In the 17th century, Dutch growers cultivated orange carrots as a tribute to William of Orange – who lead the struggle for Dutch independence – and the color stuck. A thousand years of yellow, white and purple carrot history, was wiped out in a generation.
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In this insightful video, a charming and confident 24-year old Bruce Lee auditions for the role of Kato in The Green Hornet, showing just how wise and talented he was. His speed was just insane.
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Time magazine got to the LSD story before other magazines, writes Siff, and wrote about it more frequently. Its stories were longer on average than the pieces run by its competition and were largely sympathetic, as typified by the 1960 Time piece “The Psyche in 3-D,” about celebrities taking LSD under the supervision of their doctors; or this Life editorial from 1966 urging regulation, not prohibition, of LSD; or, from 1968, an early debunking of the gone-blind-on-LSD urban myth. So intense was the Luces’ interest in the topic that both reviewed the 1963 Life article “The Chemical Mind-Changers” prior to its publication, writes Siff. Not every column inch of LSD copy in Time was adulatory or “balanced.” In “An Epidemic of Acid Heads” from 1966, Time blamed a wave of psychotic illnesses on the recreational use of LSD.
This must mean something — move each letter in COBRA three places forward in the alphabet and you get FREUD:
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One reason anyway…
CONSPIRAPORN! 