Posted on 07/16/2004 11:27:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #298 Saturday, April 4, 2010 |
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| Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles | |
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| Biblical plagues really happened say scientists [ Thera, global warming, yada yada yada ] |
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· 03/30/2010 7:07:11 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 32 replies · 409+ views · · Telegraph · · March 27, 2010 · · Richard Gray · |
The Biblical plagues that devastated Ancient Egypt in the Old Testament were the result of global warming and a volcanic eruption, scientists have claimed. Researchers believe they have found evidence of real natural disasters on which the ten plagues of Egypt, which led to Moses freeing the Israelites from slavery in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, were based. But rather than explaining them as the wrathful act of a vengeful God, the scientists claim the plagues can be attributed to a chain of natural phenomena triggered by changes in the climate and environmental disasters that happened hundreds of... |
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| Prehistory & Origins | |
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| Colin Blakemore: how the human brain got bigger by accident and not through evolution |
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· 03/30/2010 7:39:45 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 31 replies · 522+ views · · Guardian · · Sunday, March 28, 2010 · · Robin McKie, The Observer · |
According to Woody Allen, it is his second favourite organ and it absorbs more than 25% of the energy that our bodies generate. But why? For what purposes did the human brain evolve and why does it take so much of our physiological resources? Such questions have absorbed scientists for decades and have now been given an expected answer by Colin Blakemore. In a recent lecture, the Oxford neurobiologist argued that a mutation in the brain of a single human being 200,000 years ago turned intellectually able apemen into a super-intelligent species that would conquer the world. In short, Homo... |
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| Neandertal / Neanderthal | |
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| Neanderthal may not be the oldest Dutchman [ 370,000 years B.P. ] |
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· 03/30/2010 7:29:01 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 13 replies · 284+ views · · Radio Netherlands Worldwide · · Friday, March 26, 2010 · · Henk-Sjoerd Oosterhoff · |
People may well have been roaming the land we now call the Netherlands for far longer than was assumed until recently. There is evidence to suggest that the country was home to the forebears of the Neanderthals. Amateur archaeologist Pieter Stoel found materials used by the oldest inhabitants in the central town of Woerden. These artefacts were shown to be at least 370,000 years old, which takes us back to long before the time of the Neanderthals. Our ancient forebears are often described as cavemen but that is not entirely accurate. There were no caves in this environment, explains Pieter... |
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| Climate | |
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| Mega-flood triggered cooling 13,000 years ago: scientists |
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· 03/31/2010 11:05:52 AM PDT · · Posted by NormsRevenge · · 48 replies · 1,131+ views · · Reuters on Yahoo · · 3/31/10 · · David Fogarty · |
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -- Scientists say they have found the trigger of a sharp cooling 13,000 years ago that plunged Europe into a mini ice age. Mark Bateman from the University of Sheffield in England said a catastrophic flood unleashed from a giant North American lake dumped large amounts of freshwater into the Arctic Ocean. This led to the shutting down of the Gulf Stream ocean circulation pattern that brings warmth to Europe. "We're talking about a lake the size of the UK emptying very quickly," Bateman told Reuters by telephone. "We don't know the exact period of time but we're... |
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| Hour-long hailstorm may have caused 1,000-year freeze, say scientists |
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· 04/02/2010 4:06:27 AM PDT · · Posted by TigerLikesRooster · · 70 replies · 1,348+ views · · Telegraph · · 04/02/10 · |
Hour-long hailstorm may have caused 1,000-year freeze, say scientists An hour-long hailstorm from space may have changed the climate of the Earth in 11,000 BC, leading to a freeze lasting more than 1,000 years, scientists say. Published: 8:00AM BST 02 Apr 2010 An hour-long hailstorm from space may have changed the climate of the Earth in 11,000 BC, leading to a freeze lasting more than 1,000 years, scientists say. A comet may well have caused the earth to freeze for over 1,000 years Photo: GETTY The catastrophe, caused by a disintegrating comet, wiped out large numbers of animal species and... |
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| Comet trail may have caused last ice age - UPI.com |
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· 04/03/2010 6:58:36 AM PDT · · Posted by Paul Pierett · · 16 replies · 499+ views · · www.upi.com, Science News · · April 4, 2010 · · UPI · |
CARDIFF, England, April 2 (UPI) -- A thousand-year freeze that began in 11,000 B.C. may have been caused by thousands of atomic-force chunks from a disintegrating comet, a British scientist said. The fragments, each hitting with the force of a 1-megaton nuclear bomb, triggered fires that covered whole continents and filled the atmosphere with smoke and soot that blotted out the sun, said Bill Napier, a professor at Cardiff University Astrobiology Center. Napier said Earth may have strayed into a dense trail of fragments being shed by a large comet.†The resulting freeze caused glaciers to advance, disrupted human cultures... |
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| Catastrophism and Astronomy | |
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| Neptune may have eaten a planet and stolen its moon |
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· 04/03/2010 9:16:58 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 12 replies · 130+ views · · New Scientist · · March 22, 2010 · · David Shiga · |
Neptune's own existence was a puzzle until recently. The dusty cloud that gave birth to the planets probably thinned out further from the sun. With building material so scarce, it is hard to understand how Uranus and Neptune, the two outermost planets, managed to get so big. But what if they formed closer in? In 2005, a team of scientists proposed that the giant planets shifted positions in an early upheaval (New Scientist, 25 November 2006, p 40). In this scenario, Uranus and Neptune formed much closer to the sun and migrated outwards, possibly swapping places in the process. That... |
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| Southeast Asia | |
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| Did climate influence Angkor's collapse? |
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· 03/29/2010 2:52:20 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 13 replies · 283+ views · · Earth Institute at Columbia Univ · · Mar 29, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Evidence suggests changing environment can bring down a civilizationDecades of drought, interspersed with intense monsoon rains, may have helped bring about the fall of Cambodia's ancient Khmer civilization at Angkor nearly 600 years ago, according to an analysis of tree rings, archeological remains and other evidence. The study, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may also shed light on what drives -- and disrupts -- the rainy season across much of Asia, which waters crops for nearly half the world's population. Historians have offered various explanations for the fall of an empire that stretched across much of... |
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| Mystery of Great Civilization's Destruction Revealed |
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· 03/30/2010 7:56:55 PM PDT · · Posted by cajuncow · · 18 replies · 374+ views · · livescience · · 3-30-10 · · livescience staff · |
Climate change might have helped bring about the fall of the ancient Khmer civilization in Angkor, Cambodia, nearly 600 years ago, new research suggests. Historians have given various explanations for the fall of the empire that stretched across much of Southeast Asia between the ninth and 14th centuries (801 to 1400), from land overexploitation to conflict with rival kingdoms. But the new study offers strong evidence that two severe droughts, punctuated by bouts of heavy monsoon rain, could have weakened the empire by shrinking water supplies for drinking and agriculture, and damaging Angkor's vast irrigation system, which was central to... |
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| Dinosaurs | |
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| Farmer Discovers Fossil of Ant-Eating Dinosaur |
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· 03/31/2010 3:13:36 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 11 replies · 287+ views · · LiveScience · · Tuesday, March 30, 2010 · · Charles Q. Choi · |
One of the smallest known dinosaurs, Xixianykus zhangi was built for quick running. A shorter upper leg relative to its lower leg helped the dinosaur carry its weight more efficiently. A newfound ant-eating dinosaur was one of the smallest known and also one of the best adapted for running, scientists revealed... lived in a warm, temperate forested environment watered by rivers and lakes alongside duck-billed dinosaurs and likely sail-backed predators known as spinosaurs roughly 89 million to 83 million years ago. Scientists aren't sure how the dinosaur perished, but the fossil is fairly intact compared with many, so another creature... |
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| Did feathered dinosaurs exist? |
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· 10/10/2005 3:58:29 AM PDT · · Posted by PatrickHenry · · 90 replies · 2,948+ views · · EurekAlert (AAAS) · · 10 October 2005 · · David Greenberg · |
Biologists examining evidence for the claim that birds evolved from dinosaurs have reached some surprising new conclusions. However, they caution that "the problem of avian origins is far from being resolved." Their analysis is published online October 10, 2005 in the Journal of Morphology, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and available via Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/morphology). Dinosaurs have long captured the imagination while their relationships have eluded full explanation. Innovative research and a comprehensive consideration of the old can also inspire new interpretations, as researchers recently found when examining the evidence supporting the current theory about feather origins and... |
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| Epigraphy and Language | |
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| Religious beliefs are the basis of the origins of Palaeolithic art |
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· 03/31/2010 6:33:04 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 14 replies · 269+ views · · Eurekalert · · Friday, March 26, 2010 · · FECYT & SINC · |
This statement isn't new, but for years anthropologists, archaeologists and historians of art understood these artistic manifestations as purely aesthetic and decorative motives. Eduardo Palacio-PÈrez, researcher at the University of Cantabria (UC), now reveals the origins of a theory that remains nowadays/lasts into our days. "This theory is does not originate with the prehistorians, in other words, those who started to develop the idea that the art of primitive peoples was linked with beliefs of a symbolic-religious nature were the anthropologists"... This idea appeared at the end of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX century. Up until... |
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| Egypt | |
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| Egyptian Tomb Holds Door to Afterlife |
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· 03/29/2010 10:09:27 AM PDT · · Posted by cajuncow · · 38 replies · 777+ views · · fox news · · 3-29-10 · · Associated Press · |
CAIRO -- Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,500-year-old door to the afterlife from the tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian official near Karnak temple in Luxor, the Egyptian antiquities authority said Monday. These recessed niches found in nearly all ancient Egyptian tombs were meant to take the spirits of the dead to and from the afterworld. The nearly six-foot- tall slab of pink granite was covered with religious texts. |
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| Ancient Autopsies | |
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| Pyramid of Mystery Pharaoh Possibly Located [ Userkare ] |
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· 03/31/2010 6:36:58 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 14 replies · 547+ views · · Discovery News · · Monday, March 29, 2010 · · Rossella Lorenzi · |
The missing pyramid of an obscure pharaoh that ruled Egypt some 4,300 years ago could lie at the intersection of a series of invisible lines in South Saqqara, according to new astronomical and topographical research. Connecting the funerary complexes raised by the kings of the 6th Dynasty between 2,322 B.C. and 2,151 B.C., these lines would have governed the sacred space of the Saqqara area, in accordance with a number of criteria such as dynastic lineage, religion and astronomical alignment. "We are talking of meridian and diagonal alignments, with pyramids raised at their intersections. The only missing piece in this... |
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| Paleontology | |
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| Ancient Blind Snakes Hitched Ride on Drifting Continents |
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· 03/31/2010 3:20:50 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 16 replies · 291+ views · · LiveScience · · Tuesday, March 30, 2010 · · Jeanna Bryner · |
Blind snakes have been discovered to be one of the few species now living in Madagascar that existed there when it broke from India about 100 million years ago, according to a new genetic study. Blind snakes are small worm-like creatures that likely feel their way through underground homes by sensing chemicals through their skin. It turns out, these organisms have been around since 150 million years ago, when the supercontinent called Gondwana was just breaking up, according to new genetic research. The study suggests that when Madagascar broke off of India, the blind snakes hitched a ride aboard the... |
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| Biology and Cryptobiology | |
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| 'Lough Ness Monster' devours ducks at popular lake |
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· 03/31/2010 5:10:27 PM PDT · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 32 replies · 671+ views · · telegraph.co.uk · · March 30, 2010 · · Matthew Moore · |
A mysterious predator which devours adult ducks by pulling them beneath the water at a popular beauty spot has been nicknamed the "Lough Ness Monster" by locals. The creature is believed to have killed at least three fully-grown birds at the lake, leaving only a smattering of feathers as evidence of the crimes. Witnesses have so far been unable to identify the perpetrator, although pike, catfish and even mink have been suggested as possible culprits. Local councillors are now warning schoolchildren not to go paddling at the site, and dog owners have been being asked not to let smaller animals... |
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| Monster bug? It's no joke! (30"-long isopod) |
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· 03/31/2010 3:34:19 PM PDT · · Posted by OldDeckHand · · 35 replies · 1,710+ views · · MSNBC.com · · 03/31/10 · · Alan Boyle · |
It may look like a creepy-crawly April Fool's joke - but an expert on deep-sea species says the bizarre giant bug shown in pictures circulating on the Internet is the real deal. "I've seen the pictures, and they are real, and they really do get that big," Craig McClain, assistant director of science for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in North Carolina, told me today. McClain specializes in deep-sea biological systems and covers the subject on his Weblog, Deep Sea News. So he was the go-to guy when pictures of the bug, reportedly hauled up aboard a remotely operated vehicle... |
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| Faith and Philosophy | |
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| Shining a light on the past |
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· 03/31/2010 4:52:45 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 3 replies · 250+ views · · The Economist · · Mar 25th 2010 · · unattributed · |
Look at an ancient coin under ordinary light and the chances are that its features, worn down by its passage from hand to hand, will be hard to make out. Point a spotlight at it, though, so that the face of the coin is illuminated from an acute angle, and the resulting shadows will emphasise any minor details. This is the basic principle behind a novel technique that is helping archaeologists reveal previously invisible clues hidden in the worn or damaged surfaces of any objects they uncover. From wall paintings in Herculaneum to Scandinavian stone tools to rock art... |
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| What's the Frequency, Kenneth? | |
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| Scientists discover moral compass in the brain which can be controlled by magnets |
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· 03/31/2010 1:47:34 PM PDT · · Posted by llevrok · · 51 replies · 1,023+ views · · The Daily Mail (UK) · · 30th March 2010 · · David Derbyshire · |
Scientists have discovered a real-life 'moral compass' in the brain that controls how we judge other people's behaviour. The region, which lies just behind the right ear, becomes more active when we think about other people's misdemeanours or good works. In an extraordinary experiment, researchers were able to use powerful magnets to disrupt this area of the brain and make people temporarily less moral. The study highlights how our sense of right and wrong isn't just based on upbringing, religion or philosophy - but by the biology of our brains. Dr Liane Young, who led the study, said: 'You think... |
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| Diet and Cuisine | |
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| Men owe women for 'creating beer' claims academic |
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· 03/30/2010 7:17:37 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 73 replies · 959+ views · · Telegraph · · Tuesday, March 30, 2010 · · Nick Britten · |
One of man's great pleasures might be a pint of beer at the local -- but an academic has claimed it would never have existed without the entrepreneurial skills of women. Jane Peyton, 48, and author and historian, said women created beer and for thousands of years it was only they who were allowed to operate breweries and drink beer. The drink is now almost exclusively marketed to men -- with television characters such as Homer Simpson the epitome of the beer-loving male. Yet Miss Peyton said that up until 200 years ago, beer was considered a food and fell... |
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| Roman Empire | |
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| An archaeological mystery in a half-ton lead coffin |
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· 03/29/2010 12:52:22 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 71 replies · 2,218+ views · · University of Michigan · · Mar. 29, 2010 · · Unknown · |
The lead coffin archaeologists found in the abandoned ancient city of Gabii, Italy could contain a gladiator or bishop. ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- In the ruins of a city that was once Rome's neighbor, archaeologists last summer found a 1,000-pound lead coffin. Who or what is inside is still a mystery, said Nicola Terrenato, the University of Michigan professor of classical studies who leads the project -- the largest American dig in Italy in the past 50 years. The sarcophagus will soon be transported to the American Academy in Rome, where engineers will use heating techniques and tiny cameras in an effort to gain... |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| Public Invited to Seek Temple-Time Artifacts |
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· 03/29/2010 5:25:03 AM PDT · · Posted by SJackson · · 6 replies · 355+ views · · Arutz Sheva · · 3-29-10 · · Maayana Miskin · |
(IsraelNN.com) Jewish community leaders from the "City of David" (Ir David) in Jerusalem are inviting the general public to take part in a unique Passover activity -- searching for ancient artifacts in rubble removed from the Temple Mount. "City of David" spokesman Udi Ragones discussed the project with Arutz Sheva's Hebrew-language news service. "This is rubble removed from the Temple Mount itself; it is filled with archaeology," Ragones said. The dirt was removed by the Islamic Wakf, which has done construction on the Temple Mount despite the presence of ancient artifacts at the site. The artifacts, along with surrounding earth... |
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| Oh So Mysteriouso | |
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| Shakespeare and the Geneva Bible: The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare |
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· 03/26/2010 1:08:30 PM PDT · · Posted by CondoleezzaProtege · · 8 replies · 226+ views · · Reformation 21 · · Leland Ryken · |
While mainstream Shakespeare scholarship has marginalized the biblical presence in Shakespeare, scholars who pay attention to the data know better. One scholar speaks of biblical phrases and images as "an echo-chamber of the imagination" for Shakespeare. [8] Another speaks of how a lifetime of acquaintance with the Bible provided rhythms and phrases for Shakespeare "in accordance with laws of association too subtle for description;" this same scholar adds, "Of course, the Bible was the . . . most discussed book of the day: it was of all books the best seller, especially the Genevan Bible," forming the "most constant and... |
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| The Revolution | |
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| The Radicalism of the American Revolution |
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· 03/30/2010 6:30:16 PM PDT · · Posted by gusopol3 · · 16 replies · 317+ views · · 1991 · · Gordon S. Wood · |
The great social antagonists of the American Revolution were not poor vs rich, workers vs employers or even democrats vs aristocrats. They were patriots vs courtiers-- categories appropriate to the monarchical world in which the colonists had been reared. Courtiers were persons whose position or rank came artificially from above-- from heredity or personal connections that ultimately came from the crown or court. Courtiers, said John Adams, were those who applied themselves " to the Passions and Prejudices, the Follies and Vices of Great Men in order to obtain their Smiles, Esteem, and Patronage and consequently their favors and Preferments."... |
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| Virginia Resolution of 1798 |
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· 03/19/2010 8:43:00 AM PDT · · Posted by MichiganConservative · · 20 replies · 335+ views · · Constitution Society · · December 24, 1798 · · James Madison and Thomas Jefferson · |
Virginia Resolution of 1798 RESOLVED, That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocably express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of this State, against every aggression either foreign or domestic, and that they will support the government of the United States in all measures warranted by the former. That this assembly most solemnly declares a warm attachment to the Union of the States, to maintain which it pledges all its powers; and that for this end, it is their duty to watch over and oppose every infraction of those principles... |
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| Early America | |
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| Sarkozy gives Obama a Benjamin Franklin gift |
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· 03/31/2010 1:47:17 AM PDT · · Posted by Cincinna · · 27 replies · 855+ views · · AsiaOne.com Singapore · · Wed, Mar 31, 2010 · · staff · |
The gift was an 18th century document accrediting Benjamin Franklin as ambassador to France. Wed, Mar 31, 2010 WASHINGTON - French President Nicolas Sarkozy gave President Barack Obama the gift of an 18th century document accrediting Benjamin Franklin as ambassador to France, a French diplomatic source said Tuesday. The US statesman and inventor presented the document when he became the first US ambassador to France from 1778-1785, the French diplomat said ahead of Sarkozy's visit to the White House. The US president and his wife Michelle hosted Sarkozy and his wife, ex-supermodel Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, at a private White House dinner... |
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| The Civil War | |
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| La Amistad: How the AP Commonly Muffs American History |
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· 03/31/2010 9:53:50 AM PDT · · Posted by Mobile Vulgus · · 6 replies · 392+ views · · Publius Forum · · 03/31/10 · · Warner Todd Huston · |
The Associated Press has a famous book on grammar and style that its news writers use to govern their work, a book that is also popular with the whole American news industry. It has served as a standard for many years. The AP, however, seems to have no style or rule for reporting history. Or rather, perhaps it does and the rule is to purposefully garble American history, always skewing it. The APs recent report on a re-creation of the famous 19th century, two-masted schooner La Amistad, famous for its connection to America's slave trade history, is a case in... |
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| World War Eleven | |
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| Missing U.S. WW II sub found by film crew |
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· 03/30/2010 10:42:49 PM PDT · · Posted by sonofstrangelove · · 34 replies · 1,166+ views · · UPI · · 3/30/2010 · · UPI · |
Toronto television production company says it has located the wreckage of a missing U.S. submarine that was sunk in 1944 in the South China Sea. In a news release, yap films said the U.S. Navy had confirmed the wreck they found was the World War II submarine USS Flier (SS 25) that sank and was lost since Aug. 13, 1944. The Flier was a 1,525-ton Gato class submarine built at Groton, Conn., and went into service in October 1943. Of the 86 men aboard when the vessel hit a mine, 14 escaped, but only eight survived the swim to Palawan... |
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| Thoroughly Modern Miscellany | |
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| Incredible pictures of giant ice sculptures carved by sea water and polar winds |
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· 03/25/2010 10:46:38 AM PDT · · Posted by waus · · 22 replies · 1,759+ views · · Mail Online · · 3-25-10 · · waus · |
Humans may have spent thousands of years trying to master the art of the perfect sculpture, but these incredible photographs of icebergs show they are no match for nature's grand design. Pictured off the Western Antarctic Peninsula, these colossal ice carvings have been whittled away by biting polar winds, freezing water and sub-zero temperatures to form incredible mega structures that take the breath away. |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #299 Saturday, April 10, 2010 |
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| Faith and Philosophy | |
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| Jesus was son of an architect, book claims |
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· 04/07/2010 7:19:43 AM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 90 replies · 1,192+ views · · Telegraph · · 02 April 2010 · · Telegraph · |
Jesus was the son of a middle-class, highly educated architect, according to a new book, which claims the previous belief that Joseph worked as a carpenter has distorted the Bible's meaning. The book -- The Jesus Discovery -- claims that Jesus rose to become the most senior Rabbi of his time, thus explaining how he was able to exert such influence and why his teachings became such a concern to the authorities. Author Dr Adam Bradford, who works as a GP, drew his conclusions after studying and comparing the original Greek and Hebrew scriptures, as well as using human psychology to analyse... |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| China's Ancient Jewish Enclave |
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· 04/03/2010 11:08:19 PM PDT · · Posted by nickcarraway · · 26 replies · 688+ views · · New York Times · · April 4, 2010 · · Matthew Fishbane · |
Through a locked door in the coal-darkened boiler room of No. 1 Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Kaifeng, there's a well lined with Ming Dynasty bricks. It's just a few yards deep and still holds water. Guo Yan, 29, an eager, bespectacled native of this Chinese city on the flood plains of the Yellow River about 600 miles south of Beijing, led me to it one recent Friday afternoon, past the doormen accustomed to her visits. The well is all that's left of the Temple of Purity and Truth, a synagogue that once stood on the site. The heritage... |
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| U of T researchers shed light on ancient Assyrian tablets |
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· 04/08/2010 2:04:40 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 6 replies · 344+ views · · University of Toronto · · Apr 8, 2010 · · Unknown · |
A cache of cuneiform tablets unearthed by a team led by a University of Toronto archaeologist has been found to contain a largely intact Assyrian treaty from the early 7th century BCE. "The tablet is quite spectacular. It records a treaty -- or covenant -- between Esarhaddon, King of the Assyrian Empire and a secondary ruler who acknowledged Assyrian power. The treaty was confirmed in 672 BCE at elaborate ceremonies held in the Assyrian royal city of Nimrud (ancient Kalhu). In the text, the ruler vows to recognize the authority of Esarhaddon's successor, his son Ashurbanipal," said Timothy Harrison, professor... |
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· 04/07/2010 8:03:34 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 4 replies · 163+ views · · The Hindu · · Thursday, April 8, 2010 · · Iravatham Mahadevan · |
A fragmentary pottery inscription was found during excavations conducted by the Thai Fine Arts at Phu Khao Thong in Thailand about three years ago... The discovery of a Tamil-Brahmi pottery inscription of about the second century CE at the same site was reported earlier... One can presume that the present inscription is also from the Tamil country and belongs approximately to the same period. The two characters incised on the pottery now reported are not in the Brahmi script. They appear to be graffiti symbols of the type seen on the South Indian megalithic pottery of the Iron Age-Early Historical... |
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· 04/07/2010 7:37:05 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 10 replies · 314+ views · · Frontline, from the publishers of The Hindu · · April 10-23, 2010 · · R. Krishnakumar · |
One way to understand the implications of the archaeological discoveries at Pattanam is to delve into the amazing wealth of data from the excavations at the lost Ptolemic-Roman port city of Berenike, on Egypt's Red Sea coast. During the Ptolemic-Roman period (third century B.C. to sixth century A.D), Berenike served as a key transit port between ancient Egypt and Rome on one side and the Red Sea-Indian Ocean regions, including South Arabia, East Africa, India and Sri Lanka, on the other. This ancient port city was well-connected by roads from the Nile that passed through the Eastern Desert of Egypt... |
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| Ancient Roman gluten death seen: Young woman's skeleton shows 'signs of disease' |
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· 04/07/2010 7:55:41 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 18 replies · 717+ views · · ANSA · · April Fools' Day, 2010 · · unattributed · |
An Italian doctor claims to have found the first Italian case of death from gluten intolerance in a female skeleton uncovered at an Ancient Roman site. The skeleton was found in the ancient town of Cosa, today's Ansedonia, in southern Tuscany. Giovanni Gasbarrini, a doctor at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, examined bone DNA from the woman, who died in the first century AD at the age of 18-20. Gasbarrini, whose study has been published in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, noted that the young woman's jewelry indicated she came from a wealthy family but her DNA suggested she died of... |
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| 'Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs' coming to Discovery Times Square Exposition |
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· 04/08/2010 8:11:38 AM PDT · · Posted by mentor2k · · 1 replies · 91+ views · · New York Daily News · · March 24, 2010 · · Erica Pearson · |
Get ready to walk like an Egyptian -- King Tut is on his way back to the Big Apple. Tickets went on sale Tuesday for an exhibit of artifacts from the boy pharaoh's tomb, opening April 23 at the Discovery Times Square Exposition. To mark the occasion, former Mayor Ed Koch welcomed a 25-feet-tall, black-and-gold statue of the jackal-headed god Anubis, which floated on a barge past the Statue of Liberty to arrive at the South Street Seaport. |
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| The Phoenicians | |
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| Two-and-a-Half Millennia Don't Change Much |
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· 01/29/2010 7:25:04 AM PST · · Posted by mattstat · · 10 replies · 282+ views · · wmbriggs 'blog · · William M. Briggs · |
Herodotus begins his history by telling us that some Phoenician traders came to Argos, Greece and, on a whim, abducted the king's daughter Io and took her to Egypt. Later, to show that two could play at that game, the Greeks slid over to Phoenicia and stole their king's daughter, Europa. (Bad pun: and how these ladies ended up with Jupiter, nobody knows.) "So far," Herodotus, checking his sums, said, "the scores were even." But then the Greeks, into the game, decided to do a one-up. The went back to another Phoenician stronghold and kidnapped that king's daughter, Medea. The... |
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| In the footsteps of the Bronze Men [ the Carians in Egypt ] |
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· 04/06/2010 6:03:21 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 9 replies · 261+ views · · Al-Ahram Weekly · · Issue No. 992, April 1-7, 2010 · · Nevine El-Aref · |
When Herodotus toured the known world during the fifth century BC to compile his international history, he did not forget his hometown Caria, now Bodrum in Turkey. Caria (the name means "the steep country") stood in the western part of Anatolia, whose coast, according to the ancient world map, stretched from mid-Ionia to Lycia and east to Phrygia. Mountains and valleys were the main features of the country's scenery, and it was poor in agriculture in comparison with its counterparts at the time: Egypt and Babylonia. Its hilltops were fortified, while villages were scattered in valleys and it was hard... |
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| Bulldozers overhaul Luxor, city of pashas and pharaohs |
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· 04/06/2010 5:17:17 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 17 replies · 383+ views · · Reuters · · Thursday, April 1, 2010 · · Alexander Dziadosz · |
In the dusty streets behind the pasha's grand villa, bulldozers and forklifts are tearing into the city where Agatha Christie found inspiration and Howard Carter unearthed Tutankhamun. Egypt has already cleared out Luxor's old bazaar, demolished thousands of homes and dozens of Belle Epoque buildings in a push to transform the site of the ancient capital Thebes into a huge open-air museum. Officials say the project will preserve temples and draw more tourists, but the work has outraged archaeologists and architects who say it has gutted Luxor's more recent heritage. ...one foreigner who lives in Luxor part of the year,... |
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| Stone Age Scandinavians unable to digest milk |
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· 04/01/2010 8:50:18 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 30 replies · 596+ views · · Uppsala University · · Apr 1, 2010 · · Unknown · |
The hunter-gatherers who inhabited the southern coast of Scandinavia 4,000 years ago were lactose intolerant. This has been shown by a new study carried out by researchers at Uppsala University and Stockholm University. The study, which has been published in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, supports the researchers' earlier conclusion that today's Scandinavians are not descended from the Stone Age people in question but from a group that arrived later. "This group of hunter-gatherers differed significantly from modern Swedes in terms of the DNA sequence that we generally associate with a capacity to digest lactose into adulthood," says Anna Linderholm,... |
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| New Written Language of Ancient Scotland Discovered |
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· 04/06/2010 4:24:41 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 51 replies · 833+ views · · Discovery News · · Wednesday, March 31, 2010 · · Jennifer Viegas · |
photo: Rob Knell and Rob Lee The ancestors of modern Scottish people left behind mysterious, carved stones that new research has just determined contain the written language of the Picts, an Iron Age society that existed in Scotland from 300 to 843. The highly stylized rock engravings, found on what are known as the Pictish Stones, had once been thought to be rock art or tied to heraldry. The new study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A, instead concludes that the engravings represent the long lost language of the Picts, a confederation of Celtic tribes that... |
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| The Fertile Crescent | |
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| Dig looks at society just before dawn of urban civilization in the Middle East |
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· 04/06/2010 9:07:55 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 9 replies · 303+ views · · University of Chicago · · Apr 6, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Thirty-one acres in extent, Tell Zeidan is situated where the Balikh River joins the Euphrates River in modern-day Syria. The location was at the crossroads of major trade routes across ancient Mesopotamia that followed the course of the Euphrates River valley. Stein said Tell Zeidan may have been one of the largest Ubaid temple towns in northern Mesopotamia, and that it was as large or larger than any previously known contemporary Ubaid towns in the southern alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today southern Iraq. However, because the site was not occupied after about 4,000... |
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| Why Didn't Early Earth Freeze? The Mystery Deepens (Another CO2 hypothesis is debunked!) |
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· 04/04/2010 8:02:57 AM PDT · · Posted by neverdem · · 24 replies · 1,044+ views · · ScienceNOW · · March 31, 2010 · · Phil Berardelli · |
Enlarge Image Ironclad? Analyses of rocks in an ancient Greenland formation debunk the idea of an early greenhouse Earth. Credit: M. Rosing Dial back the clock nearly 4 billion years, to a time called the Archean, and the sun would appear about 30% dimmer than it is now. That's a problem: It couldn't have warmed Earth enough to keep the seas from becoming permanent ice sheets. Yet overwhelming geological evidence indicates that liquid water has existed on our planet since the seas formed more than 4 billion years ago, even during the deepest ice ages. What could have provided... |
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| Hostile volcanic lake teems with life: Microbes thriving in salty, alkali waters containing arsenic |
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· 04/04/2010 8:24:51 PM PDT · · Posted by neverdem · · 17 replies · 507+ views · · Nature News · · 2 April 2010 · · Ana Belluscio · |
Microbes thriving in salty, alkali waters containing arsenic.It looks peaceful, but Laguna del Diamante's waters are deadly. Argentinian investigators have found flamingos and mysterious microbes living in an alkaline lagoon nestled inside a volcano in the Andes. The organisms, exposed to arsenic and poisonous gases, could shed light on how life began on Earth, and their hardiness to extreme conditions may hold the key to new scientific applications.In 2009, a team led by Maria Eugenia Farias, a microbiologist at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Tucumen, Argentina, discovered living stromatolites in the Socompa and Tolar Grande... |
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| Scientists to Unearth Ice Age Secrets from Preserved Tree Rings [ kauri trees, New Zealand ] |
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· 04/07/2010 7:12:24 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 13 replies · 289+ views · · ScienceDaily · · Tuesday, April 6, 2010 · · University of Oxford · |
Oxford University is involved in a research project to unearth 30,000 year old climate records, before they are lost forever. The rings of preserved kauri trees, hidden in New Zealand's peat bogs, hold the secret to climate fluctuations spanning back to the end of the last Ice Age... carbon dating and other analyses of the kauri tree rings. The trees store an immense amount of information about rapid and extreme climate change in the past. For instance, wide ring widths are associated with cool dry summer conditions... Tree rings are now known to be an excellent resource for extracting very... |
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| First animals to live without oxygen discovered |
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· 04/07/2010 8:29:00 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 26 replies · 616+ views · · BioMed Central · · Apr 7, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Deep under the Mediterranean Sea small animals have been discovered that live their entire lives without oxygen and surrounded by 'poisonous' sulphides. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology report the existence of multicellular organisms (new members of the group Loricifera), showing that they are alive, metabolically active, and apparently reproducing in spite of a complete absence of oxygen. Roberto Danovaro, from the Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy, worked with a team of researchers to retrieve sediment samples from a deep hypersaline anoxic basin (DHABs) of the Mediterranean Sea and studied them for signs of life. "These... |
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| Kawhia was home of the giant penguin (Fossil Penguin Man-sized!!) |
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· 02/18/2006 11:37:42 AM PST · · Posted by gobucks · · 18 replies · 619+ views · · Waikato Times (New Zealand) · · 18 Feb 2006 · · Lucy Reed · |
Children on a fossil hunt have discovered the remains of what may have been the biggest penguin to waddle the planet. The remains were found last month near Kawhia and are thought to be 40 million years old. Experts think it may be the finest example of the long-extinct bird found. They say the Kawhia giant dwarfed the huge emperor penguin, and had it lived today would have looked many men in the eye. The 22-strong expedition from the Hamilton Junior Naturalists Club were out to find fossils for a natural history museum at Te Kauri Lodge, near Kawhia, when... |
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| New thick-shelled turtle species lived with world's biggest snake |
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· 04/06/2010 10:57:43 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 12 replies · 607+ views · · Smithsonian Tropical Rsrch Inst · · Apr 6, 2010 · · Unknown · |
The discovery of a new fossil turtle species in Colombia's Cerrej√›n coal mine by researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the Florida Museum of Natural History helps to explain the origin of one of the most biodiverse groups of turtles in South America. Cerrejonemys wayuunaiki takes its genus name from Cerrej√›n, and emys -- Greek for turtle. Its species name is the language spoken by the Wayuu people who live on the Guajira Peninsula in northeastern Colombia near the mine. About as thick as a standard dictionary, this turtle's shell may have warded off attacks by the Titanoboa,... |
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| Missing link between man and apes found (New skeleton found) |
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· 04/04/2010 1:26:05 PM PDT · · Posted by jerry557 · · 52 replies · 1,156+ views · · Telegraph.co.uk · · 04/03/10 · · Richard Gray · |
The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week. Scientists believe the almost-complete fossilised skeleton belonged to a previously-unknown type of early human ancestor that may have been a intermediate stage as ape-men evolved into the first species of advanced humans, Homo habilis. Experts who have seen the skeleton say it shares characteristics with Homo habilis, whose emergence 2.5 million years ago is seen as a key stage in the evolution of our species. The new discovery could help to rewrite... |
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| Pictures: New Human Ancestor Fossils Found |
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· 04/09/2010 2:38:53 PM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 13 replies · 310+ views · · nationalgeographic · · April 8, 2010 · |
Remarkably well preserved for a two-million-year-old fossil, this child's skull belongs to Australopithecus sediba, a previously unknown species of ape-like creature that may have been a direct ancestor of modern humans, according to a new study in Science. Scientists think this particular Australopithecus sediba fossil is from a male between 8 and 13 years old. The child's fossils were found in the remnants of a subterranean South African cave system alongside the fossil remains of an adult female in her 30s. "It's the opinion of my colleagues and I that [A. sediba] may very well be the Rosetta stone that... |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis | |
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| Teotihuacan Lineage at Tikal Studied |
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· 04/06/2010 5:05:28 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 8 replies · 183+ views · · Art Daily · · Tuesday, April 6, 2010 · · unattributed · |
Iconographic studies of Teotihuacan murals confirm the extension of the lineage of a ruler of the ancient city of Tikal, Guatemala, already revealed by epigraphists of the Maya area. The aforementioned investigation sums up to interpretations of Stele 31 of Tikal that relate to the dynastic line of Atlatl-Cauac ("Dart-thrower Owl"), possible ruler of Teotihuacan between 374 and 439 AD, and whose son, Yax Nuun Ayiin I, was seignior of Tikal. The emblem of this lineage would be represented by the image of a bird with a shield, observed in Teotihuacan murals, declared Dr. Raul Garcia Chavez, researcher at the... |
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| Archaeologists dig up Shakespeare's 'cesspit' |
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· 04/06/2010 8:08:59 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 47 replies · 660+ views · · telegraph.co.uk · · April 6, 2010 · · Murray Wardrop · |
Archaeologists believe they are on the cusp of shedding new light on the life of William Shakespeare -- by digging up what may have been the playwright's cesspit. Experts have begun excavating the ruins of New Place, Shakespeare's former home in Stratford-upon-Avon, which was demolished 250 years ago. Although little remains of the property, the team, led by Birmingham Archaeology, believes it has identified a rubbish tip or cesspit used by the 16th century poet. Fragments of pottery and broken clay pipe have already been retrieved from a muddy hole on the site, which they claim could yield some of... |
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| 'Secret of Kells' comes to life with bright, imaginative spirit |
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· 04/04/2010 3:32:28 PM PDT · · Posted by thecodont · · 19 replies · 354+ views · · Los Angeles Times / latimes.com · · April 2, 2010 · · Kenneth Turan Film Critic · |
"The Secret of Kells" is an anachronism many times over, and what a good thing that turned out to be. A ravishing, continually surprising example of largely hand-drawn animation in the heyday of computer-generated imagery, an inexpensive and sophisticated European production in an age of broad-stroke studio films, even a spirited defense of books and bookishness while Kindles walk the earth, "Kells" fights the tide every way it can. Yet this longshot that began as a college project for Irish director Tomm Moore edged Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo" for one of five feature animation Oscar nominations, and in a year without... |
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| Leonardo Da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' reveals more secrets |
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· 04/07/2010 1:00:43 AM PDT · · Posted by nickcarraway · · 35 replies · 1,403+ views · · EurekaAlert · · March 30, 2010 · |
Universite de Montreal researchers decode food served in legendary painting Montreal, March 30, 2010 -- The Last Supper -- relentlessly studied, scrutinized, satirized and one the world's most famous paintings -- is still revealing secrets. Researchers Olivier Bauer, Nancy LabontÈ, Jonas Saint-Martin and SÈbastien Fillion of the UniversitÈ de MontrÈal Faculty of Theology have found new meaning to the food depicted by Leonardo Da Vinci's famous artwork. "We asked ourselves why Da Vinci chose those particular foods, because they don't correspond to what the Evangelists described," says Bauer. "Why bread, fish, salt, citrus and wine? Why is the saltshaker tipped... |
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| 700-year-old cave carvings with links to Knights Templar at risk as worms eat walls |
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· 04/05/2010 8:23:54 PM PDT · · Posted by BlackVeil · · 13 replies · 738+ views · · The Guardian · · 4 April 2010 · · anon · |
Mysterious carvings inside a hidden cavern linked to the Knights Templar are in danger of disappearing before their riddle is solved. Having survived more than 700 years, the religious decorations in the ancient cave at Royston, Hertfordshire, are under attack from an infestation of worms eating the chalk walls behind them. The beehive-shaped chamber was hewn out of a 180ft-thick seam of chalk and extends 30ft beneath the centre of the market town, underneath a betting shop. It was uncovered by chance during building work in 1742 and the depictions of biblical scenes and portraits of Christian martyrs inside it... |
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| The Revolution | |
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| Almost Prophetic: de Tocqueville and Hayek on Democratic Despotism |
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· 04/03/2010 1:04:08 PM PDT · · Posted by Thane_Banquo · · 24 replies · 715+ views · · The Road to Serfdom/ Democracy in America · · F.A. Hayek, Alexis de Tocqueville · |
I have begun reading Hayek's The Road to Serfdom for the first time, and in his foreward I came across a quote from de Tocqueville's Democracy in American, followed by a comment from Hayek. What these two brilliant men wrote is so perfectly correlated with what has happened in America and is happening today that I consider it nearly prophetic. First, the quote from de Tocqueville: Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and... |
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· 04/09/2010 12:34:10 AM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 82 replies · 1,117+ views · · Smithsonian Magazine · · 08 April 2010 · · Paul Martin · |
What happened to Officer John Parker, the man who chose the wrong night to leave his post at Ford's Theater? When a celebrity-seeking couple crashed a White House state dinner last November, the issue of presidential security dominated the news. The Secret Service responded by putting three of its officers on administrative leave and scrambled to reassure the public that it takes the job of guarding the president very seriously. "We put forth the maximum effort all the time," said Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan. That kind of dedication to safeguarding the president didn't always exist. It wasn't until 1902... |
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| The American Minute: April 6, 1917-The US Enters World War I |
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· 04/06/2010 3:46:40 AM PDT · · Posted by Freedom'sWorthIt · · 28 replies · 408+ views · · The American Minute · · April 6, 2010 · · William J Federer · |
American Minute for April 6th: APRIL 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I by declaring war on Kaiser Wilhelm II's Germany. Within the next two years, America enlisted 4 million soldiers and spent 35 billion dollars, resulting in an Allied victory. In a Day of Prayer Proclamation, October 19, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson stated: "In view of the entrance of our nation into the vast and awful war which now afflicts the greater part of the world... I set apart...a day upon which our people should...offer concerted prayer to Almighty God for His divine aid in the success... |
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| World's oldest hot cross bun |
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· 04/05/2010 3:14:42 AM PDT · · Posted by Daffynition · · 35 replies · 830+ views · · The Telegraph · · April 1, 2010 · · staff reporter · |
A grandmother has the world's oldest hot cross bun -- baked on Good Friday in 1821. Nancy Titman, 91, was given the incredible 189-year-old bun when her mum died and amazingly it shows no traces of mould. The bun, which was made the same year as Napoleon died, George IV was crowned king and poet John Keats passed away has been in her family for generations. "It's a relic which has been passed down through the family. My mum said our ancestors worked in a baker's shop and they believed buns baked on Good Friday didn't go mouldy," said Nancy.... |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #300 Saturday, April 17, 2010 |
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| Brain Parts Found in Ancient Human Ancestor [ Australopithecus sediba ] |
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· 04/14/2010 7:55:39 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 16 replies · · 353+ views · · Discovery News · · Monday, April 12, 2010 · · Jennifer Viegas · |
Remains of a 1.9-million-year-old human ancestor are so well preserved that they may contain a remnant of the male individual's brain, according to the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, where the remains were recently examined. While DNA is very fragile and deteriorates over time, the discovery opens up the remote possibility that soft tissue with preserved DNA still exists in the prehistoric hominid, which could hold an important place on the human family tree. The examination also turned up what seemed to be fossilized insect eggs, according to scientists. They said larvae from the eggs could have fed... |
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· 04/11/2010 1:38:48 PM PDT · · Posted by valkyry1 · · 103 replies · · 862+ views · · National Geographic News · · April 8, 2010 · · Ker Than · |
Identified via two-million-year-old fossils, a new human ancestor dubbed Australopithecus sediba may be the "key transitional species" between the apelike australopithecines -- and the first Homo, or human, species, according to a new study. |
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| Don't Know Much About Promiscuity | |
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| MU researcher compiles evidence in support of Darwin's theory of sexual selection |
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· 04/14/2010 8:25:34 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 7 replies · · 185+ views · · Eurekalert · · Tuesday, April 13, 2010 · · Kelsey Jackson, U of Mo Columbia · |
...in a much expanded update of his book, Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences, a University of Missouri researcher has compiled research that shows how Darwin's sexual selection is the best explanation of the differences between women and men including from infancy, relationships with friends, mate choices, to brain and cognition. The MU researcher also explains how the expression of these differences can vary across cultures and historical periods. "Choosing a mate is one of the most important decisions made in one's lifetime and one of Darwin's core components of sexual selection," said David Geary, author and Curators'... |
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· 03/28/2010 9:44:52 AM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 41 replies · · 914+ views · · roanoke · · March 28, 2010 · · Jill Bowen · |
In what part of the world were cats first found? And how did the different breeds arise? Cats were first domesticated about 10,000 years ago in the area known as the Fertile Crescent. This area stretches from Turkey to Northern Africa and includes Iran, Iraq and Egypt. Research data from the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis, where cat genetics are studied, suggests that Turkey is one of the sites of origin for the domestication of cats. Cats started living close to people when people ceased being nomadic herders and became farmers raising livestock and crops.... |
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· 04/08/2010 8:25:55 AM PDT · · Posted by mentor2k · · 22 replies · · 422+ views · · New York Daily News · · March 24, 2010 · · Erica Pearson · |
Get ready to walk like an Egyptian - King Tut is on his way back to the Big Apple. Tickets went on sale Tuesday for an exhibit of artifacts from the boy pharaoh's tomb, opening April 23 at the Discovery Times Square Exposition. To mark the occasion, former Mayor Ed Koch welcomed a 25-feet-tall, black-and-gold statue of the jackal-headed god Anubis, which floated on a barge past the Statue of Liberty to arrive at the South Street Seaport. King Tut was a huge hit the last time he was here, bringing 1.8 million visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art... |
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· 04/12/2010 1:53:20 PM PDT · · Posted by NormsRevenge · · 11 replies · · 472+ views · · AP on Yahoo · · 4/12/10 · · Diaa Hadid - ap · |
CAIRO -- Egyptian archaeologists discovered an intricately carved plaster sarcophagus portraying a wide-eyed woman dressed in a tunic in a newly uncovered complex of tombs at a remote desert oasis, Egypt's antiquities department announced Monday. It is the first Roman-style mummy found in Bahariya Oasis some 186 miles (300 kilometers) southwest of Cairo, said archaeologist Mahmoud Afifi, who led the dig. The find was part of a cemetery dating back to the Greco-Roman period containing 14 tombs. "It is a unique find," he told The Associated Press, confirming that initial examinations indicate a mummy is inside the coffin. The carved... |
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· 04/14/2010 12:58:49 AM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 16 replies · · 393+ views · · CNN · · April 13, 2010 · · Stephanie Goldberg · |
A Roman-era mummy was recently unearthed in a Bahariya Oasis cemetery, about 190 miles southwest of Cairo. The 3-foot-tall female mummy was discovered by Egyptian archaeologists. The figure was found covered with plaster decorated to resemble Roman dress and jewelry, said Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities in a press release Monday. In addition to the female mummy, the Supreme Court of Antiquities said archaeologists found clay and glass vessels, coins, anthropoid masks and 14 Greco-Roman tombs. Director of Cairo and Giza Antiquities Mahmoud Affifi, the archaeologist who led the dig, said the tomb has a unique design with stairways and... |
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| Deepest Volcanic Sea Vents Found; "Like Another World" - may harbor unknown creatures |
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· 04/12/2010 2:43:55 PM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 19 replies · · 857+ views · · nationalgeographic · · April 11, 2010 · · Brian Handwerk · |
Three miles (five kilometers) below the surface of the Caribbean Sea (map), great volcanic chimneys gush subterranean water hot enough to melt lead. Found via robotic submersibles on April 6, these two-story-tall "black smokers" are the world's deepest known hydrothermal vents, scientists announced from aboard a research ship Sunday. "It was like wandering across the surface of another world," geochemist Bramley Murton, speaking in a press statement, said of steering a submersible around the record-breaking volcanic vents. "The rainbow hues of the mineral spires and the fluorescent blues of the microbial mats covering them were like nothing I had ever... |
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| Giant lizard species discovered in the Philippines (6.5 feet long) |
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· 04/07/2010 2:26:10 PM PDT · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 19 replies · · 734+ views · · BBC News · · April 7, 2010 · · Matt Walker · |
A new species of giant lizard has been discovered in the Philippines. The 2m-long reptile is a monitor lizard, the group to which the world's longest and largest lizards belong. The monitor, described as spectacular by the scientists who found it, lives in forests covering the Sierra Madre mountains in the north of the country. The striking reptile has bright yellow, blue and green skin, and survives on a diet of just fruit, yet until now it has escaped the eyes of biologists. "It is an incredible animal," says Dr Rafe Brown, one of the scientists who describe the new... |
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| New Giant Lizard Discovery "an Unprecedented Surprise" |
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· 04/11/2010 8:37:03 AM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 46 replies · · 2,324+ views · · nationalgeographic · · April 7, 2010 · · James Owen · |
It has a double penis, is as long as a tall human, and lives in a heavily populated area of the Philippines. Yet somehow the giant lizard Varanus bitatawa has gone undetected by science until now. Long known to Filipino tribal hunters, the monitor lizard was identified as a new species in 2009 via its DNA, scale pattern, size, and peculiar penis, a new study says. At about six and a half feet (two meters) long, the new lizard species is closely related to the world's largest living lizard, the Komodo dragon. Unlike the Komodo, though, Varanus bitatawa has evolved... |
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| Ancient Thick-shelled Turtle Discovered in Coal Mine |
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· 04/09/2010 7:30:05 PM PDT · · Posted by cajuncow · · 24 replies · · 448+ views · · livescience · · 4-9-10 · · Rachael Rettner · |
A new fossil turtle species discovered in South America boasts quite a bulky shell -- about as thick as your average high-school textbook. The shell, about 3.3 feet (1 meter) across and 1.4 inches (3.5 centimeters) thick, might have protected the turtle against attacks from large crocodile-like animals as well as the giant Titanoboa, the world's largest snake (about 45-feet long), which would have shared this turtle's neighborhood around 60 million years ago, the researchers say. The newly identified species, called Cerrejonemys wayuunaiki and discovered in the Cerrejón coal mine in Columbia, was the ancestor to one of the most... |
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| The Phoenicians | |
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| Hannibal's real Alpine trunk road to Rome is revealed |
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· 04/14/2010 8:06:01 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 13 replies · · 508+ views · · The Times · · February 17, 2010 · · Norman Hammond · |
From the Col du Mont Cenis in the north to the Col Agnel 35 miles (60km) almost due south of it three approach routes have been argued for. In the most recent study, Dr William Mahaney, a geomorphologist, and his colleagues have looked at the evidence from Classical sources. "As documented by Polybius and Livy in the ancient literature, Hannibal's army was blocked by a two-tier rockfall on the lee side of the Alps, a rubble sheet of considerable volume," they note in the journal Archaeometry. "The only such two-tier landform lies below the Col de la Traversette, 2,600... |
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| Mummified Baboons in British Museum May Reveal Location of the Land of Punt |
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· 04/14/2010 8:17:08 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 13 replies · · 300+ views · · The Heritage Key · · Monday, April 12, 2010 · · Owen Jarus · |
To solve the mystery of where Punt was, a team of scientists is turning to two mummified baboons in the British Museum... One was found at Thebes and the other in the Valley of the Kings. The team is conducting oxygen isotope tests on the preserved hairs of the baboons. Oxygen isotopes act as a 'signal' that can tell scientists where an animal is from... To aid in narrowing down the location of Punt the team is also performing oxygen isotope tests on samples of modern day baboons from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, Uganda and Mozambique. If the oxygen isotope... |
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| Mummified Baboons in British Museum May Reveal Location of the Land of Punt |
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· 04/15/2010 1:35:23 AM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 11 replies · · 460+ views · · Heritage Key · · 12 April 2010 · · Owen Jarus · |
Throughout their history the ancient Egyptians recorded making voyages to a place called the 'Land of Punt'. To the Egyptians it was a far-off source of exotic animals and valuable goods. From there they brought back perfumes, panther skins, electrum, and, yes, live baboons to keep as pets. The voyages started as early as the Old Kingdom, ca. 4,500 years ago, and continued until just after the collapse of the New Kingdom 3,000 years ago. Egyptologists have long argued about the location of Punt. The presence of perfumes suggests that it was located somewhere in Arabia, such as Yemen. However... |
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| "Dealing a Mortal Blow" to the Medieval Warm Period |
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· 04/08/2010 10:25:02 PM PDT · · Posted by neverdem · · 29 replies · · 1,064+ views · · climateaudit.org · · April 8, 2010 · · Steve McIntyre · |
There has been a considerable amount of speculation over the past few years about which "leading" climate scientist told David Deming that we have to "get rid of" the Medieval Warm Period, including speculation (e.g. ukweatherworld) that it was Jonathan Overpeck (recently one of two Coordinating Lead Authors of AR4 chapter 6). While the identity of Deming's correspondent remains uncertain, a Climategate letter from January 13. 2005, written as an instruction from Overpeck as Coordinating Lead Author to IPCC Lead Authors Briffa and Osborn (cc Jansen, Masson-Delmotte), states that Overpeck wants to "deal a mortal blow" to the MWP (and... |
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| 422,700 years of temperature data [Vostok Ice Core] |
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· 04/09/2010 1:44:03 PM PDT · · Posted by SloopJohnB · · 20 replies · · 1,177+ views · · Daily Bayonet · · March 29, 2010 · · Sophiaalbertina · |
[Snip]...Why all these concerted efforts? Very simple, the very existence of the medieval warming period (not to speak of the Roman Warming Period), made mockery of their Global Warming Hysteria. How can you blame the humans for this when the temperature was much higher and have risen faster during this medieval period. So it officially "disappeared". |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis | |
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| Stalagmite reveals carbon footprint of early Native Americans |
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· 04/15/2010 7:24:19 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 40 replies · · 481+ views · · Ohio University · · Apr 15, 2010 · · Unknown · |
ATHENS, Ohio (April 15, 2010) -- A new study led by Ohio University scientists suggests that early Native Americans left a bigger carbon footprint than previously thought, providing more evidence that humans impacted global climate long before the modern industrial era. Chemical analysis of a stalagmite found in the mountainous Buckeye Creek basin of West Virginia suggests that native people contributed a significant level of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere through land use practices. The early Native Americans burned trees to actively manage the forests to yield the nuts and fruit that were a large part of their diets. "They... |
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| Ancient Americans took cold snap in their stride |
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· 04/12/2010 7:40:42 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 12 replies · · 355+ views · · Springer · · Apr 12, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Study suggests that Ice Age climate change did not pose significant challenges to first Americans Paleoindian groups* occupied North America throughout the Younger Dryas interval, which saw a rapid return to glacial conditions approximately 11,000 years ago. Until now, it has been assumed that cooling temperatures and their impact on communities posed significant adaptive challenges to those groups. David Meltzer from the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, USA, and Vance Holliday from the University of Arizona in Tucson, USA, suggest otherwise in their review of climatic and environmental records from this time period in continental North America, published in Springer's... |
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| Volunteers Needed to Rig Half Moon (Replica of Henry Hudson's Ship) |
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· 04/11/2010 1:49:15 PM PDT · · Posted by Tennessee Nana · · 4 replies · · 197+ views · · EMail · · April 10, 2010 · · Jay Pocius · |
Volunteers Needed to Rig Half Moon, April 17/18 & 24/25 This is our first email sent through Constant Comment. It is also the first HTML (web-like) email for us. If you would prefer to change your copy back to "plain text" or modify your email address, scroll to the bottom and click 'update profile.' 1. Help Rig Half Moon, Weekends in April 17/18 & 24/25 Volunteer crew are needed the weekends of April 17/18 and 24/25 to help rig the Half Moon for seasonal sailing operations. Jennifer Reilly will manage the re-rig, and assign training and jobs according to ship... |
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| The Revolution | |
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| British warship Paul Revere eluded resurfaces in Cape Cod |
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· 04/10/2010 3:42:13 PM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 52 replies · · 1,461+ views · · bostonherald · |
PROVINCETOWN - The wreck of the British warship that Paul Revere eluded at the start of his famous ride has resurfaced in Cape Cod's shifting sands. About a dozen timbers from the HMS Somerset III were spotted on a Provincetown beach after erosion from recent storms. |
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| British warship Somerset resurfaces off Cape Cod |
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· 04/12/2010 3:08:19 PM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 32 replies · · 820+ views · · Boston Globe · · 11 April 2010 · · Stefanie Geisler · |
Officials order 3-D rendering of sunken boat The wreck of the British warship HMS Somerset III, which was guarding Boston Harbor the night Paul Revere slipped by on his legendary journey to Lexington in 1775, has resurfaced in the shifting sands off Cape Cod. Federal park officials, saying they may have only a limited window of opportunity, are seizing the moment and having the wreck "digitally preserved'' using three-dimensional imaging technology. "We know the wreck is going to disappear again under the sand, and it may not resurface again in our lifetimes,'' said William P. Burke, the historian at the... |
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| The British Are Back: A Revolutionary War Shipwreck Re-emerges |
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· 04/14/2010 5:33:09 AM PDT · · Posted by bamahead · · 12 replies · · 843+ views · · Yahoo! · · April 13, 2010 · · Vera H-C Chan · |
Shiver me timbers, the warship HMS Somerset III is back. The last time the British man-of-war sailed the seas was during the Revolutionary War. The ship showed up off the Massachusetts coast to rescue British soldiers after the battles at Lexington and Concord and provide support during the Battle of Bunker Hill. A tangle with French warships and a gale storm spelled doom for the warship in 1778, when it crashed on the perilous Peaked Hill sand bars, responsible for taking many a sailor's life. Now, the winter storms have again uncovered the wreckage that played a poetic role in... |
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| Lincoln is shot |
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· 04/14/2010 5:54:59 AM PDT · · Posted by central_va · · 214 replies · · 1,668+ views · · history channel · · 4/15/2010 · · history channel · |
On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. Booth, a Maryland native born in 1838, who remained in the North during the war despite his Confederate sympathies, initially plotted to capture President Lincoln and take him to Richmond, the Confederate capital. However, on March 20, 1865, the day of the planned kidnapping, the president... |
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| 1913 Abraham Lincoln film found in NH barn cleanup (30-minute film, "When Lincoln Paid") |
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· 04/13/2010 5:07:50 PM PDT · · Posted by NormsRevenge · · 31 replies · · 1,229+ views · · AP on Yahoo · · 4/13/10 · · Kathy McCormack - ap · |
CONCORD, N.H. -- In a tale celebrating the romance of movies, a contractor cleaning out an old New Hampshire barn destined for demolition found seven reels of nitrate film inside, including the only known copy of a 1913 silent film about Abraham Lincoln. "When Lincoln Paid," a 30-minute film about the mother of a dead Union soldier asking Lincoln to pardon a Confederate soldier whom she had initially turned in, stars the brother of John Ford, director of "The Grapes of Wrath," "The Quiet Man," and other classics. "I was up in the attic space, and shoved away over in... |
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| World War Eleven | |
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| DNA On Letters To Mom Confirms ID Of Sailor Killed At Pearl Harbor In '41 |
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· 04/15/2010 1:12:31 AM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 14 replies · · 314+ views · · NPR · · 13 April 2010 · · William Cole · |
"Sixty-eight years after he was killed on Dec. 7, 1941," The Honolulu Advertiser writes, DNA lifted from envelopes that 18-year-old sailor Gerald Lehman licked when he sent letters home to his mother have helped identify his remains. Now, the remains will be brought from Hawaii back to Michigan. His mother died in 2005. Her daughter, Peggy Germain, said it was the woman's "dearest wish" to have Lehman's body brought home for burial. It was Germain's research that led to the discovery that Lehman's remains had been buried with others in Hawaii -- and eventually to the DNA tests that confirmed... |
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| Patrick Henry descendants among Tea Party activists, as movement assesses first year gains, losses |
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· 04/14/2010 7:57:05 PM PDT · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 4 replies · · 325+ views · · Washington Examiner · · April 14, 2010 · · Mark Tapscott · |
Therese Cooper is an eighth-generation descendant of Revolutionary War leader and orator Patrick Henry of Virginia, and she's convinced that her ancestor would today be doing the same thing she is, organizing tea parties. "If Patrick Henry were alive," Cooper told New Mexico Watchdog's Jim Scarantino, "he would be coordinating a Tea Party today." Cooper and her daughter Emily are among New Mexico's original Tea Party organizers, according to Scarantino. "I remember my great-grandmother talking about our family history," Emily told Scarantino. "I am very proud. Patrick Henry gave everything to fight for his freedom. Why should it be any... |
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| Natural World | |
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| Vintage Views of Natural Bridge |
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· 04/10/2010 6:01:52 AM PDT · · Posted by jay1949 · · 25 replies · · 742+ views · · Backcountry Notes · · April 10, 2010 · · Jay Henderson · |
As isolated as the Virginia Backcountry was from the coastal colonies, travelers were eager to tour and enjoy the wild country. Among the early tourists was Thomas Jefferson, who trekked across Rockfish Gap in August of 1767 and found himself entranced by the Natural Bridge. [Eight 19th-century paintings and engravings of Natural Bridge] |
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| Oh So Mysteriouso | |
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| Freemasonry code cracked at Knox College |
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· 04/11/2010 1:01:19 PM PDT · · Posted by nickcarraway · · 44 replies · · 1,494+ views · · The Journal Star · · Apr 10, 2010 · · Claire Howard · |
Symbolism that eluded detection for more than 150 years has become a modern-day Knox College version of "The DaVinci Code." Philosophy professor Lance Factor recounts how he cracked the code and deciphered the messages in his new book, "Chapel in the Sky: Knox College's Old Main and Its Masonic Architect" published by Northern Illinois University Press. Just months after hitting store shelves, the book has gone into its second printing. "We felt positive about this book, but we didn't expect we'd go into the second printing so fast," said Linda Manning, assistant director of marketing and sales manager at Northern... |
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| Holy Shroud was hidden from Hitler's grasp in Benedictine Abbey (here are the details) |
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· 04/08/2010 3:02:12 PM PDT · · Posted by NYer · · 14 replies · · 605+ views · · cna · · April 8, 2010 · |
An image of the Shroud of Turin. Rome, Italy, Apr 8, 2010 / 10:27 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Holy Shroud was transferred from Turin during World War II to keep it out of reach of Adolph Hitler, according to a Benedictine priest in a southern Italian abbey. Monks in Avellino, Italy stored the relic until 1946 "officially to protect it from bombs, in reality to hide it from the Fuhrer, who was obsessed with it," the monk said. Sensing the dangers posed by German officials' interest in the Shroud during a visit from Hitler to Italy in 1938, the... |
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| Shroud of Turin on display for the first time in Decade |
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· 04/10/2010 4:31:10 AM PDT · · Posted by Freedom'sWorthIt · · 45 replies · · 673+ views · · Yahoo News · · April 10. 2010 · · AFP · |
TURIN, Italy (AFP) - The Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, will go on public display here Saturday for the first time in a decade. Some two million people are expected to view one of the most revered relics in Christendom -- and among the most disputed -- over the next six weeks in this northern Italian city. Hundreds of journalists and photographers were offered a first chance to view the cloth as the city finalised preparations for the onslaught of visitors. A large area around the Turin cathedral has been cordoned... |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #301 Saturday, April 24, 2010 |
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| When Cousins Marry | |
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| Third Cousins Have Greatest Number Of Offspring, Data From Iceland Shows |
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· 02/07/2008 5:39:12 PM PST · · Posted by blam · · 103 replies · 2,409+ views · · Science Daily · · 2-8-2008 · · deCODE genetics. · |
Third Cousins Have Greatest Number Of Offspring, Data From Iceland Shows ScienceDaily (Feb. 8, 2008) -- DeCODE scientists have established a substantial and consistent positive correlation between the kinship of couples and the number of children and grandchildren they have. The study, which analyzes more than 200 years of deCODE's comprehensive define genealogical data on the population of Iceland, shows that couples related at the level of third cousins have the greatest number of offspring. For example, for women born between 1800 and 1824, those with a mate related at the level of a third cousin had an average of... |
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| Archeology: When did the First Settlers Come to Iceland? |
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· 04/17/2010 4:49:07 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 24 replies · 451+ views · · icelandreview.com · · April 4, 2010 · |
One of the things that makes Iceland unique in Europe is the fact that Icelanders know the year the first settler, Ingólfur Arnarson, came to Iceland from Norway. The Icelandic script, Íslendingabók (Book of Icelanders), written by Ari the wise, tells of the first men coming to Iceland on explorations. Three expeditions came to Iceland, but the first men who came to Iceland to live there permanently were Ingólfur and Hjörleifur. The two came to Iceland in 874. Hjörleifur was killed by his slaves, which only left Ingólfur and his wife Hallgerdur Fródadóttir. They settled in Reykjavík, now the capital... |
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| Archeology: When did the First Settlers Come to Iceland? [the Irish] |
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· 04/17/2010 5:12:42 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 11 replies · 514+ views · · Iceland Review · · April 5, 2010 · · unattributed · |
One of the things that makes Iceland unique in Europe is the fact that Icelanders know the year the first settler, Ingólfur Arnarson, came to Iceland from Norway. The Icelandic script, Íslendingabók (Book of Icelanders), written by Ari the wise, tells of the first men coming to Iceland on explorations. Three expeditions came to Iceland, but the first men who came to Iceland to live there permanently were Ingólfur and Hjörleifur. The two came to Iceland in 874. Hjörleifur was killed by his slaves, which only left Ingólfur and his wife Hallgerdur Fródadóttir. They settled in Reykjavík, now the capital... |
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| Holy Cow, Look What Happened When Eyjafjallajökull Erupted In 1812 |
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· 04/16/2010 7:58:58 AM PDT · · Posted by blam · · 104 replies · 4,012+ views · · The Business Insider · · 4-16-2010 · · Gregory White · |
The last time Eyjafjallajökull blew its top the eruption lasted for two years, spreading smoke and ash over Iceland causing significant damage. * The last time Eyjafjallajökull erupted, it lasted 2 years stretching from 1821-1823. It also erupted in 920 and 1612. * The 1821 eruption spread fluoride across iceland, damaging livestock and human well-being. Glacial flooding also resulted from the eruption. * Eyjafjallajökull's eruption usually precedes an eruption for another Icelandic volcano called Katla, as it did in 1823. Katla's eruptions are... |
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| How an Icelandic volcano helped spark the French Revolution |
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· 04/20/2010 4:55:46 PM PDT · · Posted by Kartographer · · 37 replies · 838+ views · · guardian.co.uk · · 4/15/10 · · Greg Neale · |
Just over 200 years ago an Icelandic volcano erupted with catastrophic consequences for weather, agriculture and transport across the northern hemisphere -- and helped trigger the French revolution. The Laki volcanic fissure in southern Iceland erupted over an eight-month period from 8 June 1783 to February 1784, spewing lava and poisonous gases that devastated the island's agriculture, killing much of the livestock. It is estimated that perhapsa quarter of Iceland's population died through the ensuing famine. Then, as now, there were more wide-ranging impacts. In Norway, the Netherlands, the British Isles, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, in North America and even... |
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| Primate Fossil More Than 11 Million Years Old Discovered [Spain] |
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· 04/22/2010 9:32:34 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 16 replies · 323+ views · · ScienceDaily · · April 23, 2010 · · FECYT via Eurekalert · |
Catalan researchers have discovered in the rubbish dump of Can Mata in the Valles-Penedes basin (Catalonia) a new species of Pliopithecus primate, considered an extinct family of primitive Catarrhini primates (or "Old World monkeys"). The fragments of jaw and molars found in this large site demonstrate that Pliopithecus canmatensis belongs to this group, which includes the first Catarrhini that dispersed from Africa to Eurasia. Named Pliopithecus canmatensis, in honour of the place they were discovered in Catalonia, the new fossil species sheds light on the evolution of the superfamily of the Pliopithecoidea, primates that include various genera of basal Catarrhini,... |
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| Neandertals / Neanderthals | |
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| Neanderthals may have interbred with humans |
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· 04/22/2010 5:12:55 AM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 71 replies · 1,361+ views · · Nature News · · 4-20-10 · · Rex Dalton · |
Genetic data points to ancient liaisons between species. Archaic humans such as Neanderthals may be gone but they're not forgotten -- at least not in the human genome. A genetic analysis of nearly 2,000 people from around the world indicates that such extinct species interbred with the ancestors of modern humans twice, leaving their genes within the DNA of people today. The discovery, presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 17 April, adds important new details to the evolutionary history of the human species. And it may help explain the... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| Lice hang ancient date on first clothes: Genetic analysis puts origin at 190,000 years ago |
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· 04/23/2010 6:41:29 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 41 replies · 462+ views · · Science News · · May 8th, 2010 · · Bruce Bower · |
Using DNA to trace the evolutionary split between head and body lice, researchers conclude that body lice first came on the scene approximately 190,000 years ago. And that shift, the scientists propose, followed soon after people first began wearing clothing... sheds light on a poorly understood cultural development that allowed people to settle in northern, cold regions, said Andrew Kitchen of Pennsylvania State University in University Park. Armed with little direct evidence, scientists had previously estimated that clothing originated anywhere from around 1 million to 40,000 years ago. An earlier analysis of mitochondrial DNA from the two modern types of... |
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| Gene Study Identifies 5 Main Human Populations |
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· 04/23/2010 6:58:06 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 31 replies · 851+ views · · New York Times · · December 20, 2002 · · Nicholas Wade · |
Scientists studying the DNA of 52 human groups from around the world have concluded that people belong to five principal groups corresponding to the major geographical regions of the world: Africa, Europe, Asia, Melanesia and the Americas. The study, based on scans of the whole human genome, is the most thorough to look for patterns corresponding to major geographical regions. These regions broadly correspond with popular notions of race, the researchers said in interviews. The researchers did not analyze genes but rather short segments of DNA known as markers, similar to those used in DNA fingerprinting tests, that have no... |
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| Saluting the discoverers of DNA |
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· 04/24/2003 4:23:13 AM PDT · · Posted by RJCogburn · · 28 replies · 2,011+ views · · Boston Globe · · 4/24/03 · · Kevin Davies · |
FIFTY YEARS AGO tomorrow, the British science magazine Nature published one of the most astounding scientific reports in history. James Watson and Francis Crick impudently informed the world that they had cracked the molecular structure of the salt of deoxyribosenucleic acid -- better known as DNA. The report included one simple black and white illustration, sketched by Crick's wife, of what has since become universally known as the double helix. The architecture of DNA resembles a twisted ladder that contains some 3 billion rungs labeled in a simple four-letter alphabet -- A, C, G and T -- that spells out the language of life. |
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| Is the Mysterious Siberian "X-Woman" a New Hominid Species? |
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· 03/25/2010 9:09:33 AM PDT · · Posted by 2ndDivisionVet · · 28 replies · 812+ views · · Discover Magazine · · March 25, 2010 · · Smriti Rao · |
In 2008, archeologists working at the Denisova Cave in Siberia's Altai Mountains discovered a tiny piece of a finger bone, believed to be a pinky, buried with ornaments in the cave. Scientists extracted the mitochondrial DNA (genetic material from the mother's side) from the ancient bone and checked to see if its genetic code matched with the other two known forms of early hominids -- Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans. What they found was a real surprise. The team, led by geneticist Svaante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute, discovered that the mtDNA from the finger bone matched neither -- suggesting there... |
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| Ancient Hominids Had Human-Like Grip |
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· 04/22/2010 7:46:32 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 16 replies · 254+ views · · Discovery News · · Monday, April 19, 2010 · · Bruce Bower, Science News · |
An upright gait and a relatively sophisticated ability to manipulate objects apparently evolved in tandem among the earliest hominids at least 6 million years ago, said Sergio Almécija of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. That's well before the earliest evidence of stone toolmaking, about 2.6 million years ago, arguing against the idea that fine motor skills for toolmaking drove the evolution of opposable thumbs. Almécija and his colleagues studied a bone from the tip of a thumb belonging to Orrorin tugenensis. At an estimated 6 million years old, Orrorin is the second oldest hominid genus. A more recently identified... |
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| Hobbit debate goes out on some limbs |
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· 04/23/2010 11:21:30 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 12 replies · 264+ views · · ScienceNews · · May 8, 2010 · · Bruce Bower · |
Two fossil hobbits have given what's left of their arms and legs to science. That wasn't enough, though, to quell debate over hobbits' evolutionary status at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists on April 17. Since 2004, the discoverers of unusual "hobbit" fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores have attributed their find to a pint-sized species, Homo floresiensis, that lived there from 95,000 to 17,000 years ago. These researchers also suspect, on the basis of hobbit anatomy and recent stone tool discoveries on Flores, that H. floresiensis evolved from a currently unknown hominid species that... |
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| 'Java Man' takes age to extremes [ H. erectus 550,000 yrs BP? ] |
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· 04/17/2010 6:46:15 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 21 replies · 446+ views · · Science News · · Friday, April 16th, 2010 · · Bruce Bower · |
New age estimates for Homo erectus fossils on the Indonesian island of Java have physical anthropologists scratching their crania. After convincing most of their colleagues that H. erectus may have persisted on the Indonesian island of Java as recently as 30,000 years ago -- late enough to have coexisted in Asia with modern humans for more than 100,000 years -- anthropologists presented new analyses April 14 suggesting the fossils in question may actually predate Homo sapiens by hundreds of thousands of years. It all depends which radiometric method you use to assess the fossils' age, New York University anthropologist Susan... |
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| Nanostructure of 5,000-year-old mummy skin reveals insight into mummification process [Oetzi] |
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· 04/22/2010 9:04:16 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 17 replies · 343+ views · · PhyOrg · · April 20, 2010 · · Lisa Zyga · |
sing cutting-edge microscopy techniques, researchers have gained insight into how human mummies can be extremely well-preserved for thousands of years. A team of scientists from Germany and Italy has investigated skin samples from Europe's oldest natural mummy, the 5,300-year-old "Iceman" who was buried in a glacier shortly after death in the Otzal Alps between Italy and Austria. The researchers found that the underlying structure of the mummy's skin is largely unaltered compared with the skin of a modern living human, likely maintaining its protective function due to dehydration... Since the Iceman's discovery, investigations using optical and scanning electron microscopes have... |
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| Egyptian Official Angry that King Tut is not at the Met: Calls Times Square Exhibition Space a 'Hole' |
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· 04/23/2010 9:46:24 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 37 replies · 451+ views · · DNAinfo · · April 22, 2010 · · Tara Kyle · |
Dr. Zahi Hawass, the secretary general for Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities told a press conference Wednesday that hosting the Tutankhamun's tomb at the Discover Time Square Exposition cheapened the exhibition. "This priceless artifact should be at the Met, not at this hole," Hawass said. In an embarassing preview for the exhibition, Hawass called Arts and Exhibitions International President John Norman to the stage and demanded he "answer the question. Why is King Tut not at the Met?" Norman responded by saying then when plans to bring Tut back to New York began over five years ago, he met with... |
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| Epigraphy and Language | |
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| Hoard of 2,000-Year-Old Coins Found in Egypt |
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· 04/23/2010 8:17:29 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 23 replies · 597+ views · · Discovery News · · Thursday, April 22, 2010 · · Associated Press · |
Archaeologists unearthed 383 bronze coins dating back to King Ptolemy III who ruled Egypt in the 3rd century B.C. and was an ancestor of the famed Cleopatra, Egypt's antiquities authority announced Wednesday... |
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| 'Ancient IKEA building' discovered by Italian archaeologists |
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· 04/22/2010 8:02:47 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 14 replies · 415+ views · · Times Online · · April 22, 2010 · · Richard Owen, Rome · |
Massimo Osanna, head of archaeology at Basilica University, said that the team working at Torre Satriano near Potenza in what was once Magna Graecia had unearthed a sloping roof with red and black decorations, with "masculine" and "feminine" components inscribed with detailed directions on how they slotted together. Professor Christopher Smith, director of the British School at Rome, said that the discovery was "the clearest example yet found of mason's marks of the time. It looks as if someone was instructing others how to mass-produce components and put them together in this way"" he told The Times. Professor Osanna suggested... |
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| Parthenon yields clues to quake-proof design |
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· 04/22/2010 8:11:51 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 10 replies · 383+ views · · Cosmos Magazine · · Monday, August 25, 2008 · · Agence France-Presse · |
Japanese scientists will next month look into seismic resistance secrets in the design of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon which has withstood scores of quakes. "The Parthenon had great resilience to earthquakes, as did most classical Greek temples," said Maria Ioannidou, the archaeologist in charge of conservation of the ancient Acropolis citadel where the Parthenon stands. "The ancient Greeks apparently had very good knowledge of quake behaviour and excellent construction quality," she added. Toshikazu Hanazato, a professor of engineering and an expert in post-quake reconstruction, at Japan's Mie University, heads the research team which is visiting Greece next month to study... |
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| Serbia to boast heritage as birthplace of 18 Roman emperors |
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· 04/17/2010 7:15:16 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 15 replies · 350+ views · · Monsters and Critics · · Apr 3, 2010, · · Ksenija Prodanovic · |
Belgrade - The mention of Serbia usually brings to mind the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, but rarely ever the Roman Empire - despite the fact that 18 Roman rulers, one fifth of all emperors, were born on its territory. With that in mind, archaeologist Miomir Korac has launched The Road of Roman Emperors in Serbia (Itinerarium Romanum Serbiae) - a project meant to combine dozens of antique places across the country into a 600-kilometre-long tourist itinerary. "This is perhaps the most important project in Serbia because it is a chance to show the country's pretty face and... |
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| Roman finds made during work on access road |
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· 04/17/2010 7:10:36 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 8 replies · 329+ views · · yourthanet.co.uk · · 31/03/2010 · |
KENT NEWS: Pieces of the past have been unearthed during the first stages of construction of the East Kent Access Road. Archaeologists have found artefacts dating from when the Romans inhabited Thanet, as well from other periods. The finds from the recent excavations were shown to isle residents at two roadshows from the Trust for Thanet Archaelogy over the weekend. The first took place at Margate library on Saturday, and the second at Westwood Cross on Sunday. Shoppers thronged around the stall outside Debenhams to look at what has been found so far. Pieces of Roman ceramics from the period... |
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| Hundreds of rare Roman pots discovered by accident off Italy's coast by British research ship |
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· 04/18/2010 6:35:25 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 35 replies · 929+ views · · Daily Mail · · April 13th 2010 · · Reporter · |
A British underwater research team has discovered hundreds of rare Roman pots by accident, while trawling the wreckages of ships on the sea bed. The team had been using remote operated vehicles (ROVs) to scour modern wrecks for radioactive materials. They were amazed to come across the remains of a Roman galley which sank off the coast of Italy thousands of years ago... The crew from energy company Hallin Marine International, based in Aberdeen, found a number of ancient pots lying in the mud 1,640ft below the waves... the crew worked around the clock for two days to bring them... |
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| Archaeologists: Sea relics in Xisha too fragile |
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· 04/17/2010 7:07:33 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 7 replies · 281+ views · · chinadaily.com · · 2010-04-02 · · Zuo Likun · |
The archaeological dragnet sweeping across South China's Xisha archipelago has turned up over 50 underwater heritage sites, including several ancient trade boats, which have for decades been a tempting treasure coveted by antiques smugglers. Porcelain, iron and bronze wares dating to the South Song Dynasty (1127 -- 1279) were recovered in the emergency expedition, which kicked off last May. However, salvage rescue is a mixed blessing for the underwater antiques, whose fragility in seawaters renders preservation on the spot a far better choice. "The scope of underwater antiques around Xisha archipelago is enormously huge and far away from the land. It is... |
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| Deciphering the Indus script: challenges and some headway |
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· 04/18/2010 7:39:07 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 12 replies · 365+ views · · The Hindu · · Thursday, April 15, 2010 · · Interview with Professor Asko Parpola · |
All those features of the Indus script which have been mentioned as proof for its not being a writing system, characterise also the Egyptian hieroglyphic script during its first 600 years of existence. For detailed counterarguments, see my papers at the website... The script is highly standardised; the signs are as a rule written in regular lines; there are hundreds of sign sequences which recur in the same order, often at many different sites; the preserved texts are mostly seal stones, and seals in other cultures usually have writing recording the name or title of the seal owner; and the... |
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| Indus Valley east theory challenged |
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· 04/17/2010 6:55:07 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 9 replies · 246+ views · · Telegraph India · · April 5, 2010 · · G.S. Mudur · |
A study of hundreds of ancient Indus Valley civilisation sites has revealed previously unsuspected patterns of growth and decline that challenge a long-standing idea of a solely eastward-moving wave of Indus urbanisation. Researchers at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMS), Chennai, combined data from archaeology, radiocarbon dating, and river flows to study how settlements around the Indus Valley region had evolved from around 7000 BC till 1000 BC. Their analysis of 1,874 Indus region settlements has shown that the Indus urbanisation had three epicentres -- Mehrgarh in present-day Baluchistan, Gujarat, and sites along an ancient river called the Ghaggar-Hakra in... |
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| Peaceful Easy Feelin' | |
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| New tech sees dead people |
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· 04/17/2010 2:37:26 PM PDT · · Posted by Berlin_Freeper · · 28 replies · 928+ views · · msnbc.msn.com · · April 16, 2010 · · Eric Bland · |
A spooky sounding technology is finding old, unmarked graves. Using hyperspectral imaging, scientists from McGill University have found unmarked animal graves with special cameras that measure changes in the light coming from soil and plants. Hyperspectral imaging collects and processes light from across the electromagnetic spectrum, including visible light as well as ultraviolet and infrared light. The research could help police solve missing persons cases or reveal new mass graves from hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago. "As soon as there is some decay you can see a difference," said Andre Costopoulos, a professor at McGill University developing new... |
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| Dinosaurs (et al) | |
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| This dinosaur had a Jersey attitude |
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· 04/18/2010 2:52:10 PM PDT · · Posted by Coleus · · 10 replies · 378+ views · · northjersey.com · · 04.13.10 · · Bill Ervolino · |
Gary Vecchiarelli is in love with a dinosaur. That may sound like a great premise for a Saturday morning cartoon show, but Vecchiarelli, a 33-year-old Boonton resident, is a real person, not some Barney Rubble wannabe. A paleontological field associate and graduate student at New Jersey City University, where he is completing his master's in geology and education, Vecchiarelli is also a man on a mission: to turn the 66.5-million-year-old Drypto-saurus, one of two Late Cretaceous-era dinosaurs known to have lived in what is now New Jersey, into a household name, right up there with Albert Einstein, Snooki Polizzi and... |
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| Ancient treasure comes home: 200-million-year-old fossil back in N.J. |
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· 04/18/2010 2:47:00 PM PDT · · Posted by Coleus · · 10 replies · 392+ views · · star ledger · · 04.11.10 · · Brent Johnson · |
For millions of years, Tany laid buried under layers of rock in what is now Hudson County. She was unearthed in 1979 by a trio of amateur fossil hunters in an abandoned quarry: a rare, complete skeleton of a primitive reptile -- one that swam through waterways in the northeast as dinosaurs began to roam the planet. But in the decades since her discovery, Tany has been stored out of state, modestly displayed in the lobby of a New York research laboratory. Now, she's back home. The fossil's founders, Steven and Trini Stelz and James Leonard, recently donated the 200-million-year-old... |
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| Mysterious Desert Lines Were Animal Traps [Negev and Sinai] |
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· 04/20/2010 9:10:50 PM PDT · · Posted by Enchante · · 12 replies · 773+ views · · Discovery.com · · April 20, 2010 · · Larry O'Hanlon · |
THE GIST: * A series of low, long walls are cleverly constructed traps that used the landscape. * Gazelle, ibexes, wild asses and other large herding animals were the targets. * No one is sure why the kites were abandoned. British RAF pilots in the early 20th century were the first to spot the strange kite-like lines on the deserts of Israel, Jordan and Egypt from the air and wonder about their origins. The lines are low, stone walls, usually found as angled pairs, that begin far apart and converge at circular pits. In some places in Jordan the lines... |
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| Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy | |
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| Do Dartmoor's ancient stones have link to Stonehenge? |
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· 04/19/2010 9:09:10 AM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 13 replies · 841+ views · · newscientist · · 14 April 2010 · · Linda Geddes · |
LITTERED across the hills of Dartmoor in Devon, southern England, around 80 rows and circles of stones stand sentinel in the wild landscape. Now, striking similarities between one of these monuments and Stonehenge, 180 kilometres to the east, suggest they may be the work of the same people. The row of nine stones on Cut Hill was discovered in 2004 on one of the highest, most remote hills of Dartmoor national park. "It is on easily the most spectacular hill on north Dartmoor," says Andrew Fleming, president of the Devon Archaeological Society. "If you were looking for a distant shrine... |
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| Does archaeology support the Bible? |
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· 03/19/2010 8:34:02 PM PDT · · Posted by restornu · · 76 replies · 1,087+ views · · TruthOrTradition.com · · 2008 · |
The material evidence that archaeologists have discovered supports the Bible. Sadly, in the 1900s there was a great deal of archaeological work interpreted in a way that discredited the Bible. Of course, it has been said that archaeology "proves" the Bible, and this is not technically correct either. The Bible contains much information about God, the spiritual nature of the world, and the future of man that archaeology can never prove. The best archaeology can do is substantiate what the Bible says about the past, but the importance of that should not be understated. If, time after time, archaeology substantiates... |
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| Searching for the Better Text: How errors crept into the Bible and what can be done to correct them |
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· 04/23/2010 7:35:06 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 13 replies · 563+ views · · Biblical Archaeology Review · · April 2010 · · Harvey Minkoff · |
In some cases the traditional text is clearly superior, but in others the version in the scrolls is better. Thanks to the scrolls, more and more textual problems in the Hebrew Bible are being resolved. The notes in newer Bible translations list variant readings from the scrolls, and in some cases, the translations incorporate these readings in the text as the preferred reading. No one has ever seriously suggested that the Dead Sea Scrolls contain anything like an eleventh commandment; but the scrolls do help clarify numerous difficult phrases in the Hebrew Bible, and for textual scholars that is more... |
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| Aramaic Gospels online |
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· 02/28/2004 8:29:38 PM PST · · Posted by djf · · 16 replies · 1,044+ views · · The Peshitta website · |
For those who are interested, there is a literal translation of the Aramaic Gospels (and Acts) online. Mattai, Marqus, Luqa, and Yukhanan. I have not compared it yet to my 1872 hardcopy of Murdocks Translation of The Syriac Testament(1851) and am unsure if they are the same source, as there are about 6 extant versions of the Aramaic text. You will need a frame compatible browser and Adobe Acrobat to read it, go to WWW.PESHITTA.ORG, and on the left frame, click on Interlinear to expand. It reads right to left. Here is a sample, The Lords prayer, Luqa 1: "Our... |
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| The Revolution | |
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| Minuteman reenactor's forebear may have started the battle |
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· 04/19/2010 8:52:48 AM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 24 replies · 813+ views · · Boston.com · · April 19, 2010 · · David Filipov · |
LEXINGTON -- Like the other Minutemen in his company, Bill Poole will grab his musket, sling his cartridge box over his shoulder, and stride onto Lexington Green this morning to fight, and lose, the famed first skirmish between Patriot and Redcoat. But unlike his comrades in the annual reenactment, Poole will carry with him a piece of a 235-year-old mystery that still surrounds that momentous clash: the question of who fired the shot that sparked the opening volley of the Revolutionary War. Poole, 76, is the direct descendant of Ebenezer Locke, a man who, according to one account, fired the... |
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| Why Can't Old Media Get History Right Part 2: Boston Herald Muffs Rev War |
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· 04/20/2010 10:29:07 AM PDT · · Posted by Mobile Vulgus · · 4 replies · 352+ views · · Publius Forum · · 04/20/10 · · Warner Todd Huston · |
Last week I posted a deconstruction of the muffed WWII history as penned by NPR commentator Cokie Roberts. Today I have another example of muddled history in the Old Media. This one is misconstrued Revolutionary War history as published by the Boston Herald. Hard to believe that the Boston Herald, a paper that sits in the cradle of the Revolutionary War, can get Revolutionary War history wrong but such is the degraded state of the Old Media. In Lexington, Massachusetts on April 19, 2010, reenactors of the Rev War celebrated the 235th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington. The Boston... |
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| The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere |
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· 04/18/2010 9:02:34 PM PDT · · Posted by Oratam · · 46 replies · 631+ views · · A Wayside Inn · · April 19, 1860 · · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · |
Paul Revere's Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every... |
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| The Framers | |
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| President George Washington racks up $300,000 late fee for two Manhattan library books |
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· 04/17/2010 2:24:46 PM PDT · · Posted by Sub-Driver · · 60 replies · 1,269+ views · · NY Daily News · |
President George Washington racks up $300,000 late fee for two Manhattan library books BY Rich Schapiro DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Saturday, April 17th 2010, 4:00 AM He may have never told a lie, but George Washington apparently had no problem stiffing a Manhattan library on two books. Two centuries ago, the nation's first President borrowed two tomes from the New York Society Library on E. 79th St. and never returned them, racking up an inflation-adjusted $300,000 late fee. But Washington can rest easy. "We're not actively pursuing the overdue fines," quipped head librarian Mark Bartlett. "But we would be very... |
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| 184-year-old Adams letter found |
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· 04/21/2010 12:38:59 PM PDT · · Posted by txroadkill · · 19 replies · 1,634+ views · · The Boston Globe · · David Abel · |
QUINCY -- Paul Hines, an assistant city solicitor, was combing through dozens of old boxes in the musty basement of City Hall, searching for records to defend the city from a lawsuit, when he made an unexpected find. A dust-covered box in one of the 126-year-old building's former jail cells was filled with old scrapbooks. As Hines leafed through the brittle pages earlier this month, he came upon a letter from 1826 that addressed the burial of John Adams and his wife, Abigail, in First Parish Church across the street from City Hall. And when he flipped over the sheet... |
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| Alexander Hamilton and New Jersey perfect together |
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· 04/18/2010 2:18:40 PM PDT · · Posted by Coleus · · 6 replies · 243+ views · · northjersey.com · · 01.24.10 · · RICHARD TOWNSEND · |
Our early New Jersey statesmen were more than acquaintances. Alexander Hamilton, with a handful of his associates, was a central figure in the development of the Village of Bergen into Jersey City. Prior to the War of Independence, the colonies under English rule were prohibited from manufacturing products for their own use. For example, iron ore was converted to pig iron and shipped to England. There, the pig iron was used to manufacture a wide variety of products that were shipped back to the colonies for sale. This was one of the causes of the Revolution. After the war, Hamilton... |
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| Dr. Benjamin Franklin Statement to 1787 Constitutional Convention RE: Executive Salary |
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· 04/18/2010 5:02:58 PM PDT · · Posted by dajeeps · · 13 replies · 437+ views · · The Avalon Project · · 1787 · · Dr. Benjamin Franklin · |
Dr. B. Franklin Madison Debates Saturday June 2, 1787 IN COMMITTEE OF WHOLE Sir. It is with reluctance that I rise to express a disapprobation of any one article of the plan for which we are so much obliged to the honorable gentleman who laid it before us. From its first reading I have borne a good will to it, and in general wished it success. In this particular of salaries to the Executive branch I happen to differ; and as my opinion may appear new and chimerical, it is only from a persuasion that it is right, and from... |
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| Research restores credit for an engineering feat (Cabin John Bridge [Union Arch Bridge]) |
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· 04/21/2010 10:28:10 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 9 replies · 301+ views · · Case Western Reserve University · · Apr 21, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Bridge designer and builder denied recognition after joining Confederacy -- Carved in stone on a Civil War-era bridge -- a world-class feat of engineering that stands a couple miles northwest of Washington - are the names of builders and officials of the day. A key name, however, is missing. New research shows that Virginian Alfred R. Rives led the design and construction of the Cabin John Bridge. Also called the Union Arch Bridge, the aqueduct and roadway reaches 220 feet across Cabin John Creek in a single span - the world's longest single-span masonry bridge for nearly 40 years and the nation's... |
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| Remembering the Forsaken -- a review of the book "The Forsaken: An American Tragedy In Stalin's Russia" |
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· 04/22/2010 10:09:29 AM PDT · · Posted by GonzoII · · 8 replies · 203+ views · · Tradition Family and Property · · Francis Slobodnik · · Tuesday, 12 January 2010 · |
In times of social and political turmoil, it is not uncommon for men to grasp for what appear to be easy solutions. Oftentimes, these impulsive decisions can have disastrous consequences. There is nothing meritorious about change in and of itself. The virtuous person prayerfully reasons through the options before making decisions. Men with little virtue grab desperately for anything that, on the surface, appears will improve their... |
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| UM digs find 10,000-year-old Native oasis |
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· 04/17/2010 7:02:34 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 9 replies · 415+ views · · missoulian.com · · April 3, 2010 · · BRETT FRENCH · |
Thousands of years before Euro-Americans "discovered" the bubbling mudpots and eruptive geysers of what is now Yellowstone National Park, early Americans were spending part of their summer camping in the Yellowstone Lake area. "It's always been a destination resort," said Elaine Hale, park archaeologist. "For at least 10,000 years people have been using the lake area." Thanks to archaeological digs around Yellowstone Lake last summer by University of Montana assistant archaeology professor Douglas MacDonald and 13 graduate and undergrad students, park officials are now getting a broader picture of early human use of the lake area. "The lake may have... |
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| Sunflower Genes Yield Traces Of Early Native Americans |
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· 04/17/2010 7:19:18 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 14 replies · 344+ views · · Redorbit.com · · 2 April 2010 · |
New information about early Native Americans' horticultural practices comes not from hieroglyphs or other artifacts, but from a suite of four gene duplicates found in wild and domesticated sunflowers. In an upcoming issue of Current Biology, Indiana University Bloomington biologists present the first concrete evidence for how gene duplications can lead to functional diversity in organisms. In this case, the scientists learned how duplications of a gene called FLOWERING LOCUS T, or FT, could have evolved and interacted to prolong a flower's time to grow. A longer flower growth period means a bigger sunflower -- presumably an attribute of great... |
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| W.Va. Stalagmite Points to Surprising Carbon Footprint |
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· 04/19/2010 12:04:54 PM PDT · · Posted by Eleutheria5 · · 33 replies · 1,085+ views · · aol News · · 19/4/10 · · Dave Thier · |
(April 18) -- The popular American myth of the "noble savage" -- perpetuated by novelists, painters, elementary schoolteachers and James Cameron alike -- holds that the original inhabitants of this continent were shining paragons of living in harmony with Mother Nature. But archaeology, and history, tell a different story: that Native Americans before 1492 seemed to be, well, people. Courtesy Gregory Springer, Ohio University This stalagmite, found in a West Virginia cave, showed a major change in the area's local ecosystem at about 100 B.C. The latest evidence for this comes from scientists at Ohio University, who have made a... |
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| Clever New Caledonian crows can use three tools |
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· 04/22/2010 3:23:28 AM PDT · · Posted by Daffynition · · 17 replies · 350+ views · · BBC · · 20 April 2010 · · Rebecca Morelle · |
New Caledonian crows have given scientists yet another display of their tool-using prowess. Scientists from New Zealand's University of Auckland have found that the birds are able to use three tools in succession to reach some food. The crows, which use tools in the wild, have also shown other problem-solving behaviour, but this find suggests they are more innovative than was thought. The research is published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The team headed to the South Pacific island of New Caledonia, the home of Corvus moneduloides. Finding that the crows could solve the problem... was incredibly... |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #302 Saturday, May 1, 2010 |
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· 04/30/2010 8:08:40 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 2 replies · 54+ views · · Australian Broadcasting Corp · · April 26, 2010 · · Robert Paton · |
Archaeologists have confirmed an Aboriginal site in the path of a major Tasmanian highway contains the oldest evidence of human habitation in the southern hemisphere. About 3 million Indigenous artefacts were discovered at the Jordan River levee north of Hobart. The State Government commissioned archaeologists to examine the site after the Aboriginal community raised concerns that construction of the Brighton bypass could damage it. The site's archaeological director, Rob Paton, says the final report on the dig confirms some artefacts are about 40,000 years old. "They're stone artefacts, they're used for day to day living, cutting and sharpening. It's that... |
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| Archaeologists baffled over 'bizarre' Viking discovery [Irish eyes smiling] |
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· 04/30/2010 7:37:23 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 11 replies · 506+ views · · Irish Examiner · · Wednesday, April 28, 2010 · · Gordon Deegan · |
A team of Irish archaeologists is puzzled by the "bizarre" discovery of a 1,150-year-old Viking necklace in a cave in the Burren. Besides being the largest by far -- up to 12 times longer than previous finds -- the team is puzzled by how such a "high-status" Viking treasure came to lie in the Burren, an area never settled by the Norsemen. The site where the necklace was found at Glencurran Cave was described by team leader Dr Marion Dowd of Sligo IT as a "treasure trove" for archaeologists. The necklace is one of a number of major items discovered... |
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· 04/30/2010 8:26:53 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 4 replies · 136+ views · · Cumberland News (UK) · · Friday, April 30, 2010 · · Victoria Brenan · |
A 936-page report into the Millennium dig in the grounds of Carlisle castle in 1999 has now been published, detailing the 80,000 artefacts discovered and what they reveal about Roman life in the city. Archaeologists dug five trenches on the Castle Green and Eastern Way and, over the following three years, unearthed a huge quantity of pottery, armour, weapons, and, unusually, wooden remains. They normally rot away but, because of the waterlogged soil, 2,000 large pieces of timber were discovered... also saw 2662 fragments of pottery -- including 442 bowls from Gaul -- 536 Roman coins, 30,250 bits of animal... |
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| 'Epigenetic' concepts offer new approach to degenerative disease (Dietary approach?) |
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· 04/28/2010 4:17:12 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 10 replies · 243+ views · · Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · · Apr 28, 2010 · · Unknown · |
ANAHEIM, CA -- In studies on cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders and other degenerative conditions, some scientists are moving away from the "nature versus nurture" debate, and are finding you're not a creature of either genetics or environment, but both - with enormous implications for a new approach to health. The new field of "epigenetics" is rapidly revealing how people, plants and animals do start with a certain genetic code at conception. But, the choice of which genes are "expressed," or activated, is strongly affected by environmental influences. The expression of genes can change quite rapidly over time, they can... |
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| New Drug May Treat Cystic Fibrosis, Other Diseases Caused by "Nonsense Mutations,"... |
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· 04/27/2010 2:42:28 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 4 replies · 171+ views · · University of Alabama at Birmingham · · Apr 26, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis can be caused by genetic "nonsense mutations" that disrupt the way human cells make proteins. David Bedwell, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Microbiology, says scientists are now closer to producing drugs that will fix this disruption and drastically improve treatment of genetic disease. Bedwell is a renowned researcher on the select group of genetic alterations called nonsense mutations - DNA alterations that can lead to nonfunctional or missing proteins. He presented recent findings on an experimental drug that may help to treat some cystic fibrosis patients... |
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| Ancient DNA suggests new hominid line |
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· 04/25/2010 8:28:57 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 25 replies · 533+ views · · ScienceNews · · Apr 24, 2010 · · Bruce Bower · |
A new member of the human evolutionary family has been proposed for the first time based on an ancient genetic sequence, not fossil bones. Even more surprising, this novel and still mysterious hominid, if confirmed, would have lived near Stone Age Neandertals and Homo sapiens. "It was a shock to find DNA from a new type of ancestor that has not been on our radar screens," says geneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. These enigmatic hominids left Africa in a previously unsuspected migration around 1 million years ago, a team led by... |
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| Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles | |
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| New "Splinter Cell" Super-Immune Cells Created; Ready to Fight Cancer, AIDS |
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· 04/29/2010 1:46:20 PM PDT · · Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach · · 9 replies · 252+ views · · Daily Tech · · April 27, 2010 7:45 PM · · Jason Mick (Blog) · |
Why use drugs, when you can improve the body's own designs? Evolution has bestowed mammals with amazingly complex and robust immune systems capable of fighting off a variety of foreign invaders including fungi, bacteria, and viruses. The immune system is also capable of detecting cancerous cells -- cells in which mutations have led to uncontrolled growth which threatens to engulf normal healthy tissues. The problem is that even nature sometimes falls short. The immune system's T Cells, special cells used to fight extreme abnormalities such as AIDS and cancer (note, a special type of T cell fights HIV-infected T cells in AIDS), often... |
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| Catastrophism and Astronomy | |
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| WHOI scientists find ancient asphalt domes off California coast (Maltenes?) |
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· 04/25/2010 3:07:30 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 35 replies · 1,042+ views · · Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution · · Apr 25, 2010 · · Unknown · |
They paved paradise and, it turns out, actually did put up a parking lot. A big one. Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal resort, Santa Barbara, sits a group of football-field-sized asphalt domes unlike any other underwater features known to exist. About 35,000 years ago, a series of apparent undersea volcanoes deposited massive flows of petroleum 10 miles offshore. The deposits hardened into domes that were discovered recently by scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and UC Santa Barbara (UCSB). Their report -- co-authored with researchers from UC Davis, the University of Sydney... |
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| Dinosaurs | |
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| Dinosaurs died from sudden temperature drop 'not comet strike', scientists claim |
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· 04/25/2010 6:50:12 PM PDT · · Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach · · 41 replies · 906+ views · · Telegraph · · Apr 24, 2010 · · Andrew Hough · |
Dinosaurs were wiped out by sudden drop in temperatures, not by comet striking the planet, scientists claimed. British researchers claim that a sudden plummeting in the sea temperature of 16F (9C) more than 137 million years ago was the first step towards their eventual road to extinction. While studying fossils and minerals from the Arctic Svalbard, Norway, they concluded the sudden change in the Atlantic Gulf Stream during the Cretaceous period would almost certainly have wiped out the ''abundance'' of the world's dinosaurs. |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis | |
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| Research shows part of Alaska inundated by ancient megafloods |
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· 04/28/2010 12:23:15 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 35 replies · 445+ views · · University of Washington · · Apr 28, 2010 · · Unknown · |
New research indicates that one of the largest fresh-water floods in Earth's history happened about 17,000 years ago and inundated a large area of Alaska that is now occupied in part by the city of Wasilla, widely known because of the 2008 presidential campaign. The event was one of at least four "megafloods" as Glacial Lake Atna breached ice dams and discharged water. The lake covered more than 3,500 square miles in the Copper River Basin northeast of Anchorage and Wasilla. The megaflood that covered the Wasilla region released as much as 1,400 cubic kilometers, or 336 cubic miles, of... |
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| Ancient Artifacts Revealed as Northern Ice Patches Melt |
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· 04/26/2010 11:35:18 AM PDT · · Posted by Frenchtown Dan · · 34 replies · 1,012+ views · · Science daily · · 4/26/2010 · · Science Daily · |
High in the Mackenzie Mountains, scientists are finding a treasure trove of ancient hunting tools being revealed as warming temperatures melt patches of ice that have been in place for thousands of years. |
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| Anatolia | |
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| Flood Expedition Inspires 'Noah's Ark' in Bulgaria |
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· 08/27/2002 5:12:41 AM PDT · · Posted by Tancred · · 1 replies · 286+ views · · Reuters · · August 27, 2002 · · Reuters · |
Flood Expedition Inspires 'Noah's Ark' in Bulgaria Tue Aug 27, 7:17 AM ET SOFIA, Bulgaria (Reuters) -- An expedition looking to prove that the great biblical flood occurred in the Black Sea has inspired Bulgarian entrepreneurs to build a replica of Noah's Ark aimed at luring tourists. The wooden vessel, 368 feet long, will shelter exotic animals while actors play the biblical figures of Noah and his family, project manager Nikolai Kanchev said Monday. The Ark will be built near the Black Sea resort of Slanchev Bryag and open for visitors next year, Kanchev told Reuters. Last year U.S. geologist... |
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| CIA Releases New 'Noah's Ark' Documents |
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· 11/21/2002 11:50:10 AM PST · · Posted by Ready2go · · 129 replies · 1,311+ views · · Insight Mag · · Nov. 13, 2002 · · Timothy W. Maier · |
CIA Releases New 'Noah's Ark' Documents Posted Nov. 13, 2002 By Timothy W. Maier Is it the Ark, or just a piece of rock? Two years after Insight filed an appeal charging that the CIA withheld documents and imagery concerning the Mount Ararat anomaly in Turkey, the CIA has released two new documents to Insight that indicate the search for "Noah's Ark" reached the level of the White House under former president George H.W. Bush. The appeal, filed one month after Insight's exclusive story (see "Anomaly or Noah's Ark?"; Nov. 20, 2000), comes on the heels of the CIA's releasing... |
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| Update: Noah's Ark Investigation |
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· 04/15/2003 6:54:23 PM PDT · · Posted by Prince Charles · · 15 replies · 479+ views · · Insight · · 4-15-03 · · Timothy W. Maier · |
Update: Noah's Ark Investigation Posted April 15, 2003 By Timothy W. Maier Nearly a week after the CIA released another record from its secret "Noah's Ark" file, this one including a note saying that U.S. intelligence agencies immediately destroy records from reconnaissance missions, Insight received another batch of declassified records that suggest the U.S. Navy may have shot a series of pictures of the anomaly on Mount Ararat. in 1974. The released records consist of a 1993 memo to the deputy director of the CIA from William H.J. Manthorpe Jr. , deputy director of Naval Intelligence, and notes from a... |
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| Update: Noah's Ark Investigation |
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· 04/16/2003 3:32:02 PM PDT · · Posted by green team 1999 · · 41 replies · 709+ views · · Insightmag.com · · april-15-2003 · · By Timothy W. Maier · |
Update: Noah's Ark Investigation Posted April 15, 2003 By Timothy W. Maier Nearly a week after the CIA released another record from its secret "Noah's Ark" file, this one including a note saying that U.S. intelligence agencies immediately destroy records from reconnaissance missions, Insight received another batch of declassified records that suggest the U.S. Navy may have shot a series of pictures of the anomaly on Mount Ararat. in 1974. The released records consist of a 1993 memo to the deputy director of the CIA from William H.J. Manthorpe Jr. , deputy director of Naval Intelligence, and notes from a... |
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| The Gospel According to the Zoo |
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· 05/17/2003 7:33:29 PM PDT · · Posted by fightinJAG · · 1 replies · 241+ views · · Deutsche Welle · · May 17, 2003 · · Staff · |
The Gospel According to the Zoo Animals at the Osnabruck Zoo are part of the cast of the story of creation this summer. Zookeepers in Osnabruck, Germany, are building their own metaphorical Noah's Ark to teach school children stories from the bible, incorporating gazelles, lions and even ostriches. A gaggle of school kids is gathered in front of the goat enclosure at the local zoo in Osnabruck, Germany. Like most young children, they are intrigued by the creatures and poke their fingers through the fence, attempting to grab hold of the animal's horns. But today's lesson for the third-grade class... |
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| Noah's Ark takes ride on biblical side with ad |
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· 06/16/2003 1:14:19 PM PDT · · Posted by rattrap · · 16 replies · 294+ views · · Milwaukee Journal Sentinal Online · · June 15, 2003 · · DORIS HAJEWSKI · |
Noah's Ark takes ride on biblical side with ad Attraction aims to make park weather-proof By DORIS HAJEWSKI dhajewski@journalsentinel.com Last Updated: June 15, 2003 Noah's Ark is going biblical with a new ad to promote the Wisconsin Dells water park this season. Noah's Ark Ad A coffee shop in heaven is the setting for the new 30-second TV ad, which marks a departure from the tried-and-true amusement park format that typically shows kids enjoying the rides. The new ad, running now on broadcast and cable stations around the state, has Noah and Moses competing for the attention of a pretty... |
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| Scientists hunt for evidence of Noah's flood in Black Sea |
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· 07/17/2003 7:27:18 AM PDT · · Posted by presidio9 · · 65 replies · 561+ views · · Associated Press · · 7/16/2003 · |
In 1994, archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert rode around northern Turkey in a dirty white Toyota van looking for evidence of ancient civilizations around the Black Sea. Every time he and his team would ask locals for the whereabouts of centuries-old ruins, they'd get the same response. "Everyone kept pointing us to the sea," Hiebert recalled. |
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| Scientists hunt for evidence of Noah's flood in Black Sea - |
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· 07/17/2003 5:42:16 PM PDT · · Posted by UnklGene · · 7 replies · 172+ views · · WorldNetDaily · · July 16, 2003 · |
Posted 7/16/2003 2:45 PM Scientists hunt for evidence of Noah's flood in Black Sea NARRAGANSETT, R.I. (AP) -- In 1994, archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert rode around northern Turkey in a dirty white Toyota van looking for evidence of ancient civilizations around the Black Sea. Every time he and his team would ask locals for the whereabouts of centuries-old ruins, they'd get the same response. "Everyone kept pointing us to the sea," Hiebert recalled. Hiebert knows now why they did. After some preliminary trips, the University of Pennsylvania professor and other scientists will go on a first-ever effort to excavate ancient ships... |
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| Explorer Who Discovered The 'Titanic' Sets Out To Prove That Noah's Flood Formed Black Sea |
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· 07/22/2003 6:51:44 PM PDT · · Posted by blam · · 32 replies · 936+ views · · Independent (UK) · · 7-23-2003 · · David Usborne · |
Explorer who discovered the 'Titanic' sets out to prove that Noah's flood formed Black Sea By David Usborne 23 July 2003 The Bible tells us how the Great Flood happened, compelling Noah to herd all of animal life into his Ark. The skies opened and it rained incessantly, in fact for 40 days and 40 nights. But some scientists have another theory altogether and this week an expedition will leave for the Black Sea to try to prove it. Among the team will be Robert Ballard, the American underwater explorer who became famous when he found the Titanic beneath the... |
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| In Search of Noah's Ark |
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· 07/23/2003 7:03:32 AM PDT · · Posted by LOL Clinton Was Impeached · · 134 replies · 450+ views · · MSNBC · · July 21st, 2003 · · Eve Conant · |
He found the Titanic. Now Robert Ballard hunts the quarry of a lifetime July 21 issue -- Ten thousand years ago, the Black Sea was a freshwater lake in the middle of a vast, low-lying basin. Its fertile valleys and lush pastures would have given Neolithic hunter-gatherers a perfect opportunity to make the leap to a more settled, agricultural society. But then disaster struck. ABOUT 7,500 YEARS ago the ice age ended, the world's climate warmed and the seas rose. The Aegean Sea breached a narrow strip of land, where the Strait of Bosporus is today, like a dam bursting.... |
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| Believers In The Lost Ark (Noah's) |
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· 08/08/2003 6:56:40 PM PDT · · Posted by blam · · 24 replies · 531+ views · · The Guardian (UK) · · 8-9-2003 · · Karen Armstrong · |
Believers in the lost Ark Treating myth as fact misunderstands the meaning of religion Karen Armstrong Saturday August 9, 2003 The Guardian (UK) The explorer who discovered the Titanic beneath the Atlantic in 1985 is setting out on another underwater expedition to document Noah's flood. The Black Sea was originally a freshwater lake that in ancient times became inundated by the salty Mediterranean. Robert Ballard believes that this was a cataclysmic event that occurred about 7,500 years ago, and was possibly the deluge described in the Bible. Ballard's critics are sceptical: they argue that the infiltration of the Black Sea... |
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| If Noah lived today. |
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· 08/22/2003 10:40:24 AM PDT · · Posted by aynfan · · 27 replies · 373+ views · · Internet · · 08/22/03 · · unknown · |
IF NOAH WERE ALIVE TODAY It is the year 2003 and Noah lives in the United States. The Lord speaks to Noah and says: "In one year I am going to make it rain and cover the whole earth with water until all is destroyed. But I want you to save the righteous people and two of every kind of living thing on the earth. Therefore, I am commanding you to build an Ark." In a flash of lightning, God delivered the specifications for an Ark. Fearful and trembling, Noah took the plans and agreed to build the Ark. "Remember,"... |
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| Did Noah Go Through Flood in Wooden Submarine? |
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· 10/30/2003 1:04:06 PM PST · · Posted by sonsofliberty2000 · · 40 replies · 209+ views · · Pravda · |
Did Noah Go Through Flood in Wooden Submarine? -- 10/30/2003 16:02 A Russian expedition managed to discover remains of the legendary ark Within the past years, results of aero and space photography have proved that there is some wooden construction in the glacier on the top of the Ararat mountain. This huge construction looks very much like an ark. But as Turks (as is known, the Ararat mountain is situated on the territory of Turkey) do not allow foreigners to this part of the country, it has not been yet found out what the construction is in fact. At the... |
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| Noah Claim Annoys Scientists |
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· 01/08/2004 7:02:31 PM PST · · Posted by blam · · 45 replies · 310+ views · · The Guardian (UK) · · 1-9-2004 · · Duncan Campbell · |
Noah claim annoys scientists Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Friday January 9, 2004 The Guardian (UK) Noah and his ark have entered the choppy waters of a debate about the age and geological history of the Grand Canyon. For years, geologists have held that the 217-mile-long canyon in Arizona was fashioned by the Colorado river between 5m and 6m years ago, and contains some of the oldest exposed rocks on Earth. But now a book sold in the offical Grand Canyon park bookstore suggests that it was created by the flood that is reported in the book of Genesis. Grand... |
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| Animals into the ark two by two? Not if you believe the BBC |
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· 03/06/2004 4:50:17 PM PST · · Posted by Pokey78 · · 76 replies · 502+ views · · The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) · · 03/07/04 · · Chris Hastings · |
The Biblical story of Noah's ark is a "great myth", devoid of any scientific or historical credibility according to a new BBC programme about the great flood. Noah's Ark, which has been produced by the Corporation's religion and ethics division, argues that there is no evidence to support the idea of an ark, a global flood or even a man called Noah. It claims that the story in the Book of Genesis was a fabrication inspired by the story of King Gilgamesh, who was caught up in a flood while trying to transport his own livestock. Gilgamesh, who was King... |
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| BBC Report: Noah's Ark "...more credible version based on Babylonian sources." |
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· 03/19/2004 10:44:41 AM PST · · Posted by yankeedame · · 111 replies · 686+ views · · BBC On Line · · Friday, 19 March, 2004 · · Jeremy Bowen · |
Last Updated: Friday, 19 March, 2004, 11:06 GMT Did Noah really build an ark? By Jeremy Bowen Presenter, Noah's Ark In the Bible, God tells Noah he has to build an ark and load a pair of every kind of animal before a great flood engulfs the world. It is widely regarded as a myth, but could it actually be true? The story of Noah and his ark is one which sticks in the minds of children and never gets forgotten. God warned Noah -- the only good man left in a world full of corruption and violence -- to... |
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| Noah's Ark Found? Company Claims Commercial Satellite Has Picture Proof |
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· 04/26/2004 7:13:00 AM PDT · · Posted by Brett66 · · 85 replies · 1,271+ views · · Space.com · · 4/26/04 · · Space.com · |
April 26 Noah's Ark Found? Company Claims Commercial Satellite Has Picture Proof Satellite photos of Mount Aratat, Turkey taken by commercial imaging satellite company Digital Globe released today are said to contain proof of the existence of the biblical Noah's Ark. The images, revealed at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. (see right), are said to reveal a man-made structure at the site where the Bible states the vessel came to rest. The claim was made by Daniel P. McGivern, president of Shamrock -- The Trinity Corporation, who according to a press release has been... |
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| Expedition Will Seek to Find Noah's Ark |
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· 04/26/2004 6:19:02 PM PDT · · Posted by wagglebee · · 29 replies · 358+ views · · FoxNews.com · · 4/26/04 · · Associated Press · |
An expedition is being planned for this summer to the upper reaches of Turkey's Mount Ararat (search) where organizers hope to prove an object nestled amid the snow and ice is Noah's Ark (search). A joint U.S.-Turkish team of 10 explorers plans to make the arduous trek up Turkey's tallest mountain, at 17,820 feet, from July 15 to August 15, subject to the approval of the Turkish government, said Daniel P. McGivern, president of Shamrock_The Trinity Corporation of Honolulu, Hawaii. The goal: to enter what they believe to be a mammoth structure some 45 feet high, 75 feet wide and... |
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| Satellite photos spark Noah's Ark trek |
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· 04/26/2004 10:48:33 PM PDT · · Posted by JohnHuang2 · · 19 replies · 651+ views · · WorldNetDaily.com · · Tuesday, April 27, 2004 · |
A team of scientists, archaeologists and forensic experts plan to climb Turkey's Mt. Ararat this summer in quest of evidence that will prove they have discovered Noah's Ark. Satellite photos taken last year at the height of a record-warm summer, give Daniel P. McGivern confidence he has discovered the biblical icon. "These new photos unequivocally show a man made object," McGivern told reporters at the National Press Club in Washington. "I am convinced that the excavation of the object and the results of tests run on any collected samples will prove that it is Noah's Ark," said McGivern, president of... |
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| Expedition Will Seek to Find Noah's Ark |
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· 04/27/2004 5:00:15 AM PDT · · Posted by a_Turk · · 49 replies · 519+ views · · AP · · 4/27/2004 · · HOPE YEN · |
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An expedition is being planned for this summer to the upper reaches of Turkey's Mount Ararat where organizers hope to prove an object nestled amid the snow and ice is Noah's Ark. A joint U.S.-Turkish team of 10 explorers plans to make the arduous trek up Turkey's tallest mountain, at 17,820 feet, from July 15 to August 15, subject to the approval of the Turkish government, said Daniel P. McGivern, president of Shamrock-The Trinity Corporation of Honolulu, Hawaii. The goal: to enter what they believe to be a mammoth structure some 45 feet high, 75 feet wide... |
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| Noah's Ark Found? Turkey Expedition Planned For Summer |
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· 04/28/2004 1:17:42 PM PDT · · Posted by blam · · 90 replies · 1,781+ views · · National Geographic News · · 4-27-2004 · · Hillary Mayall · |
Noah's Ark Found? Turkey Expedition Planned for Summer Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News April 27, 2004 Satellite pictures taken last summer of Mount Ararat in Turkey may reveal the final resting place of Noah's ark, according to Daniel McGivern, the businessman and Christian activist behind a planned summer 2004 expedition to investigate the site. "We're telling people we're 98 percent sure," said McGivern, a member of the Hawaii Christian Coalition. "In one image we saw the beams, saw the wood. I'm convinced that the excavation of the object and the results of tests run on any collected samples will... |
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| Flash: Noah To Appear Before Genesis 7:11 Commission [40 days, who knew what and when?] |
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· 07/08/2004 6:52:18 PM PDT · · Posted by SJackson · · 13 replies · 635+ views · · Jewish Press · · 7-7-04 · · EDWARD FINKELSTEIN · |
HARAN, Mesopotamia (Reuters) -- Excitement swept through the Fertile Crescent earlier today after it was reported that Noah, the man who played such a central role in the epic flood, would finally be appearing before the Genesis 7:11 Commission. The Commission, which is investigating why it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, has been seeking Noah -- s testimony for many months. However, Noah -- s attorneys had been refusing to allow Noah to testify due to a pending criminal investigation of allegedly illegal ark dumping. A major breakthrough came earlier this week when the Anatolian District Attorney's Office dropped all criminal charges... |
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| Noah's Ark Expedition News? |
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· 07/23/2004 4:21:47 PM PDT · · Posted by Integrityrocks · · 10 replies · 1,218+ views · · Vanity · · IngegrityRocks · |
Has anyone found any "recent" news on the Noah's Ark Expedition that was supposed to start in Turkey up Mt. Ararat on July 17th? I searched Google and found a lot of sites discussing it back in April and May, but nothing about the expedition status. Anyone else have any news? |
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| Black Sea Trip Yields No Flood Conclusion (Noah's Flood?) |
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· 07/31/2004 4:37:21 PM PDT · · Posted by blam · · 7 replies · 985+ views · · Newsday · · 7-31-2004 · · Richard Lewis · |
Black Sea Trip Yields No Flood Conclusions By RICHARD C. LEWIS Associated Press Writer July 30, 2004, 2:06 PM EDT PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Four years ago, scientists thought they had found the perfect place to settle the Noah flood debate: A farmer's house on a bluff overlooking the Black Sea built about 7,500 years ago -- just before tidal waves inundated the homestead, submerged miles of coastline and turned the freshwater lake into a salty sea. Some believed the rectangular site of stones and wood could help solve the age-old question of whether the Black Sea's flooding was the event... |
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| Russian researchers about to unravel the mystery of Noah's Ark |
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· 12/09/2005 10:42:52 AM PST · · Posted by Red Badger · · 23 replies · 1,488+ views · · Pravda (Trust but Verify) · · 12/09/2005 · · Staff · |
The men went to explore the Ahora Gorge on the north-west slope of Ararat It has become some sort of a tradition to make sensational statements about discovery of Noah's Ark every year in October -- November. As a rule, the exact place is not mentioned at that for two reasons. Either these people know the exact location of Noah's Ark and try to keep it secret, or make such sensational statements having no grounds at all just to have their names made public in connection with the sacred mystery. Noah's Ark This year, legendary mountain-climber President of Russia's... |
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| New photo resparks 'Noah's Ark mania' |
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· 03/09/2006 11:30:41 PM PST · · Posted by Tim Long · · 322 replies · 10,924+ views · · WorldNetDaily.com · · March 10, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern · · Joe Kovacs · |
Digital image of 'Ararat Anomaly' has researchers taking closer look A new, high-resolution digital image of what has become known as the "Ararat Anomaly" is reigniting interest in the hunt for Noah's Ark. Satellite image of 'Ararat Anomaly,' taken by DigitalGlobe's QuickBird Satellite in 2003 and now made public for the first time (courtesy: DigitalGlobe) The location of the anomaly on the northwest corner of Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey has been under investigation from afar by ark hunters for years, but it has remained unexplored, with the government of Turkey not granting any scientific expedition permission to explore on... |
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| How Big Was Noah's Ark |
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· 03/11/2006 10:25:09 AM PST · · Posted by DouglasKC · · 245 replies · 7,470+ views · · biblestudy.org · · Unknown · · A. Mendez · |
How BIG was Noah's Ark?How many animals did Noah's Ark hold?"And God said unto Noah, . . . Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this [is the fashion] which thou shalt make it [of]: The length of the ark [shall be] three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt... |
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| Why Noah's Flood was Local |
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· 05/29/2006 6:28:25 AM PDT · · Posted by truthfinder9 · · 253 replies · 2,876+ views · · · |
I often hear skeptics point to the belief in the global flood as a reason to not believe Christianity. I also see "Christian" creationist groups condem other Christians who believe the local flood is the literal interpretation. It's time we start telling "Christian" groups like ICR and AIG to stop turning people away from the Bible and tell them to stop their childish, immature attacks on other Christians (AIG recently refused to be subject to review, now there's the making of a cult!). And it's time for Christians to stop blindly believing everything they are told, just because it comes... |
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| Noah's Ark, Pieces Intact, Found |
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· 06/15/2006 7:56:07 AM PDT · · Posted by Michael_Michaelangelo · · 160 replies · 10,767+ views · · Koenig's International News · · 6/14/06 · · Bill Wilson · |
Wash -- June 14 -- KIN -- On June 5th, Bible Historian and explorer Bob Cornuke led an expedition of 15 geologists, historians, archeologists, scientists and attorneys on an exhausting mission 13,300 feet above sea level to locate and document the tremendous sections of what is thought to be Noah's Ark located in the Ararat mountain range six hours North of Tehran, Iran. It had been essentially buried beneath the preservation of glaciers until last year when Iran recorded the hottest year on record which melted some of the snowcap revealing 450 by 75-foot footprint of the "object." Noah's Ark was claimed to be found in... |
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| Noah's Ark? For Real |
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· 06/30/2006 6:50:20 AM PDT · · Posted by markedmannerf · · 38 replies · 835+ views · · World View Weekend · · June 16 2006 · · Brannon S. Howse · |
How many times have you yawned at the claim "Noah's Ark Has Been Discovered"? Right, you say, and Elvis has been sighted again, too. People who hoped to find the famous vessel and the legendary voice have been pretty much in the same boat (so to speak) -- No proof. Until today. Led by explorer, adventurer, and featured Worldview Weekend speaker Dr. Bob Cornuke, a fourteen man crew returned this week from Iran bearing stunning evidence that theirs is the long-anticipated even coveted discovery of the remains of Noah's Ark. Bob's team consisted of a Who's Who of business, law, and ministry... |
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| Team believes it found Noah's Ark (In Iran) |
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· 06/30/2006 8:26:43 AM PDT · · Posted by DannyTN · · 214 replies · 5,827+ views · · WorldNetDaily.com · · 6/30/06 · · WorldNetDaily · |
A 14-man crew that included evangelical apologist Josh McDowell says it returned from a trek to a mountain in Iran with possible evidence of the remains of Noah's Ark. The group, led by explorer Bob Cornuke, found an unusual object perched on a slope 13,120 feet above sea level. Cornuke, president of the archeological Base Institute and a veteran of nearly 30 expeditions in search of Bible artifacts and locations, said he is cautiously,... |
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| Noah's Ark Discovered in Iran? |
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· 07/07/2006 10:05:17 PM PDT · · Posted by freedom44 · · 385 replies · 9,038+ views · · National Geographic · · 7/7/06 · · Kate Ravilious · |
High in the mountains of northwestern Iran, a Christian archaeology expedition has discovered a rock formation that its members say resembles the fabled Noah's ark. The team discovered the prominent boat-shaped rocks at just over 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) on Mount Suleiman in Iran's Elburz mountain range. "It looks uncannily like wood," said Robert Cornuke, president of the Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute (BASE), the Palmer Lake, Colorado-based group that launched the expedition. Photos taken by BASE members show a prow-shaped rock outcrop, which the team says resembles petrified wood, emerging from a ridge. "We have had [cut] thin... |
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| Flood of claims for 'Noah's Ark' |
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· 07/17/2006 9:45:55 AM PDT · · Posted by SirLinksalot · · 44 replies · 1,715+ views · · WorldNetdaily.Com · · 07/16/2006 · · Joe Kovacs · |
Legendary vessel of Genesis story goes from nowhere to everywhere -- After centuries of scouring the Earth for Noah's Ark, claims are now flooding in that the legendary vessel of the Bible has been found. Last month, headlines screamed that a Texas team of archaelogists believed they had possibly located the biblical boat in Iran. But hang on to the "Hallelujah!" chorus a little longer. There are numerous claims about the final resting place, from Ararat to Armenia. With modern... |
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| Noah's Ark Discovered ... Again and Again |
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· 09/05/2006 10:47:39 AM PDT · · Posted by Central Scrutiniser · · 249 replies · 4,626+ views · · Skeptical Inquirer · · 9-5-06 · · Benjamin Radford · |
In this world there are things that seem on the verge of being discovered every so often, yet never quite materialize. The "Lost City" of Atlantis, for example, has been "found" at least a half dozen times. One researcher is pretty sure it is in Bolivia; another says it is Antarctica; a third claims that Bimini beachrock may be from the lost civilization. So it is with Noah's Ark. The difference is, of course, that the implications of Noah's Ark actually being found extend far beyond archaeology. The weight of all the paired animals in the world is nothing compared... |
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| Purported Sightings Of Noah's Ark |
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· 07/13/2007 6:50:08 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 9 replies · 751+ views · · Planet Preterist · |
Details of the reported sightings and finds are described below... |
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| The Search For Noah's Ark |
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· 07/19/2007 10:57:32 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 71 replies · 3,147+ views · · The Parent Company · · Kelly L. Segraves · |
The first sightings of the ark in more modern times took place in 1856 when a group of English scientists climbed the mountain to search for the Ark. They asked a young Armenian boy, Haji Yearman, and his father to guide them up the mountain and show them the ark of Noah. Haji Yearman and his father did just that! This upset the scientists, because their object was to prove that the ark was not there. These scientists were atheists, and they tried to burn the ark. They said it would not burn, so they tried to destroy it, but... |
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| Marine Team Finds Surprising Evidence Supporting A Great Biblical Flood |
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· 09/10/2007 8:00:41 AM PDT · · Posted by Ben Mugged · · 25 replies · 1,401+ views · · Science Daily · · September 10, 2007 · · Unattributed · |
Did the great flood of Noah's generation really occur thousands of years ago? Was the Roman city of Caesarea destroyed by an ancient tsunami? Will pollution levels in our deep seas remain forever a mystery? ~snip~ "When I was looking for a partner, I needed to find a team of marine scientists who were leaders in their fields," says Weil, a Swedish environmental philanthropist who helped conceive and fund the idea of giving a free, floating marine research lab to any scientist who needed it. "I didn't want us to be just another Greenpeace group of environmental activists. My dream... |
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| Did A Comet Cause The Great Flood? |
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· 11/21/2007 2:17:23 PM PST · · Posted by blam · · 119 replies · 679+ views · · Discover Magazine · · 11-15-2007 · · Scott Carney · |
Did a Comet Cause the Great Flood?The universal human myth may be the first example of disaster reporting. by Scott Carney11-15-2007 The Fenambosy chevrons at the tip of Madagascar. Image courtesy of Dallas Abbott The serpent's tails coil together menacingly. A horn juts sharply from its head. The creature looks as if it might be swimming through a sea of stars. Or is it making its way up a sheer basalt cliff? For Bruce Masse, an environmental archaeologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, there is no confusion as he looks at this ancient petroglyph, scratched into a rock by a... |
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| Modern Claims To Have Seen The Ark Of Noah |
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· 12/30/2007 6:28:05 AM PST · · Posted by Fennie · · 33 replies · 269+ views · · origins.swau.edu · · Lee Spencer and Jean Luc Lienard · |
The story of Haji Yearam is the first known to us where a person claims to have seen the ark himself. He was born in 1832 in Armenia, moved at sometime to Oakland, California, where he lived until he died in 1920. "When Haji was a large boy, but not yet a man fully grown, there came to his home some strangers. If I remember correctly there were three vile men who did not believe the Bible and did not believe in the existence of a personal God. They were scientists and evolutionists. They were on this expedition specifically to... |
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| Noah's Ark Flood Spurred European Farming |
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· 01/24/2008 3:04:09 PM PST · · Posted by blam · · 33 replies · 114+ views · · Canada West · · Randy Boswell · |
Ancient Canadian flood cascaded changes across Europe -- A British scientist has found evidence linking the catastrophic collapse of a glacial ice dam in Canada more than 8,000 years ago and the rapid spread of agriculture across Europe around the same time. The dramatic discharge of freshwater from prehistoric Lake Agassiz -- which covered much of Central Canada at the end of the last ice age -- has long been blamed for altering global climate patterns and raising sea levels around the world by at... |
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| Noah's Ark nestled on Mount Ararat |
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· 02/17/2008 5:05:48 PM PST · · Posted by 2ndDivisionVet · · 281 replies · 1,245+ views · · The Peninsula · · January 19, 2008 · · Satish Kanady · |
Dogubayazit (Turkey's Iran-Armenian Border) -- For the first time in the seven decade-long history of the search for the legendary Noah's Ark, a Turkish-Hong Kong exploration team on Tuesday came out with "material evidence", to prove that the Ark was nestled on Mount Ararat, Turkey's highest mountain peak bordering Iran and Armenia. A panel of experts, comprising Turkish authorities, veteran mountaineers, archaeologists, geologists and members of Hong Kong-based Noah's Ark Ministries International, also displayed an almost one-metre-long peice of petrified wood before the media and specially invited international experts. The experts claimed it to be a part of a long... |
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| Noah's Ark -- Fact Not Fiction |
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· 08/22/2008 9:59:31 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 81 replies · 1,686+ views · · rsanoa.home.comcast.net · · Ray Anderson · |
In 1943 during WW2, an army Sgt., Ed Davis, was working in Iran near the Turkish border, in charge of locals hired by our army to build a road through Iran to the Soviet border, which would carry supplies to the Soviets instead of flying them in. In short, Ed did a tremendous favor for a little Kurdish village near Ararat. His workers were mostly Kurds and the chief of the village came to Ed and asked if he would like to see Noah's Ark. He said the summer on the mountain had been hottest in many years and the... |
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| Noah's ark booth won't be a part of Lincoln event |
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· 10/20/2008 8:28:26 AM PDT · · Posted by stan_sipple · · 15 replies · 356+ views · · Individual.com · · 10-18-2008 · · Christopher Burbach · |
In the latest flap over religion in public places, a Lincoln restaurateur and Christian church have decided to pull their Noah's ark booth out of the Lincoln Children's Zoo's annual "Boo at the Zoo" trick-or-treating event. The reason? A new zoo diversity policy forbade Bible verses on the booth's pizza coupons, and the restaurant owner and church leaders did not want to go along with that ruling. The owner of the daVinci's restaurant chain, Kelly Knudson, said he and First Covenant Evangelical Church leaders decided to pull out despite a 15-year history of participating in the event. For all those... |
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| Speciation and the Animals on the Ark |
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· 04/15/2009 8:21:59 PM PDT · · Posted by GodGunsGuts · · 25 replies · 758+ views · · ICR · · April 2009 · · Daniel Criswell, Ph.D. · |
Speciation and the Animals on the Ark by Daniel Criswell, Ph.D.* Many people who use biological data to support an old-earth position believe that the appearance of millions of animal species does not support a young earth interpretation of creation. Nor do they think that a recent global Flood would support the existence of a great number of animals today if Noah only took two of each kind on the Ark. However, the science of how speciation occurs, and the definition of a species versus the biblical kind, does explain how many variations of the same kind of animal can... |
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| News to Note: A weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint |
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· 04/18/2009 11:57:10 AM PDT · · Posted by GodGunsGuts · · 19 replies · 1,019+ views · · AiG · · April 18, 2009 · |
Read these stories and much more by clicking the excerpt link below: 1. Wall Street Journal: "Hong Kong Christens an Ark of Biblical Proportions" 2. ScienceNOW: "Our Ancestors Were No Swingers" 3. National Geographic News: "First Tool Users Were Sea Scorpions?" 4. LiveScience: "Three Subgroups of Neanderthals Identified" 5. BBC News: "Stem Cells 'Can Treat Diabetes'" (adult stem cells, that is...) 6. New Scientist: "Praying to God Is Like Talking to a Friend" And much much more at... |
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| Forbidden Arkeology: "The Riddle Of Ararat" |
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· 06/13/2009 3:58:37 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 50 replies · 3,279+ views · · Fortean Times · · By Robin Simmons · |
There's a well-known account of ten year old Georgie Hagopian, who saw Noah's Ark while climbing Ararat with his uncle in 1904. The date isn't precise but this was around the time my grandfather was in the region and heard convincing stories of the Ark, preserved in ice and snow, still occasionally visible. My grandfather died in 1980, aged 106. As a boy, I listened to his adventures as a doctor in Eastern Turkey and Russia between 1904 and 1910. He worked in the very shadow of Greater Ararat -- the legendary Biblical landing place of Noah's ship. My grandfather... |
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| Claudio Schranz, The Guide Who Climbed The Mountain And Found A Girder Of The Ark Of Noah |
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· 06/21/2009 6:10:51 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 21 replies · 1,832+ views · · mmmgroup.altervista.org · |
The girder comes out from the glacier of Mount Ararat, at an altitude of 4200 meters. It's visible to the naked eye and the Alpine guide Claudio Schranz of Macugnaga has no more doubts: it's a piece of the Noah's Ark. He saw and photographed it at a distance of five meters. It's the morning of December, 2nd, Schranz is an Alpinist and he's 51 years old, he has hundredths of expeditions in all the world to his credits. |
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| Wooden Beam Of Noah's Ark On Mount Ararat |
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· 06/22/2009 7:52:45 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 122 replies · 6,197+ views · · YouTube · · 2002 · |
On the 2nd December 2002 Claudio Schranz of our group and alpine guide has been able to film clearly a beam of Noah's Ark protruding out of the ice on Mount Ararat. It was found at 4000m between the beginning of the Parrot glacier. |
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| Noah's Ark Found? |
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· 06/24/2009 8:01:37 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 44 replies · 2,914+ views · · YouTube · |
Many believe that Mount Ararat in Turkey hold the remains of Noah's Ark. |
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| Noah's Ark On Mount Ararat |
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· 06/25/2009 6:06:17 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 10 replies · 1,721+ views · · YouTube · |
Pictures of a piece of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat (meaning: sacred land or high land), eastern Turkey or former western Armenia, because Noah's Ark is in pieces! |
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| Noahs Ark On Ararat On The Kurdistan Armenian Boarder |
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· 06/26/2009 3:44:07 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 17 replies · 1,539+ views · · YouTube · |
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| Virginia Man To Search For Noah's Ark In Turkey |
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· 06/28/2009 5:17:15 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 46 replies · 2,186+ views · · FOX News · · February 2, 2009 · · Associated Press · |
Saddened by the wickedness of man, God directs the righteous Noah to build an ark for his family and two of each species of animal. Together, they ride the ark through 40 days and 40 nights of torrential rains that God unleashes upon the Earth. And when the waters subside, Noah and the animals return to land. "That seems almost like a fairy story," said archaeologist Randall Price, who is director of Liberty University's new Center for Judaic Studies. "But we believe it was an actual event." This summer Price, 57, plans to continue on a journey to prove just... |
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| T. Rex Cousin Evolved 60 Million Years Too Early |
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· 09/29/2009 10:10:39 AM PDT · · Posted by GodGunsGuts · · 45 replies · 2,033+ views · · ICR News · · September 29, 2009 · · Brian Thomas, M.S. · |
The most popular dinosaur is probably Tyrannosaurus rex, a Latin term that loosely translates as "king lizard." Based on evolutionary assumptions, scientists have long held that these dinosaurs lived for "only" 3 million years, approximately 68 to 65 million years ago. A fossil looking remarkably like a small version of T. rex, however, has been located in a much lower rock layer.[1] Using the evolutionary dates assigned to the relevant strata, this adds 60 million years to the T. rex timeline. If the evolutionary interpretation was this wrong about one creature, can it be trusted on the rest of the... |
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| Man builds working replica of Noah's Ark (exact scale given in Bible) |
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· 10/18/2009 11:16:37 AM PDT · · Posted by NYer · · 72 replies · 4,045+ views · · Spirit Daily · · October 17, 2009 · |
This is amazing. The wood alone would have cost him a fortune. Man builds working replica of Noah's Ark (exact scale given in Bible) In Schagen , NetherlandsThe massive central door in the side of Noah's Ark was opened to the first crowd of curious townsfolk to behold the wonder. Of course, it's only a replica of the biblical Ark , built by Dutch creationist, Johan Huibers, as a testament to his faith in the literal truth of the Bible.The ark is 150 cubits long, 30 cubits high an d 20 cubits wide. That's two-thirds the length of a... |
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| Evolutionists retreating from the arena of science |
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· 12/03/2009 8:35:52 AM PST · · Posted by GodGunsGuts · · 371 replies · 4,852+ views · · CMI · · December 1, 2009 · · Dave Woetzel · |
Evolutionists retreating from the arena of science --snip-- Today, the Darwinian scientific consensus persists within almost every large university and governmental institution. But around the middle of the 20th century an interesting new trend emerged and has since become increasingly established. Evolutionary theorists have been forced, step by step, to steadily retreat from the evidence in the field. Some of the evidences mentioned earlier in this article were demonstrated to be frauds and hoaxes. Other discoveries have been a blow to the straightforward expectations and predictions of evolutionists. Increasingly, they have been forced to tack ad hoc mechanisms onto Darwin's... |
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| Relic reveals Noah's ark was circular |
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· 01/02/2010 11:48:34 AM PST · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 54 replies · 2,668+ views · · guardian.co.uk · · Jan. 1, 2010 · · Maev Kennedy · |
That they processed aboard the enormous floating wildlife collection two-by-two is well known. Less familiar, however, is the possibility that the animals Noah shepherded on to his ark then went round and round inside. According to newly translated instructions inscribed in ancient Babylonian on a clay tablet telling the story of the ark, the vessel that saved one virtuous man, his family and the animals from god's watery wrath was not the pointy-prowed craft of popular imagination but rather a giant circular reed raft. The now battered tablet, aged about 3,700 years, was found somewhere in the Middle East by... |
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| 'Noah's Ark' discovery on Turkish mountain |
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· 04/26/2010 9:01:21 PM PDT · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 93 replies · 2,424+ views · · AFP · · April 27, 2010 · |
A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers said Monday they believe they may have found Noah's Ark -- 4000m up a mountain in Turkey. The team say they recovered wooden specimens from a structure on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey that carbon dating proved was 4800 years old, around the same time the ark is said to have been afloat. "It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's Ark but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it," Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker and member of the 15-strong team from Noah's Ark Ministries International told... |
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| Noah's Ark found in Turkey |
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· 04/27/2010 8:28:30 AM PDT · · Posted by evets · · 257 replies · 6,670+ views · · THE SUN · · TODAY · · STAFF REPORTER · |
The remains of Noah's Ark have been discovered 13,000ft up a Turkish mountain, it has been claimed. A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say they have found wooden remains on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey. They claim carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old -- around the same time the ark was said to be afloat. Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah's Ark Ministries International research team, said: "It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it." He said the structure contained several compartments,... |
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| Evangelists claim Noahs Ark Found |
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· 04/27/2010 9:29:08 AM PDT · · Posted by marstegreg · · 82 replies · 3,227+ views · · World Net Daily · · April 27, 2010 · · Joe Kovacs · |
This story contains much more information and additional photos than The Sun. |
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| Video Shows What Researchers Believe to be Remains of Noah's Ark -- Video |
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· 04/27/2010 9:35:50 AM PDT · · Posted by Federalist Patriot · · 23 replies · 1,442+ views · · Freedom's Lighthouse · · April 27, 2010 · · Brian · |
Here is video showing Chinese and Turkish Evangelical Christian researchers who are virtually sure they have found the remains of Noah's Ark atop Turkey's Mt. Ararat. The video shows them revealing wooden planks and compartments in the structure. You can hear them knocking on wood. The Bible teaches that at the end of the great worldwide flood, the Ark came to rest on a mountain. A Dutch researcher has confirmed he believes this is Noah's Ark. |
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| Evangelical Explorers Claim To Have Found Noah's Ark |
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· 04/28/2010 2:11:07 PM PDT · · Posted by Patriot1259 · · 20 replies · 506+ views · · TheCypressTimes.com · · 04/28/2010 · · John G. Winder · |
Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah's Ark Ministries International research team that made the discovery on Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey, said: "It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it." According to Genesis 8:4, once the flood waters receded Noah's Ark "came to rest on the mountains of Ararat." That is where the team of Chinese and Turkish Evangelical Christians found what they believe to be the famed Ark. The group says that carbon dating proves the relics found are 4,800 year old which correlates to the time-frame given... |
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| Pics, Video From Alleged Noah's Ark Find |
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· 04/27/2010 1:02:13 PM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 63 replies · 3,316+ views · · Dakota Voice · · April 27, 2010 · · By Bob Ellis · |
The Sun, Fox News and others are reporting that a group of Chinese and Turkish Christians claim to have found the remains of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat about 13,000 ft up. |
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| Has Noah's Ark Been Found on Turkish Mountaintop? |
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· 04/28/2010 4:56:07 AM PDT · · Posted by urroner · · 45 replies · 1,031+ views · · Fox News · · April 27, 2010 · |
A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say wooden remains they have discovered on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey are the remains of Noah's Ark. The group claims that carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old, meaning they date to around the same time the ark was said to be afloat. Mt. Ararat has long been suspected as the final resting place of the craft by evangelicals and literalists hoping to validate biblical stories. Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah's Ark Ministries International research team that made the discovery, said: "It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's... |
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| Scientists discover wooden structure believed to be Noah's Ark |
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· 04/28/2010 5:56:26 AM PDT · · Posted by NYer · · 61 replies · 1,879+ views · · cna · · April 27, 2010 · |
A Chinese explorer inside one of the wooden structures on Mt. Ararat. Credit: Noah's Ark Ministries International. -- A Chinese-Turkish exploration team reported on Sunday that they have discovered a wooden structure on the top of Mt. Ararat in Turkey which they believe to be the biblical Noah's Ark. |
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| Latest Claim of Noah's Ark Discovery Like Others for Now, Experts Say |
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· 04/29/2010 6:48:14 AM PDT · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 22 replies · 499+ views · · Christian Post · · 04/29/2010 · · Eric Young · |
Despite the notable lack of significant evidence, the media and the blogosphere are abuzz over the cries of a team of Chinese and Turkish explorers who claim that the wooden structure they found on Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey is none other than Noah's Ark. Experts in history, archaeology, and bibliology, meanwhile, are making note of the claim but not taking the bait. They say they've heard the cries before and will need a lot more than the confirmation of 4,800-year-old wood to take the claims seriously. "Periodically, there are announcements, almost always by enthusiasts without real background in archaeology,... |
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| Noah's Ark found in Turkey (VIDEO) |
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· 04/29/2010 8:37:29 AM PDT · · Posted by FreeManWhoCan · · 26 replies · 938+ views · · YouTube · |
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| Chinese explorers stand by claim of Noah's Ark find in Turkey |
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· 04/30/2010 3:13:27 PM PDT · · Posted by FootBall · · 35 replies · 573+ views · · The Christian Science Monitor · · April 30th, 2010 · · Stephen Kurczy · |
Chinese explorers stand by claim of Noah's Ark find in Turkey The Hong Kong-based team rebutted skepticism over their claims of finding Noah's Ark in Turkey, though they said further research is needed to prove beyond doubt that they have located the fabled biblical boat. |
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· 04/28/2010 3:08:43 PM PDT · · Posted by kronos77 · · 18 replies · 700+ views · · YouTube · |
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· 04/29/2010 4:19:30 PM PDT · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 62 replies · 1,525+ views · · couriermail.com.au · · April 29, 2010 · · staff writers · |
SCIENTISTS are studying an 82-year-old man who claims he has not had any food or drink for 70 years. Prahlad Jani's claims are being put to the test at a hospital in Ahmedabad, where he is being closely monitored and studied by India's Defence Research Development Organisation, which believes he may have a quality which could help save lives, The Telegraph reports. He has so far spent six days without food or water under the strict observation of doctors who say his body is yet to show any signs of hunger or dehydration. Mr Jani is regarded as a "breatharian"... |
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· 04/28/2010 6:07:52 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 14 replies · 275+ views · · U of Md Medical Center · · Apr 28, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Doctors reconsider health and death of 'El Libertador,' general who freed South AmericaCould one of South America's greatest military figures have died from a deadly poison, rather than the tuberculosis assumed at the time of his death in 1830? The mysterious illness and death of Simon Bolivar -- known as "El Libertador" or "The Liberator" -- is the medical mystery in question at this year's Historical Clinicopathological Conference (CPC), sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs (VA) Maryland Health Care System in Baltimore. This conference is devoted to the modern medical diagnosis of disorders... |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #303 Saturday, May 8, 2010 |
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| Agriculture and Animal Husbandry | |
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| Dingo- The World's Oldest Dog |
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· 05/02/2010 9:09:53 AM PDT · · Posted by nickcarraway · · 42 replies · 772+ views · · OneIndia · · 4/28/2010 · |
A recent study has revealed that Dingo is the world's oldest breed of dog. This dog according to experts is basically a cross between dogs and wolves. Experts have found closest genetic similarity between the dingo and wolves. Dingo's have been discovered to be the close kin of, the rare New Guinea singing dog as they shares similar DNA. Dingos and the singing dogs, even their similar features to other dogs were from other breeds for thousands of years. "This gives us a huge weight of evidence supporting the theory that the dingo is quite distinct from all modern dog... |
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| Australia and the Pacific | |
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| Bird molecules challenge to Moa's Ark theory [LOL!] |
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· 05/06/2010 5:24:21 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 19 replies · 254+ views · · PhysOrg · · May 4, 2010 · · Provided by Massey University · |
The so-called "Moa's Ark" theory - that New Zealand's animal and plant life has evolved largely untouched over 80 million years since the Gondwana supercontinent broke up - is being challenged by new molecular evidence from native birds. Dr Steve Trewick and Gillian Gibb, from the Institute of Natural Resources, have carried out a review of the molecular phylogenetic evidence for New Zealand's bird life... According to the review of the data, Dr Trewick says we must continue to rethink the way the biota (animal and plant life) developed and recognise that it has changed considerably over time. "Many New... |
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| Neandertal / Neanderthal | |
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| Neanderthals live on in DNA of humans |
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· 05/06/2010 11:38:16 AM PDT · · Posted by Fractal Trader · · 59 replies · 1,013+ views · · The Guardian · · 6 May 2010 · · Ian Sample · |
There is a little Neanderthal in nearly all of us, according to scientists who compared the genetic makeup of humans with that of our closest ancient relatives. Most people living outside Africa can trace up to 4% of their DNA to a Neanderthal origin, a consequence of interbreeding between the two groups after the great migration from the contintent. Anthropologists have long speculated that early humans may have mated with Neanderthals, but the latest study provides the strongest evidence so far, suggesting that such encounters took place around 60,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East.... |
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| Scientists prove humans bred with Neanderthals |
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· 05/06/2010 1:42:51 PM PDT · · Posted by Willie Green · · 71 replies · 1,327+ views · · The Local · · Thursday, May 6, 2010 · |
For the first time ever, German scientists have drafted a genome sequence for the Neanderthal and believe their results show that the extinct hominid interbred with humans. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig analysed some four billion base pairs of DNA from Neanderthals -- a species which died out more than 30,000 years ago. Initial analysis of the resulting genome sequence draft show that Neanderthals left traces of themselves in the genomes of some modern humans, the study published in this month's journal "Science" revealed. "The comparison of these two genetic sequences enables us to... |
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| You're a Neanderthal: Genes say yes -- a little bit |
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· 05/06/2010 2:33:07 PM PDT · · Posted by chessplayer · · 28 replies · 517+ views · · Yahoo! · |
WASHINGTON -- We have met Neanderthal and he is us -- at least a little. The most detailed look yet at the Neanderthal genome helps answer one of the most debated questions in anthropology: Did Neanderthals and modern humans mate? The answer is yes, there is at least some cave man biology in most of us. |
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| Signs of Neanderthals Mating With Humans |
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· 05/06/2010 3:45:02 PM PDT · · Posted by antidemoncrat · · 59 replies · 1,000+ views · · New York Times · · 5/6/10 · · NICHOLAS WADE · |
Neanderthals mated with some modern humans after all and left their imprint in the human genome, a team of biologists has reported in the first detailed analysis of the Neanderthal genetic sequence. |
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| Neanderthals, Humans Interbred -- First Solid DNA Evidence -- Most of us have some Neanderthal genes |
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· 05/07/2010 12:04:44 PM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 80 replies · 1,542+ views · · nationalgeographic · · May 6, 2010 · · Ker Than · |
The next time you're tempted to call some oaf a Neanderthal, you might want to take a look in the mirror. According to a new DNA study, most humans have a little Neanderthal in them -- at least 1 to 4 percent of a person's genetic makeup. The study uncovered the first solid genetic evidence that "modern" humans -- or Homo sapiens -- interbred with their Neanderthal neighbors, who mysteriously died out about 30,000 years ago. What's more, the Neanderthal-modern human mating apparently took place in the Middle East, shortly after modern humans had left Africa, not in Europe -- as has long been suspected. "We can now... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| The Search for Genes Leads to Unexpected Places |
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· 04/29/2010 9:35:42 PM PDT · · Posted by neverdem · · 14 replies · 523+ views · · NY Times · · April 26, 2010 · · CARL ZIMMER · |
Edward M. Marcotte is looking for drugs that can kill tumors by stopping blood vessel growth, and he and his colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin recently found some good targets -- five human genes that are essential for that growth. Now they're hunting for drugs that can stop those genes from working. Strangely, though, Dr. Marcotte did not discover the new genes in the human genome, nor in lab mice or even fruit flies. He and his colleagues found the genes in yeast. "On the face of it, it's just crazy," Dr. Marcotte said. After all, these... |
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| Prehistory and Origins | |
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| Peptides may hold 'missing link' to life |
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· 05/06/2010 11:59:58 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 16 replies · 328+ views · · Emory University · · Apr 27, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Emory scientists have discovered that simple peptides can organize into bi-layer membranes. The finding suggests a "missing link" between the pre-biotic Earth's chemical inventory and the organizational scaffolding essential to life. "We've shown that peptides can form the kind of membranes needed to create long-range order," says chemistry graduate student Seth Childers, lead author of the paper recently published by the German Chemical Society's Angewandte Chemie. "What's also interesting is that these peptide membranes may have the potential to function in a complex way, like a protein." In addition to providing clues to the origins of life, the findings... |
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| Longer Perspectives | |
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| What Do You Think Were The Top Ten Scientific Discoveries? |
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· 05/05/2010 2:39:11 PM PDT · · Posted by Niuhuru · · 208 replies · 1,860+ views · · Mind of Niuhuru · · May 5 2010 · · Niuhuru · |
What do my fellow FReepers think were the top ten scientific discoveries to date? |
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| Faith and Philosophy | |
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| Is the Biblical Flood Account a Modified Copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh? |
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· 04/08/2010 8:15:01 PM PDT · · Posted by truthfinder9 · · 83 replies · 1,276+ views · · God and Science · |
Skeptics claim that the flood narrative of Genesis1 is a rewritten version of an original myth, The Epic of Gilgamesh, from the Enuma Elish produced by the Sumerians. The flood of the Epic of Gilgamesh is contained on Tablet XI2 of twelve large stone tablets that date to around 650 B.C. These tablets are obviously not originals, since fragments of the flood story have been found on tablets that date to 2,000 B.C. It is likely that the story itself originated much before that, since the Sumerian cuneiform writing has been estimated to go as far back as 3,300 B.C.The... |
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| Noah's Ark PaleoBabble Update (hoax?) |
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· 05/02/2010 11:58:31 AM PDT · · Posted by mnehring · · 14 replies · 820+ views · · PaleoBabble · |
..Now the sad part. I also got an email today from one of Randall Price's students. The email contains a message from Dr. Price about this expedition. (Dr. Price, as some of you may recall, has been doing a lot of searching for the ark lately.) Here is an excerpt from his message: I was the archaeologist with the Chinese expedition in the summer of 2008 and was given photos of what they now are reporting to be the inside of the Ark. I and my partners invested $100,000 in this expedition (described below) which they have retained, despite their... |
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| Excursion continues to find Noah's Ark in Turkey |
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· 05/05/2010 6:02:54 PM PDT · · Posted by FootBall · · 21 replies · 866+ views · · Lynchburg VA News and Advance · · December 28, 2009 · · Dave Thompson · |
(Picture) Randall Price works at the site of his expedition in Turkey If Noah's Ark has been sitting on a mountain somewhere in the Middle East for a few millennia, a few more months of waiting are a small price to pay, at least for Randall Price. Price, who heads Liberty University's Center For Judaic Studies, talked in January about his planned two-season expedition into Turkey, with the hopes of finding the Biblical artifact. He arrived in Turkey over the summer. But Price said since then, he's faced pressure from a political group in Turkey that is forcing him... |
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| Special: The American Soldier And The Ark Of Noah |
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· 05/07/2010 9:03:42 AM PDT · · Posted by Fennie · · 7 replies · 1,113+ views · · CEA · |
Ed Davis viewed Noah's Ark sometime in July, 1943. The Ark was located on the northeastern side of Mount Ararat in the Kars province. It was in two parts -- the smaller section some one-half mile from the main structure. Somewhere between 100 and 200 feet of the Ark was uncovered at this time. All the wood within and without the Ark is petrified. Wooden pegs, not metal spikes, were used in its construction and the larger beams have splices. The Ark is pitched for preservation and a watertight seal. The one large door was still intact and was in... |
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| Religion of Peace | |
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| America's Barbaric History |
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· 04/28/2010 11:12:50 AM PDT · · Posted by bs9021 · · 25 replies · 653+ views · · Accuracy in Academia · · April 28, 2010 · · Malcolm A. Kline · |
Those politicians and pedagogues who agitate for slavery reparations in the United States should consider what would happen if the descendants of slaves around the world sought the same from the countries in which their ancestors were enslaved. "Just as Europeans enslaved Africans, North Africans enslaved Europeans -- more Europeans than there were Africans enslaved in the United States and in the 13 colonies from which it was formed," economist Thomas Sowell writes. "The treatment of white galley slaves was even worse than the treatment of black slaves picking cotton." "But there are... |
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| Dark Ages | |
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| Ban for indecency is new twist in tale of One Thousand and One Nights |
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· 05/06/2010 8:57:01 PM PDT · · Posted by Saije · · 6 replies · 187+ views · · London Times · · 5/7/2010 · · Staff · |
The epic tale of One Thousand and One Nights may soon be banned in Egypt if a group of concerned citizens gets its way. A little-known organisation calling itself Lawyers without Restrictions recently filed a lawsuit calling for the iconic story collection to be confiscated and its publishers imprisoned. The publishers, in this case, would be the Egyptian Government's own General Authority of Culture. Efforts to contact Lawyers without Restrictions for comment were unsuccessful. According to local press reports, the group's lawsuit cites Article 178 of the Egyptian criminal code, which bans publication of material deemed "offensive to public decency".... |
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| Egypt | |
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| Egyptian blue found in Romanesque altarpiece (ESPAÑA) |
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· 05/05/2010 11:14:00 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 19 replies · 442+ views · · FECYT · · May 5, 2010 · · Unknown · |
A team of researchers from the University of Barcelona (UB) has discovered remains of Egyptian blue in a Romanesque altarpiece in the church of Sant Pere de Terrassa (Barcelona). This blue pigment was used from the days of ancient Egypt until the end of the Roman Empire, but was not made after this time. So how could it turn up in a 12th Century church? Egyptian blue or Pompeian blue was a pigment frequently used by the ancient Egyptians and Romans to decorate objects and murals. Following the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD), this pigment fell out... |
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| Epigraphy and Language | |
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| The Fate of the Library of Alexandria |
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· 05/02/2010 3:17:15 PM PDT · · Posted by neverdem · · 80 replies · 2,046+ views · · American Thinker · · May 02, 2010 · · John O'Neill · |
The great Library of Alexandria, established by Ptolemy II (circa 280 BC), has come to symbolize the receptacle of knowledge of Classical civilization. This great repository was barbarously razed in the Middle Ages. At its height, the Library contained an estimated forty thousand volumes on a wide variety of topics. It held works on astronomy, mathematics, physics, medicine, and philosophy -- many of which were copied from the hieroglyphic and cuneiform texts of the Egyptians and Babylonians. It also stored histories of all the countries of the known world: histories of Egypt, of Babylonia, of Persia, of the lands of... |
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| Middle Ages and Renaissance | |
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| Now there's a website for Renaissance Faires. |
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· 05/06/2010 4:11:48 PM PDT · · Posted by 2ndDivisionVet · · 21 replies · 337+ views · · Rennaisance Faires Magazine · |
For those of you who enjoy them. Interesting articles, history, details of fairs & festivals, etc... |
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| British Isles | |
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| Medieval African Found Buried in England |
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· 05/04/2010 4:53:49 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 46 replies · 619+ views · · Discovery News · · Monday, May 3, 2010 · · Raphael G. Satter, AP · |
Forensics experts at the University of Dundee Scotland say that the bones most likely belonged to a man from modern-day Tunisia who spent about a decade living in England before he died... The man -- who appears to have died of a spinal abscess -- was identified as African by studying his skeleton and the historical record of the friary where he was buried. |
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| China | |
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| Xinjiang discovery provides intriguing DNA link |
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· 05/01/2010 4:55:38 AM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 11 replies · 418+ views · · English.news.cn · · 28 April 2010 · · Mu Xuequan · |
The DNA of some 4,000 year-old bodies unearthed five years ago in Xinjiang, in northwest China, provides scientific evidence of early intermingling between people of European and Asian origin. Zhou Hui, a professor of life science and her team discovered that some of the earliest inhabitants of the Tarim Basin in the Taklamakan Desert were of European and Siberian descent. The basin, where hundreds of well-preserved mummies have been found since the 1980s, has attracted great attention from scientists worldwide. Professor Victor Mair of Pennsylvania University claimed in 2006, "From around 1800 B.C. the earliest mummies in the Tarim Basin... |
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| Mystery as century-old Swiss watch discovered in ancient tomb sealed for 400 years |
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· 05/06/2010 9:41:03 PM PDT · · Posted by The Magical Mischief Tour · · 126 replies · 2,851+ views · · Daily Mail UK · · 05/06/2010 · · Daily Mail UK · |
Archaeologists are stumped after finding a 100-year-old Swiss watch in an ancient tomb that was sealed more than 400 years ago. They believed they were the first to visit the Ming dynasty grave in Shangsi, southern China, since its occupant's funeral. But inside they uncovered a miniature watch in the shape of a ring marked 'Swiss' that is thought to be just a century old. |
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| The Minoans | |
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| Fortifications on Gournia Debunk Myth of Peaceful Minoan Society |
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· 05/04/2010 5:03:47 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 28 replies · 342+ views · · Heritage Key · · Tuesday, May 4, 2010 · · Owen Jarus · |
A team of archaeologists, led by Professor Vance Watrous and Matt Buell of the University at Buffalo, have discovered a fortification system at the Minoan town of Gournia. The discovery rebukes the popular myth that the Minoans were a peaceful society with no need for defensive structures. That idea arose from work done in the early 20th century by Sir Arthur Evans... The town was originally excavated from 1901-1904 by Harriet Boyd Hawes, a pioneering women who was among the first to excavate a Minoan settlement. Located on the north coast, Gournia was in use during the "neo-palatial" period (ca.... |
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| Climate | |
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| Postmodernism: A Unified Theory of All the Trouble in the World |
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· 05/02/2010 1:50:50 PM PDT · · Posted by neverdem · · 19 replies · 564+ views · · American Thinker · · May 02, 2010 · · M.J. Braun · |
Like the "fatal error" message that pops up unexpectedly on a computer, the phrase itself is menacing: "post-normal science." I ran across the phrase as I was reading Climate Change and the Death of Science. The author's explanation did nothing to allay my anxiety. Once there was modern science, which was hard work; now we have postmodern science, where the quest for real, absolute truth is outdated, and "science" is a wax nose that can be twisted in any direction to underpin the latest lying narrative in the pursuit of power. Except they didn't call it 'postmodern' science because then... |
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| The Medieval Warm Period in Greenland |
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· 05/03/2010 12:45:02 PM PDT · · Posted by neverdem · · 15 replies · 858+ views · · co2science.org · · 21 April 2010 · · NA · |
Reference Vinther, B.M., Jones, P.D., Briffa, K.R., Clausen, H.B., Andersen, K.K., Dahl-Jensen, D. and Johnsen, S.J. 2010. Climatic signals in multiple highly resolved stable isotope records from Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 522-538. Background The authors introduce the report of their new study by writing that "during the past 10 years studies of seasonal ice core records from the Greenland ice sheet have indicated, that in order to gain a firm understanding of the relationships between Greenland and climatic conditions in the North Atlantic region, it is important to have not only annually resolved, but seasonally resolved ice... |
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| Mammoth, How We Love Ya | |
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| Scientists use 'Jurassic Park' experiment to try to bring woolly mammoth back from the dead |
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· 05/03/2010 10:18:11 AM PDT · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 60 replies · 930+ views · · dailymail.co.uk · · May 2, 2010 · · David Derbyshire · |
Woolly mammoths could one day walk the Earth again, it seems. In an extraordinary Jurassic Park- style experiment, DNA from a frozen specimen of the extinct giant was used to reproduce their blood. And it revealed that the beasts used more than their distinctive shaggy coats to keep warm in harsh Arctic conditions 25,000 years ago - they had antifreeze in their veins. The scientists believe the genetic adaptation technique could be used to resurrect body parts and proteins from other extinct animals. Researcher Prof Kevin Campbell-of the University of Manitoba, Canada, said: 'The molecules are no different than going... |
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| Saranac golf course the site of mammoth excavation [Michigan] |
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· 05/04/2010 4:30:42 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 13 replies · 315+ views · · WZZM 13 · · 5/3/2010 · |
Michigan scientists are trying to piece together a major find that dates back 11-thousand years ago. The elephant-like animal, known as a mammoth, was discovered at a golf course along Morrison Lake, near Saranac. "I told them, for my luck, it was probably a rock and I don't want to waste your time", says Dixie Riley, owner of Morrison Lake Country Club. That's what she told scientists at the University of Michigan. The call turned out to be well worth their time. "They found a tusk, vertebrae and determined it was a 6-ton mammoth." It all started in August of... |
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| Biology and Cryptobiology | |
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| "River Monsters' tells the reel story of huge freshwater fish |
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· 05/02/2010 3:19:35 PM PDT · · Posted by smokingfrog · · 35 replies · 1,480+ views · · KansasCity.com · · 4-30-10 · · Luaine Lee · |
Jeremy Wade is full of fish stories, only he's not exaggerating when he describes his latest catch. Wade is a big-game angler, constantly in search of freshwater monsters that make sharks seem as docile as dolphins. The host of Animal Planet's "River Monsters," Wade plies his skill with heavy fishing equipment and a passion, he admits, that borders on obsession. "You start off interested in variety, and then it's always about bigger fish, bigger fish, and I became fairly obsessive I think in my late teens and early 20s," he says. The British-born Wade began fishing for carp. "There was... |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Abe Lincoln returns to Woonsocket |
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· 05/03/2010 5:56:39 AM PDT · · Posted by Willie Green · · 28 replies · 320+ views · · Woonsocket Call · · May 2, 2010 · · DONNA KENNY KIRWAN · |
PAWTUCKET -- It was 150 years ago this month that then-presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln made a train journey from Providence to Woonsocket where he delivered one of his most significant speeches to a crowd of 1,500. On May 15, the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council is making it possible to experience some of the excitement of that historic campaign visit with a special event. The 150th Abraham Lincoln Train Tour will recreate this journey that was made in 1860 by America's 16th president. Participants will ride on an excursion car on the Providence & Worcester Railroad, the same railway line that... |
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| Abraham Lincoln's 10 You Cannots |
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· 05/02/2010 5:05:04 PM PDT · · Posted by florm15 · · 28 replies · 806+ views · · Blog For People Who Love America · |
"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift." "You cannot help small men by tearing down big men." "You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong." "You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer." "You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich." "You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income." "You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred." "You cannot establish security on borrowed money." "You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence." "You cannot help men permanently by doing for... |
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| Early America | |
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| Vt. towns finally settle colonial map boundaries |
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· 04/25/2010 12:24:27 PM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 5 replies · 571+ views · · hosted · · Apr 25 · · WILSON RING · |
ST. GEORGE, Vt. (AP) -- A Colonial-era boundary dispute between two Vermont towns that were never exactly sure where one ended and the other began is finally going to be settled. But it was old maps, not GPS or Google Earth, that ultimately found the common ground for the towns of St. George and neighboring Shelburne. The process has pointed up the art of trying to read the minds of the original surveyors and land granters to establish where the lines were drawn. "It's a matter of 'let's get this defined,'" said Phil Gingraw, chairman of the St. George Select... |
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| The Framers | |
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| Founding Amateurs? |
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· 05/03/2010 6:15:04 AM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 70 replies · 859+ views · · NY Times Op-Ed · · May 3, 2010 · · GORDON S. WOOD · |
THE American public is not pleased with Congress -- one recent poll shows that less than a third of all voters are eager to support their representative in November. "I am not really happy right now with anybody," a woman from Decatur, Ill., recently told a Washington Post reporter. As she considered the prospect of a government composed of fledgling lawmakers, she noted: "When the country was founded, those guys were all pretty new at it. How bad could it be?" Actually, our founders were not all that new at it: the men who led the revolution against the British... |
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| The General | |
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| This Day in History May 5 1776 The writings of George Washington |
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· 05/05/2010 5:03:44 PM PDT · · Posted by mdittmar · · 4 replies · 130+ views · · May 5.1776 · · George Washington · |
*To THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS New York, May 5, 1776. Sir: I have so often, and so fully communicated my want of Arms to Congress, that I should not have given them the trouble of receiving another Letter upon this Subject, at this time, but for the particular application of Colo. Wain of Pensylvania, who has pointed out a method by which he thinks they may be obtain'd. In the hands of the Committee of Safety at Philadelphia, there are, according to Colo. Wain's Acct. not less than two or three thousand stand of Arms for Provincial use;... |
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| The Revolution | |
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| The Last Naval Battle of the American Revolution |
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· 03/10/2007 5:54:23 PM PST · · Posted by NonValueAdded · · 24 replies · 3,250+ views · · FreeRepublic.com · · March 10, 2007 · · NonValueAdded · |
A monument and historical marker were dedicated today at Port Canaveral, Florida, commemorating The Last Naval Battle of the American Revolution From the historical marker, dedicated on March 10, 2007: The last naval battle of the American Revolutionary War took place off the coast of Cape Canaveral on March 10, 1783. The fight began when three British ships sighted two Continental Navy ships, the Alliance commanded by Captain John Barry and the Duc De Lauzun commanded by Captain John Green sailing northward along the coast of Florida. The Alliance, a 36-gun frigate, and the Duc De Lauzun, a 20-gun ship,... |
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| The Admiral | |
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| John Paul Jones President Command Military with Pen Only -- He May Cut the Throats of Citizens |
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· 04/21/2010 6:58:01 PM PDT · · Posted by bushpilot1 · · 27 replies · 1,209+ views · · Life and character of the Chevalier JPJ · · unknown · · John Henry Sherburne · |
"I am glad that the new constitution will be, as you tell me, adopted by the nine states. I hope, however they will alter some parts of it; and particularly that they will divest the President of all military rank and command; for though General Washington might be safely trusted with such tempting power as chief command of fleet and army, yet depend on it, in some other hands it could not fail to overset the liberties of America. The President should be only the first civil Magistrate, let him command the military with the pen; but deprive him of... |
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| Experts seek to find famous wreck [Bonhomme Richard!] |
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· 06/22/2006 6:38:09 AM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 29 replies · 918+ views · · BBC · · 6-22-04 · · Anon · |
The Bonhomme Richard sank in about 180ft of water Experts have expressed confidence that they can find the sunken wreck of the ship made famous by legendary Solway born sailor John Paul Jones next month. The Bonhomme Richard went down in 1779 off Flamborough Head in East Yorkshire as Jones famously said: "Surrender - I have not yet begun to fight." Several bids have been made to recover the ship captained by a man credited as the founding father of the US Navy. Now underwater archaeology experts will use hi-tech methods to try to find it. Dr Robert Neyland,... |
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| Two U.S. Navy Vessels Named Flagships for USS Bon Homme Richard Expedition |
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· 03/14/2006 5:07:14 PM PST · · Posted by SandRat · · 20 replies · 763+ views · · Navy NewsStand · · Lt. j.g. Emelia Spencer · |
GROTON, Conn. (NNS) -- The multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) were named honorary flagships March 13 for the upcoming search for the remains of the original Bonhomme Richard, which sank in the North Sea in 1779. The search project revolves around one of the most memorable battles of the American Revolution, where John Paul Jones, an American naval hero, uttered his legendary words, "I have not yet begun to fight!" "It's entirely appropriate that these front-line warships are honorary flagships of the expedition, as they are representative... |
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| NOAA Considers Grant to Aid Search for John Paul Jones' Flagship |
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· 02/10/2006 7:23:09 PM PST · · Posted by indcons · · 15 replies · 438+ views · · Naval Historical Center · · 2/8/2006 · · Ann Onymous · |
The Naval Historical Center's (NHC) search for Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones' ship Bonhomme Richard received further support in early February, when it was recommended for funding through the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Ocean Exploration's competitive grant process. The NHC and Ocean Technology Foundation (OTF) plan to launch a search for Bonhomme Richard off the coast of England in July. "You cannot find an underwater archaeological site more important to the U.S. Navy than that of John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard," said Dr. Robert... |
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· 02/08/2006 4:29:11 PM PST · · Posted by SandRat · · 4 replies · 426+ views · · Navy NewsStand · · Feb 8, 2006 · · Naval Historical Center · |
GROTON, Conn. (NNS) -- The Naval Historical Center's (NHC) search for Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones' ship Bonhomme Richard received further support in early February, when it was recommended for funding through the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Ocean Exploration's competitive grant process. The NHC and Ocean Technology Foundation (OTF) plan to launch a search for Bonhomme Richard off the coast of England in July. "You cannot find an underwater archaeological site more important to the U.S. Navy than that of John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard," said Dr. Robert Neyland, head of the NHC's... |
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| The FReeper Foxhole Revisits John Paul Jones - Sept. 23rd, 2005 |
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· 09/22/2005 9:46:04 PM PDT · · Posted by snippy_about_it · · 55 replies · 2,433+ views · · Naval Historical Center · · 01/06/2003 5:37:15 AM PST · |
Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel... |
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| The FReeper Foxhole Remembers John Paul Jones - Jan 6th, 2003 |
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· 01/06/2003 5:37:15 AM PST · · Posted by SAMWolf · · 94 replies · 2,087+ views · · Naval Historical Center · |
U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. We hope to provide an ongoing source of information about issues and problems that are specific to Veterans and resources that are available to Veterans and their families. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel free to address their specific circumstances or whatever issues concern them in an atmosphere of peace, understanding, brotherhood... |
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| Niece of Scots Titanic Violinist Releases Cook Book in His Memory |
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· 04/30/2010 11:47:03 AM PDT · · Posted by nickcarraway · · 11 replies · 331+ views · · STV · · 30 April 2010 · |
The shock story of the sinking of the luxury cruise liner The Titanic is something that still sends a chill down the spine today, but for the author of a new book based on the tragedy, the story is one that truly strikes a personal note. Yvonne Hume is the great nice of Scottish violinist John Law Hume, who died after the liner struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912. He drowned after continuing to play the violin while the ship sank, as he tried to ease the huge panic onboard. And Yvonne, who has been fascinated by the story... |
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· 04/30/2010 4:05:33 PM PDT · · Posted by nickcarraway · · 5 replies · 319+ views · · Liverpool Echo · |
This is a gold pocket watch that belonged to the captain of the Lusitaniana that survived with him when he was swept off the bridge as the liner sank in 1915. Captain William Turner survived while 1,200 passengers lost their lives when the Cunard liner was destroyed by a torpedo from the German U-20 off the coast of Ireland. He was the centre of controversy after the sinking off Kinsale and he was scapegoated for the disaster by Winston Churchill. Captain Turner was at the centre of criticism because he continued heading towards the Irish Port of Cork despite warnings... |
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· 05/05/2010 7:01:27 AM PDT · · Posted by TigerLikesRooster · · 101 replies · 1,774+ views · · Telegraph · · 05/05/10 · |
Soviet commander admits USSR came close to defeat by Nazis An interview in which a Soviet commander admitted how close Moscow came to defeat by Germany during the Second World War has been broadcast in Russia for the first time. Published: 11:58AM BST 05 May 2010 The Soviet Union nearly lost the war in 1941 and suffered from poor planning, according to Marshal Georgy Zhukov in the frank television interview that has been banned since it was recorded in 1966. Zhukov, the most decorated general in the history of both Russia and the Soviet Union, admitted that Soviet generals were... |
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· 05/04/2010 4:45:47 AM PDT · · Posted by iowamark · · 17 replies · 610+ views · · NY Post · · May 2, 2010 · · By BEN MACINTYRE · |
JANUARY 1943. In a tiny, tobacco-stained basement room beneath the Admiralty building in London, two men sat puzzling over a conundrum of their own devising: how to create a person from nothing, a man who had never been... The two officers were also responsible for running agents and double agents, espionage and counterespionage, intelligence, fakery and fraud. They passed lies to the enemy that were false and damaging, as well as information that was true but harmless; they ran willing spies, reluctant spies pressed into service and spies who did not exist at all. Now, with the war at its... |
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· 04/25/2010 4:09:15 AM PDT · · Posted by Daffynition · · 61 replies · 1,279+ views · · The Observer · · 25 April 2010 · · Paul Harris · |
His book Band of Brothers -- which chronicled the exploits of one company of US airborne troops in second world war Europe -- was turned into a highly praised TV series. But now American historian Professor Stephen Ambrose, who was President Dwight D Eisenhower's official biographer and wrote or edited more than a dozen books about him, is embroiled in a posthumous controversy. It is alleged that he invented many meetings he claimed to have had with Eisenhower, and even fabricated entire interviews with him. The revelations have sent shock waves through the scholarly community in the United States. The... |
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| New light shed on Kent State killings--Shots fired at Guard, declassified files indicate |
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· 05/03/2010 6:27:24 PM PDT · · Posted by jazusamo · · 195 replies · 4,679+ views · · The Washington Times · · May 4, 2010 · · James Rosen · |
Previously undisclosed FBI documents suggest that the Kent State antiwar protests were more meticulously planned than originally thought and that one or more gunshots may have been fired at embattled Ohio National Guardsmen before their killings of four students and woundings of at least nine others on that searing day in May 1970. As the nation marks the 40th anniversary of the Kent State antiwar protests Tuesday, a review of hundreds of previously unpublished investigative reports sheds a new -- and very different -- light on the tragic episode. The upheaval that enveloped the northeastern Ohio campus actually began three... |
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| A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire 1905 |
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· 04/29/2010 7:34:31 PM PDT · · Posted by Orange1998 · · 7 replies · 367+ views · · YouTube · |
A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire 1905 Pictures San Francisco's main thoroughfare as seen from the front window of a moving Market Street cable car, before the downtown area was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. This unusual record has been called the first "structural film" because it follows exactly the externally imposed structure of the car ride. |
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· 05/03/2010 11:27:23 AM PDT · · Posted by markomalley · · 44 replies · 658+ views · · AP/WaPo · · 5/2/2010 · · Nicole Winfield · |
TURIN, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI all but gave an outright endorsement of the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin on Sunday, calling the cloth that some believe is Christ's burial shroud an icon "written with the blood" of a crucified man. During a visit to the Shroud in the northern Italian city of Turin, Benedict didn't raise the scientific questions that surround the linen and whether it might be a medieval forgery. Instead, he delivered a powerful meditation on the faith that holds that the Shroud is indeed Christ's burial cloth. "This is a burial cloth that wrapped the... |
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Slings and Arrows has the This Is Not A Ping ping list.
Hungarian gypsy has the foodie ping list.
Wagglebee has Moral Absolutes.
Wait, you probably know all this, right.....?
:’) Yes, I was. Maybe not now... ;’)
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #304 Saturday, May 15, 2010 |
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· 05/11/2010 6:42:06 AM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 10 replies · · 363+ views · · The Washington Post · · 11 May 2010 · · Rob Stein · |
Beginning Friday, shoppers in search of toothpaste, deodorant and laxatives at more than 6,000 drugstores across the nation will be able to pick up something new: a test to scan their genes for a propensity for Alzheimer's disease, breast cancer, diabetes and other ailments. The test also claims to offer a window into the chances of becoming obese, developing psoriasis and going blind. For those thinking of starting a family, it could alert them to their risk of having a baby with cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs and other genetic disorders. The test also promises users insights into how caffeine, cholesterol-lowering drugs... |
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· 05/10/2010 10:10:56 AM PDT · · Posted by null and void · · 40 replies · · 908+ views · · Scientific Computing · · 5/10/10 · |
The structural model of the mammoth hemoglobin, with the three key changes to the protein highlighted in red. Illustration by Ansgar Philippsen A team of international researchers has brought the primary component of mammoth blood back to life using ancient DNA preserved in bones from Siberian specimens 25,000 to 43,000 years old. Studies of recreated mammoth hemoglobin, published May 3, 2010, in Nature Genetics, reveal special evolutionary adaptations that allowed the mammoth to cool its extremities down in harsh Arctic conditions to minimize heat loss. "It has been remarkable to bring a complex protein from an extinct species, such... |
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· 05/12/2010 2:03:18 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 81 replies · · 1,972+ views · · University of Manchester · · May 12, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Archaeologists have disproved the fifty-year-old theory underpinning our understanding of how the famous stone statues were moved around Easter IslandArchaeologists have disproved the fifty-year-old theory underpinning our understanding of how the famous stone statues were moved around Easter Island. Fieldwork led by researchers at University College London and The University of Manchester, has shown the remote Pacific island's ancient road system was primarily ceremonial and not solely built for transportation of the figures. A complex network of roads up to 800-years-old crisscross the Island between the hat and statue quarries and the coastal areas. Laying alongside the roads are dozens... |
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· 05/12/2010 9:12:07 PM PDT · · Posted by 2ndDivisionVet · · 15 replies · · 635+ views · · SoftPedia · · April 27, 2010 · · Tudor Vieru, Science Editor · |
Due to higher annual temperatures, more ice melts each year near the Arctic, in northern Canada. The location, which was inhabited by humans centuries ago, is currently beginning to reveal numerous artifacts and other signs of civilization, that are exposed by the melting ice patches. The tools were generally encased in large blocks of ice, but excessive melting is currently laying them bare on the ground, for researchers to collect. The ice patches on the mountains of the Canadian High Arctic have been undisturbed for thousands of years, but they are currently melting more during the summer. "We're just like... |
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· 05/10/2010 4:19:52 AM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 28 replies · · 607+ views · · Star News Online · · 09 May 2010 · · Cece Nunn · |
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH -- A local captain and his crew have discovered a unique rock and nearby artifacts that might help reveal how the first people came to Southeastern North Carolina thousands of years ago. Geologists said the rock, called black chert or novaculite, was previously thought to only be available in vast quantities in the mountains of Arkansas. Zulu Discovery, a local underwater exploration company, found a very dense version of the rock dozens of feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean off Wrightsville Beach. Chert was used by the first people in North America, called Paleo-Indians, to create the... |
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· 05/10/2010 11:52:12 PM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 17 replies · · 703+ views · · The New York Times · · 10 May 2010 · · JOHN NOBLE WILFORD · |
For a quarter of a century, two archaeologists and their team slogged through wild tropical vegetation to investigate and map the remains of one of the largest Maya cities, in Central America. Slow, sweaty hacking with machetes seemed to be the only way to discover the breadth of an ancient urban landscape now hidden beneath a dense forest canopy. Even the new remote-sensing technologies, so effective in recent decades at surveying other archaeological sites, were no help. Imaging radar and multispectral surveys by air and from space could not "see" through the trees. Then, in the dry spring season a... |
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· 05/13/2010 5:53:26 PM PDT · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 47 replies · · 976+ views · · Science Daily · · 05/11/2010 · |
How much do we, who are alive today, differ from our most recent evolutionary ancestors, the cave-dwelling Neanderthals, hominids who lived in Europe and parts of Asia and went extinct about 30,000 years ago? And how much do Neanderthals, in turn, have in common with the ape-ancestors from which we are both descended, the chimpanzees? Although we are both hominids, the fossil record told us long ago that we differ physically from Neanderthals, in various ways. But at the level of genes and the proteins that they encode, new research published online May 6 in the journal Science reveals that... |
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· 05/10/2010 4:54:06 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 15 replies · · 287+ views · · DOE/SLAC Nat Accelerator Lab · · May 10, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Menlo Park, Calif. -- Researchers have found that a 150 million year old "dinobird" fossil, long thought to contain nothing but fossilized bone and rock, has been hiding remnants of the animal's original chemistry. Using the bright X-ray beam of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, an international team of paleontologists, geochemists and physicists has revealed this transformative glimpse into one of the most important fossils ever discovered: the Archaeopteryx, a half-dinosaur/half-bird species. "Archaeopteryx is to paleontology what Tutankhamen is to archaeology. It's simply one of the icons of our field,"... |
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· 05/10/2010 4:23:15 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 34 replies · · 672+ views · · U of Nebraska State Museum & Nebraska Game & Parks Commission · · 2010 · · Dr. Mike Voorhies · |
About 12 million years ago, a volcano in southwest Idaho spread a blanket of ash over a very large area. One or two feet of this powdered glass covered the flat savannah-like grasslands of northeastern Nebraska. Most of the animals which lived here survived the actual ashfall, but as they continued to graze on the ash covered grasses, their lungs began to fill up with the abrasive powder. Soon their lungs became severely damaged and they began to die. The smaller animals died first (smaller lung capacities) and finally, after perhaps three to five weeks, the last of the rhinos... |
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· 05/10/2010 11:31:31 AM PDT · · Posted by Red Badger · · 28 replies · · 1,432+ views · · www.thelocal.de · · 5-10-10 · · Staff · |
German scientists announced on Monday they believe they have discovered sunken islands in the Caribbean Ocean following a deep sea expedition in April. During their six weeks in the waters north of Venezuela and west of the Antilles, the experts from the University of Greifswald analysed rock samples from depths of more than 1,000 metres. The "Meteor" crew then used echo sounding to measure the ocean floor, an exercise which revealed significant differences in depth compared to current marine charts. In fact, some of the underwater mountains listed on charts did not exist at all, while other areas thought to... |
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· 05/11/2010 5:28:12 AM PDT · · Posted by SJackson · · 18 replies · · 424+ views · · Jerusalem Post · · 11/05/2010 · |
New finds from dig shed light on 11th, 12th Century BC dynasty. The great kingdom of 'Palestine' once existed within Syrian and Turkish boundaries, Professor J.P Dessel of the University of Tennessee claimed in a statement released on Tuesday. The professor, who is a member of the Tell Tayinat archeological digs in Turkey, who presided at the Haifa University Ancient East Research Conference, asserted that the commonwealth was located between the cities of Aleppo, Hama and Antakya and the Turkish-Syrian border in the 12th and 11th Centuries BC. The significance of this find, which was being discussed in a special... |
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· 05/11/2010 7:28:49 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 15 replies · · 487+ views · · Yahoo! · · Tuesday, May 11, 2010 · · Grant Slater, AP · |
Archeologists said Tuesday they have uncovered a 14th-century aqueduct that supplied water to Jerusalem for almost 600 years along a route dating back to the time of Jesus... Photographs from the late 19th century showed the aqueduct in use by the city's Ottoman rulers, nearly 600 years after its construction in 1320. |
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· 05/13/2010 1:06:08 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 10 replies · · 546+ views · · University of Nottingham · · May 10, 2010 · · Unknown · |
The very latest laser technology combined with old fashioned pedal power is being used to provide a unique insight into the layout of Nottingham's sandstone caves -- where the city's renowned medieval ale was brewed and, where legend has it, the country's most famous outlaw Robin Hood was imprisoned. The Nottingham Caves Survey, being carried out by archaeologists from Trent & Peak Archaeology at The University of Nottingham, has already produced extraordinary, three dimensional, fly through, colour animation of caves that have been hidden from view for centuries. Below the grounds of Nottingham Castle and across the city there is... |
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| Walled-in Icons Discovered on The Kremlin Towers |
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· 05/13/2010 12:30:36 PM PDT · · Posted by marshmallow · · 11 replies · · 631+ views · · Interfax · · 5/13/10 · |
Moscow, May 12, Interfax - Ancient icons were discovered on the Spasskaya and Nikolskaya Towers of the Kremlin. They were walled in during Soviet times and have been deemed lost for a long time now. "The fact is that the icons were discovered at least on two towers (of the Kremlin - IF). This is an epoch-making event as far as cultural discoveries are concerned," head of the Council of Trustees of the St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation Vladimir Yakunin said at a press conference held by Interfax. He stated that the Foundation had initiated the reinstallation of icons over... |
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· 05/13/2010 3:30:13 PM PDT · · Posted by bruinbirdman · · 45 replies · · 1,616+ views · · The Telegraph · · 5/13/2010 · · Andrew Osborn in Moscow and Peter Foster in Beijing · |
The Soviet Union was on the brink of launching a nuclear attack against China in 1969 and only backed down after the US told Moscow such a move would start World War Three, according to a Chinese historian. The extraordinary assertion, made in a publication sanctioned by China's ruling Communist Party, suggests that the world came perilously close to nuclear war just seven years after the Cuban missile crisis. Richard Nixon in Moscow with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1974 Liu Chenshan, the author of a series of articles that chronicle the five times China has faced a nuclear threat... |
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· 05/12/2010 7:24:34 PM PDT · · Posted by TigerLikesRooster · · 20 replies · · 1,328+ views · · City Journal · · 05/12/10 · · Claire Berlinski · |
Claire Berlinski A Hidden History of Evil Why doesn't anyone care about the unread Soviet archives? Though Mikhail Gorbachev is lionized in the West, the untranslated archives suggest a much darker figure. In the world's collective consciousness, the word "Nazi" is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that the Nazis' ideology -- nationalism, anti-Semitism, the autarkic ethnic state, the F¸hrer principle -- led directly to the furnaces of Auschwitz. It is not nearly as well understood that Communism led just as inexorably, everywhere on the globe where it was applied, to starvation, torture, and slave-labor camps. Nor is it widely acknowledged that Communism... |
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· 05/12/2010 10:42:54 AM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 19 replies · · 326+ views · · Post and Courier (SC) · · May 12, 2010 · · Robert Behre · |
Exactly 230 years ago today, American General Benjamin Lincoln surrendered his force of 6,000 men in Charleston. His move capped a 42-day British siege that had turned the central peninsula into a vast battleground. The siege's end ranked among the Patriots' worst defeats in the Revolutionary War, and it all unfolded in and around what's now known as Marion Square. At noon today, a group of historians and other onlookers will gather in the square, near King Street, to unveil a new historical marker highlighting this under-appreciated chapter in the city's history. If you go WHAT: Unveiling of a new... |
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· 05/13/2010 2:53:04 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 15 replies · · 447+ views · · Temple Daily Telegram · · May 10, 2010 · · unattributed · |
MARLIN - Beneath an unusual cluster of rocks may rest the remains of famous Texas Ranger James Coryell who died in 1837 from an attack by Indians while protecting the Republic of Texas. The Texas Historical Commission recently discovered a distinct grouping of rocks with a grave shaft underneath in Falls County that may mark the previously unidentified burial site of the Texas Ranger. The Historical Commission is seeking living collateral relatives of James Coryell (who died childless) to discuss options for the gravesite. "This discovery is extremely exciting," said Jim Bruseth, director of the Texas Historical Commission's Archeology Division.... |
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· 05/14/2010 5:33:39 AM PDT · · Posted by mattstat · · 9 replies · · 364+ views · · wmbriggs.com · · William M. Briggs · |
Dear Ms Scott, Thank you for your recent letter informing me of the efforts of your fine organization to discourage the teaching of creationism, elsewise known as intelligent design. The answer to your questions is: yes, I did know that "evolution was under attack." But unlike you, I am not that concerned about it. I'm certainly not concerned enough to part with the $100 you ask for. Like you, I'm convinced that the Earth is more than six-thousand years old. The evidence that its age is four-and-a-half billion years old, plus or minus a few tens of millions, is multitudinous.... |
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· 05/20/2010 12:01:03 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 9 replies · · 195+ views · · Reuters · · May 20, 2010 · · Maggie Fox · |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- They live in us and on us, helping digest food and keeping acne at bay, and researchers said on Thursday that most of these germs are turning out to be new to science. The first look at 178 different microbes that live in or on the human body shows that more than 90 percent of their genetic sequences were unknown and raise questions about how scientists classify species among micro-organisms. "Most people don't even realize how much microbial diversity we have on and in us," said Karen Nelson of the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland,... |
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· 05/20/2010 10:39:53 AM PDT · · Posted by mgstarr · · 77 replies · · 1,025+ views · · Financial Times · · 5/20/10 · · Clive Cookson · |
Scientists have turned inanimate chemicals into a living organism in an experiment that raises profound questions about the essence of life. Craig Venter, the US genomics pioneer, announced on Thursday that scientists at his laboratories in Maryland and California had succeeded in their 15-year project to make the world's first "synthetic cells" -- bacteria called Mycoplasma mycoides. "We have passed through a critical psychological barrier," Dr Venter told the FT. "It has changed my own thinking, both scientifically and philosophically, about life and how it works." The bacteria's genes were all constructed in the laboratory "from four bottles of chemicals... |
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· 05/20/2010 11:45:42 AM PDT · · Posted by NormsRevenge · · 35 replies · · 672+ views · · AFP on Yahoo · · 5/20/10 · · Jean-Louis Santini · |
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- US researchers have developed the first bacteria cell controlled by a synthetic genome, in a breakthrough which may pose philosophical and scientific questions about the bid to recreate life. "This is the first synthetic cell that's been made," said lead researcher Craig Venter, as the discovery was unveiled. "We call it synthetic because the cell is totally derived from a synthetic chromosome, made with four bottles of chemicals on a chemical synthesizer, starting with information in a computer." The team said it now hopes to use the method it has developed "to probe the basic machinery of... |
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· 04/29/2010 1:28:12 AM PDT · · Posted by The Magical Mischief Tour · · 9 replies · · 354+ views · · Space.com · · 04/28/2010 · · Space.com · |
Water ice has been found on the surface of a nearby asteroid for the first time -- a discovery that could help explain how Earth got its oceans, scientists announced Wednesday. Two teams of researchers independently verified that the asteroid 24 Themis -- a large rock hurtling through space in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter -- is coated in a layer of frost. They also found that the asteroid contains organic material, including some molecules that might be ingredients for life. But scientists have not found any evidence for life itself on this asteroid, or anywhere else in... |
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| Team led by Scripps Research scientists discovers body's own molecular protection against arthritis |
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· 05/18/2010 9:42:14 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 4 replies · · 275+ views · · Scripps Research Institute · · May 18, 2010 · · Unknown · |
The results may lead to new approach to therapies for joint diseaseLA JOLLA, CA -- May 17, 2010 -- An international team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute in California and the National Research Institute for Child Health and Development in Japan has discovered that a natural molecule in the body counters the progression of osteoarthritis. The findings could one day lead to new therapies for some common diseases of aging. The study was published in an advanced, online issue of the journal Genes & Development on May 13, 2010, and will be featured as the cover story of... |
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| Derbyshire Iron Age bones were of pregnant woman |
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· 05/19/2010 7:49:32 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 7 replies · · 326+ views · · BBC · · Wednesday, May 19, 2010 · · unattributed · |
Tests carried out on a skeleton discovered at an archaeological dig in Derbyshire have found it was that of a pregnant woman. Experts said they were surprised by the female find because the site, near Monsal Dale in the Peak District, had been believed to be a military scene. Now, extra lottery funding means there can be a second dig at the Fin Cop hill fort site to find out more. Archaeologists unearthed the Iron Age skeleton last August. During the excavation, the woman was uncovered among the jumbled stone of a collapsed rampart. The main focus of the dig... |
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| Face of Medieval Knight revealed |
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· 05/20/2010 4:52:50 AM PDT · · Posted by Beowulf9 · · 49 replies · · 1,867+ views · · BBC News · |
FACE OF STERLING CASTLE WARRIOR RECONSTRUCTED The skeleton of the knight was discovered during refurbishment work A reconstruction has revealed the face of a medieval knight whose skeleton was discovered at Stirling Castle. Experts are now attempting to discover the identity of the warrior, who is likely to have been killed in the 13th or 14th Century. The skeleton is one of 10 excavated from the site of a lost royal chapel at the castle. The skeleton of a woman was found near the knight. Forensic anthropologist Professor Sue Black is leading the investigation. It is believed the knight could... |
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| Work Crew Accidentally Digs Up 2,000-Year-Old Coffins |
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· 05/20/2010 6:57:20 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 13 replies · · 660+ views · · Fox News · · May 20, 2010 · · Associated Press · |
Work crews accidentally unearthed four such clay coffins from what is believed to be an ancient cemetery. Antiquities Department Director Maria Hadjicosti said the coffins adorned with floral patterns date from the east Mediterranean island's Hellenistic to early Roman periods, between 300 B.C. and 100 A.D. Hadjicosti said similar coffins dating from the same period have been found. But she called the latest find significant because the coffins were untouched by grave robbers. She said other items found at the site included human skeletal remains, glass vessels and terra cotta urns. |
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| Egypt | |
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| King Tut's Leftover Bandages Yield New Clues |
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· 05/20/2010 7:29:42 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 20 replies · · 634+ views · · Discovery News · · Wednesday, May 19, 2010 · · Rossella Lorenzi · |
King Tutankhamun's mummy was wrapped in custom-made bandages similar to modern first aid gauzes, an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals. Running in length from 4.70 meters to 39 cm (15.4 feet to 15.3 inches), the narrow bandages consist of 50 linen pieces especially woven for the boy king. For a century, the narrow linen bandages were contained in a rather overlooked cache of large ceramic jars at the museum's Department of Egyptian Art. The collection was recovered from the Valley of the Kings between 1907-08, more than a decade before Howard Carter discovered King Tut's treasure-packed... |
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| Age constraints on alleged "footprints" preserved in the Xalnene Tuff near Puebla, Mexico |
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· 05/20/2010 7:21:00 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 45 replies · · 579+ views · · Geology · · March 2009; v. 37; no. 3; p. 267-270 · · Feinberg, Renne, Arroyo-Cabrales, Waters, Ochoa-Castillo, Perez-Campa · |
Impressions in a basaltic tuff located around Valsequillo Reservoir near Puebla, Mexico, have been interpreted as human and animal footprints along an ancient lakeshore, and are cited as evidence of the presence of humans in North America at 40 ka B.P. In this paper, we present new data that challenge this interpretation. Paleomagnetic analyses of the Xalnene Tuff, and lavas from the volcano from which it erupted, yield fully reversed magnetic polarities, indicating that the tuff was deposited prior to the last geomagnetic reversal (the Brunhes-Matuyama ca. 790 ka). 40Ar/39Ar dating of Xalnene lapilli and lava from the source volcano... |
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| Pyramid Tomb Found: Sign of a Civilization's Birth? |
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· 05/19/2010 7:54:19 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 11 replies · · 575+ views · · National Geographic News · · Tuesday, May 18, 2010 · · John Roach · |
Apparently caught between two cultures, the 2,700-year-old pyramid in Chiapa de Corzo (map), Mexico, may help settle a debate as to when and how the mysterious Zoque civilization arose, according to excavation leader Bruce Bachand. At the time of the pyramid tomb's dedication, hundreds of artisans, vendors, and farmers would have known Chiapa de Corzo as a muggy town, redolent with wood smoke and incense. Above them towered the three-story-tall pyramid, a "visually permanent and physically imposing reminder" of their past rulers and emerging cultural identity, said Bachand, an archaeologist at Brigham Young University. The two rulers found with the... |
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| Pictures: Massive Maya City Revealed by Lasers |
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· 05/21/2010 8:59:04 AM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 17 replies · · 1,272+ views · · nationalgeographic · · May 20, 2010 · · Brian Handwerk · |
Maya City in 3-D Airborne lasers have "stripped" away thick rain forests to reveal new images of an ancient Maya metropolis that's far bigger than anyone had thought. An April 2009 flyover of the Maya city of Caracol used Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) equipment -- which bounces laser beams off the ground -- to help scientists construct a 3-D map of the settlement in western Belize. The survey revealed previously unknown buildings, roads, and other features in just four days, scientists announced earlier this month at the International Symposium on Archaeometry in Tampa, Florida. University of Central Florida anthropologists Arlen and Diane Chase... |
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