Arlington National Cemetary unveils a new unknown soldier

For the first time in a generation, Arlington National Cemetery has marked the burial of an unknown on its storied grounds. Only this time, 25 years since the last interment at the Tomb of the Unknowns, the identity of the body remains a mystery not because the ravages of war made identification impossible, but because in a bureaucratic error the cemetery lost the paperwork showing the identity of the remains.

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Your Own Proust Questionnaire

If you are at least a little bit familiar with the magazine Vanity Fair then you know they have the Proust Questionnaire at the back of each issue, where a celebrity is asked the same questions as all other celebrities.

Well, the magazine’s website now has one you can fill out on your own and will match you with a few celebrities in which your answers are most similar to.

Try it out for yourself here.

My celebrity match was a bit shocking . . .

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One Nation Under God

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“One Nation Under God” is a painting by Jon McNaughton.  If you visit his website, you can read his motivation for painting this piece, and you can use your mouse to hover over sections of the painting to get an explanation regarding its meaning.  For example, when I placed the mouse cursor over the red sash worn by Jesus, I got the following:

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Check it out for yourself here.

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Woman put stolen check in church plate

NEW BRIGHTON, Pa. (AP) – Police said a woman put a forged $50 check in a church offering plate and stole a woman’s wallet from a pew in the same western Pennsylvania church. New Brighton police Chief Charles Van Fossan said Tuesday that police were still searching for a 20-year-old woman. She allegedly committed the crimes at First Presbyterian Church in New Brighton on Sunday.

Police said the offering check was from a previously stolen checkbook.

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