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On Guy Fawkes Night in London in 1997, a financially desperate 16-year-old, Evey Hammond, sexually solicits men who are actually members of the state secret police, called “The Finger”. Preparing to rape and kill her, the Fingermen are dispatched by V, a cloaked anarchist wearing a mask, who later remotely detonates explosives at the Houses of…[Read more]

The album cover features a photomontage by Robert Lockart. It includes an image of a line of prostitutes, standing in a red light area from Rouen, Normandy (France) waiting for clients, chosen because of its relevance to the album title. The title of the album is taken in reference to the opening line…[Read more]

…we will die’ without more money…

Small businesses drive China’s economy. The coronavirus outbreak could be fatal for many

Analysis by Laura He, CNN Business

Updated 1433 GMT (2233 HKT)

February 14, 2…[Read more]

…we recognize that social isolation for millions of Californians is anxiety-inducing, but … we need to meet this moment head-on and lean in,” Newsom said…

Coronavirus forces radical changes to California with sweeping restrictions on life

By PHIL WILLON, ALEX WIGGLESWORTH, TARYN LUNA, LAURA NEWBERRY

MARCH 16, 20208:59 A…[Read more]

Most airlines face bankruptcy by end of May, industry body warns

FT Reporters

5 HOURS AGO

https://www.ft.com/content/30a3a26e-674f-11ea-800d-da70cff6e4d3

The airline industry is warning that it must shed jobs and obtain state support to survive the coronavirus crisis, as carriers around the globe grounded the majority of their fleets and took…[Read more]

MARCH 12, 2020

Protective brain-cell housekeeping mechanism may also regulate sleep

by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-brain-cell-housekeeping-mechanism.html

An important biological mechanism that is thought to protect brain cells from neurodegenerative diseases such as…[Read more]

K. Sad & depressed => F. Dreamy => M. Triumphant & heroic (human emotional spectrum above)

Finnish lyrics tell about person who is so poor temporarily that there isn’t any money even for a modest meal, but she then decides to start to bottle her tears and sell them.

Sorry for my broken…[Read more]

Robin Maconie finds that, “Compared to the work of his contemporaries, Stockhausen’s music has a depth and rational integrity that is quite outstanding… His researches, initially guided by Meyer-Eppler, have a coherence unlike any other composer then or since” (Maconie 1989, 177–78). Maconie also c…[Read more]

MARCH 12, 2020

Building blocks for life on Earth arrived much later than we thought, billion-year-old rocks show

by University of New South Wales

https://phys.org/news/2020-03-blocks-life-earth-thought-billion-year-old.html

Ancient rocks from Greenland have shown that the elements necessary for the evolution of life did not come to Earth…[Read more]

Tsuigiri literally means ‘crossroads killing’ and is the Japanese term for a very dishonourable practice whereby someone who has received a new weapon or developed a new fighting style or weapon tests its effectiveness by attacking an innocent opponent. For Karl and Shaun this was a very important part…[Read more]

English-speakers have only recently applied this German word to a paranormal concept. Francis Grose’s, Provincial Glossary of 1787 used the term fetch instead, defined as the “apparition of a person living.” Catherine Crowe’s book on paranormal phenomena, The Night-Side of Nature (1848) helped make the German word well-known. However, the con…[Read more]

Steely Dan, a group famous for such hits as “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number,” “Do It Again,” and “Hey Nineteen,” was founded by Becker and Fagen. Although the duo played with many other musicians over the years, they remained the core.

So who is Steely Dan? “Steely Dan III from Yokohama” is the name of…[Read more]

DON HENLEY (about One of These Nights): We like to call it our “satanic country-rock period”.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Very_Best_Of_(Eagles_album)-

The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture rock concert held on Saturday, December 6, 1969 at the Altamont Speedway, northern California, United States. Approximately 300,000 attended the concert, and some anticipated that it would be a “Woodstock West”. Woodstock was held in Bethel, New…[Read more]

With Satan’s hog no pig at all
And the weather’s getting dry
We’ll head south from Altamont
In a cold-blood traveled trance
So clear the road, my bully boys
And let some thunder pass
We’re pain, we’re steel, a plot of knives
We’re Transmaniacon–MC
Behind the pantry, behind the tree
The ghouls adopt t…[Read more]

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world’s foremost…[Read more]

In the first dream he was revolved by a whirlwind and terrified by phantoms. He experienced a constant feeling of falling. He imagined that he would be presented with a melon that came a far-off land. The wind abated and he woke up. His second dream was one of…[Read more]