Srsly.
Now all we need to hear is that Hitler was somehow involved and we’ll have the perfect documentary pitch for The History Channel.
(It could have made a good Stargate SG-1 script too, but unfortunately it’s a little late for that. See, the Goa’uld started experimenting with re-evolved saurians as hosts, but then the Ancients…  oh, […]

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This is cool!
And apparently it’s still growing (to judge by the “Add An Event” button).
 
Tags: Internet, history, meme, online

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…And it’s fascinating.
Purported descendants of the Knights Templars are suing Pope Benedict for recognition of the seizure of a hundred billion Euros’ worth of their ancestors’ assets and property in the mid-1200s. (The seizure was secondary to accusations that the Order was heretical, and involved — among other things — in devil worship: but these accusations now usually […]

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While working on something else, I just caught a teaser on Euronews about this exhibition marking the reopening of the National Palace Museum in Taiwan.
I’m a sucker for antique porcelain, and this stuff is sublime.
(BTW, Gung hei fat choi, everybody. It’s the Year of the Fire Pig, which is supposed to be good for us […]

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Archaeologists have found the remains of an ancient settlement two miles from Stonehenge which seems to have been built specifically to celebrate the Winter Solstice… big time. 
The new finds at Durrington Walls, two miles northeast of the stone circle, indicate that the entire region was a large religious complex where the early Britons gathered in […]

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Not about Jade. (Well, only peripherally.)
The inevitable comments are starting to come out of the British newspapers regarding the Big Brother bullying-and-racism flap. A few of the articles are making puns on Jade’s last name, including a very specific one: Is it too late to be Goody Two-Shoes?, etc. And something about that brought my […]

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Originally uploaded by designsponge.
…Though I imagine you’d have to say the blessing real fast on the eighth night…Technorati Tags: minimalism, minimalist, Hanukkah, Chanukah

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I am a big fan of Benvenuto Cellini’s. Okay, maybe it sounds a little strange to say that, at this end of time: but the man’s personality is an endless fascination to me. He was an exquisitely talented painter and sculptor who worked for popes and kings, a contemporary and acquaintance of Michaelangelo and […]

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Took them long enough. (eyeroll)
Of course, the real joke is that the fries are actually Belgian in origin. (The WWI US “doughboys” who discovered them had simply wound up in a French-speaking part of Belgium.) The best evidence of this provenance — not concrete, granted: the dish is too old for that — can be […]

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Don’t know if I’d call them that, but unquestionably the find is important.
Fragments of an ancient manuscript, possibly more than 1,000 years old, have been uncovered in a bog.
The discovery of the Psalter or Book of Psalms in the south Midlands has already been hailed by experts as the greatest find from a European […]

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The question comes up once again, as the one-cent piece now costs more to produce than it’s worth.
…The U.S. Mint could lose a mint, or $43.5 million, producing the coin this year, according to at least one expert.
…The Mint is also losing a pretty penny on the nickel. The agency, which plans to produce 1.7 […]

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Looks like something a little unusual was going on recently up on the slopes of one of Europe’s highest mountains.
Last week, like a thunderbolt from Zeus himself, an unexpectedly large horde of pre-Christian devotees descended on Mount Olympus for the annual Prometheus festival.
Many wore white robes although a minority, it is true, came wearing […]

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