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Today, people of Italian heritage are choosing heroes that are closer to modern times-
Christopher Columbus, long in the grave, as the descendants of his victims cry out.

Tompkins Square Records’ Josh Rosenthal was meandering through YouTube a week ago
when he happened to come across the classic “Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day,”
probably because the star of the spot, Anthony Martignetti, died in August. Shuman
shot the documentary-style commercial, which first aired in the fall of 1969 and stayed
in heavy rotation for 13 years.

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/10/08/kai-mort-shuman-berkeley-ca-photographer-death

Kai Mort Shuman

R.I.P

:rose:

Was 85 yrs. old, when whe died

Shuman spent the decade from 1960-1970 documenting New York City’s cultural ferment,
and photographed Odetta, Nina Simone and the Beatles, among others.

Oct. 8, 2020

- Andrew Gilbert

Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1935, Shuman “was kind of known as a Jewish cowboy
who did rodeo as a teenager,” McClain said. Interested in photography from the age of
12, he used the camera as a vehicle to make his way in the world.

He earned a degree in English from the University of Colorado and did his military service
in the mid-1950s as a photographer on an aircraft carrier. After mustering out of the Navy
he worked various jobs in Denver, and by 1960 had made his way east, pursuing his dream
as a photographer in New York City. Frequenting folk spots like Cafe Wha? and the Night
Owl, “he’d get to know the managers and ask if he could come in and take photos,”
McClain said. “That’s how he got to know a lot of the musicians.”

He may have missed the big money, but Shuman made his mark, shooting album covers
for Phil Ochs, Eric Anderson, Leslie Gore, the Everly Brothers, and many others, while
documenting the leading figures on the Village folk scene, including Dave Van Ronk and
Simon and Garfunkel.

On the Fine Art America website where prints of his work are for sale, he told the story of
shooting Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall, when she was about to sing Kurt Weill and Bertolt
Brecht’s fierce fantasy of comeuppance “Pirate Jenny” from The Threepenny Opera.

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/10/08/kai-mort-shuman-berkeley-ca-photographer-death
 
A child's fairy tale let a bit of reality to leak through-

New York Daily News ✓
Twitter › NYDailyNews

Georgia is currently experiencing an infestation of an invasive species of snake-like
carnivorous worms, according to wildlife experts.

16 minutes ago

Don’t be alarmed if you see a foot-long slithering creature with a head shaped
like a half moon pop up in your yard after a long rain.

This slippery fellow is not a snake, nor a monster from a science fiction novel.
According to Garrett Hibbs, Hall County UGA cooperative extension agent,
this invasive species is commonly known as the hammerhead worm, a native
resident of Southeast Asia.

They’re often yellow or green in color with a few dark stripes running down their
bodies and can grow up to a foot in length. Hibbs said like earthworms, hammerhead
worms often migrate to the surface after wet weather events.

Hibbs said hammerhead worms have no known natural predators in Georgia,
but are oddly cannibalistic.

Pufferfish toxin ?

https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/li...d-worm-heres-what-they-are-and-what-they-eat/
 
Mystery mounds of the Caddo

Nov. 27, 2020

Caddo Mounds State Historic Site outside of Alto preserves the remains
of a once great Native American society that occupied the forests of East
Texas.

The Caddo mounds were largely abandoned by 1300.

The culture that had flourished for nearly 1,000 years began unraveling
with European-introduced diseases.

On April 13, 2019, the historic site was hit by a tornado as visitors celebrated
Caddo Culture Day.

Although the mounds were undamaged, the visitors' center was destroyed
except for a porch awning. Gone are the interpretive museum and a replica
of a beehive-shaped traditional Caddo grass house.

https://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2020-11-27/day-trips-caddo-mounds-state-historic-site-alto/

A thousand years, ago, Native Americans knew from tribal elders, when to move on.
(Before the invasion.) Traveling was a way of life, and there was tribal memory to
help avoid loss, damage, and trouble. Sadly, just like now, pandemics killed off the
people that had accumulated knowledge and experience. Matters did not improve the
helpful "library," when religious fanatics kidnapped the children, and prevented the
next generation from memorizing tribal lore.
 
Indian Country Today
Twitter › IndianCountry

India’s factory schools cut students off from family, religion and language.
A familiar story: ‘It goes without saying that none of us find any redeeming
grace at all in those residential schools’

link to https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/

10 hours ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
The latest spot for the monolith to pop up-

"New mystery metal monolith appears on a California mountaintop"

- The Guardian
 
The wooden cross, too, has now been taken down.

The original monolith arrived at a time when many anniversaries received recognition.

Anti- LGBTQ in Utah ? Say it is not so! /end mockery sequence
 
The 2001 monolith returns as a lovely Christmas monolith,
made of gingerbread and icing.

Thomas à Becket's name pops up in 2020 -

Has Thomas Becket's treasured 'little book' been found?

26 December 2020

One reason for scepticism had been the psalter's absence from an early 14th Century
inventory of the cathedral's manuscripts, a list that does include about 75 other volumes
that had once belonged to Becket, along with the shelf numbers where they were kept
in a passage way off the cloisters. (It's still a storage area today, de Hamel notes, where
vergers keep their bicycles and gardeners their watering cans.)

But this could now be explained: the psalter wasn't kept with the other manuscripts,
but in a store room for valuables, or on the shrine of St Thomas - as Becket became
within three years of his murder on 29 December 1170.

De Hamel and Poleg gazed at the 8in-by-6in manuscript "trembling with excitement",
de Hamel writes in a short book published earlier this year, The Book in the Cathedral:
The Last Relic of Thomas Becket. There was no jewelled Anglo Saxon silver-gilt binding
this would have been torn off and melted down during the Reformation, but here was
a book, de Hamel now felt, that was surely a lost holy relic of the Middle Ages.

"...everything connected with Becket and his cult, the shrine was destroyed on Henry
VIII's orders in 1538. Officials smashed two stained glass windows that must have
depicted the life of Becket, says Anne Duggan, but left others intact, probably because
they didn't realise they contained images of the martyred archbishop.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-55370722
 
January 13, 2021

You can now view thousands of federal documents on UFOs online.

In an interview with Vice’s Motherboard, Greenewald stated the
CD-Rom format from the CIA was an intentional effort to make
access and sharing of the documents difficult.

“The CIA has made it INCREDIBLY difficult to use their records
in a reasonable manner,” Greenewald told Motherboard.
“They offer a format that is very outdated (multi page .tif)
and offer text file outputs, largely unusable, that I think they
intend to have people use as a “search” tool. In my opinion,
this outdated format makes it very difficult for people to see
the documents, and use them, for any research purpose.”

https://www.masslive.com/news/2021/...d-ufo-black-vault-documents-from-the-cia.html
 
Archeologists digging at France’s Clermont-Ferrand Airport -
have discovered the remains of a 2,000-year-old, upper-class,
Roman baby and his pet dog. This rare Roman baby burial
discovery further challenges traditional ideas that Romans
unceremoniously disposed of their children.

What makes it unique is that the baby was buried with what appears to be its
pet dog , with a bell collar. What’s more, the child’s coffin was found in a
6-by-3-foot grave (1.8 by 0.9 meters) with twenty objects that had been ritually
placed around the child’s body. Among the grave goods were twenty terracotta
vases and glass pots, two headless chickens, half a pig, three hams and other
pork cuts also added to the burial.

The conclusion: this was one seriously rich Roman kid.

According to a paper on Taylor Francis Online , children in Roman literary sources
received “special protections under the law until the age of seven.”

In the archaeological record Roman children are most often found buried differently
from adults.

A Baby Buried with a BBQ Banquette

This particular Roman baby lived just decades after the alleged birth of Jesus
during the reign of either Emperor Augustus (27 BC to 14 AD) or Tiberius
(14 to 37 AD).

Cremation was practiced prior to the Twelve Table (approx. 451B.C.)

Burial again became the custom when Christianity was introduced.

http://www.classicsunveiled.com/romel/html/romedead.html

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/roman-baby-burial-0014811

Much like today, the dead are given what the living can afford.

The early NY coronavirus pandemic bodies were dumped unceremoniously in pits.

The beginning of hiding the true numbers of coronavirus deaths.
 
Parts of the world go missing.

Scientists find evidence of the people that lived there, before they lost their home.

May 29, 2019

Doggerland covers a vast swath between the eastern coast of Britain and mainland
Europe. Looking at it now, you would never think that it was once home to a settlement
of Mesolithic humans some 10,000 years ago — because the region is submerged
beneath the North Sea.

Based on its size — about the same as the U.S. state of Colorado — researchers estimate
that thousands of ancient humans lived in the region alongside other prehistoric creatures.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/doggerland

https://www.keralapool.com/photos/doggerland-humans.html
 
The Trump Baby team has said:

'While we're pleased that the Trump Baby can now be consigned to history
along with the man. himself, we're under no illusions that this is the end of
the story. We hope the baby's place in the museum will stand as a reminder
of when London stood against Trump — but will prompt those who see it
to examine how they can continue to fight against the politics of hate.'

(This past this week the Museum of London's confirmed that it's now officially
in possession of the blimp — expected to be displayed at the Museum's new
home in West Smithfield someday.)

- January 18, 2021

https://londonist.com/london/museums-and-galleries/museum-of-london-acquires-trump-baby-blimp
 
Lucius Cornelius Sulla (l. 138 - 78 BCE) enacted his constitutional reforms (81 BCE)
as dictator to strengthen the Roman Senate's power. Sulla was born in a very turbulent era
of Rome's history, which has often been described as the beginning of the fall of the Roman
Republic. The political climate was marked by civil discord and rampant political violence
where voting in the Assembly was sometimes settled by armed gangs. There were two
primary opposing factions in Roman politics: the Optimates who emphasized the leadership
and prominent role of the Senate, and the Populares who generally advocated for the rights
of the people.

During this era, senatorial power was curbed and significant progress was made for the
rights of the common folk, particularly the magistracy of tribune of the plebs, which
was specifically created to be a guardian of the people. Sulla was an Optimate and
after his rise to power, he declared himself dictator and passed several reforms to
the constitution to revitalize and restore senatorial power to what it once was.

Although his reforms did not last very long, his legacy greatly influenced Roman politics
in the final years of the Republic until it fell in 27 BCE.

https://www.ancient.eu/article/1481/sullas-reforms-as-dictator/

Noor, did Byron in Exile preternaturally study Rome, and read the records
of the past, in the original Latin ?

(Then again, written Latin leads to many roads.)
 
Is it true ?

Sigurd the Mighty, the ninth-century Viking Earl of Orkney,
managed to get killed by a man whom he’d beheaded.

Following a particularly vicious battle, the earl tied the head of his enemy
to his horse’s saddle, and he was grazed by one of the dead man’s teeth
while riding home. He died from the resulting infection of his leg wound.

Máel Brigte of Moray, the Pict

"In Moray, Sigurd feuded with the local nobleman Máel Brigte, known as Máel
Bucktoothed or Máel Tusk because of his protruding buckteeth."

https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ice/is3/is302.htm
 
June 25, 2019

- Marco Margaritoff

After the British discovered the Nazis' meth-like secret weapon in a downed
German plane, they decided to develop their own performance-enhancement
program.

According to LiveScience, both American and British soldiers boosted their physical
alertness using cocaine and Benzedrine, an amphetamine that allowed GIs to make it
through grueling, endless hours of exhaustion.

From physical exhaustion and mental fatigue to overriding immediate shell shock
and squashing the debilitating effects of unimaginable fear, soldiers on both sides
of World War II were purposefully dosed in order to be at their best.

Benzedrine wasn’t entirely safe. (2017 America is cursed, an addict takes office.)

“It stops you from sleeping, but it doesn’t stop you from feeling fatigued,” explained
World War II historian and PBS documentary consultant James Holland. “Your body
has no chance to recover from the fatigue it’s suffering, so there comes a point where
you come off the drug and you just collapse, you can’t function.”

https://allthatsinteresting.com/amphetamine-use-world-war-2
 
Green algae are found around the world and help form the foundation
of the aquatic food web. Along with other photosynthetic organisms like
cyanobacteria, diatoms, and dinoflagellates — which are given the umbrella
term phytoplankton — green algae function as a sort of biological carbon pump,
consuming carbon dioxide on a scale equivalent to trees and other land plants in
terrestrial ecosystems.

The researchers conducted feeding experiments with live bacteria that were labeled
with a non-toxic fluorescent dye and combined the bacteria with five different strains
of unicellular green algae called prasinophytes for analyses through a flow cytometer
which helps scientists analyze cell properties in solution. The flow cytometer measured
increasing levels of green fluorescence in the algal cells over time, suggesting that the
algae were consuming the glowing bacteria. To confirm that ingestion was actually
occurring, the researchers used high-precision microscopy to pinpoint the origin of
the green fluorescence to the interior of the algal cells. In the process, the team
discovered two particular quirks about the finicky eaters: the algal strains they tested
only ate live bacteria (dead bacteria in the experiments were left untouched), and
they ate more when the levels of other nutrients were low. These findings have
large implications for the environmental study of green algae.

“Traditionally when people study bacterial ingestion by algae in the oceans for
environmental samples, they use fluorescently labeled bacteria that have been killed
in the labeling process,” Charvet said. “At least for the five algal strains we had in
culture, they preferentially feed on the live bacteria and seem to be snubbing the killed
bacteria. This means that the impact of algae on bacterial communities in their natural
environment has possibly been underestimated drastically because of the methods used.”

https://scitechdaily.com/littlest-shop-of-horrors-hungry-green-algae-prefer-to-eat-bacteria-alive/

It has been more than 10 years, and the krill are still suffering.
 
In a pretty churchyard in Woodplumpton, a village not far from Preston
in Lancashire, is a mysterious old grave with many dark tales attached to it.
A large boulder – terribly out of place among smart Victorian and Edwardian
headstones – is said to cover the grave of a witch.

Ten people, mostly members of two feuding families who lived close to Pendle Hill,
East Lancashire, were executed in 1612 after being accused of witchcraft and marched
many miles over Lancashire’s hills to go on trial at Lancaster Castle. The testimony of
a nine year old girl, Jennet Device, a relative of many of the accused, helped to send
the Pendle witches to the gallows and through the widespread coverage of the case
the legend of the Pendle witches was born.

The strange grave at Woodplumpton dates isn’t linked to the case of the Pendle witches –
it dates from almost a century later, by which time much of the hysteria around witch hunts
had died down – although belief in witches and witchcraft could still be found. The grave
is said to be occupied by Meg Shelton, who died in 1705.

The apparently deviant nature of her burial – head down – and the heavy boulder
above her grave show that she was feared by some members of the community,
although the location of her grave in a consecrated churchyard signifies a more
respectful burial than many of those accused of witchcraft were afforded;

the indignity of an unmarked grave in some lonely, unconsecrated spot.

https://flickeringlamps.com/2015/08/14/buried-under-a-boulder-the-grave-of-a-lancashire-witch/
 
Guédelon Castle: France’s Brand New Medieval Castle

Nov 7, 2016

Deep in the forests of central France, an unusual archeological and historical experiment
is taking place. A team of stonemasons, carpenters, blacksmiths, quarrymen, tile makers
and workers of other professions are painstakingly building a medieval castle from scratch,
using only tools, materials and techniques available in the Middle Ages.

The castle consists of four towers connected by high curtain walls with an inner courtyard
and living quarters. The year of construction was taken as being 1228.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/11/guedelon-castle-frances-brand-new.html

They are making the same mistakes, too.
 
Saint George's Day

Shakespeare's birth day and his death day ?

April 23, 2021

PBS gifts many with a version of Romeo and Juliet, on Great Performances

“During the ongoing performance shutdown in London and New York, we’re delighted
to participate in this compelling hybrid of theater and film that brings an exciting
contemporary perspective to one of Shakespeare’s most iconic plays,”
said Great Performances Executive Producer David Horn.

"This stylized film of Shakespeare’s masterpiece celebrates the theatrical imagination,
moving from the stripped-down aesthetic of a rehearsal into a cinematic journey that
embraces the architecture of the theater space and varied backstage spaces of the
National’s Lyttelton Theatre.

“We’re thrilled to continue our partnership with the National Theatre.”

(A sweet tribute. If a little bit odd.)

Not as odd as"Orlando" (1992)

Quentin Crisp dressed in drag, and voiced Queen Elizabeth I.
 
In 2019, Mr. Richards announced — “with regret” — the shuttering of the
Apostrophe Protection Society. He was 96 and was “cutting back.”
Furthermore, he conceded, “the ignorance and laziness present
in modern times have won!”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...7c1994-a425-11eb-a774-7b47ceb36ee8_story.html

:rose:

R.I.P

John Richards

John passed away peacefully in hospital, with his children by his side, on March 30, 2021,
aged 97.

https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2021/04...ety-and-lincolnshire-journalist-dies-aged-97/
 
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