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I've been doing A LOT of online research the past week or so and some of it I just HAVE to share and some I am recording for my own later use.

Viking Hoard, including some interesting "buttons" and associated silks in Dunmore, County Kilkenny - Info here, here, and here. Sadly, limited info for now. However, since it is not related to the current ( Read more... )

It's been a good week for digitized books. This time we have the Islamic manuscript collections from Princeton.

I thought this might be of general interest - the Edinburgh University Press has all their online journal content available for free download through the end of February. Happiness.

Well, the first half of my day was damned productive. I got up early (well, early for me on a Saturday at least) and went to the bank, the copy shop, the post office, a bead store, a fabric store (yay for tuned up machines!), a fossil shop and two libraries, all before 5PM!

Those of you who have been promised Twelfth Night prezzies, articles, drug ( Read more... )

Bright and early on Friday morning, cass_lee  showed up at my house to head to Minot for Crown Tourney. I was even mostly ready, save feeding the birdies and collecting my electronics that had been charging overnight. Sadly, I did NOT have the car packed to the gills with linen - the order never came! I contacted the warehouse today and should have an ( Read more... )

So, something was bothering me about the 35th Anniversary event and I could not quite put my finger on it... And then
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A little bit of a biography of a cool renaissance woman,
a little bit of a study on the vagarities of research
and how sometimes everything falls perfectly into place.

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While in Boston, I absolutely fell in love with a portrait in the Isabella Stuart Gardner Gallery. ( Read more... )

I was organizing some of my notes from my trip out East and ran across my notes for my discussion with Cariadoc of the Bow. The notes included, in part, some information about Anglo-Saxon lyres. Since I know that
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