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Mark is a singer, storyteller, humorist, author and songwriter, whose lyric to "Mary Did You Know?" resulted in one of the most loved modern Christmas songs of this century.
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Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news A new YouGov? poll has found that Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf's popularity has nosedived since the introduction of a...Polling Shows How Massively Unpopular Scotland’s ‘Hate Crime’ Law Is
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Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news Two top Japanese companies have warned that artificial intelligence could cause a total collapse of the social order...Japan Warns AI Could Cause Total Collapse Of The Social Order
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Authored by Paul Joseph Watson Via Modernity.news A secretive project conducted from the deck of an aircraft carrier in the San Francisco Bay will shoot...Secretive Experiment To Shoot Aerosols Into The Sky Over San Francisco To Increase Cloud Cover
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Experts debate the origin of the date- or nut-filled pastry, but Middle Eastern believers love the taste and the Good Friday symbolism in its shapes.The Middle East’s favorite sweet symbolizes Good Friday.Maamoul is a buttery cookie baked with semolina and stuffed with dates or nuts—usually walnuts or pistachios. Seasoned with a variety of spices, for centuries it has flavored the Easter holiday for Christians, the end of Ramadan for Muslims, and Purim for the Sephardic Jews of Jerusalem.Three shapes are common: an elongated oval, a circular ring, and a rounded dome. Patterns are pressed into the dough by tweezer or with a traditional wooden mold, often in the shape of a sunburst and sometimes with a cross.For Christians, the oval resembles the sponge given to Jesus to drink from. The ring, his crown of thorns. And the dome is shaped like his rock-hewn tomb, sealing its scented treasure within.“Is that so?” asked Hoda Khoury, a Lebanese mother of three adult children, hard at work preparing the sweet. “That’s nice. That would make maamoul a Christian tradition.”Not all believers know the deeper meaning.Recipes vary, as do the names. Called kakh in Egypt, kleicha in Iraq, and kombe in southeast Turkey, experts have differing opinions on the cookie’s origin. Many find traces of Pharaonic or Mesopotamian beginnings, some suggesting the imprinted patterns reflect ancient worship of the sun.Charles Perry, translator of the medieval Baghdad Cookery Book, says maamoul descends from the Persian kulachag, perhaps reflected in the Iraqi name today. Lebanese historian Charles El Hayek suggests the cookie may have originated in the Neolithic period but that the modern sharing of the sweet began in Fatimid Egypt (A.D. 909–1171).Ultra-modern is the chocolate filling—promoted by Hershey’s Middle East.But the tradition ...Continue reading...
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By Patrick Wood With the immediate release of my The Genesis of Modern Globalization (1978-1979), the first in a series of three, Professor Antony Sutton...Trilateral Commissioner Larry Summers, OpenAI Board Member, Says All Labor Will Be Replaced
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