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My name is Andrew. This is the story of how I fell in love with Elena…

I am a banker, working in one of the Nigerian banks on the Lagos Island.

It is not uncommon to exchange contact with eye catching women whenever they come for enquiry or transaction, would usually call like five at the end of the day, and know for sure my weekend won’t be boring.

On the 5th of May, 2018. All the staff had resumed to the office with a glimmer of hope and fear. The horrible mental effect of the killing of 3 bankers the previous week in a nearby banking branch had not left our minds.

I had called and chatted with 5 of my colleagues talking about the brevity of life and the risk we face in the banking hall. We had complained and scowled over how temporary the job was and if it worths the risk at all. Well, you know how the banking authority can terminate your appointment without prior notice. The day was not filled with desire to behold any beauty.

Anyways. This is not about my work place. It was the fourth customer after my lunch break. She was carrying a brown Gucci purse from which she brought out a form carefully filled.

She wore a long gown which revealed almost nothing about her body shape. With a scarf long enough to cover her head, neck and partly her face, like an hijab. Then on her face was a thick dark sunshade.

Seeing her from afar. I never got a glimpse of attraction towards her. Besides, I wasn’t in a mood to bump any lady. I was sure I would just do my job and move to the next customer till the day’s work would end. A decision I should have stuck with.

It was when she sat on the customers seat, removed her shades and spoke that everything paused…… It felt like a movie effect… I had thought every action in the banking hall stood still. Let me quickly share my dual experience.
1. Her eye. I think she consciously wore the dark shade to protect the whole world from being on hold. They were dashing. You would think you were seeing the Cinderella anime. I couldn’t stop staring until she spoke.
2. Her voice. The moment she opened her mouth and said “good afternoon, please can you help me out with…” I was lost in the enchantment of her mellifluous voice… I thought I was in an ensemble.

Unprofessionally, I said. “I’m Andrew, but please call me Dre, and yes, I will help you out”

I was able to process her application for a new account in a very short while telling all involved how important it is to get the account running soon. My friend Jamal (whom I will mention again in this story) was of great help. It was quick and precise.

While I was done, I simply asked. May I have your number, would love to hang out with you sometime, which she replied without hesitation, ‘okay’. Now I know you are wondering how I got there.

During the period of her account processing, I had employed all my charms of speech, intelligence, jokes and smiles. Had asked a few information about her too. So we had a good one.

I had thought it was a classic catch. “I just need to ask her out once or twice and then we would be dating”. I thought to myself...

I will stop here before, my account is tagged for adult content...

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ABCthings:
God dictated it to Moses and If you check the laws you'll see that there was always 7 days. In fact from Genesis 1 the days were 7

You have no point, Happi Sunday.

Okay. I hope you know nobody was there, these were stories told mouth to mouth over centuries, until the writing era...

ABCthings:
Do your research well. He got it directly from God.

Please, can we just argue intellectually without always bringing God to all matters? This is pure history, not matter of faith.

First,

The origin of April fool’s day can be traced back as far as the period when Pope Gregory XIII established the Gregorian Calendar.

The Julian calendar which was used before his time has New Year Celebrated on April 1st, this was due to the irregularities later found in the Julian Calendar which is 11 minutes longer than the normal Lunar year.

This extra 11 minutes accounts for the lost of 11 days in the September 1752 Calendar. Read about this here https://brainerves.com/the-11-lost-days-of-september-1752/

Gregory had to correct this anomalies by creating a new calendar which represents the complete circle of the Lunar year which has 365 days, 5 hours and 49 minutes; The Gregorian Calendar.

The Gregorian Calendar has January 1st as the New Year, while The Julian Calendar has April 1st as New year’s day.

The Countries under the rule of the Pope (Catholic Church) adopted the new Gregorian Calendar, while the protestant Nations didn’t especially Britain and it’s colonies, then America. They continued to celebrate New Year on April 1st. This made many who believed in the accuracy of the new Gregorian Calendar to term anyone who believed April 1st was new year as fools…

They did this by sending people on “fool’s errands” or trying to trick people into believing something false. Eventually, the practice spread throughout Europe.


Second,

The second account on the origin of April Fools’ Day was provided by Joseph Boskin, a professor of history at Boston University.

He explained that the practice began during the reign of Constantine, when a group of court jesters and fools told the Roman emperor that they could do a better job of running the empire. Constantine, amused, allowed a jester named Kugel to be king for one day. Kugel passed an edict calling for absurdity on that day, and the custom became an annual event.

“In a way,” explained Prof. Boskin, “it was a very serious day. In those times fools were really wise men. It was the role of jesters to put things in perspective with humor.”

This explanation was brought to the public’s attention in an Associated Press article printed by many newspapers in 1983.
There was only one catch: Boskin made the whole thing up. It took a couple of weeks for the AP to realize that they’d been victims of an April Fools’ joke themselves from Boskin.

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techstack:
The Antipodeans were a group of Australian modern artists who asserted the importance of figurative art, and protested against abstract expressionism. They staged a single exhibition in Melbourne during August 1959

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodeans

Thanks for this, This article is purely for advert purpose, as the disclaimer alert was carefully stated at the start.

greatbrian:
So it was omitted for balance sake

right

DapsonX:
Must you make a joke�
Look it up and stop bothering our lives �

No vex... juat wanted something more concrete

SKhanmi:
Be like say your brain dey touch, what did you even write up there? Do you even understand the terms before posting,term it sci-fi na

I hope you read the alert notice before the article started... learn to read and listen before talking... you need it.

itsme01:




one funny thing that many people dont understand about some of this Calender error is that the biblical stories that recorded men living up to 300 years was simply because their months where 22 days of lunar cycle, and most of the accient people had 4 days in a week and this is why they had 4 market days


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I hope this has a true source, or is it just a story one grandpa told...

itsme01:




one funny thing that many people dont understand about some of this Calender error is that the biblical stories that recorded men living up to 300 years was simply because their months where 22 days of lunar cycle, and most of the accient people had 4 days in a week and this is why they had 4 market days


./.

I think I just got botched

No kidding please

twhy111:
Lemme check if this is true

very true... the reasons behind it aren't mystical afterall... details in post. There was really never September 3rd to 13th in 1752.

[s]ALERT! This article is written for advert purpose...
[/s] Enjoy...

When an American author, Richard Rorty, speculated about Antipodeans sometimes ago, the world thought it was mere farce.

Perhaps you have not heard of them too, they are here anyway and until we saw them roaming our streets and running our lives, we thought they can only exist outside earth. The unbelievable is they are not easily identifiable because they are humans like us.

One major characteristic of Antipodeans is that they lack the capability to distinguish mental imagery from psychic impulses.

This makes them dangerous to human society as they often find motivation for action in the pleasure they derive from it and explain events by recourse only to stimulus such events have on their nerve endings...

Continue reading https://brainerves.com/antipodeans-invasion-of-earth-an-emerging-kind-of-humans-may-destroy-the-good-left-of-humanity-except-we-act/

Snowale:
white ass liker, you can just bleach your skin and join them.
Seychelles, Mauritus, Tunisia, Algeria and south Africa are white people abi. Wole soyinka, Micheal Levitt + 73 more Nobel Laurette winners a white men, isn't it? You are a black racist of yourself. That's why those white don't respect us, even though we respect them, it because of people like you. Haiti(US), Nepal, Afghanistan, Bangladesh are even worst than many African countries, or do you think it's Everything you see in the TV and movies is true about the white.

Getting interesting...

Why was 11 days removed from the the month of September in 1752?

What could it have felt like, slept September 2nd, to wake on 14th September? This was the experience of over six and a half million Britons who went to bed on September 2, 1752, and woke up on September 14 of the same year. What then happened to the missing 11 days of September 1752?

Before 1752, Britain and her Empire followed the Julian calendar, first implemented by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. However this calendar had an inbuilt error of 1 day every 128 years, due to a miscalculation of the solar year by 11 minutes. This affected the date of Easter, traditionally observed on March 21, as it began to move further away from the spring equinox with each passing year.

To get over this problem, the Gregorian calendar was introduced. This is a solar calendar, based on a 365-day year divided into 12 months. Each month consists of either 30 or 31 days with one month, February, consisting of 28 days. A leap year every 4 years adds an extra day to February making it 29 days long...

https://brainerves.com/the-11-lost-days-of-september-1752/

Viciheaka:
How is this information going to change my life

search google...

Ronald1:
This one no get joy atall

Hahahahaha

Memberclub:
do you know the meaning of busted?

No, oya I don carry pen and book, teach me

Earliest Archeological excavation in Nigeria

Contrary to most beliefs that the trans-sahara trades were responsible for the influx of people into the Nigeria region in precolonial Nigeria, archeological findings have shown that life on the Nigeria region has be earlier to as far as 10,000 BCE.

https://brainerves.com/earliest-archeological-excavation-in-nigeria/

ilevic:
What's this person saying now? Even Jesus Christ that lived 3700 after her doesn't have a clean picture like hers. When you are done deceiving your self let's know

Nigerians advance with time... It was a picture drafted from the results gotten from her genomes...
Not exact picture of hers.. obviously you never read the full article, read about something before you comment, only then would your comment be valid and hold ground...�‍♂️�‍♂️

benori:
My pleasure You click you don't, We already gat Google ranking... 6th one SEO search... even above CNN on the same post... your lost in knowledge acquisition

Meanwhile, great appreciation to every supporters thus far... we are most grateful... we will keep getting unmatched and intriguing information across... grateful n merry Christmas...

Crimsoneagle:
Blogger blogger we no de click anything

My pleasure You click you don't, We already gat Google ranking... 6th one SEO search... even above CNN on the same post... your lost in knowledge acquisition

benori:
Meet Lola a 5700 year old Woman from Denmark. She lived on an island in the Baltic Sea around 3,700 B.C. She was a blue-eyed, dark skin and dark hair woman. Her last meal was hazelnuts and mallard duck, she never had milk because of her lactose intolerance.

Curiousity they say, killed the cat Read about this amazing discovery on...
https://brainerves.com/meet-lola-a-5700-year-old-woman-from-denmark/

You might to read full post in the link provided in the post to unravel the discovery... couldn't be posting someone's full article here... that's why...

ilevic:
This bloggers sef. Who snapped this picture? And with which phone?

With the advancement in the study of Genomics, you would understand how a person's picture can be sketched and have a close likeness...

Curiousity should make you vast...

Rilley:
What is the second picture? Say nah black shít?

Details preserved only for curious minds... its a gum called birch pitch... chewed by her, which Scienctist got her DNA from and the rest is story...
click link in post to read details

Meet Lola a 5700 year old Woman from Denmark. She lived on an island in the Baltic Sea around 3,700 B.C. She was a blue-eyed, dark skin and dark hair woman. Her last meal was hazelnuts and mallard duck, she never had milk because of her lactose intolerance.

Curiousity they say, killed the cat Read about this amazing discovery on...
https://brainerves.com/meet-lola-a-5700-year-old-woman-from-denmark/

Are you curious about the wonders of the world? You have come to the right channel where you get updates on Amazing realities around the globe… Explore the world from your mobile phone and computer... And please remember to drop your comment on the wonderful spots you know of.

1. The Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt The Pyramids of Giza and their elaborate burial complexes were built during a frenetic period of construction, from roughly 2550 to 2490 B.C. The pyramids were built by Pharaohs Khufu https://brainerves.com/the-pyramids-of-giza/

2. The Victoria Falls Victoria Falls is located in the middle of Zambezi River at the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is about 1,700 meters in length and the height varies between 80 and 108 meters depending on the season. https://brainerves.com/the-victoria-falls/

3. The Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt The Great Sphinx of Giza is the world’s largest monolith statue. It measures 20.22 meters in height, 19.3 meters in width and 73.5 meters in length. https://brainerves.com/the-great-sphinx-of-giza/

4. Christ the Redeemer; Christo Redentor Christ the Redeemer is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, It is undoubtedly one of the most recognizable monuments in the world. It is 30 meters high, plus 8 for the base. https://brainerves.com/christ-the-redeemer-christo-redentor/

5. The Eiffel Tower The plan to build a tower 300 metres high was conceived as part of preparations for the World’s Fair of 1889. The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. https://brainerves.com/the-eiffel-tower/

Read each topic whole on https://brainerves.com/category/wonders-of-the-world/

Happy Holiday...

BroOptimist:
Any picture of Jesus you see anywhere is and will remain FAKE. Reason being this, which photographer took his pictures when He was still on this surface of the Earth? Has photography been in existence before the advent of Jesus Christ himself?


A bunch of liars everywhere!!!

The argument is not whether the pictures are true or not, but, why is he conceived or represented as white and Satan as Black?

https://brainerves.com

Everywhere you turn today in Christianity, you sees the image of a White God, of white angels, white apostles and white Jesus.

The only personality that resembles the black man is Satan. Is this a true picture of the real historical figures?

The black converts find themselves turning towards an identity of whiteness in prayer and psychologically he or she transmutes such idea of supremacy to any other thing white: white culture,western Education, Western conceptual schemes etc.

This idea of whiteness was the challenged by black liberation and prominent Among the black Jesus thesis advocates is Albert cleage, he said, Christianity suffers in the hand of a perennial lye: the black Jesus... https://brainerves.com/question/is-the-historical-jesus-black-or-white/

mrssomebody:
Where can i get the movie pls?

Watch full video on
https://brainerves.com/question/is-benjamin-button-ageing-backward-disease-in/

tjones007:
One quick question OP.

If he was born old and aging backwards.

Was he born tall?

Smiles, in reality someone with Benjamin Button disease is usually born like any other healthy baby, but symptoms begin to show after few months, and start showing old age growth... as shown in the picture.

ola33t:





OP, don't get it twisted.
There were people who saw into the future as far back as history could not remember, but The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is definitely not one of those instances.

The case of Button is a fiction and will always remain a fiction, which would never be physically or scientifically possible even in the distant, most tech-advanced future.

Benjamin Button was born looking older than a centenarian, grew taller into a younger old-man till be grew into a middle-aged man, then he continued to grow younger and shorter until his stature shrank into a day-old baby after which he died.
The scenario above is different from the case of Sam Berns (in the second picture), who had Progeria.
While Button ailment made him grow younger from a old man to a baby and made him pass through impossible stages of height/stature increment and later decrement, Progeria on the other hand make a kid born as a normal kid age rapidly than usual, and they don't usually reach 30 years before they die.

A good analysis though, definitely the movie was partly fantasy, to entertain, but the bottom line is creating an awareness of the disease called Benjamin button which is a reality, though not 100% true as portrayed in the movie.

You wouldn't expect a movie not to have additional spices nah... even Titanic had to spice the story up to make it entertaining... you could read about 10 real life facts about Titanic never mentioned in the movie https://brainerves.com/question/10-real-life-facts-about-titanic-movie/

benori:
Has the experience of computer virus affected or disrupted the use of your computer before? Here are a few computer virus that computer users should know about.

The term virus denotes a threat to a computer system, It got the name virus because of its ability to spread across other system within a short period of time. Here are a few computer virus that had wrecked havoc on organisations and individual computer system over time…

Storm Worm
ILOVEYOU
Melisa
Code Red
Nimda
Stuxnet
Sasser
Zeus
Mydoom

To learn in details about these virus visit https://brainerves.com/computer-virus-you-should-know-about/

Let's name other computer virus you know or have experienced in the thread below...

Cryptolocker