Web-home of Albert Burger, Musician
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2008 05 01 last update
~ from aardvark to x-rays ~
these are the writings and artful musings and amusings of albert
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a note of warning ~ i'm just playing, anything is liable to show up here
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FAUST
The Legend of Faust Faust (or Latin Faustus) is the central character in an old German tale about a doctor who makes a pact with the Devil. It has been the inspiration for many fictional works, most notably by Christopher Marlowe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Klaus Mann, Thomas Mann, Oscar Wilde and Mikhail Bulgakov. The legend tells of a scholar's quest for forbidden or advanced knowledge of material things, in which Doctor Faust summons the Devil (Mephistopheles). Together they make a pact in which Mephistopheles offers to serve Faust for a period of time, at the cost of his soul. Some scholars think that the story of Faust originated in northern Germany, and was eventually committed to print in the sixteenth century as Historia von D. Iohan Fausten. Others note the Latin title and suggest that the story may have come from an even earlier source. It was translated into English and Christopher Marlowe used it for his play, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Marlowe’s version served to inspire Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which may be considered the definitive Faust.
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AKO CHI GUNNA TEKAYA TOH An Oral History
Marie Courtoreille (nee Wichihiwesis, or Walker) lost her life in a
fire at her home in Faust in 1982. She was 101. At over a century in age
she had no trouble threading a needle, still had her own teeth, and
needed no glasses. Marie Witchihiwesis was born on the shore of Lesser
Slave Lake just
west of the mouth of Old Man Creek on a day in May, 1881. Her father
Henry Witchihiwesis and mother Nancy Giroux had her baptised in 1883
at the parish mission of St. Bernard at Lesser Slave Lake settlement.
At 18 she married Alexander Courtoreille, stayed along the lakeshore,
and in her own words, "lived on fish and meat."
It is from her family that the earliest oral history of the community
dates. Local tradition has it that the Native people used the location at Giroux Bay as a fishing camp where the year's supply of fish was strung on poles in the sun for drying. The place may well have been called (as tradition has it): Ako chi gunna ("that which is hung") Tekaya toh ("where it takes place"): The Place Where They Hang The Fish. |
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[local history] and a [tribal feud] story ~ as told in 1927 by Louison Gladue to Earl Frood, in The Wabasca Adventure (Caitlin Press, 1995).
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[read all about it] NEW The Children's Crusade The Revolution Game Two 1970 books tell the story of the short, unhappy life of the
Company of in which a young man from Amsterdam receives an education from the people in a unique small northern Alberta community |
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Backyard Wild Plants ~ the useful and the beautiful
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Earth provides sustenance to all its life, and the vegetable kingdom
alone is a storehouse of food, medicine, tools, clothing, craft and
housing materials. For uncounted ages humanity lived in intimate
relation with the natural world. Over millennia of experimentation,
(each in their differing environment) people acquired a vast 'tried and
true' knowledge of plants in their own 'backyard', which has been
preserved in folklore, in ancient 'herbals' and by modern science as
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Common Mint ~ Mentha arvensis
The dried leaves and flowering tops were used . . . in aromatic stimulant
beverages, and to relieve nausea, gas, and pain in the stomach and
bowels. All of the great Canadian tribes used the various mints for
these and related ills. . . .
read about [agrimony] [alder] [baneberry] [everlasting] [kinnikinik] [mint] [nettle] [rat-root] [sarsaparilla] [saskatoon] [yarrow]
Herbario Brazil ~ history of herbalism and literature |
Pow Wow Warrior
Turtle Boy (Derrick Laboucan)
check it out at
Big Lake Recording
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Sting's
2006 album of music by John Dowland (1563-1626)
['bragging rights'] ~ free roffe rijmers mp3
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~ watching an aged artisan ~ [story, photos, and diagrams] |
Building a Log House
(please not 'log cabin')
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Woodsman, woodsman spare that tree Touch not a single bough. For in my youth it sheltered me And I'll protect it now. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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The boreal forests stretch across the northern hemisphere toward the
Arctic shores. The dense cover of evergreens casts an unbroken shadow
on the ground beneath for measureless distances. Undergrowth is scanty,
and the somber mood is but rarely relieved by the brighter hues of
flowers and grasses. But the forest is far from continuous. Flat
areas are often too poorly drained to support tree growth and become
bogs or muskegs in which mosses and grasses are abundant. Exposed
slopes may grow bald as winter winds whip only low-growing, heathy
shrubs and herbaceous plants, like those in high mountain ranges, or
in the continuous tundra to the north. In the forest proper, no
species of coniferous tree has the same demand and gradually segregate
in almost pure stands of one or another. Nations grew among the tall, straight softwoods which were convenient for building and had many other uses. The environment nurtured a stable economy with a large range of plant (and animal) raw material, and the forest soil could be converted into grasslands or arable soils which maintained their fertility or even increased it. Much of the former virgin boreal forest has been very much modified ~ felled and burned, and species of deciduous trees as birch, poplar, willow and alder cover large areas where formerly they occurred in small, infrequent clumps or as isolated individuals. In a certain sense therefor it can be spoken of as a ‘mixed forest' (though science will note that if left alone it will become once again truly boreal, while the true mixed forest remains so by dictates of climate and soil). |
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now a Fairmont Hotel (right), the largest log structure in the world was built in four months by 3 500 workers in 1930 [excerpts and photos] from Building the Chateau Montebello by Allan and Doris Muir buy the book at Log Home Guide Information Center |
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Thiot:
THIOT: Runesong of the ErilaR Masters _________________________________________________________
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I've got clean air in my face and the wind at my back;
it's smooth sailing apace, the stars in their track; moving at the speed of light, leaving in the dead of night; searching for the world of nowhere.
Clear trails appear; the omens are good;
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listen to Ymir and Odin by albertmore [songs] from the northern mythology
TEUTONIC MYTH AND LEGEND by DONALD A. MACKENZIE |
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RUNE SONG ~ a journey into the richly varied traditions, myths and poems of
the Teutonic peoples by albert burger, TAT Journal Issue 14, 1986 TAT Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization founded in 1973 with the express purpose of providing a forum and meeting place for inquirers into the mystery of ourselves [THIOT: Runesong of the ErilaR Masters] ". . . features powerful writing that takes northern mythology where it has never been, relating the tale of a history real and imagined ~ in which the subject is the story itself": albert see [thiot etymology]; and here at a Russian etymological database project; and check out their main page: the tower of babel |
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aurora borealis at Fort Smith
The death of one we love dearly leaves a gaping wound that never closes
but it is a physical wound suffered by our embodied soul, that at the same
time continues to know and feel and experience the passed over soul in our
world ~ in the northern lights, or in an evocative memory, in a flower, or a
grief-stricken hour.
everything about
northern lights
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Dave Parkhurst's
Alaska Collection
Arctic Photo
of Bjorn Jorgensen in Norway
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red aurora of
Chuck Graves at Fort McMurray
On a cool November 2001 evening we were celebrating a grandchild's
birthday when one of the guests came into the house with the
announcement that the sky lights were spectacular. The reaction was
generally ho-hum, for this is not unusual where we live, until the
speaker added, 'and they're red,' at which everyone was up immediately
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[neanderthals] discovered America NEW [stone age] Digs unearth stone age lovers as reported by ANSA Italy Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata - Società Cooperativa
The Stone Age skeletons of a young man and woman were uncovered during digs in Valdaro, an
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The man probably died first, say experts, while his companion was sacrificed or chose to
die in order to remain with her partner in death. The pair, who have been nicknamed 'the lovers of Valdaro', were buried opposite one another, lying face to face. When archaeologists discovered them, their arm and leg bones were still clearly overlapping, showing they were iaid to rest intertwined. The double burial is drawing widespread attention as it is unique in northern Italy. The only comparable discoveries have been family burials. However, in these, family members are usually laid in parallel lines, with the exception of one woman found clutching her baby. The skeleton on the left, that of the man, had a flint arrowhead at the height of his neck vertebra. The woman's body on the right was found with a long flint blade resting between her thigh and hip bones. Experts believe the weapons may either have been buried with the skeletons as a kind of funeral treasure or, more ominously, may have been the cause of the pair's deaths. "We will now recover the two skeletons without separating them," said Elena Menotti, the director of the Mantua office of the Lombardy Archaeological Superintendency. "They will eventually be placed in the National Archaeological Museum of Mantua, which will be ready in a couple of years' time". They were discovered in an area spanning around 15,000 square metres, which has been under excavation for the last two months. Experts are unearthing the remains of a vast, Roman country villa, complete with baths, pipes and defensive walls with buttresses. |
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Huge Settlement Unearthed at Stonehenge
National Geographic press release January 30 2007
found in David Beard's
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"English Heritage's magnetometry survey had detected dozens of hearths -- the
whole valley appears full of houses," said archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson
of the U.K.'s Sheffield University. "In what were houses, we have excavated the
outlines on the floors of box beds and wooden dressers or cupboards." |

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read about hpb in
[blavatsky]
. . . thoughts on the nature of virtue
According to the ancient Greeks, virtues were soul qualities and the
source of morality was the Light of the Source reflected in every
consciousness. The divine light is reflected from the Source in the
vital principle that sustains the causal consciousness and then into
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singer-musician
David Gordon
on voice, sound, breath and spirit
"Any noise annoys an oyster,
but a noisy noise annoys an oyster most." ~ thanks, david
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'pseudo history'
having been accused by a visitor of providing 'pseudo history' in various sections of this
webpage, i would like to point out that much of what we know as history (especially that of the
earliest times) is highly subjective and the best one can do most times is sift throught the
biases and add our own
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"Born in the mystical conception of
the early Aryans, and placed by them at the very threshold of eternity,"
as Blavatsky wrote, it has been extensively used as a most sacred
decoration and mystical symbol in almost all parts of the world since
pre-historic times. Again Blavatsky: "The Svastica is the most
philosophically scientific of all symbols, as also the most
comprehensible. It is the summary in a few lines of the whole
work of creation, or evolution, as one should rather say ... [and] is
found heading the religious symbols of every old nation." It is Thor's
Mjolnir, the Worker's Hammer that strikes the sparks of existence that
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[capitalist democracy]
[my security, your security, whose security?] What Makes Us Free
Othila is land "held in absolute ownership without service or acknowledgment of any superior,
as among the early Teutons," which is the Oxford English Dictionary definition of the
word allodium. This is the all-odel as opposed to the fee-odel (which shows the influence
by the world view of southern empires that propounded a feudalism that took the concept of
odel, the ancestral land that was possessed unconditionally by the free Teuton clans, to
attach a fee or obligation to it, thus making it a feudal possession). The idea of fealty
was deeply influenced by the ancient belief in odality that demands the free holding of land,
for to hold land freely is ennobling, and the importance of freedom as a concept among the
people became an essential of nobility; thus in Old English ethel it means native land or
estate, patrimony; OE athel is noble, of noble descent or good family. The same word in
Old Norse means family, race, ancestry.
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A bundle of rods bound together around an ax with the blade projecting, carried before
ancient Roman magistrates as an emblem of authority: the fasces
(illustration at right).
The symbols of two radically differing philosophies: the concept of concentrated power that
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alberts and anarchy
Albert Einstein's Why Socialism (1949) in
Monthly Review:
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is,
in my opinion, the real source of evil.
Albert Camus on anarchism and the individual (by Sartre, 2003) at
BATR:
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the
individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom
of thought and action.
Albert Parsons' On Anarchism (1887) at
University of Wisconsin:
Anarchy is the social administration of all affairs by the people
themselves; that is to say, self-government, individual liberty.
Such a condition of society denies the right of majorities to rule over
or dictate to minorities. Though every person in the world agree upon
a certain plan and only one objects thereto, the objector would, under
anarchy, be respected in his natural right to go his own way....
Albert Jay Nock's Our Enemy, the State (1935) at
Big Eye:
The State invariably had its origins in conquest and confiscation . . .
Albert Meltzer's Inalienable Tenets of Anarchism in the Spunk library:
That Mankind is Born Free
If Mankind is Born Free, Slavery is Murder
As Slavery is Murder, so Property is Theft
If Property is Theft, Government is Tyranny
If Government is Tyranny, Anarchy is Liberty
Spunk ~ Anarchism, arguments for and against (1986)
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Anarchy: from the ancient Greek ~ 'without ruler'
Shortly before the northern expansion of the Roman Empire
(in the early centuries of the Current Era), warlike times came
to Europe. Times of the short iron sword that made people everywhere
build hill forts great and small, when who tilled the soil was
thought the lowest rank by those who prided themselves on idleness
and lived by pillage and plunder, and aristocrats came to brood for
a king as they sat drinking Hellene wine. The dynamic of Europe at
that time came to be dominated by two radically differing philosophies:
from the south had come the concept of concentrated power that sought
to establish ever growing empires; to the north what John Stuart Mill
termed an "excessive liberty" and a fierce independence resulted in
anarchic forms of social organization. It rejected authoritarian
government and maintained that voluntary institutions are best suited
to express people's natural social tendencies. It is based on faith
in natural law and justice, and aims at the utmost possible freedom
compatible with social life, believing this to be the most harmonious
and ordered in its effects. It is a benevolent doctrine held fast in
the belief of the innate goodness of people. Vast areas became enslaved
in a rigid hierarchy that ascended to the gods and the emperor could,
with the aid of a powerful priesthood, claim to rule by divine right.
But in the boreal north, individualistic to the point of chaos,
an entire populace stood ready to bring down any who would seek to
abrogate the power of the individual, for the people held that none
could have power over another.
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Artizans
reasonable and probable grounds Excerpt of the Official Transcript in the Provincial Court of Alberta, Her Majesty the Queen v. Albert Burger, Proceedings (Sentence Hearing) Faust, Alberta, March 14, 2006.
Submissions by the Accused |
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As this court had no jurisdiction, I have therefor requested that the
Minister of Justice directs the police,
if no minister of the crown admits to jurisdiction in police matters, nor to
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Cockshutt 60 Restored by G A Jackson of the Cockshutt Shed in Ontario who says: The COCKSHUTT 60 Standard was manufactured in the years 1942-48 by the OLIVER CORPORATION. With the exception of the rear axial trumpets, it was identical to the tractor which was painted green and sold as the OLIVER 60.
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Scary News
read all about it in this [associated press story]
more in depth at
stereophile.com: Procol Harum's Gary Brooker (writer of the ten-million-selling
1967 A Whiter Shade of Pale) said, "if [his] name ends up on my song, then mine
can come off." The First Post asked: why has it taken . . . 40 years ~ he left the group in 1969 ~ to take legal action?
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The menace of Infrasound
~ how low can it go ~
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d'Entremont home since the 1870s in Nova Scotia ~ right abandoned in 2006 as a result of [unbearable wind turbine noise] save western New York (USA) Mynydd Llansadwrn Action Group (Wales) Dorset against rural turbines (England) as reported by the Telegraph (England) a doctor's comments here
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NEW World Health Organization: Noise seriously harms human health and interferes with people’s daily activities
human meat wouldn't pass the test for beef
present throughout the human body: in the blood, organs, and tissue, are
debilitating, disease-causing, deadly substances
world industry's capitalist democracies must admit polluting the population
. . . and stop it
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NEW Canadian toxic baby bottles: Environmental Defence, and its project Toxic Nation pollution in newborn umbilical cord blood at the body burden the Environmental Working Group also maintains The Human Toxone Project more on the subject at The Free Library
Measuring Exposures to Environmental Pollution
Toxic Teflon: Compounds from Household Products Found in Human Blood at
CorpWatch
'anti-bacterial'? ~ think again: triclosan in tooth paste, soaps, baby cream,
now in breastmilk and the environment The Pollution Within ~ National Geographic feature article october 2006
Pollution in People Report |
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sour gas (hydrogen sulphide)
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Saboteurs and Big Oil |
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some fifty years ago Tibet was a closed country until the Chinese invaded/reasserted
control; thousands of people left the country for India and other parts of the world,
many carrying sacred texts that were unknown in the west but now became available for
translation in other languages, and the Dalai Lama became a foremost spiritual
leader
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August 8 2007: young western activists unfurled a huge protest banner from China's
great wall and immediately posted a video of the action on
youtube
students for a free Tibet is a
network of young people and activists campaigning for Tibetan independence
the government of Tibet in exile ~
central Tibetan administration |
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~ Canada Liberates Holland ~
a [photo essay]
of gratitude
wartimes leave deep impressions ~ on the soldiers, of course, who fought, killed, were
were wounded and died; on the populations in war-torn and occupied lands; and on the
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this is war: dusk on an Afghan mountainside (2006)
a Canadian sniper patrol discovered (a kid stumbled upon it ~ ran screaming down)
the village below became like an angry beehive, women and children fleeing
Outside the Wire,
edited by Kevin Patterson and Jane Warren
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Aardvark
The woman I live with ~ not to fear, I have a license . . . , whenever she
sees an advertisement for a nature guide or another, she sends for the
first free volume offered. I'm up to the gums with encyclopediums! On
page one of every nature encyclopedia: Aardvark.
read the entire uncensored
[aardvark story]
Aardvark Jazz Orchestra ~ Mark Harvey, head aardvark: |

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!X-rays kill DNA!
Science News ~ questioning the safety of routine x-rays
About.com ~ kills by damaging dna
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top photog Mike Copeman
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Nederlandse fiets in Faust
you can take the boy out of amsterdam |
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Georgie Gibson
an illustrated
[childrens story]
in which georgie squirrel pushes an acorn in his cheekpouch, |
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Bob Burger ~ the name is right and the music superb, check it out (USA)
Joerg Burger ~ techno musician
and visual artist (Germany)
Klaus Burger ~ wind instrument player (Germany)
Heidi Burger ~ singer/actress/dancer (USA)
Anthony Burger ~ gospel pianist (deceased, USA)
Markus Burger ~ pianist (Germany)
Dominik Burger ~ drums'n vibes (Switzerland)
Fons Burger ~ writer musician (Netherlands)
Tobias Burger ~ singer-songriter (Germany)
Martina Burger ~ piano, organ (Germany)
Erika Burger ~ lieder singer (Germany)
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Barbara Burger (USA)

Anneke Burger-vanderBlom (Netherlands)
Paula Burger (USA)

Elizabeth Burger (USA)
Christian Burger (France)

Maria Burger (Germany)
Caroline Burger (Germany)

Dania Burger (Norway)
Jeffrey Paul Burger (USA)
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Eugene Burger ~ magician extraordinaire at Magic Beard (USA) |
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The development of the burger came in the northern
European walled burg that, with scores of other towns, forged powerful
international merchant leagues that transcended the battle-strewn kingdoms of
the turbulent centuries of the second millennium of the current era. The burger
was a citizen with right of entry through the town gates. Burgers' Rights
became civil rights as codified in private and common law. It produced the
first principle of law that: 'Town Air is Freedom'. It was the universal
formulation of the burgers that meant the town had independent status;
outside its walls the peasant labored for feudal nobles, but the burger was
free from the rule of despots on thrones.
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