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...might not be the Turin Shroud, but as far as myths go, this was a big one to debunk. On April 5, a French research team declared that the alleged remains of St. Joan of Arc were fake. The relics of the iconic saint - burned alive for heresy and witchcraft in 1431 but rehabilitated as a French hero in the 19th century - have been identified as the remnants of an Egyptian mummy, a small cat and scraps of wood...
...town played an important role in the saint's life as it was at the royal court of Charles VII in Chinon where she convinced the king to send an army to defend the city of Orl?ans from the invading English. Leading these troops into battle, St. Joan later emerged victorious from the siege. The tests on the relics took around a year to complete and were led by Philippe Charlier, a forensic scientist at the Raymond Poincar? Hospital in Garches, near Paris. A leading figure in matters medieval and macabre, Charlier has used forensics to investigate the deaths...
...think that's why After the Wedding works so well. There was a time, particularly in American movies, when the lives of the rich and the damaged were a common subject - almost a genre in itself, with the likes of Bette Davis or Joan Crawford facing the consequences of their pasts or the errant behavior of their soul-crushing relatives and trying to find true love and a reliable trust fund. The clothes, hair styles and decor of these films were alone worth the price of a ticket. And that says nothing about the attendant hysteria of their plots. These...
...injury forced him to cede that role to Johnny Weissmuller-- but he was the favorite of Tarzan writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Later, as Bruce Bennett, his stage name, he appeared in such acclaimed films of the 1940s as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Humphrey Bogart, and the Joan Crawford classic Mildred Pierce...
...never really thought about how my food purchases might affect "the food system." Even now I don't share the pessimism and asceticism of the local-eating set. In her 2001 memoir, This Organic Life, Columbia University nutritionist Joan Dye Gussow writes that her commitment to eating locally "is probably driven by three things. The first is the taste of live food; the second is my relation to frugality; the third is my deep concern about the state of the planet." I don't have much relation to frugality, and, perhaps foolishly, I'm more optimistic than Gussow about...