This story is fascinating. I love Medieval history, as it was a period that led to earth-shaking changes, not only cultural but environmental and physical, all over the world. Here's what happened in England. The Black Death did not arrive in England to find a well fed population. It arrived to find a generation that …
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Back in February, finance billionaire Bill Ackman's family suffered an unspeakable tragedy, when his daughter was found in her home with a brain hemorrhage. His story is both horrific and inspiring. Here it is. At midnight on February 6th, earlier this year, the doorbell to our apartment rang. The doorbell was followed by a pounding …
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I'll bet you didn't know what the passengers on the ill-fated Titanic ate for dinner. Sama Hoole has posted the menu cards for all the classes on the ship, and discusses their food below. VERY interesting! First class dined on nine different animals on the Titanic's last night. Oysters, salmon, filet mignon, chicken, lamb, duckling, …
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First of all, "Mince" is what they call ground beef in England. Second of all, Sama said that this isn't supposed to be humor, but by the first few examples you should be at least smiling, if not laughing out loud. Enjoy! comprehensive troubleshooting guide for anyone with a problem, compiled over six years of …
Sama Hoole is a Brit who posts on nutrition, farming, and his "hobby-horse", the value of ruminant animals for the land and for the people. I have found all of his posts to be very interesting and helpful. Here are a couple of recent ones. The ruminant family, and the one job each member does …
Kale, a dark green, leafy, "cruciferous" vegetable is a fad food. No one, absolutely NO ONE, ever considered it edible until less than a decade ago. People don't usually eat things that taste bad, especially those that taste bitter. Below is what one of my favorite food gurus has to say about Kale. Kale wears …
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This young man's hobby horse is human health, and how our conditions have changed with history. I'll bet you haven't looked at things quite this way before. Nasty, brutish and short. That is the phrase everyone reaches for to describe life before civilisation, and it may be one of the most successful pieces of propaganda …
This issue positively infuriates me. Cancer doctors, the entire legacy media, and the rest of the medical profession has simply ignored the obvious correlation between turbo-cancer in young people and the Covid shots that most youngsters were required to take to go to college, participate in athletics at any level, and to travel. Even today, …
Nope, not trek or journey, but slog. For the last 15 or so years, I ate too much, too often, and the wrong things. Since every tooth in my mouth is a sweet tooth, a fair amount of sweets passed my lips most days. How I usually thought-these were my downfall! I didn't quite blow …
The above aphorism was coined by the famous economist, Thomas Sowell, to describe any human society or situation. Every waking moment of every day of our lives, we are presented with a myriad of choices, large and small, most we don't even notice. But I was reminded of Sowell's phrase when I read an article …
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