Aug. 24th, 2010

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I'm going to have one more space colonization post, but I need to cogitate on it a bit. In the meantime, have some link salad.

A) Nothing says "world's only superpower" like having to take your own toilet paper to school. Or cleaning supplies, plastic cutlery, etc.

B) From the absolutely NSFW site Goodshit, I present Private 'Bill' Thompson, a woman who went off to fight in the Civil War with her husband. He was killed, and she received a permanent furlough to take him home for burial. The article lists the woman as being born in 1812, and dying at the age of 112. I suspect that, given the record-keeping of the time, her age was overstated.

C) Also from Goodshit, 104-Year-Old Tokyo Woman Found in Backpack. Apparently, after several Japanese "centenarians" turned up as having been dead for decades, authorities started investigating. They found a number of similar cases, including this one involving mummification by the woman's 64-year-old son.

ETA D) The latest alligator living in the Chicago river has been caught. The goal was to catch the critter before winter turned him (or her - not in a hurry to get close enough to tell the difference) into a gatersicle.

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