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  Heaven’s Gate: The History and Legacy of Marshall Applewhite’s Notorious Doomsday Cult , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 117min

  Hale-Bopp brings closure to Heaven's Gate.... Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion - 'graduation' from the Human Evolutionary Level. We are happily prepared to leave 'this world' and go with Ti's crew. To most people, it is almost impossible to understand the mere existence, let alone the baffling yet indubitable appeal of doomsday cults, but they have been morbidly fascinating phenomena throughout history. The bizarre and often objectively comical beliefs of these offbeat denominations are so far removed from most people in society that even the horrific fates that befell the devoted disciples of the latter cults have repeatedly been reduced to cheap throwaway punchlines. The phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid”, for one, has become an overused expression regularly tossed around in playful banter, despite the fact it is a derogatory reference to the cyanide-laced Flavor-Aid ingested by 908 members (many of them children) of the Peoples Temple cult in Jonestown, Guyana, at the behest of their leader, Reverend Jim Jones, in 1978. David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidians, had deep convictions based on the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation, and his sect believed the world was in the power of Satan and that the nations were merging to form a new Babylon. David hoped to establish the kingdom in Jerusalem, where, according to him, he would suffer martyrdom. The headquarters of the sect was a complex called Mount Carmel Center located in Waco, Texas. In the last manuscript produced by Koresh, which was preserved by a woman named Ruth Riddle who escaped the fire, the cult leader spoke extensively about his identity and the mystery of the Seven Seals. Koresh claimed to be the mysterious Lamb of Revelation who opens the sealed scroll, as well as the figure who rides the White Horse when the first seal is opened. While Waco remains notorious more for the federal agents’ siege of Koresh’s ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Houle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235022/bk_acx0_235022_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Around the World in 80 Cliches

  Around the World in 80 Cliches - Overused Expressions from Across the Globe: ab 12.99 €

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  The Snark Handbook: Clichés Edition

  The Snark Handbook: Clichés Edition - Overused Buzzwords Hackneyed Phrases and Other Misuses of the English Language: ab 8.43 €

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  The Dictionary of Clichés

  The Dictionary of Clichés - A Word Lover's Guide to 4 000 Overused Phrases and Almost-Pleasing Platitudes: ab 12.18 €

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  Old and New, Borrowed and Blue

  Rogers has 'A genuine enthusiasm for the music and the literature, and that's admirable and contagious' -- International Blues Challenge, Memphis, 2010 Willie Dixon said, 'Blues is the roots, and all the rest is the fruits.' The music I make and play springs mostly from those roots. Some of it I write myself, and some comes from the wellspring of the American folk tradition. My music is blues from the Piedmont and from rural Mississippi ... Rev. Gary Davis, John Hurt, Robert Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller. It's rags and songs from New Orleans ... Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey. It's from Tin Pan Alley, where talented writers borrowed from blues, rags and symphonies to write the popular music of the '20's and '30's. There's some modern folk music, too. My own songs are blues-based with a lot of additions from other forms, which brings us to that much over-used word: ec-lec-tic- "a combination selected from different sources." Overused? Yes. But I'd like to think that my music is a blend of the best from the many streams of American music. Mainly, it's the music that springs from the life stories of ordinary people, from the largely unheralded but gifted poets and musicians who gave us a truly American music.

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  Honoring Pat Martino,Vol.1

  There are a mere handful of guitarists that have changed the way we think about the guitar over the past five or six decades. Pat Martino is perhaps one of the greatest and best-known of those icons. The term "genius" is overused today, but Pat Martino was definitely one. His life story was the very definition of the word. Before Martino's passing in November, 2021, the Alternative Guitar Summit honored him and his enormous contribution to jazz in this set of studio recordings by 14 jazz guitar

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