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I Live In A High-Risk Fire Zone. And No, I’m Not Crazy.
Preparation is the key. That, and when ordered to evacuate, I scram. …
Social Security Has Paid Benefits To My Dead Husband For A Year
This is why the Social Security Administration is a nightmare to deal with. …
I Quit Spying On My Teenager And Learned Why I Didn’t Need To
At some point, you just have to let go of fixing everything for them. …
Why Are Boomers Still Working? Maybe We Just Don’t Know How To Retire
Retirement should be a gradual change that we ease into, not an abrupt departure with false promises to stay in touch. …
From Boozin’ To The Mile High Club: Flyers Rights
Between heightened security and overbooked planes, flying is hard enough. What rights do flyers have to have some fun? …
Linda’s Winter Park Diner closes its doors
Linda’s Winter Park Diner, a landmark local restaurant since the 1950s, closed its doors for the final time on Sunday, nearly two months after the owner announced its forthcoming closure. The iconic eatery was known for its comforting array of homemade, old-fashioned diner fare, as well as the memories that local regulars made and shared along the way, from the opening of its doors decades ago to its final days on Fairbanks Avenue in…
A Centuries-Old Frieze, Newly Deciphered, Tells the Story of the End of the Bronze Age
A limestone slab, 31 yards long, may have related the story of the end of the Bronze Age. An interdisciplinary team of Swiss and Dutch archaeologists have now deciphered the symbols thought to have adorned the frieze, almost 150 years after it was discovered and summarily destroyed. In 1878, villagers in Beyköy, a tiny hamlet in western Turkey, found the large, mysterious artifact in pieces in the ground, and saw that it was engraved with seemingly illegible pictograms and scribbles. It would be 70 years before that language, now known to be millennia-old Luwian, could be read by scholars.
According to Eberhard Zangger, the president of a nonprofit foundation called Luwian Studies, the symbols tell stories of wars, invasions, and battles waged by a great prince, Muksus. Muksus hailed from the kingdom of Mira, which controlled Troy 3,200 years ago. The inscription describes his military advance all the way through the Levant…
