The most interesting part of the story is that this case provides an exammple of a medical justification for the ancient practice of bloodletting.

Where's Alex ??

"Last meal" has a certain ominous overtone which makes the title a nonsequitur. Perhaps rephrase as "previous meal?"

:-)

Requested from my library. Thanks for the suggestion.

No thanks. I felt like I was watching a visual depiction of the Trump presidency.

Thank you. Brings back pleasant memories.

Sort of related -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_%26_Abdul
Quite an interesting movie

If these are good Scandinavians, after the funeral they should be able to bury the dinner tradition for a few years, then dig it up and it should be ready to go again.

Most of the huge balloons have corporate tie-ins (Disney, Marvel, the Pillsbury Doughboy in the photo, etc), and the article only says the corporations "shoulder a lot of the burden."

I don't think the parade costs Macy's a penny. I bet they come out way ahead.

(link is faulty)

I don't understand why the Charleston Water System official prefaces his/her comment with "Joking of course..." ???

Freddie Mercury would have loved this. Nice find, Christophe!

Excellent find, and a superb photoessay; thanks for posting this.

At the risk of sounding culturally insensitive, I think it would be interesting to live in that sanatorium (for a short time) (in warm weather).

To which I would add sleep paralysis, as a common explanation for terrifying nocturnal visitations.

Nice find, Christophe.
I also don't understand the apparent rage at an imperfection near the end; seems out of character from the presumed parsimony of the ancestral craft. (It also looked to me like the miscut was intentional in order to make some point for the video...)