Category Archives: Viva!

Seven Everyday Uses For Essential Oils. | Rebelle Society

6. Frankincense for scars.

The Three Wise Men had it right — frankincense is really a treasure, it has so many uses and is very potent. It smells great, making it an enjoyable addition to your skincare routine for acne scars, wrinkles and other scars. I love adding it to my facial moisturizer oil.

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Five Signs You Stumbled Upon A Charismatic Sociopath. | Rebelle Society

Once in a while, people come into your life with gorgeous truths and build up your hopes with immense promises, only to chatter them again in the blink of an eye. What happened?

Did they suddenly change their mind? Were they pretending the whole time? Were they summoned by alien spaceships and reprogrammed for emotional destruction? Or are they just your friendly neighborhood sociopath?

Afterall, the superpower of any sociopath is the art of deception and their ability to influence people. And this is where it gets super tricky…

How do you differentiate über intelligence and talent with deranged delusion?

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Research Center Bye bye baby boogie

:: Title :: Bye Bye Baby

:: Genre :: blues, boogie woogie

:: Performers & Instruments ::

Sanders, Robert (Yancey) [guitar]

Stewart, W. D. (Bama) [guitar, vocal]

:: Setting :: Camp B, Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary)

:: Location :: Lambert (Quitman County), Mississippi (United States)

:: Language :: English

:: Culture :: Southern U.S., African American, Mississippi

:: Session :: Parchman 12/47

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Waves Like Mountains: Viral Nature Photos in the Age of Climate Change — BagNews

These nature photos by Australian photographer, Ray Collins, have been circulating widely on Twitter and Reddit. Here’s a collection at BoredPanda. What’s so distinct about these waves is that they almost appear solid, as if they were mountains. The article explains their power and interest in terms of their ability to capture the “raw, majestic, natural power of the sea.” But, could there be more at play here?

I think these photos are particularly powerful because they reflect “the inconvenient truth” that we can no longer trust what’s “natural.” Isn’t the ocean rising here and other bodies of water receding there, so much so that it’s pushing the lines? And, how much and how fast is the altered course of the environment reshaping how much we can trust it? Majesty notwithstanding, makes these photos so powerful (to me, at least, and I assume, to a much larger undercurrent) is how much more indeterminate nature, and our perception of nature, has become.

via Waves Like Mountains: Viral Nature Photos in the Age of Climate Change — BagNews.

Research Center – Vera Hall I’ll Fly Away

This session of recordings represents the only time that Vera Ward Hall left the state of Alabama. She was invited to New York by Alan Lomax to perform in the Fourth Annual Festival of Contemporary American Music at Columbia University in the City of New York, May 10th through May 16th, 1948, sponsored by the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University. Vera performed on Saturday, May 15th, 8:30pm, at the McMillin Theater. The concert was entitled Ballads, Hoe-Downs, Spirituals (White and Negro), and Blues, with performances by Texas Gladden, Hobart Smith, Jean Ritchie, Brownie Mcghee, Vera Hall, Dan Burley, Pete Seeger, and narrations by Alan Lomax. These recordings were made not at the concert, but during the remainder of Vera Hall?s stay in New York with Alan Lomax.

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Research Center Alan Lomax Folk Recordings Free 17,400.

The Sound Recordings catalog comprises over 17,400 digital audio files, beginning with Lomax’s first recordings onto (newly invented) tape in 1946 and tracing his career into the 1990s. In addition to a wide spectrum of musical performances from around the world, it includes stories, jokes, sermons, personal narratives, interviews conducted by Lomax and his associates, and unique ambient artifacts captured in transit from radio broadcasts, sometimes inadvertently, when Alan left the tape machine running. Not a single piece of recorded sound in Lomax’s audio archive has been omitted: meaning that microphone checks, partial performances, and false starts are also included.

This material from Alan Lomax’s independent archive, begun in 1946, which has been digitized and preserved by the Association for Cultural Equity, is distinct from the thousands of earlier recordings on acetate and aluminum discs he made from 1933 to 1942 under the auspices of the Library of Congress. This earlier collection — which includes the famous Jelly Roll Morton, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Muddy Waters sessions, as well as Lomax’s prodigious collections made in Haiti and Eastern Kentucky (1937) — is the provenance of the American Folklife Center at the Library. Attempts are being made, however, to digitize some of this rarer material, such as the Haitian recordings, and to make it available in the Sound Recordings catalog. Please check in periodically for updates.

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