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All LJ payments are in Rubles now
Actually that changed on March 25. I don't look at my friends pages every day.
https://news.livejournal.com/157031.html
Here's the message: Changes in The LiveJournal Shop ( Read more... ) -
Erin
[my oldest sister, standing in the photo in my icon, is on the far right ( Read more... ) -
Zurbaran at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Every once in awhile, I remember this piece: St. Francis of Assissi in his tomb by Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664).
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Photos of snowflakes
Nice little piece in Science Friday on the man who originally made photos of snowflakes. Starting in the late 19th Century:
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-man-who-froze-snowflakes-in-time/ -
Letters from 1861
A couple of days ago I started transcribing letters to Abraham Lincoln that are posted in an open forum at the Library of Congress ( Read more... ) -
Christmas icon
It's time for the annual change over to the Christmas icon: the character of Codex from The Guild, a web series. They did a little thing of "A Christmas Raid Carol" using the poem "The Night Before Christmas":
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Matt Damon as Brett Kavanaugh
The cold opening on Saturday Night Live for the 2018 season:
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/saturday-night-live-season-44-premiere-matt-damon-brett-kavanaugh-1202962475/
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Peace Quote
Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill