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Oscar's cake: http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2011/02/oscars-sunday-sweets.html

The Salvador Dali one for Inception is stunning.

* Re: The anti-women legislation the Republicans have been floating: It is one thing to be willing to die for one's own religion; it is another thing entirely to demand others die for it, regardless of their beliefs.

* Egypt's already trying to lure the tourists back.

* "France creates virtual copy of threatened caves:" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/8348526/France-creates-virtual-copy-of-threatened-caves.html

* "Paris’s forgotten human zoo:" http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20110216-paris-s-forgotten-human-zoo-shows-crude-workings-colonial-propaganda

Lest we forget the ugliness of colonialism and the dehumanization attendant: "Men and women from the French colonies were brought to Europe and rented out to zoological and tropical gardens, where they were put on show alongside exotic animals."

* The 100th Anniversary of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Fire is coming up: http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/nysutunited_16240.htm

And yet we are told we don't need Unions. After all, what did they give us besides the weekend, the eight hour day, safer working conditions, better pay and benefits, and end to child labour, fire exits, etc., etc....

* "Ancient Silk Road exhibition brings China’s problems with Xinjiang into focus:" http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/when-millennia-old-mummies-threaten-national-identity

"In the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, violence broke out in Xinjiang amidst increasing Beijing-directed cultural change in the region: standardizing the local education system on the Beijing model; changing the language of instruction from Uighur to Mandarin; replacing Uighur teachers with Han Chinese ones; organizing public burnings of Uighur books; and prohibiting traditional Uighur customs such as religious weddings, burials and pilgrimages to tombs of local saints. "

* More on human Skull Cups: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110222/sc_livescience/ancientcannibalscraftedcupsfromhumanskulls

* "Records of Victorian women murderers and thieves placed online:" http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/feb/25/victorian-female-prisoners-records-genealogy

* O.o: http://box-in-the-box.livejournal.com/488458.html