Who’s attractive? What’s chic? Always it’s a good time to embrace our humanity and our uniqueness — but now is better than ever. Hoping Kanigan’s post makes you smile like it did me …
Who’s Perfect? a video via David Kanigan
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Princess is Kind of a Bad Ass, a link and comment by LJUBICICAMESOZDERKA: Reblog
Sure this is a reblog -- of a reblog! -- it’s that good!!! …
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Hobby Lobby’s Parallel Universe of Antiquity Studies by Fiona Greenland: Reblog
When a private U.S. company goes beyond pushing religious interests — and illegally imports Iraqi antiquities …
An artist’s sketch of the Museum of the Bible, currently under construction. Source.
The following is a guest post by Fiona Greenland.
Last week’s news that Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby faced civil forfeiture for illegally importing Iraqi antiquities came as no surprise to cultural property experts. The company had been under scrutiny since 2015, when news of the investigation broke. And even before the investigation, scholars, including Roberta Mazza, an ancient historian at the University of Manchester, identified inconsistencies in the provenance histories, or ownership records, of antiquities obtained for Hobby Lobby-backed Museum of the Bible. Equally unsurprising in the wake of the forfeiture announcement were the muddled claims about Hobby Lobby funding ISIS. The forfeited antiquities at the heart of the civil complaint were shipped in late 2010 and early 2011 – prior to the period when ISIS is known to have been associated with archaeological looting in…
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