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Archive for March 27th, 2008

Stumbles: history and dinosaurs

Posted: Thursday, March 27th, 2008 @ 4:37 pm in Blogging, Fun Facts | No Comments »

Barbary lions were part of medieval London zoo. I wonder if this would be good for Dielli, especially as part of the king’s menagerie. Ur ziggurat for Dielli. New sea monster species, found in Canada. This is a new genus of dinosaur, though a pleisosaur. prehistoric crocodile sea hunter, different from above.

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Dragon’s Blood by Patricia Briggs

Posted: Thursday, March 27th, 2008 @ 1:50 pm in Books and Reading | No Comments »

I enjoyed this book. It is the second in a duology (Dragon’s Bone is first.). There are several scenes in the book, perhaps as many as five, that were so well written that I quit reading forward and went back and re-read them, sometimes as many as four times. It is a wonderfully developed world, [...]

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