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Bleakbourne on Heath Ch 27  Siegfried

Bleakbourne on Heath Ch 27 Siegfried

Rosie and Leryn had returned to the Ploughman’s Inn from their wedding night in Polcock’s barley field, only to find Lancelyn pacing in the tap room, and Morgause, the cat, trying to sooth him. Now they stood in the quiet stable, watching Rosie’s mare, Brunhilde.

Galahad had been with the horse all morning, keeping her company.

Patting Lance’s arm, Rosie said, “You’re right. She’s in labor. It…

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Ch 26 Bonfire Dance

Ch 26 Bonfire Dance

This episode of Bleakbourne on Heath is dedicated to Debra Hayes, who has waited so patiently for Leryn to reappear.

All over Bleakbourne on Heath, couples were preparing to dance the ritual dance, and Leryn the Bard was going to be a dancer. Tom Tailor had offered to play his crwth, which he pronounced ‘crewth,’ an old-fashioned instrument that was played with a bow, much as a viol was, and…

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Why Catholics Built Secret Astronomical Features Into Churches to Help Save Souls | Atlas Obscura Read more at the Source: Why Catholics Built Secret Astronomical Features Into Churches to Help Save Souls | Atlas Obscura

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Bleakbourne on Heath: Ch 25, The Demon Gains a Point

Bleakbourne on Heath: Ch 25, The Demon Gains a Point

The sun was well up when Leryn woke, his arm across his eyes shading him from the sunlight pouring through the window. He hadn’t seen Rosie for three days, as was traditional for an engaged couple. She’d gone to stay with Lancelyn and Galahad in their little cottage at the edge of town, and wouldn’t see him until they met in the square at sunset for the wedding ceremony.

Merlin shook him again.…

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A More Accurate World Map Wins Prestigious Japanese Design Award - StumbleUpon

A More Accurate World Map Wins Prestigious Japanese Design Award – StumbleUpon

“To design a map of the world is no easy task. Because maps represent the spherical Earth in 2D form, they cannot help but be distorted, which is why Greenland and Antarctica usually look far more gigantic than they really are, while Africa appears vastly smaller than its true size. The AuthaGraph World Map tries to correct these issues, showing the world closer to how it actually is in all its…

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Exploring Mexico’s Zone of Silence, Where Radio Signals Fail and Meteorites Crash | Atlas Obscura "There’s an area in the Chihuahuan desert in northern Mexico where radio signals don’t work, and compasses spin out of control when placed near stones on the ground.

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Abraham Lincoln’s Words, Maybe – The New Yorker "The tendency to obsess over single words and phrases reflects, in part, the semi-divine status of Lincoln in American history.

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What’s A Woggin? A Bird, a Word, and a Linguistic Mystery | Atlas Obscura "New species are discovered all the time. Unknown old species—extinct ones, found as fossils and then plugged into our historical understanding of the world—turn up a lot, too.

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Jigokudani (Hell Valley) – Noboribetsu-shi, Japan | Atlas Obscura "Some hot springs are in picturesque mountain valleys, or in mystical high desert plateaus. The springs the feed the thermal baths in Hokkaido's most popular spa town, however, flow from a blasted primordial caldera so infernal and reeking of sulfur, it was traditionally known as a gateway to hell..." Read more at the Source: Jigokudani (Hell Valley) – Noboribetsu-shi, Japan | Atlas Obscura

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The ‘Killer Women’ Writers Collective Is Turning the Page on Sexist Crime Novels | Broadly "In a lot of crime drama on TV and in a lot of books, women are just there as a token victim," says McBeth.

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The Lost Virtue of Cursive – The New Yorker "...For me, a writer of strong fuddy-duddy credentials, the sad dramatic irony really was too much. You see, cursive isn’t being taught in my daughters’ school anymore, and hasn’t been for at least six years, as long as I’ve had children in the public schools. Who would tell the cursive that it was no longer needed?" Read more at the Source: The Lost Virtue of Cursive - The New Yorker

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Zeynep Tufekci: Machine intelligence makes human morals more important | TED Talk | TED.com

Zeynep Tufekci: Machine intelligence makes human morals more important | TED Talk | TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_can_t_control_what_our_intelligent_machines_are_learning?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2016-10-22&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=talk_of_the_week_button

Machine intelligence is here, and we’re already using it to make subjective decisions. But the complex way AI grows and improves makes it hard to understand and even harder…

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The Millions : What the Deuce: The Curse Words of Charles Dickens – The Millions (Charles) Dickens was obsessed with capturing reality in all of his writings.  It just took a bit of cleverness to pull it off, to politely wiggle his way out of that very tight corset of Victorian censorship, and here are a few examples of how he did it: Read More at the Source: The Millions : What the Deuce: The Curse Words of Charles Dickens - The Millions

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If you go down to the woods today; a sylvan Trinity Knot in Co. Sligo | Irish Archaeology forest, Sligo, Trinity knot, wood Source: If you go down to the woods today; a sylvan Trinity Knot in Co. Sligo | Irish Archaeology

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An Oscar-Winning Short Film About Stuttering and Love – The New Yorker “In rehearsals, we put all our time into making the stuttering authentic,” Cleary said. They studied tapes and came up with rules for the sounds Greenwood would get caught on.

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Y’all, You’uns, Yinz, Youse: How Regional Dialects Are Fixing Standard English | Atlas Obscura In “standard American English,” meaning, essentially, schoolroom English, the second person pronoun is “you,” for either singular or plural.