BBC Radio 4's Digital Human
For Todd Matthews, it all started with a ghost story shared among teenagers. It was Halloween night 1987. A 17-year-old Matthews listened as friends tried to spook each other with scary tales – but one story told was true. Lori Riddle, the woman who would become Matthews’ wife within a year, spoke of the dead body her father stumbled upon in Scott County, Kentucky in the spring of 1968. “It was a strange story. Investigators were unable to identify the murdered woman, making her one of the estimated 40,000 nameless people laying dead in the medical examiners’ and coroner’s offices across the country. “I thought there was one. For 30 years the slain woman was known as “Tent Girl” – a reference to the tent bag that held her decomposed body. “It was a name on a grave, but it was ‘Tent Girl,’ not her real name,” he said. Her death stirred memories of his brother and sister who passed away as infants. “She was no different from my siblings,” he said. Read more:
Hi, I’m Claire Barratt | Claire Barratt
you may remember me from such projects as…. Salvage Squad, C4 (3 series x 10 x 60 minutes of 8pm engineering then repeated endlessly on Discovery) An eccentric mix of hard-core engineering, dusty archive and hands-on greasy good fun. 30 projects each got an hour to strut their stuff so we managed to cover an awful lot. Salvage Squad was really all about the people who had fallen in love with the machines and convincing the audience to love them too. History really roared to life as neglected classic vehicles were restored to their former glory. The Spotter’s Guide to Urban Engineering, various publishers – UK, USA, Australia Infrastructure and Technology in the Modern Landscape. Britain’s Secret Treasures, ITV (6 x 60 minutes) A top 50 countdown of archaeological discoveries made by the British public. As an Industrial Archaeologist I’d rather be tackling a blast furnace than digging around in the dirt for pot shards but this was pretty good. History Detectives, BBC Two (6 x 60 minutes)
BLOG — Laura Miller
I get a ton of emails asking for suggestions on what food processors and blenders to buy. I really want to emphasize that if you’re just getting started with raw food, definitely don’t feel like you have buy everything all at once! Start with what you’ve got, then figure out which of these you're actually using a lot or really feeling like you're missing. The worst thing is to spend a bunch of money on kitchen stuff that will just take up shelf space. Food processor - great for making puddings, chunky sauces, and our beloved frozen banana ice cream! High speed blender - It's great for making super smooth green shakes, desserts, sauces, anything. Good knives - you’ll be cutting A LOT of fruits and veggies, so this is a must. make sure they’re sharp, because (funny thing!) Mandoline - really cheap and really handy! Swissmar Borner has great reviews ($49) Benriner Wide-Body Large Slicer extra-wide! Spiralizer - for making those incredible zucchini noodles!
Psyches Journey
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Movies shot in Budapest | Lost in Budapest, Found in a Ruin Bar
It’s surprising, how many movies were shot in Budapest, or in Hungary. This popularity among filmmakers may be because of the cheap fees and the fact, that this city has a very mixed landscape and architecture, which makes it suitable to ’play the role’ of almost any other European cities. For example, in the 2005 movie München by Steven Spielberg Budapest was transfigured to Rome, Paris, London, and München, but our capital also portrayed Moscow (Die Hard 5), Baltimore, Belgrade (The Raven), and Berlin (Spy Game, The Debt) in other films, and even Argentina in Evita (1996). Brad Pitt and Robert Redford in Spy Game, with the Synagogue in the background While in Western cities the fees of shooting a movie are rather high, in the East, like in Budapest it is approximately 2000 Ft/squaremeter/day. Only in the last few years, there were numberous Hollywood-movies shot here. The city’s atmosphere seems to be perfect for fantasy films. Kate Backinsale (Underworld) in Metro 1 Like this: Related
T'HY'LA: I went to the Harry Potter studio tour!
Well I finally went on friday, and it was uh-may-zing. There are honestly no words for it. I took 300 and something photos but I don't want to give it away to anyone who might be going so here are a few that I put on instagram. I think I might still have a few Helena Bonham Carter skin cells on my hand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There were amazing painting things, this was one of my favourites because Harry looks like an old woman The Leaky Cauldron corridor, it's actually only about 7 feet long but at weird angles to make it look about 50 feet instead I started to cry at one point, (me and Jenny both did) and it was coolio and we actually had that tiny chance to feel like we weren't muggles for once. I want so badly to write every single little thing about it and put every single photograph I took on here!!! Um, right now I'm listening to The Carpenters and I know it's bad for me because it's bringing on post-potter depression again but just I love them so much asdfghjkl I can't.
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