No more Beaver for Canada (2)

1) A lady coughs, trips and falls. Oh yeah, she was also at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and ripped a priceless Picasso painting. (Link)

2) 90-year-old history magazine in Canada, “The Beaver”, will change its name to evade porn filters online. (Link)

3) Macchu Picchu, the historical Incan site, is breathtaking. Tourists this week saw it otherwise as torrential rain trapped them there until an airlift was possible. (Link)

4) Viking shipwreck found off the coast of Scotland seems to have been sunk by burrowing water worms… I’m staying away from Scotland. (Link)

5) The man that shot Pope John Paul II decades ago is let out of prison. It was revealed that his holiness forgave the shooter as he was being wheeled to the hospital. (Link)

6) A ‘colourful’ historian decides to sell off some of his personal collection. He made over $ 5 million selling what turns out to be unique pieces of American history. (Link)

7) Auschwitz got it’s stolen sign back and throws a festive party to celebrate…Holocaust day. (Link)

8 ) Nazi descendants are going as far as voluntary sterilization to “not pass on the blood of a monster”. (Link)

9) Amateur archaeologists may have found a Roman aqueduct inaugurated by Emperor Trajan 1900 years ago…I remain skeptical. (Link)

10) The elusive Minoan culture of Crete 5000 years ago has left some tools that tell us…that there was a Minoan culture in Crete 5000 years ago. (Link)

11) UPDATE: Hated and loved, world famous left-wing historian Howard Zinn passed away at the age of 87. (Link)

This week back in:

- 1967: Little remembered Apollo 1 ran a test in which three astronauts burned to death. That day, we learned that Velcro, in an oxygen-rich atmosphere, is extremely flammable. (Link)

- 1998: Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber pleads guilty and is sentenced to life in prison for mailing letter-bombs for twenty years without getting caught. He just may have been bragging. (Link)

The lighter side: Cracked.com’s…

- “7 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Works of Art” – Michelangelo is still smirking in his grave. (Link)

- “6 Rulers Who Abused Their Power in Hilariously Insane Ways” – I think the peasants won’t beg to differ on the use of the term ‘hilarious’. (Link)

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