Sue Zange

Helping people understand subtle energy, higher consciousness and the human energy field - to create awareness, healing, and positive change.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.

[Sue Zange @SueZange]

Start the day with this…

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A swan couple in the early morning mist
https://t.co/C2KarAo580

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area—crime, education, housing, race relations—the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

[Sue Zange @SueZange]

A beautiful piece of historic film

[Bobbie @bo66ie29]

A trip back in time to the large market town of Halifax on a cold January day in 1902. There are so many fascinating details to spot in this film.

[The Sound of Music @SoundofMusic]

IT’S FINALLY HERE! 🥹 For the first time ever, nearly 60 years after the film’s release, listen to Christopher Plummer’s ✨ORIGINAL✨ vocals for “Edelweiss” in The Sound of Music. (ICYMI: he was dubbed by Bill Lee in the 1965 film.)

Watch the full clip: https://t.co/CJctXIDox7

[Sue Zange @SueZange]

@HughHarrop @DickKingSmith @whales_org @Seasaver @mcsuk @VisitScotland @SaversSea @kasmunro @kazcustard @NLFerries Oh… sensational 😍😍

[Sue Zange @SueZange]

@marksandspencer As if Christmas itself isn’t already fighting enough for its survival, you’ve decided to remove the Christ from it.

#Thismas …

[Sue Zange @SueZange]

@sandieshoes But he’s clearly revealing that he himself was aware of the pending enormity of the disaster awaiting the country, but he didn’t relay it to the PM. Cummings must have believed he was the top notch.

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

It’s amazing —really.

The left has spent the past two decades lecturing America and other western cultures about our modern culture. A culture that is free, open minded, and embraces all kinds of differences.

These *same people* are now marching around the streets in support of the most repressive culture known to mankind — a culture of hate, intolerance, and terrorism.

Every single person who has ever listened to these cultural-shaming lectures needs to take a look at what’s happening around us and shrug whatever false shame was spewed at him/her. Time to get back to reality.

They’re marching in favor of patriarchal chauvinism, to say the least. They’re marching in favor of repression and abuse of women. They’re marching in favor of hate and bigotry. They’re marching in favor of eradicating a middle eastern minority population. They’re marching in favor of slaughter. They’re marching in favor of everything they falsely told you that you stood for. It was all a lie.

[Sue Zange @SueZange]

“We moderns only have opinions.” …

[Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh]

Society's best defence against homicidal children isn't local services or youth clubs or ping pong or 'the community' or marches or politicians or police.

It's family.

As a society we need to accept that unless there is law inside the home there will never be order outside it.

[Sue Zange @SueZange]

😮 mind blowing. No gear, no harness, no gloves, no lunch!…

[BBC Archive @BBCArchive]

"I’ve never fell off a big chimney. You only fall off one of them once."

#OnThisDay 1979: Extraordinary steeplejack Fred Dibnah was introduced to the nation.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

This is what radiation looks like.

A piece of uranium in a chamber filled with cooled ethanol vapor creates visible condensation trails as the alpha particles it emits collide with and ionize the gas molecules.

📽: Cloudylabs

[Sue Zange @SueZange]

An absolutely wonderful thread. Feast your eyes on this lot…

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

A thread of towns and cities that look spectacular from above 🧵

1. Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸

[Sue Zange @SueZange]

@TheFigen_ Oh... am I the only one wondering why the children are in a car park with no shoes on! The teachers have shoes on 🙄

[Sue Zange @SueZange]

Because we should all know this … 😃

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

What the hell is an ampersand and why does it look like that?!

The first thing you need to know is that "&" used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet...

But there are three parts to this story. And the first begins over two thousand years ago in Ancient Rome with a single word: et. It's the Latin for "and". At some point Roman scribes started combining the two letters of et into a single symbol, which was the ancestor of our modern &.

The earliest example of the "et" symbol is actually from graffiti in Pompeii. In any case, it did not disappear with the fall of the Roman Empire.

Latin survived as the language of the Catholic Church and of scholarship in Medieval Europe. Scribes during the Dark Ages continued to use the & symbol. It evolved down the centuries, in places losing any semblance of the letters e and t whatsoever.

The second part of the story is that during the 18th and 19th centuries, as education and the teaching of literacy spread, & was added to the end of the alphabet as a sort of 27th letter.

On a related note, although "et cetera" is now usually just abbreviated as etc., for a long time it was instead abbreviated as "&c". The & was for et and the c for cetera.

The third and final part of the story is about how the alphabet was taught to children — and how it was read out loud.

As this 1822 Glossary of Words and Phrases explains, it had been normal during the Renaissance, when speaking the alphabet, to add "per se" before any letter which could also be a word on its own — "per se" means "by itself" in Latin.

Take the letter A, which can also be a word of its own. When reading out the alphabet people would say "A, per se A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, per se I..." and so on. O was also considered a word of its own.

Which means, when people got to the end of the alphabet, with & being the 27th letter, they would say: "S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, and per se &."

When this old way of reading the alphabet was taught to children in the 18th century and they were reciting it aloud, they would garble "and per se " into what eventually became... ampersand.

A Dic­tion­ary of Slang and Col­lo­quial Eng­lish from 1905 relates some of the many other pronunciations school children apparently came up with:

"Am­persand. The sign &; am­persand. Vari­ants: Ann Passy Ann; an­pasty; an­dpassy; an­parse; aper­sie; per-se; am­passy; am-passy-ana; am­pene-and; am­pus-and; ampsyand; am­pazad; am­siam; am­pus-end; ap­perse-and; em­per­siand; am­perzed; and zumzy-zan."

Well, of all the many pronunciations that might have stuck, it was "ampersand" which came to be accepted and is now the official name for &... rather than zumzy-zan. So, from hurried Roman scribes to unruly school children, that's where "&" came from.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.

[Sue Zange @SueZange]

Very well said…

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

How can students be expected to enjoy their education when schools look like prisons?

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

To all men who defend their children's homes, their safe sleep, and their future...
Happy Father’s Day!

🎥 @United24media