Vindication for Vinland Map

"Recent conclusions that the storied Vinland Map is merely a clever forgery are based on a flawed understanding of the evidence, according to a scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Results from last year's study debunking the map's authenticity can also be construed to boost the validity of its medieval origins, the scientist claims.

"The report will appear in the Dec. 1 edition of Analytical Chemistry, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.

"The Vinland Map is a drawing of Iceland, Greenland and the northeastern seaboard of North America that has been dated to the mid-15th century, suggesting that Norse explorers charted North America long before Columbus. The map, which has had a contentious history since its discovery in the 1950s, resides at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. It has been valued at more than $20 million."

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The Picard Syndrome Revisited

"The city of Alexandria played host on 1 November to the renowned Italian novelist and scholar Umberto Eco, who gave a lecture in English, on varieties of literary and geographic memory, at the newly opened Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Al-Ahram Weekly publishes the complete text of the lecture."

If You Say So -- Haven't Seen it

You are Sadako, from "Ringu." You are
beyond scary.


Which Horror Movie Character Are You? (Many Options)
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Fair enough

(Hour of the Wolf was not an option.)


You're The Seventh Seal! You are prone to
depression, a result of your deep thinking. You
don't deal well with death. You are sometimes
perceived as cold and overly rational; you
dislike people who delude themselves with
religion and false happiness. And you like
weird vaudeville traveling clowns.


Which classic European film are you?
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