(just so you know how that scene started...)
Meanwhile:
AMAZING cloth face masks, featuring classic paintings. The Last Supper? Mona Lisa? Starry, Starry Night? They're all here.
A gigantic marble hand is discovered by archeologists in Jordan -- along with part of an elbow. Could it be fragments of a Statue of Hercules, said to be the tallest ever made? (Darn, I was hoping for remnants of the Colossos of Rhodes .)
On the other hand: (yes, I'm being funny)
The hillside giant Cerne Abbas probably isn't Roman, after all -- two types of snail shells used for whitening and defining the figure weren't around that early. And that probably pushes out the possibility that this guy is Hercules. The figure may be medieval era, though. The newest version shows him wearing a facemask!
More treasure found via metal detector in the UK last year than ever before.
The worst year in the world? According to some historians, it's 536 A.D. But not for museum employees...
Seventeen American museums have cut nearly 1500 jobs. This won't be the final count, either.
Twenty things worth stockpiling. Although I'm guessing that some are getting tired of rearranging their walls of toilet paper rolls.
Mafia types' favorite recipes. (Yes, most are Italian. Is that racist? But true... thanks, Ranker)
Mom and ducklings make it -- thanks to a protective line of New Yorkers blocking the street.
"Racism will not go away -- it never has!" A penetrating essay, written not by a black person, but an Asian one. (Keithproductions) Interesting, particularly when I just read another Asian blogger reminding his readers that he's experienced racism, too. (And was promptly told by some of his readers that his experience either wasn't really racism, or was trivial in comparison -- because he wasn't black. The commenters saying it, by the way, were white women, proud that they were showing political correctness. I will not, however, be calling them the K---- word.)
'Living Through It's A Wonderful Life.' The point of the essay: it wasn't. Sounds so familiar now, but it's dated 2008. Does this mean people have gone through hard times before this -- and survived?!? (Yes, we can, too.)
Michael Cohen's back in custody. Serves him right for being such a doofus.
Tem fascinating deathbed confessions. Wallis Simpson didn't really love Edward VIII at the end of his life??? (From Listverse)
How do you keep your beloved pet around? Dickens used a cats paw - literally
Ten nasty overlooked details of historic events. One example: President Lincoln's corpse, with no refrigeration available, didn't look so good after it toured the country by rail for a while. Ewwww. (From Listverse)
Lincoln's rotting corpse, goose genocide, dogs left behind in Vietnam
Charlotte, North Carolina's Channel 46 dancing weatherman has a danceoff-- but in this case, I think he got beat. (He's good -- she's terrific.)
Now Goya's president is on the line for speaking his opinion. Various celebrities and politicians are theatening to boycott the company's products. I hate to see bullying, wherever it comes from, and whatever reasons are given. Others are combating celebrities' and politicians' calls to boycott, and urging people to "Buy-cott," instead. A Go-Fund-Me to buy Goya foods to donate to the hungry has raised more than $58,000... out of a $10,000 goal.
Will this effort have the same effect that the threatened boycott did on Chick-Fil-A? Shame on Chick-Fil-A, by the way, for promoting that black lives truly matter, and reinforcing it in their Georgia roots.
Have a good week. If it's hot in your neck of the woods...hang in there.
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