All Saints Day

All Saints Day

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All Saints Day
Saint or Sinner
The Saint
Random Joke of the Day
That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
Word
Finish with a Song

All Saints Day

The Christian holiday of All Saint's Day honors and recognizes all of the saints of the christian church, many of which were martyrs. The church sets this day aside to celebrate over 10,000 recognized saints. Historically, All Saints Day was known as Hallomas.

Did you know? All Saints Day and All Souls Day was originally in May. They were moved to November 1st and 2and to downplay the Pagan holidays of Halloween (All Hallow's Eve) and Dia De Loss Muertos. Religious leaders felt these holidays were too popular at the time to ban outright. But, if moved the christian holidays to this time periods, the pagan holidays would slowly die away.......

Saint or sinner

Halo or horns

A crown of gold

Or one of thorns

Will you go low

Or will you go high

Lovely fresh clouds

Or sulphur pigsty

Horns or wings

Harp or the lyre

A fork in your hand

While your bum is on fire

Good or bad

Evil or chaste

Proud of yourself

Or low and debased

Your soul is theirs

It’s up for sale

Make sure you know

How to tip that scale

Simon Templar is the Saint. He robs from the criminally rich and gives to the poor and deserving -- while keeping a nice percentage for himself. His strict moral code makes him target those who got their wealth through nefarious means - corrupt politicians, warmongers and the like. His criminal activities put him at odds with the law, but his wit, charm and intelligence tends to keeps him one step ahead of the police.

The Saint – aka Simon Templar – is a well-known character, both on television and in countless books. But who created him? The author behind the Saint, Leslie Charteris, is as interesting a figure as his most famous fictional creation.

Charteris was half English and half Chinese, born in Singapore in 1907 to a Chinese surgeon father. Consequently, his first language was not English, but Mandarin. (He was born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin.) He was a highly precocious young man: his first book was accepted for publication while Charteris was in the first year of his degree at Cambridge. He promptly left the university, abandoning his studies in favour of trying his hand at a literary career. It would prove a hugely lucrative decision.

‘Charteris’ was a pseudonym – chosen (supposedly from a phone book) as a quintessentially English-sounding name. Simon Templar, his most famous creation, made his debut in the 1928 novel, Meet the Tiger, written when Charteris was still in his early twenties. It’s never made clear why he’s called ‘the Saint’, though it could be from his initials – ‘Simon Templar’ giving us ‘ST’ = St. = ‘saint’. His calling-card – a stick-figure crowned with a halo – is almost as famous as the character himself. Like Robin Hood, Simon Templar is a criminal but – as his saintly nickname reveals – on the side of good in many ways. He goes after corrupt politicians and officials on numerous occasions.

Roger Moore immortalised Simon Templar, ‘the Saint’, on television in the 1960s, but Moore wasn’t the first person to play the role of Templar. Indeed, he wasn’t even the second, or the third, or the fourth. Simon Templar first came to the screen – the big screen first of all – in 1938 in a film, The Saint in New York, starring Louis Hayward. Other films followed with George Sanders in the title role. Between 1945 and 1951, Vincent Price – also known for his roles in many Hammer Horror films – played Templar on American radio, though others such as Edgar Barrier also played the Templar role. It was in 1962, eleven years after the radio show ended, that Roger Moore brought Templar to the small screen and an even bigger audience. By this time there had also been a Saint comic strip and a magazine devoted to the character. In the late 1970s, the Saint would find a new incarnation, when he was played by Ian Ogilvy in the British series Return of the Saint.

Charteris, a highly bright and gifted individual, was one of the first members of Mensa, and invented his own sign language, Paleneo. He died in 1993,

Random Joke of the Day
I dream of a better tomorrow when chickens can cross the road & not be questioned about their motives.

That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
According to Amazon, the most highlighted books on Kindle are the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games...oh and Tales of the Unaccepted and The Thoughts of Chairman Anyhow....

Angelophobia is the fear of angels. The fear is associated withuranophobia, fear of Heaven, since angels are the leaders on Heaven.

Finish with a Song
This is the All Saints with Never Ever