This journal is turning into a collection of articles written by others. But what can you do...

...when you are too busy to do your own writing, and suddenly something as fascinating as this turns up?

From yesterday's THE INDEPENDENT (London daily newspaper):

Found: Europe's oldest civilisation
By David Keys, Archaeology Correspondent
11 June 2005


How 7,000-year-old temples reveal the elaborate culture of Europe

Archaeologists have discovered Europe's oldest civilisation, a network of dozens of temples, 2,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids.

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Only a few days ago I filled a meme about my favourite movies, mentioning CASABLANCA. Tonight I found it, purely by chance, on a cable channel -- one of the few that I can afford. And, as with every time I have the good luck to watch it, it looks better. If you do not get tears in your eyes at the Marseillaise scene, you have no tear ducts; and to use it to lead into the humiliating closure of Rick's saloon is pure genius. What a wonderful movie. And the strange thing is, we are used to associate genius with a single person, but this is a movie in which none of the contributors - except perhaps for the actors - were of the absolute first rank, and yet the collaboration of scriptwriters, director and producer produced something immortal.

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