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Celtic Studies Resources from a Digital Medievalist

Amebury Archer

Lisa L. Spangenberg | February 10, 2003

Thanks to this story from MetaFilter, I’m elated to see new data about the so-called “Amebury Archer.” Last May Wessex Archaeology discovered the richest Bronze age grave ever discovered in Britain. The grave was discovered during a standard preliminary excavation of a future housing development, about three miles south-east of Stonehenge. Based on the physical [...]

New Hubble Images of “Dumbbell Nebula”

Lisa L. Spangenberg | February 10, 2003

Via Space.com, comes this story about the new Hubble images of the Dumbbell Nebula. The Dumbbell nebula, in our own Milky Way Galaxy, is a planetary nebula, named thusly because early telescope quality made even nebulae like this one ( the first ever discovered by Charles Messier in 1764) look like the fuzzy blobs of [...]

Turning On RSS in Blogger

Lisa L. Spangenberg | February 9, 2003

I’ve performed the requisite alchemical incantations required by Blogger Pro to create an .rss feed for this blog. You’ll find a link to the rss subscription URL over there on the left. If you want to do this yourself, the instructions are here. It’s actually pretty simple (Thanks Ev!).