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Image via Wikipedia An item up at Fortean Times about Ernst Chladni caught my eye a couple of days ago because it included this paragraph: In fairness to the Age of Reason’s meteorite debunkers, an awful lot of superstition and folk tales fell from the sky. The large meteor that came down on Ensisheim, Alsace,…
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Image via Wikipedia As I dig deeper into my pile of things I’ve marked with little purple question marks, I find an interesting item I first came across toward the end of May. Something called the Londonist had a feature called An Historic London Elephant Parade which included this in its timeline: 43 AD: Emperor…
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I don’t know why this happens to me so often … I take a break from my news feed to run some errands and then I get a notice via Twitter from the folks at Biblical Archaeology Review pointing me to an article with the headline screaming: Has the Sarcophagus of Paris, Prince of Troy,…
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Image via Wikipedia Francesca Tronchin and I have been virtually shaking our heads at an item in the Guardian which includes a headlinish sort of thing: Ecce: The Romans built a 50km aqueduct from Uzès to Nîmes in France with an overall fall of about 17 metres and an average gradient of 1/3000. How did…
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Image via Wikipedia An item in the Daily Mail (hyping a television program, as often) seems to be causing some excitement: His is among the most enduring legends in our island’s history. King Arthur, the gallant warrior who gathered his knights around the Round Table at Camelot and rallied Christian Britons against the invading pagan…
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