Tuesday, June 07, 2011
UPDATE
I think that the computer issues are finally sorted. Between them Dave B-P and Graham managed to sort out the weird issues that remained, and Oll and I finally got the e-mails operational. So now all we have to do, is to catch up with lost time. We are the best part of a week behind schedule, but I hope that we will soon make that back...
ROBERT SCHNECK: Escaped Tigger
I have always felt most comfortable among the Chinese. Part of it is, I think, their genius for unselfconscious surrealism.Chengdu Zoo rehearses escaped tiger response June 2nd, Sichuan Chengdu Zoo, a tranquilized tiger being carried away by workers, as a caged Chinese tiger watches through the glass. That day, the Chengdu Zoo conducted a escaped dangerous animal training drill/exercise. The training exercise simulated 2 Siberian Tigers escaping from their cage
s, with zoo workers working together with forestry police conducting an emergency response.http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures/chengdu-zoo-escaped-tiger-training-drill.html
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/
On this day 1949 George Orwell's novel 1984 was first published.
And now the news, expertly compiled by Gavin Wilson:
Birch Mouse Ancestor Discovered in Inner Mongolia ...
Fossil of Giant Ancient Sea Predator Discovered
Giant water bug photographed devouring baby turtle...
Parakeets guilty of intimidating garden birds - st...
A parrot singing James Brown songs; it doesn't get better than this, folks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azeo6DglZcY
On this day 1949 George Orwell's novel 1984 was first published.
And now the news, expertly compiled by Gavin Wilson:
Birch Mouse Ancestor Discovered in Inner Mongolia ...
Fossil of Giant Ancient Sea Predator Discovered
Giant water bug photographed devouring baby turtle...
Parakeets guilty of intimidating garden birds - st...
A parrot singing James Brown songs; it doesn't get better than this, folks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azeo6DglZcY
Monday, June 06, 2011
PAUL MEAD: A Tale of two Sea Serpents
John
An interested article from the Bell Rock Lighthouse website:
There is one exhibit above all others in the Signal Tower Museum in Arbroath (one-time home of the lightkeepers) which I have always pondered over - what's more even greatly admired -and that is an old cast-iron hand grip, . . . a relic from the early days of the Bell Rock. It was one of number which once adorned the outside of the old-style pre-1902 lantern. They were there to steady keepers when cleaning the outside glass or effecting any repairs required on the lantern. Although much painted over decades of use, the shape is unmistakeably that of a mythical sea serpent!
In Newfoundland, over 2000 miles away, work had begun in the early 1830s on their own lighthouse building programme.
When visiting Bonavista in 2007 and being shown round the tower by Don Johnson the curator, there much to my surprise was the same serpent-shaped hand-grip adorning the lantern astragals . . this one even more heavy painted than its Arbroath counterpart! In fact there were 16 of them (one on each vertical astragal) - a full complement no less. I don't think I ever heard tale of a lantern also going out with the light mechanism from Scotland. We do know that the Bell still had theirs in 1902 when it was replaced by the standard diagonal variety. So where did the one at Bonavista originate? There are a few possibility - but in all probability it must have come from Scotland - most likely from Stevenson's engineering works in Edinburgh. It obviously requires more research, so any comments would be appreciated.
http://200.bellrock.org.uk/serpents.htm
An interested article from the Bell Rock Lighthouse website:
There is one exhibit above all others in the Signal Tower Museum in Arbroath (one-time home of the lightkeepers) which I have always pondered over - what's more even greatly admired -and that is an old cast-iron hand grip, . . . a relic from the early days of the Bell Rock. It was one of number which once adorned the outside of the old-style pre-1902 lantern. They were there to steady keepers when cleaning the outside glass or effecting any repairs required on the lantern. Although much painted over decades of use, the shape is unmistakeably that of a mythical sea serpent!
In Newfoundland, over 2000 miles away, work had begun in the early 1830s on their own lighthouse building programme.
When visiting Bonavista in 2007 and being shown round the tower by Don Johnson the curator, there much to my surprise was the same serpent-shaped hand-grip adorning the lantern astragals . . this one even more heavy painted than its Arbroath counterpart! In fact there were 16 of them (one on each vertical astragal) - a full complement no less. I don't think I ever heard tale of a lantern also going out with the light mechanism from Scotland. We do know that the Bell still had theirs in 1902 when it was replaced by the standard diagonal variety. So where did the one at Bonavista originate? There are a few possibility - but in all probability it must have come from Scotland - most likely from Stevenson's engineering works in Edinburgh. It obviously requires more research, so any comments would be appreciated.
http://200.bellrock.org.uk/serpents.htm
NEW FROM DALE DRINNON: Land sightings of the Loch Ness Monster..
Newest posting on the blog is one of the Loch Ness Monster on Land sightings singled out for special comment:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/06/most-exceptional-loch-ness-land.html
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/06/most-exceptional-loch-ness-land.html
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