tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27363849877397015722012-02-16T14:50:17.601-08:00breakthroughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12800654048372917640noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2736384987739701572.post-81493624631118021272009-01-26T21:11:00.000-08:002009-01-26T21:17:59.137-08:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_u8zWefRLnYo/SX6Y0Lp-NPI/AAAAAAAAAAU/__-xnVVtwGU/s1600-h/090126-sicilly-mummy_big.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295838234083734770" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_u8zWefRLnYo/SX6Y0Lp-NPI/AAAAAAAAAAU/__-xnVVtwGU/s320/090126-sicilly-mummy_big.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://http//news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/01/090126-sicily-mummy.html">national geographic</a><br />She's one of the world's best-preserved bodies: Rosalia Lombardo, a two-year-old Sicilian girl who died of pneumonia in 1920. "Sleeping Beauty," as she's known, appears to be merely dozing beneath the glass front of her coffin in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, <a href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_italy.html">Italy</a>.<br /><br /><p>Now an Italian biological anthropologist, Dario Piombino-Mascali of the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Bolzano, has discovered the secret formula that preserved Rosalia's body so well. (Piombino-Mascali is funded by the <a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field/grants-programs/expeditions-council.html">National Geographic Society's Expeditions Council</a>. National Geographic News is owned by the National Geographic Society.)<!--- deckend ---><br /></p><br /><p>Piombino-Mascali tracked down living relatives of Alfredo Salafia, a Sicilian taxidermist and embalmer who died in 1933. A search of Salafia's papers revealed a handwritten memoir in which he recorded the chemicals he injected into Rosalia's body: formalin, zinc salts, alcohol, salicylic acid, and glycerin.<br /><br /></p><br /><p><br /><br /></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2736384987739701572-8149362463111802127?l=mybreaktrough.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>breakthroughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12800654048372917640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2736384987739701572.post-90132714541260027442009-01-25T21:45:00.000-08:002009-01-25T21:53:17.418-08:00How does a concentration camp victim forgive the soldier who imprisoned and tortured him? How does a rape victim forgive her attacker? And what about that terrible thing in your life that seems unforgivable? Forgiveness doesn’t feel natural or fair, does it? You’re the one who’s been wronged, and now you’re the one called to forgive. How absurd! At least apart from God’s grace. For it’s only by God’s grace that forgiving the unforgivable is possible. Even the desire to forgive is the result of God’s Spirit at work in your heart.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2736384987739701572-9013271454126002744?l=mybreaktrough.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>breakthroughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12800654048372917640noreply@blogger.com0