Posted on Thursday, 24th June 2010 by Interloper
Robert Pattinson, star of the Twilight Saga (not to mention the inappropriate dreams of teenage girls everywhere), has been linked to the most famous historical vampire of all time, Vlad Tepes, believed to have inspired Bram Stoker’s iconic vampire novel Dracula.
Vlad Tepes (or Vlad III) was the Prince of Wallachia from 1456 to 1461 and [...]
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Posted on Friday, 21st May 2010 by Interloper
It’s not very often I get to write an update about Adelaide… unnassuming little Adelaide where nothing ever really happens (except, you know, children going missing and the occasional serial murder).
Yesterday the police reported that they had seized a cache of weapons belonging to an Adelaide Doomsday cult. Twelve properties connected to the Agape Ministries [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 16th December 2009 by Interloper
A group of atheists in New Zealand have are requesting donations to help fund a plan to put stickers on the sides of buses that say: “There’s probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
The plan is reminiscent of similar atheist campaigns that have been carried out in the past year, including one [...]
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Posted on Friday, 11th December 2009 by Interloper
Hundreds of villagers have been flocking to the Indian coastal district of Kendrapara in order to visit a rare sea turtle that they believe is an incarnation of Lord Jagannath.
Jagannath (the “Lord of the World”) is but one avatar of the god Vishnu, who is also revered in the forms of Krishna and Rama; two [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 22nd October 2009 by Interloper
Starting next week, a series of advertisements promoting Atheism will adorn the walls of twelve New York City subway stations, as part of a campaign organised by eight different atheist organisations.
The advertisements pose the question: “A million New Yorkers are good without God. Are you?” and are designed to raise awareness about “people who don’t [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 13th October 2009 by Interloper
Professor Ellen van Wolde, who studies at Radboud University in the Netherlands, claims to have retranslated the opening passage of Genesis, shedding new light on what she believes to be the true meaning of the words: “in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth”.
Van Wolde, a respected bible scholar, believes that the current [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 8th October 2009 by Interloper
Italian scientist, Luigi Garlaschelli, has claimed to have created a replica of the Shroud of Turin; the holy Catholic relic that some believe is the actual burial shroud of Jesus Christ.
Garlaschelli is said to have reproduced the Shroud of Turin in order to demonstrate his belief that the cloth is a medieval fake.
The replica was [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 29th September 2009 by Interloper
An undine is a type of water elemental that features in European folklore, as well as appearing in the alchemical treatises of Paracelsus. The word undine comes from the Latin word unda, which means “a wave”.
Although the term can be applied to virtually any type of water spirit, undines are generally depicted as women with [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd September 2009 by Interloper
This morning Sydney residents awoke to a blood-red sky as the worst dust storm in at least 70 years blanketed the city. This seemed like fun when I first checked out the pictures, but it wasn’t all exciting, as explained by Wheezle in the Shrine forums: “Believe me, you get over it once you’ve inhaled [...]
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