Not a Puppet. Decorum Matters
In 1998, while most of the world was worrying about the approaching millennium, a 29-year-old former British paratrooper stood at the southern end of South America and began walking home.
His name was Karl Bushby. His destination was Hull, England. (Photo by permission Karl Bushby)
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In the year 536, the sun did not literally disappear—but to the people living beneath an eerie veil in the sky, it must have seemed as though something had gone terribly wrong with the heavens
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In March 1981, Italian financial police searching the home and offices of businessman Licio Gelli uncovered something extraordinary: a list containing the names of hundreds of military officers, intelligence chiefs, politicians, bankers, judges, journalists and business leaders.
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September 16, 1920 — The Wall Street Bombing At 12:01 p.m., during the busy lunchtime rush, a horse-drawn wagon loaded
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1988 political and financial controversy in Omaha, Nebraska, centered on allegations of financial fraud and a purported child abuse ring.
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Unit 731 was operated by the Imperial Japanese Army’s Kwantung Army under physician and army officer Shiro Ishii. Its principal complex was at Pingfang, outside Harbin, in Japanese-controlled Manchuria. Officially it was disguised as an “Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department.” In reality, it became the hub of a much larger network devoted to biological warfare.
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Why is astrology condemned by the Christian faith, you ask?
Maybe the more interesting question is:
Who decided it should be—and why?
To explore that question, we have to go back roughly 1,660 years to the Council of Laodicea, a regional gathering of Christian bishops in Asia Minor, probably held sometime around A.D. 363–364.
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It was a carefully engineered machine.
Like many of history’s most interesting inventions, it wasn’t created by a large corporation or an engineering team hidden inside some anonymous office building. It was born from the imagination of one man with a drafting table, a handful of machine tools, and the stubborn belief that everyday objects could be improved through thoughtful design.
That man was Phil Jergenson.
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August of 1945, a group of smiling Soviet schoolchildren presented the American ambassador in Moscow with a hand-carved wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States. It appeared to be a simple gesture of friendship between wartime allies.
It was actually one of the most ingenious espionage devices ever created.
American history is filled with unusual religious figures, but few are as fascinating, or as overlooked, as the person known as the Public Universal Friend.
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