>
> "marika" <marika5000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:...
>
>
>>> . Exorcism
>>>
>>> > Yesterday I learned from a German TV re****t that the Vatican is
going
>>> > to send out 3,000 exorcists, worldwide (1 per diocese).
>>>
>>> OMG, how much Satan is there out there in the dioceses? What a waste
of
>>> pari****oner's money.
>>
>> I watched "Beyond the Sea", with Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin.
>>
>> Of course you may know that his wife was the pretty blond Sandra Dee
>>
>> He called her Sandush in the movie.
>>
>> I remember reading in a magazine during my teens years that Sandra Dee
>> was Ukrainian and
>> her real name was Oleksandra Zuck (or as they spelled it in Ukrainian
>> Zhuk
>> as in beetle)
>>
>> Internet bios put her as Rusyn which is what Ukrainians used to
>> call themselves before they started calling themselves Ukrainians.
>> There's a lot of Byzantine style churches in the US that started when
>> Rusyns immigrated to the US before the second world war, and often much
>> earlier. The maps have changed since those days, but the Rusyn
territory
>> is partly in the Ukraine and a little bit in Czech, Slovakia and
Poland.
>> But the distingui****ng feature is that the Rusyns were primarily
Eastern
>> rite catholics that predominated in Ukraine, rather than the Roman
>> Catholics that predominated in the other three countries. Most
Ukrainian
>> Christians can walk into a pre WWII Rusyn churches and yet feel as if
>> they are in the church in their own neighborhood. When I was a little
>> kid, our church was under construction for about a year, so we started
>> going to a Rusyn church a few blocks further. My aunt and uncle
attended
>> a Rusyn church when they were in Las Vegas. I don't make a distinction
>> between Rusyn and Ukrainian, but caution that Rusyn and Russian isn't
the
>> same word though spelled so similarly. Some people may well see a
>> difference but I don't think it exists in 2008. Rus long ago
>> disappeared as a govermental entity to be replaced by today's still
>> changing Eastern Europe maps as Sarajevo proves.m
>>
>> My friend Martha who just came back from Japan to visit her new
grandson
>> had a sister a little big younger whose name was Alexandra. We used to
>> call her Sandusha too.
>>
>
----- Original Message -----
From: "marika" <marika5000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Newsgroups: alt.alien.vistors,alt.usenet.legends.lester-mosley,alt.aliens
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: heroes
>
> While in New Orleans with some of my office mates, we drove by Anne
Rice's
> home a few times.
>
> She is most famous for "Interview with a Vampire"
>
> I only read about 50 pages of the book and reluctantly watched the movie
> http://www.annerice.com/
> I don't really enjoy vampire stuff, but there's no secret she has a lot
of
> religious imagery in her work, and issues of immortality due to her
> deceased son
>
> She lives in New Orleans
>
> We drove by her home a number of times, just as Gothic as you'd expect
>
> She holds an infamous Halloween party every year
>
> "marika" <marika5000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:X9CdnV_lR8OapUranZ2dnUVZ_veinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Almost 2 years ago, I went to a weddin in New Orleans.
>>
>> The marriage ceremony was performed at St Francis of Assissi
>> http://www.sfauptown.com/
>>
>> http://www.sfauptown.com/our_parish_architecture.php
>>
>> A really beautiful old church
>>
>> At one point, I was observing what I thought were little monkeys in
>> cabinets and asked my hosts why the church would keep such a thing.
>>
>> Turned out to be statues of the saints behind little closed doors
>>
>> VERY embarrassing.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "marika" <marika5000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> Newsgroups: alt.games.ea.janes.688i,alt.usenet.legends.lester-mosley
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:05 PM
>> Subject: max some unholy on their own
>>
>>
>>> Before the storm Max told us
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "I want you to know Louisiana is prepared for the next storm. There is
>>> no
>>> work more im****tant to the state than protecting our citizens during
>>> hurricane season,'' Blanco told re****ters at the state Office of
>>> Emergency
>>> Preparedness headquarters in Baton Rouge.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ??????????????????
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> May 19, 2006, 2:52PM
>>> The defenses are "better, stronger and more resilient" than ever, said
>>> Col.
>>> Lewis Setliff. "But I'm only fixing about 60 percent of the system."
>>>
>>> . are still many weak spots in the barricades that protect New Orleans
>>> from
>>> the sea. As Hurricane Katrina dramatically illustrated, one vulnerable
>>> spot
>>> is all it takes to unleash a disaster.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Wed May 31, 7:40 PM ET
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> New Orleans sinking faster than thought
>>>
>>> WA****NGTON - Everyone has known New Orleans is a sinking city. Now new
>>> research suggests parts of the city are sinking even faster than many
>>> scientists imagined - more than an inch a year.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That may explain some of the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina
and
>>> it
>>> raises more worries about the future.
>>>
>>> "My concern is the very low-lying areas," said lead author Tim Dixon,
a
>>> University of Miami geophysicist. "I think those areas are death
traps.
>>> I
>>> don't think those areas should be rebuilt."
>>>
>>> So when government officials talk of rebuilding levees to pre-Katrina
>>> levels, it may really still be several feet below what's needed, Dokka
>>> and
>>> others say.Top of Form
>>>
>>
>>
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