Berlin's most moneyed and celebrated director, Fritz Lang, was drawn to the subject, which would become the spine of his first sound film, in many ways the commercial birth of the modern psychothriller. Several real-life child murderers, cannibals and serial killers – their nicknames are grisly enough: the Butcher of Hanover, the Vampire of Düsseldorf – terrorised Germany in the 1920s. The killer moment: It has to be the crop-duster sequence, which begins like a Western standoff and ends with the suavest man in cinema face down in the dirt. But it’s Grant’s movie: a Hollywood A-lister happy to be the punchline when the scene calls for it. And the cast? Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau and Jessie Royce Landis – heroes, villains and worried mothers, they’re all having a ball. It’s all a tribute to Hitch and his ensemble of behind-the-camera talents, including screenwriter Ernest Lehman, Saul Bass (designer of the iconic title sequence) and Bernard Herrmann, whose score lends menace and levity in equal measure. Of course, making a movie this effortless is hard work. The greatest joy in Alfred Hitchcock’s spy caper is how effortless it all feels: a gliding magic-carpet ride from New York to Mount Rushmore, via Chicago and a Midwestern bus stop, as Cary Grant’s ad man suffers a potentially fatal outbreak of Wrong Man-itis. If there’s a thriller out there more exhilarating, sexier or packed with iconic moments than this one, we’ve yet to see it. □ The greatest pyschological thrillers ever made ![]() □ The 60 most nerve-racking heist movies ever □ The 22 best thriller movies on Netflix ![]() □️ The 35 steamiest erotic thrillers ever made Written by A bbey Bender, Joshua Rothkopf, Yu An Su, Phil de Semlyen, Tom Huddleston, Andy Kryza, Tomris Laffly & Matthew Singer Here are a hundred great thrillers guaranteed to make you sit up, widen your eyes and leave your head spinning. When done right, a thriller prompts a visceral response more than just about any other genre. You’ll feel it, too – in your clammy palms and under your armpits, in your teeth as you grind down the enamel and your restless leg. The exact definition of a thriller may be hard to pin down, but you know one when you’re watching one. As a movie genre, the thriller is also loosely defined – under its umbrella, you’ll find examples of science fiction, horror, heists, action, even comedy, along with the ever-nebulous ‘psychological thriller’ subdivision. ![]() When considering the best thrillers ever made, you’ll encounter many different kinds of thrills: from political intrigue and espionage to conspiracy, manipulation, gaslighting, and, of course, lots and lots of crime.
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Migratory birds may partially account for the spread of this disease since larval and nymphal black-legged ticks often feed on ground-feeding birds. Lyme disease is also found abroad in Germany and Scandinavia, as well as China, and Asia to Australia. ![]() About 10,000 human cases are diagnosed annually. These are Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Eight states have recorded the highest numbers of cases. The disease was first identified in Lyme, Connecticut in 1975 with the heaviest concentrations now recognized in the Northeast, upper Midwest, and along the northern West coast. They are commonly found in and near wooded areas. After engorging, they mate on or off the host and later lay eggs. Nymphs molt to the adult stage the same summer, and then crawl to a large mammal, most commonly white-tailed deer. It is this small nymphal stage that transmits the Lyme disease agent to humans. ![]() Nymphs attach to small to medium size animals (mice, dogs, raccoons, possums, gray squirrels) and humans. These larvae overwinter, then molt to an eight-legged nymphal stage. Eggs deposited in the spring hatch into six-legged larval ticks (most occur in late summer), which attach to small mammals (white-footed mouse, voles, chipmunks) or birds to obtain their first blood meal. The black-legged tick in the eastern United States is a three-host tick that has a two-year life cycle. Antibiotic therapy is most successful when treatments begin during early stages of the disease development. Less common symptoms include heart arrhythmia, weakness in legs, facial paralysis, and numbness. Subsequent symptom progression involves swelling and pain in the joints, especially the knees that can lead to chronic arthritis, sometimes a year after the bite. Early symptoms include flu-like chills, fever, headache, dizziness, fatigue, joint ache, and a stiff neck. The rash fades, with or without treatment, after a few weeks (not all infected people develop this rash). Lyme disease symptoms, caused by coiled spirochete bacteria ( Borrelia burgdorferi), develop within 3 to 32 days and include an initial reddish skin rash at the tick bite site, commonly expanding to many inches in diameter and appearing like a ring or bull’s-eye. The black-legged tick or deer tick, is the main vector of Lyme disease. Whatsapp download app3/19/2024 ![]() ![]() GBWhatsApp Pro gets around these problems by giving users a bunch of cool and unique features that the official WhatsApp app doesn’t have. These problems include not being able to send big files like videos and not having many ways to protect user privacy. It can be used to text, send photos, make free calls over the internet, and even make video talks.īut even though WhatsApp has a lot of great features, it has some limitations that can be annoying for users. WhatsApp has become a masterpiece of communication. It has changed the way people talk to each other. With more than 2 billion users, WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world. Technology has made it easier than ever to talk to people, and GBWhatsApp Pro has made it even easier for people to stay in touch with their loved ones. Even so, users can also find in places like Google Play some fraudulent applications hiding under the appearance of a popular service or that simply requires more permissions than the strictly necessary.įor this reason, before downloading an application for the first time you should read carefully its rating and some comments from other users: if it is a trap that has evaded Google’s Play security, the previous experience of others can serve you as warning.GBWhatsApp Pro is a new way to send and receive messages that have taken the world by storm. That way, both downloading and updating an application, the safest way to do it is going to the corresponding official site. When the user installs it and accepts all permissions requested, this false WhatsApp access the information stored on the users’ Android device. The web site does not promise any new features in the instant messaging service. ![]() It is the case of a website that distributes a malware designed to steal data and it does it under the official WhatsApp appearance. Without false advantages but just as fraudulent, these downloads will fill your device with malware or subscribe you to an SMS premium service at a great cost. Furthermore, not only should be wary of those web pages that provide the so-called WhatsApp download with little credible characteristics: on other occasions, a platform which doesn’t belong to the official app nor to the corresponding applications market, will simply offer users to download WhatsApp as a way of attracting potential new victims. In this way, users can sort the Web woven by the crooks on the Internet. That is why, the best way of avoiding any kind of fraud from making a hole in our pocket or someone stealing our information stored in our Android is using Google Play (or the App Store in case of having an Apple device) at the time of downloading and update or any other application. In general, the desire of enjoying new features on an application as common as WhatsApp makes some users to accept these updates even if they do not come from an official supplier. The most recent case is the one of the so-called Blue WhatsApp, it promised changing the famous app’s green to blue, although this version hides a poisoned apple: a subscription to a premium service which will increase, quite a bit, the victims’ phone bill. Sometimes they create totally fake versions with presumed advantages as the possibility of customizing the app’s appearance. To generate this avalanche of fraudulent services, cybercriminals not only take advantage of WhatsApp’s latest features. By doing so, it will not play any message, but actually it will download a malicious software on the user’s computer. Without going any further, WhatsApp voice calls lead on to fraud via email: the victim is notified by email of a pending voice message and in order to for hear it he just needs to click on it. Each novelty announced by the instant messaging service is exploited immediately by the thugs on the network to deploy all kinds of social engineering techniques. The more famous an application is, the more likely it will be used by cybercriminals to carry out frauds, which may turn out very expensive for those distracted users. By becoming popular, they turn into a real danger. Handicap rails3/19/2024 ![]() Grab bars near toilets can allow them to use the toilet without the assistance of (or with limited assistance from) a caregiver, protecting their privacy. 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Solomon's sigil of protection and wealth3/19/2024 ![]() The Tractate Gittin (fol. 68) of the Talmud has a story involving Solomon, Asmodeus, and a ring with the divine name engraved: Solomon gives the ring and a chain to one Benaiahu son of Jehoiada to catch the demon Ashmedai, to obtain the demon's help to build the temple Ashmedai later tricks Solomon into giving him the ring and swallows it. A legend of a magic ring with which the possessor could command demons was already current in the 1st century ( Josephus (8.2) telling of one Eleazar who used such a ring in the presence of Vespasian), but the association of the name of Solomon with such a ring is likely medieval notwithstanding the 2nd century apocryphal text the Testament of Solomon. The date of origin legends surrounding the Seal of Solomon is difficult to establish. In a variant of the tale of the ring of Polycrates from Herodotus, the demon eventually threw the ring into the sea, where it was swallowed by a fish, caught by a charitable fisherman, who unknowingly fed it to the displaced Solomon, restoring him to power. ![]() In one tale, a demon - either Asmodeus or Sakhr - obtained possession of the ring and ruled in Solomon's stead for forty days. The ring was made from brass and iron, and the two parts were used to seal written commands to good and evil spirits, respectively. The legend of the Seal of Solomon was developed primarily by medieval Middle Eastern writers, who related that the ring was engraved by God and was given to the king directly from heaven. They did not originate among the Arabs who, incidentally, know only the designation Seal of Solomon." The Arabs made many such terms especially popular, but just the names Seal of Solomon and Shield of David, which are often used interchangeably for the two emblems, go back to pre-Islamic Jewish magic. The tradition of Solomon's Seal later made its way into Islamic Arab sources, as Gershom Scholem (the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah) attests "It is difficult to say for how long certain definite names have been used for several of the most common seals. In parallel, a first century Greek manual of Judeo-Christian magic known as Testament of Solomon also makes reference to the Seal of Solomon. It is first mentioned by the first-century Jewish historian Josephus, (8.41-49) and is similarly referenced by the third-century Jewish magical text Sefer HaRazim, and an aggadic section of the Tractate Gittin within the Babylonian Talmud as well. The earliest references to Solomon's seal or signet stem from within Jewish traditions. A variant form of the "Secret Seal of Solomon", as seen in the 17th-century grimoire The Lesser Key of Solomon. A hexagram on the obverse of a Moroccan 4 Falus coin, dated AH 1290 (AD 1873/4). It includes an inscription in the Uyghur script that reads sultan adil. History Silver coin minted in the name of Eretna in 1351 CE in Erzincan, Turkey. ![]() The Seal of Solomon was also depicted on the flag of Nigeria during British colonial rule. The pentagram on the Flag of Morocco also represents the seal. The seal is the predecessor to the Star of David, a Jewish symbol, and in modern vexillology, it features on the Flag of Israel. Due to the proverbial wisdom of Solomon, it came to be seen as an amulet or talisman, or a symbol or character in medieval magic and Renaissance magic, occultism, and alchemy. ![]() In mystic Islamic and Jewish lore, the ring is variously described as having given Solomon the power to command the supernatural, including shedim and jinn, and also the ability to speak with animals. It is often depicted in the shape of either a pentagram or a hexagram. The Seal of Solomon or Ring of Solomon ( Hebrew: חותם שלמה, Ḥotam Shlomo Arabic: خاتم سليمان, Khātam Sulaymān Turkish: Mühr-ü Süleyman) is the legendary signet ring attributed to the Israelite king Solomon in medieval mystical traditions, from which it developed in parallel within Jewish mysticism, Islamic mysticism and Western occultism. 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