Monday, February 21, 2011
BEACHCOMBING ON "The Last Unicorn in Medicine"
One of the most important things about mythical animals is that they are ‘rare’. Being rare means that anything to do with them is valuable and in previous ages that meant that their body parts were (a) good for showing off and (b) dragged into the world of medicine. Unicorns were particularly appreciated in medicinal texts: parts of the unicorn’s body being sold for vast sums to cure aristocratic hypochondriacs.
Read on chaps
Read on chaps
SOME ODDS AND SODS FROM CHAD ARMENT
On the Trail of a 40-Foot Anaconda
http://www.slate.com/id/2285539/
A huge alligator gar caught
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20110218/NEWS/102180345/Catch-lifetime?
A possible new spider found in Seattle (WA)
http://crosscut.com/2011/02/18/mossback/20641/A-new-spider-species-discovered-in-Seattle-/
Some Japanese deer like to chew on chains
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110219p2a00m0na028000c.html
http://www.slate.com/id/2285539/
A huge alligator gar caught
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20110218/NEWS/102180345/Catch-lifetime?
A possible new spider found in Seattle (WA)
http://crosscut.com/2011/02/18/mossback/20641/A-new-spider-species-discovered-in-Seattle-/
Some Japanese deer like to chew on chains
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110219p2a00m0na028000c.html
LIBRARY THREAT
The government is threatening to close libraries. This is a terrible idea and John "Bad Machinery" Allison agrees with me...
GLEN VAUDREY: Whole Wide World #9
Brazil
Easily the biggest country in South America, Brazil is also the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world. It is home to the Amazon Forest famed for both its size and the rate of its destruction. It is within that vast forest, so rumour has it, that the hidden city of Z lies, or so Colonel Percy Fawcett thought; it was while searching for this hidden city that he disappeared in 1925. Unsurprisingly for a country of its size Brazil does have its own collection of cryptids and today we are going to look at the Caiteto Munde.
The pig-like ungulate, the Caiteto Munde, is described as being 3 feet long and 20 inches tall at the shoulder. It is said to live in pairs and occasionally in groups of up to four animals, unlike peccaries, which tend to have larger herds.
Maybe not an interesting creature to draw your attention to but it does give you an idea of some of the interesting but uninspiring creatures that await discovery. Next we are heading north into a little bit of France located in South America, and that is, of course, French Guiana.
Easily the biggest country in South America, Brazil is also the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world. It is home to the Amazon Forest famed for both its size and the rate of its destruction. It is within that vast forest, so rumour has it, that the hidden city of Z lies, or so Colonel Percy Fawcett thought; it was while searching for this hidden city that he disappeared in 1925. Unsurprisingly for a country of its size Brazil does have its own collection of cryptids and today we are going to look at the Caiteto Munde.
The pig-like ungulate, the Caiteto Munde, is described as being 3 feet long and 20 inches tall at the shoulder. It is said to live in pairs and occasionally in groups of up to four animals, unlike peccaries, which tend to have larger herds.
Maybe not an interesting creature to draw your attention to but it does give you an idea of some of the interesting but uninspiring creatures that await discovery. Next we are heading north into a little bit of France located in South America, and that is, of course, French Guiana.
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/
On this day in 1926 Kenneth Williams was born. Williams is best known for his work in radio comedy and the Carry On films but was also the voice artist of the Will o' the Wisp cartoons. Interestingly, a blue plaque commemorating Williams's childhood home is only a few doors down from the silver plaque commemorating Charles Fort's London lodgings, both on Marchmont street, London.
On this day in 1926 Kenneth Williams was born. Williams is best known for his work in radio comedy and the Carry On films but was also the voice artist of the Will o' the Wisp cartoons. Interestingly, a blue plaque commemorating Williams's childhood home is only a few doors down from the silver plaque commemorating Charles Fort's London lodgings, both on Marchmont street, London.
And now, the news:
Volunteers scour forest for Bigfoot
Study shows Welsh sheep 'more clever than thought'...
Gives me an excuse to repost this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw
Volunteers scour forest for Bigfoot
Study shows Welsh sheep 'more clever than thought'...
Gives me an excuse to repost this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw