haven, CT
1898 Isaac Lewis Peet: New York, NY
1906 James Camp Tappan: vicksburg, MS
1846
1910 Walter Franklin Atlee: Lancaster, PA
1889 Edward Griffin Bartlett: Portsmouth,NH
1900 John Woodbridge Birchmore: Charlestown, MA
1871 John Butler Conyngham: Wlkes-Barre, PA
1865 Calvin Morgan Fackler: Huntsville, AL
1848 Thomas Isaac Franklin: Berlin, MD
1847 Satterlee Hoffman: Niles, MI
1865 William Walter Horton: Huntsville, AL
1904 William Boyd Jacobs: Spring Grove, PA
1849 Roderick Moseley Morrison: New York, NY
1887 Samuel Southworth Murfey: Aubrn, NY
1877 Charles Josiah Pennington: Baltimore, MD
1897 Bernard Anthony Pratte: St. Louis, MO
1875 Thomas DuBois Sherwood: Fishkill, NY
1876 Abijah Hull Thompson: Black Rock, NY
1847
1854 Anthony Wayne Baker: Franklin, LA
1892 Jammes Nathan Barnes: Philadelphia, PA
1864 Othniel DeForest: West Branch Valley, PA
1903: Robert Perry Farris: St. Louis, MO
1860 William Henry Gilman: Exeter, NH
1897 James Persley Gray: Versailles, KY
1851 Nathaniel Matson: Lyme, CT
1854 William Stewart McKee: St. Louis, MO
1862 Daniel temple Noyes: Boston, MA
1871 William John Powell: Worchester Co., MD
1890 Thomas Waltham Renshaw: Baltimore, MD
1878 Thomas Young Simons, Jr.: Charleston, SC
1862 John Reynolds Sturgis: Waynesboro, GA
1860 Matthew Gregory Wing: Albany, NY
1854 Antonio Poma Yancey: Murfreesboro, NC
1848
1897 Edward Payson Abbe: Boston, MA
1878 John Peyton Clark: Winchester, VA
1863 Frederick Cone Fuller: East Haddam, CT
1892 James Grsowld: Lyme, CT
1865 John Randolph Herper: Apalachicola, FL
1852 Edward Burr Harrison: Leesburg, VA
1868 Joseph Christmas Ives: New Haven, CT
1895 Geroge Goundry Munger: Rochester, NY
1903 Samuel Clarke Perkins: Philadelphia, PA
1893 Benjamin Huger Rutledge, Jr.: Sumter, SC
1886 Henry Slack: Albany, NY
1910 Samuel Selden Spencer: Lyme, CT
1847 John Livingston Stryker: Strykersville, NY
1861 John Richard Watrous: Auburn, NY
1850 Cyprian George Webster: Mobile, AL
1849
1885 John Light Atlee: Lancaster, PA
1862 William george Chandler: Mobile, AL
1899 William Lawrence Clark, Jr.: Winchester, VA
1857 Charles Henry Foote: Huntsville, AL
1855 Charles Ruch Goodrich: Troy, NY
1872 George Anderson Gordon: Savannah, GA
1853 Horace Hollister: Salisbury, CT
1895 John Belden Mitchell: Salisbury, CT
1867 Washington Murray: New York, NY
1856 Hugh Florien Peters: New Haven, CT
1914 Charles Augustus Lewis Richards: Cinncinatti, POH
1854 Charles Bull Waring: New Haven, CT
1873 John Waties: Sumter, SC
1872 Erastus Hay Weiser: York, PA
1862 Clinton Woodford: Avon, CT
Self-reliance Skills [Survivalism]
Alternate Energy – biogas, bio diesel, alcohol, steam power, solar cells, windmills, etc.
Ammunition Reloading Equipment & Supplies (gun repair & maintenance)
Childcare – baby sitting, preschool
Computers – may be impossible to get parts, chips in particular, but can keep them running by cannibalizing…
Construction – rough construction of homes, poles barns, etc.
Butchering - cutting and curing of meats, sausage making
Candle making – including soy based, bees wax
Dental – hygiene, dentistry, oral surgery
Electric supply & repair - home electric system design/repair, off grid
Electronics – repair of as many electronic gadgets as possible
Engine repair & maintenance. Auto, truck, tractor, small motor
Fire fighting – rescue operations in all conditions
Fishing – netting, multiple lines, trolling, ice fishing
Ham radio – this is its own category since it requires a specific license. (Now issued at three different levels)
Herbs – alternate medicine, nutrition
Home schooling – teaching supplies, text books, etc.
Hunting – trapping, snares, training hunting dogs
Farming – crops – small scale farming many crops, large scale gardening or greenhousing
Farming – livestock – chickens, rabbits, goats, bees, fish farming, turkey, hogs
Food canning & dehydration – pressure canning, dehydration of fruits and meats
HVAC – heating, venting, air conditioning and ventilation systems
Leatherwork - tanning to punching and sewing
Lumberjack – from falling trees through saw milling
Masonry – concrete flatwork, brick making, brick laying, poured walls
Medical – from EMT to MD, from bandages to surgery
Metal Working and welding
Mid wife – child birth is its own part of medicine
Plumbing – well, septic, indoor plumbing, outdoor plumbing, water filters, pumps
Security – systems, knowledge of tactics military and/or police
Seed Bank - storage of seeds for growing, hybrids, and open pollinated (heirloom)
Sewing - clothing making and repair, spinning, knitting, making cloth
Soap making – and all the things you will have to make from animals and plants
Survival Skills – wilderness skills in particular, living off the rough land
Veterinary Sciences – animal care, breeding
Wood working – everything beyond roughing; trim, cabinets, furniture
Blacksmithing – Invaluable for repairs and fabrication of metal tools and parts
Machining – Important for fabricating metal parts
Welding and Torch Cutting– Absolutely invaluable for repairs and fabrication of metal parts
Shanghai Tunnels - Portland, OR [Places]
From around 1850 to about 1941, an illegal practice flourished in Portland, Oregon, whereby able-bodied persons were essentially kidnapped off the streets and sold to sea captains who forced them to work on their ships for no pay. An elaborate network of tunnels below the city provided ample places to hide these captives until they were sold. Trapdoors known as deadfalls were commonly found in the area, and allowed captives to be dropped into the tunnels below the surface where they were held in cells until the ships were ready to sail.
During the Prohibition years, many of the drinking establishments closed above ground, only to re-open in parts of the tunnels. The tunnels run all along the Portland coast and the activities therein caused the Victorian town to become better known as the Forbidden City or the Unheavenly City.
The Cascade Geographic Society offers tours of these rather fascinating tunnels.
The Family [Entities]
The Long Shadow of Dracula [People]
Monica Petrescu in Bucharest
Last Updated: 1:16AM GMT 06 Feb 2005
Last week, six men were jailed for ripping out the heart of a corpse they believed was 'undead'. As Monica Petrescu in Bucharest writes, to many Romanians, vampires are not legend but terrifying reality
It was just before midnight as Gheorghe Marinescu and five of his relatives crept into the graveyard in the small Romanian village of Marotinul de Sus. They knew which plot they were looking for – a simple earth grave with a wooden cross bearing the name Petre Toma – and quickly, but quietly, set about digging.
When they had dragged the body out, they waited. Then, at the stroke of 12, Marinescu began the ritual that they had been planning for weeks, one that had passed from generation to generation in their family. They drove a pitchfork through Petre Toma's chest, opened it, drew out his heart and then put stakes through the rest of his body. They sprinkled garlic over the mutilated corpse and then, carefully, laid it back in its grave.
They left the cemetery with the heart impaled on the end of the pitchfork and went to a crossroads where Marinescu's wife, son and daughter-in-law were waiting. There the group burnt it, dissolved the ashes and then drank the solution.
The scene last July would fit readily into any number of films about vampires and the Dracula legend but Gheorghe Marinescu is real. Last week he and his five relatives – Mitrica Mircea, Popa Stelica, Constantin Florea, Ionescu Ion and Pascu Oprea – were sentenced to six months in jail for the unlawful exhumation of the body of Toma, 76, a former teacher and a man they believed had risen from the dead to drink their blood while they slept.
News of what the Marinescu family did made headlines in Romania, but in a country where a large minority of the population admit to openly believing in the "undead", football bosses employ witches to cast spells on foreign teams and a couple recently named their newborn son Dracula after premonitions of impending danger to him, many were unsurprised by what they read.
Mihai Fifor, an ethnologist at the Centre for Studies in Traditional Cultures and Societies in Craiova, said, "This particular ritual is quite unique but there have been many cases of people claiming that they are being hunted by the dead and vampires. There are a number of other rituals that exist for this type of situation where people believe they need to kill vampires."
Romania has been associated with vampires in the minds of many Westerners ever since Bram Stoker wrote his classic horror story, Dracula, in 1897. But in Romania the belief in vampires and the threat of the undead stretches as far back as the 15th century leader of Wallachia – modern-day Transylvania and other parts of Romania – Count Vlad Tepes Dracula, who was the inspiration for Stoker's novel. Stoker merged the Middle Ages belief in vampires, which had become entrenched in Romania and many other parts of central and eastern Europe at the time, with the historically documented bloodthirstiness of Tepes's rule. In doing so, he created the story of Count Dracula who rose from the dead to haunt the deep, dark forests and castles of Transylvania, preying on young victims and drinking their blood.
Today, the country's tourist industry still makes millions from his legend. His castle in Bran in Transylvania – Dracula Castle – draws tens of thousands of enthralled holidaymakers every year. There is even a Dracula theme park under construction.
But while Dracula and vampires are just a fascinating legend to most people outside the country, to many Romanians, mostly in rural areas, they are a terrifying reality. After his arrest, Marinescu said: "If we hadn't done anything, my wife, my son and my daughter-in-law would have died. That is when I decided to `unbury' him. I've seen these kinds of things before.
"When we took him out of the grave, he had blood around his mouth. We took his heart and he sighed when we stabbed him. We burned it, dissolved the ash into water and the people who had fallen sick drank it. They got better immediately. It was like someone took away all their pain and sickness.
"We performed a ritual that is hundreds of years old. We had no idea we were committing a crime. On the contrary, we believed that we were doing a good thing because the spirit of Petre was haunting us all and was very close to killing some of us. He came back from the dead and was after us."
Marinescu explained to police when he was arrested that Toma, who he said had been a respected and well-liked teacher in the village for years, had been buried on Christmas Day in 2003. But soon afterwards he had begun to appear to members of Marinescu's family in dreams as a vampire. Although he did not see the man himself, he saw his family become sick and they told him that Toma was not just a dream but a vampire whose spirit had come back from the dead.
He, like the rest of his family, had been told how to recognise vampires and how to deal with them by his parents who had been taught that knowledge from their own parents and they from theirs. He said he had had to act quickly to save his family.
Paula Diaconu, who has lived in Marotinul de Sus for decades, praised the ritual carried out by Marinescu and his relatives. "It was all a good thing to take his heart out because people were in danger. Villagers in Romania know about rituals for driving away the evil spirits of the dead," he said.
Another man from the village, Dumitru Moineasa, once drank a solution containing the ashes of his uncle's heart. "An uncle of mine died in 1992 and a few days after we buried him I started to feel very sick," he said. "The doctor had no idea what was wrong with me. One day, an aunt brought me a glass of water. I drank it all. I got well almost immediately. I only found out later that it was my dead uncle's ashes."
His friend, Domnica Brancusi, said that hearts had been taken out of dead men's chests many times before. "There have been dozens of dead men who turned into vampires and were haunting us," he said. "But usually the family of the dead man who was haunting people made a pact with those people and agreed not to say anything about the rituals. Until this case, no fuss was ever made about it."
Local police laid charges against the six men after Toma's daughter, Floarea Cotoran, who has since left Marotinul de Sus, complained about what happened to her father's body. They admitted that they were aware of similar rituals having been performed in the region. A policeman in nearby Celaru, which has jurisdiction over Marotinul de Sus, and who asked not to be named, said: "We've known about it for years. There's never been anything we could do about it as no one ever complained."
Marotinul de Sus, in the south-west, is far from the only village in Romania to take the threat of vampires seriously. In many rural communities like it across the country, belief in vampires is pervasive and superstition often governs people's lives. "Fear and great challenges in life are sometimes met by people with rituals and superstitions, a set of rules built over generations which has been verified over time," said Sabina Ispas, an ethnologist at the Institute for Ethnology and Folklore in Bucharest. "Rural Romania has conserved excellently this system of rituals and beliefs."
Deep superstition and belief in the paranormal and pagan permeates all levels of society in urban Romania as well. Maria Tedescu, a 21-year-old law student in Bucharest, said: "We all have our little superstitions, like taking three steps back if a black cat crosses your path to stop something bad happening. But vampires are different. It's not something to be taken lightly. I know it may sound silly and I can't totally explain it, but I think they exist. I always wear a crucifix… just in case."
Trilateral Commission [Entities]
Tuskegee Syphillis Study [Medical Matters]
The study was started in 1932 by the United States Public Health Service and was only ended after a story appeared on the front page of the New York Times. The study was also known as the Pelkola Syphilis Study and the Tuskegee Experiments.
Underground Theatre - Paris [Places]
Officers admit they are at a loss to know who built or used one of Paris's most intriguing recent discoveries.
"We have no idea whatsoever," a police spokesman said.
"There were two swastikas painted on the ceiling, but also celtic crosses and several stars of David, so we don't think it's extremists. Some sect or secret society, maybe. There are any number of possibilities."
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