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Matthew Brunwasser, Zeugma After the Flood New excavations continue to tell the story of an ancient city at the crossroads between east and west http://www.archaeology.org/1211/features/zeugma_turkey_belkis_roman_mosaics.html It wasn't good policy that saved ancient Zeugma. It was a good story. In ...

http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m586/Horev/Angkor-SmanTengTemple_zps63704a04.jpg Radar Image with Color as Height, Sman Teng, Temple, Cambodia NASA/JPL http://archive.org/details/PLAN-PIA03866 This image of Cambodia's Angkor region, taken by NASA's Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR), re...

Angkor KKEW_etByJo Angkor http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/668/ Brief Description Angkor is one of the most important archaeological sites in South-East Asia. Stretching over some 400 km2, including forested area, Angkor Archaeological Park contains the magnificent remains of the different capitals of ...

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The Seekers - Morningtown Ride
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Leo Kottke - Pamela Brown
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Robbie Robertson - Showdown at Big Sky
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Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher
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Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
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Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero
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Tina Turner - One of the Living
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Fullblown 1980s flashbacks.

Suzanne Vega - Luka
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Idle Eyes - Tokyo Rose
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Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
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Simply Red - Holding Back the Years
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R.E.M. - The One I Love
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Not the "moshi moshi ano-ne" I was seeking, but I'll take it:

Moshi Moshi - Call from Japan
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Typhoon wrote:

Thanks for introducing Jane Aldridge. That's one seriously gorgeous woman.

Dylan Thomas, A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15381 http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-refusal-to-mourn-the-death-by-fire-of-a-child/ http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=7092 Never until the mankind maki...

The humble meatloaf has been unfairly derided for generations. Exalt it, don't belittle it. Barbecue Meatloaf Aussie Style (Winner — Calgary Sun Meatloaf Contest 1990) 1 lb. lean ground beef 1 lb. sausage stuffing 1 cup fine breadcrumbs 2 medium onions, finely chopped 1 tbsp. curry powder salt and p...

World Food Day, 16 October 2012 Agricultural cooperatives – key to feeding the world http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/worldfoodday/en/ Agricultural cooperatives are the focus of World Food Day 2012. The official World Food Day theme, announced each spring by the Food and Agriculture Organization of t...

Buffalo jumps are not rare in this part of the world: there are seven within Fish Creek Provincial Park alone. But this one is something out of the ordinary. Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump, World Heritage Site, Canada bqhdzylZxjs Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump - Alberta, Canada ZHB4jhmXSFg Buffalo Track...

Using a biga , poolish, or yeast sponge -- call it what you will -- can add flavour and texture to bread, reminiscent of its rustic, sourdough roots. Biga Amy Scherber La Cucina Italiana, July-August 2001 ¼ tsp. active dry yeast 3 cups (14 ozs.) unbleached all-purpose flour Dissolve the yeast in 1 ¾...

That bread sounds good, Marcus. Speaking of hearty: Sunny Boy Loaf Preheat oven to 250⁰F. 2 cups Sunny Boy [or Red River] cereal 2 cups flour 2 ½ cups water ¼ cup molasses 1 tsp salt 2 tsp baking soda raisins (or dates) Mix ingredients, let stand ½ hour and mix again. Butter both sides of wax paper ...

Lake Tahoe cookies 2 cups raisins 1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup peanut butter 3 eggs 2 tsp. vanilla 1/4 cup milk 1 1/2 cups flour 3/4 tsp. salt 3/4 tsp. baking soda 2 tsp. cinnamon 3 1/2 cups rolled oats Pour boiling water over raisins and let sit 5 minutes. Drain. Cream butter, sugar, and pean...

We have a leaden grey sky today, with a miserable wind and the threat of 1" or so of snow. The afternoon in particular could be a perfect time for plenty of very strong coffee and some comfort food, e.g., cinnamon rolls. The mashed potato in this recipe produces a lovely, fluffy texture. Low-Ch...

Alfred Russel Wallace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace , OM, FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural...

Just as this one makes an admirable cod bat. Nova, Secrets of the Viking Sword A modern-day swordsmith reverse engineers the ultimate weapon of the Middle Ages — a sword both prized and feared Airing October 10, 2012 at 9 pm on PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/secrets-viking-sword.html The V...

Bruce Weigl, Song of Napalm http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171470 for my wife After the storm, after the rain stopped pounding, We stood in the doorway watching horses Walk off lazily across the pasture’s hill. We stared through the black screen, Our vision altered by the dist...

Margaret Bradstock, Long Phuoc revisited http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2011/1/long-phuoc-revisited “Suffering is not increased by numbers: one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.” — Graham Greene This time he goes down into the tunnels claustrophobic as a multi-level ...

Henry Reed, Naming of Parts http://www.solearabiantree.net/namingofparts/namingofparts.html To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday, We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, To-day we have naming of parts. Japonica Glistens like coral in all...

John Gillespie Magee, High Flight http://www.deltaweb.co.uk/spitfire/hiflight.htm http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/s,johnmagee.html Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds -...

http://i53.tinypic.com/uo6yg.jpg Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19389 http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our b...

Mary Borden, The Song of the Mud http://www.archive.org/details/2englishreview25londuoft (at 99=101) This is the song of the mud. The pale yellow glistening mud that covers the naked hills like satin, The grey gleaming silvery mud that is spread like enamel over the valleys, The frothing, squirting...