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The history of the pentacle

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  The history of the pentacle  Welcome. I do hope you enjoy this self-leaked chapter from my upcoming book. Stay up to date by checking my website selenefirewolf.com, or following me on my socials. Firstly, before we get into the pentacle, it should be noted that the pentagram will be mentioned quite a bit in the history as it is the base for the pentacle. The difference is that the pentacle is a five-pointed star with a circle around it, while the pentagram is simply a five-pointed star.  A good way to remember the difference is that the pentacle is spelled with a C, as is circle, so the word spelled with a C is the one with the circle around it. PentalCe/pentagram. It took me a few years to really stop mixing the two up, and honestly, the constant back-and-forth in books and on social media didn’t help. The terms get used interchangeably far more often than they should. That said, now that we’ve cleared that up, we can move forward without the confusion. For many, many ...
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Haugnting of the Blue Ridge Tunnel

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Haugnting of the Blue Ridge Tunnel   East portal entrance Built in the 1850s under the direction of a French immigrant, Claudius Crozet (1789 – 1864), using majority Irish folk (300) and African American people (40ish). Crozet was both the designer and the chief engineer on the project. He never expected the tunnel to take as long as it did to complete. Claudius had originally expected the tunnel to be complete by 1853, but nature had other plans.  Claudius Crozet Due to massive hard rock and greenstone on the east side of the tunnel, it was a tough endeavor.. The rock was so unforgiving that drills had to be sharpened 18-20 times for every 18-inch deep hole that was drilled. To some, this may not seem like a huge deal, but to put that into perspective: while the Baltimore and Ohio Railway was advancing at a pace of 300 feet per month, the Blue Ridge Tunnel managed an average of only 53 feet per month. Some accounts put it as low as 19 feet per month. Just inside a bit o...
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