The Briggs Family is a British/African family notable for their activism, social prominence and wealth.
History
The British/African Briggs family began when a member of the British Briggs family went to West Africa from England. Descendant Chief Young Briggs after discovering the town of Abonnema discovered Palm kernel and through this began the manufacturing of Palm oil and Palm kernel oil and over time becoming one of West Africa's biggest manufacturers and exporters of this palm oil and palm kernel oil and by so immersing the family wealth.
The British Briggs'
A Grandson of Chief Young Briggs, Kio Abel Briggs was later sent to Britain where he studied and worked as a marine engineer. It was here that he met one of his spouses and had a child. He continued to live and work in both West Africa and Britain.
Descendants
Annie-Marie Briggs (1952-) (Also known as Ann Kio Briggs) Is a prominent human rights activist, she mainly deals with the human rights of citizens from her ancestors home town Niger Delta. She is also the founder and director of Agape Birthrights a NGO.
Kio D. Briggs II (1992-)
Kioba Ebony-Marie Briggs (1993-)
Endeavours
The Briggs family members take on a number of sports including, Equestrian, Polo, Athletics and Sailing.
History
The British/African Briggs family began when a member of the British Briggs family went to West Africa from England. Descendant Chief Young Briggs after discovering the town of Abonnema discovered Palm kernel and through this began the manufacturing of Palm oil and Palm kernel oil and over time becoming one of West Africa's biggest manufacturers and exporters of this palm oil and palm kernel oil and by so immersing the family wealth.
The British Briggs'
A Grandson of Chief Young Briggs, Kio Abel Briggs was later sent to Britain where he studied and worked as a marine engineer. It was here that he met one of his spouses and had a child. He continued to live and work in both West Africa and Britain.
Descendants
Annie-Marie Briggs (1952-) (Also known as Ann Kio Briggs) Is a prominent human rights activist, she mainly deals with the human rights of citizens from her ancestors home town Niger Delta. She is also the founder and director of Agape Birthrights a NGO.
Kio D. Briggs II (1992-)
Kioba Ebony-Marie Briggs (1993-)
Endeavours
The Briggs family members take on a number of sports including, Equestrian, Polo, Athletics and Sailing.
Xylophone Tuning Company (also known as XTC) is an American indie rock band, formed in 2011 in Landenberg, Pennsylvania.
History
Formation
The band formed as a result of the four members being high school friends centered around Landenberg, Pennsylvania. In early 2011, they met at the house of Andrew Hiles after discovering that they each played instruments that together could form a band. Later that year, they performed at their first live event - a musical festival in Kennett Square known as Huezofest. During this time, the band began to write original material to later be recorded for their debut album. The band spent the following summer writing and recording original songs. In early fall of the same year, the band headlined their first live event - a group show consisting of five local bands, as well as participating in a band competition located in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. On 28 October 2011, they headlined a Halloween concert, the admission funds for which were used to benefit UNICEF.
Album
Currently, the band is in the process of writing, recording, and self-producing their first release - a full-length album - which is scheduled to be released December of 2011.
Members
* Nick Angeloni - Vocals/Guitar/Keyboards
* Andrew Hiles - Drums/Percussion/Keyboards
* Michael DeStefano - Bass/Percussion
* Evan Breen - Guitar/Banjo/Ukulele
History
Formation
The band formed as a result of the four members being high school friends centered around Landenberg, Pennsylvania. In early 2011, they met at the house of Andrew Hiles after discovering that they each played instruments that together could form a band. Later that year, they performed at their first live event - a musical festival in Kennett Square known as Huezofest. During this time, the band began to write original material to later be recorded for their debut album. The band spent the following summer writing and recording original songs. In early fall of the same year, the band headlined their first live event - a group show consisting of five local bands, as well as participating in a band competition located in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. On 28 October 2011, they headlined a Halloween concert, the admission funds for which were used to benefit UNICEF.
Album
Currently, the band is in the process of writing, recording, and self-producing their first release - a full-length album - which is scheduled to be released December of 2011.
Members
* Nick Angeloni - Vocals/Guitar/Keyboards
* Andrew Hiles - Drums/Percussion/Keyboards
* Michael DeStefano - Bass/Percussion
* Evan Breen - Guitar/Banjo/Ukulele
Jesus with erection is a controversial satirical cartoon published in the March 2006 issue of the Student Insurgent, a student newspaper at University of Oregon.
The cartoon featured a hand-drawn depiction of a naked Jesus on the Cross with an erection. There were eleven additional hand-drawn cartoons of Jesus, among them an image titled Resurrection, showed a naked Jesus kissing the devil, both sporting erections. The students said they drew it after the controversial Muhammad cartoons earlier published in Europe that sparked Muslim riots worldwide. The students claimed that the drawings should "provoke dialogue," especially in regards to equivalent religious imagery taboos between Christianity and Islam.
As a response to the publishing of the cartoons, several groups demanded a public apology of the students or a defunding of the student newspaper. The president of the Catholic League, William Donohue, said that the president of the University of Oregon, Dave Frohnmayer, had been unresponsive to complaints about the drawings.
In his words, the Jesus with erection "was one of the most obscene assaults on Christianity I have ever seen". News and commentary outlets including The O'Reilly Factor called for the firing of the University's President David B. Frohnmayer.
On the other side, the Oregon Daily Emerald and the Oregon Commentator, two university founded newspapers, publicly defended the right of the student editors of the Insurgent to free speech and also defended Frohnmayer's decision to uphold the controversial student newspaper, citing Board of Regents of Univ. of Wis. System v. Southworth, a 2001 US Supreme Court decision., it censored the Jesus cartoon.
The cartoon featured a hand-drawn depiction of a naked Jesus on the Cross with an erection. There were eleven additional hand-drawn cartoons of Jesus, among them an image titled Resurrection, showed a naked Jesus kissing the devil, both sporting erections. The students said they drew it after the controversial Muhammad cartoons earlier published in Europe that sparked Muslim riots worldwide. The students claimed that the drawings should "provoke dialogue," especially in regards to equivalent religious imagery taboos between Christianity and Islam.
As a response to the publishing of the cartoons, several groups demanded a public apology of the students or a defunding of the student newspaper. The president of the Catholic League, William Donohue, said that the president of the University of Oregon, Dave Frohnmayer, had been unresponsive to complaints about the drawings.
In his words, the Jesus with erection "was one of the most obscene assaults on Christianity I have ever seen". News and commentary outlets including The O'Reilly Factor called for the firing of the University's President David B. Frohnmayer.
On the other side, the Oregon Daily Emerald and the Oregon Commentator, two university founded newspapers, publicly defended the right of the student editors of the Insurgent to free speech and also defended Frohnmayer's decision to uphold the controversial student newspaper, citing Board of Regents of Univ. of Wis. System v. Southworth, a 2001 US Supreme Court decision., it censored the Jesus cartoon.
Trenzalore was a place that, according to Dorium Maldovar, would be where the First Question in the Universe would be answered truthfully. The Doctor would arrive there at some point in his travels, at the fall of the Eleventh. The religious order known as the Silence was determined to ensure that the Doctor never reached Trenzalore. (DW: The Wedding of River Song)
History
Let's regress for a moment back to the Men in Black(MIB). According to John Keel, the MIB often state that they are representatives of the
"Nation of the Third Eye."
Based on some of the info already researched, it is
apparent that Sirius has been in contact with humanity for a long time.
According to George Hunt Williamson (one of the early contactees)
in his book "Other Tongues, Other Flesh," the earth allies of
Sirius, i.e., the secret societies, use the Eye of Horus as an
insignia. This symbol has also been seen on the MIB. Secret
societies believe that there is a Great White Lodge on earth. They
call it Shamballa -- and consider it to be the spiritual center of
the world. Now, theosophists such as Alice Bailey say that the
Great White Lodge is on Sirius. If the All-Seeing-Eye is a symbol
of Sirius' earth-allies and the MIB wear that symbol, and if
Shamballa represents the Great White Lodge on earth -- then the
MIB are emissaries of Shamballa. Sirius and Shamballa are two sides of the same coin. This is verified in the book "The
Undiscovered Country," by Stephen Jenkins. Jenkins was told by
Buddhist priests that Shamballa was located in the constellation
of Orion.
The entrance to Shamballa on earth is usually placed in the
trans-Himalayan region. Some assert it is in the heart of the Gobi
Desert (where there have been allegations of crashed disks and
bases). According to the explorer Nicholas Roerich, there are
caves in the Himalayas foothills that have subterranean passages.
In one of the these passages, there is a stone door that has never
been opened, because the time for its opening has not yet arrived.
In 1930, Doreal founded the Brotherhood of the White Temple. He
says that the entrance to Shamballa is far underground. he goes on
to say that space bends around Shamballa, and that there is a warp
which leads into another universe.
History
Let's regress for a moment back to the Men in Black(MIB). According to John Keel, the MIB often state that they are representatives of the
"Nation of the Third Eye."
Based on some of the info already researched, it is
apparent that Sirius has been in contact with humanity for a long time.
According to George Hunt Williamson (one of the early contactees)
in his book "Other Tongues, Other Flesh," the earth allies of
Sirius, i.e., the secret societies, use the Eye of Horus as an
insignia. This symbol has also been seen on the MIB. Secret
societies believe that there is a Great White Lodge on earth. They
call it Shamballa -- and consider it to be the spiritual center of
the world. Now, theosophists such as Alice Bailey say that the
Great White Lodge is on Sirius. If the All-Seeing-Eye is a symbol
of Sirius' earth-allies and the MIB wear that symbol, and if
Shamballa represents the Great White Lodge on earth -- then the
MIB are emissaries of Shamballa. Sirius and Shamballa are two sides of the same coin. This is verified in the book "The
Undiscovered Country," by Stephen Jenkins. Jenkins was told by
Buddhist priests that Shamballa was located in the constellation
of Orion.
The entrance to Shamballa on earth is usually placed in the
trans-Himalayan region. Some assert it is in the heart of the Gobi
Desert (where there have been allegations of crashed disks and
bases). According to the explorer Nicholas Roerich, there are
caves in the Himalayas foothills that have subterranean passages.
In one of the these passages, there is a stone door that has never
been opened, because the time for its opening has not yet arrived.
In 1930, Doreal founded the Brotherhood of the White Temple. He
says that the entrance to Shamballa is far underground. he goes on
to say that space bends around Shamballa, and that there is a warp
which leads into another universe.