Science
The Senator – R.I.P.
Cultural Offering Blog posts that ‘The Senator’, a 3,500-year-old, 118 foot tall cyprus in Florida, burned down after being struck by lightning. Think of the implications, as this is something older than most of the great civilizations of this Earth. A profound loss. RIP. Tweet Tweet
Samoa skips Friday in leap across international date line
The island nation of Samoa just entered the history books by throwing our December 30, 2011. It never happened there. They’re now preparing for New Year’s Eve, thanks to their jumping over the International Date Line. Happy New Year to our Samoan friends! MSNBC has more on the date jump here. Tweet Tweet
My Scratchpad
Ritchie Valens — Donna - 1958
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles (via missfolly)
Such a great movie.
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by Evgeniya Reva-Slezinger
The Wise and Foolish Virgins, by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
The Third Man (1949), by Orson Welles
