Great Book for Black History Month
This site gets a ton of hits everyday from those that I presume are researching for a report that is due for Black History month. I posted a piece on Emmitt Till after his mother died last month and that continues to be the number one reason people are ending up on this page via search engine.
Let me recommend a book Saints of Africa by Vincent O'Malley as a great resource to do a project that isn't like the rest! Especially if you attend a Catholic School!
Monday, February 3, 2003
Photos show odd images near shuttle
It's not what you think or I should say it isn't what I thought. Usually when something tragic happens someone takes a photo and discovers either the devil or god in the image. But this is something entirely different. Evidently these photos might help explain what happened and it could be that they point in an entirely different direction then the current thoughts on what happened.
From the San Francisco Chronicle
It's not what you think or I should say it isn't what I thought. Usually when something tragic happens someone takes a photo and discovers either the devil or god in the image. But this is something entirely different. Evidently these photos might help explain what happened and it could be that they point in an entirely different direction then the current thoughts on what happened.
From the San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, February 2, 2003
Today is the Feast of the Presentation
Check out my Daily Meditation Here.
Please continue to pray for those who lost their lives, those who have been scarred by the loss of their lives and those who work on the recovery that they might find answers to prevent future tragedies of this magnitude.
Check out my Daily Meditation Here.
Please continue to pray for those who lost their lives, those who have been scarred by the loss of their lives and those who work on the recovery that they might find answers to prevent future tragedies of this magnitude.
Some Human Remains Recovered Among Debris
From the Houston Chronicle:
Both men met on the two-lane road about 9 a.m. and realized with horror that they apparently were looking at an astronaut's remains: a charred torso, thigh bone and skull with front teeth intact.
"I wouldn't want anybody seeing what I saw," Gibbs, 33, told The Associated Press. "It was pretty gruesome."
From the Houston Chronicle:
Both men met on the two-lane road about 9 a.m. and realized with horror that they apparently were looking at an astronaut's remains: a charred torso, thigh bone and skull with front teeth intact.
"I wouldn't want anybody seeing what I saw," Gibbs, 33, told The Associated Press. "It was pretty gruesome."
It's a Miracle No One was Hit by the Falling Debris
Fromt the NY POST:
FALLING DEBRIS INJURES DOZENS
What you'll find if you read the actual story is that the injuries all stem from people handling the debris after being warned very publicly not to go near it.
Fromt the NY POST:
FALLING DEBRIS INJURES DOZENS
What you'll find if you read the actual story is that the injuries all stem from people handling the debris after being warned very publicly not to go near it.
Today is the Feast of the Presentation, Candlemas and Groundhog Day
And they are all related...
Here is the official Groundhog Site.
The groundhog tradition stems from similar beliefs associated with Candlemas Day and the days of early Christians in Europe, and for centuries the custom was to have the clergy bless candles and distribute them to the people. Even then, it marked a milestone in the winter and the weather that day was important.
According to an old English song:
If Candlemas be fair and bright,
Come, Winter, have another flight;
If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,
Go Winter, and come not again.
According to an old Scotch couplet:
If Candlemas Day is bright and clear,
There'll be twa (two) winters in the year.
Another variation of the Scottish rhyme:
If Candlemas day be dry and fair,
The half o' winter to come and mair,
If Candlemas day be wet and foul,
The half of winter's gone at Yule.
The Roman legions, during the conquest of the northern country, supposedly brought this tradition to the Teutons, or Germans, who picked it up and concluded that if the sun made an appearance on Candlemas Day, an animal, the hedgehog, would cast a shadow, thus predicting six more weeks of bad weather, which they interpolated as the length of the "Second Winter."
And they are all related...
Here is the official Groundhog Site.
The groundhog tradition stems from similar beliefs associated with Candlemas Day and the days of early Christians in Europe, and for centuries the custom was to have the clergy bless candles and distribute them to the people. Even then, it marked a milestone in the winter and the weather that day was important.
According to an old English song:
If Candlemas be fair and bright,
Come, Winter, have another flight;
If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,
Go Winter, and come not again.
According to an old Scotch couplet:
If Candlemas Day is bright and clear,
There'll be twa (two) winters in the year.
Another variation of the Scottish rhyme:
If Candlemas day be dry and fair,
The half o' winter to come and mair,
If Candlemas day be wet and foul,
The half of winter's gone at Yule.
The Roman legions, during the conquest of the northern country, supposedly brought this tradition to the Teutons, or Germans, who picked it up and concluded that if the sun made an appearance on Candlemas Day, an animal, the hedgehog, would cast a shadow, thus predicting six more weeks of bad weather, which they interpolated as the length of the "Second Winter."
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