On this day in 1909, paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott discovered fossils in the Burgess Shale. The Burgess Shale is noted for its preservation of soft tissues, even though Kleenex would not be marketed until 1924. Alexander of Constantinople (ca. 240 – 340), the last bishop of Byzantium and the first Patriarch of Constantinople (everybody sing: […]![]()
