Tai Mai Shu – Free listening, concerts, stats, & pictures at Last. Celtic Wonder Tales Index. Sacred Texts Sagas and Legends Celtic Title Page The Earth ShapersThe Spear of VictoryA Good ActionHow the Son of Gobhaun Saor Sold the SheepskinHow the Son of Gobhaun Saor Shortened the RoadThe Cow of PlentyThe Coming of LughThe Eric-Fine of LughThe Great BattleInisfailThe Golden FlyThe Children of LirThe Luck-ChildConary Mor. Day 6: The Corpse Bride of Portugal. 31 Days of Halloween: On Atlas Obscura this month, every day is Halloween.
Stop by the blog every day this month for true tales of the unquiet dead. Come for the severed heads, stay for the book bound in human skin. Every story is true, and each one is a real place you can visit. We dare you. It may be awkward, but when the kings tells you to kiss the hand of his dead mistress, you damn well kiss that cold, dead hand. When the fifteen year old Ines de Castro arrived at court as part of his new wife’s entourage, Pedro, crown prince of Portugal, fell in love. When Pedro’s wife died unexpectedly in childbirth, the King saw to it that Ines was removed from court and sent into isolation in a monastery to prevent any further trouble - but that still did not keep the lovers apart. Finally, he could take it no more, and the King dispatched assassins to kill Ines, and she was captured and decapitated before the eyes of her horrified children.
Cats and Mice. Noise Park. Jacek Yerka painter of the fantasy worlds - preview of the paintings. We are very happy you have found this site throughout the endless global web space, attracted by the originality and mastership of Mr Yerka works. This site has been created as a result of cooperation between Mr Jacek Yerka and Agra-Art SA, for the purpose of promoting, showing and selling the Art as well as for gathering all people who became enchanted by the worlds presented by Jacek in his paintings. After long talks we came to the conclusion, that the Artist should focus mostly on his work, leaving the every day chores to someone who would be responsible for promotion, communication and selling.
Agra-Art, represented by Konrad Szukalski is now the sole Agent of Mr Yerka, taking care of all commercial matters (as selling, shipping, ordering) and also acting as a representative and information source. We will answer to all legitimate emails and questions. The official web adresses of Mr Yerka are : www.yerka.pl and www.yerkaland.com (they point to the same content). Thank You, Brits add cheeky touches to Olympics. You gotta love the Olympics as filtered through a gimlet-eyed, winking Anglo sensibility, starting with the opening ceremony's inclusion of the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen," then the much bowing and curtseying to Freddie Mercury's Queen and HRH herself, gamely pretending to copter-dive into an Olympics awash with music and cultcha.
I was at the London Games for a minute or two, loving the fact that I could watch the women's triathlon racing through Hyde Park and, minutes later, duck into the Yoko Ono show at Serpentine Gallery. Also impressive: the tasteful electronic beats played between table tennis bouts at ExCel Arena. Don't wanna miss: Residual Echoes on Friday at Hemlock Tavern or the free-with-RSVP Trill Team 6 show with Flosstradamus and Ghosts on Tape on Friday at 1015 Folsom or "Dr. Sketchy's SF Presents Catwoman" at Chicken John's Warehouse on Tuesday. Totally Biased: NYC Women Talk Cat Calling. Amir Air: luxury berth. Massive Sinkhole In Louisiana Baffles Officials. Hide captionAfter the collapse of a salt mine in south Louisiana last year, a 9-acre sinkhole has flooded the area.
It also caused gas and oil leaks, and local residents are fed up. Debbie Elliott/NPR After the collapse of a salt mine in south Louisiana last year, a 9-acre sinkhole has flooded the area. It also caused gas and oil leaks, and local residents are fed up. Louisiana officials are grappling with a giant sinkhole that's threatening a neighborhood. Residents have been evacuated for more than seven months now and are losing patience. Ernie Boudreaux lives in a trailer on Jambalaya Street in Bayou Corne, La. "It cracks. The front porch is separating from the trailer and sometimes he smells oil — all problems that started after the sinkhole opened less than a half mile from his house. Houston-based Texas Brine has been mining salt near the Bayou Corne community for more than 40 years.
"That $875 a week is hush-hush money — keep everybody quiet and just let it settle down. Bay Bridge troll saves reporter's toni Italian sunglasses | Politics with LisaV. Voters in Antioch, Moraga and San Ramon will go to the polls on Nov. 5 in increasingly rare odd-year elections. Antioch will decide whether to levy a half-cent sales tax for police services and anti-blight measures. Moragans will consider a $192 annual parcel tax for schools. And San Ramon will choose a mayor and two council members. San Ramon residents will also take up whether to move their mayoral and council elections from odd to even years. Most public agencies have already made the switch to even years as a cost-saving measure. The move allows local agencies to share election costs with presidential, congressional, state and other local agency contests. Contra Costa Registrar of Voters Joe Canciamilla’s office sent vote by mail ballots out Oct. 7.
The registration deadline is Oct. 21. Residents who wish to observe voting equipment preparation and testing underway through Oct. 24 are welcome. Born Digital - Video Recording in the 21st Century. Blogs across the Smithsonian will be giving an inside look at the Institution’s archival collections and practices during a month long blogathon in celebration of October’s American Archives Month. See additional posts from our other participating blogs, as well as related events and resources, on the Smithsonian’s Archives Month website.
Zoom Videohistory interview at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 1990, by Pablo Jusem, Photographic Print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Conservation of Endangered Species Videohistory Interviews, Record Unit 9553. Analog, or magnetic videotape, is going the way of the horse and buggy—soon analog tape will not be available for sale and playback machines will be museum artifacts. Inci Bowman preparing to interview George Venable in the National Museum of Natural History, 2010, Smithsonian Institution Archives, National Museum of Natural History Centennial Oral History Interviews, Record Unit 9622. Dr.