Sepulcher – a burial chamber, vault, or stone tomb, often built above ground or cut into rock; a receptacle for religious relics especially in an altar; to place in or as if in a sepulchre; to serve as a sepulchre for.
Word of the day
05/04/2026
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Beautifying the blogosphere
05/04/2026Photos of the Milky Way rising as seen from New Zealand ✨ pic.twitter.com/XbcIij0gv5
— Paul (@paulwilsonimage) January 24, 2026
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Woman of the day
05/04/2026n 2004, a journalist named Asieh Amini came across a story from a small town in northern Iran.
A 16-year-old girl named Atefeh Sahaaleh had been publicly hanged.
The official charge: “acts incompatible with chastity.”
The reality, which Amini uncovered through careful, dangerous… pic.twitter.com/5XRMP3TCYt— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) April 2, 2026
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Milne muses
05/04/2026“Hope is an emotion we need to make the best of life, and it is accompanied by great happiness. If hopes begin to fail us we are in danger of losing all feelings of hopefulness. Hope turns to despair. There must remain always something to hope for.” ~C.R.Milne #hope pic.twitter.com/2UEzlxmGL3
— A.A.Milne (@A_AMilne) March 2, 2026
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