#Kilmartin

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Scotland

Kilmartin, August 2023

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Cast of the Prehistoric Art from Dunchraigaig Prehistoric Cairn Interior, Kilmartin Museum, Kilmartin Glen, Argyll, Scotland

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Whumptober 2023 | No.19

Floral Bouquet - Psychological - "I'm not as stupid as you think I am."

Shalimar Fox, Jesse Kilmartin, Brennan Mulwray and Emma DeLauro in Mutant X - 1x19 - Nothing to Fear

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Milestone Monday

On this day, July 10 in 1871, French novelist Marcel Proust (Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, to be exact) was born to an upper-class family in the Paris Borough of Auteuil. Born at a time of great change for French society, with the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle class, Proust's most well-known publication, the monumental, 7-volume novel À la recherche du temps perdu (currently translated as In Search of Lost Time, but previously translated as Remembrance of Things Past) explores the effects of these changes in personal and intimate ways.

Proust began work on this novel in 1909 and continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to stop. It was published in France between 1913 and 1927, and has become one of the hallmarks of world literature from the 20th century. The novel unfolds as a series of memories initiated by the sensation of a sip of tea in which he had dipped a madeleine cake. The sensation sparks dormant recollections of experiences from childhood to adulthood in fin de siècle France society.

The first six volumes of the novel were first translated into English by the Scottish author and translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff from 1922 to 1930, with the final volume translated by British novelist and translator Stephen Hudson in 1931. Terence Kilmartin revised the Scott Moncrieff translation in 1981 (with the final volume translated by Andreas Mayor) using the new French edition of 1954. The copy shown here is a revision of that revision by British academic D. J. Enright, based on the French Bibliothèque de la Pléiade edition of 1987-1989, published in six volumes by the Modern Library in New York (and by Chatto and Windus in London) in 1992. It is the first edition to use the more current translation of the title, In Search of Lost Time.

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Say hello to an ancestoress

More than 4,000 years ago, a young woman who died in what is now Scotland was buried in a crouched position within a stone-lined grave. She remained buried for millennia, until excavators at a stone quarry unexpectedly unearthed her bones in 1997.

Little is known about the woman — dubbed Upper Largie Woman after the Upper Largie Quarry — but now, a new bust-like reconstruction reveals how she may have looked during the Early Bronze Age.

The reconstruction, which went on display Sept. 3 at the Kilmartin Museum in Scotland, shows a young woman with dark braided hair who is wearing a deer-skin outfit. And she appears to be looking at someone nearby.

"Making a reconstruction I usually think that we are looking into their world, [meaning] they don't see us," Oscar Nilsson, a forensic artist based in Sweden who crafted the woman's likeness, told Live Science in an email. "I thought it could be an interesting idea to twist this a bit, and actually thinking that she can see us. And as you can see, she looks a bit critical to us (I don't blame her for that...)!"

Upper Largie woman, who died in her 20s, lived during the early Bronze Age of Scotland. (Image credit: Oscar Nilsson)

After the discovery of Upper Largie Woman, a skeletal and dental analysis revealed that she likely died in her 20s and experienced periods of illness or malnutrition. Radiocarbon dating found that she lived between 1500 B.C. and 2200 B.C., during the Early Bronze Age, according to the museum. Meanwhile, a look at different isotopes, or versions of strontium and oxygen from her remains suggested that she grew up locally in Scotland, but the team wasn't able to extract her DNA, so her ethnic heritage, including her skin, eye and hair color, is unknown.

However, archaeologists found sherds of Beaker pottery in her grave, hinting that she was part of the Beaker culture, named for its peoples' bell-shaped beakers. Research suggests that the Beaker culture started in Central Europe with people whose ancestors came from the Eurasian Steppe. Eventually, the Beaker culture reached Britain in about 2400 B.C. DNA evidence indicates that the Beaker culture replaced most of Britain's inhabitants, including the Neolithic communities that had built monuments such as Stonehenge.

"The carbon dating suggests she might be a descendant of the first Beaker newcomers," Sharon Webb, director and curator of Kilmartin Museum, told Live Science in an email.

For the reconstruction of Upper Largie Woman, her skull was CT (computed tomography) scanned and then 3D printed in Scotland. However, "she lacked her mandible [lower jaw], and her left side of the cranium was in a quite fragmented condition," Nilsson said. "So, the first thing I had to do was to rebuild the left side of her cranium. And then to create a mandible, a rather speculative issue of course."

Then, Nilsson took her age, sex, weight and ethnicity into account, as these factors help determine tissue thickness. "So, in this case: a woman, about 20-30 years of age, signs of undernourishment in a period of her life, and a probable origin from the region," he said.

Nilsson pulled from a chart of modern individuals who fit these characteristics, then used their tissue measurements to begin sculpting the reconstruction. Pegs placed on the replica skull helped him measure the tissue depth, which he then covered with plasticine clay as he molded the facial muscles. Based on her skull's contours, he noted that Upper Largie Woman's eyes were wide set and that her nose was broad and "probably a bit turned upwards." She also had a rounded forehead and a broad mouth.

"I found it interesting that once she was reconstructed, I did not see that much of her malnutrition," Nilsson said. "She had a very rounded facial skeleton, which helped her looking a bit more healthy than she may have been."

However, he was clear that "the colors were all qualified guesses, based on other burials from the time and the region, where the DNA was in better shape than this one."

Webb called the reconstruction "absolutely amazing, we wanted her expression to be asking questions of the visitor, wondering who they are, and what their lives were like so that visitors might also ponder her life."

Upper Largie Woman's remains are now "sensitively 'reburied'" in the same position and orientation she was likely buried in 4,000 years ago, Webb said. Visitors can see her reconstruction at the museum's permanent exhibit.

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Hannah Dodd: What Makes Everybody the Same – The Italian Rêve

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Kilmartin Castle, Scotland.

Who wouldn't want to stay in a cozy full-renovated 16th century castle and one of the NY Times 52 places to travel in 2023?

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Nether Largie Standing Stone, Kilmartin Glen, Argyll, Scotland

First time visiting this particular monument!

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Whumptober 2023 | No.9

Polariod - Mistaken Identity - "You're a liar."

Jesse Kilmartin in Mutant X - 1x03 - Russian Roulette

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@inaredflush​​  (daphne)  sent  a    🎵   for  a  randomized  music  starter

__________❀      VOICE      IS      HEAVY,        TIRED.      in  the  fading  light  of  day,      it  is  almost  difficult  to  discern  who  is  the  older  of  the  two  esteemed  bridgerton  sisters      (      such    is    the    grief    the    younger    carries.      scarecely    three    &&    twenty,      yet    already    widowed      )      she  knows  each  of  her  siblings  is    trying  to  connect,      to  help  her  find  her  footing  in  society  once  more.      it    is    so    easy    to    feel    like    an    outcast    in    one’s    own    family      ❛    heartbreaks    &&    promises      ...      i’ve    had    more    than    my    share.    ❜

show  me  love  by  sam  feldt  &  kimberly  anne

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Mutant X Origin #1 (May 2002) by Marvel Comics

Written by David Tischman, drawn by Lee Ferguson and Ignacio Calero

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GREATEST COMEBACK EVER (via twitter)

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Quote tweet by twitter user Laurie Kilmartin, @anylauri16

Original tweet by John Paul Warren, @johnpaulwarren, 2 hours ago

Original tweet text “#LaurieKilmartin you are a sick and demented individual. You have the blood of the unborn on you!”

Quote Tweet Text “It’s called menstruation, and I haven’t even had that on me in 5 years. Sheesh!”

9:44am, May 9, 2022

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Laurie Kilmartin is a standup comedian in Los Angeles who wrote for wrote for the Conan O’brien Show. She has a teenage son, and two dead parents. One who was killed by Covid-19 and another who passed in 2017 that was the subject of her book Dead People Suck and her comedy/documentary special 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad.