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vonjunzt! May your day be all you could wish.
Stop, Look, and Listen:
Every day this month, the BBC Magazine will be featuring a classic public information film from the past six decades. Today's is a "must see." It has everything, including the Grim Reaper's twin as "the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water," backed by eerie narration by Donald Pleasence. Mere description cannot do it justice. Go and check it out:
Sensible children! I have no power over them!
(Thanks toaltariel1 for the lead.)
In other news, an intact tomb with five sarcophagi has been discovered in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, the first such find since 1922:
"Intact Tomb Found in Valley of the Kings"
And a quote for the day:
A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved; Caesar would have spared his country; America would have been discovered more gradually; and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.
from Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
vonjunzt! May your day be all you could wish.Stop, Look, and Listen:
Every day this month, the BBC Magazine will be featuring a classic public information film from the past six decades. Today's is a "must see." It has everything, including the Grim Reaper's twin as "the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water," backed by eerie narration by Donald Pleasence. Mere description cannot do it justice. Go and check it out:
Sensible children! I have no power over them!
(Thanks to
altariel1 for the lead.)In other news, an intact tomb with five sarcophagi has been discovered in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, the first such find since 1922:
"Intact Tomb Found in Valley of the Kings"
And a quote for the day:
A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved; Caesar would have spared his country; America would have been discovered more gradually; and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.
from Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
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Date: 2006-02-10 12:43 am (UTC)*VERY* cool news about the Valley of the Kings! Can you imagine the high those archeologists must of had when they found that???
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Date: 2006-02-10 11:55 pm (UTC)LOL! It's pretty sinister, isn't it? Sinister cheese!
Can you imagine the high those archeologists must of had when they found that???
Good grief, I was having a high just imagining it!!! It must've been/must be amazing.
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Date: 2006-02-10 01:14 am (UTC)*goes news hunting*
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Date: 2006-02-10 11:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-10 03:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-10 11:56 pm (UTC)I know exactly what you mean - Donald Pleasence can be scary without even showing his face! Yikes!
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Date: 2006-02-10 03:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-10 11:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-10 03:53 am (UTC)Happy birthday to [info]vonjunzt! May your day be all you could wish.
Thanks! I'm surprised you checked my info for that!
That find is interesting, but I feel sorry for the archaeologists who found it. CNN doesn't say who it was, and the BBC article I read talked all about Zahi Hawass and Weeks without ever mentioning who or what group found this new tomb.
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Date: 2006-02-11 07:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-10 05:47 am (UTC)Love that song by Kate Bush, that whole album is good...it's got it's own creepy spots. Speaking of old films and The Whole Story...puts me in mind of "Duck and Cover". The atom bomb was the ultimate boogie man still when I was young.
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Date: 2006-02-11 08:04 pm (UTC)I won't disagree with you there!
If no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquility of his domestic affections....the world would be a very predictable and boring place.
I definitely see what you mean there; I found it an interesting idea, though, that if we live in such a way that we divorce ourselves from feeling the simple connections - love, empathy, sympathy, etc. - that this is when we prove capable of some of the worst of history's tragedies.
I do indeed love Kate Bush. Her new "Joanni" from Aerial is an instant favorite for me. Good point about the bomb being the boogie man, as well. Students today don't appreciate what an ever-present danger it was in our minds.
Valley of the Kings
Date: 2006-02-10 03:25 pm (UTC)Interestingly enough, I did a research paper and presentation in college for one of my art history classes on Howard Carter's discovery ... I don't think most people realize that Carter had very little money left (and his principal financial backer for these digs had just told him "no more $"). He had just enough for approx. two months worth of 'searching' and after that he would have had to pack up and leave. He had only his theories of where the tomb might be, along with his instinct ... see, it always pays to follow those instincts!!
I got an 'A' on that research paper, by the way! LOL
Re: Valley of the Kings
Date: 2006-02-11 07:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-10 06:10 pm (UTC)Hope you're having a wee bit of time to yourself these days. Down time, that is. I'm thinking of you and hope you're not running yourself ragged, though given your travel schedule, it seems impossible.
♥ you!
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Date: 2006-02-11 07:55 pm (UTC)Hello
Date: 2006-02-11 02:41 am (UTC)Love your quote.
Re: Hello
Date: 2006-02-11 07:56 pm (UTC)