Historical Documentary I am watching: And so the Bishop and the Mason come up with a new concept, the ribbed vault.
moonlapse: For his pleasure or the clergies'?

OH MAN, MOMENTS later they started talking about flying buttresses. And then later still there's a whole lot of grinding.

History. It's juvenile.

OKAY SO! I'm a huge fan of Time Team (today they're all excited about 'huge bits of pot' *dies forever*) but there's one thing that's always confused me about the show (and a lot of archeology in Europe in general ( Read more... )

jasonfischer emailed moonlapse (LOL! I originally wrote monotonehell there, and that would make me a crazed chick dating her first cousin, WHOOPS! Although, baykinz claims that SCIENCE says its okay, so if we ever need to hook up Andy, its totes cool)... UM WHERE WAS I ( Read more... )

Things you find out about your home-city when you're doing research for freelance work:

The city of Adelaide was named in 1836 after the wife of King William IV. The king had married Adelaide, Princess of Saxe-Meiningen, only after a long relationship, and ten children, with Mrs Dorothy Jordan, an actress.

O_O;; THANKS Lonely Planet! Now I want ( Read more... )

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Memeage that I am SURE I have done before, that I stolexored from miss_reinhardt who used her theifie ways to aquire it from edible_hat...

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

( So, here's how it works: )

Meme snagged from cryingstar, who I believe actually started it!:
1. Pick ten films you love/thoroughly enjoy.
2. Find screen stills for each film.
3. See how many of them your friends get correct.

( Are you game? )