Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Kao tao
A man in Chengdu (Sichuan Province) pulled over his car to urinate and in doing so accidentally unearthed a Song Dynasty (960-1279) funerary statue. Usually found in male/female pairs by tombs, they are depicted kowtowing (from the Cantonese kao tao, a bow showing deep respect) to ward of evil spirits.
http://shanghaiist.com/2014/04/28/mans-roadside-pee-unearths-ancient-chinese-artifact.php
Friday, 25 April 2014
If There Was Ever an Omen...
Man crushed to death by falling crucifix dedicated to recently canonized John Paul II
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/new-saints/pope-john-paul-ii-crucifix-falls-crushes-man-death-n89546
Kind of reminds me of the lightning striking the Vatican after the abdication of the Pope last year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21630874http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21630874
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/new-saints/pope-john-paul-ii-crucifix-falls-crushes-man-death-n89546
Kind of reminds me of the lightning striking the Vatican after the abdication of the Pope last year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21630874http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21630874
Thursday, 24 April 2014
Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Second Sedna
Deeper than the orbit of demoted ex planet Pluto.
Deeper than Eris, dwarf planet of chaos, strife and discord, dark daughter of Night and the son of Time.
But not as deep as Sedna. Iniut daughter thrown into the sea by her father. She held vainly to the side of the kayak but her father cuts off her fingers with an axe and down she goes, into the deep.
She becomes the Sea Goddess. Ruler of the monsters of the deep.
2012 VP113 isnt as deep as that.
But its still deep.
2012 VP113 is anounced as a new dwarf planet on the 26th March 2014.
2nd April 2014 sand from sand storms in the Sahara fall on Southern England. I can taste sand when I breathe. I thought it was all the building sites. My back aches. My knees ache.
There's been a big earthquake in Chile.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/03261345-a-second-sedna-what-does-it-mean.html
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