#Four Found Dead

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Four Found Dead

Four Found Dead by Natalie D. Richards

I was sucked into this thriller and couldn't put it down! It's shoebox cozy, with a group of coworkers trapped in a mall together trying to escape a killer. I am now scooping up a bunch more Natalie D. Richards books!

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Four Found Dead by Natalie D. Richards [book review]

Another YA thriller bights the dust. I wish there was little bit more to this story but overall I enjoyed it.

Book: Four Found Dead By: Natalie D. Richards Published: May 2, 2023 Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Pages: 332 Genre: YA Thriller Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links. What this means is that if you purchase anything through the links I have provided for you then I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Please consider supporting my blog. Continue reading Four…

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Four Found Dead: Book Review

Read our book review for by Natalie D. Richards!

Four Found Dead by Natalie D. Richards was released earlier this year, and it’s been on many readers’ lists as something they need to explore, and for good reason. Keep reading to find out what we thought of th novel and if you should add it to your reading to-read list! Four Found Dead The story follows a group of teens working in their local mall’s movie theater. Excited for their last day,…

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My latest run...

I think I really overdid it this time on my latest run to the book store. This past weekend my hubby went to some kind of baseball convention that was 2 hours away from where we live. While dropping him off at that event, I went to the book store that was just up the road a little because…..you know……it was a different book store that I hadn’t been to before. Since the event was about 2 hours…

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YA suspense: Four Found Dead

YA suspense: Four Found Dead @SourcebooksFire

Four Found Dead, by Natalie D. Richards, (May 2023, Sourcebooks Fire), $11.99, ISBN: 9781728215815 Ages 14+ Jo and her friends are finishing up their last shift at the Tempest, the last store in a shuttered mall that’s closing for good. But at closing time, the doors are locked and their phones are locked in the safe; their manager, Clayton, won’t allow anyone to have them while on shift. The…

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Prompt 81

Danny blinked at the small children Ellie was holding the hand of, looking quite proud of herself. The small children- between ten and twelve so somewhere similar to Ellie’s age- who both practically stank of magic and Gods. 

He took a deep breath, pinching the bridge of his nose even as Dan cackled while opening the door more to let them inside. “Alright, what’s your name, kids?”

“B-billy…um, Billy Batson...” “‘m Percy! Percy Jackson.” 

“Nice to meet you two- any idea where in your family you have a god or two, because one of you definitely smells like Zeus and I’m pretty sure Poseidon and I am not dealing with either of my half-brothers.” 

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Sirius *T posing on the escalator*

James *holding onto him and singing the music from titanic very badly and loudly*

Remus *dying of shame*

[luckyshinyhunter]

🤗🥰🤗The classic found family trope always be my favorite trope in media, whether live-action or animated, it's incredibly heartwarming and it gets me everytime!🤗🥰🤗

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Four 1,900-Year-Old Roman Swords Found in a Judean Desert Cave

Apparently stolen by Jewish rebels, the incredibly well-preserved weapons are ‘an extremely rare find, the likes of which have never been found in Israel’

Archaeologists have discovered four 1,900-year-old Roman swords in a cave in the Judean Desert, which experts believe were captured by the Judean rebels during the Bar Kochba revolt and placed in a narrow crevice in the rock.

“We’re talking about an extremely rare find, the likes of which have never been found in Israel,” Dr. Eitan Klein, one of the directors of the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Judean Desert Survey, said in a video accompanying the announcement of the discovery. “Four swords amazingly preserved, including the fine condition of the metal, the handles, and the scabbards.”

The preliminary article on the swords is published in the volume “New Studies in the Archaeology of the Judean Desert: Collected Papers,” which explores new archaeological finds discovered in the Judean Desert Survey Project. A conference launching the book is taking place Wednesday in Jerusalem.

The four swords were discovered shoved into a small fissure in a cave near Ein Gedi National Park, near the Dead Sea. The cave is already well-known to archaeologists, as it contains a stalactite with a fragmentary ink inscription written in ancient Hebrew script characteristic of the First Temple period.

Recently, Dr. Asaf Gayer of Ariel University, geologist Boaz Langford of Hebrew University, and Israel Antiquities Authority photographer Shai Halevi returned to the cave to photograph the stalactite with multispectral photography, which can decipher additional parts of the inscription not visible to the naked eye. While inside the cave, Gayer spotted an extremely well-preserved Roman pilum — a shafted weapon — in a deep, narrow crack in the rock. He also found pieces of carved wood in an adjacent niche that turned out to be parts of the swords’ scabbards.

The researchers reported the find to the Israel Antiquities Authority and returned to the site with the Judean Desert Archaeological Survey Team, which is conducting a multi-year comprehensive survey of more than 800 caves in the Judean Desert to find and preserve archaeological remains before they are looted.

It was then that they discovered the four swords, three of which were found with the blades still inside their scabbards. Researchers also found ornate handles made of wood and metal with leather strips nearby. The arid climate in the Judean Desert helps preserve fragile artifacts that might otherwise be lost to the ravages of time, including materials such as leather and wood, which are rarely found in wetter parts of the country.

Three of the swords are Roman spatha swords, with blades 60 to 65 centimeters (23.5 to 25.5 inches) long. The fourth weapon, a ring-pommel sword, is shorter, with a 45-centimeter (18-inch) blade. The swords likely belonged to Roman soldiers and were stolen by Judean rebels who hid them in a cave either for later use or to avoid being caught with them.

“The blades have been preserved so well, they look like they could be picked up and used right now, even 2,000 years after they were forged,” said Langford. “You just realize that you are touching history, because here you are touching a find whose story you know.”

The Bar Kochba revolt, from 132 to 135 CE, also called the Second Jewish Revolt, was a Jewish rebellion against Roman rule in Judea led by rebel leader Simon Bar Kochba. Archaeologists believe the swords were likely hidden in the crevices inside the cave sometime during the revolt, as it was dangerous for Jews to be found with Roman weapons.

“This is a very rare and unique find on an international level that will shed light on the last moments of the war between the Jewish rebels and the Roman army at the time of the Bar Kochba revolt,” said Klein.

‘A unique time capsule’

The cave survey is being undertaken by the IAA in cooperation with the Archaeology Department of the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria, and has been funded in part by the Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage. Each body allocated about a third of the project budget.

Earlier this year, archaeologists carrying out the Judean Desert cave surveys discovered a rare half-shekel coin minted by the Bar Kochba underground economy.

The cave survey started in 2017 and helped archaeologists discover at least 20 new caves they had not previously known. In 2021, archaeologists announced that one of the caves contained previously undiscovered fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some 60 years after the last pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.

Following the discovery of the swords, archaeologists carried out an extensive excavation of the cave, discovering artifacts from the Chalcolithic period (around 6,000 years ago) and the Roman period (around 2,000 years ago). At the entrance to the cave, researchers found a Bar Kochba bronze coin from the time of the revolt that could help pinpoint the dates when the weapons were hidden.

“This is a dramatic and exciting discovery, touching on a specific moment in time,” said Eli Escusido, director of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Noting that not all are aware that the dry climatic conditions in the Judean Desert enable the preservation of artifacts that do not survive in other parts of the country, Escusido called the area a “unique time capsule” where it is possible to find “fragments of scrolls, coins from the Jewish Revolt, leather sandals — and now even swords in their scabbards, sharp as if they had only just been hidden away today.”

By Melanie Lidman.

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Emu oshis, I'm very sorry for all of you.

[readingwriter92]

I love when i have to fight off the Thoughts. Constantly.

[crocuspetals]

actual reference sheets for the s4 trio + aj! 🐱

they put something in this found family it goes too hard I fear

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Arthur and Honey Puff 𑁦𐂂𑁦 Lake Isabella

[compass-needle]

Uniform redesign i was bored after losing motivation on the last drawing.

Also some other hc like the robes are made out of rayon or smth lightweight n cheap idk

[raspberrysmoon]

y r bugs so scary. get. out of ehre bro

[thefirstknife]

One of my favourite ghost shells us the hissing silence shell, it's always given me vibes of "this ghost has slight eldritch madness" but I've always wondered; is the heliopause mentioned in its description an actual thing or something just to make the shell sound cool

The whole thing is an actual thing! Hissing Silence is themed for the Nine and has this description:

For Ghosts who have meditated beyond the heliopause.

It's refering to the lore about nine Ghosts that did just that as it says on the description. The name of the shell itself is a reference to this from this grimoire card from Destiny 1 that explains possible origins of the Nine:

The Nine are Ghosts who pierced the Deep Black without a ship and meditated on the hissing silence of the heliopause.

This is obviously not what the Nine are, but there were nine Ghosts that did just that and Orin found them in her search for the Nine. She had a conversation with them which you can read here. They gave her further coordinates to continue on her search. We don't know much more than that, but there's definitely an eldritch vibe going on with that.

And yes, the heliopause itself is an actual thing, if you meant just that. It's basically a boundary between the solar system and interstellar space, in simplest terms. Definitely check out more about it because it's fascinating!

Osiris has also been there and experienced a mindboggling event that to this day defies explanation. He was given the coordinates to the heliopause by Rasputin (because Ras was tracking the Black Fleet). Osiris got there, left his ship and entered.... some space ?? That does not match any description of any Pyramid ship and was largely described just through some metaphorical language. He does... something and somehow finds the seed of silver wings, and then returns to his ship with the seed which he plants on Io and it turns into the Tree we see in Season of Arrivals. Incomprehensible.