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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #288 Saturday, January 23, 2010 |
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| Oh So Mysteriouso | |
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| Mayan Calender Includes Image of Obama ?? |
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· 01/16/2010 9:30:01 PM PST · · Posted by MrDaddyLongLegs · · 21 replies · 1,530+ views · · mrdaddylonglegs · · 16/1/2010 · · mrdaddylonglegs · |
Is that a caricature of President Obama featured in the apocalyptic Mayan calender ? |
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| Hope and Change | |
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| Is Teaching American History Unconstitutional? |
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· 01/17/2010 6:36:21 AM PST · · Posted by RightSideNews · · 39 replies · 1,029+ views · · Right Side News · · January 17, 2010 · · David Barton · |
writing teams of Texas teachers drafted the 2010 proposed standards...The writing teams had recommended the removal of Nathan Hale, Daniel Boone, and General George Patton; they eradicated Columbus Day, Martin Luther King Day, and Christmas (but they did add Diwali as a holiday). They also declared that to say there was "an American love of individualism, inventiveness, and freedom" was to express inappropriate "value language," and they also rejected the concept of identifying specific beliefs that contributed to ou "national identity." |
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| Epigraphy and Language | |
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| Mysterious Jamestown Tablet an American Rosetta Stone ? |
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· 01/17/2010 6:07:31 PM PST · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 26 replies · 988+ views · · nationalgeographic · · January 13, 2010 · · Paula Neely · |
Slate may show early colonist efforts to communicate with Indians. With the help of enhanced imagery and an expert in Elizabethan script, archaeologists are beginning to unravel the meaning of mysterious text and images etched into a rare 400-year-old slate tablet discovered this past summer at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America. Digitally enhanced images of the slate are helping to isolate inscriptions and illuminate fine details on the slate -- the first with extensive inscriptions discovered at any early American colonial site, said William Kelso, director of research and interpretation at the 17th-century Historic Jamestowne site. With the... |
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| Middle Ages and Renaissance | |
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| Experts may have found bones of 10th-century English princess |
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· 01/20/2010 3:15:37 PM PST · · Posted by Tennessee Nana · · 24 replies · 795+ views · · ChattanoogaTimesFreePress · · January 20, 2010 · · RAPHAEL G. SATTER · |
LONDON -- She was a beautiful English princess who married one of Europe's most powerful monarchs and dazzled subjects with her charity and charm. Now an international team of scientists say they think they've found the body of Princess Eadgyth (pronounced Edith) -- a 10th-century noblewoman who has been compared to Princess Diana. "She was a very, very popular person," said Mark Horton, an archaeology professor at Bristol University in western England. "She was sort of the Diana of her day if you like -- pretty and full of good works." Horton is one of a team of experts working... |
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| Roman Empire | |
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| Ancient Roam [ s/b "Ancient Rome" and c/b "Ancient Roman Statue Used as Garden Gnome"] |
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· 01/18/2010 11:54:42 AM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 3 replies · 265+ views · · Croatian Times · · Thursday, January 14, 2010 · · Austrian Times · |
A priceless ancient Roman statue has been discovered being used to decorate a flower bed in a housing estate. The headless sculpture of an emperor is believed to have been stolen some time in the 1930s and then used during the construction of a posh private square in Naples, Italy. It is thought to date back to the 2nd century BC and may once have stood in the grand gardens of a local palace. Police have now restored the statue to the city's archaeological museum after a race against time to beat the Mafia to the treasure. "We knew... |
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| Macedonia | |
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| Laminated Linen Protected Alexander the Great |
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· 01/16/2010 8:09:03 AM PST · · Posted by Palter · · 36 replies · 1,060+ views · · Discovery News · · 11 Jan 2010 · · Rossella Lorenzi · |
Alexander's men wore linothorax, a highly effective type of body armor created by laminating together layers of linen, research finds. A Kevlar-like armor might have helped Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) conquer nearly the entirety of the known world in little more than two decades, according to new reconstructive archaeology research. Presented at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Anaheim, Calif., the study suggests that Alexander and his soldiers protected themselves with linothorax, a type of body armor made by laminating together layers of linen. "While we know quite a lot about ancient armor made from... |
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| Greece | |
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| Akrotiri Peninsula Excavations |
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· 01/18/2010 10:29:25 AM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 4 replies · 154+ views · · Cyprus News Agency · · January 11, 2010 · · News in English editor · |
The completion of the... third season of systematic excavations..., conducted at the site of Katalymmata ton Plakoton, of the Akrotiri peninsula, on the south coast, under the directions of the Senior Archaeological Officer of the Department Eleni Procopiou. During this season the excavation of the rest of the western part of what was most probably the narthex of a very important ecclesiastical building of the end of the 6th or the beginning of the 7th century A.D., which began in 2007, was completed. The narthex has a total length of 14m on an E-W axis and a width of 36m... |
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| Here, Kitty Kitty | |
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| Egypt announces find of ancient cat goddess temple |
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· 01/19/2010 5:04:39 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 49 replies · 683+ views · · Associated Press · · Jan 19, 2010 · · HAMZA HENDAWI · |
CAIRO - Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old temple that may have been dedicated to the ancient Egyptian cat goddess, Bastet, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said Tuesday. The ruins of the Ptolemaic-era temple were discovered by Egyptian archaeologists in the heart of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great in the 4th century B.C. The city was the seat of the Greek-speaking Ptolemaic Dynasty, which ruled over Egypt for 300 years until the suicide of Queen Cleopatra. The statement said the temple was thought to belong to Queen Berenice, wife of King Ptolemy III who ruled... |
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| Living Image | |
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| Uncovering Secrets of the Sphinx |
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· 01/22/2010 7:48:57 AM PST · · Posted by Palter · · 17 replies · 896+ views · · Smithsonian Mag · · Feb 2010 · · Evan Hadingham · |
After decades of research, American archaeologist Mark Lehner has some answers about the mysteries of the Egyptian colossus When Mark Lehner was a teenager in the late 1960s, his parents introduced him to the writings of the famed clairvoyant Edgar Cayce. During one of his trances, Cayce, who died in 1945, saw that refugees from the lost city of Atlantis buried their secrets in a hall of records under the Sphinx and that the hall would be discovered before the end of the 20th century. In 1971, Lehner, a bored sophomore at the University of North Dakota, wasn't planning to... |
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| Too Tightly Wrapped | |
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| Did King Tut's Discoverer Steal from the Tomb? |
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· 01/19/2010 10:57:55 AM PST · · Posted by Palter · · 7 replies · 682+ views · · Spiegel Online · · 15 Jan 2010 · · Matthias Schulz · |
Howard Carter, the British explorer who opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, will forever be associated with the greatest trove of artifacts from ancient Egypt. But was he also a thief? Dawn was breaking as Howard Carter took up a crowbar to pry open the sealed tomb door in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. With shaking hands, he held a candle to the fissure, now wafting out 3,300-year-old air. What did he see, those behind him wanted to know. The archaeologist could do no more than stammer, "Wonderful things!" This scene from Thebes in November, 1922, is considered archaeology's... |
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| Egypt | |
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| The Sacred Bird Of Egypt |
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· 10/25/2009 12:07:35 PM PDT · · Posted by SWAMPSNIPER · · 16 replies · 692+ views · · self · · October 25, 2009 · · swampsniper · |
The Ibis was so venerated in ancient Eygpt that they were even mummified and placed in royal tombs. I think there is a reason. If you are trying to grow crops in a river bottom, in a warm climate, you will be plagued with grubs and bugs and other pests, all trying to eat your veggies. The Ibis is eager to help, they love to eat the pests. Egypt owes a major debt to the Ibis clan. |
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| Hunt for bird mummy in Conn. comes up empty |
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· 01/18/2010 11:11:31 AM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 3 replies · 126+ views · · PhysOrg · · Sunday, January 17, 2010 · · AP · |
Researchers who examined an Egyptian mummy with the latest imaging technology found no evidence that a packet inside her was an offering to the gods of the ancient world... |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| Neglect of the Sanhedrin Tombs in Jerusalem |
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· 01/18/2010 10:36:41 AM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 1 replies · 176+ views · · Biblical Archaeology Review · · Friday, January 15, 2010 · · unattributed · |
The conservation and maintenance of the tombs of ancient Israel's highest court members, the Great Sanhedrin, located in Jerusalem has been stirring up quite a debate recently. The Second Temple-period tombs have not been officially maintained but locals, some not even followers of Judaism, have taken it upon themselves to step in and clean the area. The municipality of Jerusalem will not help with their efforts but rather have put restrictions on the local residents' attempts to preserve the site. Debate over who has responsibility for maintaining the site is an issue between the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Jerusalem... |
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| Dead Sea Scrolls | |
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| Dead Sea Scroll dating now possible |
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· 01/20/2010 4:23:29 AM PST · · Posted by Schnucki · · 13 replies · 590+ views · · Politiken (Denmark) · · January 20, 2010 · |
After a decade of intense laboratory tests, a Danish archaeochemist has found a way to enable scientists to precisely date the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ownership of which is currently a bone of contention between Israel and Jordan, according to videnskab.dk. The Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient documents were discovered between 1947 and 1956 in caves near the Qumran Wadi northwest of the Dead Sea. Treatment of the rolls has included them being spread out using plant oil, which in turn made precise carbon dating of the scrolls almost impossible. A Danish archaeochemist and an international team of researchers,... |
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| Religion of Peace | |
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| Iraq To Build Massive Mosque Over The Tomb Of The Prophet Ezekiel |
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· 01/05/2010 7:47:26 PM PST · · Posted by Tamar Rush · · 60 replies · 1,356+ views · · The Last Crusade · · Jan. 05, 2010 · · Paul L. Williams, Ph.D. · |
DESECRETAION OF SACRED SITE PROMPTS LITTLE ATTENTION by Paul L. Williams, Ph.D. thelastcrusade.org The Iraqi government plans to convert the Tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel, one of the most sacred sites for Christians and Jews, into a massive new mosque. What's more, the Iraqis intend to erase all Jewish markings from the tomb so that no indication of its historic significance will remain for future generations. The plan to transform the ancient burial site into a mosque was reported this week by Ur News, the Iraqi news agency, and Shelomo Alfassa, Director of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries.... |
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| Iraq Reclaims A Jewish History It Once Shunned [actually the stuff, not the Jews or history] |
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· 01/17/2010 7:25:06 AM PST · · Posted by SJackson · · 14 replies · 347+ views · · WYFF4 · · 1-17-10 · · REBECCA SANTANA · |
BAGHDAD -- It was seized from Jewish families and wound up soaking in sewage water in the basement of a secret police building. Rescued from the chaos that engulfed Baghdad as Saddam Hussein was toppled, it now sits in safekeeping in an office near Washington, D.C. Like this country's once great Jewish community, the Iraqi Jewish Archive of books, manuscripts, records and other materials has gone through turbulent times. Now another twist may be in store: Iraq wants it back. Iraqi officials say they will go to the U.S., possibly next month, to assess the materials found by U.S. troops... |
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| Phoenicians | |
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| Treasure Found Off La Manga [ Phoenician treasure ship ] |
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· 01/18/2010 11:59:53 AM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 17 replies · 550+ views · · The Leader · · Friday, January 15, 2010 · · Sally Bengtsson · |
Buried beneath shells, rocks and sand, for 2,600 years, ...a treasure of incalculable value has lain just off La Manga...The find appears to be the cargo of a commercial ship carrying ivory from African elephants, amber and lots of ceramic objects. The find has been kept secret for the past three years by the team of divers led by the Spaniard Juan Pinedo Reyes and the American Mark Edward Polzer. The recovery project is being financed by National Geographic, who have reached an agreement with the Spanish Minister of Culture, the Institute of Nautical Archaeology and the University A&M of... |
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| Lixus | |
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| Chemical analyses uncover secrets of an ancient amphora |
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· 01/20/2010 7:36:26 AM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 6 replies · 293+ views · · FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology · · Jan 20, 2010 · · Unknown · |
A team of chemists from the University of Valencia (UV) has confirmed that the substance used to hermetically seal an amphora found among remains at Lixus, in Morocco, was pine resin. The scientists also studied the metallic fragments inside the 2,000-year-old vessel, which could be fragments of material used for iron-working. In 2005, a group of archaeologists from the UV discovered a sealed amphora among the remains at Lixus, an ancient settlement founded by the Phoenicians near Larache, in Morocco. Since then, researchers from the Department of Analytical Chemistry at this university have been carrying out various studies into it... |
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| Navigation | |
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| The battle over Hawaii's history |
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· 01/20/2010 9:24:29 AM PST · · Posted by Palter · · 14 replies · 565+ views · · LA Times · · 18 Jan 2010 · · Alana Semuels · |
Amateur historian Rick Rogers just knows Europeans visited the islands two centuries before Captain Cook landed in 1778. Trying to prove it and convince professionals, that's another story. In the clear blue water 150 feet down, off Palemano Point on Hawaii's Big Island, Captain Rick Rogers swam along the ocean floor, concentrating on the light white swirls of staghorn reef below him. As tiny bubbles of air escaped from his tank, his black flippers propelled him above the coral, next to schools of reddish mempache and juicy turquoise uhu fish. The scene was breathtaking, but Rogers didn't care about nature.... |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis | |
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| Lost Spanish colony may be found |
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· 01/20/2010 11:12:31 AM PST · · Posted by Palter · · 16 replies · 453+ views · · The St. Augustine Record · · 19 Jan 2010 · · PETER GUINTA · |
Pottery in St. Augustine may provide clues Three years after St. Augustine was founded, Alvara de Mendana, nephew of the governor of Peru, set out with two ships and 150 soldiers and sailed west to find gold and a new trade route to China. Mendana's 1568 voyage found nothing, so he returned to Peru. But a relentless lust for gold pushed the Spanish to dispatch more colonizing fleets. And one founded a colony somewhere in the Solomon Islands, northeast of Australia. No one knows its exact location or why the colony disappeared, but Martin Gibbs of the University of Sydney's... |
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| Catastrophism and Astronomy | |
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| Cave reveals Southwest's abrupt climate swings during Ice Age |
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· 01/20/2010 2:11:19 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 22 replies · 639+ views · · University of Arizona · · Jan 20, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Ice Age climate records from an Arizona stalagmite link the Southwest's winter precipitation to temperatures in the North Atlantic, according to new research. The finding is the first to document that the abrupt changes in Ice Age climate known from Greenland also occurred in the southwestern U.S., said co-author Julia E. Cole of the University of Arizona in Tucson. "It's a new picture of the climate in the Southwest during the last Ice Age," said Cole, a UA professor of geosciences. "When it was cold in Greenland, it was wet here, and when it was warm in Greenland, it was... |
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| Dendrochronology | |
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| Radiocarbon Daters Tune Up Their Time Machine |
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· 01/18/2010 1:32:41 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 24 replies · 461+ views · · ScienceNow · · Friday, January 15, 2010 · · Michael Balter · |
The basic principle of radiocarbon dating is fairly simple. Plants and animals absorb trace amounts of radioactive carbon-14 from carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere while they are alive but stop doing so when they die... Most experts consider the technical limit of radiocarbon dating to be about 50,000 years, after which there is too little carbon-14 left to measure accurately. ...The amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere varies with fluctuations in solar activity and Earth's magnetic field, and "raw" radiocarbon dates have to be corrected with a calibration curve that takes these fluctuations into account. ...To calibrate the period... |
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| Ancient Autopsies | |
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| Alpine ice man may have been childless outcast |
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· 02/03/2006 6:43:25 PM PST · · Posted by presidio9 · · 66 replies · 1,373+ views · · Reuters · · Fri Feb 3, 2006 · · Sophie Hardach · |
Stone Age man found frozen in the Alps some 5,300 years after he was murdered under mysterious circumstances may have been a childless social outcast, a new study showed. Italian anthropologist Franco Rollo studied fragments of the DNA belonging to Oetzi, as the mummy has come to be known, and found two typical mutations common among men with reduced sperm mobility, the museum that stores the "iceman" said. A high percentage of men with such a condition are sterile. "Insofar as the 'iceman' was found to possess both mutations, the possibility that he was unable to father offspring cannot be... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| Europe's conquering heroes? Likely farmers: study |
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· 01/19/2010 3:44:16 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 15 replies · 253+ views · · Reuters · · Jan 19, 2010 · · Reporting by Maggie Fox · · Editing by JoAnne Allen · |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The conquerors who spread their seed across Europe in ancient times were prosperous farmers who imported their skills from the Middle East, researchers reported on Tuesday. A study of the Y chromosome -- passed down with very little change from father to son -- suggests that the men of Europe are descended from populations that moved into Europe 10,000 years ago from the "Fertile Crescent", which stretches from Egypt across the Middle East into present-day Iraq. "Maybe, back then, it was just sexier to be a farmer," Dr. Patricia Balaresque of Britain's University of Leicester said in... |
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| Bottlenecks | |
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| Genome Study Provides a Census of Early Humans |
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· 01/19/2010 4:21:03 AM PST · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 41 replies · 435+ views · · NY Times (Science Times) · · January 18, 2010 · · NICHOLAS WADE · |
From the composition of just two human genomes, geneticists have computed the size of the human population 1.2 million years ago from which everyone in the world is descended. They put the number at 18,500 people, but this refers only to breeding individuals, the "effective" population. The actual population would have been about three times as large, or 55,500. Comparable estimates for other primates then are 21,000 for chimpanzees and 25,000 for gorillas. In biological terms, it seems, humans were not a very successful species, and the strategy of investing in larger brains than those of their fellow apes had... |
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| Agriculture and Animal Husbandry | |
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| Giant cattle to be bred back from extinction |
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· 01/18/2010 6:38:36 PM PST · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 54 replies · 1,417+ views · · telegraph.co.uk · · Jan. 18, 2010 · · Nick Squires · |
Aurochs were immortalised in prehistoric cave paintings and admired for their brute strength and "elephantine" size by Julius Caesar. But despite their having gone the way of the dodo and the woolly mammoth, there are plans to bring the giant animals back to life. The huge cattle with sweeping horns which once roamed the forests of Europe have not been seen for nearly 400 years. Now Italian scientists are hoping to use genetic expertise and selective breeding of modern-day wild cattle to recreate the fearsome beasts which weighed around 2,200lb and stood 6.5 feet at the shoulder. Breeds of large... |
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| Art History | |
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| Full-Figured Statuette, 35,000 Years Old, Provides New Clues to How Art Evolved |
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· 05/14/2009 10:11:11 AM PDT · · Posted by ETL · · 41 replies · 1,799+ views · · New York Times · · May 13, 2009 · · JOHN NOBLE WILFORD · |
No one would mistake the Stone Age ivory carving for a Venus de Milo. The voluptuous woman depicted is, to say the least, earthier, with huge, projecting breasts and sexually explicit genitals. Nicholas J. Conard, an archaeologist at the University of Tübingen, in Germany, who found the small carving in a cave last year, said it was at least 35,000 years old, "one of the oldest known examples of figurative art" in the world. It is about 5,000 years older than some other so-called Venus artifacts made by early populations of Homo sapiens in Europe. Another archaeologist, Paul Mellars of... |
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| Neandertals / Neanderthals | |
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| Neanderthals Enjoyed Surf and Turf Meals |
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· 01/18/2010 1:38:03 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 41 replies · 443+ views · · Discovery News · · Tuesday, January 12, 2010 · · Jennifer Viegas · |
Recently at Discovery News I told you about Neanderthal-made shell jewelry that suggests these hominids were as smart and creative as modern humans were at the time the jewelry was made, 50,000 years ago. University of Bristol archaeologist Joao Zilhao, who led the project, told me about some other interesting discoveries he and his team made about Neanderthals. One concerns how they harvested shellfish for consumption... Note that the Neanderthals didn't wear their dinner discards, just as we don't today. (Or usually don't. Maybe someone out there has made a necklace out of last night's oyster or lobster remains.) The... |
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| Prehistory and Origins | |
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| Feet hold the key to human hand evolution [ make sure your fire insurance is up to date ] |
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· 01/18/2010 12:06:35 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 23 replies · 340+ views · · BBC News · · Monday, January 18, 2010 · · Victoria Gill · |
Scientists may have solved the mystery of how human hands became nimble enough to make and manipulate stone tools. The team reports in the journal Evolution that changes in our hands and fingers were a side-effect of changes in the shape of our feet. This, they say, shows that the capacity to stand and walk on two feet is intrinsically linked to the emergence of stone tool technology. The scientists used a mathematical model to simulate the changes. Other researchers, though, have questioned this approach. Campbell Rolian, a scientist from the University of Calgary in Canada who led the study,... |
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| Paleontology | |
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| New theory on the origin of primates |
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· 01/19/2010 11:33:29 AM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 26 replies · 442+ views · · Buffalo Museum of Science · · Jan 19, 2010 · · Unknown · |
A new model for primate origins is presented in Zoologica Scripta, published by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The paper argues that the distributions of the major primate groups are correlated with Mesozoic tectonic features and that their respective ranges are congruent with each evolving locally from a widespread ancestor on the supercontinent of Pangea about 185 million years ago. Michael Heads, a Research Associate of the Buffalo Museum of Science, arrived at these conclusions by incorporating, for the first time, spatial patterns of primate diversity and distribution as historical evidence... |
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| Early Water on Earth |
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· 02/09/2003 4:22:57 PM PST · · Posted by CalConservative · · 44 replies · 706+ views · · Geotimes · · February 2003 · · Salma Monani · |
Geologists have long thought that Earth's first 500 million years were as hot as Hades, dubbing this time frame the Hadean. The high temperatures would have prevented liquid water from condensing on the surface. But new findings on zircon grains, Earth's oldest known terrestrial materials, suggest that the Hadean might have hosted liquid water. Recovered from the metamorphosed sediments of the Jack Hills in western Australia, the zircon grains are dated to be more than 4 billion years old and are the only geological evidence available to provide insight into the first 500 million years... |
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| Age of Sail | |
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| ..Unlocking the bloody history of the ship made famous by Turner, the Fighting Temeraire |
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· 01/22/2010 11:19:48 AM PST · · Posted by C19fan · · 19 replies · 693+ views · · Daily Mail · · January 22, 2010 · · Sam Willis · |
Struggling to breathe in mouthfuls of air rank with choking gunsmoke, hundreds of men and boys crouched low on the gun decks of His Majesty's Ship Temeraire. In that cramped space, where shouted orders competed with the screams of the injured, blood ran freely through a hull hewn from English oaks. Already the sails high above were riddled with chain shot from the French warships, but it was there, on the crowded gundecks that a brutal slaughter was unfolding. In the hellish tempest of the Battle of Trafalgar, in an act of almost suicidal valour, the Temeraire's captain chose to... |
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| Scotland Yet | |
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| Team drills for century-old Scotch whiskey in Antarctica |
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· 11/16/2009 8:36:45 AM PST · · Posted by buccaneer81 · · 22 replies · 1,511+ views · · The Columbus Dispatch · · November 16, 2009 · · NA · |
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago. The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition. |
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| Most harmful books of the 19th & 20th centuries |
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· 01/20/2010 7:26:23 AM PST · · Posted by Responsibility2nd · · 78 replies · 1,120+ views · · San Antonio Express-News · · 01/14/2010 · · Human Events · |
1. "The Communist Manifesto" (Marx and Engels) 2. "Mein Kampf" (Hitler) 3. "Quotations from Chairman Mao" (Mao) 4. "The Kinsey Report" (Kinsey) 5. "Democracy and Education" (Dewey) 6. "Das Kapital" (Marx) 7. "The Feminine Mystique" (Friedan) 8. "The Course of Positive Philosophy" (Comte) 9. "Beyond Good and Evil" (Nietzsche) 10. "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" (Keynes) |
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| Climate | |
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| Melting Himalayan Glaciers Another Fraud by AGW Proponents |
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· 01/18/2010 12:41:54 PM PST · · Posted by ezfindit · · 19 replies · 540+ views · · TimesOnline · · 1/17/2010 · · Jonathan Leake · |
A warning that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it. Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035. In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based... |
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| Flakey Idea | |
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| First ever snowflake photos go on sale |
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· 01/21/2010 8:35:27 PM PST · · Posted by bruinbirdman · · 20 replies · 1,116+ views · · The Telegraph · · 1/21/2010 · |
Photographs by Wilson A. Bentley, the first person to capture the image of a single snowflake with a camera in 1885, are to be auctioned in New York. The farmer from Vermont became known as Snowman Bentley and The Snowflake Man for his pioneering 19th century images of thousands of jewel-like snowflakes. A four-day sale of his work begins on Thursday, with 26 of his images to be auctioned at the American Antiques Show. Ten of the images are of snowflakes, which he called snow crystals, and are priced at $4,800 (£3,000) each. The others show winter scenes. They are... |
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· 01/20/2010 1:22:25 PM PST · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 48 replies · 961+ views · · Numismaster · · January 19, 2010 · · Alan Herbert · |
What kind of car is pictured on the back of the $10 note? The question of the make and model of the automobile on the back of the U.S. $10 notes has been a regular one virtually ever since the notes first were printed, in 1928. A considerable amount of misinformation has found its way into reference works along with the facts, which are these: The $10 notes in the series 1928 Gold Certificates, 1928 and later Federal Reserve Notes, 1929 Federal Reserve Bank Notes, and 1933, 1934, 1934A, 1934B, 1934C, 1934D and 1953 Silver Certificates all bear the same... |
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· 01/19/2010 3:15:36 PM PST · · Posted by Freakdog · · 44 replies · 965+ views · · wbal.com · |
The traditional visit by an unknown shadowy figure who has left 3 roses and a half bottle of cognac on Edgar Allen Poes grave,failed to show up last night. |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #289 Saturday, January 30, 2010 |
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| Africa | |
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| Magnificence on Cave Walls |
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· 01/25/2010 9:46:02 AM PST · · Posted by Palter · · 11 replies · 622+ views · · WSJ · · 23 Jan 2010 · · Michael Fitzgerald · |
Inanke's prehistoric paintings are a celebration of life The trail to the great cave of Inanke in southern Zimbabwe begins confidently with arrows painted on bare patches of granite and soon vanishes into four miles of often pathless wandering through fields of shoulder-high grass, dense scrub forests and formidable thorn bushes. Without the direction of our guide, the archaeologist Paul Hubbard, our group would never have found this cave containing some of the most magnificent prehistoric paintings in the world. But reach the approximately 30-foot-long frieze of intricately varied paintings and you will find it free of the man-made barriers,... |
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| Epigraphy and Language | |
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| Solomon & Sheba, Inc. -- New inscription confirms trade relations between "towns of Judah" and... |
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· 01/24/2010 3:50:06 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 22 replies · 433+ views · · Biblical Archaeology Review · · January/February 2010 · · Andre Lemaire · |
Southern Arabia is 1,200 miles south of Israel. Naturally, skepticism about the reality of trade between South Arabia and Israel in ancient times seems justified. Yet the Bible documents this trade quite extensively -- most famously in the supposed affair between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. And the land of Sheba is referred to two dozen times in the Hebrew Bible. Without addressing the historicity of the personal relations between Solomon and the queen of this South Arabian kingdom (or queendom?), I think it can be shown that the international trade between Judah and southern Arabia very probably... |
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| Early copy of the Gospel of Mark is a forgery |
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· 01/28/2010 10:49:09 AM PST · · Posted by NYer · · 15 replies · 683+ views · · The Art Newspaper · · January 27, 2010 · · Emily Sharpe · |
Not what it appears to be: the Archaic Mark LONDON. A clever bit of detective work by US scholars and scientists has proven that one of the jewels of the University of Chicago's manuscript collection is, in fact, a skilled late 19th- or early 20th-century forgery. Although speculation as to the authenticity of the Archaic Mark codex has been rife for more than 60 years, prior to this definitive research many believed it was an early record (possibly as early as the 14th century) of the Gospel of Mark and the closest of any extant manuscript to the world's oldest... |
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| She Was A Sister Who Really Cooked | |
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| Joan of Arc 'Relics' Confirmed to Be Fake |
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· 01/26/2010 6:24:55 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 24 replies · 469+ views · · Discovery News · · Wednesday, January 20, 2010 · · Jennifer Viegas · |
The bottle containing the bones first surfaced at a pharmacy in 1867. Its label read: "Remains found under the pyre of Joan of Arc, maiden of Orleans." Different techniques, including DNA analysis, several forms of microscopy, chemical analysis and carbon dating, were used to examine the bottle's contents. A few years ago, Philippe Charlier, a forensic scientist at Raymond Poincare Hospital in Garches, France, and his team first determined that the bottle contained an approximately 4-inch-long human rib covered with a black coating. It also housed part of a cat femur covered with the same coating, three fragments of "charcoal"... |
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| Two thousand year old Roman aqueduct discovered |
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· 01/25/2010 3:39:35 PM PST · · Posted by bruinbirdman · · 57 replies · 1,255+ views · · The Telegraph · · 1/25/2008 · · Nick Squires in Rome · |
Pair of British amateur archaeologists believe they have found the hidden source of a Roman aqueduct 1,900 years after it was inaugurated by the Emperor Trajan. The underground spring lies behind a concealed door beneath an abandoned 13th century church on the shores of Lake Bracciano, 35 miles north of Rome. Exploration of the site has shown that water percolating through volcanic bedrock was collected in underground grottoes and chambers and fed into a subterranean aqueduct, the Aqua Traiana, which took it all the way to the imperial capital. Prof. Lorenzo Quilici in the Aqua Traiana Centuries later, it provided... |
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| The sea level has been rising and falling over the last 2,500 years |
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· 01/26/2010 6:55:04 AM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 16 replies · 407+ views · · University of Haifa · · Jan 26, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Templar Palace in AcreCaption: Rising and falling sea levels over relatively short periods do not indicate long-term trends. An assessment of hundreds and thousands of years shows that what seems an irregular phenomenon today is in fact nothing new," explains Dr. Dorit Sivan, who supervised the research. The Templar palace in Acre, seen here, is one of the sites where this study was carried out. Credit: Amir Yurman, Director of the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies Maritime Workshop at the University of Haifa; Courtesy of the University of Haifa Usage Restrictions: The image may only be used with the... |
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| The Hobbit | |
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| Human Evolution; Is the Hobbit's brain unfeasibly small? |
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· 01/28/2010 1:12:23 PM PST · · Posted by EnderWiggins · · 24 replies · 295+ views · · ScienceDaily · · 1/28/2010 · · EnderWiggins · |
Homo floresiensis, a pygmy-sized small-brained hominin popularly known as 'the Hobbit' was discovered five years ago, but controversy continues over whether the small brain is actually due to a pathological condition. How can its tiny brain size be explained? The commonly held assumption that as primates evolved, their brains always tended to get bigger has been challenged by a team of scientists at Cambridge and Durham. Their work helps solve the mystery of whether Homo floresiensis -- dubbed the Hobbit due to its diminutive stature -- was a separate human species or a diseased individual. The team combined previously published... |
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| Scientist: Alien life could already be on Earth |
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· 01/26/2010 10:34:14 AM PST · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 39 replies · 744+ views · · Associated Press · · Jan. 26, 2010 · · RAPHAEL G. SATTER · |
LONDON (AP) - For the past 50 years, scientists have scoured the skies for radio signals from beyond our planet, hoping for some sign of extraterrestrial life. But one physicist says there's no reason alien life couldn't already be lurking among us -- or maybe even in us. Paul Davies, an award-winning Arizona State University physicist known for his popular science writing said Tuesday that life may have developed on Earth not once but several times. Davies said the variant life forms -- most likely tiny microbes -- could still be hanging around "right under or noses -- or even in our noses." |
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| Why Human Blood Drives Mosquitoes Wild |
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· 01/24/2010 4:43:53 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 25 replies · 745+ views · · Live Science · · Jan 24, 2010 · · Marlene Cimons · |
This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. When the time came for chemical ecologist Walter Leal to test whether humans make a natural odor that attracts mosquitoes, Leal himself was the first to volunteer. "I measured my own levels," Leal said. "I thought I would set a good example. If you do it first, then others won't be scared." In truth, there was little if any reason to be frightened. The scientists were looking only for the substance itself, not trying to find out whether the compound would lure the insects... |
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| Dinosaur Species Vanish! |
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· 01/24/2010 10:47:33 PM PST · · Posted by bruinbirdman · · 24 replies · 772+ views · · Smithsonian · · 1/20/2010 · · Amanda Bensen, Abby Callard · |
from left: Dracorex hogwartsia, Stygimoloch spinifer and Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis Dinosaur Species Vanish! The dinosaurs above have been considered three species. But a new analysis of fossil skulls led by the University of Montana suggests they're different life stages of P. wyomingensis, whose horns disappear and dome head grows over time. The find fuels speculation that up to a third of recognized dinosaur species are in fact juvenile forms of other specicies. |
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| Dinosaur True Colors Revealed for First Time |
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· 01/28/2010 3:58:33 PM PST · · Posted by Nachum · · 18 replies · 774+ views · · National Geographic · · 1/28/10 · · Chris Sloan · |
"Dino fuzz" pigment discovery in feathers may strengthen dinosaur-bird link. Pigments have been found in fossil dinosaurs for the first time, a new study says. The discovery may prove once and for all that dinosaurs' hairlike filaments -- sometimes called dino fuzz -- are related to bird feathers, paleontologists announced today. (Pictures: Dinosaur True Colors Revealed by Feather Find.) The finding may also open up a new world of prehistoric color, illuminating the role of color in dinosaur behavior and allowing the first accurately colored dinosaur re-creations, according to the study team, led by Fucheng Zhang of China's Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology. The team... |
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| All Eggs One Basket | |
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| Ostriches gave up flying when dinosaurs died out |
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· 01/23/2010 12:06:39 PM PST · · Posted by LibWhacker · · 40 replies · 505+ views · · Telegraph · · 1/23/10 · |
Emus and ostriches became fat, flightless birds after dinosaurs died out and were no longer around to chase them, scientists believe.An abundance of food and lack of predators following the mass extinction 65 million years saw previously flighted birds put on so much weight that they had to walk instead, according to research by Australian National University. A molecular dating study revealed that the African ostrich, Australasian emu, South American rhea and New Zealand moa became flightless independently following the disappearance of dinosaurs. |
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| Feathered Dinosaurs Could Glide |
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· 01/27/2010 5:41:25 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 12 replies · 264+ views · · Discovery News · · Tuesday, January 26, 2010 · · Associated Press · |
In an effort to determine the flight abilities of the animals, researchers built models of these early birds and launched them into the air. [University of Kansas] |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| Iraq launches project to renovate Ezekiel's shrine |
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· 05/04/2009 4:12:23 PM PDT · · Posted by forkinsocket · · 2 replies · 220+ views · · The Jerusalem Post · · May 1, 2009 · · Staff · |
The Iraqi government has launched a project to renovate the interior of the prophet Ezekiel's shrine in the small town of Kifl, south of Baghdad, and the country's Ministry for Tourism and Antiquities says it hopes to eventually repair and renovate other Jewish sites across the country. "The ministry is concerned with all Iraqi heritage, whether it is Christian or Jewish or from any other religion," ministry spokesman Abdelzahra al-Talaqani told AFP. "The present plans do not include the synagogues in Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, Fallujah and other places because of lack of funding, but I think they will be included... |
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| Erasing Ezekiel's Jewish identity [aka let's build a Mosque on Ezekiel's tomb!] |
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· 01/29/2010 3:14:10 PM PST · · Posted by SJackson · · 27 replies · 327+ views · · Jerusalem Post · · 1-20-10 · · KSENIA SVETLOVA · |
Iraq removing Hebrew inscriptions from tomb, mosque to be built on grave. For centuries Jews, Christians and Muslims came to Al-Kifl, a small town south of Baghdad, to visit the tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel and pray. The distinctive Jewish character of the Al-Kifl shrine, namely the Hebrew inscriptions and the Torah Ark, never bothered the gentile worshipers. In the 14th century a minaret was built next to the shrine, but the interior design remained Jewish. The vast majority of Iraq's Jewish community left some 60 years ago, but Shi'ites took good care of the holy site. Until now. Recently... |
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| Afghans love to get their (headless) goat in national sport of buzkashi (Olympic sport?) |
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· 01/24/2010 6:59:24 AM PST · · Posted by Libloather · · 31 replies · 623+ views · · LA Times · · 1/03/10 · · Tony Perry · |
Afghans love to get their goat in national sport of buzkashiThe sport, in which players on horseback vie for a headless goat carcass to much crowd enthusiasm, is back in force since the Taliban's overthrow. Some dream of it being in the Olympics. January 03, 2010|By Tony Perry Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan -- Leaning far off his horse like a polo player, amid a chaotic-looking scrum of other riders doing the same, the rider snatched the decapitated goat by a foreleg and galloped off. He whipped his heavy-breathing horse for more speed while the others raced in pursuit. As they... |
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| 1000-Year-Old Monument with Image of Mayan Ruler Found |
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· 01/24/2010 3:33:23 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 22 replies · 689+ views · · Art Daily · · Sunday, January 24, 2010 · · EFE · |
A 1000-year-old stele with the sculpted image of a Mayan ruler was found in the archaeological area of Lagartero in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, the National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, said. In the bas-relief sculpture the Mayan ruler rises above an individual who lies at his feet, "a scene representing the seizing of power by one Maya group from another," INAH said, adding that the archaeological area of Lagartero will be open to the public this year. INAH experts found the stone monument in late 2009 at the 10th section of Pyramid 4 in Lagartero, the... |
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| Middle Ages and Renaissance | |
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| Leonardo da Vinci's bones to be dug up by Italian scientists |
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· 01/23/2010 8:36:00 PM PST · · Posted by bruinbirdman · · 59 replies · 960+ views · · The Times · · 1/24/2008 · · John Follain · |
Scientists seeking permission to exhume the remains of Leonardo da Vinci plan to reconstruct his face to discover whether his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, is a disguised self-portrait. A team from Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage, a leading association of scientists and art historians, has asked to open the tomb in which the Renaissance painter and polymath is believed to lie at Amboise castle, in the Loire valley, where he died in 1519, aged 67. Giorgio Gruppioni, an anthropologist, said the project could throw new light on Leonardo's most famous work. "If we manage to find his skull, we... |
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| Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II |
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· 01/17/2010 1:21:58 AM PST · · Posted by Lucius Cornelius Sulla · · 9 replies · 412+ views · · The Wall Street Journal · · JANUARY 14, 2010 · · A.N. Wilson · |
The travellers trotted on, and as the sun began to sink towards the White Downs far away on the western horizon they came to Bywater by its wide pool, and there they had their first really painful shock. This was Frodo and Sam's own country, and they found out now that they cared about it more than any other place in the world. Many of the houses that they had known were missing. Some seemed to have been burned down. The pleasant row of old hobbit-holes in the bank in the north side of the Pool were deserted,... |
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| What Are You Reading Now? (My Quarterly Survey) |
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· 01/12/2010 7:17:29 PM PST · · Posted by MplsSteve · · 279 replies · 2,400+ views · · 1/12/10 · |
OK, it's time for my quarterly What Are You Reading Now? survey. I do this because I like to gauge what Freepers are reading. I believe that the Freeper community are one of the more well-read on the Internet. What are you reading? It can be anything...a classic novel, a NY Times bestseller, a technical journal, a trashy pulp novel - in short, anything. Please do not defile this thread by replying "I'm Reading This Thread". It became unfunny a long time ago. I'll start. I'm reading "Pickett's Charge: A Microstudy" by George R Stewart. It was written in 1959... |
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| 'People's History' author Howard Zinn dies at 87 |
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· 01/27/2010 6:12:33 PM PST · · Posted by takbodan · · 24 replies · 638+ views · · AP · · 1/27/10 · · Hillel Italie · |
Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose leftist "A People's History of the United States" sold a million copies and became an alternative to mainstream texts and a favorite of such celebrities as Bruce Springsteen and Ben Affleck, died Wednesday. He was 87. Zinn died of a heart attack in Santa Monica, Calif., daughter Myla Kabat-Zinn said. The historian was a resident of Auburndale, Mass. Published in 1980 with little promotion and a first printing of 5,000, "A People's History" was -- fittingly -- a people's best-seller, attracting a wide audience through word of mouth and reaching 1... |
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| Students Face a Class Struggle at State Colleges |
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· 01/24/2010 4:21:10 AM PST · · Posted by reaganaut1 · · 26 replies · 758+ views · · New York Times · · January 23, 2010 · · Katharine Mieszkowski · |
... Mr. Macias is just one of more than 26,000 students at San Francisco State, and now educational opportunities cost more and are harder to grasp and even harder to hold onto than ever before. Mr. Macias's experience of truncated offerings, furloughed professors and crowded classrooms is typical. ... Terry Hartle, the senior vice president of the American Council on Education, a [higher education] trade association, confirmed that higher education in California has become akin to navigating an obstacle course. ... In 1960, he added, the state created "the gold standard in high-quality, low-cost public higher education. This year, the... |
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· 01/26/2010 4:16:12 PM PST · · Posted by Lorianne · · 3 replies · 87+ views · · City Journal · · 15 January 2010 · · Richard M. Reinsch (reviewer) · |
A new study points to the Virginian's emphasis on civic virtue. A book review of: James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government, by Colleen A. Sheehan (Cambridge University Press, 204pp.) In her excellent new study, Colleen A. Sheehan argues that James Madison is preeminent among the Founders in his insistence on the civic cultivation of public opinion. Madison's purposes, seemingly inconsistent at different points of his political career, ultimately cohere, she believes, in his quest to secure republican self-government in the infant nation. She begins with a Madison whose faith in self-government had been shaken after American independence, thanks... |
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· 01/27/2010 10:03:20 AM PST · · Posted by Palter · · 9 replies · 582+ views · · The New York Times · · 26 Jan 2010 · · SEWELL CHAN · |
When the remains of hundreds of colonial-era Africans were uncovered during a building excavation in Lower Manhattan in 1991, one coffin in particular stood out. Nailed into its wooden lid were iron tacks, 51 of which formed an enigmatic, heart-shaped design. The pattern was soon identified as the sankofa -- a symbol printed on funereal garments in West Africa -- and it captured the imagination of scholars, preservationists and designers. Ultimately, it was embraced by many African-Americans as a remarkable example of the survival of African customs in the face of violent subjugation in early America. The sankofa was widely... |
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· 01/24/2010 12:03:46 PM PST · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 61 replies · 1,271+ views · · livescience · · 23 January 2010 · · Heather Whipps · |
Be sure to crack open a cold one on Jan. 24, the day canned beer celebrates its 75th birthday. New Jersey's Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company churned out the world's first beer can in 1935, stocking select shelves in Richmond, Va., as a market test. The experiment took off and American drinkers haven't looked back since, nowadays choosing cans over bottles for the majority of the 22 gallons of beer they each drink per year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Canned brewskies may have only hit shelves in 1935, but the drink's history goes back much further -- at least... |
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| Could a Frozen Camera Dethrone Hillary and Norgay as the First to Summit Everest? |
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· 01/28/2010 10:24:39 AM PST · · Posted by Palter · · 25 replies · 1,027+ views · · Scientific American · · 26 Jan 2010 · · Larry Greenemeier · |
Photo detective work could solve an enigma nearly nine decades old. But will it vindicate Hillary's historic climb or rewrite the record books? On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine left their camp less than a kilometer from the summit of Mount Everest on a mission to be the first mountaineers to ascend the world's highest peak (8,850 meters). They were never to be heard from again. Whether either man reached the summit -- almost three decades before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's historic 1953 climb -- has been an open question for nearly 86 years. Although more than half a... |
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· 01/28/2010 12:50:25 PM PST · · Posted by free1977free · · 69 replies · 874+ views · · examiner.com · · January 28 · · Jennifer Ellis May · |
Where were you on January 28th, 1986? Were you in a classroom watching the first teacher go into space? Do you remember how you felt when you saw the Challenger explode soon after it left the earth? CNN reports that about 17% of Americans were watching when the disaster occurred. One hour later, 85% had heard the news. It is estimated that 48% of 9-13 year-olds were watching. Teacher Christa Macauliffe was supposed to be the first teacher in space, but she never made it. She died in the explosion along with the six astronauts accompanying her. Most of today's... |
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· 01/28/2010 7:50:50 PM PST · · Posted by Liberty Tree Surgeon · · 2 replies · 415+ views · · Openminds.tv · · Jan 15, 2010 · · Alejandro Rojas · |
In the 1990's Laurance Rockefeller became interested in paranormal phenomena, especially with UFOs and Extraterrestrial visitation. He funded scientific investigations and organized and funded a briefing document to record the best evidence (Open Minds journalist, Antonio Huneeus was a key contributor to this document). Rockefeller also conferred with the Clintons regarding the release of files by President Bill Clinton. In these famous pictures of Hillary and Rockefeller walking on a wooded path during the visit, Hilary is holding a book. For years researchers have been trying to figure out which book she is holding, to find out if it... |
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