News Room

++ Next Generation Indie Book Awards announces results for 2009. Katherine Christensen’s novel, “. . .a rib from Eve”, is listed as a finalist in the Historical Fiction Category! Final results will be released to the press the first week in June.

++ MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW reports Katherine’s  novel, “. . .a rib from Eve” as: “A fast paced fantasy of an intriguing era not often discussed. . .very highly recommended reading.”

++ BEST SELLING AUTHOR MICHELLE MORAN’S INTERVIEW WITH KATHERINE.

“ History Buff

World's 'oldest beer' found in shipwreck
Palaeolithic funeral feast unearthed in Northern Israel
Scalpels and skulls point to Bronze Age brain surgery
Highest-Paid Athlete Hailed From Ancient Rome
Foreign religions grew rapidly in the 1st-century A.D. Roman Empire, including worship of Jesus Christ, the Egyptian goddess Isis, and an eastern sun
Israel archeologists uncover 2,000-year-old cupid in City of David dig
Oldest house in Ontario discovered at 4,500 year old settlement near Lake Huron, Canada
Archaeologists find new clues why the Maya left
Acoustic archaeology: The secret sounds of Stonehenge
Archeologists Find Gateway to the Viking Empire
What have the Romans ever done for us (socks and sandals excepted)?
Mayan pool in the rainforest
Roman 'industrial estate' unearthed in North Yorkshire
24 August 410: the date it all went wrong for Rome?
Greek Archaeologists Claim They Discovered Odysseus' Palace
Discovery of ancient cave paintings in Petra stuns art scholars
Dig unearths insight into life before the Romans
Queen of the Inch to be re-interred
Disease killed soldiers from Oliver Cromwell’s army discovered in Fishergate
Did Boudica live near Norwich?
'Mitochondrial Eve': Mother of All Humans Lived 200,000 Years Ago
Statues older, more numerous than terracotta warriors found in Hunan
Major buildings find at Roman fortress of Caerleon
Mysteries Abound in WTC Ship Remains
Ancient temple complex discovered near Le Mans
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“ DaVinci's Blog

If Jesus Were Indeed Married To Mary Magdalene, Does His Bloodline Still Exist?
Did The Church Evolve From Pagan Religions?
Why are three so many Mary?s in the bible
The Last Supper and it?s clues!
How Many Gospels Were There?
What Is The Quest Of The Grail?
Does The Priory Of Sion Really Exist?
Can you name the five major religions?
Alex Tracey Spotted This!
What Was The Role Of The Freemasons?
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“ The Reincarnationist Book

Where Science and Reincarnation meet?
Past Life Talent?
Can science explain away our beliefs?
The New Science of Morality
Time Wave Zero
Wisdom from Nonphysical Entities
Author Marie-Nicole Ryan answers the Reincarnationist QA
Your Mind Melds Remain Mysterious
Author Jenny Gardiner answers our penultimate Reincarnationist QA:
A History of The Sky
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“ Morbid Anatomy

This Tuesday at Observatory: “Behind the Scenes and Under the Skin” or, “The Body at Blythe," with Lisa O’Sullivan, Medicine Curator of Science Museum
Seeking Private, Curious, Arcane and Overlooked Scandinavian Museums, Collections, Sights and Curiosities
The Edward Gorey House Museum, Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts
Anatomical Venus from the Spitzner Collection, Demountable in 40 Parts, 19th Century, Wax; Montpelier, Museum of the Faculty of Science
Tomorrow Night at Observatory: "Documenting the Invisible: Spiritualism, Lily Dale, and Talking to the Dead," Illustrated Lecture by Shannon Taggart
CANCELLATION ALERT: "Animators The Brothers Quays Have Watched and Other Likely Things" Observatory, Monday August 30
Another Take on the Anatomist and his Beautiful Cadaver, Circa 1920
Tonight at Observatory: "The W.D. Trotter Anatomy Museum - A Brief History" A virtual tour by Chris Smith, Curator of the W.D. Trotter Anatomy Museum
'Skin,' Wellcome Collection, Through September 26, 2010
Tomorrow Night at Observatory : "Exquisite Bodies: or the Curious and Grotesque History of the Anatomical Model" with the Wellcome's Kate Forde
The Cushing Collection of Brains and Photographs Now Open to the Public at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
The Guillotine in Art and Culture
This Monday at Observatory: "Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater, 1930 to 1960" An Illustrated Lecture and Artifact Demonstration
Maud Allen as Salome, Early 20th Century
"Still Life: The Art of Anatomy," Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, Through September 12
Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Presents Events at Observatory This August
"Transport of the Bavaria (Torso)," Alois Löcherer, 1850
Fantastic and Curious European Circus Ephemera on the Web
A Strange and Macabre Collection, From Bram Stoker's "Lair of the White Worm," 1911
Evan Michelson of Obscura Antiques and Oddities, "The Culture of Curiosity," Lecture, Coney Island Museum, Sunday August 15, 4:30
A Pathological Fantasy from "Pohádky Pro Dospělé" or "Fairy Tales For Adults," By Jean Qui Rit and Illustrated by Artuš Scheiner, 1925
Wax Anatomical Model of a Female Showing Internal Organs, Francesco Calenzuoli, Florence, 1818; Wellcome Collection at the Science Museum
Morbid Anatomy Library New Arrival: "The Dead," Jack Burman, 2010
"Bugging Out," Cityscape Radio Show, WFUV
Epic Carnivorous Plant Container Bog For Sale, This Thursday, August 5th, at Lord Whimsy's "Nature as Miniaturist" Lecture at Observatory
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