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The god Sah was a
personification of the constellation of Orion worshipped by ancient
Egyptians. Sah is mentioned in the
Pyramid Texts where he is called the “father of the gods”. Sah is sometimes pictured as a god
surrounded by stars who sails across the sky in a papyrus skiff.
Lois McMaster Bujold continues her Vorkosigan Saga with
Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance. In this book she takes a break from her
normal principal main character, Miles Vorkosigan, to follow his cousin Ivan
Vorpatril. Ivan, who will be familiar
to readers of the series, is a feckless man with more going on intellectually
then he lets people realize. Here he is
coerced into providing a favor for an acquaintance, finds himself helping a
pair of women in life threatening circumstances, and then has consequences that
come home to roost big time in his life.
When (&where)
was dry ice first manufactured commercially?
Rachel Cohn & David Levithan wrote 3 collaborative books
together (he’d write one chapter & she’d write the next). Dash & Lily’s Book ofDares is the
third of these and it lives up to the reputation established with Nick &
Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Naomi
& Ely’s No Kiss List. In this book
our main characters – the titular Dash and Lily – exchange tasks, & thoughts
about life, via a red notebook.
Initially strangers, they grow to know each other through this
exchange.
This week’s
question was: Running beneath Avenue 50, the ________ Elementary School
pedestrian underpass is one of the few Los Angeles school pedestrian
underpasses still in use. The answer is
Aldama Elementary School.
The book Revenant Eve by Sherwood Smith is a
romance with the addition of time traveling, magic, some kind of bizarre
spiritualistic alternate world, vampires and more. With all that you’d think it’d be good. It’s not. It is mawkishly
sentimental, over the top of the scale on insipidness, and leaves you wishing
the heroine’s attempt to save all by risking her life had been successful (the
risking her life part I mean).
Running beneath Avenue 50, the ________ Elementary School pedestrian underpass is one of the few Los Angeles school pedestrian underpasses still in use.
The Old Northeast
Police Station on York Blvd was built in 1923.
The question (and answer) were found on p. 8 of Images of America:Highland Park by Charles Fisher. The
book was published in 2008 by Arcadia.
Terry Pratchett is one of my all time favorite writers. I think I’ve read everything he’s ever
written and liked all of it. In the
book Dodger he departs from his normal environment of the
discworld to set a tale in our own actual world. Dodger is set in London during the first quarter of Queen
Victoria’s reign and is full of accurate details of that time and place. We follow the adventures of a scrappy orphan
boy as he devises and puts into play a plot to save a damsel in distress.