Sunday, November 14, 2021

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Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Nov 13 09:40AM -0800

On 11/12/21 9:13 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> 1. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long,
> on average. In which astrological age are we now, according
> to the lyrics of a 5th Dimension hit?
 
Aquarius
 
 
> 2. The Mayan tradition combined astronomy and astrology. The most
> famous Mayan astrological observatory still intact is the
> Caracol observatory in which ancient Mayan city?
 
Chichen Itza
 
> planets as they move through the horoscope. This is most often
> done for the birth chart of an individual. Particular attention
> is paid to changes of sign, or house.
 
progression
 
> planet, or when the Earth is itself passed by a faster-moving
> inner body. In astrology, this backward movement is thought
> to be unlucky. What is it called?
 
retrograde
 
> transformed to a set of astrological tables showing the
> changing zodiacal positions of the heavenly bodies through time.
> What are these tables called?
 
ephemerides
 
> Woman:
> You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,
> With most admired disorder.
 
MacBeth
 
> But in ourselves that we are underlings.
> Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that "Caesar"?
> Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
 
Julius Caesar
 
> businesses belonging to a Toronto ethnic group whose nation of
> origin has maintained neutrality through the First World War.
> Which ethnicity?
 
Dutch; Greek
 
> against the Toronto police shooting of alleged crack dealer
> Raymond Lawrence, but takes its main impetus from a US court
> decision handed down 5 days previously. In what case?
 
LA police who beat Rodney King
 
> erupting into mayhem as a religious procession is attacked
> with stones and guns. Of which ethnicity are the marchers
> under attack?
 
Irish; Ukrainian
 
> exhaust pipes towards them to create a noxious cloud.
> Modeled and named after similar units in US police forces,
> how is this team known?
 
riot squad
 
> arrests 287 gay men in Toronto, demonstrators take over the
> streets of downtown, marching aggressively on 52 Division and
> Queen's Park. How are these "riots" known?
 
Stonewall riots
 
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Dan Tilque
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