Meet the Nazi ‘Indiana Jones’ Behind the Third Reich’s Hunt for the Holy Grail. (via Strange Company)
Shane Mitchell tells us about sugarcane: its history, how it's harvested and processed, the state of the industry, and its legacy. (via Metafilter)
The Promise That Tested My Parents Until the End. A heartbreaking story of a 50-year marriage.
Iceland brought huge scientific heft to its attempts to contain and study the coronavirus. Here’s what it learnt. (via Digg)
Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway. (via Kottke)
Charles Crocker’s Spite Fence.
Melissa Trierweiler illustrates funny stories about Disney Princesses with dolls at her site The Official Princess Club. See a roundup of 30 representative episodes from over the years at Bored Panda.
The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas... (via the Daily Dot)
Just republished: 10 Famous Birthdays to Celebrate in December.
Too many women replicate the self-sacrifice in "The Promise." And it usually is women who suffer as caregivers because men age and die first. Families should never, in my opinion, try to provide nursing home care at home. It's a recipe for disaster.
ReplyDeleteThe Promise is heart wrenching. I've seen it happen in my family.
ReplyDeleteIt is women who more often suffer as caregivers because they not only take care of their husbands, but also their mothers, mothers-in-law, grandmothers, and grandmothers-in-law. I've done all those.
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