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The Secrets of Fátima, or What Happens in Portugal on May 13
Mary visits three shepherd children, reveals multiple secrets, and goes on to perform a few, let’s say, miracles. Here’s a quick explanation of the bizarre story of the 1917 prophecies of Fatima.
Momentous Eventus: Elasmobranchii, the First-Ever Cocktail, and Friggatriskaidekaphobia Edition
“Live every week like it’s shark week.”
Tracy Morgan.
Momentous Eventus: No Diet, No Pants Edition
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” Theodore Roosevelt
Something Out of Nothing: The Making of “The Windmill of Death”
…through experimentation and creative openness, the four friends managed to develop a piece of fiction that has its roots in the authenticity of the happy coincidences and unplanned events of the filming process.
Momentous Eventus: All That Jazz Edition
“It’s not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.”
Herbie Hancock.
Dia da Liberdade 2022 | A Look at Lisbon
This is the first time since the start of the pandemic that the remembrance took place without mask requirements, and people took full advantage, with singing, chanting, and cheering.
UPDATE: Portugal Drops Mask Requirement, Except on Transport, Health Services, More
You’ll still have to don the mask in your Uber or bus ride to that maskless party, and also when visiting grandma at the old folks’ home, and also at hospitals.
Momentous Eventus: Maskless Reincarnation and Carnation Celebration Edition
“If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?”
– Graham Greene
Momentous Eventus: Eastertide Edition
“For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?” Jesus Christ.
Momentous Eventus: Something in the Water Edition
“Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a gravity experience to an autocognizance, real or imagined, registered inside us in the region of the stomach.”
Marcel Duchamp.
Momentous Eventus: Bobos de Abril Edition
“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”
Henry David Thoreau.
Momentous Eventus: It Can’t Rain All The Time Edition
“I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”
Leonard Cohen.
