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[conuly]

Life's first handshake: Chiral molecule detected in interstellar space

'I'm not the Obamacare kid anymore'

Sunflower pollen protects bees from parasites

Album of Seaweed Pictures (1848)

Russia’s Centuries-Old Bride-Shows Were the Original Version of ‘The Bachelor'

Inside new-age and vintage communes

For the Kermit Sutra? New mating position reported for frogs

Cats seem to grasp the laws of physics

How Do You Say 'Gnarly' In Amharic? Ethiopia Gets Its First Skate Park

National Aquarium to move dolphins into refuge

The Battle For Bunny Land

The Enduring Unpopularity of the Female Condom

Native Americans move to frontlines in battle over voting rights

Families Isolated By Rare Genetic Conditions Find New Ways To Reach Out

Palestinians move into new city, part of statehood dream

Twice Exceptional

Faces of a divided island

In the Early 1940s, the Red Cross Banned Black Blood Donors

The right to remain silent, brought you by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI

How a New York State prisoner became a jailhouse lawyer, and changed the system.

Forget Closing Rikers, that’s not happening. Instead, why not make it a model?

Scientists Seek Genetic Clues To Asthma's Toll On Black Children

As a Girl, I Went Through Abstinence Ed. As a Woman, I’m Trying to Understand the Damage Done.

Polls show increasing support for Brexit; Murdoch's Sun backs 'Leave'

Florida bank issues first US credit card for use in Cuba

US home to nearly a third of world's mass shootings

U.S.-backed forces in Syria appeal for aid for hundreds fleeing IS

Comments

[alatefeline]

I applaud the scientific findings on the logical intelligence of the cat.

[conuly]

It's nothing we haven't all thought for years!

[alatefeline]

Meowxactly.

[steorra]

One of the stories about my patron saint is that she was involved in a Byzantine bride show. The mother of the young emperor Theophilos had arranged a bride show for him, and he had to give a golden apple to the maiden he chose. He was inclined to give it to St Kassiane. He came up to her and said (why, I don't know), "from woman came what is worst" - referring to Eve's sin. St Kassiane promptly replied, "but from woman came also what is best" - referring to Jesus being born of Mary. Theophilos apparently decided that she was too forthright, and picked a different bride.

I'd like to track down the sources of this story, but haven't yet been able to do so adequately. (Apparently a few contemporary or near-contemporary chroniclers talk about her being in the bride show, but I'm not sure how much of the story they include).

[conuly]

He came up to her and said (why, I don't know), "from woman came what is worst" - referring to Eve's sin.

Because he was a mansplaining jerkass who wanted to put her in her place. Good for her not marrying that idiot.

[steorra]

Indeed.

Also, they were on opposite sides of a theological controversy, and would have considered each other heretics - not good for marital harmony. So just as well.