July 2009
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From the Mirror’s celebrity gossip pages: Lindsay Lohan looks like an extra from the blockbuster movie Gladiator as she strides through LA in knee-high black sandal boots. Perhaps ancient Roman is the latest trend or maybe she wants a patterned tan on her legs. Beyonce looks even happier in strappy pumps and nephew Daniel seems…
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From a press release via Earthtimes: Researcher David Xavier Kenney discovered the inscriptions on the 2nd to 3rd century artifact which was found on a hilltop in Norfolk County, England and is part of his collection. Among the revelations on the lance head (or contos head) is that the real King Arthur may have been…
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Dan Carpenter in the Indy Star on Sarah Palin last week (inter alia, of course): And the Obama detractors who rejected his assertion that his campaign for office was not about him are content to let her be a kind of Cleopatra in a parka, reclining symbol of lost stature. … interesting mental image …
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Excerpts from a piece at Network World … not bad: On a recent excavation, Chris Locke unearthed an amazingly well-preserved fossil of Hilarofustis atarium, commonly referred to as the Atari joystick. This is the most recent “discovery” he has made, but among his Modern Fossils collection you can also spot long-dead boom boxes, aged iPods,…
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This was the big news last month, but it now appears that mass burial at Dorset contains bodies from the Saxon period, not Roman ….
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