A map illustrating the journey home of the Achean warrior-king Odysseus after the Trojan war. His travel from Troy to Ithaca (and his wife Penelope) took innumerable twists and turns and lasted ten years. Ever since Homer’s Odyssey was written about 600 BCE (and undoubtedly long before that), people have been trying to plot the hero’s trek on the actual Mediterranean map. And for just as long other people have been considering this an utterly futile exercise. As far as we know - in 1597, Abraham Ortelius became the first cartographer to set Odysseus’ travels on a map. Many trials later (including the prime minister of Britain, William E. Gladstone), we aren’t any closer to getting a definitive layout of this epic journey. To illustrate the narrative flow of Hommer’s Odyssey, we drew inspiration from the University of Pennsylvania classicist Peter T. Struck’s study (2000) of Odyssean geography.
I realised I just posted a link without information here so let me expand on this:
This is a massive Jif peanut butter recall. Basically every single variety of it is recalled. The lot numbers included are
1274425 through 2140425, but the recall notice itself doesn’t say those are exclusive, so I’d be wary for a while (I am a smidge paranoid).
If you have Jif in your pantry, check it, and if it’s in that lot number range, throw it out. Do not eat it!!! Even if you’ve been fine so far! Just don’t!!
On this day, 23 May 1908, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, bisexual Swiss German photographer, writer, anti-fascist and androgynous style icon was born. A prominent character in the prewar Bohemian Berlin, with the rise of fascism Annemarie rejected her pro-Nazi family, began financing the anti-fascist literary review Die Sammlung and photographed the rise of fascism in Europe.
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Huge clean-up after Ontario and Quebec hit by tornado-like weather,
felling trees, uprooting utility poles and cutting power to more than
500,000
The death toll from powerful thunderstorms in
Canada’s two most populous provinces has risen to at least eight,
authorities said on Sunday, as emergency crews continued a massive
clean-up to restore power to half a million people.
The
storms, which lasted more than two hours Saturday afternoon and packed
the power of a tornado, left a trail of destruction in parts of Ontario
and Quebec. Wind gusts as strong as 132kmh (82mph) felled trees,
uprooted electric poles and toppled many metal transmission towers,
utility companies said.
Electricity
companies were scrambling on Sunday to restore transmission lines. Most
of the deaths from the storms occurred when people were hit by falling
trees, authorities said. …
