( Just a pagan / witch joke. )

Oh. My. God. The Ivory Billed Woodpecker is NOT extinct!

I thought I heard a story about this on the morning news (in my bleary time) but I decided I must have dreamed it. This is a huge day brightener. I've cut the whole Reuters story and placed it behind this cut.

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Today is Harper Lee's Birthday.  Does that make her a Taurus? 
I'm interested in the website "The Writer's Almanac" uses as source / related link:  Harper Lee & To Kill A Mockingbird.  The author of the site seems nearly as intriguing as Miss Lee herself.  Here's a snippet from a section called: Why the Site.

• The twenty-seventh day of April I ( Read more... )

"South Korea has warned North Korea not to conduct a nuclear test, following fresh warnings that the North is building up a nuclear arsenal."

( From the BBC Feed )

"Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and 'swept along by every wind of teaching,' looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as ( Read more... )

It's the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci.  And the 19th birthday of my daughter M--.

( Courtesy of 'The Writer's Almanac': )

It was on this day in 1828 that Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language.

( Courtesy of 'The Writer's Almanac': )

This is a backdated entry, actually posted on July 15, 2005, which allows me to capture a news story that I don't want to lose. (Web-based news providers often delete or archieve old stories ( Read more... )