Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

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

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• 14 Warring States (464-222BC) Tombs Discovered In Sichuan  ^ 6 posted on 07/15/2004 7:20:44 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#6]
• Achaemenid, Worldís First Empire to Respect Cultural Diversity  ^ 3 posted on 07/05/2004 6:45:53 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Ancient European Remains Discovered In Qinghai (China)  ^ 27 posted on 07/06/2004 7:23:57 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#27]
• Archaeologists Dig Up World War II Plane  ^ 21 posted on 05/31/2004 9:46:55 AM PDT by farmfriend [#21]
• Archaeologists Reveal Utah Canyon Filled With Ancient Settlements  ^ 22 posted on 07/01/2004 9:37:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#22]
• Archaeologists Startled To Discover Neolithic Ritual Site (Scotland)  ^ 3 posted on 05/29/2004 5:41:16 PM PDT by farmfriend [#3]
• Archaeologists tackle China mystery  ^ 3 posted on 07/05/2004 6:43:37 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Archeologists discover ancient graffiti on China's Great Wall  ^ 16 posted on 07/11/2004 7:44:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#16]
• Archeologists discover ancient graffiti on China's Great Wall  ^ 2 posted on 07/11/2004 4:19:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#2]
• Battlements Found At Egypt's Ancient East Gateway  ^ 5 posted on 07/01/2004 9:07:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Bird's-Eye View Of The Amazon (Airborne Archaeologist Challenges The Myth Of A Pristine Wilderness)  ^ 32 posted on 05/31/2004 9:45:45 AM PDT by farmfriend [#32]
• Books, Magazines, Movies, Music  ^ 17 posted on 07/14/2004 12:02:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#17]
• Books, Magazines, Movies, Music  ^ 11 posted on 07/11/2004 9:53:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#11]
• Buddha's New Birthplace Discovered  ^ 24 posted on 05/26/2004 9:32:54 AM PDT by farmfriend [#24]
• Catapult-Makers Were Once Ye Olde Celebrities  ^ 4 posted on 07/05/2004 3:22:48 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Caves Hold Clue To The Riddle Of The Three Hares  ^ 25 posted on 07/03/2004 4:45:03 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#25]
• China Publishes Research Results On Korguryo Kingdom Ruins  ^ 8 posted on 07/02/2004 6:40:49 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#8]
• China: Cemetery dig yields clues 3000 years ago(more on Western Zhou Dynasty)  ^ 9 posted on 05/28/2004 9:10:43 AM PDT by farmfriend [#9]
• Cooks' Crew Hid First Antarctica Painting  ^ 5 posted on 07/09/2004 7:14:36 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Dig Under Manezh Yields Suprises  ^ 6 posted on 06/02/2004 2:46:35 PM PDT by farmfriend [#6]
• Drilling Finds Crater Beneath Va. Bay  ^ 16 posted on 06/01/2004 5:11:52 PM PDT by farmfriend [#16]
• Forgotten culture  ^ 21 posted on 07/04/2004 12:32:15 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#21]
• Fossil Findings Blur Picture Of Art's Birth (Neanderthals?)  ^ 18 posted on 07/09/2004 7:18:51 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#18]
• Georgian Archaeologists Discover Basilica Of Middle Ages  ^ 8 posted on 07/07/2004 9:03:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#8]
• Halls of Ancient Alexandria's Ivy Found  ^ 22 posted on 05/31/2004 9:47:50 AM PDT by farmfriend [#22]
• Humanity's Strange Face  ^ 19 posted on 05/25/2004 8:32:58 AM PDT by farmfriend ( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.) [#19]
• Keeping Up With The Empire (Romans In Netherlands)  ^ 4 posted on 05/26/2004 9:28:27 AM PDT by farmfriend [#4]
• Macbeth's Castle Unearthed In Inverness Garden?  ^ 6 posted on 05/28/2004 1:08:34 PM PDT by farmfriend [#6]
• Major Excavation To Open Viking Graves  ^ 16 posted on 06/01/2004 5:17:35 PM PDT by farmfriend [#16]
• Medici's Secret Crypt Unearthed  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 12:29:59 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• New Plan to Renovate Iran's Historical Cyrus Mausoleum  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 4:11:14 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• New Twist On Out-Of-Africa Theory  ^ 64 posted on 07/14/2004 10:51:36 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#64]
• The Oldest Americans May Prove Even Older  ^ 3 posted on 06/29/2004 4:24:38 PM PDT by NukeMan [#3]
• Persepolis 3d [Virtual 3d tour Capital of Persian Empire]  ^ 5 posted on 07/11/2004 10:11:25 AM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Pompeii Find Shows Secrets Of The Samnites  ^ 3 posted on 07/04/2004 5:49:47 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• The Poop On Ancient Man  ^ 4 posted on 07/02/2004 7:51:18 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Quarries Providing Stone for Persepolis Discovered  ^ 3 posted on 07/11/2004 10:13:03 AM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Rare Artifacts Shed New Light On Spanish Outpost On (Florida) Panhandle  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 12:54:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Rat DNA Clues To Sea Migration  ^ 5 posted on 06/08/2004 2:09:28 PM PDT by farmfriend [#5]
• Remains Of Colonial Teen Pose A 'History Mystery'  ^ 35 posted on 07/14/2004 10:53:24 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#35]
• Replica Of Roman Murder Victim (1,700 Years Old)  ^ 9 posted on 05/26/2004 10:37:34 PM PDT by farmfriend [#9]
• Scientist: DNA Disputes Russian Tsar Remains  ^ 4 posted on 07/14/2004 10:49:15 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Signs of 8,000-year-old culture found near Bedford  ^ 34 posted on 06/08/2004 12:36:40 PM PDT by farmfriend [#34]
• Silk painting, brassiere unearthed from ancient tombs in N. China(1,000 year-old golden brassiere)  ^ 27 posted on 06/08/2004 12:18:58 PM PDT by farmfriend [#27]
• Sistine Chapel of the ice age revealed  ^ 15 posted on 07/14/2004 11:09:19 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#15]
• Star Chart In Ancient Nara Tomb To Under Go Restoration (Japan)  ^ 5 posted on 07/14/2004 10:45:25 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit  ^ 154 posted on 07/09/2004 7:21:14 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#154]
• Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit  ^ 163 posted on 07/09/2004 11:08:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#163]
• Syria - Archaeological Finding (80K Year Old Human Sites)  ^ 3 posted on 05/29/2004 5:47:24 PM PDT by farmfriend [#3]
• Teeth Show How Society Was Shaped By Old Age  ^ 4 posted on 07/05/2004 6:40:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]

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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #234 Saturday, January 10, 2009
China
Pyramids in China
	01/07/2009 10:46:19 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 29 replies · 759+ views Walter Hain | 25 Oct 2006 | Walter Hain The "White Pyramid" discovered! It is the Maoling Mausoleum! Since many years already in the popular scientific community and in publications there are many announcements and contentions of gigantic pyramids in China. The puzzle around the look-up seems final after new discoveries. With the help of Google Earth, the objects are to be seen impressively. It can not be maintained longer, there might be no pyramids in China.!They have four sides and they are even square like the pyramids in Egypt and in Mexico. Its size can quite be matched with those of the Pharaons and of the Mexican rulers....
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
First Animation of the World Found In Burnt City
	01/06/2009 6:00:08 PM PST · Posted by Fred Nerks · 54 replies · 612+ views Payvand's Iran News | 12/30/04 | U/A Tehran (Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency) -- An animated piece on an earthen goblet that belongs to 5000 years ago was found in Burnt City in Sistan-Baluchistan province, southeastern Iran. On this ancient piece that can be called the first animation of the world, the artist has portrayed a goat that jumps toward a tree and eats its leaves. The earthenware found in Burnt City, one of the most developed civilizations dating back to 5000 years ago, show the images of goat and fish more than any other subject. It seems these animals were used more than any other by...
Try Pilling Them
Europe's hidden civilization: Trypilians thrived for thousands of years in what is now Ukraine
	01/08/2009 7:53:21 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 19 replies · 463+ views Town Crier | Wednesday, January 7, 2009 | Lorianna De Giorgio You have heard of the Egyptians, the Romans and the Greeks. Even the Sumerians may ring a bell. But the Trypilians? ...Well, you're not alone if you don't know who the ancient people of present day Ukraine were. Despite their incredible advances -- the 5400-2700 BC culture is credited at creating the largest settlements in the world during that time -- they quickly and mysteriously faded into obscurity, almost seemingly erased from the world's history books... Thanks to Ukraine's Orange Revolution five years ago, and further work done by a slew of the Eastern European country's museums, including the National...
Celts
Archaeologists unearth 3rd to 2nd century BC Celtic village in Poland
	01/08/2009 7:59:41 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 13 replies · 277+ views Entertainment and Showbiz! | Wednesday, January 7, 2009 | ranjankul (ANI) Archaeologists have uncovered a 3rd to 2nd century BC Celtic village four miles east of Krakow in Poland, where excavated artifacts may help to reconstruct the life and fate of the Celts. According to a report in the Krakow Post, archaeologists from the Krakow Highway Exploration Team had been exploring the area during preparatory archaeological works done on the future A4 highway premises, when they came across the finding. They found treasured coins, jewellery and everyday articles, thanks to which they will be able to reconstruct the life and fate of the Celts in the Malopolska district and make valuable...
Ireland
Radiocarbon dates indicate early Irish were just visiting
	01/08/2009 8:06:58 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 16 replies · 315+ views Times of London | Friday, January 9, 2009 | Norman Hammond Ireland's first farmers settled the island later than some sites from Ulster have long suggested, but did so in a short period which may also have seen parallel migration into western England and Scotland. Radiocarbon dates indicate that sites from Co Kerry in the South West to Co Derry in Northern Ireland were all settled within the century after 3700BC. The immigrants built rectangular timber houses up to a hundred square metres in area, cultivated cereals such as wheat and barley, used flint tools and made plain pottery bowls... They were not the first people in Ireland: Mesolithic fishers and...
Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
Bagnold's Stone Circle[Libya]
	01/07/2009 7:58:15 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 4 replies · 229+ views Fliegel Jezerniczky Expeditions | 06 Jan 2009 | Fliegel Jezerniczky Expeditions "In a small basin in the hills we came the next day (27th October, 1930) upon a circle 27 feet (8.5 metres) in diameter of thin slabs of sandstone, 18 to 24 inches high. Half were lying prone, but the rest were still vertical in the sand. There was no doorway or other sign of orientation, and though we searched within and without the circle, no implements could be found. I understand that other similar circles have been found in the neighborhood of the Gilf Kebir." Major R.A.Bagnold, Journeys in the Libyan Desert 1929 and 1930, The Georgaphical Journal, Vol....
Underwater Archaeology
Stonehenge Beneath the Waters of Lake Michigan
	01/08/2009 12:15:48 PM PST · Posted by BGHater · 50 replies · 1,530+ views BLDG Blog | 05 Jan 2009 | BLDG Blog In a surprisingly under-reported story from 2007, Mark Holley, a professor of underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan University College, discovered a series of stones ñ†some of them arranged in a circle and one of which seemed to show carvings of a mastodon ñ 40-feet beneath the surface waters of Lake Michigan. [Image: Standing stones beneath Lake Michigan? View larger]. If verified, the carvings could be as much as 10,000 years old ñ coincident with the post-Ice Age presence of both humans and mastodons in the upper midwest. [Image: The stones beneath Lake Michigan; view larger]. In a PDF assembled by...
Stonehenge
Stonehenge Acoustics Ideal for Trance-Like Tunes
	01/07/2009 10:01:50 AM PST · Posted by wildbill · 44 replies · 542+ views Discovery News | 01/07/2009 | Rosella Lorenzi Jan. 7, 2009 -- Stonehenge was built as a dance arena for prehistoric "samba-style" raves, according to a study of the acoustics of the 5,000-year-old stone circle. Using cutting-edge technology, Rupert Till, an expert in acoustics and music technology at Huddersfield University in northern England, discovered that Stonehenge's megaliths reflect sound perfectly, making the stone circle an ideal setting for listening to repetitive trance rhythms.
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Ancient T. rex and mastodon protein fragments discovered, sequenced
	04/12/2007 12:43:57 PM PDT · Posted by AdmSmith · 85 replies · 1,970+ views National Science Foundation | 12-Apr-2007 | Cheryl Dybas 68-million-year-old T. rex proteins are oldest ever sequenced Scientists have confirmed the existence of protein in soft tissue recovered from the fossil bones of a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex) and a half-million-year-old mastodon. Their results may change the way people think about fossil preservation and present a new method for studying diseases in which identification of proteins is important, such as cancer. When an animal dies, protein immediately begins to degrade and, in the case of fossils, is slowly replaced by mineral. This substitution process was thought to be complete by 1 million years. Researchers at North Carolina...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Comet smashes triggered ancient famine [ March 536 AD ]
	01/08/2009 9:54:17 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 39 replies · 715+ views New Scientist | January 7, 2009 | Ker Than Multiple comet impacts around 1500 years ago triggered a "dry fog" that plunged half the world into famine. Historical records tell us that from the beginning of March 536 AD, a fog of dust blanketed the atmosphere for 18 months. During this time, "the sun gave no more light than the moon", global temperatures plummeted and crops failed, says Dallas Abbott of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York... Now Abbott and her team have found the first direct evidence that multiple impacts caused the haze. They found tiny balls of condensed rock vapour or "spherules" in debris inside...
Mammoths wiped out by 'perfect storm?'
	01/03/2009 12:29:12 PM PST · Posted by decimon · 15 replies · 501+ views Discovery | Jan. 2, 2009 | Michael Reilly Mammoths were a hearty group of giants that went extinct not because of climate change or overhunting by early humans, but a "perfect storm" of conditions, according to new research. At the height of their numbers, the elephant-like beasts roamed the northern hemisphere from France to Canada, north above the Arctic circle and south into China.
Mammoth Told Me There'd Be Days Like These
Japan scientists clone legendary bull (Mammoths next?)
	01/08/2009 6:29:35 AM PST · Posted by Red Badger · 56 replies · 882+ views www.physorg.com | 01-08-2009 | Staff Japanese scientists said Thursday they had successfully cloned the ancestral bull of a luxurious brand of beef, possibly opening the way to distribute cloned beef. At the start of the Year of the Ox, researchers announced they had kept frozen for 13 years the testicles of a bull named Yasufuku, the progenitor of the expensive Hida-gyu brand of beef in central Gifu prefecture. The researchers at Kinki University and Gifu's livestock research institute said they had cloned four Yasufuku calves between November 2007 and July 2008, although two of them died afterward. "Yasufuku's testicles were frozen for a decade without...
Paleontology
Ten Extinct Beasts That Could Walk The Earth Again
	01/09/2009 10:20:15 AM PST · Posted by ex-Texan · 77 replies · 1,678+ views News Scientist | 1/07/2009 | Staff Writers THE recipe for making any creature is written in its DNA. So last November, when geneticists published the near-complete DNA sequence of the long-extinct woolly mammoth, there was much speculation about whether we could bring this behemoth back to life. Creating a living, breathing creature from a genome sequence that exists only in a computer's memory is not possible right now. But someone someday is sure to try it, predicts Stephan Schuster, a molecular biologist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and a driving force behind the mammoth genome project. So besides the mammoth, what other extinct beasts might we...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Once Humans Crossed the Bering Land Bridge to America, Where Did They Go?
	01/09/2009 1:40:09 PM PST · Posted by decimon · 22 replies · 346+ views Discover | Jan. 9, 2009 | Eliza Strickland > Along the Pacific coastal route, travelers in skin boats are presumed to have hunted marine mammals and found shelter in shoreline refuges beyond the reach of the retreating glaciersÖ. Movements along the inland route - where big-game hunters originally from Siberia are believed to have migrated through a gap in the glaciers in present-day Northwest Territories and Alberta - led to the earliest mid-continental settlements in the New World, scientists believe [Canwest News Service]. >
First Americans arrived as 2 separate migrations, according to new genetic evidence
	01/09/2009 7:12:43 AM PST · Posted by Red Badger · 39 replies · 797+ views www.physorg.com | 01/09/2009 | Source: Cell Press The first people to arrive in America traveled as at least two separate groups to arrive in their new home at about the same time, according to new genetic evidence published online on January 8th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. After the Last Glacial Maximum some 15,000 to 17,000 years ago, one group entered North America from Beringia following the ice-free Pacific coastline, while another traversed an open land corridor between two ice sheets to arrive directly into the region east of the Rocky Mountains. (Beringia is the landmass that connected northeast Siberia to Alaska during the last...
First Americans arrived as 2 separate migrations, according to new genetic evidence
	01/08/2009 7:46:36 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 20 replies · 442+ views Eurekalert | Thursday, January 8, 2009 | Cathleen Genova The first people to arrive in America traveled as at least two separate groups to arrive in their new home at about the same time, according to new genetic evidence published online on January 8th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. After the Last Glacial Maximum some 15,000 to 17,000 years ago, one group entered North America from Beringia following the ice-free Pacific coastline, while another traversed an open land corridor between two ice sheets to arrive directly into the region east of the Rocky Mountains. (Beringia is the landmass that connected northeast Siberia to Alaska during the last...
Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Jomon skeletons from the Funadomari site, Hokkaido...
	01/06/2009 3:07:33 PM PST · Posted by AdmSmith · 26 replies · 626+ views Am J Phys Anthropol. | 2008 Oct 24. | Adachi N, Shinoda KI, Umetsu K, Matsumura H. Ancient DNA recovered from 16 Jomon skeletons excavated from Funadomari site, Hokkaido, Japan was analyzed to elucidate the genealogy of the early settlers of the Japanese archipelago. Both the control and coding regions of their mitochondrial DNA were analyzed in detail, and we could securely assign 14 mtDNAs to relevant haplogroups. Haplogroups D1a, M7a, and N9b were observed in these individuals, and N9b was by far the most predominant. The fact that haplogroups N9b and M7a were observed in Hokkaido Jomons bore out the hypothesis that these haplogroups are the (pre-) Jomon contribution to the modern Japanese mtDNA pool. Moreover,...
DNA tracks ancient Alaskan's descendants
	01/03/2009 9:23:34 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 7 replies · 214+ views The Anchorage Daily News | 28 Dec 2008 | George Bryson 10,300 YEARS OLD: Tests of Southeast Natives challenge prior anthropological results. An ancient mariner who lived and died 10,000 years ago on an island west of Ketchikan probably doesn't have any close relatives left in Alaska. But some of them migrated south and their descendents can be found today in coastal Native American populations in California, Mexico, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina. That's some of what scientists learned this summer by examining the DNA of Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian Indians in Southeast Alaska. Working with elders at a cultural festival in Juneau, they interviewed more than 200 Native Alaskans who allowed...
Peru
Discovery helps solve mystery of South American trophy heads
	01/05/2009 1:37:25 PM PST · Posted by Red Badger · 33 replies · 1,170+ views www.physorg.com | 01-05-2009 | Staff The mystery of why ancient South American peoples who created the mysterious Nazca Lines also collected human heads as trophies has long puzzled scholars who theorize the heads may have been used in fertility rites, taken from enemies in battle or associated with ancestor veneration. A recent study using specimens from Chicago's Field Museum throws new light on the matter by establishing that trophy heads came from people who lived in the same place and were part of the same culture as those who collected them. These people lived 2,000 to 1,500 years ago. Archaeologists determined that the severed heads...
Neandertal / Neanderthal
A complete Neandertal mtDNA genome
	01/07/2009 4:22:16 PM PST · Posted by decimon · 20 replies · 387+ views Panda's Thumb | January 6, 2009 | Jim Foley > Green et al. 2008 Wrote: Analysis of the assembled sequence unequivocally establishes that the Neandertal mtDNA falls outside the variation of extant human mtDNAs, and allows an estimate of the divergence date between the two mtDNA lineages of 660,000 ± 140,000 years. >
Climate
Pollen Grain Study Yields New Picture Of Ice Age [ Sweden ice-free 59K-40K ]
	01/09/2009 9:08:38 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 12 replies · 206+ views ScienceDaily | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 | Swedish Research Council via AlphaGalileo According to a new doctoral dissertation at Stockholm University in Sweden, based on analyses of deposits of pollen grains, it is possible that all of Sweden was virtually free of ice for long periods during the latest ice age. The findings show that the glaciation might have started some 20,000 later than was previously assumed... The size and movement patterns of the ice sheets can be calculated by studying land forms and moraine deposits... Martina H‰ttestrand's dissertation is based on studies of pollen grains that were deposited more than 40,000 years ago in small lakes during the ice-free phases of...
Out of Africa Until Next Thursday
Necklaces reveal early man's intelligence
	01/09/2009 9:31:15 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 10 replies · 293+ views Norman Hammond | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | Times of London While good evidence exists for the use of natural objects modified as jewellery almost 100,000 years ago in southern Africa and the Middle East, the case for this having occurred twice as long ago in Europe has also been argued, and has now come under renewed scrutiny. Perforated seashells from Blombos Cave and possible shell beads from Sibudu Cave, both in South Africa, date from 70,000-75,000 years ago, while perforated shells bearing traces of red ochre are known from the Grotte des Pigeons in Morocco at 82,500 years and from Qafzeh in Israel at 90,000 years ago... naturally perforated small...
Moderate Islam / ROP Alert
U.S. Scientists Unearth Truth of Saddam's Reign of Terror (Mass Graves)
	01/07/2009 3:19:33 PM PST · Posted by 2ndDivisionVet · 12 replies · 737+ views Newsmax | January 6, 2009 | Dennis Fisher A feature story in the January issue of Archaeology Magazine reports that U.S. efforts in Iraq are doing more than just bringing freedom to the once totalitarian state. American scientists are also delivering a measure of justice to the families of tens of thousands of Kurds slaughtered by Saddam Hussein's forces, according to the magazine, which hit newsstands this week. At the prodding of the investigators at Human Rights Watch, who had heard horrific first-hand accounts of the mass executions from survivors, U.S. Army archaeologists and other experts in 2003 began excavating mass graves and gathering evidence for trials that...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Texas A & M Professor Claims Proof Of Star Of Bethlehem
	12/20/2007 3:32:58 PM PST · Posted by shield · 128 replies · 486+ views Ft. Worth Local 11 News | November 22nd, 2007 | Maria Arita The Star of Bethlehem has befuddled scholars throughout the ages. Now, a Texas law professor claims to have scientific proof that the Star was real, and not purely biblical myth. He has another major discovery as well, which resulted from his study of the Star. Texas A&M adjunct law professor Frederick Larson began researching the Star after putting up a nativity scene for his daughter. The lawyer in him, Larson said, required him to investigate what it was that he was putting up in his front yard. Beginning with the book of Matthew, he...
Pages
'Chiefs, Thieves, and Priests' - Science writer Matt Ridley on the causes of poverty and...
	01/07/2009 12:13:51 PM PST · Posted by neverdem · 15 replies · 529+ views Reason | February 2009 | Ronald Bailey Science writer Matt Ridley on the causes of poverty and prosperityMatt Ridley, an Oxford-educated zoologist, turned to journalism in 1983, when he got a job as The Economist's science reporter. He soon became the magazine's Washington correspondent and eventually served as it's American editor. This time in the United States had a profound intellectual effect on Ridley, ultimately leading him to become a self-described classical liberal, a "person who believes in economic freedom and social freedom, too." Ridley, 50, has written several superb books that combine clear explanations of complex biology with discussions of the science's implications for human society....
Korea
Ancient city wall found, to be restored in Seoul
	01/04/2009 4:32:14 PM PST · Posted by Jet Jaguar · 6 replies · 340+ views Stars and Stripes | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 | Jimmy Norris and Hwang Hae-rym SEOUL -- In 1925 the Japanese occupying Korea demolished one of the country's cultural treasures to make way for a baseball field -- something Seoul city officials hope to reverse by 2011. Late last year, construction crews tearing down Dongdaemun baseball stadium to make way for Dongdaemun Design Plaza and Park discovered partial remains of a wall constructed in 1396 that the Japanese had razed. The site is a five-minute walk from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Far East District compound. Project director Lee Gwang-seok said his team will restore the roughly 400-foot section of what was once an...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
The Murder of Thomas Becket, 1170-Today in History
	12/29/2008 9:10:21 AM PST · Posted by managusta · 10 replies · 643+ views Eye Witness to History | 1997 | Edward Grim At one time, England's King Henry II and Thomas Becket were the closest of friends. Their ties were so strong that Henry named his friend to the powerful position of Archbishop of Canterbury. The relationship soon soured as the two strong-willed men challenged one another over the relative supremacy of the Church versus the State. At one point King Henry supposedly became so exasperated that he cried out in desperation to his courtiers "Who shall rid me of this meddlesome priest!" Taking this as a cue to act, four of Henry's knights rushed to Canterbury Cathedral on the evening of...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Renaissance capitalist: New research answers mystery about illegitimate daughter of pope
	01/07/2009 11:43:19 AM PST · Posted by decimon · 17 replies · 414+ views University of Southern California | Jan. 7, 2008 | Unknown How did the sister of Machiavelli's prince get so wealthy during an economic downturn?In popular legend, Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (1480- 1519), stands falsely accused of poisoning her second husband. Victor Hugo portrayed her in thinly veiled fiction as a tragic femme fatale. Buffalo Bill named his gun after her. But new research by USC historian Diane Yvonne Ghirardo reveals that the only sister of Machiavelli's Prince was less interested in political intrigue than in running a business, undertaking massive land development projects that "stand alone in the panorama of early sixteenth-century projects, not only those initiated by women,"...
Early America
A Golden anniversary (CO history)
	01/08/2009 1:10:22 PM PST · Posted by jazusamo · 5 replies · 127+ views YourHub.com | January 7, 2009 | Richard Gardner George Andrew Jackson made one of the most pivotal gold discoveries in Colorado history around today's Idaho Springs on January 7, 1859. He had made his way up from camp at today's Golden townsite, later became a Golden citizen, and suggested the town be named after Thomas L. Golden who was the only person he trusted with the secret of his discovery. Today is the 150th anniversary of one of the great gold strikes in Colorado history, when George A. Jackson, having traveled from his camp at today's Golden townsite, journeyed up to the vicinity of today's Idaho Springs...
National Pastime
Fresno collectors uncover rare 1869 baseball card
	01/08/2009 12:14:02 PM PST · Posted by Wolfstar · 12 replies · 1,216+ views The Fresno Bee | 1/8/09 | Mike Osegueda Bernice Gallego sat down one day this summer, as she does pretty much every day, and began listing items on eBay. She dug into a box and pulled out a baseball card. She stopped for a moment and admired the picture. "Red Stocking B.B. Club of Cincinnati," the card read, under a sepia tone photo of 10 men with their socks pulled up to their knees. The card itself was dirty and wrinkled in a few places. [SNIP] The card is actually 139 years old. It, and a handful of others like it, are considered the first baseball cards. This...
The Great War
World War I plane takes students back to future
	01/07/2009 5:49:13 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 10 replies · 393+ views The Virginian-Pilot | January 5, 2009 | Eric Feber In the corner of the Aviation Institute of Maintenance's tidy, spacious classroom hangar on South Military Highway, the metal skeleton of an aviation ghost is rising out of metal tubing. The World War I bi-plane, the Nieuport 24, stands regally in the corner of this former Food Lion building on the Chesapeake campus. It's the same frame of a slightly more streamlined version of the single-seat Nieuport 17, heavily used in the "Great War" by France, along with England's Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service, the Imperial Russian Air Service, and the U.S. Army Air Service, which used...
World War Eleven
Pictured: The amazing tin can bomber made by British pilot in Great Escape POW camp
	01/07/2009 12:51:23 PM PST · Posted by Stoat · 35 replies · 1,632+ views The Daily Mail (U.K.) | January 7, 2009 | David Wilkes Skillfully crafted from tin cans, matchsticks and off cuts, one can only imagine the satisfaction a prisoner of war derived from finishing this stunning model aircraft as he languished in Stalag Luft III. Constructed almost perfectly to scale, his detailed version of a Lancaster Bomber like the one he flew before his capture even bears what appears to be the skull and crossbones logo of RAF 100 Squadron, famous for its night-time raids.Little is known about its maker, other than that he was an airman named E Taylor. † ††The model was found during a clearance sale at house...
Obituary
Rear-Admiral Teddy Gueritz (D-Day beachmaster who cleared the way for 30,000 troops)
	01/08/2009 9:49:10 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 10 replies · 428+ views The Telegraph | 07 Jan 2009 D-Day beachmaster who cleared the way for 30,000 troops and endured 19 days under fire.Rear-Admiral Teddy Gueritz, who has died aged 89, took over as a beachmaster on Sword Beach at 0800 on June 6 1944, wearing a blue-painted helmet and red scarf while armed with only a large blackthorn walking stick. He was charged with making order out of the chaos as men poured ashore and flail tanks attempted to explode mines and clear wire while the beach exits were jammed by vehicles stuck in soft sand. His sharpest memory was of the sight of his wounded superior, Commander...
Longer Perspectives
The Revolution Was by Garet Garrett
	06/15/2003 6:02:19 AM PDT · Posted by vannrox · 15 replies · 618+ views The Myth of Roosevelt | 1938 | Garet Garrett THE REVOLUTION WAS by Garet Garrett1938 There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom. There are those who have never ceased to say very earnestly, "Something is going to happen to the American form of government if we don't watch out." These were the innocent disarmers. Their trust was in words. They had forgotten their Aristotle. More than 2,000 years ago...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
An epic year? Freeper LS mentioned in USA Today
	01/01/2009 5:09:49 AM PST · Posted by LS · 35 replies · 852+ views self | 12/25/08 | Rick Hampson We are prohibited from posting USA Today, but in the Dec. 25 ed., an article by Rick Hampson called "An Epic Year" has a sort of debate between myself and liberal historians such as Eric Foner. I found the reporter fair, and his use of my comments and quotations was both fair and accurate. Link below. (Someone just alerted me to this article today, so it's a couple of days old).
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The Dangers of Disputing Global Warming Orthodoxy
	01/08/2009 8:27:27 AM PST · Posted by all the best · 32 replies · 1,073+ views Ludwig von Mises Institute | January 8, 2009 | David Gordon Those of us who refuse to accept calls from proponents of global warming for drastic restrictions on production often confront objections like this: Skeptics, blinded by fanatical devotion to the free market, ignore evidence. True enough, you can trot out a few scientists who agree with you. But the overwhelming majority of climate scientists view man-made global warming as a great threat to the world. The course of inaction you urge on us threatens the earth with disaster. Christopher Horner's excellent book provides a convincing response to this all-too-frequent complaint. But how can it do so? Will not an "anti-global-warming"...
Climate
The earth's magnetic field impacts climate: Danish study
	01/12/2009 6:33:01 PM PST · Posted by NormsRevenge · 70 replies · 1,389+ views AFP on Yahoo | 1/12/09 | AFP COPENHAGEN (AFP) -- The earth's climate has been significantly affected by the planet's magnetic field, according to a Danish study published Monday that could challenge the notion that human emissions are responsible for global warming. "Our results show a strong correlation between the strength of the earth's magnetic field and the amount of precipitation in the tropics," one of the two Danish geophysicists behind the study, Mads Faurschou Knudsen of the geology department at Aarhus University in western Denmark, told the Videnskab journal. He and his colleague Peter Riisager, of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), compared a...
Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
Stonehenge in Lake Michigan?(Potentially pre-historic stone formation discovered deep underwater)
	01/13/2009 5:24:22 PM PST · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · 24 replies · 1,153+ views nbcchicago.com | January 8, 2009 | MATT BARTOSIK The iconic Stonehenge in the UK is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the world, but it is not the only stone formation of its kind. Similar stone alignments have been found throughout England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales -- and now, it seems, in Lake Michigan. According to BLDGBLOG, in 2007, Mark Holley, professor of underwater archeology at Northwestern Michigan College, discovered a series of stones arranged in a circle 40 feet below the surface of Lake Michigan. One stone outside the circle seems to have carvings that resemble a mastodon, an elephant-like animal that went extinct about 10,000 years...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Study Reveals DNA Links Between Ancient Peruvians, Japanese
	01/10/2009 11:55:02 AM PST · Posted by decimon · 27 replies · 490+ views Latin American Herald | January 10,2009 | Unknown > The director of the Sican National Museum, Carlos Elera, told the daily that Shinoda found that people who lived more than 1,000 years ago in what today is the Lambayeque region, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) north of Lima, had genetic links to the comtemporaneous populations of Ecuador, Colombia, Siberia, Taiwan and to the Ainu people of northern Japan. The studies will be continued on descendents of the Mochica culture, from the same region, who are currently working on the Sican Project and with people who live in the vicinity of the Bosque de Pomac Historical Sanctuary. >
Out of Africa Until Next Thursday
Bonnie the ape holds a tune (she whistles - video)
	01/12/2009 9:38:04 AM PST · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · 9 replies · 357+ views thesun.co.uk | December 23, 2008 | VINCE SOODIN MEET Bonnie the WHISTLING orangutan. The 140lb ape stunned her keepers when she picked up the self-taught trick. Now boffins believe she may hold crucial clues as to how the human language evolved.
Neandertal / Neanderthal
Neanderthal Weaponry Lacked Projectile Advantage
	01/15/2009 5:18:56 PM PST · Posted by decimon · 24 replies · 370+ views Discovery | Jan. 14, 2009 | Jennifer Viegas Jan. 14, 2009 -- A trio of new studies on prehistoric weapons suggests Neanderthals made sophisticated weapons and tools -- possibly including the first sticky adhesive -- but they lacked the projectile weapons possessed by early humans. The missing technology, along with climate change and competition with arrow-shooting humans, may have contributed to the Neanderthals' eventual extinction. "While we are not suggesting that modern humans were directing projectile weapons against Neanderthals, it is certainly possible that at times they did so," Steven Churchill, co-author of one of the papers, told Discovery News.
British Isles
Ancient rock art baffles experts[UK]
	01/15/2009 3:19:11 PM PST · Posted by BGHater · 22 replies · 409+ views Telegraph | 15 Jan 2009 | Matt Ford Matt Ford scours the countryside for enigmatic rock carvings left by our ancestors. While some people dream of the warm sun of southern Spain for their retirement, David Jones chose high fells, the sharp teeth of a gale and the quest to find 5,000-year-old artwork. "I decided to build a new life when I retired," says the former IT marketing specialist, as a bitter wind whips through his hair. "I wanted the last third to be quite different from the first two thirds. I walk a lot, I work with charities, and I do this." "This" is joining more than...
Weird Rock Carvings Puzzle Archaeologists
	10/09/2003 11:44:15 AM PDT · Posted by blam · 40 replies · 937+ views New Scientist | 10-9-2003 Weird rock carvings puzzle archaeologists 17:34 09 October 03 NewScientist.com news service The concave spherical shapes, about 20cm across, may have been cut with metal tools (Image: North News and Pictures) Mysterious rock carvings engraved into strange shapes are baffling UK archaeologists. One resembles a heart, another a human footprint. Aron Mazel and Stan Beckensall, who stumbled across the unusual carvings close to England's border with Scotland, believe they are the first such designs to have been discovered in the UK. "We have absolutely no idea what they are," says Mazel, an archaeologist at the University of Newcastle. "They are...
Greece
The West's Cultural Continuity: Aristotle at Mont Saint-Michel
	01/13/2009 12:50:10 AM PST · Posted by rmlew · 12 replies · 220+ views The Brussels Journal | 01/05/2009 | Thomas F. Bertonneau Sylvain Gouguenheim's "Aristote au Mont Saint-Michel: Les racines grecques de l'Europe Chretienne" reviewed by Thomas F. BertonneauLong before the late Eduard Said invented "Orientalism" to exalt Arab culture and Islamic society at the expense of the West, bien-pensants like Voltaire inclined to express their rebellion against the dwindling vestiges of Christendom by representing Europeans as bigots or clowns and raising up exotic foreigners -- Voltaire himself wrote about Turks and Persians of the Muslim fold -- to be the fonts of wisdom and models of refined life in their tracts and stories. The sultan and dervish look with amused tolerance...
Rome and Italy
Canal cruises into past prove Shakespeare was right [Italian Medieval/Renaissance canals reopening]
	01/14/2009 1:22:51 PM PST · Posted by Mike Fieschko · 8 replies · 289+ views The Times [London, UK] | January 12, 2009 | Richard Owen Italy is to reopen medieval and Renaissance inland waterways so that tourists can travel more than 500 kilometres (300 miles) by boat from Lake Maggiore to Venice via Milan. This summer engineers will start clearing eight kilometres of canals from the southern end of Lake Maggiore at Sesto Calende to Somma Lombardo. Alessandro Meinardi, of the Navigli Lombardi (Lombardy Canals) company, which is overseeing the project, said that the aim was to make navigable the whole of the 14th-century 140-kilometre stretch of waterways from Locarno in Switzerland to Milan. The restored canal system would eventually link up with the River...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Early chemical warfare comes to light
	01/12/2009 7:37:48 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 5 replies · 464+ views ScienceNews | 11 Jan 2009 | Bruce Bower Roman soldiers defending a Middle Eastern garrison from attack nearly 2,000 years ago met the horrors of war in a most unusual place. Inside a cramped tunnel beneath the site's massive front wall, enemy fighters stacked up nearly two dozen dead or dying Romans and set them on fire, using substances that gave off toxic fumes and drove away Roman warriors just outside the tunnel. The attackers, members of Persia's Sasanian culture that held sway over much of the region in and around the Middle East from the third to the seventh centuries, adopted a brutally ingenious method for penetrating...
Ancient Persians who gassed Romans were the first to use chemical weapons
	01/14/2009 8:37:02 PM PST · Posted by bruinbirdman · 20 replies · 610+ views The Telegraph | 1/14/2008 They gassed Roman soldiers with toxic fumes 2,000 years ago, researchers have discovered. Archeologists have found the oldest evidence of chemical warfare yet after studying the bodies of 20 Roman soldiers' found underground in Syria 70 years ago. Archeologists have found the oldest evidence of chemical warfare after studying the bodies of 20 Roman soldiers Clues left at the scene revealed the Persians were lying in wait as the Romans dug a tunnel during a siege -- then pumped in toxic gas -- produced by sulphur crystals and bitumen -- to kill all the Romans in minutes. Dr Simon James,...
The Vikings
Vikings' bleeding-edge tech came from Afghanistan
	01/12/2009 7:11:31 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 21 replies · 573+ views The Register | 06 Jan 2009 | Lewis Page Bouncing-bomb boffins probe ancient weapons trade Boffins at the UK's famous National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - birthplace of the Dambusters' bouncing bomb and perhaps the internet - say they have used an electron microscope to analyse Viking swords. In a surprise twist, it turns out that the old-time Scandinavian pests, many of whom moved to England to become our ancestors, actually imported their best steel from Afghanistan. "Sword making in Viking times was important work," says Dr Alan Williams, a top archaeometallurgist at the Wallace Collection, a London-based museum of objets d'art which has a massive array of old arms...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Keepers of the Lost Ark? (Christians in Ethiopia have long claimed to have the ark of the covenant)
	01/14/2009 8:41:13 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 40 replies · 854+ views Smithsonian Magazine | Paul Raffaele Christians in Ethiopia have long claimed to have the ark of the covenant. Our reporter investigated"They shall make an ark of acacia wood," God commanded Moses in the Book of Exodus, after delivering the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. And so the Israelites built an ark, or chest, gilding it inside and out. And into this chest Moses placed stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments, as given to him on Mount Sinai. Thus the ark "was worshipped by the Israelites as the embodiment of God Himself," writes Graham Hancock in The Sign and the Seal. "Biblical and other archaic...
Moderate Islam / ROP Alert
Exclusive: Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law
	01/12/2009 4:20:18 AM PST · Posted by captjanaway · 10 replies · 775+ views Family Security Matters | January 8, 2009 | The Editors In her latest book, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law, author Nonie Darwish paints a chilling description of what lies ahead for Western civilizations that continue down the road of political correctness and appeasement as Islamic (Shariah) law creeps its way into free societies across the globe. Darwish, who was born in Cairo, and moved as a child to Gaza with her family, was raised Muslim -- her father founding Palestinian fedayeen units which launched terrorist raids across Israel's southern border. When Nonie was only eight, her father was assassinated by the IDF, after which...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Hitler and the secret Satanic cult at the heart of Nazi Germany
	01/14/2009 2:02:05 PM PST · Posted by BGHater · 51 replies · 1,091+ views NewsMonster | 10 Jan 2009 | Danny Penman At first glance, the large circular room in the basement of Wewelsburg Castle appears to be harmless enough. Smooth, finely cut stones pave the floor. Glistening rock walls arch majestically towards a high vaulted ceiling. In the centre of the room lies a sunken circular alter with polished steps leading towards a burnt and cracked stone. From here you can see thirteen lanterns flickering on the curved walls. But it's only when you look directly upwards that the room's significance becomes shockingly clear. At the centre of the dome lies a giant swastika. This room was the central temple of...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
The Man Who Killed Leon Trotsky
	01/15/2009 11:58:28 AM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 16 replies · 818+ views typicallyspanish.com | Dec 28, 2008 RamÛn Mercader from Barcelona killed Trotsky with an ice axe in Mexico City. On 20th August 1940, the exiled Leon Trotsky was fatally wounded at his home in a suburb of Mexico City when an ice axe was driven into his skull. He cried out to his guards as they burst into his study, "Don't kill him! He must talk.' Despite struggling fiercely, and even managing to bite the hand of his assassin, Trotsky died the next day, and the man who wielded the murder weapon was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He insisted throughout his trial and his...
Early America
Re-enactors mark Battle of Princeton as turning point in history
	01/12/2009 6:23:12 PM PST · Posted by Coleus · 13 replies · 299+ views star ledger | 12.22.08 | Tom Hester John Mills and Jerry Hurwitz are historians with a scholar's knowledge of the Jan. 3, 1777, Battle of Princeton. Mills, the historian for Princeton Battlefield State Park, and Hurwitz, president of the Princeton Battlefield Society, recently stood on high ground overlooking the 75 sweeping acres that remain of the battlefield. Before them, patches of ice splotched the yellow grass just as they did on that "bright, serene, and extremely cold morning," as an American lieutenant described it nearly 232 years ago, when Gen. George Washington and his cold and battle-weary volunteers defeated British regulars in a turning point of the...
Washington becomes a walker: In times to try men's soles, re-enactors take bridge across Delaware
	01/14/2009 9:58:32 AM PST · Posted by Coleus · 5 replies · 155+ views star ledger | December 26, 2008 | VICKI HYMAN UPPER MAKEFIELD, Pa. -- George Washington crossed the Delaware, all right. He took the bridge. For the second year in a row, high water and strong winds stymied the annual Christmas Day re-enactment of the famed crossing of 1776 that preceded the Battle of Trenton and, along with the Battle of Princeton, turned the tide of the Revolutionary War. But Ronald Rinaldi Jr., the man selected to play Gen. George Washington, said the decision to forgo the Durham boats only underlined how treacherous the original crossing must have been. "It's 1 o'clock in the afternoon. He did it in the...
Longer Perspectives
What's Behind Jefferson's "Wall"
	01/10/2009 12:12:11 PM PST · Posted by BuddhaBrown · 27 replies · 337+ views Me | 10 Jan 09 | BuddhaB What's behind Jefferson's "wall"? Godless liberals often misapply the "wall" quote from Thomas Jefferson to further the goal of eliminating God from the public square. This is a position based in ignorance. Some even think the wall quote is part of the First Amendment's establishment clause which merely reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." It should be noted that the noble collection of Framers who hammered out the First Amendment in the summer of 1789 did NOT include Jefferson who was in France. And neither their discussions nor the...
Civil War
NYC: Is the secret of Lincoln's assassination
	01/15/2009 8:56:06 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 31 replies · 837+ views Examiner | January 14 | Laura Harrison McBride For a while, I lived on Court Street in Brooklyn, NY, and sometimes shopped in the Middle Eastern markets on Atlantic Avenue, which crossed Court Street several blocks from my apartment. I loved fig jam, and it was the only place I knew to get it. What I didn't know was that, not too long before I moved there, a man named Bob Diamond had found the oldest subway tunnel in the world. I probably trod on its entrance, a manhole at the intersection of Court St. and Atlantic Avenue. There's great stuff down there. The tunnel linked the Long...
World War Eleven
1,800 Germans dug up from 1945 mass grave in Poland
	01/08/2009 6:38:39 PM PST · Posted by GSP.FAN · 57 replies · 961+ views Chicago Sun Times | AFP WARSAW - The remains of 1,800 German civilians who perished in 1945, towards the end of the World War II, have been exhumed from a mass grave in Malbork, northern Poland, officials said Wednesday.
WWII officer who said 'nuts' to Germans dies (Patton Alert)
	01/13/2009 4:57:12 PM PST · Posted by GSP.FAN · 38 replies · 760+ views AP | Jan 12 09 | AP NEW YORK - Retired Lt. Gen. Harry W.O. Kinnard, a paratroop officer who suggested the famously defiant answer "Nuts!" to a German demand for surrender during the 1944 Battle of the Bulge, has died. He was 93.
Jacques Littlefield, tank collector, dies
	01/14/2009 3:09:57 PM PST · Posted by dynachrome · 24 replies · 761+ views SFGate | 1-13-09 | Carolyn Jones A jewel in his collection is the German Panzer V Panther tank that the German army sank in a Polish river during World War II to keep it from the advancing Russians. The Panther sat submerged for decades, and Mr. Littlefield acquired it five years ago and began restoring it. "Restoration is very satisfying, especially with something like the Panther," Mr. Littlefield said in a 2007 interview with The Chronicle. "People say: 'You'll never get that thing running again.' Well, it was built once, and we can do it again."
He Held Back An Entire Army
	01/14/2009 3:30:34 PM PST · Posted by posterchild · 8 replies · 560+ views Investor's Business Daily | January 2, 2009 | Paul Katzeff John Ripley's relationship with the Marines was love at first sight. His initial glimpse of the Corps came when he was kid, hawking newspapers on a train. His father was a manager for the railroad. "One day he sold papers to soldiers who were returning from World War II," said Stephen Ripley, 43, the eldest of John Ripley's four children. "Some Marines gave him a 50-cent tip for papers that cost 10 cents each. He also saw their swagger. He never forgot that." After graduating from Radford (Va.) High School in 1957, he enlisted -- and that commitment paid off...
Morning Calm
SOLDIER MISSING IN ACTION FROM KOREAN WAR IS IDENTIFIED
	01/12/2009 1:54:32 PM PST · Posted by Stonewall Jackson · 33 replies · 683+ views Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (Public Affairs) | Jan 12, 2009 | Staff SOLDIER MISSING IN ACTION FROM KOREAN WAR IS IDENTIFIED The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. He is Sgt. Dougall H. Espey, Jr., U.S. Army, of Mount Laurel, N.J. He will be buried April 3 in Elmira, N.Y. Representatives from the Army's Mortuary Office met with Espey's next-of-kin to explain the recovery and identification process on behalf of the Secretary of the Army. Espey was assigned to Company...
Biology and...
Brady Barr's Dangerous Encounter With the 'Jurassic Shark'
	01/09/2009 7:53:40 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 10 replies · 564+ views ABC News | Jan. 9, 2009 | JONANN BRADY Scientist-adventurer Brady Barr has traveled all over the world to study hundreds of animal species, but a recent trip took him somewhere few people have ever been -- to see one of the world's most mysterious, and some believe one of the oldest living creatures. Call it the "Jurassic shark." The six-gill shark is one of the least understood sharks in the world, Barr said. That's because the six-gill lives thousands of feet below the ocean's surface in frigid, pitch-black waters and almost never comes into contact with humans. Barr, 46, went to Central America and traveled 1,700 feet underwater...
...Cryptobiology
Genetic secrets from Tassie tiger (new talk on bringing extinct thylacine back to life)
	01/15/2009 4:33:01 PM PST · Posted by presidio9 · 39 replies · 534+ views BBC News | Jonathan Amos Scientists have detailed a significant proportion of the genes found in the extinct Tasmanian "tiger". The international team extracted the hereditary information from the hair of preserved animal remains held in Swedish and US museums. The information has allowed scientists to confirm the tiger's evolutionary relationship to other marsupials. The study, reported in the journal Genome Research, may also give pointers as to why some animals die out. The two tigers examined had near-identical DNA, suggesting there was very little genetic diversity in the species when it went over the edge. I want to learn as much as I can...
Thylacine was always going to die off
	09/17/2007 1:35:11 PM PDT · Posted by presidio9 · 20 replies · 105+ views The Sunday Tasmanian | September 16, 2007 | MICHAEL STEDMAN The long-held belief Tasmanian tigers killed livestock is being challenged. Using advanced computer modelling, an Australian research team has found that, while strong-jawed, the thylacine would have had trouble killing and eating prey any larger than itself. From about 1830 until 1909 the Tasmanian Government paid a 1-a-head bounty,
Tasmanian Tiger No Match For Dingo
	09/05/2007 1:55:54 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 18 replies · 697+ views Science Daily | 9-5-2007 | University of New South Wales Source: University of New South Wales Date: September 5, 2007 Tasmanian Tiger No Match For Dingo Science Daily -- The wily dingo out-competed the much larger marsupial thylacine by being better built anatomically to resist the "mechanical stresses" associated with killing large prey, say Australian scientists. Despite being armed with a more powerful and efficient bite and having larger energy needs than the dingo, the thylacine was restricted to eating relatively small prey while the dingo's stronger head and neck anatomy allowed it to subdue large prey as well. Earlier studies had given ambiguous results regarding the size of prey...
Tasmanian Tiger Extinction Mystery
	06/27/2007 7:10:02 AM PDT · Posted by presidio9 · 12 replies · 560+ views Science Daily/University of Adelaide | June 26, 2007 A University of Adelaide project led by zoologist Dr Jeremy Austin is investigating whether the world-fabled Tasmanian Tiger may have survived beyond its reported extinction in the late 1930s. Dr Austin from the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA is extracting ancient DNA from animal droppings found in Tasmania in the late 1950s and "60s, which have been preserved in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. "The scats (droppings) were found by Eric Guiler, Australia's last real thylacine expert, who said he thought it more probable they came from the Tasmanian Tiger rather than a dog, Tasmanian Devil or quoll," Dr...
THE BOOTLEG FILES: "FOOTAGE OF THE LAST THYLACINE"
	02/21/2007 9:43:51 AM PST · Posted by presidio9 · 17 replies · 935+ views Film Threat | 2007-02-16 | Phil Hall This week's column is somewhat different in that the focus is not on a long-lost motion picture classic or a bizarre bit of cult-worthy obscurity. Instead, the film in question is a brief ribbon of celluloid that provides the final glimpse of an animal that fell victim to years of brutal persecution and government-sponsored hunting. The film itself does not have a formal title, and it is called "Footage of the Last Thylacine" just for the sake of temporary identification. What was a thylacine? It looked like a canine, but it was actually a marsupial that was concentrated in Tasmania....
The Thylacine Debate - Is the Tasmanian Tiger Really Extinct?
	03/22/2006 1:53:25 PM PST · Posted by pcottraux · 13 replies · 323+ views The Epoch Times | March 16 | Chani Blue The Thylacine Debate - Is the Tasmanian Tiger Really Extinct? By Chani Blue Epoch Times Australia Staff Mar 16, 2006 Despite hundreds of reported sightings of this elusive marsupial wild dog, the Tasmanian Tiger, Thylacinus Cynocephalus remains declared officially extinct, therefore has no protection for it's fragile and natural environment or in and of itself, until it's existence can be verified. The Tasmanian tiger lives in dry eucalypt forest, wetlands and grasslands in Tasmania. From indigenous fossil paintings, we can determine that it also lived in Papua New Guinea and main land Australia. Some remains discovered, date back to 2,200...
Another `thylacine' sighted
	01/10/2006 1:44:46 AM PST · Posted by Tyche · 6 replies · 504+ views The Standard | Jan 09, 2006 | Matt Neal A TASMANIAN tiger or thylacine ran across a road north of Colac about 12.50am last Monday, according to Warrion man Steven Bennett. Mr Bennett said he was driving between Cressy and Warrion when he spotted the animal, believed to have been extinct since 1936. ``It ran across the road in front of me (and) paused before it went into the bushes and long grass (on the side of the road),'' he said. The 24-year-old said the animal's stripes, tail and hind legs convinced him it was not a dog, feral cat or fox. A Tasmanian tiger ``is pretty much the...
Australian scientists plan to clone extinct Tasmanian tiger
	05/17/2005 12:48:17 AM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 16 replies · 836+ views Hindustan Times | May 15, 2005 Australian researchers are reviving a project to bring an extinct animal known as the Tasmanian tiger back from the dead through cloning. Three months after the Australian Museum shelved plans to clone the tiger -- also known as a thylacine -- a group of universities and a research institute are planning to revive the project, the Sun-Herald newspaper reported. Mike Archer, dean of science at the University of New South Wales, was quoted as saying that researchers from NSW and Victoria states were likely to join the programme, which involves recovering DNA from a pup preserved in 1866 to breed...
Dog Doubts Over Tasmanian Tiger
	11/04/2003 11:20:08 AM PST · Posted by blam · 9 replies · 241+ views BBC | 11-4-2003 | Jonathan Amos Dog doubts over Tasmanian tiger By Jonathan Amos BBC News Online science staff TASMANIAN 'TIGER' * The thylacine was a large marsupial carnivore * It ranged widely from Papua New Guinea to Tasmania * Many scientists doubt cloning technology can bring it back The dingo it seems had an accomplice in driving the Tasmanian "tiger" off mainland Australia - human hunters. There appears little doubt the famous feral dog out-competed the tiger for food and helped push it back to its final island habitat 3,000 years ago. But researchers say changes in Aboriginal land use, population size and technology taking...
Big cats not a tall tale
	11/01/2003 7:03:53 PM PST · Posted by aculeus · 24 replies · 531+ views Sydney Morning Herald | November 2, 2003 | By Eamonn Duff A State Government inquiry has found it is "more likely than not" a colony of "big cats" is roaming Sydney's outskirts and beyond. The revelations are the result of a fresh four-month investigation into the "black panther phenomenon" which for years has plagued residents across Sydney's west, north-west, Richmond, the Blue Mountains and Lithgow. While National Parks and Wildlife officials are yet to implement a positive course of action, a senior source confirmed last night a big cat expert had been contacted with a view to future work. He said: "While we still haven't got conclusive evidence that the creature...
Downfall of the Yarri
	01/27/2003 6:37:49 AM PST · Posted by vannrox · 2 replies · 445+ views Forteantimes | FR Post 1-25-03 | Darren Naish Downfall of the Yarri, or Will the real Thylacoleo please stand up? Darren Naish In 1926 A. S. le Souef and Harry Burrell included the "Striped marsupial cat' in their influential popular volume The Wild Animals of Australasia. Concerning a cryptid reported from Australia and usually termed the Queensland tiger, their decision was significant as few cryptids have been regarded so sympathetically by non-cryptozoologists. This near-acceptance reflected both the apparent quality and consistency of eyewitness accounts as well as the long-standing academic interest there had been in the creature. First brought to attention by European Australians in the 1870s,...
Scientists pledge to clone extinct Tasmanian tiger
	05/28/2002 7:23:33 PM PDT · Posted by Pokey78 · 19 replies · 425+ views The Guardian (U.K.) | 05/29/2002 | James Meek Australian team has copied parts of DNA but faces huge odds A team of Australian scientists pledged yesterday to salve their country's conscience by bringing a cloned Tasmanian tiger back to the island where it was hunted to extinction more than 60 years ago. They announced that they had succeeded in copying small fragments of DNA from pickled tiger pups, suggesting that it might one day be possible to assemble the animal's entire set of genes and clone it back into existence. "We are now further ahead than any other project that has attempted anything remotely similar using extinct DNA,"...
Australia and the Pacific
Giant bird feces records pre-human New Zealand
	01/12/2009 11:22:01 AM PST · Posted by Red Badger · 31 replies · 389+ views www.physorg.com | 1-11-2009 | Source: University of Adelaide A treasure trove of information about pre-human New Zealand has been found in faeces from giant extinct birds, buried beneath the floor of caves and rock shelters for thousands of years. A team of ancient DNA and palaeontology researchers from the University of Adelaide, University of Otago and the NZ Department of Conservation have published their analyses of plant seeds, leaf fragments and DNA from the dried faeces (coprolites) to start building the first detailed picture of an ecosystem dominated by giant extinct species. Former PhD student Jamie Wood, from the University of Otago, discovered more than 1500 coprolites in...
Paleontology
Downy dinosaur found in China was an early bird
	01/12/2009 6:55:59 PM PST · Posted by bruinbirdman · 58 replies · 654+ views The Times | 1/13/2008 | Lewis Smith A dinosaur that would have been covered with feathers has been discovered in China, adding to evidence that supports the theory that birds evolved from ancient reptiles. It is thought that the plant-eating dinosaur would have used the feathers to attract a mate. Two types of feather were found on the animal's remains, and one that would have been used to signal to other creatures is the most primitive form yet seen in a dinosaur. This feather is believed by researchers to have been used by the animal to signal its intentions to potential mates and as a means of...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #235 20090117 · Saturday, January 17, 2009 · 41 topics · 2165561 to 2160964 · 700 members ·
	Saturday Jan 17 2009 v 5 n 27 view this issue	Welcome to the 235th issue. A good chunk of it consists of all (?) of the topics about the Thylacene on FR. It also represents the last GGG Digest during the Presidency of George W. Bush. We will miss you President Bush. We've hit 700 members, or as JimRob would say, "woo hoo!" Something like eighteen months ago, former GGG manager and FReeper FairOpinion was telling me we would hit 700 really soon now. Anyway, a big thank you to all who made this happen, including JimRob and the rest of the FreeRepublic management. Remember, it's the Freepathon! I ate too much. I feel like one of those whales with a bad inner ear. ['Civ gives up, goes to bed] I kept falling asleep while editing this last night. I had planned to post it a day early, but didn't dare, because I couldn't be sure that the editing made any sense. I'd make a change, and couldn't figure out why the change didn't appear. It turned out that I'd fallen asleep and never made the change. When I just checked for the number of topics (41), I came up with 40; I'd copied one from the original file and fell asleep without pasting it into this file. Just had to make up a couple of side-by-side test files to find which one I'd left out. Anyway, I'm pretty confident and secure with the current edit, so as soon as I can I plan to post it. I'm still fiddling a bit with the header of the actual digest message (not this ping message). I may experiment with making the actual digest resemble the faux-blog formatting used here. Seems like a lot of work, though. The new layout is a minor tweaking of what I've been using for more than four years, easy to do template-style, and is easy for readers to follow. Perhaps I'll change the ping messages instead. Be sure to check Homer_J_Simpson's topics, many of which are based on archival newspaper articles, usually 70 years ago that day. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Donate to FreeRepublic.
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CONGRATULATIONS, Civ

700 is a milestone.

I always enjoy your GGG Digests and posts.

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Thanks Cincinna!

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This is an online resource to find geographical origins (so to speak) of surnames. Thanks Cincinna for the link.

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Nguyen doesn’t show at all in SEA.

[SunkenCiv]

Must be they all moved. ;’) Nguyen there is like “Smith” here, should light up the map in SEA.

[ThanhPhero]

Nguyen is like Smith and Johnson and Jones and Williams and... and... here.

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;’)

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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #236 Saturday, January 24, 2009
Paleontology
Dinosaur fossils suggest speedy extinction - Arctic find challenges the idea that the massive...
	01/22/2009 2:45:42 AM PST · Posted by neverdem · 21 replies · 729+ views Nature News | 19 January 2009 | Matt Kaplan Arctic find challenges the idea that the massive reptiles declined slowly. A new fossil find suggests the dinosaurs may have died out quickly.Ablestock / Alamy Fossils uncovered recently in the Arctic support the idea that dinosaurs died off rapidly -- perhaps as the result of a massive meteor hitting Earth. The finding contravenes the idea that dinosaurs were already declining by this time.Geological evidence indicates that an impact occurred near the Yucatan Peninsula at the end of the Cretaceous 66 million years ago. But whether the event created an all-out apocalypse that wiped out the dinosaurs is still a matter...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Correlation demonstrated between cosmic rays and temperature of the stratosphere
	01/23/2009 11:14:46 PM PST · Posted by neverdem · 20 replies wattsupwiththat.com | 2009/01/22 | Anthony Watts This offers renewed hope for Svensmark's theory of cosmic ray modulation of earth's cloud cover. Here is an interesting correlation published just yesterday in GRL. Cosmic rays detected deep underground reveal secrets of the upper atmosphere Watch the video animation here (MPEG video will play in your media player) Published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters and led by scientists from the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), this remarkable study shows how the number of high-energy cosmic-rays reaching a detector deep underground, closely matches temperature measurements in the upper atmosphere...
Flood, Here Comes the Flood
Danube Delta Holds Answers to "Noah's Flood' Debate [science]
	01/23/2009 8:15:56 PM PST · Posted by Coyoteman · 19 replies Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | January 22, 2009 | Media Relations Did a catastrophic flood of biblical proportions drown the shores of the Black Sea 9,500 years ago, wiping out early Neolithic settlements around its perimeter? A geologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and two Romanian colleagues report in the January issue of Quaternary Science Reviews that, if the flood occurred at all, it was much smaller than previously proposed by other researchers. Using sediment cores from the delta of the Danube River, which empties into the Black Sea, the researchers determined sea level was approximately 30 meters below present levels -- rather than the 80 meters others hypothesized. "We don't...
Climate
Natural disasters doomed early civilization (Supe Valley along the Peruvian coast)
	01/19/2009 7:57:00 PM PST · Posted by NormsRevenge · 16 replies · 486+ views AP on Yahoo | 1/19/09 | AP WASHINGTON -- Nature turned against one of America's early civilizations 3,600 years ago, when researchers say earthquakes and floods, followed by blowing sand, drove away residents of an area that is now in Peru. "This maritime farming community had been successful for over 2,000 years, they had no incentive to change, and then all of a sudden, boom, they just got the props knocked out from under them," anthropologist Mike Moseley of the University of Florida said in a statement. Moseley and colleagues were studying civilization of the Supe Valley along the Peruvian coast, which was established up to 5,800...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Rock shelter painting by American Indian likely circa 1000-1600[Tennessee]
	01/18/2009 5:51:10 PM PST · Posted by BGHater · 18 replies · 569+ views Knox News | 18 Jan 2009 | Morgan Simmons Finding an Aladdin's cave Cory Holliday almost didn't see the stick figure painted on the sandstone. His first impression was that it was a clever fake. A cave specialist for the Tennessee chapter of The Nature Conservancy, Holliday was searching for caves on a 4,200-acre tract in a remote part of Fentress County on the Cumberland Plateau. It was winter, and he heard water. Thinking there might be a cave nearby, he hiked down to the base of a bluff, where he discovered a rocky alcove bisected by a 10-foot waterfall. On the roof of a nearby south-facing rock shelter...
Australia and the Pacific
Pacific people spread from Taiwan
	01/23/2009 12:08:54 PM PST · Posted by BGHater · 10 replies The University of Auckland-New Zealand | 23 Jan 2009 | University of Auckland New research into language evolution suggests most Pacific populations originated in Taiwan around 5,200 years ago. Scientists at The University of Auckland have used sophisticated computer analyses on vocabulary from 400 Austronesian languages to uncover how the Pacific was settled. "The Austronesian language family is one of the largest in the world, with 1200 languages spread across the Pacific," says Professor Russell Gray of the Department of Psychology. "The settlement of the Pacific is one of the most remarkable prehistoric human population expansions. By studying the basic vocabulary from these languages, such as words for animals, simple verbs, colours and...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Tuatara fossil props up Moa's Ark theory for NZ animal live
	01/21/2009 2:23:18 AM PST · Posted by DieHard the Hunter · 8 replies · 326+ views TV3 (New Zealand) | Wed, Jan 21 2009 21h09 | NZPA Tuatara fossil props up Moa's Ark theory for NZ animal life Wed, 21 Jan 2009 9:09p.m. The discovery of a tuatara fossil in the South Island is helping prop up the "Moa's Ark" theory that some parts of New Zealand have always stayed above the sea surface. Scientists said the fossil provided strong evidence that the ancestor of the present-day tuatara covered the Zealandia landmass as it split from Gondwana, 82 million years ago.
India
In Pakistan, a site older than Mohenjodaro [INDUS VALLEY]
	01/23/2009 10:11:18 AM PST · Posted by MyTwoCopperCoins · 11 replies The Press Trust of India | 23 Jan 2009, 2320 hrs | The Press Trust of India An archaeological site dating back about 5,500 years and believed to be older than Mohenjodaro has been found in Sindh province. A team of 22 archaeologists found semi-precious and precious stones and utensils made of clay, copper and other metals during an excavation in Lakhian Jo Daro in Sukkur district on Thursday. "At present, we can say that it is older than Mohenjodaro", Ghulam Mustafa Shar, the director of the Lakhian Jo Daro project, said. Shar said the remains of a "faience" or tin-glazed pottery factory had been found at the site. It is believed to be of the era...
Pages
DNA Testing May Unlock Secrets Of Medieval Manuscripts
	01/18/2009 4:53:33 PM PST · Posted by decimon · 16 replies · 356+ views ScienceDaily | Jan. 17, 2009 | Unknown > Many medieval manuscripts were written on parchment made from animal skin, and NC State Assistant Professor of English Timothy Stinson is working to perfect techniques for extracting and analyzing the DNA contained in these skins with the long-term goal of creating a genetic database that can be used to determine when and where a manuscript was written. "Dating and localizing manuscripts have historically presented persistent problems," Stinson says, "because they have largely been based on the handwriting and dialect of the scribes who created the manuscripts -- techniques that have proven unreliable for a number of reasons." >
Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
Militant Druids fight museum over a 4,000-year-old skeleton called Charlie[UK]
	01/18/2009 2:32:39 PM PST · Posted by BGHater · 28 replies · 382+ views Daily Mail | 18 Jan 2009 | Alun Rees and Jonathan Petre A group of militant Druids has forced an expensive official inquiry after demanding that a museum releases a 4,000-year-old skeleton called 'Charlie' so they can rebury it. They claim the bones of a young girl and seven other sets of prehistoric remains excavated near the ancient stone circle in Avebury, Wiltshire, are their 'tribal ancestors'. If their claim is rejected, they have threatened to take a test case to the High Court under the Human Rights Act. The row has triggered two years of meetings and reports by state-funded English Heritage and the charity The National Trust, which have been...
British Isles
Huge Iron Age haul of coins found
	01/18/2009 6:47:45 AM PST · Posted by csvset · 37 replies · 1,113+ views BBC | 17 January 2009 | BBC One of the UK's largest hauls of Iron Age gold coins has been found in Suffolk. The 824 so-called staters were found in a broken pottery jar buried in a field near Wickham Market using a metal detector. Jude Plouviez, of the Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service, said the coins dated from 40BC to AD15. They are thought to have been minted by predecessors of the Iceni Queen Boudicca. Ms Plouviez said their value when in circulation had been estimated at a modern equivalent of between £500,000 and £1m, but they were likely to be worth less than that now....
Prehistoric gold coins found in Suffolk[UK]
	01/18/2009 2:24:46 PM PST · Posted by BGHater · 20 replies · 507+ views EDP 24 | 17 Jan 2009 | EDP 24 The largest hoard of prehistoric gold coins in Britain in modern times has been discovered by a metal detectorist in Suffolk, it emerged today. The collection of 824 gold staters was found in a broken pottery jar buried in a field near Wickham Market. Jude Plouviez, of the Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service, said the coins dated from 40BC to AD15 and were thought to have been minted by predecessors of Boudicca - the Iceni Queen who spearheaded a revolt against occupying Roman forces. Their value when in circulation had been estimated at a modern equivalent of between £500,000 and...
Sweet Swan of Avon
Shakespeare and Deep England
	01/17/2009 2:09:39 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 13 replies · 219+ views The Times (London) | January 7, 2009 | John Guy Jonathan Bate's eloquent evocation of the man from WarwickshireAt last we have a new kind of biography of Shakespeare. Starting from Ben Jonson's description of Shakespeare as "Soul of the Age", and shunning "the deadening march of chronological sequence that is biography's besetting vice", Jonathan Bate selects only the material that, he believes, will help to reveal Shakespeare's cultural DNA. Structuring this loosely around the theme of the Seven Ages of Man from Jaques's speech in As You Like It, Bate sweeps majestically backwards and forwards in time, moving between history and criticism, appropriating whatever best brings together Shakespeare's life,...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Secrets Of Stradivarius' Unique Sound Revealed
	01/22/2009 12:33:27 PM PST · Posted by decimon · 54 replies · 1,358+ views Texas A&M | January 22, 2009 | Unknown For centuries, violin makers have tried and failed to reproduce the pristine sound of Stradivarius and Guarneri violins, but after 33 years of work put into the project, a Texas A&M University professor is confident the veil of mystery has now been lifted. Joseph Nagyvary, a professor emeritus of biochemistry, first theorized in 1976 that chemicals used on the instruments -- not merely the wood and the construction -- are responsible for the distinctive sound of these violins. His controversial theory has now received definitive experimental support through collaboration with Renald Guillemette, director of the electron microprobe laboratory in the...
Not So Ancient Autopsies
Danish Experts Ask to Open Astronomer Tycho Brahe's Grave
	01/22/2009 2:48:03 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 22 replies · 305+ views Radio Prague | 1/21/09 | Jan Richter A Renaissance mystery is beginning to unravel in Prague. A team of experts from Denmark have asked the authorities for permission to open and explore the grave of the Danish-born astronomer Tycho Brahe who died in Prague in 1601. They are hoping to learn more about one of the most famous scholars of the time -- and perhaps to throw more light on his mysterious death. Tycho Brahe story of alchemists and assassins might soon be added to the annals of one of the most glorious eras in the history of Prague. A team of experts from Denmark would like...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Even at 200, Poe endures in pop culture (Bicentennial today)
	01/19/2009 8:27:17 AM PST · Posted by Borges · 8 replies · 233+ views Yahoo - AP | 01/19/09 | BEN NUCKOLS "Lisa, that wasn't scary, even for a poem!" Bart Simpson complains after his sister reads Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" in a classic Halloween episode. "Well, it was written in 1845!" Lisa says. "Maybe people were easier to scare back then!" Jaded cartoon kids aside, Poe still does scare people -- even 200 years after his birth. His tales of gothic horror and grisly murder retain their grip on the imagination. His sad, short life and mysterious death feed his legend. Even the daguerreotypes of a pallid, death-haunted Poe burnish his image as a master of the macabre, a man...
Edgar Allan Poe at 200
	01/19/2009 11:34:53 AM PST · Posted by PurpleMan · 14 replies · 230+ views NYTimes | January 19, 2009 | WILLIAM S. NIEDERKORN Edgar Allan Poe reaches his second century mark today. The young United States was a strange place for literary genius to develop, and Poe's career was relatively short (he died at 40, on Oct. 7, 1849), but through his works he inspired generations of writers throughout the world, and there has been no letup in the 21st century.
The DNA of Detection (Poe7 & Mysteries)
	01/19/2009 11:43:32 AM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 4 replies · 106+ views BBC As the bicentenary of Edgar Allan Poe is celebrated, fans should be thanking him for his invention of the modern detective genre, writes crime fiction author Andrew Taylor. Bestseller lists and library lending figures tell the same story - crime and detective stories are more popular than ever, and their success has spilled over into film and TV drama. It's remarkable how many of the genre's classic elements can be traced back to the feverishly fertile imagination of one man, Edgar Allan Poe. Once you start looking, the clues are everywhere. Born 200 years ago, on 19 January 1809, Poe...
Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles
WSJ: Avian Virus Caused The 1918 Pandemic, New Studies Show
	10/06/2005 5:34:51 AM PDT · Posted by OESY · 24 replies · 1,246+ views Wall Street Journal | October 6, 2005 | BETSY MCKAY ...After nearly a decade of research, teams of scientists said yesterday that they had re-created the historic influenza virus that by some estimates killed 50 million people world-wide in 1918 and 1919. The scientists concluded that the virus originated as an avian bug and then adapted and spread in humans by undergoing much simpler changes than many experts had previously thought were needed for a pandemic. Some mutations of the 1918 virus have been detected in the current avian-flu virus, suggesting the bug "might be going down a similar path that led to 1918,".... The studies, published yesterday in the...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Ancient Persians 'Gassed Romans'
	01/19/2009 10:43:11 AM PST · Posted by Steelfish · 9 replies · 566+ views BBCNews | January 19, 2009 Ancient Persians 'gassed Romans' By Tanya Syed BBC News Remains in the city wall suggest toxic gases were used in a siege on the city Ancient Persians were the first to use chemical warfare against their enemies, a study has suggested. A UK researcher said he found evidence that the Persian Empire used poisonous gases on the Roman city of Dura, Eastern Syria, in the 3rd Century AD. The theory is based on the discovery of remains of about 20 Roman soldiers found at the base of the city wall. The findings were presented the Archaeological Institute of America's annual...
Moderate Islam
Al Qaeda hit by Black Death fear as medieval plague kills 40 terrorists at training camp
	01/19/2009 7:07:22 AM PST · Posted by Sammy67 · 199 replies · 4,412+ views DailyMail | 1/19/09 | DailyMailReporter Al Qaeda terrorists have been left fearing the Black Death plague after it wiped out at least 40 insurgents at an Algerian training camp, it was reported today. The horror disease, which killed 25 million people in medieval Europe, is understood to have been found in a militant's body dumped at a roadside. Terror group AQLIM (al Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb) was forced to turn its shelter in the Yakouren forests into mass graves and flee, it has been claimed. Now al Qaeda chiefs are said to fear the plague has been passed into other cells...
Egypt
Nile Delta fishery grows dramatically thanks to run-off of sewage, fertilizers
	01/20/2009 12:43:08 PM PST · Posted by decimon · 20 replies · 305+ views University of Rhode Island | Jan. 19, 2008 | Unknown Considered pollutants in the West, discharges help to feed millions in Egypt -- While many of the world's fisheries are in serious decline, the coastal Mediterranean fishery off the Nile Delta has expanded dramatically since the 1980s. The surprising cause of this expansion, which followed a collapse of the fishery after completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1965, is run-off of fertilizers and sewage discharges in the region, according to a researcher at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. Autumn Oczkowski, a URI doctoral student, used stable isotopes of nitrogen to...
Greece
Ancient Greek homes doubled as pubs, brothels
	01/21/2009 12:58:41 PM PST · Posted by decimon · 27 replies · 662+ views Discovery Channel | Jan. 21, 2009 | Rossella Lorenzi A new analysis of archaeological remains might have solved the mystery of the elusive kapeleia, lively Greek taverns that have long puzzled archaeologists. Despite the kapeleia being featured prominently in classical plays, no tangible evidence of the drinking dens has ever been found.
Could the "Greenland example" help resolve the Parthenon Marbles dispute?
	03/03/2007 8:20:21 AM PST · Posted by aculeus · 4 replies · 318+ views The Art Newspaper | February 24, 2007 | By Martin Bailey LONDON. A possible solution to the Parthenon Marbles dispute between the British Museum and the Greek government has come from a most unlikely source -- a gathering in Greenland. Meeting in the depths of the Arctic winter, museum professionals and representatives of indigenous peoples recently assembled in the tiny capital of Nuuk (formerly Godthab) to discuss global strategies on repatriation of cultural heritage. The Greeks had originally decided to send Minister of Culture Georgios Voulgarakis, but when his officials examined the flight schedule, they realised that he would have to leave Athens for a whole week, missing too much government...
World War Eleven
Nazi angel of death Josef Mengele 'created twin town in Brazil'
	01/21/2009 7:24:39 PM PST · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · 20 replies · 649+ views telegraph.co.uk | January 21, 2009 | Nick Evans The steely hearted "Angel of Death", whose mission was to create a master race fit for the Third Reich, was the resident medic at Auschwitz from May 1943 until his flight in the face of the Red Army advance in January 1945. His task was to carry out experiments to discover by what method of genetic quirk twins were produced -- and then to artificially increase the Aryan birthrate for his master, Adolf Hitler. Now, a historian claims, Mengele's notorious experiments may have borne fruit. For years scientists have failed to discover why as many as one in five pregnancies...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Rethinking The Genetic Theory Of Inheritance: Heritability May Not Be Limited To DNA
	01/21/2009 4:17:24 AM PST · Posted by decimon · 9 replies · 334+ views Science Daily | Jan. 20, 2008 | Unknown ScienceDaily (Jan. 20, 2009) -- Scientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have detected evidence that DNA may not be the only carrier of heritable information; a secondary molecular mechanism called epigenetics may also account for some inherited traits and diseases. These findings challenge the fundamental principles of genetics and inheritance, and potentially provide a new insight into the primary causes of human diseases.
Longer Perspectives
Humans 'could evolve into two species'
	10/19/2006 7:10:22 AM PDT · Posted by presidio9 · 123 replies · 2,612+ views The Australian | October 17, 2006 | Mark Henderson HUMANS could evolve into two sub-species within 100,000 years as social divisions produce a genetic underclass. The mating preferences of the rich, highly educated and well-nourished could ultimately drive their separation into a genetically distinct group that no longer interbreeds with less fortunate human beings, according to British scientist Oliver Curry. Dr Curry, a research associate in the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science of the London School of Economics, speculated that privileged humans might over tens of thousands of years evolve into a "gracile" subspecies, tall, thin, symmetrical, intelligent and creative. The rest would be shorter and...
Early America
A Flag of Conviction
	01/17/2009 11:39:06 AM PST · Posted by markomalley · 17 replies · 276+ views The Claremont Institute | 5/31/2002 | Matthew Robinson Christopher Gadsden's face and name may not be immortalized on any bill or coin, but this firebrand designed a symbol which, even through the swirling mists of time, is a reminder of the birth of the nation and the spirit that carried it to freedom. June 14 is Flag Day. On that day, of course, we remember the Stars and Stripes and the men who fought under that banner for freedom. Gadsden gave us another great flag, one that flew prominently during the American Revolution, under which many men fought and died. Gadsden's was the blazing yellow banner that sports...
Framer of the Framers
	01/17/2009 4:58:51 PM PST · Posted by Coleus · 8 replies · 229+ views thenewamerican | 01.09.09 | John Eidsmoe John Witherspoon was not only a Founding Father, but in his roles as preacher and professor he taught and influenced many of the great men of the Founding era.On November 15, 1794, a 72-year-old Presbyterian preacher lay dying on his farm near Princeton, New Jersey. In some ways he may have welcomed death. His wife had died five years earlier, and for over two years he had been blind, so his associates had to lead him into the pulpit, where he still preached with his usual earnestness and perhaps with more than his usual solemnity and animation. Even though his...
Revolutionary War papers restored
	01/21/2009 9:59:55 AM PST · Posted by Pharmboy · 33 replies · 467+ views UPI | Jan. 20, 2009 | Anon UPI Stringer PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- After painstaking restoration, 5,400 Revolutionary War documents are ready to leave a Philadelphia conservation center for their home in New Jersey. The $700,000 project begun in 2005 has restored documents belonging to the New Jersey State Archives, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Tuesday. The 18th century papers, discolored, brittle and frayed, tell stories of patriots killed in battle, of spies for the British and of armies from both sides that destroyed property and stripped farms of crops and livestock. Using chemical baths and tissue-thin paper for repairs, snip... New Jersey saw more military engagements than any...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
DNA can reveal ancestors' lies and secrets
	01/18/2009 3:36:53 AM PST · Posted by decimon · 71 replies · 982+ views Los Angeles Times | Jan. 18, 2008 | Alan Zarembo In a search for their ancestors, more than 140 people with variations of the last name Kincaid have taken DNA tests and shared their results on the Internet. They have found war heroes, sailors and survivors of the Irish potato famine. They have also stumbled upon bastards, liars and two-timers. Much of it is ancient history, long-dead ancestors whose dalliances are part of the intrigue of amateur genealogy. But sometimes the findings strike closer to home.
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #236 20090124 · Saturday, January 24, 2009 · 31 topics · 2165561 to 2166570 · 701 members ·
	Saturday Jan 24 2009 v 5 n 28 view this issue	Welcome to the 236th issue -- at 31 topics, it's back to a more usual size. The topics are very interesting. A big thank you goes to our rather large number of topic contributors. I barely lifted a finger. In fact, without checking first, I'll guess that I didn't actually post any topics this week. If I did any, it wasn't many. Worked out well for us all! We've hit 701 members, and it's still the Freepathon! Be sure to check Homer_J_Simpson's topics, many of which are based on archival newspaper articles, usually 70 years ago that day. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Donate to FreeRepublic.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #237 Saturday, January 31, 2009
Multiregionalism
Rewriting 'Out of Africa' theory [ 1.83 million years ago in Malaysia ]
	01/30/2009 9:15:11 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 3 replies · 11+ views New Straits Times Online | Friday, January 30, 2009 | Melissa Darlyne Chow Universiti Sains Malaysia's (USM) Centre for Archaeological Research Malaysia has found evidence of early human existence in the country dating back 1.83 million years... The evidence was obtained from the discovery of artefacts in Bukit Bunuh, Lenggong, Perak... included stone-made tools such as axes and chopping tools. The artefacts were found embedded in suevite rock, formed as a result of the impact of meteorite crashing down at Bukit Bunuh. The suevite rock, reputedly the first found in Southeast Asia, was sent to the Geochronology Japan Laboratory three months ago and carbon dated using the fission track dating method... Based on...
Climate
New ideas emerge about old empires [ Jared Diamond wrong, sez Norman Yoffee ]
	01/29/2009 6:15:32 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 8 replies · 219+ views The Rebel Yell (UNLV) | Thursday, January 29, 2009 | Pashtana Usufzy "Collapse is not just a defeat but the failure of a belief system," anthropologist Norman Yoffee said Tuesday during his lecture on ancient civilizations. Yoffee, a professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, spoke at UNLV on the meaning of "collapse" and what he believes to be the false notion that early societies destroyed themselves by obliterating their surroundings... The lecture evaluated the correlation between the past and present and challenged what Yoffee views as inaccuracies in the 2005 book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" by world-renowned geographer Jared Diamond. "The victims of cultural and physical...
Slipping the Surly Bonds of Earth
Apollo 1 Fire - 42 Years Ago
	01/27/2009 9:16:24 AM PST · Posted by Pyro7480 · 27 replies · 578+ views NASA | updated 2007 | n/a On January 27, 1967, tragedy struck the Apollo program when a flash fire occurred in command module 012 during a launch pad test of the Apollo/Saturn space vehicle being prepared for the first piloted flight, the AS-204 mission. Three astronauts, Lt. Col. Virgil I. Grissom, a veteran of Mercury and Gemini missions; Lt. Col. Edward H. White, the astronaut who had performed the first United States extravehicular activity during the Gemini program; and Roger B. Chaffee, an astronaut preparing for his first space flight, died in this tragic accident. A seven-member board, under the direction of the NASA Langley Research...
Stages
Buddy Holly: The tour from hell
	01/25/2009 10:04:15 PM PST · Posted by ButThreeLeftsDo · 41 replies · 938+ views StarTribune | 1/25/09 | PAMELA HUEY The rickety old bus pulled out of the Duluth Armory late on Saturday, Jan. 31, 1959, and headed across St. Louis Bay into the frigid Wisconsin night. On board were some exhausted, stinky rock 'n' rollers and their harried manager. The Winter Dance Party tour had just finished its ninth gig in as many days and was headed east for Appleton and Green Bay, for shows 10 and 11 on Sunday. But as the temperature plunged to around 30 below and the wind howled, fate intervened. The southbound bus creaked to a stop as it struggled up an incline on...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Who is the woman buried beside Galileo?
	01/24/2009 4:51:38 PM PST · Posted by BuckeyeTexan · 69 replies · 478+ views The Guardian | 01/24/2009 | John Hooper WHEN he was buried - at the insistence of the Catholic Church in unconsecrated ground - Galileo Galilei left behind at least two conundrums: how could a man with impaired eyesight have made the observations that revolutionised astronomy; and did his faulty vision alter what he saw and recorded? When his body was moved to the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, some 100 years later on the initiative of local freemasons, it gave rise to a third riddle: who was the woman found buried alongside him? Scientists are planning now to solve all three questions with the help of...
Not So Ancient Autopsies
Locked in time... the 400-year-old mummies (and one little girl)
	01/29/2009 6:18:25 AM PST · Posted by PotatoHeadMick · 16 replies · 1,008+ views Daily Mail (UK) | 29th January 2009 | Jane Fryer With her crumpled yellow hairbow and grubby face, pretty little Rosalina looks as though she's just flaked out for a nap after a morning spent playing in the garden. In fact, she has been lying in her tiny, wooden, glass-topped coffin in the catacombs beneath the Capuchin monastery in Palermo, Sicily, for more than 90 years - skilfully and shockingly preserved to look just as she did when she died of a bronchial infection in December 1920, aged two. And she is not alone. In the vast, musty-smelling catacombs are nearly 2,000 mummified corpses, many of them more than four...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Archaeologists Discover Rare Figurine in Jerusalem
	01/26/2009 6:44:24 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 18 replies · 482+ views The Star | Monday January 26, 2009 Israeli archaeologists say they have discovered a rare 1,800-year-old figurine in a Jerusalem excavation. Dating from the time of the Roman Empire, the five-centimeter (2-inch) marble bust depicts the head of a man with a short curly beard and almond-shaped eyes. A statement Monday from the Israel Antiquities Authority says nothing similar has been found before in the country. The archaeologists believe it could depict an athlete, possibly a boxer. They think it was used as a weight and might have belonged to a merchant. It was found in the ruins of a building destroyed by an earthquake in the...
Rare 1,800-year-old figurine found in Jerusalem
	01/27/2009 9:49:05 AM PST · Posted by Jet Jaguar · 6 replies · 244+ views AP via Breitbart | Jan 27, 2009 | KAREN ZOLKA n 1,800-year-old figurine believed to have originated from the eastern stretches of the Roman Empire has been discovered by archaeologists outside the walls of the old city, the Israeli Antiquities Authority said. The 2-inch (5-centimeter) marble bust depicts the head of a man with a short curly beard and almond-shaped eyes who may portray a boxer, the authority said. "The high level of finish on the figurine is extraordinary, while meticulously adhering to the tiniest of details," Doron Ben-Ami and Yana Tchekhanovets, directors of the excavation, said in a joint statement released Monday. Nothing similar has ever been uncovered in...
Vanity: Questions about Jewish history
	01/26/2009 3:49:42 PM PST · Posted by no more apples · 72 replies · 644+ views I am taking a Western Civ class in college and we're about to study the beginnings of Jewish history. Being a good conservative and a Christian who highly respects my elder bretheren in my faith in God, I always question history books. Revisionist history has never been my cup of tea. I'm looking for someone who is VERY knowledgeable in Jewish history - especially as it pertains to early civilization. If you don't mind answering questions, please let me know.
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Resurrecting the ruins of Aqar Quf
	01/25/2009 4:45:34 PM PST · Posted by Jet Jaguar · 3 replies · 328+ views Stars and Stripes | January 25, 2009 | By Travis J. Tritten ABU GHRAIB, Iraq -- Shepherd boys scale the ancient tower at Aqar Quf with ease. The ziggurat's clay-brick walls have eroded into steep cliffs over the past 3,500 years, and the shepherds go hand over hand on a well-known path to the peak. There are no guards blocking the climb, no visitors to watch the spectacle. On the desert below, the shepherds' flock grazes among the gutted remains of a museum and restaurant. The Aqar Quf ziggurat is among the 10 oldest structures in Iraq and once drew hundreds of visitors each week from nearby Baghdad. But the ancient site...
Egypt
Finnish researchers dig through millennia in the Valley of the Kings
	01/28/2009 6:56:46 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 3 replies · 163+ views University of Helsinki | Wednesday, January 28, 2009 | Sanna Agullana The hut village offers rare insight into everyday life in ancient Egypt. "In the early twentieth century, archaeologists were only interested in the tombs of kings. The workmen's huts they discovered were seen as a necessary evil in the quest for the real treasures." "Now several international research groups on different excavations are delving into everyday life and work in the Valley of the Kings. This seems to be a trend in archaeology right now," Toivari-Viitala says. Her research group wants to find out why the hut village was built on the slope of a mountain, halfway between the construction...
British Isles
Cave dig hopes to find signs of modern man [ Kents Cavern, Torquay, UK ]
	01/29/2009 6:23:24 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 7 replies · 127+ views This is South Devon | Thursday, January 29, 2009 | unattributed An ultra modern search at Kents Cavern hopes to uncover clues missed by the Victorians. Two archaeologists are planning to excavate a small part of Kents Cavern, Torquay, to unravel their quest to see if modern man lived alongside Neanderthals... The dig is the first excavation at the cave in more than 80 years. A two metre by one metre trench is to be opened in the Great Chamber of the Cave, so named by Victorian archaeologist William Pengelly in the 1860s... They plan to use modern techniques of almost 150 years of improvements in archaeology to determine what conditions...
Ancient Autopsies
Doctors prove that the Iceman was shot to death in the Alps [ Oetzi ]
	01/28/2009 7:00:56 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 78 replies · 1,168+ views Earth Times | Wednesday, January 28, 2009 | DPA Doctors who studied the Iceman, a mummified Stone Age hunter found in Italy in 1991, announced conclusive proof Wednesday that he was shot to death with a flint-tipped arrow rather than dying of exposure as once thought. "He only lived for a short time after the arrow impact," said Andreas Nerlich, who headed a joint study by Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and experts from Bolzano, Italy. Shortly before he was shot in the back, the Iceman suffered a non-lethal blow with a blunt object, possibly a stone from a slingshot, Nerlich's team said in a letter to the online...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
12,900 Years Ago: North American Comet Impact Theory Disproved
	01/27/2009 3:06:57 AM PST · Posted by decimon · 35 replies · 609+ views ScienceDaily | Jan. 27, 2009 | Unknown New data disproves the recent theory that a large comet exploded over North America 12,900 years ago, causing a shock wave that travelled across North America at hundreds of kilometres per hour and triggering continent-wide wildfires. Dr Sandy Harrison from the University of Bristol and colleagues tested the theory by examining charcoal and pollen records to assess how fire regimes in North America changed between 15 and 10,000 years ago, a time of large and rapid climate changes. Their results provide no evidence for continental-scale fires, but support the fact that the increase in large-scale wildfires in all regions of...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Area Mystery Mounds Delight Archaeologists
	01/25/2009 2:37:28 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 19 replies · 865+ views News-Journal | Sunday, January 25, 2009 | WES FERGUSON Locked away and hidden from the nearby town of Longview, largely undisturbed for a thousand years, is an ancient and mysterious place that guards the secrets of a vanished people. It is a sacred place. It is a wide, grassy clearing set in the middle of a forest. the truly remarkable discovery -- what intrigues and inspires archaeologists -- cannot be found inside the clearing, but just beyond it. There, eight enormous, earthen structures rise from the forest floor, forming a giant ring around the open space. They are ceremonial mounds, remnants of a group of Caddo Indians who emerged...
Paleontology
Oklahoma Fossil Identified as New Species
	01/27/2009 7:05:07 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 10 replies · 385+ views Fox23 | 1/27/09 An ancient skull found by an amateur Oklahoma paleontologist at an old rock quarry near Lawton turned out to be a new species unknown to scientists. Coweta accountant Tony Morris found the skull about three years ago in a pile of rubble with a group from the Tulsa Rock and Mineral Society. It's about the size of a shoebox with a single row of teeth protruding from one edge. Now researchers are ready to say the fossil is that of a previously unknown species and is a that from a lizardlike creature in the cacops family. The animal is described...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Epigenetics reveals unexpected, and some identical, results
	01/25/2009 11:03:50 PM PST · Posted by neverdem · 9 replies · 338+ views Science News | January 18th, 2009 | Tina Hesman Saey One study finds tissue-specific methylation signatures in the genome; another a similarity between identical twins in DNA's chemical tagging Tattoos on the skin can say a lot about person. On a deeper level, chemical tattoos on a person's DNA are just as distinctive and individual -- and say far more about a person's life history. A pair of reports published online January 18 in Nature Genetics show just how important one type of DNA tattoo, called methylation, can be. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University report the unexpected finding that most DNA methylation -- a chemical alteration that turns off genes...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Native U.S. Lizards Are Evolving To Escape Attacks By Fire Ants
	01/24/2009 10:35:28 AM PST · Posted by Salman · 67 replies · 305+ views Science Daily | Jan. 24, 2009 | Science Daily Penn State Assistant Professor of Biology Tracy Langkilde has shown that native fence lizards in the southeastern United States are adapting to potentially fatal invasive fire-ant attacks by developing behaviors that enable them to escape from the ants, as well as by developing longer hind legs, which can increase the effectiveness of this behavior. "Not only does this finding provide biologists with an example of evolution in action, but it also provides wildlife managers with knowledge that they can use to develop plans for managing invasive species," said Langkilde. The results will be described in a paper to be published...
Australia and the Pacific
111-year-old reptile becomes a dad
	01/26/2009 6:42:34 PM PST · Posted by DogByte6RER · 31 replies · 411+ views Metro.Co.UK | Monday, January 26, 2009 | Metro.Co.UK 111-year-old reptile becomes a dad Monday, January 26, 2009 A reptile in New Zealand has unexpectedly become a father at the ripe old age of 111 - after receiving treatment for a cancer which had made him hostile toward prospective mates. That consummation that resulted in 11 babies being hatched on Monday. Tuatara are indigenous New Zealand creatures that resemble lizards, but are actually descended from a seperate lineage of reptiles that walked the earth with the dinosaurs 225 million years ago. An endangered species, the hatchlings born at the Southland Museum and Art Gallery will provide a badly needed...
Age of Sail
French Explorer's Shipwreck Found (Australia Might Have Been A French Colony)
	05/12/2005 12:16:47 AM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 34 replies · 816+ views CNN | Tuesday, May 10, 2005 One of the great mysteries of early European exploration of the Pacific Ocean has been solved with the confirmed identification of a sea-floor wreck as that of French seafarer La Perouse. The fate of Jean-Francois de Galaup de La Perouse has been a matter of speculation for more than 200 years after the experienced seaman disappeared following his departure from Botany Bay in Australia in 1788. It was thought La Perouse's two frigates had been shipwrecked during a storm off the coast of the Solomon Islands to the northeast of Australia, a theory which has now been confirmed by physical...
Nelson's Great Love Found At The Bottom Of The Ocean (Uruguay)
	03/27/2004 3:57:44 PM PST · Posted by blam · 21 replies · 517+ views The Scotsman | 3-27-2004 | Angus Howarth Nelson's great love found at the bottom of the ocean ADMIRAL Horatio Nelson's favourite ship, on which he is said to have seduced Lady Hamilton and lost an eye in battle, has been found off the coast of Uruguay. International treasure-divers said yesterday that they had found HMS Agamemnon, a 64-gun vessel which was the pride of Britain's naval fleet when it went down in 1809. Plans are now being made to lift the ship from its watery grave following the multi-million-pound deep-sea exploration. Uruguayan millionaire Hector Bado, the operation's backer, hailed the find as "akin to finding the Holy...
The Civil War
Reading Suggestions with Special Attention to the Civil War
	01/28/2009 4:55:40 PM PST · Posted by sonrise57 · 30 replies · 312+ views January 27, 2008 | me Hi All, I just finished reading "The Last Full Measure". I am putting together my 2009 reading plan and I want to start on another Civil War work. What are you all reading these days. Those of you who are civil war buffs . . . what should I put on my list for this year.
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Ohio, Kentucky Feuding Over Rock In A Hard Place
	01/26/2009 4:30:21 PM PST · Posted by Daffynition · 22 replies · 481+ views NPR | January 26, 2009 | Fred Kight The states of Ohio and Kentucky are battling over a most unlikely object: a graffiti-covered rock. From a distance, Indian Head Rock isn't much to look at, an unremarkable, brownish boulder about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. But a closer look reveals what makes the rock -- first written about in an archeological publication in 1847 -- more than just an ordinary boulder. The surface is etched with names, some scratched and difficult to read and others chiseled more clearly. There's also a face that "some have said looks like Charlie Brown," according to Randy Nichols, a local history...
Early America
Dutch to Help New York Celebrate Hudson's Journey
	01/29/2009 3:16:26 AM PST · Posted by Pharmboy · 9 replies · 145+ views NY Times | January 29, 2009 | SEWELL CHAN and MATHEW R. WARREN The mayor of Amsterdam, Marius Job Cohen, and the mayor of New York, Michael R. Bloomberg, joined forces on Wednesday to announce NYC 400, a yearlong celebration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's arrival in New York Harbor in 1609 aboard the Half Moon. The fact that Hudson was English -- like the people who eventually conquered the Dutch colony in New Amsterdam, in 1664, and renamed it for the Duke of York -- and that New Amsterdam wasn't officially founded until 1625 -- making New York more like 384 years old than 400 -- did not seem to...
Underwater Archaeology
British shipwreck holds £2.6 billion treasure
	01/24/2009 3:48:32 PM PST · Posted by PotatoHeadMick · 18 replies · 246+ views Daily Telegraph (UK) | 24 Jan 2009 | Jasper Copping Undersea explorers claim to have found the world's richest wreck ñ a British ship sunk by a Nazi submarine while laden with more than £2.6 billion in gold, platinum and diamonds. In a project shrouded in secrecy, work is due to start on recovering the cargo, which was being transported to the United States to help pay for the Allied effort in the Second World War. The scale of the treasure trove is likely to unleash a series of competing claims from interested parties. Salvage laws are notoriously complex and experts say there could be many years of legal wrangling...
World War Eleven
Missing WWII Soldiers Are Identified
	01/26/2009 10:07:11 AM PST · Posted by Stonewall Jackson · 39 replies · 783+ views Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (Public Affairs) | Jan 22, 2009 | Staff The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of two U.S. servicemen, missing from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to their families for burial with full military honors. They are Pfc. Julian H. Rogers, of Bloomington, Ind, and Pvt. Henry E. Marquez, of Kansas City, Kan. Both men were U.S. Army. Rogers will be buried in the Spring in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C., and Marquez will be buried on May 30 in Kansas City, Mo. Representatives from the Army's Mortuary...
Pages
"The Real Leo Strauss" - The Wacky Left and the Fiction of Neo-Con-ism
	01/29/2009 1:45:36 PM PST · Posted by Tublecane · 3 replies · 146+ views The New York Times | Thursday, January 29, 2009 | Jenny Strauss Clay The Real Leo Strauss By JENNY STRAUSS CLAY Published: June 7, 2003 Recent news articles have portrayed my father, Leo Strauss, as the mastermind behind the neoconservative ideologues who control United States foreign policy. He reaches out from his 30-year-old grave, we are told, to direct a ''cabal'' (a word with distinct anti-Semitic overtones) of Bush administration figures hoping to subject the American people to rule by a ruthless elite. I do not recognize the Leo Strauss presented in these articles. My father was not a politician. He taught political theory, primarily at the University of Chicago. He was a...
Longer Perspectives
A colossal mistake? Art world baffled by 'Goya' masterpiece
	01/27/2009 5:49:26 PM PST · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · 15 replies · 539+ views timesonline.co.uk | Jan. 28, 2009 | Graham Keeley For almost 80 years it has been regarded as one of Francisco de Goya's towering glories. But yesterday it was revealed that The Colossus was not painted by the Spanish master at all, but by an understudy. After a seven-month investigation, experts at the Prado gallery in Madrid came to the reluctant conclusion that the masterpiece was probably the work of Asensio Juli·, one of Goya's assistants. They said that the painting, which has hung in the Prado for 78 years, was "Goyaesque but not by Goya". Manuela Mena Marquès, head of 18th-century art at the Prado, said: "Seen with...
Faith and Philosophy
Debunking the Galileo Myth
	01/25/2009 2:49:18 PM PST · Posted by NYer · 139 replies · 1,525+ views CERC | Dinesh D'Souza Many people have uncritically accepted the idea that there is a longstanding war between science and religion. We find this war advertised in many of the leading atheist tracts such as those by Richard Dawkins, Victor Stenger, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens. Every few months one of the leading newsweeklies does a story on this subject. Little do the peddlers of this paradigm realize that they are victims of nineteenth-century atheist propaganda. About a hundred years ago, two anti-religious bigots named John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White wrote books promoting the idea of an irreconcilable conflict between science and...
Asia
Archaeologists try to revive daily life of 2,000-year-old ancient Chinese capital [ Chang'an ]
	01/29/2009 6:32:05 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 6 replies · 160+ views Xinhuanet / Chinaview | Thursday, January 29, 2009 | editor Yao Archaeologists are uncovering the details of city life as it was 2,000 years ago in the ancient Chinese capital of Chang'an. As the capital of the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC to 8 AD), Chang'an was a metropolis with an area of 36 square kilometers, about four times the size of the contemporary Rome. Its ruins lay in the suburb of today's Xi'an, capital of northwestern Shaanxi Province. "After about five decades of work, we can map out the city's clear layout now, but we still know little about how its 240,000 residents lived," said Liu Zhendong, the head of...
Epigraphy and Language
A Prayer for Archimedes: ... he had begun to discover the principles of calculus.
	01/24/2009 6:43:23 PM PST · Posted by Daffynition · 75 replies · 261+ views ScienceNews | january 24 2009 | Julie Rehmeyer For seventy years, a prayer book moldered in the closet of a family in France, passed down from one generation to the next. Its mildewed parchment pages were stiff and contorted, tarnished by burn marks and waxy smudges. Behind the text of the prayers, faint Greek letters marched in lines up the page, with an occasional diagram disappearing into the spine. The owners wondered if the strange book might have some value, so they took it to Christie's Auction House of London. And in 1998, Christie's auctioned it off -- for two million dollars. For this was not just a prayer book....
Greece
By Zeus! (Greeks return to paganism)
	02/07/2007 8:11:30 AM PST · Posted by NYer · 49 replies · 676+ views Guardian | February 1, 2007 It was high noon when Doreta Peppa, a woman with long, dark locks and owlish eyes, entered the Sanctuary of Olympian Zeus. At first, tourists visiting the Athenian temple thought they had stumbled on to a film set. It wasn't just that Peppa cut a dramatic figure with her flowing robes and garlanded hair. Or that she seemed to be in a state of near euphoria. Or even that the group of men and women accompanying her - dressed as warriors and nymphets in kitsch ancient garb - appeared to have stepped straight out of the city's Golden Age.To the...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Legacy of Secrecy : Book Reveals Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Hoffa Murdered by Mob
	01/25/2009 5:58:27 AM PST · Posted by stillafreemind · 50 replies · 1,152+ views Associated Content | 1-25-2009 | Bobby Tall Horse Legacy of Secrecy also entails why and how Robert Kennedy tried to bring justice to his brother's killers and died in the process. Legacy of Secrecy shows how Carlos Marcello was involved with Martin Luther King's assassination. Legacy of Secrecy also goes so far as to link Jimmy Hoffa's murder to all of this too.
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #237 20090131 · Saturday, January 31, 2009 · 33 topics · 2175466 to 2171161 · 702 members ·
	Saturday Jan 31 2009 v 5 n 29 view this issue	Welcome to the 237th issue. I fouled up the topic number range in the previous issue (should have been 2170775 to 2166570) and am glad to see the back of that little quandary. I couldn't go back to issue 235 because I didn't do that here. I just realized that I probably saved it to a flash drive, but that chore is done now. The 50th anniversary of "the Day the Music Died" will be February 3rd. [Buddy Holly The Big Bopper Ritchie Valens] More significantly, the 42nd anniversary of the Apollo I fire was this past week. I did a bit more work this issue, posting a few topics. Thanks again to all those who give me all the help by posting topics and/or pinging me to them, it helps everyone on the GGG ping list. Most of the 33 topics in this Digest are new, although as usual I found a few oldies that either were missed going by, or antedate Gods, Graves, Glyphs. If I thank aculeus, BGHater, Borges, BuckeyeTexan, ButThreeLeftsDo, blam, Coleus, Coyoteman, csvset, Daffynition, DieHard the Hunter, DogByte6RER, decimon, Free ThinkerNY, Jet Jaguar, MyTwoCopperCoins, markomalley, NormsRevenge, NYer, neverdem, nickcarraway, no more apples, OESY, Pharmboy, PotatoHeadMick, PurpleMan, Pyro7480, presidio9, Salman, Sammy67, Steelfish, Stonewall Jackson, sonrise57, stillafreemind, and Tublecane, I believe I've thanked everyone -- Thanks! We've reached 702 members, and it's still the Freepathon! Be sure to check Homer_J_Simpson's topics, many of which are based on archival newspaper articles, usually 70 years ago that day. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Donate to FreeRepublic.
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