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In the US, they have Clubs for those who reenact civil war battles, and hold fake Medieval festivals, but in Europe, they go in for real live jousting
and they also have role playing fake medieval battles: more here.
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The Phila Museum of art is having a Rembrant exhibition including this famous portrait of Christ.
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In posing an ethnographically correct model and using a human face to depict Jesus, Rembrandt overturned the entire history of Christian art, which had previously relied on rigidly copied prototypes for Christ. This exhibition, the first Rembrandt exhibition in Philadelphia since 1932 and the first ever in the city to include paintings by the Dutch master,
Factoid of the day: Neanderthals made music and cared for their disabled and elderly,
which explains why the NYTimes and Huff Post doesn't have Neanderthal bloggers.
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News you can use, from Improbable research:
Wearing socks outside your shoes will keep you from skidding on the ice...and it is an old Balkans custom.
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Father Z has a poll on the most pressing question of the day:
Is it "gin and tonics" or "Gins and Tonic"?
Go vote.
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and the really good news of the day:
Kingfishers are making a comeback in the UK thanks to the cleanup of the environment.
Photos from BBC link.
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