Terrifying Amusement Parks (video)

Early amusement parks were terrifying

Tested on live subjects. Mostly harmless.

(Historidame) Creepy clowns, weird Sideshow attractions, a midway, and rides that were actively dangerous -- early amusement parks were terrifying, and I want to visit them so badly. So join me today, dear viewers, as we take a trip into the past and explore the golden age of amusement parks.

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• Historidame, April 18, 2025; CC Liu, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What happened to Osage, the world's richest?

CBS Sunday Morning, Oct. 12, 2023; Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

From the archives: The Osage murders and "Killers of the Flower Moon"

(CBS Sunday Morning) In the early 20th century, an oil rush in the Osage Nation, located in Oklahoma, produced a torrent of oil revenues for the Native American tribe, making them the richest people per capita in the world.

But their wealth invited greed, exploitation, and murder on the part of white "guardians" who came to control the Osage's money and would lead to the first major investigation by the FBI.

In this "Sunday Morning" story originally broadcast April 30, 2017, correspondent Lee Cowan talks with David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon, about the reign of terror against the Osage.

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World's first Irish Buddhist monk (video)

Prof. Brian Bocking, Religions Dept., Univ. College Cork, Ireland; Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

We hope Pasadena's Parson's Nose Theater will one day include Ven. Dhammaloka

Venerable U ("ooh") Dhammaloka -- born the Irishman and Freethinker Lawrence Carroll, or Larry O'Rourke, or William Colvin (?) in the south of Dublin, Ireland -- became a famous Buddhist monk in Asia, eventually being the first Caucasian/European to ordain in Theravada Buddhist Burma, which was then part of the imperial British empire, the United Kingdom, in East India. He lived up until 1914 in Bangkok, Thailand. But he would have been cremated as a Buddhist monk in accord with ancient tradition. Alan Bennett is not the first Western Buddhist after all.

Seeds of Peace: Parliament of World's Religions

Wisdom Quarterly; Who? SCCPWR; Where? AllSaints-Pas.org; How? EventBrite.com

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Venus the Comet and its Serpent tail (video)

In ancient times, the planets themselves were the "gods" (Image: redicecreations.com)

“From the smallest particle to the largest galactic formation, a web of electrical circuitry connects and unifies all of nature, organizing galaxies, energizing stars, giving birth to planets, and on our own world, controlling weather and animating biological organisms. There are no isolated islands in an electric universe” (David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill, Thunderbolts of the Gods).

(Tbolts Interviews) The Thunderbolts Project's Wallace Thornhill (holoscience.com) is an Australian physicist. His work on The Electric Universe provides the broadest synthesis of electrical principles to date. It covers solar system history, planetary cratering and scarring, the electrical dynamics of the Sun, and the nature of galaxies. He is co-author of Thunderbolts of the Gods.

Multicultural Mythology Explained

RedIceCreations

The Vedas [India's ancient scriptures] said that the star Venus looks like fire with smoke. The star had a tail [a flying serpent], dark in the daytime and luminous at night. This luminous tail, which Venus had in earlier centuries, is mentioned in the Talmud: "Fire as hanging down from the planet Venus." Described by the Chaldeans, the planet Venus was said to have a beard. "Beard" is used in modern astronomy in the description of comets.

The Mexicans called a comet "a star that smoked." What was the illusion of the ancient Toltecs and Mayans? What was the phenomenon, and what was its cause? A train large enough to be visible from Earth and giving the impression of smoke and fire hung from the planet Venus.

Venus, with its glowing train, was a very brilliant body. Therefore, it is not strange that the Chaldeans described it as a "bright torch of heaven" that "illuminates like the Sun" [a second, lesser sun]. They compared it with the light of the rising Sun.

At present, the light of Venus is less than one millionth of the light of the Sun. "A stupendous prodigy in the sky," the Chaldeans called it. The Hebrews similarly described the planet: "The brilliant light of Venus blazes from one end of the cosmos to the other end." Chinese astronomical texts refer to a time in the past when "Venus was visible in full daylight and, while moving across the sky, rivaled the sun in brightness." More

World's oldest human figurine found

Figure may be world's oldest
What may be be the oldest known sculpture of the human form is found in a cave in Germany. What it shows

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• Prehistoric fishing tackle

Reviving 2,500-year-old Buddhist University

Taxila: The World's First University

Revival of 2,500-year-old Buddhist university planned
WQ, TheNews.com.pk, April 14, 2009

Islamabad -- Gandhara Art and Culture Association (GACA) has planned to revive the 2,500 year old Buddhist University of Taxila with the contemporary features of the 21st century.

Chief monk of Korea, Jeon Woon Deok, who is currently visiting Pakistan, has approved the site for the institute for which government has fully supported, Zulfiqar Rahim, director GACA told APP [in Pakistan] Monday [4/13/09].

The project of reviving the first university in the world, which dates back to 700 B.C.E., will take three years to complete with the help of government, public and private agencies, and Buddhist countries like Korea, Japan, and China to restore the existing monastery to its original look.

The idea will also boost the country's tourist industry as Buddhists from around the world visit Pakistan to perform their holy rituals, he said. GACA, he said, has also proposed the government to hold "21st Century Peace Caravan" organizing from Taxila and traveling to China, Korea, and Japan via the ancient Silk Route.

The association organized a two-day seminar on "Promotion and Preservation of Gandhara Art in Pakistan" in which the chief monk called for peace and harmony, as the world faces religious conflict and racial tension.

While talking about the essence of Buddhism, the chief monk said that Gandhara was the hub of all cultures and religions. Commercial activities by all the world's major religions co-existed here in a very peaceful and harmonious way. ["Pakistan,"] Korea, China, and Japan were traditionally Buddhist cultures with roots in Gandhara, he remarked. Source