Mountain come to me

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And today Tybalt Autolycus Taaffe, aged seven months and two days, previously thwarted in his quest for the last ginger lemongrass macaron, completed his successful ascent of Mount Refrigerator and was found gnawing on the container at the summit, with the macaron in question inside.

He was summarily removed from Mount Refrigerator, protesting loudly all the while. So was the macaron, although more quietly. A second ascent was later completed by the two-party team of Taaffe and Hestia Hermia Linsky-Noyes, by which time the macaron had been eaten by someone who was not a cat. Descent has not yet been completed without human interference assistance.

Further bulletins as chaos warrants.

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died at around 32, much older than any of Philip II's other wives.

I thought Olympias made it to her late 50s... (Not that this is her, of course, but still.)

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I thought Olympias made it to her late 50s... (Not that this is her, of course, but still.)

She did; I've heard her birth year estimated between 375 and 371 BCE and she died in 316. I have those dates off the top of my head because I thought at first the article was confusedly attempting to claim the tomb's occupant was "older than any of Philip's other wives at the time of his death," but shortly realized that wouldn't work, either, because Olympias at her youngest would have been in her mid-thirties by then. Not to mention I have no idea of the birth dates of any of his other wives—Audate, Phila, Nikesipolis, Philinna, Meda, Kleopatra—and even if you want to assume he skewed younger with each marriage, it's not known in which years he married some of them. Unless I am stupidly misreading the sentence, I am guessing this is a case either of the article's author garbling something they were told or just having no idea what they were talking about.

(What mostly interested me was the array of weaponry. And when I read "horsewoman-archer close to Philip," I think of the woman who taught her daughter to ride and hunt and fight on the field of battle and lead men in war, as she would teach her daughter after her. It's true that one of Philip's other wives was Thracian, a horse-riding people; two more were from Thessaly, where they were supposed to breed the best horses in Greece; and I know nothing about Elimeia, but Audate's daughter is the one who took an army with her into Asia after Alexander's death. And all sources say she learned from her mother.)