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Narrator Jack

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Narrator Jack
Narrator Jack@JackChekijian·
@59SouthLee @historyinmemes The strange proportion plus the seeming blurriness near the wrist would hint at an alteration by the photographer, presumably to hide a rod to position the “fairy” for the photo.
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Historic Vids
Historic Vids@historyinmemes·
The Cottingley fairies photographic hoax that lasted 66 years, perpetrated by cousins 16 year old Elsie Wright and 9 year old Frances Griffiths.
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John Cleese
John Cleese@JohnCleese·
The English have some good collective nouns A gaggle of geese, a pride of lions, a school of fish The Americans have simplified the problem A bunch of dolphins, a bunch of sheep, a bunch of actuaries, a bunch of bunches Saves a lot of time...
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Narrator Jack@JackChekijian·
@JohnCleese Random: Did you ever reconnect with the American, Jim Wickenden, that you once told that moving story about on Parkinson?
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John Cleese
John Cleese@JohnCleese·
Would it be even better if? 🤔 More thoughts on creativity and the creative process. I’m curious to hear if you agree?
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Cryptoterrestrial Society Enjoyer
Cryptoterrestrial Society Enjoyer@IndSocEnjoyer·
Teddy Roosevelt on a cryptid encounter in his book 'The Wilderness Hunter' (1893): “...Frontiersmen are not, as a rule, apt to be superstitious. They lead lives too hard and practical, and have too little imagination in things spiritual and supernatural. I have heard but few ghost stories while living on the frontier, and those few were of a perfectly commonplace and conventional type. “But I once listened to a goblin story, which rather impressed me. A grizzled, weather-beaten old mountain hunter, by the name of Bauman, who was born and had passed all his life on the frontier. He must have believed what he said, for he could hardly repress a shudder at a certain point of the tale; but he was of German ancestry, and in childhood had doubtless been saturated with all kinds of ghost and goblin lore, so that many fearsome superstitions were latent in his mind; besides, he knew well the stories told by the indian medicine-men in their winter camps, of the snow-walkers and the spectres, and the formless evil beings that haunt the forest depths, and then dog and waylay the lonely wanderer who after nightfall passes through the regions where they lurk; and it may be that when overcome by the horror of the fate that befell his friend, and when oppressed by the awful dread of the unknown, he grew to attribute, both at the time and still more in remembrance, weird elfin traits to what was merely some wicked and cunning wild beast; but whether this was so or not, no man can say. “When the event occurred, Bauman was still a young man, and was trapping with a partner among the mountains dividing the forks of the salmon from the head of the Wisdom River. Having had not much luck, he and his partner determined to go up into a particularly wild and lonely pass through which ran a small stream said to contain many beavers. The pass had an evil reputation because the year before a solitary hunter who had wandered into it was slain, seemingly by a wild beast, the half eaten remains being afterwards found by some mining prospectors who had passed his camp only the night before. “The memory of this event, however, weighed very lightly with the two trappers, who were as adventurous and hardy as others of their kind. They took their two lean mountain ponies to the foot of the pass where they left them in an open beaver meadow, the rocky timber-clad ground being from there onward impractical for horses. They then struck out on foot through the vast gloomy forest, and in about four hours reached a little open glade where they concluded to camp, as signs of game were plenty. “There was still an hour or two of daylight left, and after building a brush lean-to and throwing down and opening their packs, they started up-stream. The country was very dense and hard to travel through, as there was much down timber, although here and there the sombre woodland was broken by small glades of mountain grass. At dusk they again reached camp. The glade in which it was pitched was not many yards wide, the tall, close-set pines and firs rising round it like a wall. On one side was a little stream, beyond which rose the steep mountain slope, covered with the unbroken growth of evergreen forest. /?
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@elonmusk If my Gallic Wars, glad you enjoyed. If I get around to the Creasy, would be curious if you have an accent preference (e.g. General-British, etc).
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
Some audiobook recommendations: The Story of Civilization by Durant Iliad (Penguin Edition) The Road to Serfdom by Hayek American Caesar by Manchester Masters of Doom by Kushner The Wages of Destruction by Tooze The Storm of Steel by Junger The Guns of August by Tuchman The Gallic Wars by Caesar Twelve Against the Gods by Bolitho Genghis Khan by Weatherford The first one on the list will take a while to get through, but is very much worthwhile. Admittedly, this is a list that appeals to those who think about Rome every day. I hope someone makes an audiobook of The Encyclopedia of Military History by Dupuy and The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World by Creasy.
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The Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review@PublicDomainRev·
#Onthisday in 1837, Queen Victoria ascended to the throne and so began the Victorian era. Of the vast amounts of Victorian content on our site, this is perhaps our favourite — a dictionary of Victorian slang: buff.ly/2M9htm9
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Narrator Jack@JackChekijian·
@TwitterSupport , please put @narratorjack under my control for me to use. They haven't tweeted in 14 years; Elon said on 5/8 "We’re purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years”; I’ve been the owner of narratorjack.com for 10+ years.
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