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Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
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| Well...there are Internet picture libraries out there who might like them and keep them alive. Perhaps leave them to those guys? |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21362 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 26-06-2013 23:43 Post subject: |
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imagine... - Summer 2013
- 1. Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
The incredible story of a mysterious nanny who died in 2009 leaving behind a secret hoard - thousands of stunning photographs. Never seen in her lifetime, they were found by chance in a Chicago storage locker and auctioned off cheaply.
Now Vivian Maier has gone viral and her magical pictures sell for thousands of dollars. Vivian was a tough street photographer, a secret poet of suburbia. In life she was a recluse, a hoarder, spinning tall tales about her French roots. Presented by Alan Yentob, the film includes stories from those who knew her and those who revealed her astonishing work.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0366jd5/imagine..._Summer_2013_Vivian_Maier_Who_Took_Nannys_Pictures/
Duration
70 minutes
Available until
10:44PM Tue, 6 Aug 2013
One of Forteana's Strange Folk. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17931 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 29-06-2013 12:40 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Venezuela finds Vittorio Missoni crash plane
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23088866
File picture of Vittorio Missoni and his wife Maurizia Castiglioni
Vittorio Missoni and his wife, Maurizia Castiglioni, were on board the plane
Officials in Venezuela say they have found a plane that disappeared carrying the boss of Italian fashion house Missoni in January.
Vittorio Missoni, 58, and his wife were among six people on board the flight from Los Roques islands to Caracas.
Interior Ministry spokesman Jorge Galindo announced the discovery of the plane on Twitter.
Officials said it was found 70m (230ft) under water, north of Los Roques islands in the Caribbean.
Following the plane's disappearance on 4 January, investigators from the Italian Agency for Air Safety (ANSV) said the company that owned the small plane was not fully licensed to operate.
A piece of luggage from the aircraft was found off the Dutch island of Curacao, about 320km (200 miles) west of Los Roques, later that month.
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Mr Missoni was the son of the fashion brand's founder, Ottavio Missoni, and co-owned the firm with his siblings.
He was returning from a Christmas and New Year holiday with his wife, Maurizia Castiglioni, and two friends - Elda Scalvenzi and Guido Foresti.
Two Venezuelan pilots were also on board the BN-2 Islander plane.
Minutes after take-off, one of the pilots reported that the plane was at 5,000ft (1,524m) and 10 nautical miles from Los Roques airport, Italy's air safety agency has said.
The last radar report showed the aircraft accelerating at 5,400ft (1,645m) before it rapidly lost altitude and speed, veering to the right until it disappeared from the radar. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 01-07-2013 22:39 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Vietnam war veteran reunited with long-lost arm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23124347
Dr Sam Axelrad, right, hands over arm bones belonging to former North Vietnamese soldier Nguyen Quang Hung at Hung's house in Gia Lai province, Vietnam on 1 July 2013
Mr Hung, left, said he would use the arm to try to claim a war veteran's pension
A former North-Vietnamese soldier has been reunited with his arm after more than 40 years.
Nguyen Quang Hung, a Vietcong soldier during the Vietnam war, had his arm amputated by US army doctor Sam Axelrad in 1966 after his arm caught gangrene.
Dr Axelrad kept the bones of the arm as a reminder of the good deed he had performed by treating an enemy soldier.
He began a quest to track down the owner of the arm in 2012, meeting Mr Hung on Monday to return his bones.
"I'm very happy to see him again and have that part of my body back after nearly half a century," Mr Hung said.
"My arm bone is evidence of my contribution to the war. I will keep it in my house... in the glass display cabinet," he said, adding that he hoped the arm would help him claim a veteran's pension, as his army files had been lost.
He also plans to be buried with his bones.
Returning mission
Dr Sam Axelrad, left, with Nguyen Quang Hung in October 1966 in front of his military clinic in the former South Vietnam
Dr Axelrad, left, amputated Mr Hung's arm in 1966
Dr Axelrad said he was "unbelievably happy" to be able to return the arm.
"When I amputated his arm [in 1966], our medics took the arm, took the flesh off it, put it back together perfectly with wires, and then they gave it to me," he said.
"When I left the country six months later, I didn't want to throw it away, I put it in my trunk and brought it home, and all these years it has been in my house," he added.
In 2011, he returned to Vietnam and tried to find the man whose arm he had amputated - a move he later said would help provide "closure".
A local journalist wrote about his mission, and the news eventually spread back to Mr Hung.
When he heard he would get his arm back he said he "really could not believe it".
"I can't believe that an American doctor took my infected arm, got rid of the flesh, dried it, took it home and kept it for more than 40 years," he said.
He added later that he considered himself "very lucky" compared to many of his comrades who died in the war.
The Vietnam war, which ended in 1975, killed an estimated 58,000 US soldiers and three million Vietnamese. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21362 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 01-07-2013 22:57 Post subject: |
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How weird is that! Being re-united with your amputated arm! 
I'm glad they're all happy about it.  |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21362 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 20-07-2013 13:35 Post subject: |
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Wedding ring lost on Great Barrier Reef found by divers
A new husband is celebrating after the wedding ring he lost on his honeymoon on Australia's Great Barrier Reef was found by other divers just days later.
Eirian Evans, 29, of Cardiff, was snorkelling with his bride Bethan off Green Island, Cairns, when the silver ring slipped off his finger into coral.
Scuba school divers searched for the ring for hours with no luck and the couple returned to Wales without it.
But the ring is now back on his finger after arriving by post from Down Under.
Mr Evans had an email in the middle of the night to say the wedding band had been found by another customer of the scuba school who saw it glinting in the coral.
He said: "Because the ring was new and I'm not used to wearing rings I had been playing with it non-stop since our wedding day.
"I got out of the sea and went to fiddle with it and realised it had gone. I was absolutely gutted as I thought I'd lost it forever.
"When we got back on the boat and said it was missing, two of the scuba divers offered to go and look for it but they couldn't find it.
"They asked me to leave my contact details with them but I thought they were humouring me. I was convinced I would never see it again.
"I was absolutely gobsmacked when I got the email from the diving company saying someone had found it. I couldn't believe it."
The couple, both 29, met at a rugby club when they were 21.
Mr Evans proposed in October last year and the pair married in June before setting off on their two-week honeymoon.
"The trip to Australia was the trip of a lifetime," he said.
"Coming back without the ring was heartbreaking but getting it back like this is the icing on the cake."
Mrs Evans said: "I was so shocked and relieved when we found out someone had found it."
The email said another customer of the Ocean Free scuba school had been on the same snorkelling trip days later and had been looking at the seabed when he spotted the ring lodged in coral.
School co-owner Taryn Agiun, said: "It's a beautiful omen to their marriage, which I think shows they are meant to be together forever.
"It's truly amazing the ring survived, especially because fish often eat shiny or sparkly objects mistakenly for food."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-23388667 |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 21-07-2013 14:29 Post subject: |
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Film geeks will probably be aware that a previously-undocumented version of Buster Keaton's 1922 comedy The Blacksmith has been unearthed by the same researcher who found the complete Metropolis.
While silents were typically filmed with two cameras at this period, for domestic and overseas negatives, the footage in this European copy of The Blacksmith includes material which is missing from the standard prints.
The rediscovered footage has cast new light on Keaton's working methods and the studio history
There is something delightful about this level of detailed information coming from a length of old film.  |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17931 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-08-2013 21:39 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | German boy finds 'a mummy' in grandmother's attic
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23553074
A sarcophagus with a mummy on the attic of a private house in Diepholz, Germany (August 2013)
The Kettler family plan to get their "mummy" examined by archaeological experts in Berlin
A 10-year-old German boy has found what appears to be a mummy hidden in a corner of his grandmother's attic.
The "mummy" was inside a sarcophagus complete with hieroglyphic adornments, packed in a wooden crate.
But it is unclear whether the bandaged item found by Alexander Kettler in Diepholz, northern Germany, is a genuine relic from ancient Egypt.
Alexander's father Lutz Wolfgang Kettler, a dentist, said he had not X-rayed the mysterious find.
Instead he plans to load it into his car and drive it to Berlin to be examined by experts, he told the Bild newspaper.
A tourist takes a camel ride at the Giza Pyramids in Giza, Egypt (May 2013)
Could the boy's grandfather have brought home an unusual souvenir from Egypt?
Mr Kettler said he had little doubt that the sarcophagus, as well as a death mask and a canopic jar - used by ancient Egyptians to store removed organs - found nearby, were replicas.
Mummy unwrapping?
However, he believes the mummy may be real.
The dentist's late father travelled to North Africa in the 1950s.
At that time there was still a trade in genuine mummies, Mr Kettler told his local paper, Die Kreiszeitung.
And there was a trend for mummy unwrapping parties in the 1950s, he said.
Asked if the "mummy" smelled bad, Mr Kettler said no.
It had lain undisturbed in the attic for at least 40 years, he said. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 03-08-2013 21:01 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Douglas woman 'shocked' at return of purse stolen in 2003
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-23547247
Denise Coates reported her purse missing in August 2003
A woman has been reunited with her purse almost 10 years after it was stolen in the Isle of Man.
Denise Coates from Douglas reported the missing purse to police on the island in August 2003.
She said: "It is absolutely remarkable. It still contained photographs and papers of great sentimental importance."
It was found under the floorboards of a property in Douglas by a local builder who was renovating the property.
David Atkins took the purse to the police station and they tracked down Ms Coates.
Insp Derek Flint said: "It is a great story and we are delighted to have been able to help.
"We never found the culprits but it is fantastic to reunite Mrs Coates with her photographs."
The hairdresser had changed her surname twice since the theft but police tracked her down with help from police in Northern Ireland.
She said: "They tracked me down from papers I had from an old flat mate from Belfast. I was in shock - it is amazing.
"It just shows what can happen and I can't thanks Mr Atkins and the police for their help." |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 24-08-2013 13:52 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Hastings church bible thief returns it after 42 years
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-23811659
Bible that was taken from church
The 200-year-old bible was taken from the church 42 years ago
Medieval panels 'hacked' from church
A 200-year-old bible that was stolen from an East Sussex church 42 years ago has been returned by the man who took it.
Simon Scott, treasurer of Holy Trinity Church in Hastings, said a German man had taken the book in 1971.
He had come to the town with his wife to take an English language course, but was not satisfied with the teaching.
He then took the bible intending to read it and improve his English, but never got round to it.
Mr Scott said that he received an anonymous letter from the thief, which said: "You won't believe receiving this letter and you certainly won't believe receiving a bible in the post shortly."
Interior of Holy Trinity Church
The huge leather-bound edition of The Holy Bible was sent in a box
A big box containing a huge leather-bound edition of The Holy Bible with brass clasps, later arrived.
'Guilty conscience'
"He found the course was very much below par, it fell very short of expectations, despite being quite expensive," Mr Scott said the man had written.
"Some of the lessons were held in the church premises and he said he saw these bibles just sitting there, unused he felt.
"And by some sort of compensation for this very poor, expensive course, he decided to take one and try and read it at home and improve his English that way.
"In fact, he said in the letter 'I never got round to doing it'."
The thief said his wife had been "pretty angry" with him for taking the book.
"Whenever I came across the bible I would have this guilty conscience about doing it," he added in the letter.
"I've never managed to pluck up the courage to come and hand it back personally.
"But now that I've retired, I've definitely decided to get on the right side of things."
Mr Scott said he did not think the book was worth much.
"These kind of bibles were kind of standard for well-to-do families in the old days," he said.
"They used to bring it out at meal times and read it to the children but these days of course, we don't do that sort of thing and so there are a number of them lying around in churches.
"We've got ours back." |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
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| Posted: 06-09-2013 08:43 Post subject: |
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Lost - but not yet found:
Plea for return of man's lost artificial nose
A man who lost his artificial nose while on a visit to his dentist is appealing for its safe return.
Cyril Osment, of Alweston, Dorset, noticed the prosthesis was missing when he returned home from the trip in his car on Monday.
The retired newsagent, 83, had his nose removed last year because of cancer.
The silicone replacement had been held in place by magnets but Mr Osment said it had recently started to fall off.
He said: "Something must have gone wrong with the magnetic studs as it wouldn't fall off otherwise.
"My son said to me that someone could pick it up and think it was a joke nose."
He said he was hoping he would be able to get a replacement from Salisbury District Hospital, where the original prosthetic was fitted.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-23980195 |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21362 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-09-2013 07:54 Post subject: |
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'Priceless' butterflies found at Oxford museum
By Sean Coughlan, BBC News education correspondent
An A-level student on work experience at an Oxford museum has found rare examples of butterflies lost since the 19th Century.
Athena Martin, aged 17, has found butterfly specimens described as "priceless" by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
They had been brought back from South America by a Victorian naturalist.
Many of the butterflies were thought lost at sea in the 1850s.
Ms Martin's discoveries came during the summer when she was taking part in a science-related work experience project.
The school girl, who wants to study zoology at university, found and identified butterflies collected by the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.
They had been buried away in more than 3,000 separate drawers of butterflies at the museum.
Painstakingly going through the collection turned up more than 300 of Wallace's butterflies.
The biggest find made by the work experience student was a butterfly called Dismorphia, brought from the Amazon and which had remained undiscovered and unacknowledged within the museum since the end of the 19th Century.
The confusion over Wallace's collection had been caused by a fire breaking out on his ship when he was bringing back specimens from South America in 1852 - and it had been believed that most of his butterfly collection had been lost.
"The re-discovered Amazonian specimen in particular is a significant find in terms of the history of science and natural history collecting in the 19th Century," says Dr James Hogan of the Hope Entomological Collections, which are based at the museum.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-24015880
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace
| Quote: | | He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection, which he jointly published with Charles Darwin in 1858. |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-09-2013 14:11 Post subject: |
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Work Experience in a Museum! What is the country coming to?
Have we a sudden shortage of Poundlands?  |
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| Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5788 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 10-09-2013 21:11 Post subject: |
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Oh, this is awesome.
(Says she, the A level student who wants to be let loose in a museum...)
I like Wallace too. Much more likeable than Darwin.
Think of how different it could be if we had Wallaces Theory of Evolution... |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21362 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-09-2013 22:30 Post subject: |
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Constable painting found among prints in Dorset
A John Constable painting has been discovered in Dorset among an old folio of low-value prints.
The watercolour has been confirmed as one of 140 such sketches drawn and painted by the artist in 1803.
It was spotted by experts sandwiched between the prints after the owner brought the folio in for valuation.
He inherited the collection in the 1980s but thought nothing of the watercolour, which is expected to sell for more than £5,000 at auction.
Constable produced many studies while spending nearly a month on the ship East Indiaman Thomas Coutts, which toured the River Thames and the Medway before setting sail for China.
In a letter to his friend John Dunthorne, he wrote he "was much employed in making drawings of ships in all situations".
A collection of folios had been inherited by the current owner in west Dorset after it was passed down by relative Philip Coates, whose father Henry Coates founded Coates Brothers Printing Inks in London.
Valuer Amy Brenan, of Dukes Auctioneers, said Philip Coates was "an astute collector" and recorded details of each work he acquired.
But, she added, the current owner "didn't really believe it was a real Constable".
The watercolour will be auctioned at Duke's Auctioneers in Dorchester on 26 September.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-24032982 |
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