Catching Up: SF, Celtic Archaeology, and Space I know, I’ve been exceedingly delinquent regarding posting, but between teaching and dissertating, and tech editing, I’ve had no time for blogging. So I’m going to post a bunch of very quick links, with almost no commentary. First of all, I’ve added a couple of links over there…
Amebury Archer
Thanks to this story from MetaFilter, I’m elated to see new data about the so-called “Amebury Archer.” Last May Wessex Archaeology discovered the richest Bronze age grave ever discovered in Britain. The grave was discovered during a standard preliminary excavation of a future housing development, about three miles south-east of Stonehenge. Based on the physical…
New Hubble Images of “Dumbbell Nebula”
Via Space.com, comes this story about the new Hubble images of the Dumbbell Nebula. The Dumbbell nebula, in our own Milky Way Galaxy, is a planetary nebula, named thusly because early telescope quality made even nebulae like this one ( the first ever discovered by Charles Messier in 1764) look like the fuzzy blobs of…
Turning On RSS in Blogger
I’ve performed the requisite alchemical incantations required by Blogger Pro to create an .rss feed for this blog. You’ll find a link to the rss subscription URL over there on the left. If you want to do this yourself, the instructions are here. It’s actually pretty simple (Thanks Ev!).
Celtic Fonts and Backgrounds
From a rough analysis of my logs and the stats collected by Site Meter the most popular interior page of my site is the one on Celtic Fonts, and the most frequently entered search phrase, in terms of my Celtic Studies Resources is “Celtic backgrounds.” Now, I’m not positive, but I’m pretty sure the people…
Redundant Place Names
Steve, of Language Hat, in reference to Torpenhow, pointed me to an earlier post of his about redundant place names like that of “‘the Paraguay River’ etymologically means ‘the river river river’.” Steve’s comment of course made me think of the La Brea Tar Pits, or, as my spouse likes to call them “the the…
Torpenhow
David Chess of the very readable Chess Log writes (at the bottom of a long entry): Placename o’ the day: “Torpenhow Hill”. “Tor”, “Pen”, and “Howe” all mean “Hill”, so the name means “Hill Hill Hill Hill”. *8) Tor, pen, and howe aren’t exact synonyms. A tor is a specific geographic feature, a high peaked…
Irish and Celtic Studies Conferences
The GRIAN conference at Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, March 7 through 9, 2003, is focusing on “Irish Studies: Forged/Forging Youth”. The 25th Annual University of California Celtic Studies Conference (also the annual CSANA meeting) will take place April 3-6, 200 at the University of California at Berkeley.
Lighting the Spark: The Medieval Itty-Bitty Book Light
At the request of Janice Safran and Heather Blatt I’m posting this small detail from the Annunciation of 1465-75 produced by the workshop of Rogier van der Weyden in Brussels, Belgium — possibly by Hans Memling— and in the collections of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sifran and Blatt are interested in hearing…
And More Medievalist Blogs
S. Worthen, of the Owlfish blog has very cleverly and thoughtfully compiled an annotated list of medievalist blogs.