MAY 2005
BOOK REVIEW IN BRIEF
If Bram Stoker and Tom Clancy were to collaborate on a book, they might produce one like this. A combination of the genres of vampire horror and military adventure, this unique book is truly a must read.
- Hal Siemer
NOTE: Italicized comments are written by the editor,
NEWS, VIEWS & SITES OF INTEREST*
Scientology, Tom Cruise, and Shrinks
- Tom Cruise Opens Up about his Beliefs in the Church of Scientology
"Some of the most famous buildings in Washington, including the White House, are deeply marked by Freemasonry..."
"They have even armed marshals at the abbey with leaflets to tell tourists exactly what the novel got wrong."
Astrology center or suburbia?
Some Norwegian Soldiers in Kosovo having fun and making a music video spoofing the 80s hit by the Beach Boys, Kokomo.
"The region of Foix is notorious for being the Cathar heartland, identified by the citadel of Montségur. Some kilometres (sic) to the west of the town of Foix sits Le Baulou, a small village that seems to be as far away from the hustle and bustle of Rennes-le-Château as could possibly be…yet Baulou was the site where yet another local village priest decided to erect some monumental building works…afterwards dynamited on the order of the bishop."
King Tut Watch: After a more than a quarter-century, Tutankhamen returns to the U.S.
Why is Friday the 13th considered unlucky?
From Shadow to Shadow: Interview with an Infiltrator (article dated: July 7, 2003)
The Moot is a bi-monthly series of open lectures held in the Devereux pub in London.
Universities should take note of the pub setting for the lectures. If this practice were emulated, lecture attendence would no doubt greatly increase.
-HS
Is the "Mark of the Beast" actually 616, not 666?
Poor Anton LaVey may have gotten it wrong all those years, or is he providing disinformation from the grave, the little devil.
-HS
"If you had asked your great-great-grandmother if she believed in fairies, she would have looked at you askance. Believe in fairies? Of course she did!"
Port associated with two Greek myths — Theseus and the Argonauts — found?
The Holy Grail, Jesus' children and Stone Age lasers?
"King Arthur," other unusual classes to be offered over summer period at university
Sometimes vampires, Sherlock Holmes, and the supernatural are offered.
Now some Aussies will be upside down for all eternity.
-HS
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