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3 unusual facts about Ecstasy


E ticket

In the Early late 1980's and 1990's emerging rave culture the phrase "E-Ticket Ride" was a euphemism for a really good dose of Ecstasy or an exceptional rave event where one had a very good time while on MDMA

Ecstasy. A Study of Happiness

In a letter to L.J. Veen he wrote: I think of a large star with a single line of a cloud to the upper left and the title should be positioned at the bottom right. Do you happen to know anyone who could make a drawing like that? L.J. Veen thought that Jan Veth could be the right artist to make the book cover but his concept-drawing was rejected by Couperus.

Henri van Booven later recalled that Elisabeth Couperus carried the cash box while Couperus took his most precious possession of that time, being the manuscript of Ecstacy.


Annie Sprinkle

She starred in Nick Zedd's experimental films War Is Menstrual Envy (1992), Ecstasy in Entropy (1999), and Electra Elf: The Beginning (2005).

Anomalistic psychology

Later the French physician Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont published On Hallucinations: Or, the Rational History of Apparitions, Dreams, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and Somnambulism in 1845 in which he claimed sightings of ghosts were the result of hallucinations.

Anton Köllisch

Anton Köllisch (1888–1916) was the German chemist who, whilst working at Darmstadt for pharmaceutical giant Merck, first synthesized the chemical MDMA that would later come to be known as "ecstasy".

Asim Butt

Butt played three matches in the 2005 season for Scotland, taking three wickets but being expensive, before he tested positive for Ecstasy during a match with Somerset.

Bernard O'Mahoney

Published in April 1997, it tells the story of dealing of ecstasy and other hard drugs in the Essex area during the early to mid-1990s, which gained a high profile in November 1995 with the death of Latchingdon teenager Leah Betts.

Brief Ecstasy

Brief Ecstasy is a 1937 British drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Paul Lukas, Hugh Williams, Linden Travers and Marie Ney.

Carlton Leach

He started work as a bouncer in East London, where he became involved with Pat Tate and Tony Tucker, both of whom worked as large scale dealers in ecstasy during the rave era in the late 1980s.

Charles Robinson Sykes

The Spirit of Ecstasy, also called "Emily", "Silver Lady" or "Flying Lady", carries with it a story about a secret passion between John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, (second Lord Montagu of Beaulieu after 1905, a pioneer of the automobile movement, and editor of The Car magazine from 1902) and his secret love and the model for the emblem, Eleanor Velasco Thornton.

Christian Quintin

“His natural universe is a place of ecstasy, infinite wonder and exquisite sensibility, intensely felt, like the ethereal poetry of Rilke and Rumi,” wrote Northern California journalist Elisabeth Sherwin.

Claire Brosseau

Her film credits include: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), My First Wedding (2004), Geraldine's Fortune (2004), Phil the Alien (2005), A Previous Engagement (2005), The Ecstasy Note (2006), Framed for Murder (2007), The Love of Her Life (2008), Girl's Best Friend, and Who is KK Downey? (2008).

Clarence Schmidt

A true eccentric, Schmidt compared himself to Rip Van Winkle, Paul Bunyan, Robin Hood, and Baron Munchausen; "I became some greater part of this mountain up here. Why when I walked along the road, the trees knelt down on my behalf. . . .There I was — in the land of ecstasy!"

Classified Records

The first release was the debut album by Jocelyn Enriquez, who became popular with her hit records "Do You Miss Me" and "Lil Bit of Ecstasy", both produced by Glenn Gutierrez.

Dean Sullivan

In 1994, he offered to resign from the series when reading in his scripts that his character was to take ecstasy; he urged producers to kill his character off in an attempt to warn youngsters about the danger of taking drugs.

Ecstasy and Wine

Upon its release, Ecstasy and Wine peaked at number 2 on the UK Independent Albums Chart.

Electric Feel

The second video, which was nominated for Best Art Direction at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, is often described as an ecstasy or acid trip, while some argue it as being a depiction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Gerard Pappa

Gerard Gravano followed his father Sammy into organized crime and at the age of twenty-nine was arrested for helping his father run an ecstasy drug trafficking operation in Phoenix, Arizona while under protection from the Witness Protection Program in 2000.

Gonen Segev

In April 2004 Segev was arrested for attempting to smuggle thousands of ecstasy tablets from Amsterdam to Israel that he claimed that he thought were M&M's.

GPS, V1: Rare Metals

It was released on Douglas' Greenleaf Music label in 2011 and features music by Dave Douglas for his band Brass Ecstasy, Vincent Chancey, Luis Bonilla, Marcus Rojas, and Nasheet Waits.

Hans Androschin

He realised well known or historically important German and Austrian films, such as the scandalous Ecstasy (1933) with Hedy Lamarr or the early horror film The Hands of Orlac (1924).

Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs

Drugs Live: the ecstasy trial is a two-part TV documentary aired on Channel 4 on the 26th and 27 September 2012.

Jewish meditation

Jacobs, Louis (translator), Tract on Ecstasy by Dobh Baer of Lubavitch, Vallentine Mitchell, 2006, ISBN 978-0-85303-590-9

Ju Ji-hoon

He was arrested along with 15 people and an actress identified as Yoon on suspicion of supplying ecstasy.

Juba Kalamka

In 2003, Kalamka continued his personal and artistic dialogues on sexuality and race with appearances in three sex films; Good Vibrations/Sexpositive Productions G Marks the Spot, Joani Blank's Orgasm: Faces of Ecstasy, and the yet to be released Radio Dildo Libre (David Findlay/Blissful Itch Productions).

Kosów Lacki

1964 - A picture by El Greco titled "Saint Francise ecstasy" was found in the presbytery in Kosów Lacki.

Matthew Spence

However before the season had started he failed a NRL drug test, testing positive for ecstasy.

Napier Boys' High School

In 2002 Napier Boys' High School teacher, Reuben John Martin was arrested for manufacturing Class B MDMA, more commonly known as ecstasy.

Nasaan si Francis?

Instead of reporting the incident to his family, Boy and Sonny hid Francis' body as they searched the entire house for the tablets of Ecstasy, which they were hoping to sell.

Neoshamanism

Piers Vitebsky, The Shaman: Voyages of the Soul - Trance, Ecstasy and Healing from Siberia to the Amazon, Duncan Baird, 2001.

Nicholas Baker

Nicholas John Baker, British citizen who was convicted of smuggling cocaine and ecstasy into Japan

Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing

As the name implies, Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing was conceived, by the band's own admission, under the influence of MDMA (commonly referred to as ecstasy).

Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act

The Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act, commonly known as the RAVE Act, was a bill proposed in the United States Senate during the 107th Congress.

Religious ecstasy

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, immersed into deeper and deeper stages of ecstasy towards Krishna during the last 24 years of his life

Rolls-Royce Ghost

It is a unique version of Ghost Extended Wheelbase inspired by the Golden Sun Bird Chinese artefact, with two-tone white and gold body colour scheme, gold coachline, gold grille, gold Spirit of Ecstasy, interior gold embroidery, light brown leather upholstery with white trim.

San Torpete

The altar of San Filippo Neri has a painting depicting The Saint in ecstasy attributed to the studio of Giovanni Battista Paggi.

Steven Atkinson

2012: Produced the European premiere of Mike Daisey's controversial The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs performed by the author at HighTide Festival Theatre.

Take It Out in Trade

Rudolph Grey, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1992) ISBN 978-0-922915-24-8

Take It Out in Trade: The Outtakes

Rudolph Grey, the author of Wood biography Nightmare of Ecstasy (1992), claims he located a print during research for his book.

The Crumlin-Drimnagh feud

On the 9th of March 2000 at the Holiday Inn on Pearse Street, three members of the gang were arrested with 2 kg of cocaine and 49,000 ecstasy tablets.

The Horror at Red Hook

A "Dublin University man born in a Georgian villa near Phoenix Park," he is said to have "the Celt's far vision of weird and hidden things, but the logician's quick eye for the outwardly unconvincing.... In youth he had felt the hidden beauty and ecstasy of things, and had been a poet; but poverty and sorrow and exile had turned his gaze in darker directions, and he had thrilled at the imputations of evil in the world around."

Tommy's Tale

The book is a first-person narrative, and revolves around an early mid-life crisis triggered when Tommy "accidentally" proclaims his love for his friend-with-benefits, Charlie, when high on ecstasy.

Warsangali Sultanate

Thus, it appears that Sufism and saint veneration, the mystical movement and ecstasy in Islam, was embraced amongst the Warsangali clans of Sanaag and spread to other areas of Somalia.

Women in the patristic age

Firmilian tells of a woman who went into an ecstasy and came out a prophetess.


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