Jars of plenty

Queen’s swans to get ‘flu’ jabs

Ancient Egyptian royalty used serious weapons

(Warning: The article is illustrated with an unpretty picture of a pharaoh’s mummy.)

Royal wedding: branches from one family tree

Vandals destroy Holy Thorn tree in Glastonbury

MARCH 2011 UPDATE: The Daily Mail reports that "Glastonbury’s Holy Thorn tree began to show new buds this week."

Could you become a dictator?

A controversial study:
Scientists suggest that cancer is purely man-made

A different point of view:
Cancer is not a disease of the modern world

Are we invading the pharaohs’ privacy?

Scientists give a face to ancient Greek girl

From author/illustrator Carlyn Beccia’s blog, The Raucous Royals:

What should you never feed a vampire?

Ms. Beccia’s new children’s history book, I Feel Better With a Frog in My Throat, is scheduled to be published in October.

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