Links

History:

Spain finds Don Quixote writer Cervantes' tomb in Madrid - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31852032

Ancient Receipt Proves Egyptian Taxes Were Worse Than Yours - http://www.livescience.com/50139-ancient-egyptian-tax-receipt.html

Language:

The Vocabularist: How we use the word toxic - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31833393

Miscellaneous:

How a London Imam became a sean nós singer - http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/how-a-london-imam-became-a-sean-n%C3%B3s-singer-1.2140767

How to be a sports journalist in the early 1900s (two carrier pigeons required) - http://www.theguardian.com/football/when-saturday-comes-blog/2015/mar/16/how-to-be-sports-writer-journalist-1900s-carrier-pigeons

12 Themes That Make Peanuts Timeless - https://blog.threadless.com/12-themes-that-make-peanuts-timeless/?utm_medium=social_profile&utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_campaign=peanuts_3_13_15

A man and his wallet, reunited after 65 years - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31854167 In which people are awesome.

How British video games became a billion pound industry - http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/zt23gk7?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=BBC_iWonder&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=knowledge_and_learning

This is What an 81 degree, 325 ft Drop at 95 mph Looks Like - http://twistedsifter.com/videos/fury-325-roller-coaster-at-carowinds-pov-test-run/ Yet more fantastic use of Go-Pros

This is What a Snoring Dormouse Sounds Like - http://twistedsifter.com/videos/what-a-snoring-dormouse-sounds-like/

Amazing but true: America is only four presidents’ lives old - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/03/12/amazing-but-true-america-is-only-four-presidents-lives-old/ For nwhyte

The soup method - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31907546 - In which Colchester borrows an idea from Detroit

Irish town builds memorial to thank Native Americans who helped during Famine - http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/-Irish-town-builds-memorial-to-thank-Native-Americans-who-helped-during-Famine.html

10 birds are in the running to be Britain's official avian mascot - http://mashable.com/2015/03/16/national-bird-vote-britain/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

Science:

Sudden cardiac death in athletes - http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h1218

Why the Warm Ocean on This Moon of Saturn Could Be Perfect for Life - http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a14507/enceladus-saturn-moon-ocean/

The "Harvard Sentences" Secretly Shaped the Development of Audio Tech - http://gizmodo.com/the-harvard-sentences-secretly-shaped-the-development-1689793568

Penguin waddle put to the test - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31910427

Sports:

Football:

Part 1 of footballers being awesome - Grace McCatty: From Champions League to volunteering in Zambia - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31945848

Part 2 of footballers being awesome - Burnley striker Danny Ings helps four-year-old achieve her 'bucket list' - https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/heartwarming--burnley-striker-danny-ings-helps-four-year-old-achieve-her--bucket-list-134058544.html

Milan Mandaric: Football’s Mr Fixit says farewell - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31897956

Ice Hockey:

RMNB Readers Reunite Mike Green With His Discontinued Stealth CNT Sticks - http://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2015/03/17/rmnb-readers-reunite-mike-green-with-his-discontinued-stealth-cnt-sticks/ Basically, Mike Green gave fans some sticks post match several seasons ago. The stick manufacturers stopped doing that kind of stick so the fans have given them back because he loves that kind of stick so much. And then Green scores with his old sticks having not scored for 20 games.

Rediscovered Lafleur-Lemieux photo a study of stars and a teen's hero worship - http://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/nhl/rediscovered-lafleur-lemieux-photo-a-study-of-superstars-and-a-teenagers-hero-worship

Fic - Choice, Spinach and Other Concepts Not Found On Orion (1/1)

Title: Choice, Spinach and Other Concepts Not Found On Orion
Author: Red Fiona
Fandom: Reboot-verse Star Trek
Disclaimer: Not mine. All Paramount's. No money being made from this.
Characters: Gaila and Chekov
Rating/Warnings: PG-12. I've gone with the TOS version of Orion society so Orion women are treated very badly within their society, but this is only referenced obliquely and is entirely off-screen.
Summary: Sometimes, she suspects that the Universal Translator was trying to split them up.

( Gaila has heard all the rumours about Orion girls, and all the rumours about her. )

End notes: Originally written for the lgbtfest prompt - "Any Fandom : any characters, a romantic asexual and a sexual try to negotiate a relationship that works for them both." Only I could never quite get it to be more about Chekov than Gaila so it ceased being suitable for that 'fest.