Commonplace Book
Research and information for my commonplace book.
Commonplace Book
The eruption also preserved the forms of many of the dying as the ash compacted around their bodies. Although the soft tissue decayed, the outlines of the bodies remained and were recovered by excavators centuries later by filling the cavities with plaster. From skeletal material embedded in the casts, we generated genome-wide ancient DNA and... See more
Just a moment...
... See moreI’m not a materialist or a deist or anything else. I’m a man
who one day opened the window and discovered this
crucial thing: Nature exists. I saw that the trees, the rivers
and the stones are things that truly exist. No one had ever
thought about this.
I don’t pretend to be anything more than the greatest
poet in the world. I made the greatest discovery
A history of heists
This was not the first high-profile heist at the famous museum. In fact, over a hundred years ago, in 1911, a former Louvre employee named Vincenzo Perugia stole the famous “Mona Lisa” in the hopes of returning it to its original home country of Italy. Painter Pablo Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire were questioned by the... See more
This was not the first high-profile heist at the famous museum. In fact, over a hundred years ago, in 1911, a former Louvre employee named Vincenzo Perugia stole the famous “Mona Lisa” in the hopes of returning it to its original home country of Italy. Painter Pablo Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire were questioned by the... See more
How Thieves Carried Out Heist of ‘Priceless’ Louvre Jewels
According to the authorities, eight items were taken, including diadems (a jewelled headband), necklaces, ear-rings and brooches. All are from the 19th century, and once belonged to French royalty or imperial rulers.
France's ministry of culture said the stolen items were:
France's ministry of culture said the stolen items were:
- A tiara and brooch belonging to Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III
- An
Everything we know about the Louvre jewellery heist
The Central Pangean Mountains were an extensive northeast–southwest trending mountain range in the central portion of the supercontinent Pangaea during the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic periods. They were formed as a result of collision between the large landmasses of Euramerica (also known as Laurussia) and Gondwana during the formation of... See more
Central Pangean Mountains
Evidence for Pangea
How do we know that Pangea existed 250 million years ago? Fossil evidence and mountain belts provide some of the clues. The Permian-age fossil plant, Glossopteris , had seeds too heavy to be blown across an ocean. Yet Glossopteris fossils are found in South America, Africa, Australia, India and Antarctica! The mountain belts... See more
How do we know that Pangea existed 250 million years ago? Fossil evidence and mountain belts provide some of the clues. The Permian-age fossil plant, Glossopteris , had seeds too heavy to be blown across an ocean. Yet Glossopteris fossils are found in South America, Africa, Australia, India and Antarctica! The mountain belts... See more
Mountain Building Part IV
They used a construction site as cover
French daily newspaper Le Parisien reported that four thieves, masked and hooded, entered the Museum via the Seine-facing facade at around 9:30 a.m. local time, shortly after the museum’s opening. Construction work aided their heist, as a cherry picker allowed them to access the Apollo Gallery jewel room... See more
French daily newspaper Le Parisien reported that four thieves, masked and hooded, entered the Museum via the Seine-facing facade at around 9:30 a.m. local time, shortly after the museum’s opening. Construction work aided their heist, as a cherry picker allowed them to access the Apollo Gallery jewel room... See more
How Thieves Carried Out Heist of ‘Priceless’ Louvre Jewels
... See moreWhen spring arrives,
If I’m already dead,
The flowers will flower in the same way
And the trees will not be less green than last spring.
Reality doesn’t need me.
It makes me enormously happy
To think that my death is of no importance whatsoever.
If I knew that I would die tomorrow
And that spring was the day after tomorrow,
I would die happy, because spring
My hand that destroys
The heap of ants
Must seem to them of divine origin,
But I don’t consider myself divine.
Likewise the gods
Perhaps do not see
Themselves as gods, being gods in our eyes
Only because they’re greater than us.
Whatever the case,
Let’s not commit
Completely to a faith, perhaps unfounded,
In those we believe to be gods.
A Little Larger Than
... See more