What do five things make?

[shewhomust]

1. The Vikings were not the first settlers of the Faroe islands: someone else was there first - by quite a long way - though we don't know who they were, according to Durham University archaeologists.



2. Gail-Nina sent me a puffin! More precisely, this painting by Amelia Jane Murray of A Fairy Standing on a Guillmot, Watched by a Puffin, 1817－1829. That is not a guillemot. This is a guillemot, accompanied by a puffin. Manx puffins are "not ungrateful to the palate" (but do they have tails?). More fairy paintings by Amelia Jane Murray, Lady Oswald.



3. Steven Poole in the Guardian on the language of war: "For a modern American culture that runs on a religion of incessant disruption and innovation, it's odd that "unconventional weapons" are anathema. In the field of things designed to kill people, it seems that original thinking is bad."



4. My young man's a Cornishman - Jim Causley sings Charles Causley



5. Tutankhamun's underwear - how did I miss this exhibition?

Comments

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

OMG King Tut's dainties! How cool is THAT?

::archaeologyfabricSQUEE::

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I know!