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Gods, Graves, Glyphs ^ | 7/17/2004 | various

Posted on 07/16/2004 11:27:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv


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To: SunkenCiv
Been a pretty good week in real life, thanks for asking. Around FR, nobody knows the troubles I seen.

Snort. ;-)

961 posted on 08/15/2009 3:35:00 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: fanfan

Heh... it’s carried over into this week... :’)


962 posted on 08/16/2009 7:49:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #266
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Scotland Yet

 Face to face with the 5,000-year-old 'first Scot'

· 08/20/2009 5:58:55 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 32 replies ·
· 635+ views ·
· The Scotsman ·
· Friday, August 21, 2009 ·
· Frank Urquhart ·
The face and its lozenge-shaped body -- measuring just 3.5cm by 3cm -- were carved on the Orkney island of Westray between 4,500 and 5,000 years ago. The enigmatic figurine had lain undisturbed in the earth at the Links of Noltland -- one of Orkney's richest archaeological sites -- until just last week... Scotland's culture minister Mike Russell... "What we are seeing here is the earliest known human face in Scotland. It once again emphasises the tremendous importance of Orkney's archaeology." The figurine was unearthed by Jakob Kainz, one of a team of archaeologists working at Historic Scotland's excavations on...

Ancient Autopsies

 Grave discovered at royal centre [Scotland]

· 08/16/2009 6:49:37 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 8 replies ·
· 373+ views ·
· BBC ·
· 11 Aug 2009 ·
· BBC ·
Archaeologists have discovered an early Bronze Age grave and artefacts at the site of a centuries old royal centre. The 4000-year-old burial chamber was uncovered near Forteviot, Perthshire. Few remains of the body were found, but the archaeologists said it would have lain on a bed of quartz pebbles in sand, in a large stone coffin. A bronze dagger with a gold band was discovered inside the grave, along with a leather bag, wooden objects and plant matter, which could be floral tributes. The discovery was made by archaeologists from Glasgow and Aberdeen universities. They found a large sandstone slab,...

British Isles

 Ancient rock art discovered in the Scottish Highlands

· 08/17/2009 11:17:23 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 24 replies ·
· 669+ views ·
· The Daily Mail ·
· 17 Aug 2009 ·
· The Daily Mail ·
Stone carvings dating back centuries have been uncovered by an amateur archaeologist. The prehistoric artwork was found on the mountain of Ben Lawers in the Scottish Highlands by rock art enthusiast George Currie. The art is similar to other prehistoric pieces found in the area, consisting of depressions known as cup marks, or cup and ring marks, which are carved on rocks... However, the newly-discovered rock is unusual as it bears a much higher concentration of the markings...

Farty Shades of Green

 4,000-year-old timber circle found in Tyrone

· 08/16/2009 12:22:24 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 17 replies ·
· 408+ views ·
· BBC ·
· Aug 15, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
The remains of a timber circle from more than 4,000 years ago have been uncovered by archaeologists in County Tyrone.The timber circle was found by the Headland Group near Ballygawley in 2006/2007 as part of an excavation project linked to the A4 and A5 road improvements scheme. Project Officer at Headland Archaeology, Kirsty Dingwall, said radiocarbon dating had confirmed it was from around the middle of the third millenium BC, "although some elements of it may be earlier". "The specific use of timber circles are not well understood but it is thought that they were used as ritual sites, perhaps...

Diet and Cuisine

 3,000 yr old butter discovered in Ireland [smashing all the lies of the Evolutionists!!!] ;')

· 08/20/2009 6:10:33 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 85 replies ·
· 1,762+ views ·
· Thai-Indian ·
· Thursday, August 20, 2009 ·
· ANI ·
Two workers have discovered an oak barrel, full of butter, estimated to be roughly 3,000 years old, in Gilltown bog, between Timahoe and Staplestown, in Ireland. According to a report in Leinster Leader, the amazing discovery of the barrel, which is being described by archaeology experts in the National Museum as a "really fine example" was found by two Bord na Mona workers... What they found was an oak barrel, cut out of a trunk, full of butter. It was largely intact, except for a gash towards the bottom of it caused by the harrow. It was head down, and...

Anatolia

 Archaeologists Unearth 16,000-Year-Old Goddess Figurine in Turkey

· 08/20/2009 6:03:41 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 62 replies ·
· 881+ views ·
· Balkan Travellers ·
· Thursday, August 20, 2009 ·
· unattributed ·
A 16,000-year-old clay figurine of a female was found by archaeologists during excavations in southern-eastern Turkey. The mother goddess sculpture was discovered in the Direklu Cave in the Kahramanmaraç Province, which archaeologists have been excavating since July 15, Gazi University Archaeology Department lecturer Cevdet Merih Erek told national media. The find suggests that women had a high social status in the region at the time the figurine was made, Erek explained. In addition, it challenged archaeologists' previous knowledge by suggesting that the method of using fired clay to make figurines was much older than previously thought. Before this recent discovery,...

Let's Have Jerusalem

 'Magnificent Roman mansion' uncovered in City of David

· 08/19/2009 3:24:35 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 19 replies ·
· 773+ views ·
· Jerusalem Post ·
· Aug 18, 2009 ·
· JOSIAH RYAN ·
The 'magnificent' Roman mansion uncovered. Photo: Courtesy/Antiquities Authority A "magnificent" two-story Roman mansion of more than 1,000 square meters has been discovered by archeologists in the City of David Archeological Park outside the capital's Old City, the Antiquities Authority announced on Monday. Previously, archeologist believed 3rd century Roman ruins extended only to the edge of the Ottoman Old City walls. The discovery of the mansion within the Givati parking lot, outside the walls and adjacent to the City of David, however, suggests Roman construction may have stretched to the bottom of the Silwan Valley, Dr. Doron Ben-Ami, the excavation's director,...

Epigraphy and Language

 Unusual and Marvelous Maps

· 08/16/2009 7:15:48 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 26 replies ·
· 900+ views ·
· DRB ·
· 15 Aug 2009 ·
· Simon Rose ·
Hideous monsters devouring ships? Old map symbols, correctly showing storm fronts & dangerous currents I've always been fond of maps, from those antique ones showing sea serpents and hideous monsters devouring ships in the vast expanses of the ocean, to those showing what the world looked like in the distant, and not so distant, past. Maps have, of course, been with us in one form or another, for a long time. Jerusalem is in the center - from "Itinerarium Sacrae Scipturae", by Heinrich Bunting, 1545-1606 Here's a world map according to Posidonius, from around 150-130 B.C. - Ptolemy's version of...

Pages

 Emperor Constantine's Last Walk

· 08/17/2009 6:15:37 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 25 replies ·
· 676+ views ·
· Peterborough Examiner ·
· July 11, 2007 ·
· Erik Blackthrone O'Barr ·
Osprey Media. - Peterborough Examiner - Ontario, CA [Emperor] Constantine's Last WalkJunior Fiction winner Local News - Wednesday, July 11, 2007 @ 00:00 By Erik Blackthrone O'Barr Grade 9 Peterborough Collegiate The cannon fire grew closer with each thundering belch of rock and iron, as the walls of Constantinople, wonders of the world that had never been breached save for treachery, groaned under the strain. Buildings crackled with scorching heat, set ablaze by pitch- covered arrows. The shouts and screams of the dying echoed in the empty streets of the once great city. And Constantine XI Palaiologos, last Emperor of...

Rome and Greece

 Review: How the Byzantines Saved Europe

· 08/18/2009 6:27:29 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 41 replies ·
· 625+ views ·
· acton.org ·
· AUGUST 17, 2009 ·
· JOHN COURETAS ·
The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies. Edited by Elizabeth Jeffreys, John Haldon, Robin Cormack. Oxford University Press (2008) Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin. Princeton University Press (2008) Ask the average college student to identify the 1,100 year old empire that was, at various points in its history, the political, commercial, artistic and ecclesiastical center of Europe and, indeed, was responsible for the very survival and flourishing of what we know today as Europe and you're not likely to get the...

Religion of Peace

 Hagia Sophia angel uncovered in Turkey

· 08/20/2009 7:15:45 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 18 replies ·
· 515+ views ·
· haber27.com ·
· 08/20/08 ·
Hagia Sophia angel uncovered in Turkey Restoration workers have uncovered the mosaic face of an angel in the world-renowned Hagia Sophia Museum in the Turkish city of Istanbul 29 Temmuz 2009 Çarçamba 02:35 The mosaic, believed to be one of a group of six, was found in the pendentive, an arched triangular section supporting the dome of the monument. Some experts believe the six-winged figure dates back to the 14th century, but the Hagia Sofia Science Board is set to determine the relic's true age by comparing it to similar mosaics found in 1935. Built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian,...

Barbary Pirates

 U.S. Navy Reserve Capt. Greg Miller of Berea restoring U.S. tombs in Libyan cemetery

· 08/18/2009 2:51:35 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 18 replies ·
· 463+ views ·
· The Plains Dealer ·
· 15 Aug 2009 ·
· Brian Albrecht ·
Five fallen U.S. sailors from what has been described as America's first war on terrorism lie in a crumbling cemetery in Libya, their graves identified only by their heroism on a night more than 200 years ago. They represent a lingering legacy of the Intrepid -- a small ship used in a daring raid in 1804 to destroy the captured American frigate Philadelphia anchored in Tripoli Harbor, denying the enemy use of the former U.S. warship. Much the same tactic was attempted six months later when the Intrepid sailed into the same harbor, packed with gunpowder for use as a...

Africa

 Subway excavation uncovers Algeria's past

· 08/17/2009 2:11:11 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 8 replies ·
· 287+ views ·
· Reuters ·
· Aug 17, 2009 ·
· Christian Lowe ·
ALGIERS - Work to build a subway line through Algeria's capital has given archaeologists a chance to uncover traces of their country's ancient history that they thought had been erased by French colonial rule. When engineers closed off part of Algiers' bustling Martyrs' Square to build an underground railway station, archaeologists seized the opportunity to investigate the site and, beneath layers of concrete, found a 5th century basilica. They also found Ottoman-era metal forges and recovered cannonballs and a primitive pistol - an echo of the period in the 16th and 17th century when Barbary pirates used Algiers as a...

India

 Rare 1857 rebellion message discovered in UK

· 08/19/2009 1:15:09 PM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 4 replies ·
· 418+ views ·
· Hindustan Times ·
· August 17, 2009 ·
In a crucial discovery of interest to historians, a tightly folded scrap of paper containing a key encrypted message during India's first war of independence in 1857 has been discovered at the Harewood House in Leeds. Considered one of the smallest but most remarkable records of the era, the scrap of blue paper measures six by five centimeters and contains Greek and English characters. It contains an encrypted message that was smuggled out of Lucknow. Written on the September 1 1857, Brigadier John Inglis described conditions in the town that had been under siege since 30 June that year. The...

China

 Founding Dynasty or Myth? [ancient China]

· 08/20/2009 6:16:19 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 34 replies ·
· 416+ views ·
· Science magazine ·
· August 21, 2009 ·
· Vol. 325 ·
· no. 5943 ·
· p. 934 ·
· Andrew Lawler ·
In the 6th century B.C.E., Confucius referred to the ancient Xia dynasty as China's first, based on documents that were old in his day. For generations of Chinese scholars, the Xia was China's initial great flowering of civilization, inaugurating a history that unfolded in methodical fashion from city-state to empire (see main text). But there was no physical evidence for the dynasty's existence, so in 1959 an archaeological team set out to find its seat. Along a marshy section of the Luo River in the central plains of the Yellow River Valley, they uncovered a 300-hectare site dating to roughly...

Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis

 IU discovers stone tools, rare animal bones -- clues to Caribbean's earliest inhabitants

· 08/18/2009 8:51:13 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 9 replies ·
· 210+ views ·
· Indiana University ·
· Aug. 18, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
Jessica Keller holds the primate skull found in the Padre Nuestro Cavern. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A prehistoric water-filled cave in the Dominican Republic has become a "treasure trove" with the announcement by Indiana University archaeologists of the discovery of stone tools, a small primate skull in remarkable condition, and the claws, jawbone and other bones of several species of sloths. The discoveries extend by thousands of years the scope of investigations led Charles Beeker, director of Academic Diving and Underwater Science Programs at IU Bloomington's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and his interdisciplinary team of collaborators. The researchers'...

The Redcoats

 EPA Says It Will Toss Artifacts from Historic 18th Century Fort into a Landfill

· 08/18/2009 10:33:27 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nachum ·
· 28 replies ·
· 1,015+ views ·
· CNSNews.com ·
· 8/18/09 ·
· Adam Brickley ·
(CNSNews.com) -- Less than a week after the Environmental Protection Agency restarted a controversial dredging project on the Hudson River, dredgers operated by the General Electric Company dislodged wooden beams that are the last remnants of one of the largest British forts in the American colonies. The EPA now says that the beams are contaminated with potential carcinogens known as PCBs and therefore must be buried in a landfill

Early America

 On the Hunt for Jefferson's Lost Books

· 08/16/2009 10:50:51 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 18 replies ·
· 460+ views ·
· Smithsonian Magazine ·
· 11 Aug 2009 ·
· Ashley Luthern ·
A Library of Congress curator is on a worldwide mission to find exact copies of the books that belonged to Thomas Jefferson For more than a decade, Mark Dimunation has led a quest to rebuild an American treasure -- knowing he will likely never see the complete results of his efforts. On an August day 195 years ago, the British burned the U.S. Capitol in the War of 1812 and by doing so, destroyed the first Library of Congress. When the war ended, former President Thomas Jefferson offered to sell his personal library, which at 6,487 books was the largest in America,...

The Framers

 the 27th Amendment

· 08/17/2009 3:29:27 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 6 replies ·
· 290+ views ·
· Constitution of the United States,
  via FindLaw et al ·
· proposed September 25, 1789 ·
· ratified May 5, 1992 ·
· The Framers et al ·
Twenty-Seventh Amendment: No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

Longer Perspectives

 Has your classical knowledge stood the test of time?

· 08/20/2009 3:39:36 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Lorianne ·
· 26 replies ·
· 572+ views ·
· Telegraph UK ·
· 20 Aug 2009 ·
Take our quiz, and see if you can tell your Tantalus from your Tacitus... 1 Why did George Bernard Shaw call his play Pygmalion? 2 What is a ziggurat? 3 Name three Latin phrases beginning with "ad" that are in common currency. 4 Boris Johnson used the phrase res ipsa loquitur as a justification for learning Latin in school. What does it mean? 5 Zeus (Jupiter or Jove), lord of the skies, was prone to throwing thunderbolts at anyone who displeased him and to changing himself into a variety of forms in order to have sex with anything that moved....

 Students Recall More Hollywood than History

· 08/20/2009 12:30:12 PM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 47 replies ·
· 622+ views ·
· livescience ·
· 12 August 2009 ·
· Jeremy Hsu ·
If you thought Tom Cruise's character in "The Last Samurai" represented a real figure from history, you were wrong. But don't feel ashamed. A new study shows that even students, with facts staring them in the face, tend to substitute Hollywood fiction for historical fact in their minds. "What we found is that there's something really special about watching a film that lets people retain information from that film, even when they had read a contradictory account in the textbook," said Andrew Butler, a psychology researcher at Washington University in St. Louis during the time he and his colleagues conducted...

Mating Rituals

 Do Single Women Seek Attached Men?

· 08/13/2009 9:40:05 AM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 72 replies ·
· 1,661+ views ·
· New York Times ·
· August 13, 2009 ·
· JOHN TIERNEY ·
Researchers have debated for years whether men or women are likelier to engage in "mate poaching." Some surveys indicated that men had a stronger tendency to go after other people's partners, but was that just because men were more likely to admit engaging in this behavior? Now there's experimental evidence that single women are particularly drawn to other people's partners, according to a report in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology by two social psychologists, Melissa Burkley and Jessica Parker of Oklahoma State University. Noting that single women often complain that "all the good men are taken," the psychologists wondered...

Freestyle Swim Team

 Sperm Travels Faster Toward Attractive Females

· 08/13/2009 5:27:09 AM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 32 replies ·
· 1,287+ views ·
· discovery ·
· Jennifer Viegas ·
Females may be outwardly choosy when selecting sexual partners -- accepting or shunning mates in very public ways -- but males may get the last say in this battle of the sexes. New research found that males can adjust the speed and effectiveness of their sperm by allocating more or less seminal fluid to copulations. The determining factor is whether the male finds the female attractive. The study, conducted on red junglefowl, a director ancestor of chickens, adds to the growing body of evidence that males throughout many promiscuous species in the animal kingdom, including humans, can mate with many...

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show

· 08/17/2009 6:32:01 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 27 replies ·
· 1,004+ views ·
· New York Times ·
· August 17, 2009 ·
· ANDREW POLLACK ·
Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been considered the gold standard of proof in criminal cases. > "Any biology undergraduate could perform this." >


 DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show

· 08/19/2009 12:39:11 AM PDT ·
· Posted by The Magical Mischief Tour ·
· 16 replies ·
· 914+ views ·
· NYTimes ·
· 08/19/2009 ·
· NYTimes ·
Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been considered the gold standard of proof in criminal cases.

World War Eleven

 WWII a big part of man's life story

· 08/17/2009 5:04:52 AM PDT ·
· Posted by real saxophonist ·
· 2 replies ·
· 187+ views ·
· Greeley Tribune ·
· Monday, August 17, 2009 ·
· Mike Peters ·
Age is catching up with him now, as it does when you're 85. He spent some time in the hospital last week, scaring his family with a "heart episode." But Nick Golovanoff of Greeley is still going. Still telling the stories. Still finding a laugh here and there. He and his wife, Mary Alice, haven't lived in Greeley long. They came here so their daughter could help. She is Sandi Selders, wife of former Greeley mayor Tom Selders. But being old is not the story of Nick...

Yo, Canada

 Canada finds possible US Air Force plane lost in 1942

· 08/16/2009 5:53:44 AM PDT ·
· Posted by nuconvert ·
· 28 replies ·
· 1,482+ views ·
· AFP ·
· Aug. 6, 2009 ·
Canadian underwater archeologists accidentally discovered what they believe to be the wreck of a US Air Force airplane that sank in the Saint Lawrence seaway in 1942, the Parks Canada divers said Thursday. The divers said in a statement that they were carrying out routine work in an adjacent area when they came across the wreck. It must still be confirmed that it is indeed the lost plane. "This is a very significant discovery," Quebec region Minister Christian Paradis said. "This plane is a testament to the collaboration between Canada and the US during the Second World War." The amphibious aircraft foundered in rough weather on November 2, 1942, in the waters surrounding what is now the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve in the eastern Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The plane was based at Presqu'Ile, Maine, in the United States, and serviced an airfield in the village of Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, Quebec, about 1,000 kilometers (641 miles) northeast of Montreal. Nine persons were on board when the aircraft went down. Four of the crew escaped the flooding plane and were rescued by local fishermen rowing out from shore in open boats in rough seas. The five others perished, trapped inside.

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Free Fall From Near Space (On This Date: August 16, 1960)

· 08/16/2009 10:10:03 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Wardenclyffe ·
· 18 replies ·
· 608+ views ·
· Damninteresting.com ·
· July 19, 2006 ·
· Daniel Lew ·
On August 16, 1960, Kittinger made his most famous free-fall. In this flight, he made it up to an altitude of 102,800 feet, breaking a previous record made by David Simons during Project Man High. He stayed at this altitude for about 12 minutes, which must have been very unpleasant -- not only was it as cold as 94 minus Fahrenheit, but he had a severe pain in his right hand from a malfunctioning pressurized glove. Then, he jumped. He fell for almost five minutes before reaching a safe altitude to open his main parachutes and float down to the...

Climate

 2 Studies Challenge Notion of Rise in Atlantic Storms

· 08/15/2009 4:26:42 PM PDT ·
· Posted by neverdem ·
· 23 replies ·
· 991+ views ·
· NY Times ·
· August 13, 2009 ·
· CORNELIA DEAN ·
Since the mid-1990s, hurricanes and tropical storms have struck the Atlantic Ocean with unusual frequency -- or have they? Two new studies suggest that the situation may not be so clear. One, by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, suggests that the high number of storms reported these days may reflect improved observation and analysis techniques, not a meteorological change for the worse. The second, by researchers at Pennsylvania State University and elsewhere, suggests that there were as many storms a thousand years ago, when Atlantic Ocean waters were unusually warm, as today. The work does not suggest...

Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

 Study: Global warming sparked by ancient farming methods

· 08/19/2009 3:13:18 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Free ThinkerNY ·
· 42 replies ·
· 439+ views ·
· cnn.com ·
· August 18, 2009 ·
· Shelby Lin Erdman ·
(CNN) -- Ancient man may have started global warming through massive deforestation and burning that could have permanently altered the Earth's climate, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. Primitive slash-and-burn agriculture permanently changed Earth's climate, according to a new study. The study, published in the scientific journal Quaternary Science Reviews and reported on the University of Virginia's Web site, says over thousands of years, farmers burned down so many forests on such a large scale that huge amounts of carbon dioxide were pumped into the atmosphere. That possibly...

Navigation

 Was ancient Cypriot cave a prehistoric diner?

· 08/19/2009 11:39:46 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 21 replies ·
· 328+ views ·
· Reuters ·
· Aug 19, 2009 ·
· Michele Kambas ·
Thousands of prehistoric hippo bones found in Cyprus are adding to a growing debate on the possible role of humans in the extinction of larger animals 12,000 years ago. First discovered by an 11-year-old boy in 1961, a tiny rock-shelter crammed with hippo remains radically rewrote archaeological accounts of when this east Mediterranean island was first visited by humans. It has fired speculation of being the first takeaway diner used by humans to cook and possibly dispatch meat. It also adds to growing speculation, controversial in some quarters, that humans could have eaten some animals to extinction.

Biology and Cryptobiology

 Hundreds Of New Species Discovered In Eastern Himalayas

· 08/14/2009 3:40:48 AM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 17 replies ·
· 569+ views ·
· sciencedaily ·
· Aug. 11, 2009 ·
Over 350 new species including the world's smallest deer, a "flying frog" and a 100 million-year old gecko have been discovered in the Eastern Himalayas, a biological treasure trove now threatened by climate change. A decade of research carried out by scientists in remote mountain areas endangered by rising global temperatures brought exciting discoveries such as a bright green frog that uses its red and long webbed feet to glide in the air.

Drunky Munky

 Monkeys booze because of genes

· 08/18/2009 3:27:07 AM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 10 replies ·
· 352+ views ·
· bbc. ·
· 17 August 2009 ·
· Sudeep Chand ·
A study has shown that having a particular gene variant causes some macaque monkeys to drink more alcohol in experiments. The gene, known as the corticotrophin releasing factor (CRF) gene, is an important part of how we respond to everyday stress. Sometimes it can become overactive and lead to stress-related problems such as anxiety, depression and alcoholism. The findings may eventually lead to new treatments for alcoholism. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the scientists found that some monkeys with the gene variant drank more alcohol, possibly to relieve their anxiety. In particular the "T"...

Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles

 Key feature of immune system survived in humans, other primates for 60 million years

· 08/18/2009 1:46:45 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 11 replies ·
· 250+ views ·
· Oregon State University ·
· Aug 18, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
CORVALLIS, Ore. -- A new study has concluded that one key part of the immune system, the ability of vitamin D to regulate anti-bactericidal proteins, is so important that is has been conserved through almost 60 million years of evolution and is shared only by primates, including humans -- but no other known animal species. The fact that this vitamin-D mediated immune response has been retained through millions of years of evolutionary selection, and is still found in species ranging from squirrel monkeys to baboons and humans, suggests that it must be critical to their survival, researchers say. Even though...

Paleontology

 "Mummified" Dinosaur Discovered In Montana (pics included)

· 10/11/2002 1:04:43 AM PDT ·
· Posted by chance33_98 ·
· 219 replies ·
· 4,305+ views ·
· National Geographic News ·
"Mummified" Dinosaur Discovered In Montana Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News October 10, 2002 Leonardo, a mummified, 77-million-year-old duck-billed dinosaur was only about three or four years old when he died, but he's proving to be a bonanza for paleontologists today. His fossilized skeleton is covered in soft tissue -- skin, scales, muscle, foot pads -- and even his last meal is in his stomach. An onsite restoration drawing of how "Leonardo" may have looked before burial based on observations and measurements of the specimen. The drawing was done by paleolife artist Greg Wenzel. Art copyright Judith River Dinosaur Institute "For paleontologists, if...

Oh So Mysteriouso

 Ink found in Jurassic-era squid (150 mya squid "can be dissected as if they are living animals")

· 08/19/2009 9:40:47 AM PDT ·
· Posted by GodGunsGuts ·
· 288 replies ·
· 2,606+ views ·
· BBC ·
· August 19,2009 ·
Palaeontologists have drawn with ink extracted from a preserved fossilised squid uncovered during a dig in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. The fossil, thought to be 150 million years old, was found when a rock was cracked open, revealing the one-inch-long black ink sac. A picture of the creature and its Latin name was drawn using its ink...

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Welcome to the 266th issue. Many thanks to all who posted GGG topics.

I'm now officially a kept man. Other than a few consecutive topics I posted Thursday over a half hour or so, ALL the GGG topics were posted by others, and it is quite a big issue. Enjoy! I've edited it now (Friday night) and will post it right after midnight -- and I hope you have a very nice weekend. It's about to rain here again, I think. It has dropped twenty degrees since last week, so I guess our three weeks of summer ended early.

I didn't check, but may have pinged a duplicate topic, the one about DNA tests can be fabricated. For the first time in a while, there were zero topics on the Civil War.

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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #267
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Africa

 German Archaeologists Labor to Solve Mystery of the Nok[Nigeria]

· 08/22/2009 11:10:05 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 32 replies ·
· 669+ views ·
· Spiegel ·
· 21 Aug 2009 ·
· Matthias Schulz ·
Some 2,500 years ago, a mysterious culture emerged in Nigeria. The Nok people left behind bizarre terracotta statues -- and little else. German archaeologists are now looking for more clues to explain this obscure culture. Half a ton of pottery shards is piled on the tables in Peter Breunig's workroom on the sixth floor of the University of Frankfurt am Main. There are broken pots, other storage vessels, a clay lizard and fragments of clay faces with immense nostrils. The chipped head of a statue depicts an African man with a moustache, a fixed glare and hair piled high up...

Oh So Mysteriouso

 Masonic Lodges Open Those Mysterious Doors

· 08/26/2009 9:58:37 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 47 replies ·
· 886+ views ·
· The New York Times ·
· 20 Aug 2009 ·
· EVE M. KAHN ·
A replica of a mildewed 14th- century scroll has been unfurled and displayed at a library in New York. An eagle clutching arrows and ribbons, on a tattered flag made around 1803, has just been restored and framed for viewing at a Philadelphia museum. Near Boston a museum exhibition decodes cryptic symbols like compasses and columns embossed on metal badges and embroidered onto aprons. That the public is now being enthusiastically shown these previously hidden-away items indicates that Freemasons in America are trying to shed their reclusive, somewhat fusty image. Tour guides at the groups' lavishly ornamented lodges, mostly built...

Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths

 Timber Structure Older than Stonehenge Found in London

· 08/26/2009 3:43:21 PM PDT ·
· Posted by rdl6989 ·
· 18 replies ·
· 554+ views ·
· Livescience.com ·
· 13 August 2009 ·
Archaeologists have unexpectedly uncovered London's oldest timber structure, which predates Stonehenge by about 500 years. The structure, apparently a platform or trackway used to make a boggy area more navigable, was found during the excavation of a prehistoric peat bog adjacent to Belmarsh Prison in Plumstead, Greenwich, in advance of the construction of a new prison building. Radiocarbon dating has shown the structure to be nearly 6,000 years old, well before Stonehenge was erected. Previously, the oldest timber structure in Greater London was the timber trackway in Silvertown, which has been dated to 3340 to 2910 B.C., about 700 years...

Age of Sail

 Briton found America in 1499

· 08/29/2009 12:03:39 AM PDT ·
· Posted by OldSpice ·
· 19 replies ·
· 528+ views ·
· The Daily Mirror ·
· 29 Aug., 2009 ·
· By Tom Pettifor ·
The first Briton sailed to the New World only seven years after Columbus, a long-lost royal letter reveals.Written by Henry VII 510 years ago, it suggests Bristol merchant William Weston headed for America in 1499.In his letter the king, right, instructs his Chancellor to suspend an injunction against Weston because "he will shortly with God's grace, pass and sail for to search and find if he can the new found land". Bristol University's Dr Evan Jones believes it was probably the earliest attempt to find the North-West Passage - the searoute around North America to the Pacific. He said: "Henry's...

Barbary Pirates

 Navy Historian Traces Rise of Piracy

· 08/28/2009 4:12:17 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SandRat ·
· 3 replies ·
· 155+ views ·
· American Forces Press Service ·
· Judith Snyderman ·
Pirates often are in the news for their criminal activities at sea, but their antics are far from new. Pirates have been around since man first took to the high seas, and a type of sea raider known as a privateer made a mark between the 15th and 19th centuries. Michael Crawford, a senior Navy historian, traced the rise of privateering and touched on strategies to combat modern pirates during an Aug. 24 "DoDLive" bloggers roundtable. "A privateer is a private man of war who has a license from his sovereign government to attack the...

Navigation

 Viking silver treasure hoard worth £1m unearthed after 1,000 years[UK]

· 08/28/2009 10:16:13 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 12 replies ·
· 653+ views ·
· The Daily Mail ·
· 28 Aug 2009 ·
· Daily Mail ·
An impressive Viking hoard of jewellery has made a father and son metal-detector team £1m, after being bought by two British museums. The find, which is the 'largest and most important' since 1840, was found in a field in Harrogate, North Yorkshire in January 2007. It had been buried there for more than 1,000 years. Valued at £1,082,000, the hoard was purchased by the British Museum and the York Museum Trust after two years of fundraising. The highlight of the collection is an intricately carved silver cup, estimated to be worth more than £200,000. It contains 617coins and various silver...

British Isles

 beacons

· 08/28/2009 7:06:53 PM PDT ·
· Posted by franksolich ·
· 8 replies ·
· 180+ views ·
· conservativecave ·
· August 28, 2009 ·
· franksolich ·
I just got done reading a book about England during the Dark Ages. By the way, there exists startling similarities between Ethelred the Unready ("unready" in this sense meaning "uncounseled") and Pa Kettle in the White House; in fact, one can predict Pa Kettle's foreign policy strategy by reading of Ethelred's. Anyway. There is much mention of military communications during this period (say, circa 500-1066 A.D.), which was facilitated by lighting beacons. Apparently it took a rider on a fast horse four days to get from the North of England to London, but with the use of beacons, messages could...

Middle Ages and Renaissance

 1000 year old marks in tree found near Prague

· 08/28/2009 11:50:37 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 12 replies ·
· 442+ views ·
· DiscoveryON ·
· 21 Aug 2009 ·
· DO ·
Czech archaeologists have uncovered a unique 1000-year-old mark engraved into an oak tree the remains of which were found near Celakovice in Prague, which is probably the oldest preserved sign of this kind in the world. According to a report from the Czech News Agency, the real meaning of the 10-cm star-shaped mark on the oak trunk is not certain. Experts say it may have marked the territory or serve some iconic purposes. This find is rare as so old engraved signs were not previously mapped and they are not systematically searched for either, archaeologist Jana Marikova of the Academy...

Scotland Yet

 How a wood carver cracked the code to secret royal Renaissance song

· 08/27/2009 5:40:25 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Daffynition ·
· 30 replies ·
· 1,048+ views ·
· Timesonline.uk ·
· August 27, 2009 ·
· Mike Wade ·
In the depths of Stirling Castle a secret code has lain hidden in the king's bedchamber for almost half a millennium. Peering down from the ceiling of the apartments of James V of Scotland, mysterious markings carved in a wooden panel have revealed a musical score written in code around the edge. The Renaissance carving of an unknown woman is only one of 56 oak roundels that adorned the king's chambers, but it is believed to contain the first written example of harmonic musical notation found in Scotland. A wood carver, commissioned to make exact replicas of the panels, noticed...

Freestyle Swim Team

 300-year-old shackles may hold ghoulish tale

· 08/26/2009 3:25:54 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 8 replies ·
· 532+ views ·
· Reuters ·
· Aug 26, 2009 ·
· Stefano Ambrogi ·
This 18-pound (8-kilogram) iron ball-and-chain set was found in the mud on the banks of the Thames River and is thought to date to the 17th or 18th century. LONDON - An iron ball and chain found on the banks of London's River Thames is causing a stir among archaeologists who say the 300-year-old artifact used to restrain convicts on ships may have a gruesome story to tell. The leg irons, believed to date from the 17th or 18th century, were pulled from the mud with the lock fastened, suggesting a convict could have drowned while trying to escape.

Anatolia

 Pergamon: City of Science ... and Satan?

· 08/28/2009 6:52:34 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 20 replies ·
· 406+ views ·
· Biblical Archaeology Review ·
· August 2009 (-ish) ·
· Sarah Yeomans ·
Although the majority of its superb intact monuments now sit in Berlin's Pergamon Museum, enough remains of the acropolis for the visitor to sense the former greatness of the city that once rivaled Alexandria, Ephesus and Antioch in culture and commerce, and whose scientific advancements in the field of medicine resonate through the corridors of today's medical treatment facilities. Juxtaposed sharply against this image of enlightened learning is that of "Satan's Throne," as described by the prophet John of Patmos (Revelation 2:12-13), which some scholars interpret as referring to the Great Altar of Pergamon, one of the most magnificent surviving...

Alexander the Great

 Ancient burial site discovered in Greece

· 08/28/2009 12:40:36 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 11 replies ·
· 337+ views ·
· Associated Press ·
· Aug 28, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
Archaeologists say they have found a lavish burial site while excavating the ancient Macedonian capital in northern Greece. The find in the ruins of Aigai was made a few meters from last year's remarkable discovery of what experts say could be the bones of Alexander the Great's murdered teenage son.

Rome and Greece

 Byzantium - the English Connection

· 08/27/2009 12:24:58 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 14 replies ·
· 364+ views ·
· stevenlo@bigpond.net.au ·
· 30th May 2001 ·
· Steven Lowe ·
Byzantium - the English Connection By Steven Lowe In 330 AD, when Britain was still a Roman possession and the ancestors of the English race had not yet appeared on the scene, Emperor Constantine the Great built a new capital for the Roman Empire. The great new city was built on the site of the old Greek port of Byzantion. With typical lack of modesty, the Emperor re-named it Constantinople, after himself. For over 11 centuries it was the capital of the Empire we now call Byzantium -- the richest, most powerful in Christendom. It was the largest and most...


 Syria: 5th century skeleton found in Byzantine cathedral

· 08/25/2009 9:34:25 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 34 replies ·
· 447+ views ·
· english.globalarabnetwork.com ·
· Saturday, 15 August 2009 13:23 ·
· Maha Karim ·
Syria: 5th century skeleton found in Byzantine cathedral Edited by Maha Karim Saturday, 15 August 2009 13:23 A cathedral with a skeleton remains in it, dating back to the Byzantine era, was unearthed by the Syrian excavation team in Tal Al-Hasaka site, north eastern Syria. The cathedral ,which dates back to the Early Christianity Era, is 18 meters long, and includes a four meter wide northern hall, a 6.5 meter wide middle hall and a three meter wide southern hall, Al-Hasaka Archeology Director Abdul-Maseeh Baghdo said in a press release on Saturday. It also includes two column bases, and the...


 Bulgarian Archaeologists Discover Unique Medieval Byzantine Seal

· 08/25/2009 9:28:10 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 10 replies ·
· 287+ views ·
· novinite.com ·
· August 21, 2009, Friday ·
Bulgarian archaeologist, Prof. Kazimir Popkonstantinov, has discovered a unique medieval seal at the site of the Knyazhevski (i.e. "Princely") Monastery near the Eastern city of Varna. The seal is dated back to the 10th century and belonged to the Byzantine dignitary Antonius, who was an imperial protospatario in Constantinople. Antonius had correspondence with a representative of the Knyazhevski Monastery, who is believed to have been the Bulgarian Knyaz (i.e. king) Boris I (r. 852-889 AD) himself. The team of archaeologist Popkonstantinov from the University of Veliko Tarnovo...

Rome and Germany

 Gold-plated Roman horse head found (near Frankfurt)

· 08/27/2009 5:11:35 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 12 replies ·
· 438+ views ·
· Associated Press ·
· Aug 27, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
Scientists say a Roman horse head made from bronze and plated in gold has been discovered at an archaeological site in Germany. Hesse state archaeologist Egon Schallmeyer says the head is part of a horse and rider statue and "qualitatively one of the best (pieces) created at that time."


 2,000-year-old statue of Emperor Augustus on horseback found in stream

· 08/27/2009 5:34:15 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 24 replies ·
· 838+ views ·
· The Local: Germany's news in English ·
· Thursday, August 27, 2009 ·
· unattributed ·
Hessian Science Minister Eva Kühne-Hörmann on Thursday presented fragments of a 2,000-year-old bronze equestrian statue of Roman Emperor Augustus found recently in a stream near Giessen. "The find has meaning beyond Hesse and the north Alpine region due to its quality and provenance," Kühne-Hörmann said during the presentation with state archaeologist Dr. Egon Schallmayer and Director of the Roman-German Commission Dr. Friedrich Lüth. "We've rediscovered the remnants of early European history. The unique horse head is a witness to the broken dream of the Romans to create a united Europe under their rule," she added. On August 12, archaeologists pulled...

Religion of Peace

 Digging up the Saudi past: some would rather not

· 08/27/2009 5:20:37 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 12 replies ·
· 363+ views ·
· Newsday ·
· August 26, 2009 ·
· Donna Abu-Nasr
  (contribution by Lee Keath) ·
[this is an AP-sourced story which begins by comparing the well-known UN Heritage site Petra, which is in Jordan and a huge tourist attraction, with Madain Saleh, another lost city of the Nabateans, but basically unknown because it's in Saudi Arabia. It continues by discussing the hostility and vandalism directed at pre-Islamic artifacts and sites in the Kingdom, and a virtual ban on publications regarding them.]

Let's Have Jerusalem

 History in Limbo

· 08/28/2009 12:19:12 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Fred Nerks ·
· 9 replies ·
· 235+ views ·
· Biblical Archaeology Review ·
· August 2009 ·
· Hershel Shanks ·
Scholar Blocks Reports of Old Excavations In the late 1960s the ancient synagogue at Ein Gedi, on the shore of the Dead Sea, was excavated by Israeli archaeologist Dan Barag, a student of the great Nahman Avigad. The finds were extraordinary -- two well-preserved mosaic floors on top of one another in the main room, a large mosaic inscription in the entrance corridor, a hoard of Byzantine coins, a disc from a roll of the Torah, a water basin for washing hands and a magnificent bronze menorah. The only problem is that a report on the excavation has never been written -- not even...

Epigraphy and Language

 Cracking the code (Copper Scroll)

· 08/25/2009 8:46:46 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Squidpup ·
· 25 replies ·
· 1,257+ views ·
· Jerusalem Post ·
· Updated August 24, 2009 ·
· By SHELLEY NEESE ·
"Shelley, I want you to meet the guy who has cracked the code on the Copper Scroll." With that intriguing introduction, I shook hands with Jim Barfield. We stood among the kiosks of Israeli goods during a lunch break at a Christian Zionist conference in Forth Worth, Texas. "Congratulations," I replied, "but what's the Copper Scroll?" "A treasure map," Barfield answered, "from the prophet Jeremiah." I gave Barfield and his companion a quick once over, trying to determine whether they were the well-intentioned kind of crazy or scary crazy. A small-town Oklahoma man with impressive posture, Barfield sported long (really...

Biology and Cryptobiology

 Proof That the Loch Ness Monster Exists?

· 08/26/2009 3:12:15 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Sopater ·
· 42 replies ·
· 1,584+ views ·
· Fox News ·
· August 26, 2009 ·
This amazing image on Google Earth could be the elusive proof that the Loch Ness Monster exists. Sun reader Jason Cooke spotted "Nessie" while browsing the Web site's satellite photos. The shape seen on the surface of the 22-mile Scottish loch is 65ft long and appears to have an oval body, a tail and four legs or flippers.

Yo, Canada

 Canadian scientist aims to turn chickens into dinosaurs

· 08/25/2009 11:04:37 AM PDT ·
· Posted by OldDeckHand ·
· 69 replies ·
· 729+ views ·
· Breitbart ·
· 08/25/08 ·
· Staff ·
After years spent hunting for the buried remains of prehistoric animals, a Canadian paleontologist now plans to manipulate chicken embryos to show he can create a dinosaur. Hans Larsson, the Canada Research Chair in Macro Evolution at Montreal's McGill University, said he aims to develop dinosaur traits that disappeared millions of years ago in birds. Larsson believes by flipping certain genetic levers during a chicken embryo's development, he can reproduce the dinosaur anatomy, he told AFP in an interview. Though still in its infancy, the research could eventually lead to hatching live prehistoric animals, but Larsson said there are no...

Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis

 New Finds from Messel Pit: Gaping gila monsters, buzzing insects, clambering ungulates

· 08/24/2009 3:02:25 PM PDT ·
· Posted by null and void ·
· 16 replies ·
· 412+ views ·
· Scientific Computing ·
· 8/24/09 ·
In the annual digs the Senckenberg Research Institute carries out in the Messel Pit, an average of 3,000 fossil remains are recovered from the shale at this UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site. Some particularly well-preserved fossils discovered in 2007 and 2008 were recently exhibited. The world-famous primeval horse browsed at the shores of Lake Messel in the warm, wet climate prevailing at that time (average annual temperature, 25°C). Around the lake, which emerged in a volcanic crater and was surrounded back then by dense primeval forest, early ungulates and rodents lived as well: the ancestors of today's birds flew over...

Paleontology

 Prehistoric mammal swung tail like baseball bat

· 08/26/2009 3:56:50 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 12 replies ·
· 471+ views ·
· Discovery News ·
· Aug 25, 2009 ·
· Jennifer Viegas ·
Enormous prehistoric armored mammals called glyptodonts swung their spiked tails just as athletes swing tennis rackets and baseball bats, according to a new study. These massive animals even had a "sweet spot" on their tails right where the biggest, sharpest spike was situated. The findings about glyptodonts -- which looked like a cross between an armadillo and a Volkswagen beetle car -- apply to dinosaurs that also had spiked tails, the team of researchers believes.

Prehistory and Origins

 Bipedal Humans Came Down From The Trees, Not Up From The Ground

· 08/28/2009 4:01:09 PM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 19 replies ·
· 412+ views ·
· sciencedaily ·
A detailed examination of the wrist bones of several primate species challenges the notion that humans evolved their two-legged upright walking style from a knuckle-walking ancestor. The same lines of evidence also suggest that knuckle-walking evolved at least two different times, making gorillas distinct from chimpanzees and bonobos. "We have the most robust data I've ever seen on this topic," said Daniel Schmitt, a Duke University associate professor of evolutionary anthropology. "This model should cause everyone to re-evaluate what they've said before." A report on the findings will appear online during the week of Aug. 10 in the research journal...

Neandertal / Neanderthal

 New Data on the Late Neanderthals: Direct Dating of the Belgian Spy Fossils [PDF]

· 08/23/2009 7:08:37 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 13 replies ·
· 349+ views ·
· Universite catholique de Louvain
  (Belgium) ·
· September 2008 ·
· Patrick Semal, Helene Rougier,
  Isabelle Crevecoeur, Cecile Jungels,
  Damien Flas, Anne Hauzeur,
  Bruno Maureille, Mietje Germonpre,
  Herve Bocherens, Stephane Pirson,
  Laurence Cammaert, Nora De Clerck,
  Anne Hambucken, Thomas Higham,
  Michel Toussaint, and
  Johannes van der Plicht ·
Abstract: In Eurasia, the period between 40,000 and 30,000 BP saw the replacement of Neandertals by anatomically modern humans (AMH) during and after the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition. The human fossil record for this period is very poorly defined with no overlap between Neandertals and AMH on the basis of direct dates. Four new 14C dates were obtained on the two adult Neandertals from Spy (Belgium). The results show that Neandertals survived to at least 36,000 BP in Belgium and that the Spy fossils may be associated to the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician, a transitional techno-complex defined in northwest Europe and recognized in the Spy collections. The new data suggest that hypotheses other than Neandertal acculturation by AMH may be considered in this part of Europe. [American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 138 Issue 4, Pages 421-428, Online: November 10, 2008, Received: 23 July 2008; Accepted: 12 September 2008]

Mating Rituals

 Trust in a Teardrop

· 08/24/2009 10:06:22 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Pharmboy ·
· 5 replies ·
· 153+ views ·
· Tel Aviv U. ·
· Monday, August 24, 2009 ·
· Anon ·
TAU researcher says tears can help build and strengthen personal relationships Medically, crying is known to be a symptom of physical pain or stress. But now a Tel Aviv University evolutionary biologist looks to empirical evidence showing that tears have emotional benefits and can make interpersonal relationships stronger. New analysis by Dr. Oren Hasson of TAU's Department of Zoology shows that tears still signal physiological distress, but they also function as an evolution-based mechanism to bring people closer together. "Crying is a highly evolved behavior," explains Dr. Hasson. "Tears give clues and reliable information about submission, needs and social attachments...

Not-So-Ancient Autopsies

 The Appendix: Useful and in Fact Promising

· 08/25/2009 4:04:39 AM PDT ·
· Posted by raybbr ·
· 32 replies ·
· 619+ views ·
· news.yahoo.com ·
· August 24, 2009 ·
· Charles Q. Choi ·
The body's appendix has long been thought of as nothing more than a worthless evolutionary artifact, good for nothing save a potentially lethal case of inflammation. Now researchers suggest the appendix is a lot more than a useless remnant. Not only was it recently proposed to actually possess a critical function, but scientists now find it appears in nature a lot more often than before thought. And it's possible some of this organ's ancient uses could be recruited by physicians to help the human body fight disease more effectively. In a way, the idea that the appendix is an organ...

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 Earliest Animals Had Human-like Genes

· 11/27/2005 7:11:52 AM PST ·
· Posted by Pharmboy ·
· 92 replies ·
· 2,072+ views ·
· Science Daily ·
· 2005-11-25 ·
· Anon ·
Species evolve at very different rates, and the evolutionary line that produced humans seems to be among the slowest. The result, according to a new study by scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL], is that our species has retained characteristics of a very ancient ancestor that have been lost in more quickly-evolving animals. This overturns a commonly-held view of the nature of genes in the first animals. The work appears in the current issue of the journal Science. Detlev Arendt (left), Florian Raible and Peer Bork. (Photo Credit: Marietta Schupp, Photolab, EMBL Heidelberg) Genes hold the recipes for...

Longer Perspectives

 A Grand Bargain Over Evolution

· 08/23/2009 11:49:00 AM PDT ·
· Posted by neverdem ·
· 121 replies ·
· 1,118+ views ·
· NY Times ·
· August 23, 2009 ·
· ROBERT WRIGHT ·
THE "war" between science and religion is notable for the amount of civil disobedience on both sides. Most scientists and most religious believers refuse to be drafted into the fight. Whether out of a live-and-let-live philosophy, or a belief that religion and science are actually compatible, or a heartfelt indifference to the question, they're choosing to sit this one out. Still, the war continues, and it's not just a sideshow. There are intensely motivated and vocal people on both sides making serious and conflicting claims. There are atheists who go beyond declaring personal disbelief in God and insist that any...

Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles

 Human Lifespans Nearly Constant for 2,000 Years

· 08/22/2009 1:40:22 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 43 replies ·
· 782+ views ·
· Live Science ·
· Aug 21, 2009 ·
· Benjamin Radford ·
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, often the harbinger of bad news about e. coli outbreaks and swine flu, recently had some good news: The life expectancy of Americans is higher than ever, at almost 78. Discussions about life expectancy often involve how it has improved over time. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, life expectancy for men in 1907 was 45.6 years; by 1957 it rose to 66.4; in 2007 it reached 75.5. Unlike the most recent increase in life expectancy (which was attributable largely to a decline in half of the leading causes of death...

(Ice) Cubism

 Russia Taunts Sweden With Military Prowess Before Soccer Duel

· 06/18/2008 6:31:31 AM PDT ·
· Posted by NativeNewYorker ·
· 30 replies ·
· 180+ views ·
· upi via email no link ·
· 6/18/8 ·
June 18 (UPI) -- Russian state television taunted Sweden with past military victories before the two countries vie for a place in the quarterfinals of Euro 2008, the continent's most prestigious soccer tournament. Vesti-24, the government's cable channel, played a commercial every half-hour today using Soviet-era movie footage of Russian soldiers killing Swedes during Peter the Great's victory over Charles XII in 1709 and Alexander Nevsky's defeat of invaders in 1240. Each scene was followed by a scorecard reading -- -- Russia 1 Sweden 0'' and accompanied by the theme to the movie -- -- Gladiator.'' -- -- It's part of a revival of Russian nationalism,''...

 Let's celebrate Peter the Great!

· 06/07/2009 11:56:22 AM PDT ·
· Posted by WesternCulture ·
· 38 replies ·
· 1,208+ views ·
· 06/07/2009 ·
· WesternCulture ·
1709 was an interesting year. Back then, USA didn't even exist. Scandinavia of those days, naturally, was dark and gloomy. We drank too much Absolut and suicide was frequent. Furthermore, we all believed in Socialism. That pretty much explains the fact that today two of the world's 20 richest men are Swedes (no, Sweden doesn't have oil). But let's forget about Forbes and study Peter the Great instead. 300 years ago, Peter the Great burned Russian soil in panic. 300 years ago, in 1709, Sweden was "defeated" at Poltava. 300 years ago, Sweden survived a major North European conflict while...

 Ukraine commemorates defeat of Sweden at Poltava

· 06/29/2009 3:01:57 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Bushwacker777 ·
· 17 replies ·
· 541+ views ·
· The Local ·
· June 28, 2009 ·
· AFP/The Local ·
"Ukrainian and Russian officials commemorated the 300th anniversary of the defeat of Sweden at the battle of Poltava with the unveiling of a new memorial on Saturday. The commemoration ceremonies showed that the victory, which marked the beginning of Russian imperial dominance of eastern Europe, continues to cause controversy over how history should be remembered. High-profile delegations, including Kremlin administration chief Sergei Naryshkin and top Ukrainian presidency officials, inaugurated a memorial to soldiers killed in the battle and placed garlands in front of local monuments. "After the battle of Poltava... no-one on the European continent could ignore Russia's political will,"...

 'Swedes are Stupid': Norwegian Professor

· 08/10/2009 2:32:57 PM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 32 replies ·
· 1,186+ views ·
· The Local ·
· 10 Aug 09 ·
A retired Norwegian linguistics professor has described Swedes as "stupid" for not being able to understand Norwegian. Norwegians have no problem with Swedish, the professor points out. Finn-Erik Vinje has caused an escalation in what is promising to become an all out language war, by publishing a post on his blog last week asking, "Why are Swedes so stupid?". The citation, Vinje writes, is taken from a publication written 60 years ago but, he claims, remains a relevant question today. The basis of Vinje's assertion is that Swedish viewers of Himmelbå, a Norwegian television series based on the British production...

Death and Taxes, Nothin' Else

 The definition of socialism

· 08/23/2009 7:28:42 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Military family member ·
· 15 replies ·
· 351+ views ·
· Merriam-Webster Dictionary online ·
· 8/23/2009 ·
· Merriam-Webster Dictionary ·
...any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods 2 a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state 3 : a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work...

Early America

 (On this day in history) The Tornado and the Burning of Washington DC

· 08/25/2009 11:30:49 AM PDT ·
· Posted by RDTF ·
· 10 replies ·
· 575+ views ·
· Weatherbook ·
During the summer of 1814, British warships sailed into the Chesapeake Bay and headed towards Washington. The warships sailed up the Patuxent River and anchored at Benedict, Maryland on August 19, 1814. Over 4,500 British soldiers landed and marched towards Washington. The British mission was to capture Washington and seek revenge for the burning of their British Capitol in Canada, for which they held the United States responsible. A force of 7,000 Americans was hastily assembled near the Potomac River to defend Washington. During the afternoon of August 24, in 100°F heat, the two armies clashed. The British Army quickly...

The Civil War

 Grave found of man who bankrolled Confederates in American civil war

· 08/26/2009 8:21:14 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 59 replies ·
· 925+ views ·
· guardian.co.uk ·
· Monday 10 August 2009 10.16 BST ·
· Maev Kennedy ·
Academic uncovers lost London resting place of Charles Kuhn Prioleau, and the forgotten story of Confederate support in Britain Maev Kennedy guardian.co.uk, Monday 10 August 2009 10.16 BST The grave of a man who bankrolled the Confederate side in the American civil war, and ended up costing the British government £3.3m in compensation to the victorious north, has been tracked down in a patch of brambles in a London cemetery. Charles Kuhn Prioleau, a cotton merchant born in Charleston, South Carolina, was based in Liverpool during the war, from 1861 to 1865. He disappeared from history in a bonfire of...

World War Eleven

 Florence's prisoner of war camp (Arizona in WII)

· 08/28/2009 5:58:18 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SandRat ·
· 9 replies ·
· 192+ views ·
· Arizona Daily Star ·
· Elaine Raines ·
The men arrived on troop trains that came in the night. They all wore heavy coats with a big P on the shoulder and they would be spending the duration of World War II at the prisoner of war camp in Florence. It was one of more than ten such camps in Arizona. Star filesThe view from the guard tower of the camp in 46. The first prisoners who arrived in Florence, about 70 miles northwest of Tucson, were Italian POWs. That was in May 1943. But, following Italy's surrender in early September of that year, the prisoners were shipped...

Underwater Archaeology

 South Bay Shipwrecks

· 08/27/2009 4:44:50 PM PDT ·
· Posted by TruthHound ·
· 6 replies ·
· 289+ views ·
· Daily Breeze ·
Interactive map at link.

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Text of KGB Letter on Senator Ted Kennedy

· 12/31/2006 5:29:51 AM PST ·
· Posted by Cincinatus' Wife ·
· 157 replies ·
· 16,710+ views ·
· The Crusader
  - Ronald Reagan and the
  Fall of Communism ·
· 2006 ·
· Paul Kengor
  (excerpt - Appendix Page 317) ·
Text of KGB Letter on Senator Ted Kennedy Special Importance Committee on State Security of the USSR 14.05.1983 No. 1029 Ch/OV Moscow Regarding Senator Kennedy's request to the General Secretary of the Communist Party Comrade Y.V. Andropov Comrade Y.V. Andropov On 9-10 May of this year, Senator Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant J. Tunney was in Moscow. The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov: Senator Kennedy, like other rational people, is very troubled by the...

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965 posted on 08/29/2009 7:28:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #267 20090829
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966 posted on 08/29/2009 7:30:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Is there anyone who can translate Egyptian hieroglphic texts on board? I have a knowledge of the alphabet, but what I need is not a phonetic transliteration of an 18th dynasty blessing, but the actual text using determinatives, etc.

....anyone?


967 posted on 08/29/2009 9:40:49 AM PDT by stanz (Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
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To: SunkenCiv
thanks as always for the pings, i love the articles, they are always very good.
968 posted on 08/30/2009 11:16:13 AM PDT by housemouse 1
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If it’s a published photo, I’d guess that it is of a text that has already been translated.


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Thanks!


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I haven’t got a photo. I wanted a blessing translated from English into Egyptian hieroglyphs.The blessing was supposedly an 18th Dynasty text that read, “God be between you and time in all the empty places you must walk.” I have not seen it in hieroglyphs.


971 posted on 08/31/2009 11:06:01 AM PDT by stanz (Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
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To: stanz
Didn't find much, except that it's quoted on some game sites:
"May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk." -- Ancient Egyptian Blessing
If it's authentic (and it may not be), I'd guess it's older than the 18th Dynasty, i.e., probably Old Kingdom (18th is New Kingdom). I'm not well-versed in Egyptian sayings, but here's a favorite:
"My heart, my mother! My heart whereby I came into being! May naught stand up to oppose me in the judgment."
From (probably) the 18th Dynasty, there's this verse, found in the looted King's Valley tomb 55 (if memory serves):
I inhale the sweet breath that comes from your mouth
I contemplate your beauty every day.
It's my desire to hear your lovely voice
like the north wind's whiff.
Love will rejuvenate my limbs.
Give me your hands that hold your soul,
I shall embrace and live by it.
Call me by name again, again, forever,
and never will it sound without response.
and of course, from the 20th century:

"Hush! I thought I heard her call my name..." -- Son House, "Death Letter"
972 posted on 08/31/2009 7:04:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks, but I need to have the quote translated into hieroglyphs. Will continue to research. I first heard it in connection with the tomb of Tutankhamun.It has been associated with 18th Dynasty, although it may have originated earlier in Old or Middle Kingdom.


973 posted on 09/01/2009 8:04:40 AM PDT by stanz (Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #268
Saturday, September 5, 2009

The City of David (iow, 'Civ sez this ain't Canaanite)

 Israeli archaeologists find ancient fortification (3700-year-old Canaanite 26-foot tall stone wall)

· 09/02/2009 9:11:03 AM PDT ·
· Posted by NormsRevenge ·
· 27 replies ·
· 761+ views ·
· AP on Yahoo ·
· 9/2/09 ·
· Jen Thomas - ap ·
JERUSALEM -- Archaeologists digging in Jerusalem have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wall that is the oldest example of massive fortifications ever found in the city, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday. The 26-foot-high wall is believed to have been part of a protected passage built by ancient Canaanites from a hilltop fortress to a nearby spring that was the city's only water source and vulnerable to marauders. The discovery marks the first time archaeologists have found such massive construction from before the time of Herod, the ruler behind numerous monumental projects in the city 2,000 years ago, and shows that Jerusalem...

Neandertal / Neanderthal

 White Europeans evolved only "5,500 years ago'

· 08/30/2009 10:40:35 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 145 replies ·
· 2,204+ views ·
· The Sunday Times ·
· August 30, 2009 ·
· Jonathan Leake ·
White Europeans could have evolved as recently as 5,500 years ago, according to research which suggests that the early humans who populated Britain and Scandinavia had dark skins for millenniums. It was only when early humans gave up hunter-gathering and switched to farming about 5,500 years ago that white skin began to be favoured, say the researchers. This is because farmed food was deficient in vitamin D, a vital nutrient. Humans can make this in their skin when exposed to sunlight, but dark skin is much less efficient at it. In places such as northern Europe, where sunlight levels are...


 Why Did People Become White?

· 09/02/2009 12:47:20 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SeekAndFind ·
· 137 replies ·
· 2,124+ views ·
· Live Science ·
· 9/2/2009 ·
· Heather Whipps ·
Humans come in a rainbow of hues, from dark chocolate browns to nearly translucent whites. This full kaleidoscope of skin colors was a relatively recent evolutionary development, according to biologists, occuring alongside the migration of modern humans out of Africa between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago. The consensus among scientists has always been that lower levels of vitamin D at higher latitudes -- where the sun is less intense -- caused the lightening effect when modern humans, who began darker-skinned, first migrated north. But other factors might be at work, a new study suggests. From the varying effects of frostbite...

Shhh!

 Failing the IQ Test

· 09/02/2009 4:18:00 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Bob017 ·
· 8 replies ·
· 506+ views ·
· The American Conservative ·
· 1 October 2009 Issue ·
· Jason Richwine ·
Sociobiology has long been a sore spot for the Left, and with good reason. Our fundamental traits have a firm biological basis, shaped as they are by complex gene-environment interactions. And the more we discover how firmly ingrained our abilities, attitudes, and behaviors tend to be, the less plausible leftist social-intervention programs become. No biological trait threatens that agenda more than intelligence. With standard IQ tests, we can measure and rank people on a continuum, allowing us to make reasonable predictions about their success in life. Granted, a good IQ score is not the whole story of a person's life -- not...

Ancient Autopsies

 The Mystery Behind the 5,000 Year Old Tarim Mummies

· 08/31/2009 2:18:47 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 28 replies ·
· 1,019+ views ·
· Environmental Graffiti ·
· 31 Aug 2009 ·
· EG ·
A Tarim Basin mummy photographed circa 1910 Photo: Aurel Stein The door creaked open, and there in the gloom of the newly opened room, perfectly preserved despite the passing of thousands of years, a red-haired mummy with Caucasian features stared back. It was a life-changing moment for archaeologist Professor Victor Mair, and ten years on it still gave him chills. Mair had stumbled upon the recently discovered corpses of a man and his family in a museum in the Chinese city of ‹r¸mqi, but the shock waves of the find would be felt far and wide. The 3000-year-old Cherchen...

Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis

 Anthropology assistant professor uncovers genetic patterns

· 09/04/2009 11:58:25 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 5 replies ·
· 251+ views ·
· OU Daily ·
· 03 Sep 2009 ·
· Jared Rader ·
New reseach challenges previous theories of continent population New questions of human origin could shed light on what makes groups of people more or less prone to certain diseases, an OU researcher has found. Cecil Lewis, assistant professor of anthropology and director of the OU Molecular Anthropology laboratory, studied genetic diversity among American populations. His research is not only groundbreaking for anthropology but it could also affect future health research. "I made a number of surprising discoveries, some of which actually applied to the Americas as a whole," Lewis said. Lewis' research, which was recently published in the American Journal...

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 Dogs descended from wolf pack on Yangtze river

· 09/04/2009 2:58:00 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 39 replies ·
· 613+ views ·
· Telegraph ·
· Sep 2, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
Today's dogs are all descended from a pack of wolves tamed 16,000 years ago on the shores of the Yangtze river, according to new research. It was previously known that the birthplace of the dog was eastern Asia but historians were not able to be more precise than that. However, now researchers have made a number of new discoveries about the history of man's best friend - including that the dog appeared about 16,000 years ago south of the Yangtze river in China. It has also been discovered that even though the dog has a single geographical origin it descends...

Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

 Europe's first farmers replaced their Stone Age hunter-gatherer forerunners

· 09/03/2009 11:47:19 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 27 replies ·
· 357+ views ·
· University College London ·
· Sep 3, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
Analysis of ancient DNA from skeletons suggests that Europe's first farmers were not the descendants of the people who settled the area after the retreat of the ice sheets. Instead, the early farmers probably migrated into major areas of central and eastern Europe about 7,500 years ago, bringing domesticated plants and animals with them, says Barbara Bramanti from Mainz University in Germany and colleagues. The researchers analyzed DNA from hunter-gatherer and early farmer burials, and compared those to each other and to the DNA of modern Europeans. They conclude that there is little evidence of a direct genetic link between...

Central Asia

 Struggle to save the apple's Asian birthplace

· 09/04/2009 8:24:28 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 11 replies ·
· 187+ views ·
· Telegraph ·
· August 21, 2009 ·
· Richard Spencer in the Zailijskei Alatau Mountains ·
The common ancestor of all the Granny Smiths and Cox's Orange Pippins still grows on some of the world's most beautiful but little known mountainsides in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. The discovery of the "Garden of Eden" in Central Asia has triggered efforts to save what remains of the forests, always known for their abundance of wild fruit. Once under assault by Soviet agricultural planners, they are now menaced by the wealth of oil capitalism and as much as 80 per cent has disappeared. "In earlier historical times there were vast mixed fruit forests across the area," said...

Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles

 VIDEO: Paris Catacombs "Dense in Death"

· 09/03/2009 7:01:42 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 27 replies ·
· 451+ views ·
· National Geographic News ·
· August 25, 2009 ·
· unattributed ·
In underground passageways that snake underneath the French capital, nearly six million people who died of disease in the Middle Ages share a final resting place. The vaults, packed with skulls and bones dating from as far back as the Middle Ages, are located on Paris' Left Bank near Place Denfert Rochereau... and are part of the nearly 185 miles of underground passageways that are believed to be part of the catacombs network. ...John Mamburg, tourist from Grand Rapids, Michigan: "I think this is astounding. I've never been around so many, like you've been to cemeteries and things like that,...

Middle Ages and Renaissance

 Medieval love letters ignite war of words in France

· 03/06/2005 2:41:41 PM PST ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 32 replies ·
· 1,521+ views ·
· Stuff (New Zealand) ·
· 05 March 2005 ·
PARIS: Two star-crossed medieval lovers, Abelard and Heloise, are again stirring passions in France as a literary controversy rages nearly 900 years after their affair. At the heart of the drama is an obscure Latin text that some scholars say contains the long lost love letters written by the ill-fated pair. Others say the correspondence is fake. The illicit liaison between Abelard, an up and coming 12th century philosopher, and the gifted young woman he tutored, shocked medieval Europe not least for its gruesome end. Abelard was castrated on the orders of Heloise's uncle after she became pregnant with his...

Faith and Philosophy

 History Of The Huguenots

· 06/19/2009 3:54:08 PM PDT ·
· Posted by alpha-8-25-02 ·
· 158 replies ·
· 1,839+ views ·
· 6/19/09 ·
· ALPHA-8-25-02 ·
Who were the Huguenots? John Calvin (1509 - 1564), religious reformer. The Huguenots were French Protestants who were members of the Reformed Church which was established in 1550 by John Calvin. The origin of the name Huguenot is uncertain, but dates from approximately 1550 when it was used in court cases against "heretics" (dissenters from the Roman Catholic Church). There is a theory that it is derived from the personal name of Besancon Hugues, the leader of the "Confederate Party" in Geneva, in combination with a Frankish corruption of the German word for conspirator or confederate: eidgenosse. Thus, Hugues plus...

Cooked Only By Fire

 Research Reveals Medieval Diet Was More Than Meat And Gruel

· 02/17/2003 5:37:57 PM PST ·
· Posted by blam ·
· 82 replies ·
· 1,015+ views ·
· Post-Gazette ·
· 2-17-2003 ·
· Lance Gay ·
How did our ancestors eat in the days before there were supermarkets, fast-food restaurants, refrigerators or temperature-controlled stoves and ovens? And what did the dinner table look like before the discovery of the New World brought back to Europe staple foods ranging from turkey to tomatoes and the humble potato?

Holiday for Strings

 Lost Sounds Orchestra: Ancient Musical Instruments Brought Back To Life

· 08/31/2009 3:55:44 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 45 replies ·
· 661+ views ·
· Scientific Blogging ·
· August 30, 2009 ·
· News Staff ·
Do you long to hear the dulcet sounds of the salpinx, barbiton, aulos or the syrinx? Of course not, because no one has heard them in centuries. Most people have never even heard of them. But you will soon have the chance to experience musical instruments familiar to ancient civilizations but long since forgotten.


 Ancient Music Wins New Fans (Gregorian Chant)

· 11/13/2007 12:00:30 PM PST ·
· Posted by Pyro7480 ·
· 25 replies ·
· 140+ views ·
· BBC News ·
· 11/13/2007 ·
· Paddy O'Flaherty ·
One of the world's oldest styles of religious music is attracting a host of new enthusiasts.Gregorian chant is usually associated with monks in monasteries, but it's being heard more often now in regular services. Its growing popularity brought 70 representatives of choirs from Northern Ireland to a chanting workshop in the Dominican Convent in west Belfast. The college chapel became a study for a day as experts passed on advice on how best to perform the ancient melodies. Principal tutor Donal McCrisken said Gregorian chant was an excellent medium for vocal training. "You have to sing it very purely -...

Religion of Peace

 Fourteen Centuries of War Against European Civilization

· 09/04/2009 6:00:13 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 6 replies ·
· 201+ views ·
· globalpolitician.com ·
· 9/4/2009 ·
· Fjordman ·
Fourteen Centuries of War Against European Civilization Fjordman - 9/4/2009 The following essay is an amalgam of my previous online essays, among them Who Are We, Who Are Our Enemies -- The Cost of Historical Amnesia, Why We Should Oppose an Independent Kosovo, Refuting God's Crucible and The Truth About Islam in Europe. "The Jihad, the Islamic so-called Holy War, has been a fact of life in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East for more than 1300 years, but this is the first history of the Muslim wars in Europe ever to be published. Hundreds of books,...


 Lies: The Crusades

· 08/29/2006 7:16:55 AM PDT ·
· Posted by JamesP81 ·
· 3 replies ·
· 371+ views ·
· Southern Pundit ·
· 8-29-2006 ·
· James P ·
All of us know that historical revisionism is a favored tool of the liar and those who like to play the blame game. Right after 9/11, this was on display for the whole world to see when Bin Laden and the Left decided to blame the Middle East's hatred of the West on, of all things, the Crusades. The Crusades were a series of wars that were fought nearly a thousand years before anyone on this Earth was born, yet the extremists hang on to it today like it's some kind of personal injustice. I find it inconceivable that one...


 Don't Let Liberals Smear and Rewrite the Meaning of September 11

· 09/02/2009 4:52:01 AM PDT ·
· Posted by OK Right ·
· 7 replies ·
· 203+ views ·
· OK, WE'RE RIGHT! ·
· September 2, 2009 ·
· Oscar De Los Santos and Kelly L. Goodridge ·
Liberals have a penchant for revising history, but some of their recent rewrites are especially alarming. Look at the sanctification of Sen. Edward Kennedy, which is moving beyond whitewash and into fantastic territories. Modern liberalism strikes again in blogger Melissa Lafsky's Huffington Post article, "The Footnote Speaks: What Would Mary Jo Kopechne Have Thought of Ted's Career?" (8/27/09). Incredibly, Lafsky wonders what Kopechne, the young woman Teddy left to drown in Chappaquiddick, would think about Kennedy's life and career. Lafsky's conclusion: "Who Knows -- Maybe She'd Feel It Was Worth It" (The Huffington Post, August 27, 2009). You read...

Malta

 1565: Malta celebrates the historically important victory of the Great Siege

· 09/03/2009 6:17:37 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 6 replies ·
· 282+ views ·
· timesofmalta.com ·
· Thursday, 3rd September 2009 ·
· Desmond Zammit Marmarà ·
As Malta celebrates the historically important victory of the Great Siege of 1565, it is worthwhile to ponder on some important points usually overshadowed by the purely military aspect of the Great Siege. The events of 1565 took place against a background of the clash between the Christian and the Islamic religions as well as the contemporary dissonance between Western and Eastern cultures. Few people, however, are aware that commerce played a very important part in the Turkish decision to attack Malta. Attacks on Turkish shipping by ships flying the flag of...

Greece

 Discovering the Greek side of Istanbul

· 09/03/2009 8:21:26 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 12 replies ·
· 182+ views ·
· todayszaman.com ·
· 03 September 2009 ·
· KRISTINA KAMP ·
Discovering the Greek side of Istanbul The Maiden Tower That Istanbul is a real treasure chest for history, art and architecture freaks is no secret. Its colorful mosaic of historical city structures -- mosques, churches, synagogues, palaces, castles and towers -- reflects the many, many social and cultural influences of a number of foreign communities that have left their indelible footprints across the city throughout its long history. The oldest settlement on the land that is now Istanbul was, however, Greek. Already, in 685 B.C., settlers from the ancient Greek town of Megara chose to colonize the town of Chalcedon,...

Pyramids

 Hellenic Pyramids

· 09/03/2009 2:02:14 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 12 replies ·
· 477+ views ·
· hiddenmysteries.org ·
· Ioannis Lyritzis ·
It is not well known that there are Greek pyramids . There are more than 16 pyramids spread all over the Greece. The oldest one is the pyramid of Hellinikon. The existence of pyramids in Greece was unknown to most people until recently, and even today not much is known about them. For example, the pyramid of Hellenikon, near Argos, is older than the Pyramids of Egypt. In fact, Pausanias (in Graeciae Descriptio) says that this pyramid was a memorial in rememberance of the first battle fought by soldiers bearing shields! Pyramids in Greece are usually smaller...

Latin and Other Dead Languages

 Town halls ban staff from using Latin words, in case they confuse immigrants[UK]

· 11/02/2008 9:01:53 AM PST ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 44 replies ·
· 687+ views ·
· Daily Mail ·
· 02 Nov 2008 ·
· Emily Andrews ·
They are well-worn phrases, repeated ad nauseam throughout the English language. But local councils have now waged war on Latin words, banning staff from using them in writing or in speech. The authorities claim the terms are elitist and discriminatory and have ordered employees to use wordier alternatives in documents or when speaking to members of the public. However the ban has infuriated classical scholars who say it is diluting the world's richest language and is the 'linguistic equivalent of ethnic cleansing'. Bournemouth Council, which has the Latin motto Pulchritudo et Salubritas - beauty and health - has listed 19...


 Finland Takes Liking to Latin

· 10/30/2006 6:48:03 PM PST ·
· Posted by G8 Diplomat ·
· 16 replies ·
· 747+ views ·
· BBC ·
· Jonny Dymond ·
Finland is one of the quieter members of the EU. But now its turn at the EU presidency has thrust it into the spotlight - and exposed an unusual passion. Like the boy at the party with cheese straws stuck up his nose, it has been caught doing something vaguely disturbing - indulging a penchant for Latin. It is the only country in the world which broadcasts the news in Latin. On its EU presidency website one can find descriptions of meetings in Latin. But love of the language of Rome goes deep. 'Eternal language' I am in a hotel...


 And now for the news ... in Latin

· 03/21/2007 9:45:52 AM PDT ·
· Posted by NYer ·
· 5 replies ·
· 372+ views ·
· Guardian ·
· March 21, 2007 ·
· John Hooper ·
Wednesday March 21, 2007GuardianIt is, famously, a dead language. But it seems that Latin is on the brink of an unlikely comeback. The conservative Pope Benedict XVI is poised to authorise wider use of the Latin mass. And, perhaps to ingratiate themselves with the boss, the managers of the Vatican bank have quietly put instructions in Latin on the cash dispenser at the back of St Peter's. Customers are told to put in their cards with the words: "Inserito scidulam quaeso ut faciundam cognoscas rationem."On Sicily, meanwhile, Latin is being heard in homes in the city of Catania for the...

Epigraphy and Language

 What's up with Aramaic?

· 02/28/2004 8:15:53 PM PST ·
· Posted by jwalburg ·
· 40 replies ·
· 345+ views ·
· Aberdeen American News ·
· Feb. 04 ·
· Cary Darling ·
Thanks to 'The Passion of the Christ,' a near-dead, 2,500-year-old language will reach the ears of millions Leave it to pop culture -- and Mel Gibson -- to revive a couple of dead languages. Well, one that's dead and one that's in linguistic intensive care. Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ, opening today, utilizes two tongues from way back in the day: Latin and Aramaic. (Don't worry, there are subtitles in the movie.) Now Latin (the dead one) is not a complete stranger to American ears. Carpe diem, e pluribus unum and all that. But Aramaic? This nearly...

Let's Have Jerusalem

 Codex Sinaiticus -- previously unknown fragment found

· 09/01/2009 5:55:16 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 15 replies ·
· 495+ views ·
· The Independent ·
· Wednesday, September 2, 2009 ·
· Jerome Taylor, Religious Affairs Correspondent ·
The source URL used is the official website for the Codex Sinaiticus, a Greek-language version of the Bible from about 350 AD. The fragments (other than this one) were reunited and put online this year. The document is the oldest surviving version of the New Testament; about half of the Old Testament survives in the CS, and is that of the Translation of the Seventy. This newly-discovered fragment appears to be from Joshua (the book, not the guy).


 Fragment of world's oldest bible 'discovered in Egyptian monastery'

· 09/03/2009 1:14:39 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BlackVeil ·
· 12 replies ·
· 504+ views ·
· The Telegraph ·
· 2 Sept 2009 ·
· By Andrew Hough ·
A fragment of the world's oldest Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus, has been uncovered hidden underneath the binding of an 18th-century book in an Egyptian monastery. The discovery was made by a British-based Greek academic, Nikolas Sarris, ... Last year The British Library put The Book of Psalms and St Mark's Gospel online, and now the remaining pages have been made free for public use for the first time. Along with the Codex Vaticanus, the Codex Sinaiticus is considered the oldest known Bible in the world. Originally more than 1,460 pages long and measuring 16in by 14in, it was written by...

India

 Sanskrit works discussed at Jerusalem University

· 07/28/2005 4:27:07 AM PDT ·
· Posted by CarrotAndStick ·
· 4 replies ·
· 360+ views ·
· The Press Trust of India ·
· 28 July, 2005 ·
· The Press Trust of India ·
JERUSALEM: Some forty scholars from all over the world recently took part in a summer programme on second millennium Sanskrit literature at Hebrew University here. Eminent Indologist, Prof David Shulman, who was instrumental in organising the programme, pointed out that so far the Sanskrit works in the first millennium (those of Kalidasa et al) have been explored to a great extent by the modern-day Sanskrit scholars, but the later period literature hasn't got much attention. "The second millennium A.D. Also witnessed intense creativity in Sanskrit throughout South Asia. Every major region produced its own distinctive corpus of Sanskrit literary works...

Navigation

 Supposed Greek And Hebrew Resemblances Of Ancient Hawaiians

· 09/02/2009 7:38:32 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 44 replies ·
· 543+ views ·
· books.google.com ·
· April 1866 ·
· MANLEY HOPKINS ·
' And the august abode from whence they came.' Speculations as to an Eastern emigration are scarcely more than glanced at here; and it may appear almost superfluous to refer to two groundless hypotheses which have been formed -- the first, that Greek remains have been discovered in South America, and that faint vestiges of Greece are also traceable in the islands of Hawaii. The other supposition is that of the Hawaiian race being of Hebrew origin, and that these islanders represent the lost tribes of the house of Israel.

Catastrophism and Astronomy

 Water in Mantle May be Associated with Subduction (More water below oceans than in?)

· 08/30/2009 2:39:28 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 68 replies ·
· 1,350+ views ·
· Oregon State University ·
· August 19, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
CORVALLIS, Ore. -- A team of scientists from Oregon State University has created the first global three-dimensional map of electrical conductivity in the Earth's mantle and their model suggests that that enhanced conductivity in certain areas of the mantle may signal the presence of water. What is most notable, the scientists say, is those areas of high conductivity coincide with subduction zones -- where tectonic plates are being subducted beneath the Earth's crust. Subducting plates are comparatively colder than surrounding mantle materials and thus should be less conductive. The answer, the researchers suggest, may be that conductivity in those areas...

Climate

 Middle Ages were warmer than today, say scientists

· 04/05/2003 7:38:26 PM PST ·
· Posted by Prince Charles ·
· 74 replies ·
· 1,962+ views ·
· London Daily Telegraph ·
· 4-6-03 ·
· Robert Matthews ·
Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages. From the outset of the global warming debate in the late 1980s, environmentalists have said that temperatures are rising higher and faster than ever before, leading some scientists to conclude that greenhouse gases from cars and power stations are causing these "record-breaking" global temperatures. Last year, scientists working for the UK Climate Impacts Programme said that global temperatures...

Paleontology

 First Trace of Color Found in Fossil Bird Feathers

· 09/01/2009 12:08:11 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 8 replies ·
· 404+ views ·
· The New York Times ·
· 31 Aug 2009 ·
· Carl Zimmer ·
Birds, more than any other group of animals, are a celebration of color. They have evolved to every extreme of the spectrum, from the hot pink of flamingos to the shimmering blue of a peacock's neck. Yet, for decades, paleontologists who study extinct birds have had to use their imaginations to see the colors in the fossils. Several feather fossils have been unearthed over the years, but they have always been assumed to be colorless vestiges. Now a team of scientists has discovered color-producing molecules that have survived for 47 million years in the fossil of a feather. By analyzing...

Ninja Bacon

 Restorer finds hidden pig in 1600's Dutch work

· 08/31/2009 3:21:49 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Daffynition ·
· 57 replies ·
· 871+ views ·
· Illini.com ·
· August 31st, 2009 ·
· staff reporter ·
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- A restorer's work has found a hidden image of a butchered pig in a painting from the collection of Michigan's Calvin College. The 17th century Dutch work Barn Interior is one of 16 paintings that Calvin alumnus Cornelius Van Nuis gave the Grand Rapids school two years ago. Egbert van der Poel's work shows a woman and two children inside the barn. Van der Poel lived from 1621 to 1664. Last summer, Calvin director of exhibitions Joel Zwart sent Barn Interior to Chicago art conservator Barry Bauman. "What with chemicals and soot and dirt in the...

British Isles

 Tomb search could end riddle of Shakespeare's true identity [Fulke Greville]

· 08/31/2009 7:33:07 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 60 replies ·
· 843+ views ·
· Telegraph ·
· Sunday, August 9th, 2009 ·
· David Harrison ·
Parishioners at St Mary's church in Warwick have sought permission to examine the contents of the 17th century monument built by Fulke Greville, a writer and contemporary of Shakespeare who some believe is the true author of several of the Bard's works... the search has been prompted by the discovery by an historian of clues in Greville's writings which suggest he had several manuscripts buried there, including a copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A radar scan of the sarcophagus has already indicated the presence inside of three "box like" shapes. The searchers believe these could contain documents and a further...

Longer Perspectives

 Physical Scientists Need a Liberal Arts Education

· 10/30/2002 8:03:45 PM PST ·
· Posted by cornelis ·
· 128 replies ·
· 536+ views ·
· Modern Age ·
· Winter 1992 ·
· E. Christian Kopff ·
It is not so obvious that physical scientists need a liberal arts education, rooted in the study of language. They themselves assert that they have no time for it. They have insisted on the abolition of language requirements in almost every university graduate program in America. This development is directly related to the massive amount of fraud which now typifies scientific publication in this country. This scientific community has lost track of the historical and ethical roots of our civilization, the only civilization which has fostered the scientific ethic and considerable scientific research and discovery. Increasingly young men enter the...

Russian Civil War

 Russian Empire's gold found in Lake Baikal?

· 09/02/2009 12:48:27 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 12 replies ·
· 705+ views ·
· russiatoday.ru ·
· 01 September, 2009, 19:04 ·
Russian Empire's gold found in Lake Baikal? 01 September, 2009, 19:04 MIR submersibles have discovered fragments of an early 20th century train at the bottom of Lake Baikal, which may possibly carry so-called "Kolchak gold", part of the gold reserves of the Russian Empire. The remains of the train cars, presumably of the Civil War times, were discovered within the MIR submersibles' expedition to the depth of almost 700 meters in the southern part of Lake Baikal. Some parts of the discovered train were lifted from the bottom. Legends have grown around the story of Admiral Kolchak, a Russian naval...

The Great War

 Inside the amazing cave city that housed 25,000 Allied troops under German noses in WWI

· 03/15/2008 9:11:29 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Stoat ·
· 39 replies ·
· 2,189+ views ·
· The Daily Mail (U.K.) ·
· March 15, 2008 ·
· ROBERT HARDMAN ·
The wax is still melted on to the chalk pillar which served as an Easter Sunday altar for the men of the Suffolk Regiment more than 90 years ago. Old helmets are scattered around the floor. A heap of cans, including a tin of Turnwrights Toffee Delight, lies alongside a collection of old stone jars - flagons of rum, perhaps, to numb the fear of the battle ahead....


 Exclusive: The Unseen Photographs That Throw New Light on the First World War

· 05/25/2009 2:35:18 PM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 5 replies ·
· 1,271+ views ·
· 5/22/08 ·
Exclusive: The unseen photographs that throw new light on the First World WarIt an't be posted by by FR rules, but it's a fascinating article.

World War Eleven

 Barbara Lauwers Podoski Dies at 95; Launched Psychological Campaign Against Germans in WWII

· 08/31/2009 4:57:23 PM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 9 replies ·
· 362+ views ·
· Los Angeles Times ·
· 8/31/09 ·
· Patricia Sullivan ·
Barbara Lauwers Podoski, who launched one of the most successful psychological campaigns of World War II, which resulted in the surrender of more than 600 Czechoslovakian soldiers fighting for the Germans, died of cardiovascular disease Aug. 16 at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Washington, D.C. She was 95. One of the few female operatives in the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime predecessor to the CIA, she found creative ways to undermine German morale. Much of her work remained secret until last year, when her OSS personnel records were declassified. The multilingual Barbara Lauwers, as she was then known, primarily...


 Charles Bond Jr. Passes Away - Pilot Was One of the Last Surviving Flying Tigers

· 08/31/2009 1:14:33 PM PDT ·
· Posted by PGR88 ·
· 10 replies ·
· 393+ views ·
· Washington Post ·
· August 31, 2009 ·
· Joe Holley ·
Charles R. Bond Jr., a retired Air Force major general and one of the last surviving Flying Tigers, died Aug. 18 of dementia at Presbyterian Village North, an assisted living community in Dallas. He was 94. In September 1941, he left the Army Air Forces to volunteer for service in China as part of a secret program, the American Volunteer Group, nicknamed the Flying Tigers, under Gen. Claire Chenault. Made up of about 400 pilots and ground personnel and based in Burma, the Flying Tigers protected military supply routes between China and Burma and helped to get supplies to Chinese...


 Japanese-American graduate recalls wartime ordeal

· 08/31/2009 1:40:25 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 17 replies ·
· 327+ views ·
· Associated Press ·
· Aug 31, 2009 ·
· Jim Salter ·
Yoshio Matsumoto was among the 110,000 Japanese-Americans seemingly bound for an internment camp soon after America entered World War II when a university he knew nothing about from a far off part of the country agreed to take him in.

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Pa. history buff fires cannon, hits neighbor's house

· 09/04/2009 11:51:46 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Free ThinkerNY ·
· 26 replies ·
· 492+ views ·
· Associated Press ·
· Sept. 4, 2009 ·
A Pennsylvania history buff who recreates firearms from old wars accidentally fired a 2-pound cannonball through the wall of his neighbor's home. Fifty-four-year-old William Maser fired a cannonball Wednesday evening outside his home in Georges Township that ricocheted and hit a house 400 yards away. The cannonball, about two inches in diameter, smashed through a window and a wall before landing in a closet. Authorities say nobody was hurt.

Early America

 Revolutionary-era soldier's skull found

· 08/30/2009 8:57:48 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Pharmboy ·
· 21 replies ·
· 758+ views ·
· Connecticut Post ·
· 08/30/2009 ·
· Frank Juliano ·
MILFORD -- A 1907 catalog of the New Haven County Historical Society listed several rare and odd items, including a necklace from an Egyptian mummy, slave chains, a small block of wood from the Old South Bridge in Concord, Mass., which the British guarded at the start of the Revolutionary War. But lot 23 in the inventory -- "a skull of an American soldier, one of 42 who died of the 200 in a destitute and sickly condition that were brought from a British prison ship ... and suddenly cast upon the shore of the town of Milford on the...

Pages


 Book Review: Discovering a Lost Heritage: The Catholic Origins of America

· 09/02/2009 1:49:58 PM PDT ·
· Posted by GonzoII ·
· 40 replies ·
· 464+ views ·
· catholicism.org ·
· August 28th, 2009 ·
· Eleonore Villarrubia ·
So, you think you know your American history? Well, this little gem of a book, a Catholic history of our country, will probably leave you quivering, both with shock at your lack of knowledge of some of the "true facts" of our past and with indignation that this information is not taught in American schools and is absent from standard textbooks. Why, you ask,...

Mating Rituals

 The "Hung Drawn and Quartered: Pub, London, U.K.

· 08/29/2009 11:14:03 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BobNative ·
· 17 replies ·
· 405+ views ·
· My travel to London, U.K. ·
· August 29, 2009 ·
· Myself ·
Interesting name for an Establishment during these times in the United States.

Biology and Cryptobiology

 Tracking monsters in the world of man

· 09/02/2009 1:31:49 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 11 replies ·
· 345+ views ·
· metronews.ca ·
· August 31, 2009 5:43 a.m. ·
· Diane Peters ·
Throughout his career, John Kirk has made a living as a journalist and working for the government. His other occupation doesn't make him much money -- in fact it costs him -- but he still can't give up the hunt for undiscovered wildlife. It all began when Kirk first emigrated from Hong Kong in 1987. As a new resident to Canada, he went in a tour of B.C. He was passing by Sproat Lake on the way to Nanaimo when he...


 The London Monster: The Saturday Strangeness

· 09/03/2009 7:37:15 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 18 replies ·
· 362+ views ·
· londonist.com ·
· August 22, 2009 3:00 PM ·
· Neil Arnold ·
The London Monster The Saturday Strangeness Neil Arnold on August 22, 2009 3:00 PM 29. Phantom Assailants: Part One One hundred years previous to Jack The Ripper's reign of ghastly terror, London was overshadowed by another spectral attacker -- a phantom aggressor that, although seemingly dreadful and unique, would simply become one of many urban legends pertaining to mysterious and elusive assailants across the world, with many actually analysing the peculiar cases of ripping, and asking "did such psychopaths exist or were they the product of local hysteria'? Between 1788 and 1790, an evil jester of an attacker prowled the...


 Texas Man Says He Has Mythical Chupacabra

· 09/01/2009 4:09:05 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Daffynition ·
· 35 replies ·
· 1,183+ views ·
· WBALTV.com ·
· Sept 1 2009 ·
· staff reporter ·
A man living north of San Antonio says he has quite the animal sitting in his freezer -- and it may be a mythical chupacabra. Jerry Ayer, a teacher at the Blanco Taxidermy School in Blanco, Texas, told TV station KSAT that he's never seen anything like it. "Different, that's for sure, very interesting," said Ayer. The find comes amid a number of strange sightings in the area. The animal is gray in color with leathery, hairless skin and large fangs. "The front legs seem to be a little bit longer than a typical coyote, very irregular and never seen...

Oh So Mysteriouso

 Pictured: Hitler playing chess with Lenin

· 09/03/2009 2:32:09 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Free ThinkerNY ·
· 36 replies ·
· 1,358+ views ·
· telegraph.co.uk ·
· Sept. 3, 2009 ·
A picture of a young Adolf Hitler apparently playing chess against Vladimir Lenin 100 years ago has come to light. The image is said to have been created in Vienna by Hitler's art teacher, Emma Lowenstramm, and is signed on the reverse by the two dictators. Hitler was a jobbing artist in the city in 1909 and Lenin was in exile and the house where they allegedly played the game belonged to a prominent Jewish family. In the run-up to the Second World War the Jewish family fled and gave many of their possessions, including the etching and chess set,...

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Weekly Digest #268
Saturday, September 5, 2009

The City of David (iow, 'Civ sez this ain't Canaanite)

 Israeli archaeologists find ancient fortification (3700-year-old Canaanite 26-foot tall stone wall)

· 09/02/2009 9:11:03 AM PDT ·
· Posted by NormsRevenge ·
· 27 replies ·
· 761+ views ·
· AP on Yahoo ·
· 9/2/09 ·
· Jen Thomas - ap ·
JERUSALEM -- Archaeologists digging in Jerusalem have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wall that is the oldest example of massive fortifications ever found in the city, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday. The 26-foot-high wall is believed to have been part of a protected passage built by ancient Canaanites from a hilltop fortress to a nearby spring that was the city's only water source and vulnerable to marauders. The discovery marks the first time archaeologists have found such massive construction from before the time of Herod, the ruler behind numerous monumental projects in the city 2,000 years ago, and shows that Jerusalem...

Neandertal / Neanderthal

 White Europeans evolved only "5,500 years ago'

· 08/30/2009 10:40:35 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 145 replies ·
· 2,204+ views ·
· The Sunday Times ·
· August 30, 2009 ·
· Jonathan Leake ·
White Europeans could have evolved as recently as 5,500 years ago, according to research which suggests that the early humans who populated Britain and Scandinavia had dark skins for millenniums. It was only when early humans gave up hunter-gathering and switched to farming about 5,500 years ago that white skin began to be favoured, say the researchers. This is because farmed food was deficient in vitamin D, a vital nutrient. Humans can make this in their skin when exposed to sunlight, but dark skin is much less efficient at it. In places such as northern Europe, where sunlight levels are...


 Why Did People Become White?

· 09/02/2009 12:47:20 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SeekAndFind ·
· 137 replies ·
· 2,124+ views ·
· Live Science ·
· 9/2/2009 ·
· Heather Whipps ·
Humans come in a rainbow of hues, from dark chocolate browns to nearly translucent whites. This full kaleidoscope of skin colors was a relatively recent evolutionary development, according to biologists, occuring alongside the migration of modern humans out of Africa between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago. The consensus among scientists has always been that lower levels of vitamin D at higher latitudes -- where the sun is less intense -- caused the lightening effect when modern humans, who began darker-skinned, first migrated north. But other factors might be at work, a new study suggests. From the varying effects of frostbite...

Shhh!

 Failing the IQ Test

· 09/02/2009 4:18:00 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Bob017 ·
· 8 replies ·
· 506+ views ·
· The American Conservative ·
· 1 October 2009 Issue ·
· Jason Richwine ·
Sociobiology has long been a sore spot for the Left, and with good reason. Our fundamental traits have a firm biological basis, shaped as they are by complex gene-environment interactions. And the more we discover how firmly ingrained our abilities, attitudes, and behaviors tend to be, the less plausible leftist social-intervention programs become. No biological trait threatens that agenda more than intelligence. With standard IQ tests, we can measure and rank people on a continuum, allowing us to make reasonable predictions about their success in life. Granted, a good IQ score is not the whole story of a person's life -- not...

Ancient Autopsies

 The Mystery Behind the 5,000 Year Old Tarim Mummies

· 08/31/2009 2:18:47 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 28 replies ·
· 1,019+ views ·
· Environmental Graffiti ·
· 31 Aug 2009 ·
· EG ·
A Tarim Basin mummy photographed circa 1910 Photo: Aurel Stein The door creaked open, and there in the gloom of the newly opened room, perfectly preserved despite the passing of thousands of years, a red-haired mummy with Caucasian features stared back. It was a life-changing moment for archaeologist Professor Victor Mair, and ten years on it still gave him chills. Mair had stumbled upon the recently discovered corpses of a man and his family in a museum in the Chinese city of Ürümqi, but the shock waves of the find would be felt far and wide. The 3000-year-old Cherchen...

Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis

 Anthropology assistant professor uncovers genetic patterns

· 09/04/2009 11:58:25 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 5 replies ·
· 251+ views ·
· OU Daily ·
· 03 Sep 2009 ·
· Jared Rader ·
New reseach challenges previous theories of continent population New questions of human origin could shed light on what makes groups of people more or less prone to certain diseases, an OU researcher has found. Cecil Lewis, assistant professor of anthropology and director of the OU Molecular Anthropology laboratory, studied genetic diversity among American populations. His research is not only groundbreaking for anthropology but it could also affect future health research. "I made a number of surprising discoveries, some of which actually applied to the Americas as a whole," Lewis said. Lewis' research, which was recently published in the American Journal...

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 Dogs descended from wolf pack on Yangtze river

· 09/04/2009 2:58:00 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 39 replies ·
· 613+ views ·
· Telegraph ·
· Sep 2, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
Today's dogs are all descended from a pack of wolves tamed 16,000 years ago on the shores of the Yangtze river, according to new research. It was previously known that the birthplace of the dog was eastern Asia but historians were not able to be more precise than that. However, now researchers have made a number of new discoveries about the history of man's best friend - including that the dog appeared about 16,000 years ago south of the Yangtze river in China. It has also been discovered that even though the dog has a single geographical origin it descends...

Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

 Europe's first farmers replaced their Stone Age hunter-gatherer forerunners

· 09/03/2009 11:47:19 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 27 replies ·
· 357+ views ·
· University College London ·
· Sep 3, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
Analysis of ancient DNA from skeletons suggests that Europe's first farmers were not the descendants of the people who settled the area after the retreat of the ice sheets. Instead, the early farmers probably migrated into major areas of central and eastern Europe about 7,500 years ago, bringing domesticated plants and animals with them, says Barbara Bramanti from Mainz University in Germany and colleagues. The researchers analyzed DNA from hunter-gatherer and early farmer burials, and compared those to each other and to the DNA of modern Europeans. They conclude that there is little evidence of a direct genetic link between...

Central Asia

 Struggle to save the apple's Asian birthplace

· 09/04/2009 8:24:28 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 11 replies ·
· 187+ views ·
· Telegraph ·
· August 21, 2009 ·
· Richard Spencer in the
  Zailijskei Alatau Mountains ·
The common ancestor of all the Granny Smiths and Cox's Orange Pippins still grows on some of the world's most beautiful but little known mountainsides in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. The discovery of the "Garden of Eden" in Central Asia has triggered efforts to save what remains of the forests, always known for their abundance of wild fruit. Once under assault by Soviet agricultural planners, they are now menaced by the wealth of oil capitalism and as much as 80 per cent has disappeared. "In earlier historical times there were vast mixed fruit forests across the area," said...

Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles

 VIDEO: Paris Catacombs "Dense in Death"

· 09/03/2009 7:01:42 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 27 replies ·
· 451+ views ·
· National Geographic News ·
· August 25, 2009 ·
· unattributed ·
In underground passageways that snake underneath the French capital, nearly six million people who died of disease in the Middle Ages share a final resting place. The vaults, packed with skulls and bones dating from as far back as the Middle Ages, are located on Paris' Left Bank near Place Denfert Rochereau... and are part of the nearly 185 miles of underground passageways that are believed to be part of the catacombs network. ...John Mamburg, tourist from Grand Rapids, Michigan: "I think this is astounding. I've never been around so many, like you've been to cemeteries and things like that,...

Middle Ages and Renaissance

 Medieval love letters ignite war of words in France

· 03/06/2005 2:41:41 PM PST ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 32 replies ·
· 1,521+ views ·
· Stuff (New Zealand) ·
· 05 March 2005 ·
PARIS: Two star-crossed medieval lovers, Abelard and Heloise, are again stirring passions in France as a literary controversy rages nearly 900 years after their affair. At the heart of the drama is an obscure Latin text that some scholars say contains the long lost love letters written by the ill-fated pair. Others say the correspondence is fake. The illicit liaison between Abelard, an up and coming 12th century philosopher, and the gifted young woman he tutored, shocked medieval Europe not least for its gruesome end. Abelard was castrated on the orders of Heloise's uncle after she became pregnant with his...

Faith and Philosophy

 History Of The Huguenots

· 06/19/2009 3:54:08 PM PDT ·
· Posted by alpha-8-25-02 ·
· 158 replies ·
· 1,839+ views ·
· 6/19/09 ·
· ALPHA-8-25-02 ·
Who were the Huguenots? John Calvin (1509 - 1564), religious reformer. The Huguenots were French Protestants who were members of the Reformed Church which was established in 1550 by John Calvin. The origin of the name Huguenot is uncertain, but dates from approximately 1550 when it was used in court cases against "heretics" (dissenters from the Roman Catholic Church). There is a theory that it is derived from the personal name of Besancon Hugues, the leader of the "Confederate Party" in Geneva, in combination with a Frankish corruption of the German word for conspirator or confederate: eidgenosse. Thus, Hugues plus...

Cooked Only By Fire

 Research Reveals Medieval Diet Was More Than Meat And Gruel

· 02/17/2003 5:37:57 PM PST ·
· Posted by blam ·
· 82 replies ·
· 1,015+ views ·
· Post-Gazette ·
· 2-17-2003 ·
· Lance Gay ·
How did our ancestors eat in the days before there were supermarkets, fast-food restaurants, refrigerators or temperature-controlled stoves and ovens? And what did the dinner table look like before the discovery of the New World brought back to Europe staple foods ranging from turkey to tomatoes and the humble potato?

Holiday for Strings

 Lost Sounds Orchestra: Ancient Musical Instruments Brought Back To Life

· 08/31/2009 3:55:44 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 45 replies ·
· 661+ views ·
· Scientific Blogging ·
· August 30, 2009 ·
· News Staff ·
Do you long to hear the dulcet sounds of the salpinx, barbiton, aulos or the syrinx? Of course not, because no one has heard them in centuries. Most people have never even heard of them. But you will soon have the chance to experience musical instruments familiar to ancient civilizations but long since forgotten.


 Ancient Music Wins New Fans (Gregorian Chant)

· 11/13/2007 12:00:30 PM PST ·
· Posted by Pyro7480 ·
· 25 replies ·
· 140+ views ·
· BBC News ·
· 11/13/2007 ·
· Paddy O'Flaherty ·
One of the world's oldest styles of religious music is attracting a host of new enthusiasts.Gregorian chant is usually associated with monks in monasteries, but it's being heard more often now in regular services. Its growing popularity brought 70 representatives of choirs from Northern Ireland to a chanting workshop in the Dominican Convent in west Belfast. The college chapel became a study for a day as experts passed on advice on how best to perform the ancient melodies. Principal tutor Donal McCrisken said Gregorian chant was an excellent medium for vocal training. "You have to sing it very purely -...

Religion of Peace

 Fourteen Centuries of War Against European Civilization

· 09/04/2009 6:00:13 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 6 replies ·
· 201+ views ·
· globalpolitician.com ·
· 9/4/2009 ·
· Fjordman ·
Fourteen Centuries of War Against European Civilization Fjordman - 9/4/2009 The following essay is an amalgam of my previous online essays, among them Who Are We, Who Are Our Enemies -- The Cost of Historical Amnesia, Why We Should Oppose an Independent Kosovo, Refuting God's Crucible and The Truth About Islam in Europe. "The Jihad, the Islamic so-called Holy War, has been a fact of life in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East for more than 1300 years, but this is the first history of the Muslim wars in Europe ever to be published. Hundreds of books,...


 Lies: The Crusades

· 08/29/2006 7:16:55 AM PDT ·
· Posted by JamesP81 ·
· 3 replies ·
· 371+ views ·
· Southern Pundit ·
· 8-29-2006 ·
· James P ·
All of us know that historical revisionism is a favored tool of the liar and those who like to play the blame game. Right after 9/11, this was on display for the whole world to see when Bin Laden and the Left decided to blame the Middle East's hatred of the West on, of all things, the Crusades. The Crusades were a series of wars that were fought nearly a thousand years before anyone on this Earth was born, yet the extremists hang on to it today like it's some kind of personal injustice. I find it inconceivable that one...


 Don't Let Liberals Smear and Rewrite the Meaning of September 11

· 09/02/2009 4:52:01 AM PDT ·
· Posted by OK Right ·
· 7 replies ·
· 203+ views ·
· OK, WE'RE RIGHT! ·
· September 2, 2009 ·
· Oscar De Los Santos &
  Kelly L. Goodridge ·
Liberals have a penchant for revising history, but some of their recent rewrites are especially alarming. Look at the sanctification of Sen. Edward Kennedy, which is moving beyond whitewash and into fantastic territories. Modern liberalism strikes again in blogger Melissa Lafsky's Huffington Post article, "The Footnote Speaks: What Would Mary Jo Kopechne Have Thought of Ted's Career?" (8/27/09). Incredibly, Lafsky wonders what Kopechne, the young woman Teddy left to drown in Chappaquiddick, would think about Kennedy's life and career. Lafsky's conclusion: "Who Knows -- Maybe She'd Feel It Was Worth It" (The Huffington Post, August 27, 2009). You read...

Malta

 1565: Malta celebrates the historically important victory of the Great Siege

· 09/03/2009 6:17:37 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 6 replies ·
· 282+ views ·
· timesofmalta.com ·
· Thursday, 3rd September 2009 ·
· Desmond Zammit Marmarà ·
As Malta celebrates the historically important victory of the Great Siege of 1565, it is worthwhile to ponder on some important points usually overshadowed by the purely military aspect of the Great Siege. The events of 1565 took place against a background of the clash between the Christian and the Islamic religions as well as the contemporary dissonance between Western and Eastern cultures. Few people, however, are aware that commerce played a very important part in the Turkish decision to attack Malta. Attacks on Turkish shipping by ships flying the flag of...

Greece

 Discovering the Greek side of Istanbul

· 09/03/2009 8:21:26 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 12 replies ·
· 182+ views ·
· todayszaman.com ·
· 03 September 2009 ·
· KRISTINA KAMP ·
Discovering the Greek side of Istanbul The Maiden Tower That Istanbul is a real treasure chest for history, art and architecture freaks is no secret. Its colorful mosaic of historical city structures -- mosques, churches, synagogues, palaces, castles and towers -- reflects the many, many social and cultural influences of a number of foreign communities that have left their indelible footprints across the city throughout its long history. The oldest settlement on the land that is now Istanbul was, however, Greek. Already, in 685 B.C., settlers from the ancient Greek town of Megara chose to colonize the town of Chalcedon,...

Pyramids

 Hellenic Pyramids

· 09/03/2009 2:02:14 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 12 replies ·
· 477+ views ·
· hiddenmysteries.org ·
· Ioannis Lyritzis ·
It is not well known that there are Greek pyramids . There are more than 16 pyramids spread all over the Greece. The oldest one is the pyramid of Hellinikon. The existence of pyramids in Greece was unknown to most people until recently, and even today not much is known about them. For example, the pyramid of Hellenikon, near Argos, is older than the Pyramids of Egypt. In fact, Pausanias (in Graeciae Descriptio) says that this pyramid was a memorial in rememberance of the first battle fought by soldiers bearing shields! Pyramids in Greece are usually smaller...

Latin and Other Dead Languages

 Town halls ban staff from using Latin words, in case they confuse immigrants[UK]

· 11/02/2008 9:01:53 AM PST ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 44 replies ·
· 687+ views ·
· Daily Mail ·
· 02 Nov 2008 ·
· Emily Andrews ·
They are well-worn phrases, repeated ad nauseam throughout the English language. But local councils have now waged war on Latin words, banning staff from using them in writing or in speech. The authorities claim the terms are elitist and discriminatory and have ordered employees to use wordier alternatives in documents or when speaking to members of the public. However the ban has infuriated classical scholars who say it is diluting the world's richest language and is the 'linguistic equivalent of ethnic cleansing'. Bournemouth Council, which has the Latin motto Pulchritudo et Salubritas - beauty and health - has listed 19...


 Finland Takes Liking to Latin

· 10/30/2006 6:48:03 PM PST ·
· Posted by G8 Diplomat ·
· 16 replies ·
· 747+ views ·
· BBC ·
· Jonny Dymond ·
Finland is one of the quieter members of the EU. But now its turn at the EU presidency has thrust it into the spotlight - and exposed an unusual passion. Like the boy at the party with cheese straws stuck up his nose, it has been caught doing something vaguely disturbing - indulging a penchant for Latin. It is the only country in the world which broadcasts the news in Latin. On its EU presidency website one can find descriptions of meetings in Latin. But love of the language of Rome goes deep. 'Eternal language' I am in a hotel...


 And now for the news ... in Latin

· 03/21/2007 9:45:52 AM PDT ·
· Posted by NYer ·
· 5 replies ·
· 372+ views ·
· Guardian ·
· March 21, 2007 ·
· John Hooper ·
It is, famously, a dead language. But it seems that Latin is on the brink of an unlikely comeback. The conservative Pope Benedict XVI is poised to authorise wider use of the Latin mass. And, perhaps to ingratiate themselves with the boss, the managers of the Vatican bank have quietly put instructions in Latin on the cash dispenser at the back of St Peter's. Customers are told to put in their cards with the words: "Inserito scidulam quaeso ut faciundam cognoscas rationem."On Sicily, meanwhile, Latin is being heard in homes in the city of Catania for the...

Epigraphy and Language

 What's up with Aramaic?

· 02/28/2004 8:15:53 PM PST ·
· Posted by jwalburg ·
· 40 replies ·
· 345+ views ·
· Aberdeen American News ·
· Feb. 04 ·
· Cary Darling ·
Thanks to 'The Passion of the Christ,' a near-dead, 2,500-year-old language will reach the ears of millions Leave it to pop culture -- and Mel Gibson -- to revive a couple of dead languages. Well, one that's dead and one that's in linguistic intensive care. Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ, opening today, utilizes two tongues from way back in the day: Latin and Aramaic. (Don't worry, there are subtitles in the movie.) Now Latin (the dead one) is not a complete stranger to American ears. Carpe diem, e pluribus unum and all that. But Aramaic? This nearly...

Let's Have Jerusalem

 Codex Sinaiticus -- previously unknown fragment found

· 09/01/2009 5:55:16 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 15 replies ·
· 495+ views ·
· The Independent ·
· Wednesday, September 2, 2009 ·
· Jerome Taylor,
  Religious Affairs Correspondent ·
The source URL used is the official website for the Codex Sinaiticus, a Greek-language version of the Bible from about 350 AD. The fragments (other than this one) were reunited and put online this year. The document is the oldest surviving version of the New Testament; about half of the Old Testament survives in the CS, and is that of the Translation of the Seventy. This newly-discovered fragment appears to be from Joshua (the book, not the guy).


 Fragment of world's oldest bible 'discovered in Egyptian monastery'

· 09/03/2009 1:14:39 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BlackVeil ·
· 12 replies ·
· 504+ views ·
· The Telegraph ·
· 2 Sept 2009 ·
· By Andrew Hough ·
A fragment of the world's oldest Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus, has been uncovered hidden underneath the binding of an 18th-century book in an Egyptian monastery. The discovery was made by a British-based Greek academic, Nikolas Sarris, ... Last year The British Library put The Book of Psalms and St Mark's Gospel online, and now the remaining pages have been made free for public use for the first time. Along with the Codex Vaticanus, the Codex Sinaiticus is considered the oldest known Bible in the world. Originally more than 1,460 pages long and measuring 16in by 14in, it was written by...

India

 Sanskrit works discussed at Jerusalem University

· 07/28/2005 4:27:07 AM PDT ·
· Posted by CarrotAndStick ·
· 4 replies ·
· 360+ views ·
· The Press Trust of India ·
· 28 July, 2005 ·
· The Press Trust of India ·
JERUSALEM: Some forty scholars from all over the world recently took part in a summer programme on second millennium Sanskrit literature at Hebrew University here. Eminent Indologist, Prof David Shulman, who was instrumental in organising the programme, pointed out that so far the Sanskrit works in the first millennium (those of Kalidasa et al) have been explored to a great extent by the modern-day Sanskrit scholars, but the later period literature hasn't got much attention. "The second millennium A.D. Also witnessed intense creativity in Sanskrit throughout South Asia. Every major region produced its own distinctive corpus of Sanskrit literary works...

Navigation

 Supposed Greek And Hebrew Resemblances Of Ancient Hawaiians

· 09/02/2009 7:38:32 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 44 replies ·
· 543+ views ·
· books.google.com ·
· April 1866 ·
· MANLEY HOPKINS ·
' And the august abode from whence they came.' Speculations as to an Eastern emigration are scarcely more than glanced at here; and it may appear almost superfluous to refer to two groundless hypotheses which have been formed -- the first, that Greek remains have been discovered in South America, and that faint vestiges of Greece are also traceable in the islands of Hawaii. The other supposition is that of the Hawaiian race being of Hebrew origin, and that these islanders represent the lost tribes of the house of Israel.

Catastrophism and Astronomy

 Water in Mantle May be Associated with Subduction (More water below oceans than in?)

· 08/30/2009 2:39:28 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 68 replies ·
· 1,350+ views ·
· Oregon State University ·
· August 19, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
CORVALLIS, Ore. -- A team of scientists from Oregon State University has created the first global three-dimensional map of electrical conductivity in the Earth's mantle and their model suggests that that enhanced conductivity in certain areas of the mantle may signal the presence of water. What is most notable, the scientists say, is those areas of high conductivity coincide with subduction zones -- where tectonic plates are being subducted beneath the Earth's crust. Subducting plates are comparatively colder than surrounding mantle materials and thus should be less conductive. The answer, the researchers suggest, may be that conductivity in those areas...

Climate

 Middle Ages were warmer than today, say scientists

· 04/05/2003 7:38:26 PM PST ·
· Posted by Prince Charles ·
· 74 replies ·
· 1,962+ views ·
· London Daily Telegraph ·
· 4-6-03 ·
· Robert Matthews ·
Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages. From the outset of the global warming debate in the late 1980s, environmentalists have said that temperatures are rising higher and faster than ever before, leading some scientists to conclude that greenhouse gases from cars and power stations are causing these "record-breaking" global temperatures. Last year, scientists working for the UK Climate Impacts Programme said that global temperatures...

Paleontology

 First Trace of Color Found in Fossil Bird Feathers

· 09/01/2009 12:08:11 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 8 replies ·
· 404+ views ·
· The New York Times ·
· 31 Aug 2009 ·
· Carl Zimmer ·
Birds, more than any other group of animals, are a celebration of color. They have evolved to every extreme of the spectrum, from the hot pink of flamingos to the shimmering blue of a peacock's neck. Yet, for decades, paleontologists who study extinct birds have had to use their imaginations to see the colors in the fossils. Several feather fossils have been unearthed over the years, but they have always been assumed to be colorless vestiges. Now a team of scientists has discovered color-producing molecules that have survived for 47 million years in the fossil of a feather. By analyzing...

Ninja Bacon

 Restorer finds hidden pig in 1600's Dutch work

· 08/31/2009 3:21:49 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Daffynition ·
· 57 replies ·
· 871+ views ·
· Illini.com ·
· August 31st, 2009 ·
· staff reporter ·
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- A restorer's work has found a hidden image of a butchered pig in a painting from the collection of Michigan's Calvin College. The 17th century Dutch work Barn Interior is one of 16 paintings that Calvin alumnus Cornelius Van Nuis gave the Grand Rapids school two years ago. Egbert van der Poel's work shows a woman and two children inside the barn. Van der Poel lived from 1621 to 1664. Last summer, Calvin director of exhibitions Joel Zwart sent Barn Interior to Chicago art conservator Barry Bauman. "What with chemicals and soot and dirt in the...

British Isles

 Tomb search could end riddle of Shakespeare's true identity [Fulke Greville]

· 08/31/2009 7:33:07 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 60 replies ·
· 843+ views ·
· Telegraph ·
· Sunday, August 9th, 2009 ·
· David Harrison ·
Parishioners at St Mary's church in Warwick have sought permission to examine the contents of the 17th century monument built by Fulke Greville, a writer and contemporary of Shakespeare who some believe is the true author of several of the Bard's works... the search has been prompted by the discovery by an historian of clues in Greville's writings which suggest he had several manuscripts buried there, including a copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A radar scan of the sarcophagus has already indicated the presence inside of three "box like" shapes. The searchers believe these could contain documents and a further...

Longer Perspectives

 Physical Scientists Need a Liberal Arts Education

· 10/30/2002 8:03:45 PM PST ·
· Posted by cornelis ·
· 128 replies ·
· 536+ views ·
· Modern Age ·
· Winter 1992 ·
· E. Christian Kopff ·
It is not so obvious that physical scientists need a liberal arts education, rooted in the study of language. They themselves assert that they have no time for it. They have insisted on the abolition of language requirements in almost every university graduate program in America. This development is directly related to the massive amount of fraud which now typifies scientific publication in this country. This scientific community has lost track of the historical and ethical roots of our civilization, the only civilization which has fostered the scientific ethic and considerable scientific research and discovery. Increasingly young men enter the...

Russian Civil War

 Russian Empire's gold found in Lake Baikal?

· 09/02/2009 12:48:27 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 12 replies ·
· 705+ views ·
· russiatoday.ru ·
· 01 September, 2009, 19:04 ·
Russian Empire's gold found in Lake Baikal? 01 September, 2009, 19:04 MIR submersibles have discovered fragments of an early 20th century train at the bottom of Lake Baikal, which may possibly carry so-called "Kolchak gold", part of the gold reserves of the Russian Empire. The remains of the train cars, presumably of the Civil War times, were discovered within the MIR submersibles' expedition to the depth of almost 700 meters in the southern part of Lake Baikal. Some parts of the discovered train were lifted from the bottom. Legends have grown around the story of Admiral Kolchak, a Russian naval...

The Great War

 Inside the amazing cave city that housed 25,000 Allied troops under German noses in WWI

· 03/15/2008 9:11:29 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Stoat ·
· 39 replies ·
· 2,189+ views ·
· The Daily Mail (U.K.) ·
· March 15, 2008 ·
· ROBERT HARDMAN ·
The wax is still melted on to the chalk pillar which served as an Easter Sunday altar for the men of the Suffolk Regiment more than 90 years ago. Old helmets are scattered around the floor. A heap of cans, including a tin of Turnwrights Toffee Delight, lies alongside a collection of old stone jars - flagons of rum, perhaps, to numb the fear of the battle ahead....


 Exclusive: The Unseen Photographs That Throw New Light on the First World War

· 05/25/2009 2:35:18 PM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 5 replies ·
· 1,271+ views ·
· 5/22/08 ·
Exclusive: The unseen photographs that throw new light on the First World WarIt an't be posted by by FR rules, but it's a fascinating article.

World War Eleven

 Barbara Lauwers Podoski Dies at 95; Launched Psychological Campaign Against Germans in WWII

· 08/31/2009 4:57:23 PM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 9 replies ·
· 362+ views ·
· Los Angeles Times ·
· 8/31/09 ·
· Patricia Sullivan ·
Barbara Lauwers Podoski, who launched one of the most successful psychological campaigns of World War II, which resulted in the surrender of more than 600 Czechoslovakian soldiers fighting for the Germans, died of cardiovascular disease Aug. 16 at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Washington, D.C. She was 95. One of the few female operatives in the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime predecessor to the CIA, she found creative ways to undermine German morale. Much of her work remained secret until last year, when her OSS personnel records were declassified. The multilingual Barbara Lauwers, as she was then known, primarily...


 Charles Bond Jr. Passes Away - Pilot Was One of the Last Surviving Flying Tigers

· 08/31/2009 1:14:33 PM PDT ·
· Posted by PGR88 ·
· 10 replies ·
· 393+ views ·
· Washington Post ·
· August 31, 2009 ·
· Joe Holley ·
Charles R. Bond Jr., a retired Air Force major general and one of the last surviving Flying Tigers, died Aug. 18 of dementia at Presbyterian Village North, an assisted living community in Dallas. He was 94. In September 1941, he left the Army Air Forces to volunteer for service in China as part of a secret program, the American Volunteer Group, nicknamed the Flying Tigers, under Gen. Claire Chenault. Made up of about 400 pilots and ground personnel and based in Burma, the Flying Tigers protected military supply routes between China and Burma and helped to get supplies to Chinese...


 Japanese-American graduate recalls wartime ordeal

· 08/31/2009 1:40:25 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 17 replies ·
· 327+ views ·
· Associated Press ·
· Aug 31, 2009 ·
· Jim Salter ·
Yoshio Matsumoto was among the 110,000 Japanese-Americans seemingly bound for an internment camp soon after America entered World War II when a university he knew nothing about from a far off part of the country agreed to take him in.

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Pa. history buff fires cannon, hits neighbor's house

· 09/04/2009 11:51:46 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Free ThinkerNY ·
· 26 replies ·
· 492+ views ·
· Associated Press ·
· Sept. 4, 2009 ·
A Pennsylvania history buff who recreates firearms from old wars accidentally fired a 2-pound cannonball through the wall of his neighbor's home. Fifty-four-year-old William Maser fired a cannonball Wednesday evening outside his home in Georges Township that ricocheted and hit a house 400 yards away. The cannonball, about two inches in diameter, smashed through a window and a wall before landing in a closet. Authorities say nobody was hurt.

Early America

 Revolutionary-era soldier's skull found

· 08/30/2009 8:57:48 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Pharmboy ·
· 21 replies ·
· 758+ views ·
· Connecticut Post ·
· 08/30/2009 ·
· Frank Juliano ·
MILFORD -- A 1907 catalog of the New Haven County Historical Society listed several rare and odd items, including a necklace from an Egyptian mummy, slave chains, a small block of wood from the Old South Bridge in Concord, Mass., which the British guarded at the start of the Revolutionary War. But lot 23 in the inventory -- "a skull of an American soldier, one of 42 who died of the 200 in a destitute and sickly condition that were brought from a British prison ship ... and suddenly cast upon the shore of the town of Milford on the...

Pages


 Book Review: Discovering a Lost Heritage: The Catholic Origins of America

· 09/02/2009 1:49:58 PM PDT ·
· Posted by GonzoII ·
· 40 replies ·
· 464+ views ·
· catholicism.org ·
· August 28th, 2009 ·
· Eleonore Villarrubia ·
So, you think you know your American history? Well, this little gem of a book, a Catholic history of our country, will probably leave you quivering, both with shock at your lack of knowledge of some of the "true facts" of our past and with indignation that this information is not taught in American schools and is absent from standard textbooks. Why, you ask,...

Mating Rituals

 The "Hung Drawn and Quartered: Pub, London, U.K.

· 08/29/2009 11:14:03 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BobNative ·
· 17 replies ·
· 405+ views ·
· My travel to London, U.K. ·
· August 29, 2009 ·
· Myself ·
Interesting name for an Establishment during these times in the United States.

Biology and Cryptobiology

 Tracking monsters in the world of man

· 09/02/2009 1:31:49 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 11 replies ·
· 345+ views ·
· metronews.ca ·
· August 31, 2009 5:43 a.m. ·
· Diane Peters ·
Throughout his career, John Kirk has made a living as a journalist and working for the government. His other occupation doesn't make him much money -- in fact it costs him -- but he still can't give up the hunt for undiscovered wildlife. It all began when Kirk first emigrated from Hong Kong in 1987. As a new resident to Canada, he went in a tour of B.C. He was passing by Sproat Lake on the way to Nanaimo when he...


 The London Monster: The Saturday Strangeness

· 09/03/2009 7:37:15 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 18 replies ·
· 362+ views ·
· londonist.com ·
· August 22, 2009 3:00 PM ·
· Neil Arnold ·
The London Monster The Saturday Strangeness Neil Arnold on August 22, 2009 3:00 PM 29. Phantom Assailants: Part One One hundred years previous to Jack The Ripper's reign of ghastly terror, London was overshadowed by another spectral attacker -- a phantom aggressor that, although seemingly dreadful and unique, would simply become one of many urban legends pertaining to mysterious and elusive assailants across the world, with many actually analysing the peculiar cases of ripping, and asking "did such psychopaths exist or were they the product of local hysteria'? Between 1788 and 1790, an evil jester of an attacker prowled the...


 Texas Man Says He Has Mythical Chupacabra

· 09/01/2009 4:09:05 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Daffynition ·
· 35 replies ·
· 1,183+ views ·
· WBALTV.com ·
· Sept 1 2009 ·
· staff reporter ·
A man living north of San Antonio says he has quite the animal sitting in his freezer -- and it may be a mythical chupacabra. Jerry Ayer, a teacher at the Blanco Taxidermy School in Blanco, Texas, told TV station KSAT that he's never seen anything like it. "Different, that's for sure, very interesting," said Ayer. The find comes amid a number of strange sightings in the area. The animal is gray in color with leathery, hairless skin and large fangs. "The front legs seem to be a little bit longer than a typical coyote, very irregular and never seen...

Oh So Mysteriouso

 Pictured: Hitler playing chess with Lenin

· 09/03/2009 2:32:09 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Free ThinkerNY ·
· 36 replies ·
· 1,358+ views ·
· telegraph.co.uk ·
· Sept. 3, 2009 ·
A picture of a young Adolf Hitler apparently playing chess against Vladimir Lenin 100 years ago has come to light. The image is said to have been created in Vienna by Hitler's art teacher, Emma Lowenstramm, and is signed on the reverse by the two dictators. Hitler was a jobbing artist in the city in 1909 and Lenin was in exile and the house where they allegedly played the game belonged to a prominent Jewish family. In the run-up to the Second World War the Jewish family fled and gave many of their possessions, including the etching and chess set,...

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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #268 20090905
· Saturday, September 5, 2009 · 49 topics · 2332639 to 2328040 · 722 members ·
 
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Welcome to the 268th issue. We've risen to 722 members. Last issue was v 6, n 7 (sez 6, and I can't edit the post, so...). Okay, I posted this Digest, realized that I'd forgotten to replace the edit window text with the slightly tweaked version (the one without the, uh, anomalies), so I posted it again. This link leads to the corrected one.

Many thanks to the many who posted the 49 GGG topics seen in this Digest. Not all of them are new -- some were plucked from deep in the FRchives (I think I just coined that), after having stumbling over them in the never-ending search for something else.

Partly as a result of such mining operations, this week's topics tend to be grouped, perhaps more than usual. There was an unusually strong focus on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, which is a good thing IMHO. The only things that should be demonized are demons.

To be more specific, on behalf of myself and everyone on the GGG lists, a big thank you to alpha-8-25-02, BGHater, BlackVeil, blam, Bob017, BobNative, CarrotAndStick, cornelis, Daffynition, decimon, Free ThinkerNY, G8 Diplomat, GonzoII, JamesP81, jwalburg, nickcarraway, Nikas777, NormsRevenge, NYer, OK Right, PGR88, Pharmboy, Prince Charles, Pyro7480, SeekAndFind, and Stoat.

Nikas777, a relative newcomer to FR (okay, yeah, I didn't double-check that, I'll have to chew out my staff... hey, wait a second... I live alone...) has been finding and posting loads of interesting things both in the GGG area and to Cryptobiology. I didn't ping the list to everything he sent my way, but all or most of it got added to the catalog, and has been appearing the past few issues of the Digest.

Thanks to the FR management team, we can now add keywords -- godsgravesglyphs for example -- to our list of subscriptions. I've tossed in a bunch, but with most of them have just the two most recent topics. And I've got them listed in an order which I find helpful. At the bottom of either a Topic listing or a Keyword listing, click "Add to My Page", and study the resulting page. It's quite easy, just don't try to assign the same number to two of them. :')

FR is vast, we can all use all the help we can find just to navigate. It's a rare day that I don't get free and unsolicited advice, pings/pointers to cool topics, and the like, from fellow FReepers. It's nice that the software is so easy to configure. I've rediscovered interesting threads that I'd forgotten about -- including some where I'm almost the only one who ever posted in it. ;')

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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #269
Saturday, September 12, 2009

Religion of Peace

 NEVER FORGET: Where Were you on 9/11?

· 09/10/2009 9:48:39 PM PDT ·
· Posted by DaveLoneRanger ·
· 518 replies · 6,812+ views
·
Seeing none from this year, I would like us to share our memories of 9/11. Like Kennedy's assassination or Pearl Harbor, few can ever forget where they were on that dreadful day. Please share your memory of 9/11, where you were, and also tell us in a few sentences how it changed you.

Biology and Cryptobiology

 The rat that's the size of a cat: BBC team discovers 40 new species in 'lost world'

· 09/07/2009 5:35:41 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Wardenclyffe ·
· 38 replies · 1,059+ views ·
· dailymail.co.uk ·
· 07th September 2009 ·
· Paul Revoir ·
Rats as big as cats, fanged frogs and grunting fish - they sound like something from a horror movie. But, incredibly, there is a 'lost world' on a distant island where these nightmarish creatures really exist. A team of scientists discovered the bizarre animals - and dozens of others - at a remote volcano in Papua New Guinea. In the kilometre-deep crater of Mount Bosavi, they found a habitat teeming with life which has evolved in isolation since the volcano last erupted 200,000 years ago. Among the new species was the the Bosavi Woolly Rat. One of the biggest rats...


 Lost world of fanged frogs and giant rats discovered in Papua New Guinea

· 09/07/2009 11:36:01 AM PDT ·
· Posted by NYer ·
· 47 replies · 1,269+ views ·
· Guardian ·
· September 7, 2009 ·
· Robert Booth ·
A lost world populated by fanged frogs, grunting fish and tiny bear-like creatures has been discovered in a remote volcanic crater on the Pacific island of Papua New Guinea. A team of scientists from Britain, the United States and Papua New Guinea found more than 40 previously unidentified species when they climbed into the kilometre-deep crater of Mount Bosavi and explored a pristine jungle habitat teeming with life that has evolved in isolation since the volcano last erupted 200,000 years ago. In a remarkably rich haul from just five weeks of exploration, the biologists discovered 16 frogs which have never...

Horse Eels

 Loch Ness Monster monster spotted on Google Earth

· 09/04/2009 2:45:36 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Daffynition ·
· 69 replies · 1,649+ views ·
· The Telegraph ·
· August 27, 2009 ·
· staff reporter ·
AN eagle-eyed security guard with too much time on his hands claims to have found photographic evidence of the Loch Ness Monster in satellite images. British security guard Jason, 25, told The Sun "I couldn't believe it. It's just like the descriptions of Nessie." Researcher Adrian Shine, of the Loch Ness Project, said: "This is really intriguing. It needs further study." Sightings have been claimed for centuries. The object, pictured to the right, can be found by entering co-ordinates Latitude 5712'52.13"N, Longitude 434'14.16"W in Google Earth.

Gigantopithecus

 Kentucky man says photo might show Bigfoot raiding his garden

· 09/08/2009 10:11:58 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Artemis Webb ·
· 64 replies · 1,724+ views ·
· kfor.com ·
· 090809 ·
JEFFERSON COUNTY, KU -- Conspiracy theorists have tried to prove the possibility of aliens, sea monsters, and even shape shifters, now there is a mystery in Jefferson County. Kenny Mahoney, born and raised in Fairdale, snapped a picture of what some people are calling Big Foot. His hunting camera, which is operated by a motion detector, normally picks up rabbits, deer and turkeys, but on September 1st around 2:15 p.m. it picked up a strange image that looks like some sort of large black creature, one Mahoney estimates taller than he. "It looked like it had the outline of a...

Deep Blue See

 Forget the Goggles: Chlorophyll Eye Drops Give Night Vision

· 09/07/2009 5:00:20 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 28 replies · 964+ views ·
· Discover ·
· September 4, 2009 ·
· Melinda Wenner ·
Seeing in the dark could soon be as easy as popping a pill or squeezing some drops into your eyes, thanks to some new science, an unusual deep-sea fish, and a plant pigment. In the 1990s, marine biologist Ron Douglas of City University London discovered that, unlike other deep-sea fish, the dragonfish Malacosteus niger can perceive red light. Douglas was surprised when he isolated the chemical responsible for absorbing red: It was chlorophyll. "That was weird," he says. The fish had somehow co-opted chlorophyll, most likely from bacteria in their food, and turned it into a vision enhancer.

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 Evolution's Little Helper: Xeroxed Genes

· 09/05/2009 12:33:45 AM PDT ·
· Posted by neverdem ·
· 11 replies · 432+ views ·
· ScienceNOW Daily News ·
· 3 September 2009 ·
· Elizabeth Pennisi ·
Enlarge ImageGood catch. Using zebrafish, researchers were able to track down the gene that causes this giant mirror carp to have few, large scales. Credit: Oliver Hasselhoff A long-standing question in biology is how evolution tinkers with genes without mucking things up. The prevailing theory is that the genome has copies of critical genes, so that if mutations spoil one, there's a backup. Now researchers have new proof that evolution can work this way. The scientists tracked down a duplicated gene that made possible so-called mirror fish, which have large, reflective scales. "This is a valuable proof of concept...

Prehistory and Origins

 Georgia fossil suggests key stage of human evolution was in Europe [not Africa]

· 09/09/2009 9:20:25 PM PDT ·
· Posted by bruinbirdman ·
· 42 replies · 635+ views ·
· The Times ·
· 9/9/2009 ·
· Mark Henderson ·
A key stage in human evolution may have taken place on the fringes of Europe and not in Africa as has generally been thought, scientists said yesterday. Fossils of an ancient human relative, or hominin, from Georgia dated from 1.8 million years ago suggest that the first of our ancestors to walk upright could have done so in Eurasia, the British Science Festival was told. David Lordkipanidze, director of the Georgian National Museum, said the skulls, fossils and limb bones found at Dmanisi in 1999 and 2001 raise the possibility that Homo erectus, a forerunner of modern humans, evolved in...

Neandertal / Neanderthal

 Neanderthals wouldn't have eaten their sprouts either

· 09/07/2009 11:18:08 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 39 replies · 525+ views ·
· PhysOrg ·
· August 12th, 2009 ·
· Denholm Barnetson ·
Spanish researchers say they have found that a gene in modern humans that makes some people dislike a bitter chemical called phenylthiocarbamide, or PTC, was also present in Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago... The scientists made the discovery after recovering and sequencing a fragment of the TAS2R38 gene taken from 48,000-year-old Neanderthal bones found at a site in El Sidron, in northern Spain, they said in a report released Wednesday by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)... Substances similar to PTC give a bitter taste to green vegetables such as Brussels sprouts, broccoli and cabbage as well...

Let's Have Jerusalem

 'Massive' ancient wall uncovered in Jerusalem

· 09/05/2009 7:36:06 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Not gonna take it anymore ·
· 27 replies · 1,158+ views ·
· CNN ·
· updated 3:10 p.m. EDT ·
· Fri September 4, 2009 ·
· No author listed ·
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- An archaeological dig in Jerusalem has turned up a 3,700-year-old wall that is the largest and oldest of its kind found in the region, experts say. The wall is built of enormous boulders, confounding archaeologists as to how ancient peoples built it. Standing 8 meters (26 feet) high, the wall of huge cut stones is a marvel to archaeologists. "To build straight walls up 8 meters ... I don't know how to do it today without mechanical equipment," said the excavation's director, Ronny Reich. "I don't think that any engineer today without electrical power [could] do it."...

Rome and Italy

 Largest-ever collection of coins from Bar-Kokhba revolt found

· 09/09/2009 7:24:27 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 7 replies · 349+ views ·
· The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ·
· Sep 9, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
Jerusalem, Sept. 9, 2009 -- The largest cache of rare coins ever found in a scientific excavation from the period of the Bar-Kokhba revolt of the Jews against the Romans has been discovered in a cave by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bar-Ilan University. The coins were discovered in three batches in a deep cavern located in a nature reserve in the Judean hills. The treasure includes gold, silver and bronze coins, as well as some pottery and weapons. The discovery was made in the framework of a comprehensive cave research and mapping project being carried out...

British Isles

 Recent discovery of a Roman Coin Hoard in the Shrewsbury Area[UK][10K Coins]

· 09/10/2009 8:45:56 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 31 replies · 642+ views ·
· Finds ·
· 07 Sep 2009 ·
· Daniel Pett ·
A very large and important find of a hoard of Roman coins was recently discovered by a novice metal detector user in the Shrewsbury area. This is probably one of the largest coin hoards ever discovered in Shropshire. The finder, Mr Nic. Davies, bought his first metal detector a month ago and this is his first find made with it. The hoard was discovered close to a public bridleway on land that Mr Davies did not have permission to detect on. All land is owned by someone and it is important that permission to search is obtained in advance. The...

Epigraphy and Language

 Fairy tales have ancient origin

· 09/06/2009 9:48:41 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 26 replies · 671+ views ·
· Telegraph ·
· Sep 5, 2009 ·
· Richard Gray ·
They have been told as bedtime stories by generations of parents, but fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood may be even older than was previously thought. A study by anthropologists has explored the origins of folk tales and traced the relationship between varients of the stories recounted by cultures around the world. The researchers adopted techniques used by biologists to create the taxonomic tree of life, which shows how every species comes from a common ancestor. Dr Jamie Tehrani, a cultural anthropologist at Durham University, studied 35 versions of Little Red Riding Hood from around the world.

Greece

 Archaeology meets mythology in Mycenean Pylos (King Nestor)

· 09/11/2009 6:02:06 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 9 replies · 251+ views ·
· Science Codex ·
· Sep 10, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
Close-up of palace walls. Credit: University of Missouri-St.Louis Pylos drain. Credit: University of Missouri-St Louis Clearing thick brush from a mound at his archaeological dig site in Pylos, Greece, Michael Cosmopoulos found a real-life palace dating back to the mythical Trojan War. The palace is from the Mycenaean period (1600-1100 B.C.), famous for such mythical sagas as the Trojan War. It is thought to sit within one of the capital cities of King Nestor, a personality featured in the legends of the war. "We are thrilled, excited and fascinated at the prospect of continuing its excavation," said Cosmopoulos, the Hellenic...

Byzantine Empire

 The text of the film "The fall of an empire -- the Lesson of Byzantium"

· 09/08/2009 7:58:51 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 27 replies · 601+ views ·
· vizantia.info ·
· Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) ·
The text of the film "The fall of an empire -- the Lesson of Byzantium" Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) Russian winter landscape. A church. A snowstorm. Narrator. Hello. In 1453, the Byzantine Empire fell. Let us now take a look at how this happened. Islamic chant weaves into the gusts of freezing wind. Instanbul. The muezzin continues his prayer, amplified by a loudspeaker. The noise of a market place in a Middle Eastern city. Turkish conversation. Narrator. This city was once called Constantinople; six centuries ago it was the capital city of what was without exaggeration one of the greatest civilizations in world...

Anatolia

 Is Turkey Renaming Istanbul Constantinople?

· 09/08/2009 7:28:05 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nikas777 ·
· 45 replies · 697+ views ·
· foreignpolicy.com ·
· SEPTEMBER 4, 2009 ·
· NICK DANFORTH ·
Is Turkey Renaming Istanbul Constantinople? Chances of Turkey and the Kurds reaching a rapprochement are at their highest in 25 years. But what does that mean for Turkification -- and what concessions are the Turks willing to make? BY NICK DANFORTH ·
· SEPTEMBER 4, 2009 Last month, Turkish President Abdullah Gul broke a long-standing national taboo: He called the remote village of Guroymak by its Kurdish name, Norshin. The president's opponents say renaming Istanbul Constantinople on highway signs will inevitably follow. Or worse. For many Turks, saying Norshin leads to saying Kurdistan, and saying Kurdistan leads to recognizing an independent...

Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis

 Guatemala Mayan city may have ended in pyramid battle

· 09/06/2009 10:00:03 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 17 replies · 494+ views ·
· Reuters ·
· Sep 3, 2009 ·
· Sarah Grainger ·
EL MIRADOR, Guatemala (Reuters) - One of Guatemala's greatest ancient Mayan cities may have died out in a bloody battle atop a huge pyramid between a royal family and invaders from hundreds of miles away, archaeologists say. Researchers are carrying out DNA tests on blood samples from hundreds of spear tips and arrowheads dug up with bone fragments and smashed pottery at the summit of the El Tigre pyramid in the Mayan city of El Mirador, buried beneath jungle vegetation 8 km from Guatemala's border with Mexico. Many of the excavated blades are made of obsidian which the archaeologists have...

Australia and the Pacific

 British archaeologists solve the mystery of the Easter Island red hats

· 09/07/2009 8:49:36 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 21 replies · 633+ views ·
· The Daily Mail ·
· 07 Sep 2009 ·
· Sarah Nelson ·
A team of British archaeologists has solved the mystery of how the famous statues dotting the landscape of Easter Island acquired their distinctive red hats. Dr Sue Hamilton from University College London and Dr Colin Richards from the University of Manchester believe the hats were constructed in a hidden quarry and then rolled down from the slopes of an ancient volcano. They are the first archaeologists ever to have excavated the Puna Pau quarry on the tiny Pacific island. The team have discovered the mystery behind the red hats worn by the Easter Island statues Around 70 intact giant red...


 Giant statues give up hat mystery

· 09/06/2009 10:54:18 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Wardenclyffe ·
· 25 replies · 910+ views ·
· BBC News ·
· 6 September 2009 ·
· Sudeep Chand ·
Archaeologists have solved an ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island statues. At 2,500 miles off the coast of Chile, the island is the world's most remote place inhabited by people. Up to 1,000 years ago, the islanders started putting giant red hats on the statues. The research team, from the University of Manchester and University College London, think the hats were rolled down from an ancient volcano. Dr Colin Richards and Dr Sue Hamilton are the first British archaeologists to work on the island since 1914. They pieced together a series of clues to discover how the statues got...

Climate

 Cold winters drive great tits to eat bats, reports expert

· 09/10/2009 4:41:56 PM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 120 replies · 2,932+ views ·
· timesonline ·
· September 9, 2009 ·
A much-loved garden bird has been exposed as a ruthless killer after being observed seeking out and eating hibernating bats. The great tits were provoked into the unusual behaviour after suffering food shortages during particularly harsh winter weather. Over the course of two winters, ornithologists observed the birds searching for, killing and eating 18 bats in caves in the B¸kk Mountains in northeast Hungary. The birds normally live on seeds and insects such as caterpillars and spiders but during the winter these can be in very scarce supply. In particular, snow cover can make it impossible for the great tits...


 SOLAR MINIMUM VS. GLOBAL WARMING

· 09/05/2009 5:29:51 AM PDT ·
· Posted by ETL ·
· 19 replies · 1,046+ views ·
· SpaceWeather.com ·
· September 4, 2009 ·
SOLAR MINIMUM VS. GLOBAL WARMING: From 2002 to 2008, decreasing solar irradiance has countered much anthropogenic warming of Earth's surface. That's the conclusion of researchers Judith Lean (NRL) and David Rind (NASA/GISS), who have just published a new analysis of global temperatures in the Geophysical Research Letters. Lean and Rind considered four drivers of climate change: solar activity, volcanic eruptions, ENSO (El Nino), and the accumulation of greenhouse gases. The following plot shows how much each has contributed to the changing temperature of Earth's surface since 1980: Volcanic aerosols are a source of cooling; ENSO and greenhouse gases cause heating;...


 Global warming hysteria on the rocks

· 09/05/2009 7:03:21 AM PDT ·
· Posted by neverdem ·
· 17 replies · 788+ views ·
· NJ.com ·
· September 03, 2009 ·
· Paul Mulshine ·
I've noted in the past the one big flaw in the global-warming theory: No one knows what the climate will be in the future. For various reasons, including a recent absence of sun spots, we could be entering a cooling trend. In that case, a bit of human-induced global warming would be a good thing. So I was amused when Assemblyman Mike Carroll of Morris County sent me a link to this New York Times article reporting that anthropogenic global warming may have the effect of preventing another ice age. "In the very long term, the ability to artificially warm...


 'Global Cooling' Exhibit Still on Display at the Smithsonian

· 09/09/2009 2:34:18 AM PDT ·
· Posted by StACase ·
· 18 replies · 692+ views ·
· TreeHugger.com ·
· 09. 8.09 ·
· Brian Merchant ·
· Brooklyn, New York ·
'Global Cooling' Exhibit Still on Display at the Smithsonian by Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York on 09. 8.09 ... Photo via Yglesias The Smithsonian boasts one of the nation's most respected, most visited, and most famous group of museums. So what's it doing still displaying an exhibit based on 1970s-era science--that the earth is undergoing 'global cooling'--in its Natural History Museum in 2009? You're probably most likely to hear about global cooling these days from climate change deniers who sometimes say something along the lines of: "Well, scientists said that there was global cooling in the '70s. Now it's global...

Catastrophism and Astronomy

 Crystal Cave of Giants (Amazing Pictures!)

· 09/09/2009 9:42:26 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Squidpup ·
· 52 replies · 2,760+ views ·
· Stormchaser ·
· September 9, 2009 ·
· George Kourounis ·
Crystal Cave of Giants Naica, Mexico - Sept 3 - 6, 2009 Air Temperature of 50C(122F) + Relative Humidity of over 90% = Humidex Value of 105C (228F) !! This is one of the most extreme places on the planet. The Crystal Cave of Giants was accidentally discovered in 2000 by miners working in the silver and lead mine at Naica, Mexico. It lies almost 300 meters (900 feet) below the surface of the Earth and it contains the largest crystals known in the world, by far. The largest crystals are over 11 meters long (36 feet) and weigh 55...

Middle Ages and Renaissance

 Undercover Queen: THE SECRET WIFE OF LOUIS XIV Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon

· 09/07/2009 2:41:35 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Cincinna ·
· 25 replies · 1,004+ views ·
· The New York Times ·
· September 6, 2009 ·
· Veronica Buckley ·
"Kings," Louis XIV once observed, "should enjoy giving pleasure" and when it came to the fairer sex, he obeyed this precept zealously and often. "They're all good enough for him, provided they're women," his sister-in-law remarked, "peasants, gardeners' daughters, chambermaids, ladies of quality"; women of every stripe benefited from the Sun King's sexual largesse. Neither the bonds of matrimony (to the sad, neglected Marie-Thérèse of Spain) nor the intrigues of his "official" mistresses (one of whom, Athénaïs de Montespan, wasn't above spreading the rumor that a particular rival had scabs all over her body) could deter him from sharing the love.

But the prospect of eternal damnation was, to a Catholic sovereign, a rather more forceful deterrent. As Louis aged — afflicted by chronic tooth decay, a prostate tumor and a nasty case of gout — he worried that his adultery might cost him the kingdom of heaven. Eventually and paradoxically, this concern propelled him into a liaison with the morally exacting, middle-aged Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon. To the astonishment of the court, accustomed to a monarch whose tastes ran more to pulchritude than to piety, she exerted such influence over him in his final years that once he was a widower he even, despite her shameful origins as a convicted felon's daughter, deigned to wed her (albeit secretly). In his well-known chronicle of Louis XIV's reign, the Duc de Saint-Simon demonized Madame de Maintenon as ruthless schemer whose devoutness was a ruse, devised solely to exploit her lover's fear of sin. While likewise revealing that her faith was a matter of strategy rather than of substance, "The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon," by Veronica Buckley, offers a lively, sympathetic portrayal of the woman who, against all odds, succeeded in taming the royal tomcat.

Ancient Autopsies

 Ancient 'smell of death' revealed

· 09/10/2009 2:52:39 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Natufian ·
· 27 replies · 930+ views ·
· BBC ·
· 09/10/2009 ·
· Matt Walker ·
When animals die, their corpses exude a particular "stench of death" which repels their living relatives, scientists have discovered. Corpses of animals as distantly related as insects and crustaceans all produce the same stench, caused by a blend of simple fatty acids. The smell helps living animals avoid others that have succumbed to disease or places where predators lurk.

Faith and Philosophy

 Maybe religion is the answer claims atheist scientist (This guy would make a great Art Bell guest)

· 09/06/2009 11:31:09 PM PDT ·
· Posted by blueglass ·
· 6 replies · 335+ views ·
· Telegraph UK ·
· 9-7-09 ·
· Richard Alleyne ·
Lord May, the president of the British Science Association, said religion may have helped protect human society from itself in the past and it may be needed again. "A supernatural punisher maybe part of the solution." He said in the past a belief in a god, or gods, that punish the unrighteous may have been part of the mechanism of evolution that maintains co-operation in a dog-eat-dog world. Having a god as the ultimate punisher was possibly a logical step for a society to take, he added. "Given that punishment is a useful mechanism, how much more effective it would...

The Great War

 Stunning Pre-Revolutionary Russian Color Photos

· 09/07/2009 9:20:56 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Steelfish ·
· 35 replies · 1,207+ views ·
· Newsweek ·
· September 07, 2009 ·
Architecture, Churches, Infrastructure, and People of Pre-Revolutionary Russia. Photographer uses unique method to develop color photos.

Longer Perspectives

 'FOX News Reporting: Do You Know What Textbooks Your Children Are Really Reading?'

· 09/06/2009 6:23:17 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Freedom Dignity n Honor ·
· 165 replies · 3,180+ views ·
· Fox News ·
· Sept. 4, 2009 ·
· Fox News ·
Host Tucker Carlson, asked experts, teachers, publishers and parents the same question: "Do you know what is inside your children's textbooks?" From kindergarten through college, we found staggering errors and omissions which may be pushing agendas, hidden and otherwise. We spoke to the author of "The Language Police," education historian Diane Ravitch, who said textbook publishers censor images or words they deem to be controversial in children's textbooks. She told us that publishers pander to special interest groups, and assemble bias and sensitivity review committees. These committees decide what words to ban or redefine, and even what images are deemed...

New Amster, New Amster, Dam Dam Dam

 New York's Coldest Case: A Murder 400 Years Old

· 09/06/2009 2:01:04 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 20 replies · 757+ views ·
· The New York Times ·
· 05 Sep 2009 ·
· Sam Roberts ·
The victim: John Colman. Not much is known about him, much less about his murder. His body was hastily buried and has never been found. A weapon was recovered, but it vanished. The only account of the crime is secondhand, pieced together from a few witnesses, some of whom might have harbored a grudge. The chief suspects were singled out because of racial profiling but were never questioned. No one was ever prosecuted. It was on Sept. 6, 1609 -- 400 years ago Sunday -- when this, the first recorded murder in what became metropolitan New York, was committed. Colman...

Early America

 Mendham dig yields Revolutionary War artifacts[NJ]

· 09/10/2009 3:02:21 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 12 replies · 284+ views ·
· The Star-Ledger ·
· 09 Sep 2009 ·
· Dan Goldberg ·
MENDHAM -- Rick Pressl burst into the board of trustees meeting, a boyish exuberance overcoming his normally reserved temperament. The retired fire chief pulled aside Tanya Sulikowski, the executive director of the Schiff Natural Lands Trust, to show off a rusty, barely recognizable object. It was a Revolutionary War era stirrup, Pressl said, his first major find while excavating the nature preserve. He would soon have much more to show the board. Photo by Hilary Klimek/For the Star-LedgerRick Pressl, a retired fire chief, and students from Ridge High School have unearthed Revolutionary War era memorabilia in Mendham, including a set...

The Presidential Treatment

 President's Day -- Grover Cleveland (Attention, Obama administration!)

· 09/07/2009 5:08:28 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SE Mom ·
· 30 replies · 1,139+ views ·
· Threedonia ·
· 6 September 2009 ·
· Floyd ·
Next up, Grover Cleveland. Get a load of this letter he wrote to a young man seeking a government job. And this guy was a Democrat. EXECUTIVE MANSION ALBANY February 4, 1885 MY DEAR YOUNG FRIEND I cannot attempt to answer all the letters addressed to me by those both old and young who ask for places But if you are the boy I think you are your letter is based upon a claim to help your mother and others who are partly dependent upon your exertions I judge from what you write that you now have a situation in...

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Groovy artifacts from 1960s Marin County commune sorted

· 09/06/2009 2:16:09 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Wardenclyffe ·
· 19 replies · 581+ views ·
· The Sacramento Bee ·
· Wednesday, Sep. 2, 2009 ·
· Susan Ferriss ·
NOVATO -- The '60s aren't dead. They're in an archaeological site north of San Francisco. An old commune where the Grateful Dead and other bands used to romp is being excavated and items catalogued by state park archaeologists at Olompali State Historic Park. Among the artifacts: the classic hippie beads, a marijuana "roach clip," fragments of tie-dyed clothes, and a reel-to-reel tape a Marin County studio technician has promised to try to restore. They are the stuff of memories for Noelle Olompali-Barton, who was 16 when she and her showbiz mom plunged into California's new counterculture, retreating to this once-private...

Oh So Mysteriouso

 6 Lost Treasures Just Waiting To Be Found

· 09/09/2009 12:46:50 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 26 replies · 1,029+ views ·
· Mental Floss ·
· 08 Sep 2009 ·
· Rob Lammle ·
Last month we told you about people who stumbled upon their fortune. If you haven't found your own copy of the Declaration of Independence or a few thousand Ancient Roman coins, let me give you a push in the right direction with these tales of lost treasures that are just waiting for you to find them. 1. The Lying Dutchman? Arthur Flegenheimer, who went by the alias "Dutch Schultz," was a New York mobster during the 1920s and '30s known for his brutality and hard-nosed business tactics. By the time he was 33, Dutch had taken on the Mafia in...

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