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Post by Catman on Nov 2, 2019 2:59:45 GMT
Space Hunter Nebula M
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Nov 4, 2019 8:52:26 GMT
1. Rocky III 2. Rocky II 3. Rocky IV
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2019 13:00:09 GMT
The only one I didn't know was - Hausu (1977) .
should have been added to this list too . Those were great mszanadu. I liked 'Rose Red' and we have it on DVD along with the prequel, 'The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer' and I noticed you mentioned on another post you liked the TV Miniseries of 'The Shining' more than the movie and I liked that the most too and the movie was missing a number of parts from the novel the miniseries included and I can see why Stephen King liked it the most. Have you seen the remake of 'Salem's Lot' with Rob Lowe and Samantha Mathis and Stephen King's '1408' and 'Riding the Bullet?' As a Stephen King fan I would recommend those if you haven't.
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Post by Catman on Nov 5, 2019 13:30:11 GMT
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Post by Catman on Nov 8, 2019 23:01:43 GMT
Sawoleuiggeut
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 9, 2019 11:25:51 GMT
Emilie Sagee, the ubiquitous teacher In the middle of the XIXth Century, in Livonia (Lettonia), between Riga and Volmar, there is a college for noble young ladies which is called the Pensionnat Neuwelcke. The boarders belong to the greatest Livonian families, and the Director, Mr Buch, flatters himself that he has in his establishment, among others, the second daughter of Baron Guldenstubbe, the charming and very intelligent Julie, aged thirteen. In 1845, Mr Buch engages a French teacher, Mademoiselle Emilie Sagee. She is a pretty Bourguignonne, born in Dijon, blonde with light eyes and an amiable character. She is thirty-two. Intelligent, cultured, she soon conquers the Directorās estime, her colleaguesā friendship and her pupilsā affection. Strange rumours, however, run through the pensionnat about the new teacher. In fact, several times, certain pupils have noticed that they disagree on an apparently insignificant detail: the place where they have just met Mlle Sagee. When one says that she has seen her in one part of the establishment, it is frequent that another assures having met her elsewhere at the same moment. At first, the pupils believe that they are mistaken. But as it continues to occur, they finish by finding the thing very strange. To the point that they decide to speak about it to the other mistresses. One morning, a delegation goes to find the Arithmetic teacher and tells her that they are sure that Mlle Sagee is a strange person, because she is sometimes in two different places at the same timeā¦ The teacher bursts out laughing, shrugs her shoulders and declares that she has never heard anything quite so stupid, that these young ladies are really too imaginative and that they are making it all upā¦ After which, she sends the girls back to their studiesā¦ But the anomalies in the French teacherās comportment soon take on a character which excludes all possibility of error or fantasy. One day when Mlle Sagee is giving a lesson to thirteen of her pupils, and is writing a sentence on the blackboard, the girls are suddenly very frightened to see two Mademoiselle Sagees one beside the other. Riveted to their benches, they notice with growing stupor that, while the two people who are writing at the blackboard look exactly alike and are making the same gestures, only the real Emilie Sagee, a piece of chalk in her hand, is effectively writing. Her double, with empty hand, is only imitating the movements that she is making while tracing the words. This story is immediately spread, and causes a sensation among the other boarders. The Director, informed of a strange incident which is supposed to have occurred during a French lesson, interrogates Mlle Sageeās pupils. But even though all of them, without exception, affirm having seen the second form and are perfectly in agreement on the description that they make of the phenomenon, Mr Buch, too, shrugs his shouldersā¦ He tells them that their story is foolish, that they were dreamingā¦ Perhaps they had been a bit tired at that particular moment. There, there, weāll say no more about it! The pupils leave his study very disappointed about not succeeding in convincing him, for they are sure of their facts: they really saw Mlle Sagee divide into two. A little while later, a second incident comes to trouble the pensionnat. It unfolds in a bedroom where a pupil, Antoinette de Vrangel, is dressing to go with a few friends to a local festival. Mlle Sagee has come to help her, and is hooking up the back of her dress. Suddenly, the young girl looks over her shoulder and sees two Emilie Sagees taking care of her. She is so frightened that she faints. This time, Mr Buch is worried. He asks hinself if his boarders have not all gone mad. He makes enquiries and learns with fearful astonishment that the pensionnatās domestics, too, have seen the French teacher split into two. These peasant women explain to him that, from time to time, in the refectory, they see Mlle Sageeās double standing behind her chair, while she is eating. This double, they say, imitates all of her movements, but āwithout knife or fork, or food in its handsāā¦ Mr Buch is very troubled. He becomes even more so a few days later when some teachers come to tell him, horrified, that they now believe in the ubiquity for they, too, have seen Mlle Sagee divide into two before their eyesā¦ And the phenomena continue. The witnesses then notice that there can also be variations. In certain cases, the double doesnāt imitate the movements of the real person. It has a sort of existence of its own. For example, it is seen to remain seated when Mlle Sagee rises. Sometimes, the doubleās independence is even clearer. One evening, the French teacher is in bed with a heavy cold. Antoinette de Vrangel has come to read to her to relieve her boredom. Suddenly, she sees her pale and stiffen as if she is about to faint. Frightened, she asks the teacher if she is feeling worse. Mlle Sagee weakly denies it. A few minutes later, the boarder happens to look over her shoulder and distinctly sees the patientās double walking back and forth in the roomā¦ But here is the most remarkable case of the apparently independent activity of Mlle Sageeās two forms. One day, the pupils of the pensionnat, all forty-two of them, are gathered in the sewing room. It is a big room on the ground floor with four windows opening onto the garden. The boarders are all seated around a long table and, through the open windows, they can see Mlle Sagee who is picking flowers along a garden path. At the end of the table, a supervisor is sitting in a green leather armchair. At one moment, this lady leaves. However, her armchair does not remain empty very long for the young girls suddenly see Mlle Sageeās form appear in it. They immediately turn their gazes toward the garden and see their French teacher still busy picking her bouquet; but her movements seem to be slower and heavier than a while ago, like those of someone who is very tired. They turn their eyes to the armchair again. The double is there, silent, motionless, but with such an appearance of reality that, if they hadnāt just seen Mlle Sagee in the garden, they could think that she is there in person. However, they all know that it is the double, and they are now so used to this strange phenomenon that two of them rise, approach the armchair and, trembling a little, touch the apparition. The whole class watches them, frightened, and Mlle de Vrangel asks them what it feels like. They answer that it feels like a piece of muslin or crepe material. And, now feeling very audacious, one of them dares to pass right up against the armchair, thereby traversing part of the form. When she returns to her place, she is lividā¦ The double then gradually disappears and the pupils notice that Mlle Sagee, in the garden, is now gathering her flowers with her usual vivacity. These phenomena last for months, to Mr Buchās despair. He fears that this strange comportment might damage his establishmentās reputation. His fears are justified. Many parents, informed of what is happening, remove their children. After eighteen months, there are only twelve pupils left out of forty-two. Mr Buch is then obliged to fire his French teacher ā for ubiquityā¦ The story of Emilie Sagee is known to us through the people who saw her. Mr Buchās pensionnat received only young ladies of the nobility. Having become elderly ladies, some of them wrote their souvenirs, as was often done at the time, in this society. And one of them, Baroness de Guldenstubbe, the little Julie that Mr Buch was so proud of having in his establishment, wrote so many things about Emilie Sagee in her souvenirs, that the English writer and philosopher, Robert Dale Owen, wanted to meet her. The Baroness furnished many details to the writer about the duality of the French teacher. Details that he reported in one of his books which bears the very beautiful title Sounds of Footsteps at the Frontiers of Another Life [Bruits de pas sur les frontieres dāune autre vie]. *** Collective hallucination has been mentioned. However, before entering Mr Buchās establishment, Mlle Sagee, who had started teaching at the age of sixteen, had passed through eighteen collegesā¦ eighteen colleges from which she had been fired because of her phenomena of bilocationā¦ It appears difficult to admit that the pupils, teachers and directors of eighteen establishments had suffered the same hallucinatory influence about the same personā¦ *** Mlle Sagee wrote nothing about her own case. For the simple reason that she had nothing to say; for at the moment of her divisions, she felt nothing. She was absolutely unconscious of what was happening and ā she has often repeated this ā she only knew about the phenomenon because of the expression on the faces of the people who were thereā¦ It was by seeing their frightened faces, their eyes staring at something invisible which seemed to be moving near her, that she understoodā¦ But she had never, herself, seen her double; neither had she noticed the stiffness and slowing down of her movements when her double appearedā¦ *** It was noted that the phenomenon took place when Mlle Sagee was very worried or very immersed in her work. The double could also manifest itself in a place about which she was thinking. For example, she has recounted that, on the day when she was picking flowers in the garden, glancing at the sewing room, she had seen the empty armchair and was saying to herself: āThe supervisor has gone, Iām sure that the young ladies will take advantage of it to gossip and waste timeā¦ā And, as a teacher worried about discipline, she had thought: āAh! If only I were there!ā And she wasā¦ *** It is difficult to know whether or not Emilie Sageeās double appeared far away from the pensionnat. It could have, without being noticed. At Neuwelcke, the pupils sometimes saw the double in the college itself, while Mlle Sagee ā as everyone knew ā had gone for a walk in the forest or in the neighbouring villageā¦ *** There are other striking examples of ubiquity. Among others, the case of Padre Pio, the Italian monk who died in 1968 and whose phenomena of bilocation were noted by hundreds of people, notably journalistsā¦ But there are many, many othersā¦ *** Parapsychological magazines periodically cite cases of bilocation. And numerous researchers, among them Doctor Richet, Doctor Osty, Doctor Goodrich and above all Doctor William Barnard Johnson, who created at Reno in the United States of America, an Institute for the study of these phenomena, have published extremely troubling reports. According to these documents, it seems that, most of the time, the double is only seen by other people; but sometimes, it can also be seen by the subject himself (autoscopy). *** It is, in fact, a sort of āphantom of a living personā. But parapsychologists, who detest using the word āphantomā, and donāt like the word āubiquityā because it belongs to theological vocabulary, give these phenomena the name of ābilocationā or ābicorporeityā. *** For the moment, these wise parapsychologists emit no hypothesis to explain the facts. They prudently content themselves with stating their existence with as much rigour as possible. And they have already been able to obtain a few certitudes mentioned by Danielle Hemmert and Alex Roudene in their work LāUnivers des fantomes. āThe positive attitude of the facts permit today to establish that the existence of the human phantom (of a living person) is objectively noted by concording witness reports, by photographs of the double accidentally obtained; by the influence that this apparition produces simultaneously on humans and on animals; by the effects exercised by the double on matter.ā *** We are therefore able to conclude that we are in the presence of a double acting, at certain moments and for inexplicable reasons, outside its physical envelope. *** Most parapsychologists who have studied the problem think that this double is totally distinct from the soul and that it draws its substantiality from the body of which it is an emanation. In short, as surprising and as mysterious as it might be in the present state of our knowledge, this phenomenon is probably quite naturalā¦ *** After having left Mr Buchās pensionnat, Mlle Sagee retired to the home of her sister-in-law, the mother of several children who very quickly grew used to the phenomenon to which the young woman was subjected. They said: āWe have two Aunt Emilies!āā¦ For children accept all miraclesā¦
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 9, 2019 16:37:43 GMT
My name is Fanya Kaplan. Today I shot Lenin. I did it on my own. I will not say from whom I obtained my revolver. I will give no details. I had resolved to kill Lenin long ago. I consider him a traitor to the Revolution. I was exiled to Akatui for participating in an assassination attempt against a Tsarist official in Kiev. I spent 11 years at hard labour. After the Revolution, I was freed. I favoured the Constituent Assembly and am still for it.
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