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May 12, 1971:

Elvis revisited Sri Daya Mata’s Self Realization Fellowship Center in Los Angeles for the first time since 1965, with his chauffeur Sir Gerald.

Photo: Candid photo of Elvis outside of his Hillcrest home; June 7, 1971.

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Happy World Frog Day from all of the Totally Normal Frogs 🐸

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Heavenly Father,

Like a leaf caught in the wind, life can bring turbulence and an uneasy feeling to those not grounded and anchored by Your love.

As life throws more twists and turns at us, we ask You to calm the winds of deception and still our hearts with an inner peace that soothes our worries, relieves our burdens, and cleanses our souls.

Sweep away the evil forces that breed in the chaos of insanity and restore the tranquility and confidence of a heart touched by Your unconditional love and warm embrace.

As a new day beckons, we boldly pray in the name of Jesus.

Amen.

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MURPHY’S LAWS

Murphy’s First Law:

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Murphy’s Second Law:

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Murphy’s Third Law:

Everything takes longer than you think it will.

Murphy’s Fourth Law:

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

Corollary to Murphy’s Fourth Law:

If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.

Murphy’s Fifth Law:

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

Murphy’s Sixth Law:

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Murphy’s Seventh Law:

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

Murphy’s Eighth Law:

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Murphy’s Ninth Law:

Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

Murphy’s Tenth Law:

Mother nature is a bitch.

Murphy’s Eleventh Law:

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Murphy’s Twelfth Law:

Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.

Murphy’s Thirteenth Law:

Every solution breeds new problems.

Murphy’s Fourteenth Law:

If anything can’t go wrong on its own, someone will make it go wrong.

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This is Kylie and Greta, the pictures taken from the magazine.

As per usual a bunch of stars doing the One-Eyed symbolism, pledging their allegiance, and to remind us all that THEY (stars) are actually slaves.

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The real question is what type of 'forest fires' can leave trees intact, but disintegrate homes without a trace?

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That baby face and pretty smile. 🥺

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April 20, 1954:

Elvis started work at Crown Electric, where he started out driving a truck at $1 an hour, delivering supplies to building sites. He was hoping for the chance to train to be an electrician. He stayed at Crown until mid-October 1954, after having recorded his first record at Sun Studio, and having officially become a self-employed entertainer.

Photos: (1) One of Elvis’ Crown Electric pay stubs, dated July 24, 1954. (2) Young Elvis in 1954.

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The River Canada

The River Canada is judg’d to be the largest of all the Rivers of America, as those Rivers generally the largest of all in the World besides; it rises in the Western parts of this Province which remain yet undiscover’d, and in some places spreads itself into huge Lakes, some of them a hundred Miles in compass, which many little Islands dispersed up and down in them, and so running from the West about a hundred Leagues, falls at last into the North part of St. Lawrence Bay, being that wide Enboucheure of thirty five Miles breadth already mentioned. This River is extraordinary full of Fish, among which there is one sort more remarkable than the rest, call’d by the Inhabitants Cadhothuis, having Heads resembling the Heads of Hares, and Bodies as white as Snow; they are taken for the most part before the Isle de Lievres. The Countrey on both sides of the River is pleasant and indifferently fertile, especially towards the South-West, where upwards from the River the Ground rises into many little Hills, invested most of them with Vines, with which and several other sorts of Trees this Countrey abounds, being well water’d with a great many lesser Streams, all of them falling into the River Canada.

- America: being an accurate description of the New World, John Ogilby, 1670.

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What wouldn't I give to touch you just once?

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March 27, 1956:

Elvis had a Hollywood screen test of a scene from The Rainmaker — there are only stills that are known to exist.

Screenwriter Allen Weiss, who wrote six Presley pictures, described his acting as “high school.” Hal Wallis agreed and decided to build the movies around Elvis.

Katherine Hepburn, star of The Rainmaker, could hardly have a younger brother with a different regional accent.

Elvis worked with veteran actor Frank Faylen in the first test scene, and with 21-year-old actress Cynthia Baxter (later Cynthia O’Neal) in the second scene.

In May, Elvis told Will Jones of the Minneapolis Tribune that he favored the second of the two scenes. “I took this screen test where I came in and was real happy and jolly and I didn’t like it. I did this other one where I was mad at this girl, and I liked that better — it was me.”

Screenwriter Allen Weiss came to the following conclusion:

“In viewing the test, one thing was clear. It would be a mistake to try to force this strong personality into a preconceived role. His parts must be tailored for him, designed to exploit the thing he did best — sing.”

Hal Wallis agreed, and between 1957-1967, he produced nine Presley musicals — Weiss writing six of them.

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This is a 5,500 year old Sumerian star map of planets, stars and constellations.

So 5,500 years ago, they had a stone hammer and a bronze chisle, and yet they knew more about the astronomy than us in 21st century.