Far over, the Misty Mountains cold....

Where are the real life Misty Mountains? J. R. R. Tolkien was partially inspired by his own travels through the Swiss Alps in the early 1900s. Alp is etymologically related to 'alb' and 'Alf' from the PIE word meaning 'white' as we see in names like Albion or the Albigensians and the Swedish river Göta älv.

Tolkien may have also gotten his inspiration from Skírnismál in the Poetic Edda, in which the travels of Freyr's messenger Skirnir involves misty mountains (úrig fiöll), amongst other things.

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Universities forced to face addiction to foreign students’ money
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You know there’s a problem when you start seeing too many social media accounts teaching young men and women about ‘game’. You always feel your heart sink into your gut after seeing what they write.

Do you really think your grandparents needed this so-called advice?
This is how far our society has fallen
No one trusts love – real love – anymore
We are broken people in broken societies
Craving what is real and natural
But unable to accept and trust it
Because we choose not to trust ourselves

Only the wounded play and are played by games
Healthy, well-adjusted women lead with their heart
She offers it trustfully to a man who genuinely cares for her
There is no need to demand obedience or the brutality of command
When she knows her heart is met by the grounding of a good man
His certainty, understanding, and patience softens her
As men need our certainty, understanding, and patience to strengthen

This is all as simple as listening to your heart
Not listening to somebody else who is too afraid to love.

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Notre-Dame Cathedral to hold small Good Friday mass amid France's coronavirus lockdown

A small congregation of worshippers will celebrate Good Friday mass at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, a year after it was devastated by fire, but attendance will be limited because of a lockdown during the coronavirus outbreak.

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Stanford researchers devise treatment that relieved depression in 90%
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🇹🇼🇮🇹 At a hospital in Taiwan, people wait in line to make donations to help Italy in its fight against the coronavirus. The island shows its gratitude to Italian Camillian priests who helped build hospitals and clinics in Yilan County after World War Two. @COVID19Up

"My Beby is a Deutschland-Beby"
"It will becom President of dis Nation"
"We a no Slaves"

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Italy closes ports to migrant ships because of coronavirus

Italian ports cannot be considered safe because of the coronavirus epidemic and will not let charity migrant boats dock, the government has ruled.

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More than 240 scientists who have published peer-reviewed research on the biologic and health effects of nonionizing electromagnetic fields (EMF) signed
International EMF scientist appeal which calls for stronger exposure limits. The appeal makes the following assertions:

“Numerous recent scientific publications have shown that EMF affects living organisms at levels well below most international and national guidelines. Effects include increased cancer risk, cellular stress, increase in harmful free radicals, genetic damages, structural and functional changes of the reproductive system, learning and memory deficits, neurological disorders, and negative impacts on general well-being in humans. Damage goes well beyond the human race, as there is growing evidence of harmful effects to both plant and animal life.”


The scientists who signed this appeal arguably constitute the majority of experts on the effects of nonionizing radiation. They have published more than 2,000 papers and letters on EMF in professional journals.


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Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli, one of the world’s most famous tenors, will perform from Milan’s empty Duomo cathedral on Easter Sunday in a livestreamed concert intended as a symbol of love, hope and healing amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

Bocelli will be accompanied only by the cathedral organist, Emanuele Vianelli, playing one of world’s largest pipe organs and performing a repertoire of sacred works including Pietro Mascagni’s Sancta Maria.


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Obesity is major COVID-19 risk factor, says French chief epidemiologist

Being overweight is a major risk for people infected with the new coronavirus and the United States is particularly vulnerable because of high obesity levels there, France's chief epidemiologist said on Wednesday.

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