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Wow! Thanks! I may wind up changing the ping message as well, to resemble the new digest format. ;’) Look for that change on the 6th anniversary...


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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #261
Saturday, July 18, 2009

Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy

 Sumatra's Ancient Megaliths Give Insight to the Past

· 07/15/2009 2:28:07 PM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 4 replies ·
· 355+ views ·
· The Jakarta Post ·
· Wed, 07/15/2009 · Khairul Saleh ·
The ancient giant carved stones of South Sumatra -- home to the largest number of such megaliths after Egypt and Europe -- are remarkable not only for their size and history, but also for the curious supernatural aura that surrounds them. For if you come to look at them, behave yourself, warns Edwin Malian, 35, a keeper in a megalith complex outside Lahat. He tells the cautionary tale of a young man who put a banana on a pig statue as a joke. It is said that before this statue was found 16 years ago, a local dreamed an old...

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 'Early bird' project really gets the worm

· 07/15/2009 1:22:35 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 25 replies ·
· 174+ views ·
· PhysOrg ·
· June 26th, 2008 ·
· Louisiana State University ·
For example, we now know that: Birds adapted to the diverse environments several distinct times because many birds that now live on water (such as flamingos, tropicbirds and grebes) did not evolve from a different waterbird group, and many birds that now live on land (such as turacos, doves, sandgrouse and cuckoos) did not evolve from a different landbird group.Similarly, distinctive lifestyles (such as nocturnal, raptorial and pelagic, i.e., living on the ocean or open seas) evolved several times. For example, contrary to conventional thinking, colorful, daytime hummingbirds evolved from drab nocturnal nightjars; falcons are not closely related to hawks...

Flies Tied to Longest Route

 Longest insect migration revealed

· 07/14/2009 8:49:34 AM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 24 replies ·
· 335+ views ·
· bbc ·
· 14 July 2009 · Matt Walker ·
Every year, millions of dragonflies fly thousands of kilometres across the sea from southern India to Africa. So says a biologist in the Maldives, who claims to have discovered the longest migration of any insect. If confirmed, the mass exodus would be the first known insect migration across open ocean water. It would also dwarf the famous trip taken each year by Monarch butterflies, which fly just half the distance across the Americas.

Rock You Like A Hurricane

 Scientists find fossil of enormous bug

· 11/20/2007 7:45:12 PM PST ·
· Posted by Pharmboy ·
· 92 replies ·
· 87+ views ·
· AP via YAHOO! ·
· 11-20-07 · Thomas Wagner ·
This is a computer generated image issued by the University of Bristol in England released on Tuesday Nov. 20, 2007 showing a size comparison between a human an ancient sea scorpion. A fossil found in Germany indicates the ancient sea scorpion was once 2.5 metres (8 feet) long, making it the biggest bug ever known to have existed. (AP Photo/University of Bristol, HO) This was a bug you couldn't swat and definitely couldn't step on. British scientists have stumbled across a fossilized claw, part of an ancient sea scorpion, that is of such large proportion it would make the...


 Scientists Uncover Fossil of Biggest Bug Ever at 8 Feet Long

· 11/21/2007 10:36:51 AM PST ·
· Posted by Renfield ·
· 17 replies ·
· 214+ views ·
· Fox News ·
· 11-21-07 ·
British scientists have stumbled across a fossilized claw, part of an ancient sea scorpion, that is of such large proportion it would make the entire creature the biggest bug ever. How big? Bigger than you, and at 8 feet long as big as some Smart cars....


 390-million-year-old scorpion fossil -- biggest bug known

· 11/21/2007 2:29:48 PM PST ·
· Posted by Teflonic ·
· 17 replies ·
· 93+ views ·
· Eurekalert! ·
· 11/21/07 · Janet Rettig Emanuel ·
New Haven, Conn. -- The gigantic fossil claw of an 390 million-year-old sea scorpion, recently found in Germany, shows that ancient arthropods -- spiders, insects, crabs and the like -- were surprisingly larger than their modern-day counterparts. "Imagine an eight-foot-long scorpion," said O. Erik Tetlie, postdoctoral associate in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale, and an author of the report online in Royal Society Biology Letters. "The claw itself is a foot-and-a-half long -- indicating that these ancient arthropods were much larger than previous estimates -- and certainly the largest seen to date." Colleague and co-author Markus Poschmann...


 Giant Bugs a Thing of the Past, Study Suggests

· 11/22/2007 8:27:40 AM PST ·
· Posted by ricks_place ·
· 29 replies ·
· 64+ views ·
· National Geographic News ·
· November 21, 2007 · Hope Hamashige ·
For the giant insects that roamed Earth 300 million years ago, there was something special in the air. A higher concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere let dragonflies sometimes grow to the size of hawks, and some millipede-like bugs reached some six feet (two meters) in length, a new study suggests. (Related: "Dragonflies Migrate Like Birds, Study Says" [May 10, 2006].) Now that the proportion of oxygen has decreased, however, bugs can't grow much larger than they do now, the authors write. The reason: The bigger an insect, the bigger the proportion of its body devoted to its tracheal system,...

Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

 Little Dogs Get their Little Legs from Wolves

· 07/17/2009 3:45:53 PM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 25 replies ·
· 388+ views ·
· aip ·
· July 16, 2009 · Devin Powell ·
WASHINGTON -- Heidi Parker chose her pet basset hound "Stormy" because short-legged basset hounds have a reputation for being comfortable, cuddly couch potatoes. Now Parker -- a geneticist by trade -- has figured out why these and some other small dogs have such stumpy legs. Their DNA contains two copies of a gene that most dogs only have one of -- the second copy is an old version of a gene borrowed from wolves. Normally, this gene turns on when a dog is growing in the womb to make a molecule called a growth factor that guides the proper formation...

The Pyramids

 Update: Return to the Great Pyramid [ Bob Brier & Jean-Pierre Houdin ]

· 07/14/2009 4:59:29 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 44 replies ·
· 556+ views ·
· Archaeology ·
· Volume 62 Number 4 ·
· July/August 2009 ·
· Bob Brier ·
All of the current theories -- a long, straight ramp, a ramp that corkscrewed around the outside of the pyramid, or cranelike shadoufs (used in Egypt until recently for irrigating fields) -- have serious flaws... architect Jean-Pierre Houdin and I presented a radical new theory: that blocks of stone were raised to the very top of the pyramid on an internal ramp. We gave what we felt was strong evidence for the theory, which explains a French team's microgravemetric survey in the 1980s that recorded variations in the density of the pyramid... an image from the survey may show a...


 Architect Says Pyramid Built Inside Out

· 03/31/2007 9:48:03 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Clintonfatigued ·
· 37 replies ·
· 473+ views ·
· AOL News ·
· March 31, 2007 · Tim Hepher ·
A French architect said on Friday he had cracked a 4,500-year-old mystery surrounding Egypt's Great Pyramid, saying it was built from the inside out. Previous theories have suggested Pharaoh Khufu's tomb, the last surviving example of the seven great wonders of antiquity, was built using either a vast frontal ramp or a ramp in a corkscrew shape around the exterior to haul up the stonework. But flouting previous wisdom, Jean-Pierre Houdin said advanced 3D technology had shown the main ramp which was used to haul the massive stones to the apex was contained 10-15 meters beneath the outer skin, tracing...

Egypt

 Ancient fortress city unearthed in Egypt

· 07/14/2009 7:00:27 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 32 replies ·
· 495+ views ·
· Discovery ·
· Jul 14 2009 · Rossella Lorenzi ·
Egyptian archaeologists digging near the Suez Canal have discovered the remains of what is believed to be the largest fortress in the eastern Delta, Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced. Located at the site of Tell Dafna, between El-Manzala Lake and the Suez Canal, the remains reveal the foundation of a military town about 9 miles (15 kilometers) northeast of the city of western Qantara. "The fortress covers an area of about 380 by 625 meters (1,247 by 2,051 feet), while the enclosure wall is about 13 meters (43 feet) in width," Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud, head of the Central...


 King Tut explorer's photos, treasures revealed

· 07/16/2009 2:32:35 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 10 replies ·
· 484+ views ·
· Discovery ·
· Jul 16, 2009 · Rossella Lorenzi ·
Lord Carnarvon, the man who funded the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun and died five months later in mysterious circumstances before he could actually see the mummy's face, was a superstitious man who wore the same lucky bow tie all his life. The end of the exhibition also represents the end of the story for Lord Carnarvon: on display the razor which he used in 1923. He cut a mosquito bite while shaving and the wound turned septic. He died of pneumonia brought on by blood poisoning on April 5, 1923, in the "hour of his triumph," as...

Underwater Archaeology

 Diving into History: Corinthian Shipwrecks [ Albania ]

· 07/14/2009 4:31:50 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 9 replies ·
· 271+ views ·
· Archaeology ·
· Volume 62 Number 4 ·
· July/August 2009 ·
· Eric A. Powell ·
Thanks to decades of political isolation under the reign of paranoid Communist dictator Enver Hoxha, Albania's coastline has long been off-limits to divers of all kinds. "Virtually nothing is known about the cultural resources in the waters off Albania," says Jeff Royal, archaeological director of the nonprofit RPM Nautical Foundation. Together with Adrian Anastasi of the Albanian Institute of Archaeology, Royal is now directing a survey of the area, one of the last unexplored coastlines of the Mediterranean world. Though only two years into the project, the team has already made numerous finds. "There are all kinds of sites down...

1287, not 1421

 Diving into History: The Khan's Lost Fleet (And Phoenicians, Romans, etc.)

· 07/14/2009 3:59:14 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 9 replies ·
· 510+ views ·
· Archaeological Institute of America ·
· July/August 2009 · Heather Pringle ·
In A.D. 1287, China's great Mongol emperor Khubilai Khan received word that his navy had been crushed in Vietnam. Nearly 400 of the emperor's prized ships, part of a massive invasion force, had become trapped in the Bach Dang River, where Vietnamese soldiers set them afire with flaming arrows and burning bamboo rafts. In later years, the leader of the Vietnamese forces, Tran Hung Dao, boasted of his effortless victory. "When the enemy advances roaring like fire and wind," he observed, "it is easy to overcome them."

Epigraphy and Language

 Treasure trove of silver Roman coins worth thousands found buried in field

· 07/16/2009 6:30:51 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 17 replies ·
· 707+ views ·
· Daily Mail ·
· Thursday, July 16, 2009 ·
· Daily Mail Reporter ·
One of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever discovered in Britain has been officially declared 'treasure' today. Amateur metal detecting enthusiast Keith Bennett discovered a total of 1,141 Roman denarii, or silver coins, in a field last July. The coins, stashed in a clay urn and buried around four feet underground, date from between 206 BC and 195 BC. [incorrect dates, the writer apparently should have said "AD" not "BC"] ...The coins will be valued by the British Museum and they will be worth a reasonably significant sum.' Mr Bennett, 42, who works at the central library in Leamington...

Rome and Italy

 Digging deeper: Archaeologists race to show Pompeii daily life

· 07/16/2009 8:39:10 PM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 3 replies ·
· 263+ views ·
Digging deeper: Archaeologists race to show Pompeii daily life

Middle Ages and Renaissance

 Michelangelo's final murals restored in Vatican City

· 07/17/2009 6:30:23 PM PDT ·
· Posted by bdeaner ·
· 4 replies ·
· 293+ views ·
· Catholic Education Resource Center ·
· 6/30/09 · Pamela Luther ·
After being hidden under scaffolding for five years, the Vatican has unveiled the restored Cappella Paolina, the Pauline Chapel. While there, most visitors go to St. Peter's Basilica as well as Vatican City, which contain some of the finest art in the world. There one will find the famous Sistine Chapel as well as other glorious places of worship. Another one of these is the Pauline Chapel. After being hidden under scaffolding for five years, the Vatican has unveiled the restored Cappella Paolina, the Pauline Chapel. Named after Pope Paul III who commissioned it to be built in 1537,...

Diet and Cuisine

 Early Human Dined on Young Neanderthal

· 06/24/2009 1:57:09 PM PDT ·
· Posted by jmcenanly ·
· 51 replies ·
· 1,046+ views ·
· Discvery News ·
· May 21, 2009 ·
· Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News ·
Sometime between 28,000 and 30,000 years ago, an anatomically modern human in what is now France may have eaten a Neanderthal child and made a necklace out of its teeth, according to a new study that suggests Europe's first humans had a violent relationship with their muscular, big-headed hominid ancestors. The evidence, which includes teeth and a carefully butchered jawbone from a site called Les Rois in southwestern France, could represent the world's first known biological proof for direct contact between the two human groups.

Neandertal / Neanderthal

 Neanderthals were likely poised for extinction

· 07/16/2009 2:18:26 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 17 replies ·
· 394+ views ·
· Live Science ·
· Jul 16, 2009 · Unknown ·
Neanderthals are of course extinct. But there never were very many of them, new research concludes. In fact, new genetic evidence from the remains of six Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) suggests the population hovered at an average of 1,500 females of reproductive age in Europe between 38,000 and 70,000 years ago, with the maximum estimate of 3,500 such female Neanderthals. "Because there never really were millions of them, they probably were more susceptible to some event that made them go extinct, which to me, suspiciously coincides with the emergence of modern humans," Briggs told LiveScience.

Ancient Autopsies

 Oetzi iceman's tattoos came from fireplace

· 07/17/2009 5:31:50 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 13 replies ·
· 370+ views ·
· Discovery ·
· July 17, 2009 · Jennifer Viegas ·
The 57 tattoos sported by Oetzi, the 5300-year-old Tyrolean iceman mummy, were made from fireplace soot that contained glittering, colorful precious stone crystals, according to an upcoming study in the Journal of Archaeological Science. The determination supports prior research that the tattoos were associated with acupuncture treatments for chronic ailments suffered by the iceman, whose frozen body was found remarkably well preserved in the Similaun Glacier of the Alps in 1991.

Not-so-Ancient Autopsies

 Bones lead to mystery Miami graveyard from 1900s

· 07/17/2009 11:15:14 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BBell ·
· 6 replies ·
· 288+ views ·
· times picayune ·
· 7/16/2009 · Tamara Lush ·
(AP) -- MIAMI -- When Enid Pinkney was a girl in the 1940s, her grandmother would tell her stories about a black cemetery nestled in the northwest corner of Miami in an area once called Lemon City. Pinkney never saw any headstones or tombs on the former farm land, which gradually became surrounded by small homes, car lots and industrial warehouses starting in the 1950s and 1960s. Interstate 95 rumbles past a few blocks away. But Pinkney's grandmother was apparently right. The bones of at least 11 people-and possibly dozens more-were recently discovered during construction of an affordable housing project....

Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis

 Dozens of Girls Found Sacrificed

· 07/17/2009 9:17:53 PM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 21 replies ·
· 740+ views ·
· nationalgeographic ·
· July 14, 2009 ·
Many of the 33 mummies uncovered near Chiclayo, Peru, were those of girls -- a rarity, experts say. Their throats slit, the girls were probably killed in a bid for agricultural fertility. Research into 33 mummies discovered in Peru has revealed most of the bodies were girls, most likely sacrificed in the belief their deaths would bring fertility to the peoples farmlands. Utah Valley University professor Haagen Klaus is an expert in bio-archaeology and has been examining the human remains found in 2007 at the Chotuna Huaca, a site located north east of Chiclayo, Peru.

Climate

 The Medieval Warm Period linked to the success of Machu Picchu, Inca Empire

· 07/12/2009 3:18:17 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 15 replies ·
· 408+ views ·
· Watts Up With That? ·
· Jul 8, 2009 · Anthony Watts ·
According to Wikipedia, the Medieval Warm Period was a time of warm weather around AD 800-1300 during the European Medieval period. Initial research on the MWP and the following Little Ice Age (LIA) was largely done in Europe, where the phenomenon was most obvious and clearly documented. It was initially believed that the temperature changes were global. However, this view has been questioned; the 2001 IPCC report summarises this research, saying "Öcurrent evidence does not support globally synchronous periods of anomalous cold or warmth over this time frame, and the conventional terms of "Little Ice Age' and "Medieval Warm Period'...

The Zapotec

 Thighbones Were Scepters for Ancient Zapotec Men

· 07/17/2009 7:54:56 PM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 10 replies ·
· 335+ views ·
· nationalgeographic ·
· July 15, 2009 · Charles Q. Choi ·
For men of the ancient Zapotec civilization, ancestral thighbones may have been carried as status symbols. Based on centuries-old stone carvings in southern Mexico, archaeologists had long suspected that Zapotec men brandished human femurs. "The thought was that the femurs are those of the ancestors of the rulers, serving like staffs of office or symbols of legitimacy," explained archaeologist Gary Feinman of the Field Museum in Chicago. Now grave excavations have confirmed the practice, according to a new study. What's more, it seems that commoners got a leg up too. Flourishing from about 500 B.C. to A.D. 1000 in the...

Early America

 Has it come to this? If so I wish I could find the same words.

· 07/17/2009 9:44:52 PM PDT ·
· Posted by oncebitten ·
· 13 replies ·
· 355+ views ·
Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775. No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The questing before the House is one of awful...

The Framers

 the 22nd Amendment

· 07/11/2009 8:11:54 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 18 replies ·
· 495+ views ·
· Constitution of the United States ·
· via FindLaw et al ·
· ratified February 27, 1951 ·
· The Framers et al ·
Section 1. : No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during...

The Civil War

 'State of Jones' reveals life of Newton Knight By Chris Talbott (Confederate "Lost Cause" Myth)

· 07/14/2009 5:45:11 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Colonel Kangaroo ·
· 17 replies ·
· 385+ views ·
· The Canadian Press via Google News ·
· 7-13-2009 · Chris Talbott ·
ELLISVILLE, Miss. -- Newton Knight still haunts the Piney Woods and swamps of southern Mississippi, 140 years after the Civil War. Knight, subject of the new book "The State of Jones" by journalist Sally Jenkins and Harvard University historian John Stauffer, remains an obscure Civil War figure. To the authors and some in Jones County, where Knight led a campaign against the Confederacy, he's an American hero.

President Abraham Lincoln

 Lincoln Assassination Artifacts Kept as Evidence

· 07/17/2009 10:50:14 AM PDT ·
· Posted by RDTF ·
· 6 replies ·
· 355+ views ·
· US News ·
· July 16, 2009 ·
The renovated Ford's Theatre Museum opened to the public this week, and among a slew of "beyond priceless" artifacts, as Ford's Theatre Society Director Paul Tetreault calls them, are John Wilkes Booth's boot, his compass, his appointment book, and some photos of his "girlfriends." What's notable is that these items, which Booth was wearing or had with him after assassinating President Lincoln on April 14, 1865, are in good condition. Even more amazing is that the government, and not historical scavengers, still has them. The reason, says Tetreault: "This was a crime scene, and all of this stuff was confiscated...

The Great War

 Oldest WWI Veteran, Henry Allingham dies aged 113.

· 07/18/2009 1:13:38 AM PDT ·
· Posted by sinsofsolarempirefan ·
· 17 replies ·
· 516+ views ·
· BBC ·
· 07.18.09 · BBC ·
Oldest WWI veteran dies aged 113 Henry Allingham was the last surviving founding member of the RAF Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and one of the last surviving World War I servicemen, has died at the age of 113, his care home has said. Mr Allingham served with the Royal Naval Air Service in WWI, later transferring to the Royal Air Force at the time of its creation. Bosses at his Brighton care home said everybody was "saddened by Henry's loss and our sympathy goes to his family". Last month, Mr Allingham, born in 1896, became the world's oldest...

World War Eleven

 Who saved GI Joe?

· 07/14/2009 10:53:29 AM PDT ·
· Posted by ckilmer ·
· 10 replies ·
· 756+ views ·
· Belmont Club ·
· July 14th, 2009 3:32 · Wretchard ·
One of the actual models for the Hasboro action figure GI Joe was Marine Medal of Honor winner Mitchell Paige. Paige who passed away in 2003, held a hilltop on Guadalcanal against more than a company of Imperial Japanese soldiers by manning each of the four machine gun positions in turn after everyone else had been killed. Paige tells the story of that frenzied Medal of Honor night, as each position was overrun and he finally held the ring alone...

Longer Perspectives

 Museum of Hoaxes: Jean Hardouin [ Roman Empire a medieval hoax ]

· 07/15/2009 6:05:15 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 21 replies ·
· 533+ views ·
· Museum of Hoaxes ·
· prior to December 2003 ·
· references Johann Burkhard Mencken ·
Jean Hardouin (1646-1729) was a scholar of classical literature. In 1685 he published an edition of Pliny's Natural History. There was nothing unusual about the edition itself, which was considered to be of merit and very well edited. What was unusual was that despite being so knowledgeable about classical literature, Hardouin had very strange ideas about its origins. According to Hardouin, the majority of classical Greek and Roman literature had not been produced by Greek and Roman authors. Instead, it had been forged during the Middle Ages by a group of Benedictine monks. He also argued that all extant Greek...

Paleontology

 New Dinosaur Had Potbelly, Claws Like Wolverine

· 07/17/2009 8:41:30 PM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 14 replies ·
· 445+ views ·
· nationalgeographic ·
· July 15, 2009- ·
Don't let the Wolverine-like claws fool you. Unlike the X-men's most popular pugilist, this new dinosaur species was no predator, scientists say. Dubbed Nothronychus graffami, the 13-foot-tall (4-meter-tall) therizinosaur (reconstructed skeleton pictured) lived about 92.5 million years ago in what is present-day Utah. N. graffami's claw bones are 9 inches (23 centimeters) long. But in life, sheathed in hornlike keratin, the talons would have each been about a foot (30 centimeters) long, or about as long as the dinosaur's head. (Related: how therizinosaurs shed light on dinosaur growth.) In addition to its imposing claws -- a therizinosaur trademark -- the newfound dinosaur had a...

Catastrophism & Astronomy

 Mystery of Landlocked Sockeye in the Fossil Record (British Columbia)

· 07/15/2009 5:01:45 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 13 replies ·
· 302+ views ·
· Scientific Blogging ·
· July 14th 2009 · Heidi Henderson ·
The mystery of the landlocked salmon in the fossil record from the Interior of British Columbia has been a topic of hot debate for a number of years. Salmon have permeated First Nations mythology and have been prized as an important food source for thousands of years. In the Interior of British Columbia, archaeological evidence dates the use of salmon as a food source back 3,500 years. Sheri Burton and Catherine Carlson were able to isolate and amplify mitochondrial DNA from salmon remains from archaeological sites near Kamloops, and identified the species as Oncorhynchus nerka, or Sockeye salmon. No older...

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Historical Battle Lines -- Why is Russia afraid of a 300-year-old Ukrainian hero?

· 07/11/2009 1:10:35 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Tailgunner Joe ·
· 4 replies ·
· 309+ views ·
· wsj.com ·
· July 9, 2009 ·
· Adrian Karatnycky ·
· Alexander J. Motyl ·
His name was Ivan Mazepa, a Ukrainian Cossack chieftain who allied with Sweden's Charles XII to fight Russia's Czar Peter the Great at the Battle of Poltava, 300 years ago this week. .... The Swedish-Ukrainian alliance suffered a crushing defeat at Poltava. Charles died from a battle wound and Mazepa fled to today's Moldova, where he also died soon after. Poltava helped shape Europe's geopolitics for three centuries. Russia's emphatic rout of Sweden and its Cossack allies signaled its emergence as a European superpower and ensured Russian dominion over Eastern Ukraine for the bulk of three centuries. Peter constructed a...

Extraterrestrial Archaeology

 Web site recreates Apollo 11 mission in real time

· 07/13/2009 8:48:40 AM PDT ·
· Posted by libertarian27 ·
· 8 replies ·
· 320+ views ·
· WenPub2 ·
· July 12, 2009 · Melissa Trujillo ·
Families crowded around black-and-white television sets in 1969 to watch Neil Armstrong take man's first steps on the moon. Now, they'll be able to watch the Apollo 11 mission recreated in real time on the Web, follow Twitter feeds of transmissions between Mission Control and the spacecraft, and even get an e-mail alert when the lunar module touches down. Those features are part of a new Web site from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum commemorating the moon mission and Kennedy's push to land Americans there first. "Putting a man on the moon really did unite the globe,"...

Pages

 Summer reading recommendations -- What are you reading?

· 07/13/2009 11:59:07 AM PDT ·
· Posted by ChocChipCookie ·
· 157 replies ·
· 1,349+ views · July 13, 2009 ·
I haven't seen a good summer reading thread, so I thought I'd start one. What books have you read so far this summer, what are you currently reading, and what is in your book stack? I just started reading The Doomsday Key by James Rollins. So far it has an interesting premise, genetically altered foods, but I am only about 1/8 of the way through. I will probably read Glenn Beck's Common Sense and maybe Dred Scott's Revenge by Judge Napolitano. I love hearing what everyone else is reading!

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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #261 20090718
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Welcome to the 261st issue and first of volume six (sixth year) of the GGG Digest version.

I think I blew off putting up any of the topics I'd saved last week, but kudos to those who contributed excellent topics while I was soaking in a hot tub sippin' apéritifs.

Yeah, right, I wish.

By the time we all see issue one of volume seven, I hope we've seen no nukes and regime change in Iran, destruction of Hizbollah, an Islamofascist uprising in Egypt that is brutally crushed, and widespread civil war in Saudi Arabia leading to UN-mandated takeover of Saudi oil production and distribution by the US. Sure, I'd prefer to see the fence along the Mexican border and millions of illegals rounded up and kicked out, but we'd have to see some changes in our own government for that to happen.

Meanwhile, check out the first installment of a new Digest header, "Extraterrestrial Archaeology". :')

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944 posted on 07/18/2009 7:07:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Would you add me to your pinglist?

Sundog

I’m always looking for your stuff, and with your new format it really looks great.

Really.


945 posted on 07/18/2009 7:14:06 AM PDT by Sundog (Never mind calling it treason. What Obama wants is an African Kleptocracy.)
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Welcome, and thanks for the kind remarks. :’)


946 posted on 07/18/2009 7:26:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Congratulations, Civ for a job well done! I look forward to at least six more years.

Kindest regards,

Cincinna


947 posted on 07/19/2009 5:37:47 PM PDT by Cincinna (TIME TO REBUILD * PALIN * JINDAL * CANTOR 2012)
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Thanks Cincinna!


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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #262
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 DNA Not The Same In Every Cell Of Body

· 07/19/2009 7:46:56 PM PDT ·
· Posted by djf ·
· 332 replies ·
· 2,352+ views ·
· ScienceDaily ·
· july 16, 2009 ·
Research by a group of Montreal scientists calls into question one of the most basic assumptions of human genetics: that when it comes to DNA, every cell in the body is essentially identical to every other cell. Their results appear in the July issue of the journal Human Mutation. This discovery may undercut the rationale behind numerous large-scale genetic studies conducted over the last 15 years, studies which were supposed to isolate the causes of scores of human diseases.

Who'll Pick Up The Check?

 Male Sex Chromosome Losing Genes By Rapid Evolution, Study Reveals

· 07/18/2009 9:31:08 AM PDT ·
· Posted by steve-b ·
· 31 replies ·
· 894+ views ·
· Science Daily ·
· 7/17/09 ·
Scientists have long suspected that the sex chromosome that only males carry is deteriorating and could disappear entirely within a few million years, but until now, no one has understood the evolutionary processes that control this chromosome's demise. Now, a pair of Penn State scientists has discovered that this sex chromosome, the Y chromosome, has evolved at a much more rapid pace than its partner chromosome, the X chromosome, which both males and females carry. This rapid evolution of the Y chromosome has led to a dramatic loss of genes on the Y chromosome at a rate that, if maintained,...


 Will Chromosome Y Go Bye-Bye?

· 07/18/2009 9:59:43 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Steelfish ·
· 23 replies ·
· 570+ views ·
· ABCNews ·
· July 18th 2009 ·
Will Chromosome Y Go Bye-Bye? Is the End of Men Imminent? By RADHA CHITALE ABC News Medical Unit July 17, 2009 What makes a man a man? Socially, that is a complicated question. Genetically, however, it is as simple as a single Y chromosome. Is the male Y chromosome disappearing? But guys, that chromosome is in trouble. In a new study, researchers say there is a dramatic loss of genes from the human Y chromosome that eventually could lead to its complete disappearance -- in the next few millennia. While the Y chromosome's degeneration has been known to geneticists and...

Australia & the Pacific

 Australian Aborigines Were Once Indians - Study

· 07/22/2009 5:57:18 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 14 replies ·
· 388+ views ·
· Scientific Blogging ·
· July 21st 2009 ·
· News Staff ·
New genetic research in BMC Evolutionary Biology found telltale mutations in modern-day Indian populations that are exclusively shared by Aborigines. The new study indicates that Australian Aborigines initially arrived via south Asia. Dr Raghavendra Rao worked with a team of researchers from the Anthropological Survey of India to sequence 966 complete mitochondrial DNA genomes from Indian 'relic populations'. He said, "Mitochondrial DNA is inherited only from the mother and so allows us to accurately trace ancestry. We found certain mutations in the DNA sequences of the Indian tribes we sampled that are specific to Australian Aborigines. This shared ancestry suggests...

Let's Have Jerusalem

 Info gathering on the exiled

· 07/19/2009 4:39:17 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Michel12 ·
· 8 replies ·
· 243+ views ·
· Jerusalem Post ·
· July 16 2009 ·
· ABRAHAM RABINOVICH ·
King Jehoiachin was only 18 years old and had occupied the throne of Judah barely three months when he was led off into Babylonian captivity in 598 BCE together with his wives, his mother, his servants, his eunuchs and thousands of "the chief men of the land." But what happened to them when they reached Babylon? And what happened there to the tens of thousands of others who joined them in exile when the First Temple was destroyed a decade later? The Bible tells us of the return to Judah half a century later but virtually nothing of what the...

Faith and Philosophy

 Long-lost Mosaic Seraphim Uncovered at Istanbul's Hagia Sophia

· 07/25/2009 3:41:57 PM PDT ·
· Posted by NYer ·
· 12 replies ·
· 318+ views ·
· BlackCordelias ·
· July 24, 2009 ·
Note: Below image is the Archangel Gabriel, not one of the newly uncovered images. Restoration workers have uncovered a well-preserved, long-hidden mosaic face of an angel at the former Byzantine cathedral of Haghia Sophia in Istanbul, an official said Friday.The seraphim figure -- one of two located on the side of a dome -- had been covered up along with the building's other Christian mosaics shortly after Constantinople -- the former name for Istanbul -- fell to the Ottomans in 1453 and the cathedral was...

Rome and Italy

 Mysterious ancient altar found in Roman fort (In England)

· 07/25/2009 7:09:40 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 26 replies ·
· 621+ views ·
· Discovery ·
· Rossella Lorenzi ·
This 1.5-ton, four-foot high carved stone relic shows a godlike figure standing on a bull, with a thunderbolt in one hand and a battle axe in the other. It is a representation of the Anatolian god Juppiter of Doliche, which was believed to be a favorite deity among Roman soldiers. A massive altar dedicated to an eastern cult deity has emerged during excavations of a Roman fort in northern England. Weighing 1.5 tons, the four-foot high ornately carved stone relic, was unearthed at the Roman fort of Vindolanda, which was built by order of the Emperor Hadrian between 122-30 A.D....

Underwater Archaeology

 Graveyard of sunken Roman ships found

· 07/23/2009 6:49:54 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 3 replies ·
· 532+ views ·
· Reuters ·
· July 23, 2009 ·
· Daniel Flynn ·
A team of archaeologists using sonar technology to scan the seabed have discovered a "graveyard" of five pristine ancient Roman shipwrecks off the small Italian island of Ventotene. The trading vessels, dating from the first century BC to the fifth century AD, lie more than 100 meters underwater and are amongst the deepest wrecks discovered in the Mediterranean in recent years, the researchers said on Thursday. Part of an archipelago situated halfway between Rome and Naples on Italy's west coast, Ventotene historically served as a place of shelter during rough weather in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Neandertal / Neanderthal

 Prehistoric cold case shows hints of interspecies homicide

· 07/20/2009 2:43:00 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 26 replies ·
· 512+ views ·
· Duke University ·
· Jul 20, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
DURHAM, N.C. -- The wound that ultimately killed a Neandertal man between 50,000 and 75,000 years was most likely caused by a thrown spear, the kind modern humans used but Neandertals did not, according to Duke University-led research. "What we've got is a rib injury, with any number of scenarios that could explain it," said Steven Churchill, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke. "We're not suggesting there was a blitzkrieg, with modern humans marching across the land and executing the Neandertals. I want to say that loud and clear." But Churchill's analysis indicates the wound was from a...


 Human Stabbed a Neanderthal, Evidence Suggests

· 07/22/2009 3:53:18 PM PDT ·
· Posted by rdl6989 ·
· 27 replies ·
· 436+ views ·
· Livescience.com ·
· 21 July 2009 ·
Newly analyzed remains suggest that a modern human killed a Neanderthal man in what is now Iraq between 50,000 and 75,000 years ago. The finding is scant but tantalizing evidence for a theory that modern humans helped to kill off the Neanderthals. The probable weapon of choice: A thrown spear. The evidence: A lethal wound on the remains of a Neanderthal skeleton.


 The Mysterious Downfall of the Neandertals

· 07/23/2009 5:12:15 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 29 replies ·
· 561+ views ·
· Scientific American ·
· August 2009 ·
· Kate Wong ·
Key Concepts * Neandertals, our closest relatives, ruled Europe and western Asia for more than 200,000 years. But sometime after 28,000 years ago, they vanished. * Scientists have long debated what led to their disappearance. The latest extinction theories focus on climate change and subtle differences in behavior and biology that might have given modern humans an advantage over the Neandertals.

Ancient Autopsies

 Peking Man Lived 200,000 Years Earlier Than Thought

· 07/23/2009 9:11:55 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Ethan Clive Osgoode ·
· 39 replies ·
· 616+ views ·
· National Geographic ·
· March 12, 2009 ·
· Brian Handwerk ·
Peking man -- the group of early humans whose 1920s discovery gave a big boost to the theory of evolution -- lived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously believed, a new study says. The new dates would also place Peking man in a more hospitable, cooler time period in China's Zhoukoudian region, which today is the world's foremost source of Homo erectus fossils. Ciochon hypothesizes that a prolonged mass migration of Homo erectus from Africa, which began about two million years ago, eventually came to something like a fork in the road. Reaching southern China, the early humans would have come upon...

Pandemics, Epidemics, Plagues, the Sniffles

 Wild chimpanzees get AIDS-like illness - Finding challenges long-held assumption.

· 07/22/2009 8:22:24 PM PDT ·
· Posted by neverdem ·
· 14 replies ·
· 277+ views ·
· Nature News ·
· 22 July 2009 ·
· Erika Check Hayden ·
Some chimps in Gombe National Park have been succumbing to an AIDS-like disease.Michael L. Wilson Researchers have overturned a decade-old consensus that chimpanzees cannot fall ill as a result of infection with a virus similar to HIV.Previously, scientists had thought that chimpanzees were like other non-human primates that can become infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) -- which is closely related to HIV -- but do not go on to be seriously sickened by the virus.The results suggest that it will not be possible to find the key to HIV immunity in the chimpanzee genome, as scientists had hoped. However,...

Diet and Cuisine

 Vitamin D Insufficiency in Sunny Climates, Too

· 07/21/2009 8:48:44 AM PDT ·
· Posted by neverdem ·
· 51 replies ·
· 893+ views ·
· Family Practice News ·
· 1 July 2009 ·
· DIANA MAHONEY ·
BOSTON -- The high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency found in a cohort of healthy children in a sunny Southwestern climate has prompted a call by the study's investigators for generalized routine screening of vitamin D levels among all children. In a study designed to assess vitamin D levels in children living in a region with year-round sunshine and to compare vitamin D levels in children with vague musculoskeletal pain with those of children without pain, Dr. Elizabeth A. Szalay and her colleagues at the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque retrospectively studied the serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) levels...

Paleontology

 Elasmosaurs: Predators of Ancient Seas

· 07/19/2009 3:42:33 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 11 replies ·
· 544+ views ·
· Scientific Blogging ·
· July 14th 2009 ·
· Heidi Henderson ·
Until recently, elasmosaurs had never before been found in British Columbia. Nor had any other aquatic plesiosaurs, though similar creatures had been found on the coast of California and in the centre of North America, where once a central seaway split the continent. Elasmosaurs swam the seas for over 130 million years, feeding on the plentiful fish and shellfish.


 China's Dinosaur Fossils: Vast, but Are They Real?

· 07/24/2009 2:06:00 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Ethan Clive Osgoode ·
· 7 replies ·
· 245+ views ·
· Time ·
· April 5, 2009 ·
· Jessie Jiang and Simon Elegant ·
But Tianyu is not short on natural history. In one hall alone, 480 dinosaur fossils are randomly placed in glass cases or left in the open air around a room the size of a basketball court, along with Triassic fish and other more recent fossils, primarily from different parts of China. "We are the world's number one," says Zheng Xiaoting, director and keeper of the Tianyu (which means "universe" in Chinese) Natural History Museum's collection of thousands of dinosaur fossils. Though no official records of the collection's number exist, several Chinese paleontologists echo Zheng's claim that Tianyu houses the world's...

The Vikings

 Pre-Columbian Map of North America Could Be Authentic--Or not

· 07/23/2009 4:35:39 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 32 replies ·
· 565+ views ·
· Scientific American ·
· July 22, 2009 ·
· Brendan Borrell ·
A Danish art conservator claims that the controversial Vinland Map of America, published prior to Christopher Columbus's landfall, may not be a forgery after all. "We have so far found no reason to believe that the Vinland Map is the result of a modern forgery," says René Larsen of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Reuters first publicized his results last week but provided none of the skepticism being voiced by veterans in the field. The map mysteriously emerged in a Geneva bookshop in 1957 depicting a "new" and "fertile" land to the west that Viking explorer Leif Eriksson...

Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis

 UC Scientists Determine That Ancient Maya Practiced Forest Conservation -- 3,000 Years Ago

· 07/22/2009 2:07:26 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 24 replies ·
· 256+ views ·
· University of Cincinnati ·
· 7/20/2009 ·
· Wendy Beckman ·
As published in the July issue of the "Journal of Archaeological Science," paleoethnobotanist David Lentz of the University of Cincinnati has concluded that not only did the Maya people practice forest management, but when they abandoned their forest conservation practices it was to the detriment of the entire Maya culture. "From our research we have learned that the Maya were deliberately conserving forest resources," says David Lentz, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Cincinnati and executive director of the Cincinnati Center for Field Studies. "Their deliberate conservation practices can be observed in the wood they used for...

Catastrophism & Astronomy

 Did a Comet Cause a North American Die-Off around 13,000 Years Ago?

· 07/23/2009 7:00:35 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 56 replies ·
· 641+ views ·
· Scientific American ·
· July 20, 2009 ·
· Brendan Borrell ·
Researchers have found shock-synthesized hexagonal diamonds on one of California's Channel Islands, which they say is the strongest evidence yet that a comet exploded in the atmosphere above North America, causing widespread extinctions there around 12,900 years ago... In 2007 researchers theorized that a comet set off continental fires that led to the mysterious disappearance of the Clovis people and the extermination of 35 mammal genera, including mammoths, mastodons, ground sloths and camels. The team documented a "black mat" of charcoal throughout North America that contains high levels of iridium, magnetic spheres, and nano-diamonds, which are consistent with such an...


 Humans to Blame for Extinction? - Not Necessarily So ...

· 07/21/2009 1:09:33 PM PDT ·
· Posted by George - the Other ·
· 21 replies ·
· 390+ views ·
· Science News ·
· July 21, 2009 ·
· Science News ·
"These findings are inconsistent with the alternative and already hotly debated theory that overhunting by Clovis people led to the rapid extinction of large mammals at the end of the ice age, the research team argues in the PNAS paper."

Hey There Little Insect

 Venus flytrap origins uncovered

· 07/21/2009 10:52:41 PM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 20 replies ·
· 613+ views ·
· bbc ·
The origin of the voracious Venus flytrap has been uncovered. The flytrap, and one other carnivorous snap-trap plant which grows underwater, evolved from a more conventional relative that had sticky leaves. Over time, the plants added elaborate structures and weapons such as trigger hairs and teeth to trap and immobilise their meaty prey, botanists say. Ultimately, the need to hunt and eat ever larger animals drove the plants' evolution, say the scientists. Carnivorous plants come in many forms, and are known to have independently evolved at least six separate times. The Venus flytrap acts like an animal, it moves fast...

Middle Ages and Renaissance

 Shaming the Muslims Out of Islam

· 07/21/2009 9:49:01 AM PDT ·
· Posted by ventanax5 ·
· 21 replies ·
· 700+ views ·
· Political Islam ·
· Bill Warner ·
When I read MA Khan's new book, Islamic Jihad, I was struck by two things, the high quality of his scholarship and an emerging historical trend. Khan is firmly in the Foundationalist School of scholarship. He does not indulge opinion, but bases his work on the Islamic doctrine of jihad and its historical effects on civilization, with a focus on the destruction of India. He investigates and documents two little known areas--the Sufis and the enslavement of the Hindus. The excellence of his book is part of an historic pattern. When Islam attacked us on September 11, 2001 we were...

Early America

 Mass. to search for lost Revolutionary War ship

· 07/19/2009 11:01:50 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Pharmboy ·
· 19 replies ·
· 545+ views ·
· AP via google ·
· July 19, 2009 ·
· STEVE LeBLANC ·
BOSTON -- Somewhere along an industrial stretch of river pocked with rotting piers and towering salt piles north of Boston lies the answer to one of the great riddles of the Revolutionary war. Where is the final resting place of the British schooner, the HMS Diana? The river -- known as Chelsea Creek -- separates the city of Chelsea from the East Boston neighborhood of Boston. Today the river is plied by oil tankers and is home to a landscape dotted with the city's iconic tripledeckers. But more than 200 years ago, the creek was the site of one of...

The Framers

 the 23rd Amendment

· 07/21/2009 9:54:21 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 4 replies ·
· 280+ views ·
· Constitution of the United States,
  via FindLaw et al ·
· proposed June 17, 1960,
  ratified March 29, 1961 ·
· The Framers et al ·
Section 1. : The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a...

World War Eleven

 The Nazi monster recruited by MI6 to spy for Britain

· 07/24/2009 6:14:23 PM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 5 replies ·
· 352+ views ·
· Daily Mail ·
· 24th July 2009 ·
· TONY RENNELL ·
Friedrich Buchardt was a clever man, an intellectual and a polymath equally at home practising law or writing papers on economics and geography. He was also a cold-blooded killer of monstrous proportions. In Nazi Germany, he put his great brain to twisted issues of race and, in particular, the distribution of Jewish communities in the areas to the east of the Reich - Poland and Russia. When Hitler's armies then invaded these lands, he came up with a scale for measuring the 'German-ness' of the overrun people on a scale from one to five. But the handsome, thirty-something academic was...


 Time is running out' for local piece of black heritage (Historic Colored Officer Club)

· 07/19/2009 6:34:39 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SandRat ·
· 15 replies ·
· 386+ views ·
· Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Review ·
· Bill Hess ·
FORT HUACHUCA -- For years, Building 66050 has been vacant. It is deteriorating, but members of the Southwest Association of Buffalo Soldiers are determined to save the structure, which during World War II housed the Colored Officers Club. The building, its paint now peeling, windows broken and interior unsafe, is where black entertainers such as Lena Horne would come to the post to perform for black soldiers when the Army was segregated. The fort is where two black divisions, the 92nd and 93rd, trained before heading off to combat in World War II. One division went to Italy and the...

Longer Perspectives

 A 17th century mission to the Moon

· 07/18/2009 2:43:25 PM PDT ·
· Posted by LibWhacker ·
· 15 replies ·
· 547+ views ·
· SkyMania ·
· 7/18/09 ·
· Paul Sutherland ·
The world is celebrating the amazing journey that Apollo 11 made to the Moon 40 years ago. But few realise that an early bid to reach the Moon was launched from England, way back in the 17th century. Wilkins and Hooke aboard their spaceship Incredible as it may seem, one of the greatest scientific minds of the time, Dr John Wilkins, a founder of the Royal Society, was planning his own lunar mission four centuries ago around the time of the English Civil War. It wasn't hot air either. Inspired by the great voyages of discovery around the globe...

Oh So Mysteriouso

 Iceland's secret? Belief in elves..

· 07/18/2009 10:41:47 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Slings and Arrows ·
· 43 replies ·
· 690+ views ·
· TimesOnline [UK] ·
· April 14, 2009 ·
· Bess Twiston-Davies ·
Bess writes: Surely Icelanders don't believe in Elves? It's a matter of earnest debate on the New York Mag where John Moody, who lives in Iceland responds to this Vanity Fair article on the country's financial meltdown. The debate centres on this VF claim that Alcoa, Iceland's largest aluminium company had to "defer to a government expert" in 2004 while scouring a potential site for a smelting plant to "certify that no elves were on or under it." The writer, Michael Lewis reports "It was a delicate corporate situation, an Alcoa spokesman told me, because they had to pay hard cash to declare the site elf-free but, as he put it, "we couldn't as a company be in a position of acknowledging the existence of hidden people."

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949 posted on 07/25/2009 6:55:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #262 20090725
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Welcome to the 262nd issue, which consists of a very manageable number of topics -- and yet is another of the recent run of excellent selection.

My only complaint of late has been the spamming of the "godsgravesglyphs" and "catastrophism" keywords with pseudoreligious screed.

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950 posted on 07/25/2009 7:00:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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951 posted on 07/25/2009 8:13:50 PM PDT by annieokie (i)
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Thank you for managing this ping list. I don’t post as much as I used to but I do read them and always find them interesting and informative reads. You do a great job! Thanks again.


952 posted on 07/26/2009 10:24:42 AM PDT by Caramelgal (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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Thanks Caramelgal!


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Archaeologica again wows me with a very strong selection of links to stories. A good number of the interesting topics have already been posted (mostly by decimon, BGHater, and others). Here are some that are coming soon to GGG, and even sooner if you pick one, copy it into a Notepad window (or some such), edit it a little, and post it. (hint, hint) ;')
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Weekly Digest #263
Saturday, August 1, 2009

The Vikings

 51 Headless Vikings Found in English Execution Pit?

· 07/28/2009 1:34:43 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 71 replies · 1,461+ views ·
· National Geographic News ·
· July 28, 2009 ·
· James Owen in London ·
Naked, beheaded, and tangled, the bodies of 51 young men -- their heads stacked neatly to the side -- have been found in a thousand-year-old pit in southern England, according to carbon-dating results released earlier this month. The mass burial took place at a time when the English were battling Viking invaders, say archaeologists who are now trying to verify the identity of the slain. The dead are thought to have been war captives, possibly Vikings, whose heads were hacked off with swords or axes... Many of the skeletons have deep cut marks to the skull and jaw as well...

 51 Headless Vikings Found in English Execution Pit?

· 07/28/2009 7:38:47 PM PDT ·
· Posted by pissant ·
· 41 replies · 1,221+ views ·
· National Geographic ·
· 7/28/09 ·
· James Owen ·
Naked, beheaded, and tangled, the bodies of 51 young men -- their heads stacked neatly to the side -- have been found in a thousand-year-old pit in southern England, according to carbon-dating results released earlier this month. The mass burial took place at a time when the English were battling Viking invaders, say archaeologists who are now trying to verify the identity of the slain. The dead are thought to have been war captives, possibly Vikings, whose heads were hacked off with swords or axes, according to excavation leader David Score of Oxford Archaeology, an archaeological-services company. Announced in June, the pit discovery took...

British Isles

 Sutton Hoo, Suffolk: On the trail of the Anglo-Saxons

· 07/28/2009 7:05:17 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 13 replies · 312+ views ·
· Telegraph ·
· JUL 28, 2009 ·
· Sophie Campbell ·
'When I visit, the surrounding meadow is shimmering with heat, as it would have been in that long hot summer before the war' Photo: JOHN ROBERTSON The sherry party that Mrs Edith Pretty threw at her home above the River Deben in Suffolk on July 25 1939 was one of those occasions that everyone remembers for the wrong reasons. The invitation, dispatched to the great and good of the locality -- including the curator of the Ipswich Museum and the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk -- was to celebrate the discovery of a "Viking ship" buried on her land. Along with...

Ancient Autopsies

 Ancient Britain Had Apartheid-Like Society, Study Suggests

· 07/28/2009 1:25:28 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 54 replies · 861+ views ·
· National Geographic News ·
· July 21, 2006 ·
· Kate Ravilious ·
When Anglo-Saxons first arrived in Britain 1,600 years ago, they created an apartheid-like society that oppressed the native Britons and wiped out almost all of the British gene pool, according to a new study. By treating Britons like slaves and imposing strict rules, the small band of Anglo-Saxons -- who had come from what is now Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands -- quickly dominated the country, leaving a legacy of Germanic genes and the English language, both of which still dominate Britain today. The new theory helps explain historical, archaeological, and genetic evidence that until now had seemed contradictory, including...

Africa

 African Slavery Historical Perspective

· 07/26/2009 4:48:45 PM PDT ·
· Posted by sushiman ·
· 13 replies · 68+ views ·
· ATLAH ·
· 7/26/09 ·
· James D. Manning ·
Dr. James David Manning ponders the question of whether or not blacks feel guilty about the slave trade

Let's Have Jerusalem

 J'lem: Rare 2nd Temple inscription found

· 07/29/2009 10:03:15 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Nachum ·
· 18 replies · 642+ views ·
· Jerusalem Post ·
· 7/29/09 ·
· staff ·
A unique ten-line Aramaic inscription on the side of a stone cup commonly used for ritual purity during Second Temple times was recently uncovered during archaeological excavations on Jerusalem's Mount Zion, The Jerusalem Post learned on Wednesday. Inscriptions of this kind are extremely rare and only a handful have been found in scientific excavations made within the city.

 Stone Vessel with 'Priestly Inscription' Uncovered In Jerusalem

· 07/31/2009 8:47:34 AM PDT ·
· Posted by NYer ·
· 8 replies · 414+ views ·
· Arutz Sheva ·
· July 31, 2009 ·
· Hana Levi Julian and Gil Ronen ·
A rare 2,000-year-old ritual vessel made of limestone and inscribed with 10 lines of text has been discovered in an excavation near the Zion Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is an unprecedented find, according to Dr. Shimon Gibson, the archaeologist who heads the University of North Carolina team conducting the dig. "Such stone vessels were used in connection with maintaining ritual purity related to Temple worship, and they are found in abundance in areas where the priests lived," Gibson reported. "We have found a dozen or more on our site over the past three years. However, to have ten...

Navigation

 Business Models in Antiquity

· 07/27/2009 9:47:42 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 19 replies · 290+ views ·
· The Globalist ·
· Tuesday, July 21, 2009 ·
· Karl Moore and David C. Lewis ·
The Phoenicians were not the first ancient people to sponsor long-distance seaborne trade, but they and their Carthaginian children were the first to perfect it. They are the real pioneers of what we will call maritime capitalism. How did they do it? By taking advantage of a unique window of opportunity. During the Middle Bronze Age (traditionally dated to the first half of the second millennium BCE), first Babylon and then Egypt dominated the Middle East. As their power faded, no single power dominated. In this climate of peace and stability, trade took the place of war. Babylonia tried to...

Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran

 Tales of Persia's Wondrous Past [The "Shahnameh' mourns the loss of Iran's pre-Islamic...]

· 07/25/2009 7:51:02 PM PDT ·
· Posted by sionnsar ·
· 27 replies · 114+ views ·
· Wall Street Journal: Leisure & Arts ·
· 7/25/2009 ·
· EMILY ESFAHANI SMITH ·
Before the Islamic Revolution dimmed the Iranian literary imagination in 1979, and before an expanding Islam swept Iran into its Arab empire in the seventh century, there existed the rich and colorful Iran recounted in Ferdowsi's "Shahnameh," or the Book of Kings. Nearly four centuries after the Arab conquest, the "Shahnameh" tells the story of pre-Islamic Iran -- when Persian civilization was at its zenith. The epic proceeds through the reign of many monarchs, chronicling the at times legendary, at times mythological, and at times quasihistorical stories of each reign. Then, with the Arab conquest, the chronicle comes to an end. This...

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 Genes show Welsh are the true Britons

· 07/10/2002 8:43:22 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Korth ·
· 30 replies · 464+ views ·
· Telegraph.co.uk ·
· 01/07/2002 ·
· Unknown ·
Scientists say they have discovered big genetic differences between the English and Welsh, reinforcing the idea that the "true" Britons were pushed to the fringes by a large-scale Anglo-Saxon invasion. Researchers at University College London found the genes of a sample of English men were almost identical to those of people in an area of the Netherlands where the Anglo-Saxons are thought to have originated. But there were clear differences between the genetic make-up of English and Welsh subjects studied. The researchers concluded that the most likely explanation for this was a large-scale Anglo-Saxon invasion, which wiped out most of...
 DNA confirms coastal trek to Australia

· 07/29/2009 8:11:52 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 4 replies · 221+ views ·
· ABC ·
· 24 July 2009 ·
· Nicky Phillips ·
DNA evidence linking Indian tribes to Australian Aboriginal people supports the theory humans arrived in Australia from Africa via a southern coastal route through India, say researchers.The research, lead by Dr Raghavendra Rao from the Anthropological Survey of India, is published in the current edition of BMC Evolutionary Biology.One theory is that modern humans arrived in Australia via an inland route through central Asia but Rao says most scientists believe modern humans arrived via the coast of South Asia.But he says there has never been any evidence to confirm a stop-off in India until now.Rao and colleagues sequenced the mitochondrial...

Australia & the Pacific

 Taiwan digs up its oldest civilization

· 07/27/2009 9:02:05 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 7 replies · 161+ views ·
· Reuters ·
· Friday, July 24, 2009 ·
· Ralph Jennings, editing by David Fox ·
Researchers in Taiwan have discovered what the believe is the island's oldest civilization, dating back about 20,000 years and belonging to a pygmy-like people that came from China, Southeast Asia or beyond, the team leader said on Friday. Taiwan's government-run Academia Sinica, which found more than 200 stone tools at the Ba Hsien Cave excavation site on the island's east coast, will return next year to seek clues on who was living there, leader Tsang Chen-hua said. The civilization was probably a dark-skinned people similar to Negritos, a term that covers several ethnic groups of short stature in isolated parts...

Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis

 Ancient humans left evidence from the party that ended 4,000 years ago

· 07/26/2009 7:14:53 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 17 replies · 50+ views ·
· University of Missouri-Columbia, via Eurekalert ·
· Monday, July 21, 2009 ·
· Kelsey Jackson ·
The party was over more than 4,000 years ago, but the remnants still remain in the gourds and squashes that served as dishware. For the first time, University of Missouri researchers have studied the residues from gourds and squash artifacts that date back to 2200 B.C. and recovered starch grains from manioc, potato, chili pepper, arrowroot and algarrobo. The starches provide clues about the foods consumed at feasts and document the earliest evidence of the consumption of algarrobo and arrowroot in Peru... In the study, researchers recovered starch grains from squash and gourd artifacts by a method that currently is...

Climate

 When Did Humans Return After Last Ice Age? (UK)

· 07/27/2009 12:18:42 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 16 replies · 418+ views ·
· ScienceDaily ·
· July 27, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
The Cheddar Gorge in Somerset was one of the first sites to be inhabited by humans when they returned to Britain near the end of the last Ice Age. According to new radio carbon dating by Oxford University researchers, outlined in the latest issue of Quaternary Science Review, humans were living in Gough's Cave 14,700 years ago.

Catastrophism & Astronomy

 The Earth-Moon system during the Late Heavy Bombardment period

· 07/24/2009 5:03:03 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 23 replies · 313+ views ·
· arXiv ·
· Jul 23, 2009 ·
· un ·
The Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) period is the narrow time interval between 3.8 and 3.9 Gyr ago, where the bulk of the craters we see on the Moon formed. Even more craters formed on the Earth. During a field expedition to the 3.8 Gyr old Isua greenstone belt in Greenland, we sampled three types of metasedimentary rocks, that contain direct traces of the LHB impactors by a seven times enrichment (150 ppt) in iridium compared to present day ocean crust (20 ppt). We show that this enrichment is in agreement with the lunar cratering rate, providing the impactors were comets,...

Permian-Triassic

 Weather Of Mass Destruction

· 09/03/2003 5:58:25 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Mike Darancette ·
· 14 replies · 271+ views
Australian ·
· 28 August 2003 ·
· Australian ·
As It Happened: The Day the Earth Nearly Died 8pm, SBS (2.30am, Perth) THINK of the wonderful profusion of life on Earth today. Then imagine 95 per cent of it dying in a terrible cataclysm. As this program from the BBC's Horizon series tells us, it's not a fantasy, it happened 250 million years ago, bringing the Permian period, with its myriad strange life-forms, crashing to an end and sending evolution into an abrupt reverse. The Permian mass extinction dwarfed the demise of the dinosaurs, caused by an asteroid strike 65 million years ago, when 60 per cent of species...

Holocene

 Carolina bays gouged into the ground at a magnetic reversal

· 07/29/2009 8:28:13 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Fred Nerks ·
· 60 replies · 1,162+ views ·
· Magnetic Reversals ·
· 28 Jul 09 ·
· Robert W Felix ·
Is it just a coincidence that more than two million huge holes were gouged into the ground - all at the same time - about 12,000 years ago at a magnetic reversal? Usually not more than 20 feet deep - which means that they were probably not formed by meteoric impacts - the holes range in size from one acre to several thousand acres, and measure up seven miles across. Scientists estimate that there could be more than two million Carolina bays (sometimes under different names) spread across the United States from Florida to New Jersey to Texas. I sure...

Paleontology

 Can Hydrocarbons Form in the Mantle Without Organic Matter?

· 07/28/2009 9:20:47 PM PDT ·
· Posted by JmyBryan ·
· 33 replies · 622+ views ·
· Geology.com ·
· July 2009 ·
· Carnegie Institution ·
Could Deep Source Hydrocarbons Migrate Up Into Oil and Gas Reservoirs? The oil and gas that fuels our homes and cars started out as living organisms that died, were compressed, and heated under heavy layers of sediments in the Earth's crust. Scientists have debated for years whether some of these hydrocarbons could also have been created deeper in the Earth and formed without organic matter. Now for the first time, scientists have found that ethane and heavier hydrocarbons can be synthesized under the pressure-temperature conditions of the upper mantle -- the layer of Earth under the crust and on top of...

Oh So Mysteriouso

 Reexamination of T. rex verifies disputed biochemical remains

· 07/29/2009 4:04:57 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Mmogamer ·
· 12 replies · 313+ views ·
· American Chemical Society ·
· 29-Jul-2009 ·
· Michael Woods ·
Reexamination of T. rex verifies disputed biochemical remains A new analysis of the remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex) that roamed Earth 68 million years ago has confirmed traces of protein from blood and bone, tendons, or cartilage. The findings, scheduled for publication in the Sept. 4 issue of ACS' monthly Journal of Proteome Research, is the latest addition to an ongoing controversy over which biochemical remnants can be detected in the dino.

Prehistory and Origins

 When and wear: the prehistory of clothing

· 07/27/2009 9:30:16 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 23 replies · 379+ views ·
· ScienceAlert (Australia) ·
· Monday, September 1, 2008 ·
· Simon Couper ·
The doctoral researcher from the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at ANU is simply making it clear that he's not concerned with the vicissitudes of fashion... Instead, he's fascinated by how humans came to develop clothing, and how that innovation might have in turn given our species an evolutionary edge over other hominids... He has credentials in medicine, psychology, prehistoric archaeology, and is completing a thesis in biological anthropology. This complicated curriculum vitae makes sense in light of Gilligan's project: his drive to understand the physiological, psychological and prehistoric aspects of clothing... "Modern humans have been around 200,000 years, and...

Asia

 Ancient Silla armor comes to light[Korea]

· 07/28/2009 8:19:08 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 7 replies · 448+ views ·
· JoongAng Daily ·
· 22 July 2009 ·
· Lee Kyong-hee ·
The recent discovery of the armor of Silla Dynasty cavalrymen has provided proof of the existence of these mythical men. GYEONGJU - The warrior's body and bones are long gone, decayed into the soil. But the armor that once protected him from enemy swords and arrows has survived the passage of time and has been revealed for the first time in 1,600 years. The armor of the heavily protected cavalrymen of the Silla Dynasty (57 B.C. - A.D. 935) - proof of which has previously existed only in paintings - was discovered in the ancient tombs of the Jjoksaem District...

Anatolia

 Dock 1 made from ancient ruins? [ Mausoleum of Halicarnassus? one of the 7 Wonders ]

· 07/27/2009 8:45:10 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 17 replies · 222+ views ·
· Times of Malta ·
· Sunday, 26th July 2009 ·
· Cynthia Busuttil ·
The murky water in Dock No.1 in Cospicua has witnessed much history over the years. Nobody ever imagined, however, that lying underneath could be the remains of an ancient Turkish wonder - the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. No one, that is, but oncologist Stephen Brincat, who came across this precious piece of information while reading an article about the excavations of the site by the British in the 19th century in the Turkish magazine Cornucopia. "There was one sentence which said that the wall of the mausoleum was dismantled to build a dock in Malta," Dr Brincat said. Blocks of marble...

The Phoenicians

 Berlusconi escort tape may spark antiquities probe [ Phoenician tombs? ]

· 07/28/2009 1:51:59 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 13 replies · 318+ views ·
· Myanmar Star ·
· Friday July 24, 2009 ·
· Philip Pullella ·
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's private conversations with an escort, which have riveted Italians all week, may wind up getting him into trouble with Italy's archaeological authorities... In one of the transcripts of his purported conversations with Patrizia D'Addario posted on an Italian website, Berlusconi boasts to her about his sprawling villa in Sardinia -- complete with an ice cream parlour and artificial lakes. "Here we found 30 Phoenician tombs from (around) 300 BC," the voice is heard to say.

Faith and Philosophy

 Can a Single Neuron Tell Halle Berry From Grandma Esther? [ Grandmother Cells? ]

· 07/28/2009 1:39:51 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 9 replies · 400+ views ·
· Discover magazine, June 2009 issue ·
· online May 15, 2009 ·
· Carl Zimmer ·
Four decades ago, an MIT neuroscientist named Jerry Lettvin had a sudden inspiration about how our brains make sense of the world. What if each of us had a special set of neurons in our head whose only job was to recognize a particular person, place, or thing? It was a strange idea, but given what Lettvin knew about the brain, it was plausible. To describe his idea to his students, he made up a story [pdf]. The story was about Alexander Portnoy, the protagonist of Philip Roth's novel Portnoy's Complaint, which had just been published. The novel is a...

Middle Ages and Renaissance

 Italian archaeologists find lost Roman city of Altinum near Venice

· 07/30/2009 8:37:00 PM PDT ·
· Posted by bruinbirdman ·
· 17 replies · 756+ views ·
· The Times ·
· 7/31/2009 ·
· Hannah Devlin ·
The bustling harbour of Altinum near Venice was one of the richest cities of the Roman empire. But terrified by the impending invasion of the fearsome Germanic Emperor Attila the Hun, its inhabitants cut their losses and fled in AD452, leaving behind a ghost town of theatres, temples and basilicas. Altinum was never reoccupied and gradually sunk into the ground. The city lived on in Venetian folk tales and historical artefacts but its exact position, size and wealth gradually faded into obscurity. Now, using aerial photography of the region, Italian archaeologists have not only located the city, but have produced...

Pages

 Google, Sony Now Offer 1 Million Free Books

· 07/31/2009 9:41:46 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach ·
· 8 replies · 372+ views ·
· Daily Tech ·
· July 30, 2009 3:54 AM ·
· Michael Barkoviak ·
Sony's e-book store now has more than 1 million titles Sony today announced that there are more than 1 million public domain books available through the Google Books project, as Sony continues to battle with Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. "We are committed to ensuring our customers have the freedom to discover and read content from the widest possible range of sources," Sony eBook Store Director Chris Smythe said in a statement. "We're proud to offer access to the broadest range of eBooks today -- from hot new releases, to New York Times Best Sellers, to classics and hard to...

Rome and Italy

 Ancient warrior's skeleton found near Rome

· 07/31/2009 10:41:07 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 9 replies · 503+ views ·
· Associated Press ·
· Jul 31, 2009 ·
· Marta Falconi ·
ROME - Archaeologists have found the skeleton of a warrior from up to 5,000 years ago floating in a tomb filled with sea water on a beach near Rome, Italy's art squad said Friday. The bones -- believed to date from the 3rd millennium B.C. -- were discovered in May as art hunters were carrying out routine checks of the region's archaeological areas, Carabinieri art squad official Raffaele Mancino said.

The Framers

 the 24th Amendment

· 07/26/2009 6:14:03 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 6 replies · 14+ views ·
· Constitution of the United States, via FindLaw et al ·
· proposed August 27, 1962 ·
· ratified January 23, 1964 ·
· The Framers et al ·
Section 1. : The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. Section 2. : The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Longer Perspectives

 Mediterranean Reflections on What Went Wrong [Victor Davis Hanson]

· 07/30/2009 7:45:43 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Tolik ·
· 29 replies · 908+ views ·
· pajamasmedia.com ·
· July 30, 2009 ·
· Victor Davis Hanson ·
I have been traveling as a lecturer on a Hillsdale College Byzantium Cruise (from Venice to Athens, with several stops in the Adriatic, Mediterranean, and Aegean) for the last few days, and here are some eccentric reflections on civilizations of the past. I spent yesterday in Venice -- hot, humid, and crowded, as I had never quite seen it before. So much for the global recession that has supposedly curtailed world tourism.Venice was not a classical city, and one can see why. It was malarial, without natural harbors or any readily identifiable deep ports or surrounding cliffs. It is instead a conglomeration of...

World War Eleven

 New book says wrong clothing, not winter led to Hitler's 1941 defeat in Russia

· 07/26/2009 5:55:44 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 81 replies · 76+ views ·
· ANI ·
· Jul 26, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
British historian Andrew Roberts has claimed in a new book -- The Storm of War -- that wrong clothing and not ghastly wintry conditions led to Germany's defeat in Russia in 1941. In an extract from his new book, Roberts claims that Hitler's troops were fatally ill equipped for the 1941 invasion of Russia. He also blames dictator Adolf Hitler for that defeat, saying the Nazi leader failed to take care of his troops' needs and was more proud of his hardiness in the cold, boasting how "having to change into long trousers was always a misery to me." Prior...

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 'Stalin victims' found in Belarus

· 07/26/2009 6:25:11 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BlackVeil ·
· 12 replies · 28+ views ·
· BBC ·
· 24 July 2009 ·
· anon ·
The remains of more than 20 suspected victims of Joseph Stalin's secret police have been found in the basement of a church in northern Belarus. Soviet bullets were found with the remains at Glubokoye, a village which had been in Poland but fell into Soviet hands in 1939. A youth group discovered the remains earlier this week, reports say. Local historians said the victims had most probably been shot by the NKVD secret police between 1939 and 1941. "I think we can all but rule out any suggestion that these people were shot by the Germans during the occupation," historian...

Thoroughly Modern Muzzie

 Obama 'like Romans who destroyed Jewish Temples'
 (Jews read Lamentations at U.S. consulate)

· 07/29/2009 3:22:50 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Nachum ·
· 14 replies · 303+ views ·
· WND ·
· 7/29/09 ·
· Aaron Klien ·
JERUSALEM -- Marking the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, about a thousand Jewish protesters today read the biblical book of Lamentations in front of the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem to protest against the Obama administration's demand to freeze Jewish construction in eastern sections of the city. Tonight marks the fasting day of Tisha B'Av, or the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av. It commemorates a series of tragedies that befell the Jewish people all on the same day, most significantly the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem, which occurred about 656 years apart on...
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Billy Jean Was Not My Pharaoh

 Michael Jackson's Face In An Ancient Egyptian Bust?

· 08/06/2009 1:46:05 PM PDT ·
· Posted by TaraP ·
· 22 replies · 683+ views ·
· NPR's Breaking News, Analysis Blog ·
· August 5th, 2009 ·
If you keep in mind that Chicago is the place where people once saw the Virgin Mary in a salt stain on the wall of a roadway underpass it should make sense that it's now the place where some are seeing the face of the late Michael Jackson in an ancient Egyptian sculpture. The resemblance has caused a big buzz in the blogosphere, which led the Chicago Sun-Times to put a photo of the 3000-year old bust of an Egyptian woman on its front page yesterday and for its columnist Michael Sneed to write about it. Anyway, it's hard to...

 Ancient Egyptian statue thrills Jackson fans in Chicago (3000 Yr Old Statue of MJ)

· 08/07/2009 7:38:10 PM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 13 replies · 448+ views ·
· Times of India ·
· 8 August 2009 ·
Was Michael Jackson secretly trying to be "The Pharaoh of Pop?" An ancient Egyptian bust on display at the Field Museum in Chicago has been the focus of interest since the star's death as visitors double-take at the eerie similarities between the 3,000-year-old statue and the singer. The limestone statue -- which depicts an unidentified woman -- went on display at the museum in 1988 and was carved during the New Kingdom Period, dating from between 1550 BC to 1050 BC. Like Jackson's surgically-altered face, the carving has a distinct, upturned nose and rounded eyes. And like Jackson -- if...

Let's Have Jerusalem

 Carbon 14 -- The Solution to Dating David and Solomon?

· 08/01/2009 6:58:42 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 14 replies · 425+ views ·
· Biblical Archaeology Review ·
· May/Jun 2009 BAR 35:03 ·
· Lily Singer-Avitz ·
According to the so-called high chronology, the transition occurred around 1000 or 980 B.C.E. It is generally recognized that David conquered Jerusalem in about 1000 B.C.E. According to the low chronology, the transition to Iron Age IIa occurred around 920-900 B.C.E. Other opinions place the transition somewhere between the two -- in about 950 B.C. The date is important because the date you choose will determine whether David and Solomon reigned in the archaeologically poor and archaeologically poorly documented Iron I or in the comparatively rich and richly documented Iron IIa. However, the differences in data between the various schools...
 Experts dig up dirt on David and Goliath

· 08/08/2009 8:21:36 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 28 replies · 651+ views ·
· ABC News ·
· 03 Aug 2009 ·
· Anne Barker ·
Archaeologists are putting some flesh on the bones of the David and Goliath myth by shifting through layers of earth at the site in the Holy Land. While little physical evidence has ever been found to support the 3,000-year-old biblical story of David and Goliath, a team from Israel and Australia has been excavating 50 kilometres from Jerusalem in the city of Tell es-Safi, where Goliath was supposedly born. According to the bible, Goliath stood around three metres tall and lived in the 10th century BC in the ancient city of Gath, which is now modern day Tell es-Safi. It...

Rome and Italy

 Finding King Herod's Tomb

· 08/02/2009 6:17:08 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 9 replies · 588+ views ·
· Smithsonian Magazine ·
· July 2009 ·
· Barbara Kreiger ·
After a 35-year search, an Israeli archaeologist is certain he has solved the mystery of the biblical figure's final resting place Shielding my eyes from the glare of the morning sun, I look toward the horizon and the small mountain that is my destination: Herodium, site of the fortified palace of King Herod the Great. I'm about seven miles south of Jerusalem, not far from the birthplace of the biblical prophet Amos, who declared: "Let justice stream forth like water." Herod's reign over Judea from 37 to 4 B.C. is not remembered for justice but for its indiscriminate cruelty. His...

Faith and Philosophy

 Turkish Government Denies Request for Church in Tarsus

· 08/06/2009 1:24:52 PM PDT ·
· Posted by marshmallow ·
· 23 replies · 321+ views ·
· American Catholic ·
· 8/5/09 ·
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Despite a personal request from Pope Benedict XVI and repeated requests by Christian leaders in Turkey, the Turkish government has decided that the only church in Tarsus, the city of St. Paul's birth, will remain a government museum. The Church of St. Paul, built as a Catholic church in the 1800s and confiscated by the government in 1943, was used throughout the 2008-2009 year of St. Paul for prayer services by Christian pilgrims. After the end of the yearlong celebration commemorating the 2,000th anniversary of St. Paul's birth, the Turkish government decided the building could not be used...

Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis

 Alabama city destroying ancient Indian mound for Sam's Club

· 08/04/2009 11:04:42 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 25 replies · 869+ views ·
· ISS ·
· 04 Aug 2009 ·
· Sue Sturgis ·
City leaders in Oxford, Ala. have approved the destruction of a 1,500-year-old Native American ceremonial mound and are using the dirt as fill for a new Sam's Club, a retail warehouse store operated by Wal-Mart. A University of Alabama archaeology report commissioned by the city found that the site was historically significant as the largest of several ancient stone and earthen mounds throughout the Choccolocco Valley. But Oxford Mayor Leon Smith -- whose campaign has financial connections to firms involved in the $2.6 million no-bid project -- insists the mound is not man-made and was used only to "send smoke...

Diet and Cuisine

 No Sweet Tooth for Europe

· 07/31/2009 10:28:27 PM PDT ·
· Posted by neverdem ·
· 27 replies · 639+ views ·
· ScienceNOW Daily News ·
· 31 July 2009 ·
· Constance Holden ·
Enlarge ImageTrick or treat? This confection may be more pleasing to some taste buds than it is to others. Credit: Photos.com If you take your coffee without sugar or your pancakes without syrup, chances are you've got some European ancestry in your blood. New research reveals that people whose early relatives lived in Europe are more sensitive to sweet tastes than those whose ancestors came from other parts of the world. Scientists led by Alexey Fushan of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders in Bethesda, Maryland, asked 144 people from various ethnic backgrounds to rank the...

Middle Ages and Renaissance

 Delighted antiques dealer discovers 1,300-year-old Knights Templar relic at car boot sale

· 08/03/2009 9:38:22 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BlackVeil ·
· 52 replies · 1,213+ views ·
· Daily Mail ·
· 4th August 2009 ·
· By Daily Mail Reporter ·
An antiques dealer has picked up what could be a priceless church relic dating back 1,300 years at a car boot sale. The small piece of painted wood is believed to have come from a box which the Knights Templar used to protect religious items as they moved across Europe during the Crusades of the Middle Ages. Quite how this ornate piece of wood found its way to a car boot sale in Yorkshire is anyone's guess. But it could bring Leeds antiques dealer Martin Roberts a big windfall at the next stop on its unlikely journey - an auction...

Scotland Yet

 Haggis was invented by the English, not the Scottish, says historian

· 08/02/2009 2:02:52 PM PDT ·
· Posted by bruinbirdman ·
· 62 replies · 1,023+ views ·
· The Telegraph ·
· 8/2/2009 ·
· Simon Johnson ·
Before being hijacked by Scottish nationalists Catherine Brown has discovered references to the dish in a recipe book dated 1615, The English Hus-wife by Gervase Markham. This was published at least 171 years before Robert Burns penned his poem Address to a Haggis, which made the delicacy famous. The first mention she could find of Scottish haggis was in 1747, indicating that the dish originated south of the Border and was later copied from English books. Ms Brown, whose findings feature in a TV documentary broadcast this week, said: "It was originally an English dish. In 1615, Gervase Markham says...

Early America

 North Carolina says "No Thanks" to Constitution 4 August 1788 (Vanity)

· 08/04/2009 3:07:39 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Jacquerie ·
· 2 replies · 224+ views ·
· North Carolina History Project ·
· unknown ·
· unknown ·
These men distrusted the central government and believed states' rights best protected individual liberties. After debating for eleven days, it became clear that the Constitution would not be ratified in North Carolina.

The Framers

 the 25th Amendment

· 08/03/2009 7:27:17 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 10 replies · 270+ views ·
· Constitution of the United States,
  via FindLaw et al ·
· proposed July 6, 1965 ·
· ratified February 10, 1967 ·
· The Framers et al ·
Section 1. : In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. Section 2. : Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress. Section 3. : Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his...

The Civil War

 This Day In Civil War History August 2, 1865 CSS Shenandoah learns the war is over

· 08/02/2009 8:47:18 AM PDT ·
· Posted by mainepatsfan ·
· 7 replies · 420+ views ·
· History Channel ·
August 2, 1865 CSS Shenandoah learns the war is over The captain and crew of the C.S.S. Shenandoah, still prowling the waters of the Pacific in search of Yankee whaling ships, is finally informed by a British vessel that the South has lost the war. The Shenandoah was the last major Confederate cruiser to set sail. Launched as a British vessel in September 1863, it was purchased by the Confederates and commissioned in October 1864. The 230-foot-long craft was armed with eight large guns and a crew of 73 sailors. Commanded by Captain James I. Waddell, the Shenandoah steered toward...

Epigraphy and Language

 Computers unlock more secrets of the mysterious Indus Valley script

· 08/03/2009 2:59:07 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 14 replies · 547+ views ·
· University of Washington ·
· Aug. 3, 2009 ·
· Hannah Hickey ·
Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India. During the past century, thousands of artifacts bearing hieroglyphics left by this prehistoric people have been discovered. Today, a team of Indian and American researchers are using mathematics and computer science to try to piece together information about the still-unknown script. The team led by a University of Washington researcher has used computers to extract patterns in ancient Indus symbols. The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows distinct patterns in the symbols'...

Ancient Autopsies

 4,500-Year-Old Skeleton Found on Italian Beach

· 08/02/2009 9:05:41 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Doogle ·
· 38 replies · 1,036+ views ·
· FOX NEWS ·
· 08/02/09 ·
· FOX ·
A well-preserved 4,500-year-old skeleton of a man was found on a beach south of Rome, Italian police told Reuters. The man is believed to be a warrior killed by an arrow in the chest, Reuters reported. Six small vases were also found buried near the man.

Prehistory and Origins

 World's oldest map: Spanish cave has landscape from 14,000 years ago

· 08/06/2009 5:51:58 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 51 replies · 856+ views ·
· Telegraph ·
· Aug. 6, 2009 ·
· Fiona Govan ·
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is man's earliest map, dating from almost 14,000 years ago Photo: EPA A stone tablet found in a cave in Abauntz in the Navarra region of northern Spain is believed to contain the earliest known representation of a landscape. Engravings on the stone, which measures less than seven inches by five inches, and is less than an inch thick, appear to depict mountains, meandering rivers and areas of good foraging and hunting.

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 Dog domestication likely started in N. Africa

· 08/03/2009 6:19:19 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 15 replies · 284+ views ·
· Discovery ·
· Aug 3, 2009 ·
· Jennifer Viegas ·
A Basenji is a dog breed indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa. Humans might have first domesticated dogs from wolves in Africa, with Egypt being one possibility, since wolves are native to that region. Modern humans originated in Africa, and now it looks like man's best friend first emerged there too. An extensive genetic study on the ancestry of African village dogs points to a Eurasian -- possibly North African -- origin for the domestication of dogs. Prior research concluded that dogs likely originated in East Asia. However, this latest study, the most thorough investigation ever on the ancestry of African village...

Getting to be Hobbit

 Humans, Flores 'hobbits' existed together: study

· 08/03/2009 6:38:16 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 11 replies · 472+ views ·
· ABC News ·
· 02 Aug 2009 ·
· David Mark ·
They were just one metre tall with very long arms, no chins, wrist bones like gorillas and extremely long feet. In 2003, archaeologists excavating in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores made a discovery that forced scientists to completely rethink conventional theories of human evolution. They reported the discovery of a new species of human, one that lived as recently as 12,000 years ago, at the same time as modern humans. But others disagreed, arguing the one-metre-high skeleton was a modern human that suffered from a deformity known as microcephaly. The debate has raged ever since. But Debbie...

Morphology

 Fossil is 'earliest tree-dweller' [ Suminia getmanovi ]

· 08/04/2009 1:40:23 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 5 replies · 213+ views ·
· BBC ·
· Wednesday, July 29, 2009 ·
· Victoria Gill ·
A 260-million-year-old fossil is the oldest known tree-dwelling creature, according to researchers. Scientists described the finding as the earliest evidence in the fossil record of an "opposable thumb"... they described how the animal's elongated hands and fingers would have helped it to grip and climb... The fossilised creature, named Suminia getmanovi, has been dated to late Permian period, 100 million years earlier than the first known tree-dwelling mammal. It was first discovered in Russia in 1994. But for lead author Jorg Frobisch, from the Field Museum in Chicago, US, said this study was the first opportunity to examine its whole...

Paleontology

 Pterosaur features defy comparison

· 08/05/2009 5:22:00 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 16 replies · 455+ views ·
· Discovery News ·
· Aug. 5, 2009 ·
· Jennifer Viegas ·
A well-preserved pterosaur with soft tissues reveals this flying reptile had hair, claws and wings that were unlike anything seen on today's living animals, suggests a new paper. Analysis of the remains, which date to around 140 to 130 million years ago, indicate pterosaurs were warm-blooded insect eaters that may have lived in trees and possessed sophisticated flying skills. "Pterosaurs are unique in their bone construction and our study also shows that some of the soft tissues of these creatures differ from anything known today," says study author Dr Alexander Kellner.
 Was T. rex a chicken and baby killer?

· 08/07/2009 4:31:02 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 13 replies · 234+ views ·
· Live Science ·
· Aug. 7, 2009 ·
· Charles Q. Choi ·
Although past research has suggested Tyrannosaurus rex was related to chickens, now findings hint this giant predator might have acted chicken too. Instead of picking on dinosaurs its own size, researchers now suggest T. rex was a baby killer that liked to swallow defenseless prey whole. Fossil evidence of attacks of tyrannosaurs or similar gargantuan "theropods" on triceratops and duck-billed dinosaurs has been uncovered before, conjuring images of titanic clashes.

World War Eleven

 Amelia Earhart Mystery Solved? 'Investigation Junkies' to Launch New Expedition

· 07/30/2009 10:33:38 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 12 replies · 1,013+ views ·
· ABC ·
· 27 June 2009 ·
· CHRISTINA CARON ·
DNA Evidence on a Remote Island May Reveal the Truth About Earhart's Disappearance It has been 72 years since famed aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared while attempting to fly around the world. But the mystery remains unsolved: Nobody knows exactly what happened to Earhart or her plane. Now researchers at the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, or Tighar, say they are on the verge of recovering DNA evidence that would demonstrate Earhart had been stranded on Nikumaroro Island (formerly known as Gardner Island) before finally perishing there. During May and June of next year, Tighar will...

Longer Perspectives

 Reassessing The Causes [Gulf of Tonkin incident not the real start]

· 08/02/2009 7:06:37 AM PDT ·
· Posted by verity ·
· 2 replies · 272+ views ·
· The Washington Times ·
· August 2, 2009 ·
· Robert F. Turner ·
Today marks the 45th anniversary of a 1964 attack by North Vietnamese P-4 torpedo boats upon the American destroyer USS Maddox in international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin. The incident remains shrouded by confusion and misinformation and continues to be misperceived by many as the reason America went to war in Vietnam. Today may be a useful time to set the record straight. First, contrary to popular belief, the Aug. 2 attack definitely did occur. No less an authority than Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap -- North Vietnam's defense minister at the time -- admitted so in a 1995 meeting...

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Iraq Invades Kuwait 19 Years Ago Today - Video 8/2/1990

· 08/02/2009 5:24:15 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Federalist Patriot ·
· 5 replies · 218+ views ·
· Freedom's Lighthouse ·
· August 2, 2009 ·
· BrianinMO ·
Here is a brief video report on the August 2, 1990 Iraq invasion of neighboring Kuwait, 19 years ago today. Iraq invaded using over 100,000 troops and 700 tanks. The invasion led to the First Gulf War in which a coalition of nations - led by the United States - drove Iraq out of Kuwait. Below is part of a speech by President George H.W. Bush to a Joint Session of Congress on September 11, 1990, in which he demanded that Iraq withdraw immediately and unconditionally from Kuwait. . . . . .

Pages

 What Are You Reading Now? - My (Belated) Quarterly Survey

· 07/29/2009 7:23:00 AM PDT ·
· Posted by MplsSteve ·
· 166 replies · 1,423+ views ·
· 7/29/09 ·
Well, it's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread. I do this thread to gauge what other Freepers are reading. As all of you know, Freepers are probably some of the more well-read individuals on the Internet and I'm always curious as to what we're reading. It can be anything, a classic work of fiction, a NY Times bestseller, a technical journal, a trashy pulp novel...in short anything. Please do not ruin this thread by replying "I'm reading this thread". It become un-funny a long time ago. I'll start. I'm about halfway thru "The Horrid Pit:...

Kindling

 Free Book Downloads For Constitutional Originalists - Emmerich de Vattel

· 08/05/2009 10:18:45 AM PDT ·
· Posted by RegulatorCountry ·
· 4 replies · 149+ views ·
· archive.org ·
· Various, 1758 - Present ·
· Emmerich de Vattel · Joeseph Chitty · Edward Duncan Ingraham · Sam C. Miller ·
Notes of a Course of Lectures on Vattel's Law of Nations (1891)The law of nations; or, Principles of the law of nature, applied to the conduct and affairs of nations and sovereigns. From the French of Monsieur de Vattel ... From the new ed. (1855) Author: Vattel, Emer de, 1714-1767; Chitty, Joseph, 1776-1841, ed; Ingraham, Edward D. (Edward Duncan), 1793-1854, ed Subject: International law; War (International law) Publisher:...
 Free Book Downloads For Constitutional Originalists - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz

· 08/05/2009 10:39:41 AM PDT ·
· Posted by RegulatorCountry ·
· 12 replies · 205+ views ·
· archive.org ·
· 1717 ·
· Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz & Samuel Clarke ·
A Collection of Papers, which Passed Between the Late Learned Mr. Leibnitz ... (1717) Author: Samuel Clarke , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Publisher: printed for James Knapton Year: 1717 Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Language: English Digitizing sponsor: Google Book contributor: Oxford University Collection: europeanlibraries Notes: A gentleman of the University of Cambridge = John Bulkeley
 Free Book Downloads For Constitutional Originalists - William Blackstone

· 08/05/2009 10:57:53 AM PDT ·
· Posted by RegulatorCountry ·
· 4 replies · 209+ views ·
· archive.org ·
· Various ·
· William Blackstone ·
· William Cyrus Sprague ·
· Robert Malcolm Kerr ·
Blackstone's Commentaries Author: William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague: Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries (1893); An interesting appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England (MDCCLXXIII [1773]) Author: Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780; Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804; Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780; Priestley,...

Oh So Mysteriouso

 Canyonitis: Seeing evidence of ancient Egypt in the Grand Canyon

· 08/04/2009 5:39:04 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 37 replies · 767+ views ·
· Philip Coppens ·
· 04 Aug 2009 ·
· Philip Coppens ·
Is there, within the Grand Canyon, an enigmatic system of tunnels that is evidence of an ancient Egyptian voyage to America? Is it all bogus? Or is the truth most likely somewhere in between? On April 5, 1909, a front page story in the Arizona Gazette reported on an archaeological expedition in the heart of the Grand Canyon funded by the Smithsonian Institute, which had resulted in the discovery of Egyptian artefacts. April 5 is close to April 1 -- but then not quite -- so perhaps the story could be true? Nothing since has been heard of this discovery. Today,...

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For Those About to Rock, Fire!

 Early Human Lessons: Hot Rocks Make Sharper Tools

· 08/13/2009 6:28:59 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 8 replies ·
· 290+ views ·
· NPR ·
· 14 Aug 2009 ·
· Christopher Joyce ·
So, it's the southern tip of Africa, about 70,000 years ago, and some humans have built a fire. Maybe it's to keep warm, or to cook up some gazelle steaks. To kill time, they do a little flint knapping -- whacking one rock with another to chip off razor-sharp flakes. They use the flakes to cut meat or make spear points. After the fire dies down, someone drags a big stone out of the embers and tries whacking that, and discovers that it makes really good flakes: it chips predictably and the flakes are symmetrical and sharp. Eureka -- pyroengineering...

Homo Erectus

 Evidence for Use of Fire Found at Peking Man Site

· 08/12/2009 12:16:08 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 16 replies ·
· 223+ views ·
· CRIENGLISH.com ·
· Aug 11, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
Archaeologists have discovered several vertebrate fossils, ashes, burned bones and charcoal remnants at the Zhoukoudian caves, also known as the "Peking Man" site, China News Service reported on Monday. The discovery proves that Peking man was able to use fire roughly 200-000 to 500,000 years ago, the article said. Many foreign experts once cast doubt on whether Peking Man could use fire at that time, because in past decades they found no direct evidence for its use. The recent archaeological discoveries directly refute their doubts, the article said.

Neandertal / Neanderthal

 Neanderthals wouldn't have eaten their sprouts either

· 08/12/2009 11:42:29 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 29 replies ·
· 361+ views ·
· PhysOrg.com ·
· August 12th, 2009 ·
· Denholm Barnetson ·
They have found that a gene in modern humans that makes some people dislike a bitter chemical called phenylthiocarbamide, or PTC, was also present in Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago. The scientists made the discovery after recovering and sequencing a fragment of the TAS2R38 gene taken from 48,000-year-old Neanderthal bones found at a site in El Sidron, in northern Spain, they said in a report released Wednesday by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). "This indicates that variation in bitter taste perception predates the divergence of the lineages leading to Neanderthals and modern humans," they said. Substances similar...

Pages

 Restating the case for human uniqueness

· 08/10/2009 9:27:31 AM PDT ·
· Posted by AreaMan ·
· 8 replies ·
· 271+ views ·
· Spiked Online ·
· Summer 2009 ·
· Helene Guldberg ·
A brilliant new book cuts through all the media-oriented research about "clever chimps' using tools, doing maths and feeling emotions, and reminds us that, in truth, there is nothing remotely human about primates.Helene Guldberg Not a Chimp: The Hunt to Find the Genes That Make Us Human is a refreshing defence of human uniqueness. "We are a truly exceptional primate with minds that are genuinely discontinuous to other animals', Jeremy Taylor writes. The first half of Not a Chimp challenges "the basis...

Biology and Cryptobiology

 Extinct Walking Bat Found; Upends Evolutionary Theory

· 08/11/2009 6:05:10 AM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 29 replies ·
· 721+ views ·
· nationalgeographic ·
· August 7, 2009 ·
· Carolyn Barry ·
A walking bat in New Zealand took its marching orders from an ancestor, a new fossil-bat discovery reveals. Scientists had long thought that the lesser short-tailed bat evolved its walking preference independently. Since the bat's native habitat lacks predators, researchers reasoned that -- much like flightless birds on isolated islands -- the bat had adapted to its safer surroundings in part by walking. But the discovery of fossils of a now extinct walking bat in northwestern Queensland, Australia, suggests that the modern-day bats descended from 20-million-year-old Australian relatives. "We were amazed to find they were virtually identical to the bats in New Zealand today,"...

Longer Perspectives

 Must Science Declare a Holy War on Religion?

· 08/11/2009 1:05:47 PM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 56 replies ·
· 516+ views ·
· Los Angeles Times ·
· August 11, 2009 ·
· Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum ·
The so-called New Atheists are attacking the mantra of science and faith being compatible. Others in the science community question the value of confrontation.This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, "The God Delusion" -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new book, "The Greatest Show on Earth," will inform and regale us with the stunning "evidence for evolution," as the subtitle says. It will surely be an impressive display, as Dawkins excels at making the case for evolution. But it's also fair to ask: Who in the United...

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Does Obama Need to Appoint a History Czar?

· 08/10/2009 7:42:07 PM PDT ·
· Posted by jim byrd ·
· 16 replies ·
· 283+ views ·
· jimbyrd.com ·
· 08/01/2009 ·
· jim byrd ·
Stupidly. If "stupidly" were an industry, the Obama administration and the Democrat Party leaders in Congress would be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. It is apparent, in the past six months, that Obama and Congress are in league to acquire a monopolistic consortium on "stupidly." Obama and the Democrat Congress have validated, with absolute certainty, that they have, in tandem, stupidly interpreted the Constitution and possess a stupidly unsophisticated aptitude for economics; Obama continues to brandish his nugatory knowledge of history.

Let's Have Jerusalem

 Alleged Discovery of "Real' Mt. Sinai Could Change the Middle East Forever

· 08/14/2009 4:02:47 PM PDT ·
· Posted by AJKauf ·
· 48 replies ·
· 1,870+ views ·
· Pajamas Media ·
· August 14 ·
· Ryan Mauro ·
It may be the biggest archaeological discovery to date, but it is also the most dangerous. In an adventure story rivaling an Indiana Jones movie, Bob Cornuke and Larry Williams snuck into Saudi Arabia to investigate whether the Wahhabist home of Mecca and Medina is also home to one of the holiest sites in Judaism and Christianity: Mt. Sinai. They have each written page-turning books about their story. Dr. Lennart Moller, a Swedish scientist, has gone one step further, writing a must-read book full of images and scientific analysis titled The Exodus Case, which puts together the stunning evidence that...

Egypt

 Cave Complex Allegedly Found Under Giza Pyramids

· 08/14/2009 10:09:21 AM PDT ·
· Posted by LibWhacker ·
· 15 replies ·
· 825+ views ·
· Vorchester ·
· Discovery News ·
· 8/13/09 ·
· Rossella Lorenzi ·
An enormous system of caves, chambers and tunnels lies hidden beneath the Pyramids of Giza, according to a British explorer who claims to have found the lost underworld of the pharaohs. Populated by bats and venomous spiders, the underground complex was found in the limestone bedrock beneath the pyramid field at Giza. "There is untouched archaeology down there, as well as a delicate ecosystem that includes colonies of bats and a species of spider which we have tentatively identified as the white widow," British explorer Andrew Collins said. Collins, who will detail his findings in the...

Epigraphy and Language

 University of Toronto archaeologists find...cuneiform tablets in 2,700-year old Turkish temple

· 08/10/2009 9:49:19 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 19 replies ·
· 453+ views ·
· University of Toronto ·
· August 7, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
Excavations led by a University of Toronto archaeologist at the site of a recently discovered temple in southeastern Turkey have uncovered a cache of cuneiform tablets dating back to the Iron Age period between 1200 and 600 BCE. Found in the temple's cella, or "holy of holies', the tablets are part of a possible archive that may provide insights into Assyrian imperial aspirations. The assemblage appears to represent a Neo-Assyrian renovation of an older Neo-Hittite temple complex, providing a rare glimpse into the religious...

Anatolia

 Ancient people also complained about exorbitant taxes

· 08/11/2009 5:51:12 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 19 replies ·
· 325+ views ·
· Today's Zaman ·
· 11 Aug 2009 ·
· TZ ·
Inscriptions revealing complaints about high taxes from 1,700 years ago have been found during the excavation of the ancient city of Rhodiapolis in Antalya's Kumluca district. The excavation was started by Professor Nevzat Çevik, head of the archaeology department in Akdeniz University's faculty of science and literature, and led this year by Assistant Professor Isa Kızgut. Kızgut told the Anatolia news agency that they made interesting discoveries concerning the social life of the people of Rhodiapolis. Noting that one of the most interesting discoveries was an inscription, Kızgut said: "In addition to many historical artifacts, we uncovered some relics concerning...

British Isles

 9,000-year-old house reveals Stone Age lifestyle

· 08/11/2009 5:44:59 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 45 replies ·
· 811+ views ·
· Discovery News ·
· Aug 11, 2009 ·
· Jennifer Viegas ·
The remains of a 9,000-year-old hunter-gatherers' house, uncovered during construction at an airport, have been unearthed in Great Britain's Isle of Man. The house was surrounded by buried mounds of burnt hazelnut shells and stocked with stone tools, according to archaeologists working on the project and a report in the latest British Archaeology. It is the earliest known complete house on the Isle of Man and one of Britain's oldest and best-preserved houses, according to the report. The find also offers a glimpse of domestic life 4,000 before Stonehenge.

Diet and Cuisine

 London's earliest timber structure found during Belmarsh prison dig

· 08/12/2009 10:15:16 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 4 replies ·
· 220+ views ·
· University College London ·
· Aug 12, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
London's oldest timber structure has been unearthed by archaeologists from Archaeology South-East (part of the Institute of Archaeology at UCL). It was found during the excavation of a prehistoric peat bog adjacent to Belmarsh Prison in Plumstead, Greenwich, in advance of the construction of a new prison building. Radiocarbon dating has shown the structure to be nearly 6,000 years old and it predates Stonehenge by more than 500 years. Jacobs Engineering UK Ltd acted as the managing consultants, on behalf of the Ministry of Justice, and the work was facilitated by Interserve Project Services Ltd. The structure consisted of a...

Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis

 Human sacrifice! Archaeologist creates stir with new book on Cahokia Mounds

· 08/10/2009 2:41:39 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 31 replies ·
· 645+ views ·
· BND ·
· 9 Aug 2009 ·
· George Pawlaczyk ·
Human sacrifice! Victims buried alive! Read all about it in "Cahokia -- Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi." According to this new book by University of Illinois archaeologist and professor of anthropology Tim Pauketat, the mound builders were not always the idyllic, corn-growing, pottery-making, fishing-hunting gentle villagers depicted in various dioramas at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville. Pauketat said these long-vanished people practiced human sacrifice of women and men on a mass scale and weren't always careful to bury only the dead. Based on years of study of artifacts including many from the extensive...

Early America

 Crews Accidentally Remove Part Of NY's Oldest Fort (Environmentalism Destroys)

· 08/14/2009 7:55:17 PM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 33 replies ·
· 896+ views ·
· New York Post ·
· August 14, 2009 ·
Crews dredging PCBs from the Hudson River on Friday ripped away remnants of what was once Britain's largest fort in Colonial America, a mistake that incensed local officials who had feared the cleanup project would damage such relics in the area. Neal Orsini said he was awoken around 4 a.m. by the sound of dredging along his riverside property in Fort Edward, 45 miles north of Albany. Orsini said he later discovered that the dredgers had torn out the riverbank, along with two wooden beams that had been part of the original fort's waterfront bastion. A third beam was later...

Australia and the Pacific

 Mystery Ends in Australia WWII Disaster

· 08/12/2009 9:25:57 PM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 16 replies ·
· 967+ views ·
· CNN ·
· 8/13/09 ·
The Australian cruiser met the disguised German vessel in the waters off western Australia two years after the two became enemies in World War II. The Australian ship approached, trying to determine whether the vessel was friendly. It wasn't. What resulted was Australia's worst naval disaster: the sinking of the Australian ship and the loss of its entire crew of 645. The wreckage wasn't found until last year, leading to decades of conspiracy theories about what actually happened. On Wednesday a long-awaited report on the sinking of the Sydney II ended the mystery that began when it met its fate,...

World War Eleven

 Man in Sierra Vista is last living survivor of little-known pre-World War II attack on a U.S. ship

· 12/30/2007 7:02:34 AM PST ·
· Posted by SandRat ·
· 10 replies ·
· 554+ views ·
· Sierra Vista Herald
  /Bisbee Review ·
· Ted Morris ·
Four years before Pearl Harbor was attacked, a local man sailed on a U.S. Navy ship that was bombed and sunk by Imperial Japanese warplanes. The incident happened on Dec. 13, 1937, as the USS Panay was evacuating U.S. embassy personnel from Nanking, China's capital of that era. It was a city under siege whose downfall became the infamous Rape of Nanking. The Panay was a gunboat that belonged to the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, whose 1930s peacetime mission included protection of American lives and property from pirates along the lawless Yangtze River, under a treaty with the...

A Vegan's Worst Nightmare

 Giant 'meat-eating' plant found

· 08/11/2009 8:19:34 AM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 25 replies ·
· 1,402+ views ·
· .bbc ·
· 11 August 2009 ·
· Matt Walker ·
A new species of giant carnivorous plant has been discovered in the highlands of the central Philippines. The pitcher plant is among the largest of all pitchers and is so big that it can catch rats and well as insects in its leafy trap. During the same expedition, botanists also came across strange pink ferns and blue mushrooms they could not identify. The botanists have named the pitcher plant after British natural history broadcaster David Attenborough.

Middle Ages and Renaissance

 For a Rare Discarded Harp, a Chance to Sing Again

· 08/10/2009 7:20:31 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BGHater ·
· 39 replies ·
· 710+ views ·
· The New York Times ·
· 9 Aug 2009 ·
· COLIN MOYNIHAN ·
To a certain type of New Yorker, every dumpster is a potential treasure chest,right up there with thrift stores and stoop sales. But if the scavenger gods offer only a finite number of prizes, Julie Finch might have claimed one of them. Last month Ms. Finch stood on her toes to peer into the Dumpster outside her building on West 26th Street and found a blue wooden harp distinguished mainly by caked layers of grime and dust and a snarl of broken strings. "It was this old thing with wires going in all directions," she said."It didn't look like anything anybody...

Underwater Archaeology

 Secrets of the Tang Treasure Ship

· 08/09/2009 5:51:07 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 25 replies ·
· 707+ views ·
· Taipei Times ·
· Aug 08, 2009 ·
· Unknown ·
Over 1,100 years ago, an international crew of men set sail on a perilous journey. They are returning home from Tang Dynasty China with rare ceramics and gold, created by ninth-century Chinese craftsmen, desired by the rest of the world. For centuries, China has traded with the West over land, via the Silk Road. They traveled safely from the Middle East, all the way to China. But on their return voyage, they made a fateful decision. Here, off the coast of Indonesia, the reef-filled waters are so deadly that ancient sailors called the area the Treacherous Bay. Tilman Walterfang was...

The Framers

 the 26th Amendment

· 08/10/2009 6:43:31 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
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· Constitution of the United States
  via FindLaw et al ·
· proposed March 23, 1971 ·
· certified July 7, 1971 ·
· The Framers et al ·
Section 1: The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

Section 2: The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

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Welcome to the 265th issue. Made my own fun again with some new headers. Been a pretty good week in real life, thanks for asking. Around FR, nobody knows the troubles I seen.

Thanks to all who posted topics, again, I barely did anything all week. :') And keep it up!
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960 posted on 08/15/2009 1:19:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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