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Mar. 11th, 2013 03:17 am* One of the men accused of raping a medical student to death on his bus in Delhi hanged himself in jail.
* "Siberian fossil revealed to be one of the oldest known domestic dogs:" http://phys.org/news/2013-03-siberian-fossil-revealed-oldest-domestic.html
* "Ancient settlement discovered in Azerbaijan:" http://en.apa.az/news/188982
* "LIFE at the Vatican: Unearthing History Beneath St. Peter’s:" http://life.time.com/culture/the-vatican-unearthing-history-beneath-st-peters-1950-photos/#ixzz2NIizRG8B
* "Flight of the valkyrie: the Viking figurine that's heading for Britain:" http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/mar/04/viking-valkyrie-figurine-british-museum
* "What Vikings really looked like:" http://sciencenordic.com/what-vikings-really-looked
* I know if they actually find them, there'd likely be no soft tissue, but I'd be fascinated to see if they could find signs of what killed him, as you can sometimes tell disease and the like from bones. However I suspect even if they find bones they'll have a hard time authenticating them. "Hunt for bones of King Stephen:" http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/383117/Hunt-for-bones-of-King-Stephen
* Much of the commentary on this Medieval anatomical specimen is annoying, (See there were no "Dark Ages" Rant), but the find is interesting so I'm linking it. http://www.livescience.com/27624-mummy-head-middle-ages-anatomy.html
* "Death and diet: Peru’s sacrificial victims:" http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/death-and-diet-perus-sacrificial-victims
* "Crystal Skulls Deemed Fake:" http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i9/Crystal-Skulls-Deemed-Fake.html
* "Van Dyck painting 'found online':" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21712209
* "Why Did Bach Go Blind?:" http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/why-did-bach-go-blind-53250/
* Today when I woke up I could breath. Not just breath, but fill my lungs for the first time in four or five months. I'm still coughing, but it's high in the lungs instead of deep. My sinuses and ears are still messed up, but the miracle of enough oxygen is enough for now.
* There keep being hold ups with the inheritance. We've been waiting over a week for the lawyer to answer a phone call from my bank. She's been a terrible disappointment to my sister. She was a personal friend of my mother's since college and was johnny on the spot when my mother was alive, but "has lost interest in settling our case" now that she's taken her share of the money as payment. Where is the wonderful hard working feminist who did pro bono sexual abuse by professionals cases when I was a teenager, I wonder? Sigh. My sister has hired a financial guy to take over and my one simple question falls between the cracks. We can't do anything on a bunch of decisions until it's sorted.
* This is from a discussion of gardens from the comments on someone else's journal, but I'm cross posting it here as I was planning to write something like it here anyway:
My mom had rotating vegetable gardens all my growing up. (She had to rotate the corn. She'd let fallow a year after corn, then plant regular vegetables, then move the corn there the third year.) The asparagus we inherited with the house right before I started high school. She'd cut spears and cook them just enough to bring out the flavour. It was less than half an hour from live plant to table. Oh, do I miss them, and my mother's cherry pie. When we moved, we got pie cherry trees. I'd come home from work and wait for just enough light to see and go out to pick what'd ripened in the night. I'd pit them before bed and there would be fresh hot pie when I woke up so I could have some before work.
There was no snow here this winter and the crocuses are not yet ready to bloom, but close to it. The green shoots remind me me of my dad and I coming home from school when I was little. It would be close to dark and we'd take a tour of the yard to see if the crocuses were coming up through the snow. He would squat down and grin, as happy as a little kid when they first stared poking through.
Spring in the midst of Winter.
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* "Siberian fossil revealed to be one of the oldest known domestic dogs:" http://phys.org/news/2013-03-siberian-fossil-revealed-oldest-domestic.html
* "Ancient settlement discovered in Azerbaijan:" http://en.apa.az/news/188982
* "LIFE at the Vatican: Unearthing History Beneath St. Peter’s:" http://life.time.com/culture/the-vatican-unearthing-history-beneath-st-peters-1950-photos/#ixzz2NIizRG8B
* "Flight of the valkyrie: the Viking figurine that's heading for Britain:" http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/mar/04/viking-valkyrie-figurine-british-museum
* "What Vikings really looked like:" http://sciencenordic.com/what-vikings-really-looked
* I know if they actually find them, there'd likely be no soft tissue, but I'd be fascinated to see if they could find signs of what killed him, as you can sometimes tell disease and the like from bones. However I suspect even if they find bones they'll have a hard time authenticating them. "Hunt for bones of King Stephen:" http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/383117/Hunt-for-bones-of-King-Stephen
* Much of the commentary on this Medieval anatomical specimen is annoying, (See there were no "Dark Ages" Rant), but the find is interesting so I'm linking it. http://www.livescience.com/27624-mummy-head-middle-ages-anatomy.html
* "Death and diet: Peru’s sacrificial victims:" http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/death-and-diet-perus-sacrificial-victims
* "Crystal Skulls Deemed Fake:" http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i9/Crystal-Skulls-Deemed-Fake.html
* "Van Dyck painting 'found online':" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21712209
* "Why Did Bach Go Blind?:" http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/why-did-bach-go-blind-53250/
* Today when I woke up I could breath. Not just breath, but fill my lungs for the first time in four or five months. I'm still coughing, but it's high in the lungs instead of deep. My sinuses and ears are still messed up, but the miracle of enough oxygen is enough for now.
* There keep being hold ups with the inheritance. We've been waiting over a week for the lawyer to answer a phone call from my bank. She's been a terrible disappointment to my sister. She was a personal friend of my mother's since college and was johnny on the spot when my mother was alive, but "has lost interest in settling our case" now that she's taken her share of the money as payment. Where is the wonderful hard working feminist who did pro bono sexual abuse by professionals cases when I was a teenager, I wonder? Sigh. My sister has hired a financial guy to take over and my one simple question falls between the cracks. We can't do anything on a bunch of decisions until it's sorted.
* This is from a discussion of gardens from the comments on someone else's journal, but I'm cross posting it here as I was planning to write something like it here anyway:
My mom had rotating vegetable gardens all my growing up. (She had to rotate the corn. She'd let fallow a year after corn, then plant regular vegetables, then move the corn there the third year.) The asparagus we inherited with the house right before I started high school. She'd cut spears and cook them just enough to bring out the flavour. It was less than half an hour from live plant to table. Oh, do I miss them, and my mother's cherry pie. When we moved, we got pie cherry trees. I'd come home from work and wait for just enough light to see and go out to pick what'd ripened in the night. I'd pit them before bed and there would be fresh hot pie when I woke up so I could have some before work.
There was no snow here this winter and the crocuses are not yet ready to bloom, but close to it. The green shoots remind me me of my dad and I coming home from school when I was little. It would be close to dark and we'd take a tour of the yard to see if the crocuses were coming up through the snow. He would squat down and grin, as happy as a little kid when they first stared poking through.
Spring in the midst of Winter.
This entry was originally posted at http://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/289650.html. Please comment there using OpenID.