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Bodies of Easter Island’s famous heads revealed
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Posted on 05/14/2012 12:31:31 AM PDT by bkopto
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posted on
05/14/2012 12:31:41 AM PDT
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bkopto
To: SunkenCiv; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
05/14/2012 12:34:41 AM PDT
by
bkopto
(Obama and Biden merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
To: bkopto
Well I'll just be darned. Look at that! Thanks for posting!
Somebody posted that if they had been buried up to their lips, nobody would have bothered to see if that was all there was to them. LOL
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posted on
05/14/2012 12:37:10 AM PDT
by
patriot08
(TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
To: bkopto; shibumi
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posted on
05/14/2012 12:39:40 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(If I'm too rough, tell me.....I'm so scared your little head will come off in my hands.)
To: bkopto
It's 2012.
Thor Heyardahl visited the place back in the fifties.
Sheesh! Only now are they excavating?
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posted on
05/14/2012 12:47:09 AM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: bkopto
Dum-dum. You show my bum-bum!
-PJ
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posted on
05/14/2012 1:07:00 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
To: Political Junkie Too
The original tramp stamp!
Which will also lead to the mysterious demise of the U.S. of A. as well!
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posted on
05/14/2012 1:10:08 AM PDT
by
21twelve
To: Salamander
Has Zahi Hawass locked down the site yet?
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posted on
05/14/2012 1:11:51 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: patriot08; All
I have heard that the island’s inhabitants declined to extinction because the ocean currents isolated them and the island became depleted of food sources. It occurred to me that the towering monoliths were a practical way of signaling from a greater distance the islands presence to wayfarers. At some point, there was no one who would make the journey successfully. The statues would, over time, be ‘buried’ more deeply in sedimentary deposits, exposing only the uppermost part.
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posted on
05/14/2012 1:12:55 AM PDT
by
Havisham
To: shibumi
Has Zahi Hawass locked down the site yet? Yes. And, of course, this proves the Egyptians weren't slaves.
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posted on
05/14/2012 1:23:38 AM PDT
by
SeeSharp
To: bkopto; Yehuda; Tax-chick
Is this for real? Funny... I saw one of these heads at the British Museum a few years back. What, did they unwittingly(?) decapitate the poor soul in order to remove him from the island? Archaeology, FUBAR? lol
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posted on
05/14/2012 1:29:23 AM PDT
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Ezekiel
(The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
To: SeeSharp; Salamander
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posted on
05/14/2012 1:29:52 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: shibumi
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posted on
05/14/2012 1:33:45 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(If I'm too rough, tell me.....I'm so scared your little head will come off in my hands.)
To: bkopto; SunkenCiv
Just shows we don’t know 1% of what we think we know.
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posted on
05/14/2012 1:36:32 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
To: Lazamataz
Actually it should read we don’t know 99% of what we think we know, or, we only know 1% of what we think we know!
Cheers
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posted on
05/14/2012 1:49:04 AM PDT
by
eastforker
(Don't be ornery for Romney, instead Root for Newt!)
To: bkopto
I guess that would have been the first place I would have looked for the bodies... right below the heads.
To: eastforker
My brain just exploded.
Again.
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posted on
05/14/2012 2:21:15 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
To: bkopto
IIRC most of the moai DO have bodies of sorts, at least down to just below the hips. At least one is in a kneeling position and fully exposed.
One of the pics that is usually shown is that of the main ahu that has been restored. There are 15 moai all in a line. It had been toppled and swept inland years later by a tsunami. If you see the picture all of the moai have bodies down to their hips.
I don't recall if that is the one where the moai face the sea. I don't believe they do. Most moai face inland NOT toward the sea but at least one does face the sea.
Another little known fact is that many moai are still in the quarry where they were hewn from relatively soft volcanic rock. They never made it to the final destination!
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posted on
05/14/2012 2:42:46 AM PDT
by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts bolt the Constitution togbtether as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
To: shibumi
Lol. I check these threads just to see how long it takes for UFO guy to show up.
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posted on
05/14/2012 2:50:06 AM PDT
by
MotorCityBuck
( Keep the change, you filthy animal!)
To: bkopto
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posted on
05/14/2012 3:18:28 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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