Spectre’s Sayings

Author Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.

Scientists searching for fossils in the Andes have discovered the 18 million year old remains of an ancient relative of the armadillo. In life, Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis was about 2.5 feet long and weighed in at 200 pounds. As impressive as that is, it’s nothing compared to a later relative. The Glyptodon, another armadillo relative, which went extinct a mere 10,000 years ago, was 10 feet long, and weighed 2 tonnes.

Today is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

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Religious leaders in Springfield are seeking to mark the centennial of the 1908 race riots through a more spiritual approach to racial issues. They have designated 2008 as a “Year of Reconciliation” and will hold eight “solemn assemblies” to commemorate the riots and to pray for various kinds of reconciliation, many of them racial. For more information, see here.