Bury Me In A Chicken?

I stumbled across the National Museum of Funeral History, by way of a glance at a BBC slide show of "Fantasy Coffins" in Ghana.


The chicken, a frequent subject of proverbs
in Akan culture, often represents a
mother who is protective of her chicks
Do check it all out.

1st MISS HMONG MICHIGAN

Mailee Chang, 21, was crowned as the first Miss Hmong Michigan 2005 on Friday, November 26, 2004. Ms. Chang is currently a senior at Michigan State University Majoring in Family Communication Services.


Welcome to America!

Shroud of Turin: Old as Jesus?
A new study reignites the argument that the Shroud of Turin is really the burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth. New tests show that the piece that was tested is of a different material from the rest of the shroud, says chemist Raymond Rogers.
Rogers is a retired physical chemist and former leader of the explosives research and development group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
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Here's Something I Know Something About

From NeMO


Our Earth is a warm planet sailing through cold space. Much of the rocky interior (the mantle) of our planet is hot enough to flow, like a candy bar kept too long in one's pocket. The surface of the Earth, however, is chilled by the cold of space, and so the familiar rocks of the Earth's surface are hard and brittle. The cold outer layer of our planet, which holds together as a rigid shell, is not made of one solid piece. Instead this shell is broken into many separate pieces, or tectonic plates, that slide around atop the mobile interior.

From the NOAA web site

So Ends An Era

			Johnny Carson 1925 - 2005 Related Stories Johnny Carson Dies at 79 January 23, 2005 Carson Helped Young Comics Like No Other January 23, 2005 Carson's Characters Made for Classic Moments January 23, 2005 Carson's Parting Words on 'Tonight Show' 'Tonight Show' Guests Remembrance by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Johnny Carson, who died Sunday at his home in Malibu, Calif., didn't invent the late-night talk show -- he inherited "The Tonight Show" from Jack Paar, who inherited it from Steve Allen -- but he made it an institution, and with three decades at its helm, became one himself in the bargain. So bound up was the host with his show that it was (informally) "The Johnny Carson Show," even when Carson wasn't hosting it... (cont'd)

Here's the Tonight Show web site