AFP – Presentation/The Story Behind The Photo: Pope John Paul II Fighting The Winds Of Change (tags: Photography AFP JohnPaul)
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The Archaeology Channel – Atipanakuy This video of two Peruvian “scissors dancers” seems to be making some sort of point about the struggle between native Peruvian and imposed Spanish culture through the ages, but I’m damned if I can make it out. It’s in Quechua with Spanish and English subtitles, but the text seems to be saying something about dreams and harps and violins and a lot of poetic what-not. As the Scotsman newspaper notes in a review elsewhere, “for specialist tastes only” as the ritualistic nature of this dance apparently involves putting objects up the nose, which is “rather…
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BBC NEWS | Europe | Ancient dagger found in Bulgaria It’s made of an alloy of gold and platinum that wasn’t believed to exist for another millennium. Although it’s broken into at least 2 pieces, it’s still sharp enough to shave with, according to one observer. It’s 5,000 years old, and was once the most beautiful weapon on Earth. Though no one is saying anything about the more than 15,000 tiny gold rings also found in the same site, they might have been from a chainmail shirt or garment of some type (rather than bits of broken jewelry). A shirt…
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NOOOOO! They’ve installed advertising flatscreens in the elevators at work! It’s not truly “television,” but it’s yet another commercial intrusion into one of life’s little bastions of peace. It was bad enough when Muzak was all the rage, and you were forced to listen as you went from floor to floor, but I had hoped that we’d be spared ads in our obscure and out of the way suburban building. Dang. Via: Flickr Title: 08-08-06_1503.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 8 Aug ’06, 3.04pm CDT PST Technorati Tags: Advertising