On my posting roll, Liv Dolphin Whiskers has a question that she'd love for anyone conversant about Chinese culture and/or communism and/or death rituals to opine on.

It's posted over at History Sideshow, and it has to do with the embalming and public display of Mao's corpse ( Read more... )

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Well, this changes things.... Ancient Maya scarified boys not virgin girls: study ( Read more... )

When very elderly people I don't know die, I don't generally feel the need to get all sniffly ( Read more... )

Question: Which do you think "changed everything" more? 9/11 or the Civil War?

It appears that Jesus authorized Judas to disclose information to the Romans:WASHINGTON (AFP) - Lost for almost 1,700 years, a manuscript entitled "Gospel of Judas" is putting a new spin on the case of the biblical bad guy, maintaining that Jesus actually asked disciple Judas to betray him ( Read more... )

My dad lured me to his house for lunch with promises of the best barbeque in the whole wide world*, and we were stopped by a cop directing traffic while something was being unloaded in front of his building. We paused for a second, and then were waved through to my parents' building ( Read more... )

I'm more excited than I should be that they found an intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

Goes back to my love for all things Egypt. I blame Elizabeth Peters.

So my great aunt Ana turns 90 on Friday ( Read more... )

I was at a CLE last week, and one of the presentations was an hour long, uh, story, I guess is the best way to describe it, about the criminal trial in Tennessee state court, appeal in state court, writ of habeus corpus to federal court and then writ of habeus corpus to the Supreme Court in 1906 ( Read more... )