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Theories On Stonehenge And Dick Cheney Abound… Ask Seamus!
Supposedly Stone Henge is all about fertility… Or was about fertility. Getting pregnant or timing the copulation just right in order to become pregnant. Or, in an agrarian culture, to gauge the...
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Our First Ancestors Put Their Feet In Their Mouths With Their Hands — And...
BREAKING NEWS from Johannesburg, where Dr. Lee Berger of the University of Witwatersrand has discovered two skulls, an intact pelvis, a foot that looks like it could have walked upright and one right...
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Aboriginal Australians And Holding Onto “The Thread,” William Stafford Style!
It starts with a strand of hair. A strand of hair from an aboriginal australian, something collected and saved for posterity over a hundred years ago… And now, the distinguished and scholarly...
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So I’m Not Gonna Lie To Ya… Things Are Getting Busy… Sorry…
Hello. I have an apology to make to you, and probably if I think about it less egotistically, myself. What am I talking or writing about? Well that’s just it. This is my first day in a hundred when I...
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Liturgy And Howling Wolves Not-With-Standing, Some Assembly Is Always...
On Christmas Eve, after a lengthy service at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral (very nice FYI), we arrived home at approximately 12:20 and I lit a fire outside. This last activity, I think, will be our...
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And What’s Jolly About the Legalese of “Christmas”?
Sarah Palin, back on Fox News, says that she’s working on another book. Hooray! Just what we need! More artifacts from this dreaded epoch which future archaeologists will discover and keep...
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There’s No Question that I Love Rocks!
A few years ago I retrieved a rock collection that I had accumulated in my youth. It included geodes, multi-faceted quartz, fool’s gold, jade, amber, pumice, copper ore and more… One specimen of...
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Waiting on Authenticity Test-Results…
Archaeologists in Turkey claim to have found a piece of the cross; that is, the cross, upon which Jesus of Nazareth was crucified for blasphemy and/or sedition. Here’s a video about the find (which...
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Seafood Selection in the Days of Kennewick Man
When Seamus Heaney wrote on The Tollund Man, the locale of the ancient remains seemed remote and off the beaten path of most Americans; that is, a peat bog on the Jutland peninsula of Denmark… which...
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What Gilgamesh and Gonzaga Have In Common: the Ravages of Time!
Can we picture the major monuments of our lives as the forgotten fragments of a culture that has ostensibly disappeared? For example, imagine the famed Mount Rushmore with the faces so eroded with...
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