"In April, 1933, Tanzler removed Hoyos' body from the mausoleum, carted it through the cemetery after dark on a toy wagon, and transported it to his home. Tanzler attached the corpse's bones together with wire and coat hangers, and fitted the face with glass eyes. As the skin of the corpse decomposed, Tanzler replaced it with silk cloth soaked in ( Read more... )

I feel like shit.

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The Tielman Brothers blow me away.

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For lack of anything better to do, I took myself out on an expedition this afternoon. I grabbed a quick bite to eat at Olive Garden, then went to the local movie theater to see what was on. I ended up buying a ticket for 28 Weeks Later (I saw the last one and liked it), but had a few hours to burn before the next showing and decided to explore ( Read more... )

This is fascinating.


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". . . built around the end of the second century BC, . . . the device . . . is technically more complex than any known device for at least a millennium afterwards."


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My journal is no longer the outlet that it once was. Most of what has occurred since I stopped writing in it has proven too complicated and too personal to write about online ( Read more... )

It's interesting to watch one's life change course unexpectedly. One minute it's trundling along in one direction, and the next it's derailed and the scenery changes. I used to think I knew myself fairly well, but given the decisions I've made of late, I'm not so sure ( Read more... )

Turkmenbashi was by no means the region's first grand leader. Both Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan conquered Turkmenistan on their way to other places. Eventually, after much disputation, the country became part of the USSR, despite being culturally closer to Mecca than to Moscow. Traditionally people in the region were nomadic, like the ( Read more... )