In Pure Spirit

Does Santa Claus have a meaning? Where does the origin of the Santa Claus story come from? As it happens the modern Santa is largely a blend of Saint Nick and Father Christmas from the United Kingdom. The name “Santa Claus” is from the German “Sinterklaas” and has changed over the years. This short video [...]

If this is a UFO being transported then it’s one of the most brazen attempts to move one. The people of Cowley Country in Kansas, USA, got to watch as a super long truck carried a wrapped but very odd shaped “craft” down through the town. Police say they helped with the operation; helping to [...]

Loads of us have phones with video cameras these days. We see the effect in the news every day – there is film footage of events that we’d never previously to get see; be those fires, inside of wars, riots, rescues or just animals being cute. Surely this means that our chances of catching video [...]

The American army have opened flood gates in Louisiana to try and protect large cities along the Mississippi River. The move means some 3,000 square miles of land will be flooded, some 25,000 people and 11,000 buildings may be effected. Boing Boing have unearthed a photo that suggests some rather interesting animals have also been [...]

The Apocalypse starts on Saturday says an American Christian sect. Harold Camping, who runs Family Radio, believes that there is a hidden calendar in the bible and that it marks 21st of May has the beginning of the end of the world. Camping teaches that the Bible is in its entirety is the Word of [...]

This animated gif shows the loss of Native American land in North America. It’s a series of maps that start at 1784 and animate up to the present day. These maps are based on a collection by Sam Hilliard of the Louisiana State University and animated by Sunisup In Pure Spirit Do you think the [...]

America’s Transportation Security Administration (aka the TSA) had an interesting HR issue on their hands when one employee compained because she feared another employee might cast a spell on her. Carole Smith, the Wiccan, had worked for the TSA for 7 months, was still a probationary employee but was in the top 10% of for [...]

Is it terribly rude of people to eat on the tube? In New York one traveller certainly thought so and went out expressing her distaste. She may well have done it without the sort of diplomatic skills necessary for making your point safely to busy passengers. What follows is foul mouthed exchange. The sound quality [...]

Each and every Republicanin the House Energy and Commerce Committee has voted that the Earth is not warming. This is an American political collective, part of Congress, that works to line up US lawmaking. Currently the Committee had been working on the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011. The Act would bar the Enviormental Protection [...]

In most democracies if you shoot and kill a Christian for being a Christian it is considered a hate crime. A religious hate crime. As you would expect the same is true if you shoot a Jew for being Jewish or a Muslim for being a Muslim. If you shoot someone because of their religious [...]