Museum probes beliefs on death across 6000 years
Edinburgh's Royal Museum hosts Heaven and Hell and Other Worlds of the Dead exploring global afterlife beliefs through 350 objects. The show traces burial practices, religious views, and myths from antiquity to modern times, including Burke and Hare notes, cardboard caskets, and a Ghanaian automobile burial symbol.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Heaven
Hell
Royal Museum
Seneca
Fetlar
Shetland Islands
John Wood
Robert Wood
Loganlea
West Calder
Mertetes
Ghana
Paa Joe
Joe
Singapore
William Burke
William Hare
Hare
Burke
Holyrood Park
Burke and Hare
George Dalgleish
Owner acquitted in fatal mauling trial
Chester South Carolina AP reports pit bull owner Frank Paul Speagle cleared of involuntary manslaughter in the December attack that killed John Mickle. Jurors spent under two hours deliberating, witnesses testified dogs were docile, and the dogs were euthanized after the death. Speagle praised justice, while Mickle’s family remained silent.
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S.C
Frank Paul Speagle
John Mickle
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Mickle
South Carolina
Becker's Bridge Bid Guide for 6-5 Hands and Notrump Precision
A concise bridge note detailing bidding logic for 6-5 distributions and high-card constraints. It discusses when to open one spade versus one heart, and explains that a three notrump can show about 25 to 26 high-card points with balanced distribution, preferred for certain hands.
Bidding Quiz Essential Elements in Bridge Strategy
The article explains opening bids in bridge with examples for one club or one notrump. It outlines how naming clubs before spades affects rebid decisions and describes using one notrump to indicate 16 to 18 points and distribution. Tomorrow: A steppingstone squeeze.
Wedding Seating Dilemma for Divorced Father
Dear Ann Landers offers guidance on seating a divorced father at his son’s wedding. The writer, paying for the event, asks whether to sit with his ex-wife. Ann advises flexibility, suggesting the father defer to the future daughter in law’s seating choice to project generosity rather than insistence. The column also rebuts another reader urging interference in an alcoholic father’s life, urging support and moral responsibility.
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Ann Landers
Marie
Ann
East Coast Inquirer
Dear Inquirer
New York
N.Y
Credit B Gwinn
Chicago
Ill
Canada
Creators Syndicate
Creators.com
Bon Jovi recalls MTV unplugged moment on Storytellers
Jon Bon Jovi recounts performing acoustic versions of Livin on a Prayer and Wanted Dead or Alive at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards. He notes the moment helped inspire VH1 Unplugged and previews the third season of Storytellers airing Friday night.
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Los Angeles
Jon Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi
Richie Sambora
Madonna
Bob Seger
David Lee Roth
MTV
Music Channel
VH1
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