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The Ossuary of Sedlec
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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The Ossuary at Sedlec. One of the highlights of living in Prague, and who better to interpret it than Jan Svankmajer!
Pilgrims of the Wild - Grey Owl
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A light read, but, like the last book by Henry Miller, far too preoccupied with Beaver. Nonetheless an interesting life - although a more succinct and factual account can be found in the Wiki.
Link: Wikipedia on Grey Owl
Abe Lincoln Signature
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
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When Western Illinois University's University Television (UTV) Associate Director Roger Kent looked a bit closer at a picture that had been hanging in his office for a few years, he noticed what looked like a signature belonging to the nation's 16th president. Curiosity got the better of him, so he contacted a Lincoln authority: the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield."
Of course it's real, otherwise I wouldn't be linking to it. Read more at Science Daily. Hidden in plain sight...
Austrian Jewelry Hoard
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Man goes to dig up garden. He's expanding his pond. And he finds around 200 pieces of medieval jewelry, brooches and rings encrusted with pearls and inset with gems.
"Austria’s department in charge of national antiquities said the trove consists of more than 200 rings, brooches, ornate belt buckles, gold-plated silver plates and other pieces or fragments, many encrusted with pearls, fossilized coral and other ornaments."
Read more here: Gizmodo & CBC.
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