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I still don't know exactly what I'm doing here

I also keep a BLOG which is malnourished to say the least

I'll get back to all of this stuff eventually

Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday. Three fingers, a vertebra and a tooth were removed from the astronomer's body by admirers in 1737, 95 years after his death, as his corpse was being moved from a storage place to a monumental tomb — opposite that of Michelangelo, in Santa Croce Basilica in Florence. One of the fingers was recovered soon afterward and is now part of the collection of the Museum of the History of Science, in Florence. The vertebra has been kept at the University of Padua, where Galileo taught for years. New York Times World Briefing 112109

 

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In 1961, when the Berlin wall was being built, Wayne Shanklin wrote a song about it called "West of the Wall" and released a single of it performed by his wife, Toni Fisher (she was always billed as "Miss Toni Fisher") on the Big Top label, which was also Del Shannon's first label. The record barely made Billboard's Hot 100, but it survives, even though the wall did not. The little juke below includes West of the Wall by Toni Fisher along with her first record, The Big Hurt which featured the first-ever use of "phasing." Also included is Del Shannon's cover of The Big Hurt, released on Liberty Records in 1966, also including the phasing effect. Noise noise noise. Yeah.

While the noisy music in the little juke may owe something to a wall of sound technique

the real-world walls of concrete and steel keep coming - click the thumbnails