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The medieval manuscript that features yoda, killer snails, savage rabbits and more: Discover The Smithfield Decretals (Image above)
Viking Invasion The Minnesota Vikings traveled to Churchill, Manitoba - Polar Bear Capital of the world - on a mission to see the Northern Lights. Via (MeFi)
“Like many Americans, I feel a deep embarrassment and regret for how Trump has insulted our great northern neighbor. It’s the sort of thing one might feel after a drunk relative has trashed someone’s house and gravely insulted its owner. All we can hope is that a people known for their forbearance can forgive us sometime down the road.”
With Apologies to Canada "Titanic is the last surviving eyewitness to the disaster, and she still has stories to tell.” A detailed analysis of a full-sized digital scan of the Titanic has revealed new insight into the doomed liner's final hours. Link
I’d been looking forward to seeing the renovation of the Frick Collection in NYC but I cannot visit the US while the relationship between our countries is so fraught. I’ll have to content myself with photos and videos for now.
Vincenzo Pagliuca photographs lonely houses
Correspondence: Excerpts from letters received by the British pensions office.
Death Squared: The Universe 25 experiment, carried out by American scientist John Calhoun between 1968 and 1972, produced an unexpected result. A once thriving community of 2,200 of mice had collapsed. Just over 100 remained alive, and soon they would all be dead. The mice would become extinct. It’s a fascinating study about the social effects of population density.
"Hey, this is a very precarious situation we're in." Starliner’s flight to the space station was wilder than we thought.
For the American liberators, their up-close view of the horrors of Mauthausen and their interactions with the Spanish antifascist survivors was a lifelong vaccine against extremism. Via Miss Cellania
Tango Via Memo Of The Air
Ronin, a landmine-hunting rat in Cambodia, has set a new world record by sniffing out more than 100 mines.
I live in a border town and used to go to the US a couple of times a month to shop, visit family, go to concerts or the Albright-Knox, or catch a flight. There is nothing that would induce me to border hop now but I know many Canadians who must travel to the US for work or other reasons. Here is some advice: How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact.
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