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Happy Easter!









The first known mention of an anthropomorphic, gift-giving Easter Bunny was in Dr. Johannes Richier's 1682 essay in which he referred to a German tradition of an ‘Easter Hare’ bringing Easter eggs for children.

Where Did the Easter Bunny Come From? Ask This Dead German Scientist

On Archive.org: ‘Satyrae Medicae’ (in Latin)

But back from Halle to Heidelberg, and back to 1682, when Franck published a series of medical dissertations entitled ‘Satyrae medicae’. And here we find our Bunny, cautiously jumping out of the shrubbery: number 18 of these ‘satyres’ included a piece on Easter eggs (‘De ovis paschalibus’) written by Johannes Richier and supervised by Franck. If we are identifying Franck as the Easter Bunny’s godfather, we should therefore consider the father to be Richier, a young physician and, as the dedication in his dissertation shows, the son of a French reformist clergyman who served in Frankfurt (Main) not very far from Heidelberg.

So where is the Easter Bunny? It hops into one passage of Richier’s 16-page dissertation, in which he mentions the Bunny as a regional phenomenon located in ‘Upper Germany’, the Palatine, Alsace and Westphalia. He notes that it is common practice for people in these regions to search for ‘Easter eggs’ or ‘Hare eggs’, and that the local children (and more gullible adults) are told that these were hatched and brought by the ‘Osterhase’ or Easter Hare, who hides the eggs in the garden, in the grass and shrubs. Children are then sent to look for these eggs – described by Richier as being purple, red, yellow, green, multicoloured and even painted with pictures – to the joy and amusement of their elders.

However, as a practising physician, Richier’s main concern was to warn his readers of the consequences of this popular ritual. ‘The young people’, he says, ‘often lose their health with these Easter eggs because they avidly swallow up the eggs without salt, butter or any other flavouring’, which obviously causes much pain in the stomach. I am not sure that masses of Easter eggs with butter would be less painful, however – and wolfing down modern chocolate eggs would potentially be even worse – so maybe the main piece of international scientific advice we can draw from Franck and Richier is this: Beware of the Easter Bunny!
Bunny eggs

Today happens to be The International Day of Conscience & First Contact Day!

April 5, 2063: Humans met Vulcans for the first time, despite the Borg's attempts to prevent that via time travel.

The keel of the USS Enterprise (CVN-80), a Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, was laid on 5 April 2022. Enterprise will replace USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and was scheduled to be launched in November 2025, with a planned delivery date of March 2028. This date has since slipped to July 2030, citing latest delivery of sequence critical material.




The uranium glass Easter egg, crafted in the 19th-century Russian Empire, glows due to uranium dioxide (1-2% by weight), a practice confirmed safe by a 2001 Nuclear Regulatory Commission study showing only 4 millirems annual exposure—1% of typical background radiation.



The "XB" inscription stands for "Christos Voskres" (Christ is Risen), in English, KH V, a traditional Orthodox Easter greeting, reflecting a cultural practice documented in Russian Easter rituals since the 10th century, as noted in historical records.

This artifact predates the famous Fabergé eggs, with Tsar Nicholas II adopting the custom in 1895, suggesting an earlier, lesser-known tradition of ornate religious glasswork that influenced imperial craftsmanship.

Easter in Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe and Easter cake! Kulich recipe.


Artist John Van Hamersveld talks about his cover design work on The Jefferson Airplane's CROWN OF CREATION (1968). The photographs of the bandmembers were taken by Hiro [1930-2021]. The mushroom cloud image came from the government, but it is not from the Hiroshima bomb.



Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation (Full Album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsjrBk_lWQ


1984: British MoD discretion: "try patenting an Atomic Easter Egg and see what happens."


Introduced in Congress (03/26/1980)
Computer Software Copyright Act of 1980 [H.R.6934] - Amends the Copyright Act of 1976 to limit the exclusive rights of a copyright owner in a computer program. Permits owners of a copy of such program to adapt such program for utilization or archival purposes without infringing the copyright.


Clip of Max Von Sydow in Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986). It gets truer every year...





“Stay curious,” the CIA advised in its “fond farewell” to the CIA World Factbook.


Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone


Kim Jong Un inspected construction of a museum dedicated to DPRK troops’ participation in the liberation of Russia’s Kursk region.


North Korea’s Kim inspects war memorial honoring troops sent to Ukraine


A special Easter message from The White House...




They're 5 miles high as the crow flies
Leavin' vapour trails against a blood red sky
Movin' in from the East toward the West
With Balaclava helmets over their heads, yes!
But if you think that Jesus Christ is coming
Honey you've got another thing coming
If he ever finds out who's hi-jacked his name
He'll cut out his heart and turn in his grave

Islam is rising
The Christians mobilising
The world is on its elbows and knees
It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds

It's war, she cried, It's war, she cried, this is war
Drop your possessions, all you simple folk
You will fight them on the beaches in your underclothes
You will thank the good lord for raising the union jack
You'll watch the ships out of harbour
And the bodies come floating back

If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today
He'd be gunned down cold by the C.I.A.
Oh, the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass
Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart
But God didn't build himself that throne
God doesn't live in Israel or Rome
God belong to the yankee dollar
God doesn't plant the bombs for Hezbollah
God doesn't even go to church
And God won't send us down to Allah to burn
No, God will remind us what we already know
That the human race is about to reap what it's sown
The world is on its elbows and knees
It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds
Armageddon Days (Are Here Again) [1989]