TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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I first learned about Elizabeth Bathory 40 years ago when I was researching the manifestations of sleep paralysis in literature and folklor...

Reposted from 2023, when I wrote this as a serious post.  Irrelevant now because of her death, but it seems appropriate for me to re-express...

In a video posted to Parton’s X account 15 minutes ago, her nephew Bryan Seaver announced the death of his aunt, for whom he acted as head o...

Found while going through some family archives today.  I sent this to my aunt and uncle when I was 8 years old.  She kept it for 60+ years, ...

Found online years ago.  I have no idea whether this is true; I've never watched the show.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 'The Inundation of The Biesbosch in 1421" "Lawrence Alma-Tadema painted [the top image] in the ...

I hope I'm not violating too many copyright regulations by reproducing these three pages.  I'll be reviewing The Blood Countess: Mur...

A tip of the hat to my cousin Meridee in Oregon, who noticed this passage written by our grandfather Knute Olaus Finseth in a personal diary...

I'll add some commentary later, but for now this will suffice: This from the New York Times : The morning after he pulled negotiators fr...

This is a super-outstanding rant by a middle-school English teacher about the frustrations she is facing in her profession.  I don't kno...

Obviously not a check-out-a-book card, these are public service cards made available at our local community library in a suburb of Madison, ...

 “To the people of the United States of America: you realize that you are being seen by the rest of the world as no better than Russia, no b...

This is what AI can generate when not supervised by an intelligent human.  Explanation via FoxNewsVegas : LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB/Gray News) -...