Andrew Greef, senior project manager at Oxford Archaeology, said: "As archaeologists we are often asked by members of the public if we have found any dinosaur bones and on this occasion, we actually found one."
He said the bone was worn in places, suggesting it had been handled often in the past.
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Her Majesty The Queen’s coffin lies at rest in St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh.
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Link: 1, 2, 3 ... [expand] Alt Text: A black and white image of a young person, seemingly a young woman, with light skin, large dark eyes, and long dark hair in a light blouse with embroidered detail. The pages the information is taken from list them as an active editor at Eikon, Arcadia, and The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art, international academic, educational, and arts and cultural publications based out of, respectively, Vienna, Austria, Geneva, Switzerland, and Cambridge, United Kingdom. They are listed under the name of Aleksandra Violana, and as based out of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Their previous experience also lists editorial positions based out of Sheffield, United Kingdom, Heidelberg, Germany, and where they were previously based out of, Utrecht, Netherlands.
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I dreamt beautiful dreams of you, here...
Would you like to hear about them...?
Scenes from Cambridge, England🤭🤣😈
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Old book smell l Library at Anglesey Abbey, England (x)
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Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA (courtesy of Google Maps via GeoGuessr)
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An Important Lesson from the Authors Who Came Before Us
We all know the story of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.
Childhood friends, high school sweethearts, and university rivals.
They showed up at Cambridge with trunks full of typewritten stories featuring talking lions, magical rings, a demon named Screwtape, and a dragon named Smog.
Their Creative Writing professor, James Joyce, famously suffered a fit of apoplexy when he first read their writing. He was so furious over their whimsical stories that he banished them from his classroom and forced them to work as unpaid innkeepers at his pub. He told them they could only come back once they proved they'd learned enough about the "real world" to write stories about "real things, like eagles and children."
Professor Joyce was forced to admit them back into his classroom when Tolkien wrote his eagles into Middle Earth and Lewis created the Pevensie children to visit Narnia. Their contemporary, Bede Griffiths, alleges that Joyce could be heard raging and screeching about how the clever young authors had willfully misinterpreted his assignment as far away as Gertrude Stein's Edinburgh apartment!
I remember this moment in history every time my professors tell me that I need to change my writing--when they try to get me to conform to a dying format. When they tell me that my Land Before Time fanfiction isn't appropriate for a class on Immigration Stories and Travel Narratives. When they tell me that my Babe fics "can't" be considered an essay on Orwell's Animal Farm.
Won't they feel silly in a few decades, when there will be sold-out university courses focused on studying work like mine.
There's a reason James Joyce's work has never been turned into movies. There's a reason his fandom is practically nonexistent.
The only reason we know his name is because he was a footnote in the intertwined heroes' journeys of authors who weren't afraid to try something new.
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Flying visit to Cambridge this weekend: empty glasses, wooden steps worn away and bending, a low church bell, a deserted pool at dusk surrounded by looming busts 🫗
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by sweetdreamsandhoney
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In memoriam: HM Queen Elizabeth II
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C a m b r i d g e
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I thought I'd get England out of my system after this visit, but it's not looking that way 🤣
World Tour redux, coming 2024 🤣✈️
Happy Friday!
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