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Jacqueline Jackson is an example of a wife who honored her wedding vows.
Jacqueline Jackson is now the widow of Jesse Jackson, who was a preacher, and a controversial civil rights leader, and a politician. This picture speaks a thousand words to many other widows and me. The Jacksons were married for 63 years, and through all of their challenges, they remained together. This is not easy when one is in the public eye.
By Cheryl E Preston21 days ago in History
I Had $3 in My Bank Account… Then This One Decision Changed Everything in 30 Days
I had $3.17 in my bank account, a maxed-out credit card, and a quiet panic I couldn’t admit to anyone. If you’ve ever refreshed your banking app hoping the number would magically change… you know that feeling.
By Ahmed aldeabella21 days ago in Psyche
The Film Project “Share (!) Yourself” 2020
From Script to Structure: The Film Project “Share (!) Yourself” In 2020 the screenplay competition organised by “The Palace / The Palace of the Happy People” gathered nearly one hundred texts from across Bulgaria. What began as a typical selection process quickly turned into an intensive reading marathon. Producer Dimitar Gochev and Dr. Peter Ayolov carefully examined every submission — not simply evaluating technical correctness, but searching for cinematic potential: the possibility that a text could become a film rather than remain literature.
By Peter Ayolov21 days ago in Art
Fumfer Physics 41: Time-Reversed Black Holes and White Holes
In a late-night thought experiment, Scott Douglas Jacobsen recalls opening a quantum cosmology conference in Baku alongside Edward Witten and Leonard Susskind. He asks whether a “time-reversed” black hole could exist—like a pencil balanced on its tip for eons: lawful, but fantastically unlikely. Rick Rosner argues anomalies require a stabilizing mechanism: agency, control systems, and engineered conditions, much like quantum computers holding fragile superpositions or laboratories sustaining fusion. They extend the logic to speculative warp travel and to “white holes,” the general-relativistic time-reverse of eternal black holes, while noting the real physics ultimately hinges on horizons, entropy, and information preservation.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen21 days ago in Interview
Wikimedia reviews begging approach
Do you ever wonder why some stories or articles you write and publish online get more reader interest than others? I do, and sometimes the reason is obvious, sometimes not. Of course we expect our best work to get the most attention, but sometimes it does not. Sometimes we write about something that gets much more interest than we had anticipated. Why?
By Raymond G. Taylor21 days ago in 01
Bills and Thrills
Now, we discussed ways to get extra money to pay for the bills that you have, but we haven’t discussed how to minimize those bills, and one of the most common bills that people worry about is their rent or mortgage. So, what can you do to tame this large bill? Is there any way to cut costs?
By Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue21 days ago in Journal
