The Wikipedia article of the day for August 31, 2021 is Bajadasaurus. Bajadasaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur of northern Patagonia, Argentina, from around 145 to 133 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous epoch. It was first described in 2019 based on a single specimen (elements pictured) found in 2010 that includes a largely complete skull and parts of the neck. The only species is Bajadasaurus pronuspinax. The genus is a member of Dicraeosauridae, a group of relatively small and short-necked sauropods. Bajadasaurus sported bifurcated (two-pronged), extremely elongated neural spines extending from the neck; the 2019 description of Bajadasaurus suggested that they could have served as passive defense against predators. The skull was slender and equipped with around 48…
Month: August 2021
Mary Shelley
The Wikipedia article of the day for August 30, 2021 is Mary Shelley. Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein (1818), an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley, who drowned in a sailing accident in 1822. Scholarly appreciation has increased in recent decades for her novels, including Valperga, Perkin Warbeck, Lodore, Falkner, and the apocalyptic The Last Man, as well as her biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopaedia. The influences of her mother, the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, are evident in Shelley’s travel narrative Rambles in Germany and Italy. Shelley often argued in favour…
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Wikipedia article of the day for August 29, 2021 is Raiders of the Lost Ark. Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. It stars Harrison Ford (pictured), Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, and Denholm Elliott. Ford portrays Indiana Jones, a globe-trotting archaeologist vying with Nazi forces in 1936 to recover the lost Ark of the Covenant, a relic said to make an army invincible. With his former lover Marion Ravenwood (Allen), Jones races to stop rival archaeologist René Belloq (Freeman) from guiding the Nazis to the Ark. Principal photography took place during June–September 1980…
12 hem så här långt – undrar om det blir fler?
Räknade ut att jag har bott i tolv olika hem. Alla i Skåne om man inte räknar att jag hade en övernattningslägenhet i Stockholm under nåt år. Det började i Eslöv där jag bodde på två olika adresser. Sedan flytt till Malmö. Därefter till Arlöv. Sedan bar det norrut i Skåne. Närmare bestämt till Hässleholm. Efter Hässleholm flyttade jag tillbaka till Malmö. Sen blev det Kristianstad och efter det Ovesholm. Och från östra Skåne gick turen västerut och Ramlösa. Slutligen flyttade jag tillbaka till Malmö. Om detta är mitt sista hem får jag låta vara osagt. Man vet aldrig vad som händer. Smedjegränd, Eslöv Smedjegränd 4B i Eslöv. Här tillbringade jag mina första fyra år. Ärligt talat minns jag inte…