Drude’s blog

This one is for Ruth

2008-06-17T20:15:55Z

This film shows the Canadian forests and their importance to the entire rest of the world.... special dedication to Ruth who's doing archaeological work RIGHT now RIGHT there... go visit her blog to hear about it. wild chronicles podcasts ar...

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Virtual sightseeing in Denmark with Panemma, part 6

2008-06-11T20:34:52Z

the Viking Ship Museum This museum was built for five fairly intact ships found in Roskilde Fjord. They were sunk sometime in the second half of the 11'th century. They were sunk deliberately, filled with boulders, to block one of three naviga...

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Virtual sightseeing in Denmark with Panemma, part 5

2008-06-10T21:41:48Z

Crossing bridges Denmark is a lot of interconnected islands - so we have a bunch of big impressive bridges to cross. This is the Great Belt Fixed Link. Storebælt (Great belt) is a bit of the baltic sea that lies between Fyn (Funen) and Sjælla...

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a flickr mosaic of me

2008-06-08T21:17:43Z

OK then, I had to try this after seeing all the pretty mosaics of my neighbors. I had to cheat a few times because whatever my answer was drew a blank... so I shortened the word until it gave results... The Instructions: a. Type your answer to ...

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Virtual sightseeing in Denmark with Panemma, part 4

2008-06-08T19:30:29Z

Den gamle by (the old town) This is a place I feel very attached to. It's an open air museum - a museum of houses! in the middle of the botanical garden in Århus, my home town. I grew up right next to the botanical garden, so I played here a ...

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Virtual sightseeing in Denmark with Panemma, part 3

2008-06-07T21:15:40Z

Iron age market with falconry and "spontaneous" sword-fighting Yeah, I know, it's not a falcon, but this lovely owl was trained and worked just as hard as the falcons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . They had three different species of birds... T...

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Virtual sightseeing in Denmark with Panemma, part 2

2008-06-06T22:22:50Z

Nothing to do with Denmark in particular.... but we visited this little newborn foal - one day old ! IN Denmark - Island of Funen to be more specific. He was put out on grass for the first time. His mom had obvioulsy seen grass before. Mom...

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Virtual sightseeing in Denmark with Panemma, part 1

2008-06-06T19:57:46Z

While she visited me Panemma scaled the highest mountain in Denmark: Ejer Bavnehøj. She valiantly refused the oxygen offered at base camp, and fearlessly proceeded to climb all the way to the very top within hours of landing on Danish soil. H...

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I'm baaaaack!

2008-05-28T20:22:15Z

woohoo, internet was restored! . . . . . . . . . . . . .....and chaos was restored! Much happened in the meantime, some of it was reported over here on Panemma's blog.. (photos are here). The short version is: - packed my home into boxes,...

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Look, the magnolia is flowering

2008-05-03T08:29:44Z

That's the view from my new office. My department is in an old hospital. The old brick buildings are used for the university now, but it's protected as heritage, so they can't change even the colors on the walls - the class rooms still go by "th...

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