We have have identified human remains recovered in Loos-en-Gohelle, France, as those of Private Albert Henry Detmold. His identity was confirmed through historical, genealogical, anthropological, archaeological, and DNA analysis. 1/5
In this scene, Orpheus enters the underworld and calms the guard dog Cerberus by playing his lyre, allowing Charon to let him onto his ship.
Excerpt from a 1984 animated short film by Leslie Keene inspired by red-figure vase paintings.
The Beatles' last live performance was their iconic, unannounced rooftop concert on January 30, 1969, at the Apple Corps headquarters in London, where they played for about 42 minutes before police stopped them.
A "Mexican Meat Market" in Beeville, 1910. I think I see a smokehouse in the background, and strips of drying meat suspended on two different lines. There's actually a lot here to look at. I love the chickens, too!
This is one of about 11,000 Texas photos in the John Miller Morris collection at SMU's Degolyer Library. They are browsable and keyword searchable on their site.
This meat market would be so interesting to visit, don't you think?
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated on 22 November 1963.
The Warren Commission Report was issued to President Johnson on 24 Sept 1964 and was made public three days later. It concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
In 1975, Senator Frank Church chaired the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. Their report concluded that government investigations into the assassination by the FBI and CIA were fundamentally flawed.
In 1976, the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations was established to investigate the assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. The committee released their report in 1979. It is available through the National Archives although some documents remain sealed. Page 97: “The committee found that, to be precise and loyal to the facts it established, it, was compelled to find that President Kennedy was probably killed as a result of a conspiracy.”
"Some people, to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the appearance of created things.
Look above you! Look below you! Note it. Read it.
God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink."
- St. Augustine, Sermon 126
John Thompson has been studying the guqin—a silk string zither—and classical Chinese music since 1974.
Here he is with Hong Kong filmmaker Lau Shing Hon performing a drinking song first published 1589 and attributed to third-century poet Ruan Ji: Jiu Kuang (Wine Mad)