I live in Melbourne, Australia, with my daughter, Harriet[[.]]

Bone chandelier in the Sedlec ossuary

I've started these articles:

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I did this too:

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Kafka's 'Great Wall of China' considered as a supertask

I've bigly contributed to these articles:

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Some articles I like:

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  • Brainbow - I'm in awe. These are true-colour images.
  • Roland the Farter - just because I like this phrase: "Unum saltum et siffletum et unum bumbulum"
  • Onolatry (donkey worship - links to first ever graffito depicting Christ's crucifixion)
 
The Olm
  • a potpourri of popery -- there have been Popes John XIX and XXI, but never a Pope John XX
  • Utopia, Ohio, founded by a Christian sect who believed there would come a day when the seas turned to lemonade.

My webpage:

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W. Somerset Maugham:

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"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

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Of interest only to me:

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Some useful facts about saints:

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Did you know

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... that Mammes of Caesarea is said to have been breast-fed by his father?

...that tradition indicates Nicasius of Rheims completed saying his prayer at his execution after he had been beheaded?

...that Justus of Beauvais, a cephalophore saint, is reported to have picked up his head and continued preaching after his beheading?

...that the severed head of St Baudilus bounced three times on the ground, each impact bringing forth a spring of water?

...that shortly after Jonah of Manchuria died in 1925, he is said to have appeared in a dream before a crippled boy saying "Here, take my legs. I don't need them anymore," and the boy woke up completely healed?

...that the spring and village Águas Santas are believed to be named for the spring where Marina of Aguas Santas was beheaded?

...that Amaro spent three hundred years standing at the gate of the Earthly Paradise without being allowed in, according to the Life of Saint Amaro?

...that the cities of Viterbo and Narni fought a two-year battle over where the popular nun Lucia Brocadelli of Narni would reside?






























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