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Huey Percy Newton was an African-American political activist and Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who, along with fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party (1966—1982). Together with Seale, Newton created a ten-point program which laid out guidelines for how the African-American community could achieve liberation.
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Charlie Watts June 2, 1941 - August 24, 2021
Charlie Watts
Charlie Watts provided the foundation that underpinned the music of the Rolling Stones. The band became a by-word for rock 'n' roll excess but for Watts, playing with the Stones did not become the ego trip that drove Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. A jazz aficionado, Watts vied with Bill Wyman for the title of least charismatic member of the band, he eschewed the limelight and rarely gave...
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Charlie Watts June 2, 1941 - August 24, 2021
Charlie Watts provided the foundation that underpinned the music of the Rolling Stones. The band became a by-word for rock 'n' roll excess but for Watts, playing with the Stones did not become the ego trip that drove Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. A jazz aficionado, Watts vied with Bill Wyman for the title of least charismatic member of the band, he eschewed the limelight and rarely gave interviews. And...
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Aleister Crowley was born on 12 October 1875. He was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the 'on of Horus in the early 20th century. A prolific writer, he published widely throughout his life. Born to a wealthy family in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Crowley rejected his parents' fundamentalist...
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Aleister Crowley was born 12 October 1875. He was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the 'on of Horus in the early 20th century. A prolific writer, he published widely over the course of his life. Born to a wealthy family in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Crowley rejected his parents' fundamentalist...
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
"And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it, and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her."
"All's well that ends better."
"His grief he will not forget, but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom." J. R. R. Tolkien
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of...
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Vivian, the headmaster of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, was also a singular author, poet, painter, actor, and iconic British eccentric. This unique audiobook offers rare insight into the brilliant clockwork mind of this late British national treasure. Renaissance man Stanshall holds forth on a number of insightful topics relating to his turbulent life and enticing, inspirational, evergreen work. This in-depth production also includes a concise one-hour...
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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
"A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him."
"Intolerance is evidence of impotence."
"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous, and menacing." Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley was born on October 12, 1875. He was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema,...
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Vivian Stanshall was the quintessential pop hero of the 60s, 70s and 80s. Viv shot to fame in 1968 in the BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND, but as many listeners of the John Peel Show are aware, his tales of the upper-class Rawlinsons and Maynards were the bees knees for anyone with a warped sense of humour.
Born Victor Anthony Stanshall, 21 March 1943, Shillingford, Oxfordshire, his post-WWII family settled in the coastal town of Leigh-on-Sea, in Essex. From...
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