Curse of the Mummy?

Of all tales of the supernatural, this one is perhaps the best documented, the most disturbing and the most difficult to explain.

The Princess of Amen-Ra lived some 1,500 years before Christ. When she died, she was laid in an ornate wooden coffin and buried deep in a vault at Luxor, on the banks of the Nile. In the late 1890s, four rich, young, Englishmen visiting the excavations at Luxor were invited to buy an exquisitely fashioned mummy case containing the remains of Princess of Amen-Ra.

They drew lots. The man who won paid several thousand pounds and had the coffin taken to his hotel. A few hours later, he was seen walking out towards the desert. He never returned. The next day, one of the remaining three men was shot by an Egyptian servant accidentally. His arm was so severely wounded it had to be amputated. The third man in the foursome found on his return home that the bank holding his entire savings had failed. The fourth man suffered a severe illness, lost his job and was reduced to selling matches in the street.

Nevertheless, the coffin reached England (causing other misfortunes along the way), where it was bought by a London businessman . After three of his family members had been injured in a road accident and his house damaged by fire, the businessman donated it to the British Museum . As the coffin was being unloaded from a truck in the museum courtyard, the truck suddenly went into reverse and trapped a passer-by . Then as the casket was being lifted up the stairs by two workmen, one fell and broke his leg . The other, apparently in perfect health, died unaccountably two days later . Once the Princess was installed in the Egyptian Room, trouble really started . Museum's night watchmen frequently heard frantic hammering and sobbing from the coffin . Other exhibits in the room "

Dumb Quotes

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever.
--Miss Alabama: Wise words from the 1994 Miss USA contest

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime
--Allais, Alphonse

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
--Berle, Milton

I may not always be right, but I’m never wrong.
--Goldwyn, Samuel

Include me out.
--Goldwyn, Samuel

If I could drop dead right now, I’d be the happiest man alive!
--Goldwyn, Samuel

USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population
--Letterman, David

I think midnight is the best part of the day to sleep
--Liden, Robert

Is English language short of words? Take a look at these sentences.

The bandage was wound around the wound.

The farm was used to produce produce.

The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

We must polish the Polish furniture.

He could lead if he would get the lead out.

The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

I did not object to the object.

The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

They were too close to the door to close it.

The buck does funny things when the does are present.

A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

After a number of injections my jaw got number.

Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

I was proven right that I had the right of way

Oneliners and proverbs

2B or not 2B? I think it's a grade of pencil.

3 nails + 1 cross = 4 given.

43% of all statistics are worthless.

668: The Neighbour of the Beast.

7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.

90% of men kiss their wife goodbye when they leave the house.The rest kiss their house goodbye when they leave the wife.

A baby sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.

A banker is someone who lends you an umbrella when the sun is shining, and who asks for it back when it start to rain.

A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.

A bicycle can't stand on its own because it's two-tired.

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Ability is what you're capable of doing...Motivation determines what you do...Attitude determines how well you do it.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer -- it sings because it has a song.

A boy, frustrated with all the rules he had to follow, asked his father, "Dad, how soon will I be old enough to do as I please?" The father answered immediately, "I don't know. Nobody has lived that long yet."

Abraham Lincoln was once talking with a woman about how the North must treat the South. She disagreed with him, and said that she felt that we must destroy our enemies.Lincoln replied, "What, madam? Do I not destroy them when I make them my friends?"

A brook would lose its song if God removed the rocks.

A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.

A budget is something we go without to stay within.

A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it.

A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor. (African proverb)

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

A candle brightens the world around it. Unfortunately, it creates a shadow of its own. It still serves the purpose it is meant for.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

A candidate is someone who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.

A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck a life. A timely word may level stress. A loving word may heal and bless.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. (William James)

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.

A certain man had invited the pastor and his wife for dinner, and it was little Joey's job to set the table. But when it came time to eat, Joey's mother said with surprise, "Why didn't you give Mrs. Brown a knife and fork dear?". "I didn't think I needed to," Joey explained, "I heard Daddy say she always eats like a horse."

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. (Chinese Proverb)

A child will perform from its mind for their coach/teacher, but for a parent they perform from their heart.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco, wrapped in paper, fire at one end, fool at the other.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has.

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

A clergyman had just enjoyed a hearty chicken dinner at the home of a rural parishioner. Gazing out the window, he remarked: "That rooster seems a mighty proud and happy bird.""He should," the host replied. "His oldest son just entered the ministry."

A closed mind is a good thing to lose.

A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood. (Chinese proverb)

A college professor asked his class a question. If Philadelphia is 100 miles from New York and Chicago is 1000 miles from Philadelphia and Los Angles is 2000 miles from Chicago, how old am I.One student in the back of the class raised his hand and when called upon said "Professor your 44.." The Professor said "you're absolutely correct, but tell me how did you arrive at the answer so quickly?" The student said. "You see professor I have a brother, he's 22 and he's half nuts."

A Committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is the statement of an agreeable untruth. (Sir John A. MacDonald)

A computer beat me at chess once. But, it was no match for me at kick boxing.

A computer is almost human - except that it does not blame its mistakes on another computer.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

A conference is a gathering of important people who individually can't do anything but together can decide that nothing can be done.

A conservative is a politician who wants to keep what the liberals fought for a generation ago.

A conservative is a worshipper of dead radicals.

Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

A crisis is when you can't say: "let's forget the whole thing".

A crumb from a winner's table is better than a feast from a loser's table!

Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

A customer in a bakery was observed carefully examining all the rich-looking pastries displayed on trays in the glass cases. When a clerk approached him and asked, "What would you like?" he answered, "I'd like that chocolate-covered, cream-filled doughnut, that jelly-filled doughnut and that cheese Danish."Then with a sigh he added, "But I'll take an oat-bran muffin."

A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

A daddy was listening to his child say his prayer "Dear Harold," ........ At this, dad interrupted and said, "Wait a minute, "How come you called God, Harold? The little boy looked up and said, "That's what they call Him in church. You know the prayer we say, "Our Father, who art in Heaven, Harold be Thy name."

Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn't have to hear about all the men she could have married, and she didn't have to hear about the way his mother cooked. (Kimberley Broyles)

A dancer goes quick on her beautiful legs; a duck goes quack on her beautiful eggs.

A diet is a selection of food that makes other people lose weight.

A diplomatic husband said to his wife, "How do you expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older?"

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usually results in a belief in anything.

A dog inside a kennel barks at his fleas. A dog hunting does not notice them.

A dog thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... They must be Gods!A cat thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... I must be a God!

A dog who attends a flea circus most likely will steal the whole show.

Adolescence and snow are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. (Harvey Mackay)

A drop of ink may make a million think.

A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.

Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.

A Dutchman was explaining the red, white, and blue Netherlands flag to an American."Our flag is symbolic of our taxes. We get red when we talk about them, white when we get our tax bills, and blue after we pay them." The American nodded. "It's the same in the USA only we see stars too!"

Adversity doesnt build character, it reveals it.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. (Erica Jong)

A face without freckles is like a sky without stars.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. (Elbert Hubbard)

A fair face may fade, but a beautiful soul last forever.

A fall will always make a wise man wiser. (ancient Chinese)

A family came home from Church where the sermon was on Adam and Eve. The Mother noticed the boy sitting on the bed feeling his ribs.She asked what he was doing.He said, "I counted these things 3 times now. Ma ! I think I'm having a wife."

A farmer learns more from a bad harvest than a good one.

A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.

A father said to his son, "When Abe Lincoln was your age, he was studying books by the light of the fireplace."The son replied, "When Lincoln was your age, he was President."

A father was reading Bible stories to his young son. He read: "The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back and was turned to salt." His son asked: "What happened to the flea?"

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. (C.S. Lewis)

A fine is a tax for doing wrong.A tax is a fine for doing well.

A five year old boy was sitting down to eat when his mother asked him to pray for his meal. He replied, "Mom we don't have to. We prayed over this last night." His mother had prepared leftovers from the day before.

A five year old was discussing Noah's Ark with Grandma. Grandma asked, "How many animals went into the Ark?" The youngster replied: "One mail and one e-mail."

A flea and a fly in a fluewere imprisoned so what could they do?Said the flea "let us fly"said the fly" let us flee"so they flew through a flaw in the flue.

A flying saucer was low on fuel, so it landed by a gas station on a lonely country road.On its side were the letters "UFO." The gas station attendant was stunned, but his curiosity got the best of him."Does that stand for Unidentified Flying Object?" he asked."No," one of the other-worldly travelers responds, "It stands for "Unleaded Fuel Only."

A foursome of senior golfers hit the course with waning enthusiasm for the sport."These hills are getting steeper as the years go by," one complained."These fairways seem to be getting longer too," wheezed a second."And somehow, the sand traps seem to be bigger than I remember 'em too," said the third.Hearing just about enough from his buddies, the oldest, and the wisest of the foursome at 87-years-old, piped up and said, "Oh my friends, just be thankful we're still on THIS side of the grass!"

A French guest, staying in a hotel in Edmonton phoned room service for some pepper."Black pepper, or white pepper?" asked the concierge."Toilette pepper!"

A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you become, and still gently invites you to grow.

A friend is someone that won't begin to talk behind your back when you leave the room.

A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight and walks beside you in the shadows.

A friend is someone who has the same enemies you have. (Abraham Lincoln)

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

A friend is someone who thinks you're a good egg even though you're slightly cracked.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

A friend was in front of me coming out of church one day, and the preacher was standing at the door as he always is to shake hands. He grabbed my friend by the hand and pulled him aside. The pastor said, "You need to join the Army of the Lord!" My friend said, "I'm already in the Army of the Lord, Pastor." Pastor questioned, "How come I don't see you except at Christmas and Easter?" He whispered back, "I'm in the secret service."

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

After hearing two eyewitness accounts of the same accident, you begin to wonder about history.

After months of training and you finally understand all of a program's commands, a revised version of the program arrives with an all-new command structure. (Thoreau's First Theory of Adaptation)

After the birth of their child, an Episcopal priest, wearing his clerical collar, visited his wife in the hospital. He greeted her with a hug and a kiss, and gave her another hug and kiss when he left.Later, the wife's roommate commented: "Your pastor is sure friendlier than mine."

After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer has the job of budgeting the balance.

Famous Death Quotes

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin

I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, “Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country — I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.” -- Walt Whitman

The good die first. -- William Wordsworth

Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best. -- Alexander Pope

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. -- Walt Whitman

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

My sun sets to rise again. -- Robert Browning

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. -- Hermann Broch

Heaven and Hell: Dr. George Ritchie's near-death experience

In December, 1943, George Ritchie died of pneumonia. Nine minutes later, miraculously and unaccountably, he returned to life to tell of his amazing near-death experience in the afterlife. His near-death experience was the one that profoundly moved Raymond Moody to begin seriously investigating the near-death experience. Since Dr. Moody is considered to be the "father of the near-death experience," Dr. Ritchie's near-death experience is in a class of its own. You will find his experience to be one of the most profound near-death experiences ever documented. The following is Dr. George Ritchie's awesome near-death experience excerpted from his ground-breaking books, Return From Tomorrow and his follow-up book, Ordered to Return: My Life After Dying.

Dr. George Ritchie Index
George Ritchie's Out-of-Body Experience
A Guided Tour of the Afterlife With Jesus Christ
A Witness to the Heavenly City of God
A Miracle Involving George Ritchie and a Horse

"Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through." - Dr. George Ritchie

Bodhidharma: The Founder of Kung fu?

These are some excerpts from The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma, translated by Red Pine (North Point Press, 1987).

First some background. Bodhidharma was born in Kanchi in the Southern Indian kingdom of Pallava around year 440. At the instruction of Prajnatara he travelled to China by ship and arrived around 475. He is associated with the Shaolin temple, and is honored as the founder of kung fu. He is also credited with bringing tea to China. He is said to have cut off his eyelids to stay awake in meditiation, and so is usually depicted with bulging eyes. He is also credited with bringing Zen to China, even though he had few disciples in his lifetime.
If you attain anything at all, it's conditional, it's karmic. It results in retribution. It turns the Wheel. As long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment. To attain enlightenment you have to see your nature. Unless you see your nature all this talk about cause and effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense. To say he attains anything at all is to slander a buddha. What could he possibly attain? Even focusing on a mind, a power, an understanding, or a view is impossible for a buddha. A buddha isn't one sided. The nature of his mind is basically empty, neither pure nor impure. He's free of practice and realization. He's free of cause and effect.
The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind. At every moment, where language can't go, that's your mind.
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist. Mortals keep creating the mind, claiming it exists. And arhats keep negating the mind, claiming it doesn't exist. But bodhisattvas and buddhas neither create nor negate the mind. This is what's meant by the mind that neither exists nor doesn't exist...
The buddha in the mind is like a fragrance in a tree. The buddha comes from a mind free of suffering, just as a fragrance comes from a tree free of decay. There's no fragrance without a tree and no buddha without the mind. If there's a fragrance without a tree it's a different fragrance. If there's a buddha without your mind, it's a different buddha.
Mortals keep creating karma and mistakenly insist there's no retribution. But can they deny suffering? Can they deny that what the present state of mind sows the next state of mind reaps? How can they escape? But if the present state of mind sows nothing the next state of mind reaps nothing. Don't misconceive karma.
[A question is asked about performing meritorious works.] The sutras of the Buddha contain countless metaphors. Because mortals have shallow minds and don't understand anything deep, the Buddha used the tangible to represent the sublime. People who seek blessings by concentrating on external works instead of internal cultivation are attempting the impossible.

Hotel in Another Dimension

It all began innocently enough in October 1979, when two couples in Dover, England, set off on a vacation together intending to travel through France and Spain. It ended in a journey that took them to another world.
Geoff and Pauline Simpson and their friends, Len and Cynthia Gisby, boarded a boat that took them across the English Channel to the coast of France. There they rented a car and proceeded to drive north. Around 9:30 that first evening, October 3, they began to tire and looked for a place to stay. They pulled off the autoroute when they saw a plush-looking motel.
Len went inside and in the lobby encountered a man dressed in an odd plum uniform. The man said that there was no room in the motel but there was a small motel south along the road. Len thanked him and he and his companions went on
Along the way they were struck by the oldness of the cobbled, narrow road and the buildings they passed. They also saw posters advertising a circus, which was very old-fashioned.
Finally the travellers saw a long, low building with a row of brightly lit windows. Some men were standing in front of it and when Cynthia spoke with them, they told her that the place was an inn, not a hotel. They drove further down the road until they saw two buildings, one a police station, the other an old-fashioned two-storey building bearing a sign marked "Hotel". Inside, everything was made of heavy wood. There were no tablecloths on the tables, nor was there any evidence of such modern conveniences as telephones or elevators.
The rooms were no less strange. The beds had heavy sheets and no pillows. There were no locks on the doors, only wooden catches. The bathroom the couple had to share had old-fashioned plumbing.
After they ate, they returned to their rooms and fell asleep. They were awakened when sunlight filtered through the windows, which only consisted of wooden shutters, no glass. As they were sitting eating their breakfast, a woman wearing a silk evening gown and carrying a dog under her arm sat opposite them.
At that point two gendarmes entered the room. "They were nothing like the gendarmes we saw anywhere else in France, their uniforms seemed to be very old" said Geoff. Their hats were large and peaked.
Despite the oddities, the couples enjoyed themselves and, when they returned to their rooms, the two husbands separately took pictures of their wives standing next to the wooden shutters.
On their way out Len and Geoff talked with the gendarmes about the best way to take the autoroute to Avignon and the Spanish border. The officers did not seem to understand the word "autoroute", and the travellers assumed that they did not know how to pronounce the French word properly. The directions they were given were quite poor, they took the friends to an old road some miles out of the way. They decided to use the map instead and take a more direct route along the highway.
After the car was packed, Len went to pay his bill, and was astonished when the manager only asked for nineteen francs. Len explained that there were four of them and that they had eaten a meal. The manager only nodded.
On their way back, the two couples decided to stop at the hotel again. They saw the old circus signs, but there was no hotel alongside it. Thinking that they had somehow missed it, they went back to the motel where the man in the plum suit had given them directions. That motel was there, but there was no one in the unusual suit, and the clerk denied such an individual worked there.
The couples drove three times up and down the road looking for something that, they were now beginning to realise, was no longer there. It had vanished without a trace.
Upon their return to Dover, they had their rolls of film processed. In each case the pictures of the hotel were in the middle of the roll. But when they got the pictures back, the ones taken inside the hotel were missing. There were no spoiled negatives. Each film had its full quota of pictures. It was as if the pictures had never been taken, except that there was evidence that the camera had tried to wind on in the middle of the film. Sprocket holes on the negatives showed damage.
A psychiatrist hypnotised Geoff to see if he could recall anymore of the peculiar event. He added nothing more to what he subconsciously remembered.

Lightning Strikes More Than Twice

In 1899 a bolt of lightning killed a man as he stood in his backyard in Taranto, Italy. Thirty years later, his son was killed in the same way and in the same place. On October 8, 1949, Rolla Primarda, the grandson of the first victim and the son of the second became the third.
Just as strange was the fate of a British officer, Major Summerford, who while fighting in the fields of Flanders in February 1918 was knocked off his horse by a flash of lightning and paralysed from the waist down.
Summerford retired and moved to Vancouver. One day in 1924, as he fished alongside a river, lightning hit the tree he was sitting under and paralysed his right side.
Two years later Summerford was sufficiently recovered that he was able to take walks in a local park. He was walking there when a lightning bolt smashed into him, completely paralysing him. He died two years later in 1932.
But lightning sought him out one more time. Four years later, during a storm, lightning struck a cemetery and destroyed a tombstone. It was Major Summerford’s.

Double Coincidence Times Three

One of the oddest coincidences ever recorded spans a period of nearly 200 years and involved three ships that sank in the Menai Strait of the coast of Wales. The first vessel went down on December 5, 1664, and of its 81 passengers, only one survived, and he was called Hugh Williams. On December 5, 1785, 121 years later, another ship sank in the Menai Strait, and again, all of the passenger perished except one – named Hugh Williams.
Two ships sinking in the same area on the same day of the month certainly is not earth-shattering, but when each of them have only one survivor of the same name, it gets a little eerie. But the story does not end at that.
On December 5, 1860, yet another ship, a small 25 passenger vessel, sank in the Menai Strait. And once again there was only one survivor – and once again his name was Hugh Williams.

The Thirteenth Print
(Year:1893)

Nobody knew his real name. He called himself Cheiro the Great, and he was the best-known, best-paid fortune teller in the world.
Several years earlier he had made the headlines in England by deducing the identity of a murderer after studying a bloody handprint on a grimy wall. Now, the cynical New York reporters demanded proof of Cheiro’s skills. They invited him to look at thirteen palm prints, then to describe the various people who had made these prints.
Within ten minutes, he had correctly described the donors of twelve of the prints, but hesitated before getting to the thirteenth print. He explained that, "I refuse to reveal this print to anyone but the owner, because it is the mark of a murderer. He’ll give himself away through his own self-confidence and he will die in prison."
The thirteenth print was that of Dr. Henry Meyer, who was then in Tombs prison charged with murder. Meyer was convicted, and died a few months later in an institution for the criminally insane.

Rasputin’s Murder Foretold

"Count" Louis Hamon was best known by his stage name of Cheiro. A celebrated clairvoyant and mind reader, he was widely courted by royalty and other notables earlier this century for his amazingly accurate readings.
In 1905, for example, in the course of a meeting with the controversial Mad Monk of Russia, Cheiro warned Rasputin of the fate that awaited him. "I forsee for you a violent end within the palace, you will be menaced by poison, by knife, and by bullet. Finally, I see the icy waters of the Neva closing above you."
Rasputin’s subsequent checkered career as spiritual guide for Tsar Nicholas II and his family earned him enemies in Russia’s royal court. Still, he wa not suspicious when Prince Felix Yusupov invited him to his palace for dinner the night of December 29, 1916, promising an assignation with a lady of the court who wished to meet him. Refusing wine and tea, Rasputin munched instead on pieces of cake the prince had laced with cyanide. Yusupov was startled to see the monk consume several pieces without ill effect.
The prince then drew a pistol and shot Rasputin in the back. While he was leaning over the body, Rasputin’s eyes flew open and a desperate struggle ensued. Other plotters came to the prince’s rescue, a conspirator named Purishkevich pumping two more bullets into Rasputin’s body. Yusupov then battered the fallen "monk" with a steel bar.
Prince and helpers tied Rasputin’s arms and carried his seemingly lifeless body down to the Neva. Breaking a hole in the ice, they pushed his body into the river, but Rasputin came to life again. His last act was to make the sign of the cross with one hand. Then he slipped beneath the icy waters, fulfilling Cherio’s prophecy and one of his own.
Before his murder Rasputin had warned the royal family. "if I am killed by common assassins then you have nothing to fear. But if I am murdered by nobles, and if they shed my blood, their hands will remain soiled. Brothers will kill brothers and there will be no nobles in the country."
Within the year the Bolsheviks mounted the Russian Revolution. On July 16, 1917, the Tsar and his family were murdered at Ekaterinburg. The nobles fled Russia.

What Is Palmistry?

The connection between the hand and the mind dates back thousands of years. Obviously, the hand of a brickmason is going to be different from the hand of a housewife, but on more subtle levels, the hand of an artist is different from the hand of a technician. Scientists have discovered that when certain areas of the hand are stimulated, corresponding areas of the brain respond. From experiments such as these, it is obvious that the hand and the brain are interconnected on very fundamental levels.

In a nutshell, Palmistry is an intuitive and diagnostic interpretation of the shape and structure of the hand. Since the hand can be viewed as a miniature model of the mind, the palmist can gain a profound insight into your character, personality, and many of the events that shaped you as you developed into the unique being you are today. When you were born, both hands were pretty much alike. As you grew and developed, however, one of your hands became dominant, and this hand is the one that expressed your thoughts and will in the world. It became the hand you write with, eat with, groom yourself with, and gesture with.
The hand is the visible part of the brain -- Goethe
Because of this increased brain/hand action, the dominant hand developed faster, recording the various changes that occurred during your life. The subordinate hand doesn't develop as fast, so we can truly say that it represents what you started with, while the dominant hand represents how you are now. In this way, the evolution of your personality can be read through your hands! This is almost as good as taking a peek into someone's diary.

How Does This Help You?
Obviously, if you understand why you make the decisions you do (good or bad) you are empowered to make necessary changes and adjustments to help craft a better lifestyle for yourself. Your goals and aspirations become easier to obtain when you understand exactly what you want and how to go about achieving it.
The art of hand reading consists of two aspects: Chirognomy, or reading your talents, skills, personality traits and past events; and Chiromancy, or "telling your fortune" through an analysis of your hand. The term "palmistry" is a bit of a misnomer, as the entire hand is actually read. A skilled Palmist looks at both the front and back of your hand, examining nails, knuckles, hair patterns, palmar lines and ridges, the shape and length of each finger, the mounts and bumps on the front and back of the hand. From this information, the palmist will know a great deal about you, and will be better equipped to help you craft the sort of future you want.