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...site has some pretty useful updates, including a calendar-map feature that shows what parts of England the queen and other members of the Royal family are scheduled to visit. There's an interactive menu: if you live in Merseyside and would like to see Prince William in the next couple of months, you can find out if he'll be in the neighborhood...
...There are individual pages for all of Queen Liz's children and grandchildren and several of her more distant rellies, yes, including Diana. The 10th most frequently asked question on the site is about the names of the Queen's corgis (Emma, Linnet, Monty, Holly and Willow). Less asked about are the Dorgis, a cross-breed of Dachshunds and Corgis (Cider, Berry, Candy and Vulcan). There's a 700-word answer to the question about what the royal family's surname is (Mountbatten-Windsor, but they...
...well as your regular down-home royals news, the site contains of lots of handy advice, such as what you might say to a member of the Worshipful Company of Vintners if you're invited to watch the annual Swan Upping. (A safe line of discourse at such swan-counting events would be to inquire how they are getting on with fellow swan enthusiasts, the Worshipful Company of Dyers.) And if you're looking for decorating tips for a larger than average residence, you can take an interactive tour of several ceremonial rooms to see what might be whipped...
...Mostly the site gives you an idea of what the royals do day to day, which appears to be meeting a lot of people with whom they have nothing in common and trying to find something to talk about, sometimes with excruciating results. Perhaps that's its true purpose. If it can puncture even one little girl's dream of being a princess, it's done us all a service...
...findings, announced in January at a meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia, have caused a stir in archaeological circles, bringing to light proof of deeds usually encountered just in classical texts. Conducting a CSI-style cold-case forensic analysis of the site, James pieced together clues from records of earlier excavations at the Roman city of Dura-Europos, whose ruins are in modern Syria. An army of Persians had sacked the city and abandoned it, deporting its captive population deep into Persian territory. Dura-Europos became a ghost town, engulfed in sand until joint French-American teams...