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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 156. Sagrada Familia

Last week, it was announced that the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world will be mostly completed in 2026, celebrating the centenary of the death of its architect, Antoni Gaudí.

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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 138. In the badlands of Wyoming.

The name seems very appropriate ... at least for agricultural purposes...

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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 137. At the Independence Rock

Independence Rock, Wyoming, is also known as the Register of the Desert for the more than 5,000 names in the pioneering history. The sign is fading.

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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 136. At the groundbreaking ceremony for the new science building at SIU

I am at the extreme right.

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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 135. Butterflies exhibit at the Smithsonian.

It was gorgeous.

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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 134. Faculty donation

This was the day we received a significant donation from a Southern Illinois University Edwardsville faculty member. It was one of my most satisfying events at that university.

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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 133. Riding a hot air balloon

I had the opportunity to ride on a hot air balloon near St. Louis, Missouri. The flight was great, but the landing could have been better.

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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 132. Conducting a field radio transmission

This picture from 2011 was taken during taping my radio show, “Segue,” on the Southern Illinois University campus. These real archaeologists have nothing in common with Indiana Jones.

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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 131. When it rains in a tropical forest, it rains.

The picture was taken while I was doing fieldwork in Palo Verde, Costa Rica, in the summer of 1983.

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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 130. 14 years ago… 

14 years ago, I had the opportunity to conduct some of my father’s music at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. It was a great experience. The musical group was Carpe Diem with Peter Soave at the bandoneon.

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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 129. Palma de Mallorca Cathedral

The restoration of the Cathedral of Santa María in Palma de Mallorca was carried out by Antoni Gaudí between 1903 and 1914. It was a project carried out only partially to rehabilitate the cathedral's interior, with the primary objective of adapting it to the new doctrines and liturgical activities to bring the rites closer to the faithful.

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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 128. Aranjuez concert

Last Wednesday, I had the opportunity to attend a performance of the Aranjuez concert composed by Joaquín Rodrigo. Ana Vidović's solo on the guitar, accompanied by the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, was superb. The composer was blind since the age of three.

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Balada3 from Aldemaro Romero Jr. on Vimeo.

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Balada3 from Aldemaro Romero Jr. on Vimeo.

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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 126. Moon, sun, and a star.

This Miró’s sculpture is on the roof of the Fundació Joan Miró building in Barcelona. Stars were a common theme in Miró’s artistry. Pierre Matisse from New York City donated this piece of art to the museum.

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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 125. Bats urine

The zoologist William Buckland was known for tasting everything. During a visit to Italy, he was shown a stain on the floor of a church on the spot where a saint had died.  He was told that the stain renewed itself every morning with fresh blood. Buckland immediately kneeled on the floor and licked the moist patch.  He informed his host that it was not blood but nothing more than bats' urine.

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Aldemaro Romero Jr.'s Letters from Academia # 124. Cuvier’s devil

 

One of the naturalist Georges Cuvier’s students dressed up with horns on his head and shoes shaped like cloven hooves. He showed up at Cuvier’s bedroom at the Natural History Museum building in Paris and said: “I am the devil. I have come to eat you!" Cuvier looked at the apparition and said, "Creatures with hooves and horns are herbivores. You cannot eat me,” and returned to sleep.  

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