Day: March 29, 2007

  • The citizens of which nation are semi-obsessed with finding meteors?

    Swedish people, for whatever reason, are very interested in whether or not the rock they found on their last hike could be a meteorite. Don’t believe me? Follow the link. And Washington University in St. Louis is sick of it. They don’t want you contacting them any more and asking if you have a meteorite,…

  • Early Christian Sarcophagus

    Early Christian Sarcophagus

    Imperial Rome Exhibit, Fernbank – Early Christian Sarcophagus 4th century CE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Rome. From the cemetery of Sanc Syriac. Dec 2006 Imperial Rome Exhibit, Fernbank – Early Christian Sarcophagus 4th century CE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Rome. From the cemetery of Sanc Syriac. Dec 2006

  • In case you haven’t watched it since you were a child, Jason and the Argonauts is really good

    We’ve been watching the 1963 “Jason and the Argonauts” because of Ray Harryhausen’s special effects. We suspected H.o.p. would love them, and he does. What I didn’t expect is I’d enjoy the movie. I didn’t like “Jason and the Argonauts” when I saw it as a child. At least I don’t remember myself as being…