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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #344 Saturday, February 12, 2011 |
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| Egypt | |
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| Is Indiana Jones the next victim of Egypt's revolution? (Zahi Hawass) |
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· 02/14/2011 6:59:00 PM PST · · Posted by Pan_Yan · · 24 replies · · Christian Science Monitor · · February 14, 2011 · · Dan Murphy · |
A few days ago, in the shadow of the great Pyramids at Giza, the Egyptian monuments that draw millions of tourists to visit Egypt every year, the opinion among workers on the lower rungs of the economy was unanimous: The big man had to go. No, they weren't talking about Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian dictator chased from power last Friday. On the president, opinions were mixed. But the answer to the question "what would you most like to see changed about the regime" could be boiled down to two words: Zahi Hawass. Mr. Hawass, who has run Egypt's Supreme Council... |
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| King Tut statue among missing Egypt treasures, minister says |
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· 02/13/2011 5:50:56 AM PST · · Posted by Pan_Yan · · 46 replies · · CNN · · February 13, 2011 -- Updated 1326 GMT (2126 HKT) · · CNN Wire Staff · |
Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- At least 17 artifacts from the Egyptian Museum of Cairo are missing following a break-in, the country's minister of antiquities said Sunday. The missing objects include a gilded wood statue of King Tutankhamun being carried by a goddess; parts of a a gilded wood statue of Tutankhamun harpooning; a limestone statue of Akhenaten; a statue of Nefertiti making offerings; a sandstone head of an Amarna princess; a stone statuette of a scribe from Amarna; 11 wooden shabti statuettes of Yuya; and a heart scarab of Yuya. The discovery that the ancient treasures are missing came after... |
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| King Tut statue among missing Egypt treasures, minister says |
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· 02/13/2011 8:28:09 PM PST · · Posted by Red Badger · · 43 replies · · CNN NEWS WIRE · · 13 Feb 2011 · · Staff · |
Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- At least 17 artifacts from the Egyptian Museum of Cairo are missing following a break-in, the country's minister of antiquities said Sunday. The missing objects include a gilded wood statue of King Tutankhamun being carried by a goddess; parts of a gilded wood statue of Tutankhamun harpooning; a limestone statue of Akhenaten; a statue of Nefertiti making offerings; a sandstone head of an Amarna princess; a stone statuette of a scribe from Amarna; 1 wooden shabti statuettes of Yuya; and a heart scarab of Yuya. The discovery that the ancient treasures are missing came after museum... |
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| Ancient Autopsies | |
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| Mummies' false toes helped ancient Egyptians walk |
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· 02/13/2011 4:58:18 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 21 replies · · U of Manchester · · February 13, 2011 · · Unknown · |
Two artificial big toes -- one found attached to the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy -- may have been the world's earliest functional prosthetic body parts, says the scientist who tested replicas on volunteers. University of Manchester researcher, Dr Jacky Finch, has shown that a three-part wood and leather artefact housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, along with a second one, the Greville Chester artificial toe on display in the British Museum, not only looked the part but also helped their toeless owners walk like Egyptians. The toes date from before 600BC, predating what was hitherto thought to... |
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| Africa | |
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| Ethiopian Christ Icon Found 500 Years On |
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· 01/27/2011 9:53:14 PM PST · · Posted by marshmallow · · 15 replies · · The Daily Telegraph (UK) · · 12/23/10 · |
An 15th century Ethiopian icon of the infant Christ child sitting on his mother's knee was discovered after it was cleaned by a British charity.The central panel of the triptych had over the centuries become blackened with the sprinkling of perfume that the monks use as they worship. The hugely important and stunning painted wood panel is now visible in its original coloured glory, showing a pale-faced Jesus with black curly hair and rosy cheeks. His hand has three digits raised and two down as if blessing the person looking at him. He has a halo and is wearing a... |
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| Paleontology | |
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| Xenacoelomorpha -- a new phylum in the animal kingdom |
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· 02/16/2011 8:42:51 AM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 21 replies · · Max-Planck-Gesellschaft · · February 15, 2011 · · Unknown · |
Scientists reorganise the animal phylogenetic tree An international team of scientists including Albert Poustka from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin has discovered that Xenoturbellida and the acoelomorph worms, both simple marine worms, are more closely related to complex organisms like humans and sea urchins than was previously assumed. As a result they have made a major revision to the phylogenetic history of animals. Up to now, the acoelomate worms were viewed as the crucial link between simple animals like sponges and jellyfish and more complex organisms. It has now emerged that these animals did not always... |
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| Biological anthropologists question claims for human ancestry |
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· 02/18/2011 12:46:53 PM PST · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 16 replies · · PhysOrg · · 02/17/2011 · |
"Too simple" and "not so fast" suggest biological anthropologists from the George Washington University and New York University about the origins of human ancestry. In the upcoming issue of the journal Nature, the anthropologists question the claims that several prominent fossil discoveries made in the last decade are our human ancestors. Instead, the authors offer a more nuanced explanation of the fossils' place in the Tree of Life. They conclude that instead of being our ancestors the fossils more likely belong to extinct distant cousins. "Don't get me wrong, these are all important finds," said co-author Bernard Wood, University Professor... |
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| Earliest humans not so different from us, research suggests |
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· 02/14/2011 2:33:19 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 26 replies · · U of Chicago Press Journals · · February 14, 2011 · · Unknown · |
That human evolution follows a progressive trajectory is one of the most deeply-entrenched assumptions about our species. This assumption is often expressed in popular media by showing cavemen speaking in grunts and monosyllables (the GEICO Cavemen being a notable exception). But is this assumption correct? Were the earliest humans significantly different from us? In a paper published in the latest issue of Current Anthropology, archaeologist John Shea (Stony Brook University) shows they were not. The problem, Shea argues, is that archaeologists have been focusing on the wrong measurement of early human behavior. Archaeologists have been searching for evidence of "behavioral... |
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| Spark of Life | |
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| Rewrite the textbooks (yakkity axons) |
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· 02/17/2011 3:28:37 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 15 replies · · Northwestern University · · February 17, 2011 · · Unknown · |
Findings challenge conventional wisdom of how neurons operate -- Neurons are complicated, but the basic functional concept is that synapses transmit electrical signals to the dendrites and cell body (input), and axons carry signals away (output). In one of many surprise findings, Northwestern University scientists have discovered that axons can operate in reverse: they can send signals to the cell body, too. It also turns out axons can talk to each other. Before sending signals in reverse, axons can perform their own neural computations without any involvement from the cell body or dendrites. This is contrary to typical neuronal communication where an... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| Gonorrhea acquires a piece of human DNA |
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· 02/13/2011 2:39:33 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 57 replies · · Northwestern University · · February 13, 2011 · · Unknown · |
First evidence of gene transfer from human host to bacterial pathogen offers new view of evolution, diseaseCHICAGO --- If a human cell and a bacterial cell met at a speed-dating event, they would never be expected to exchange phone numbers, much less genetic material. In more scientific terms, a direct transfer of DNA has never been recorded from humans to bacteria. Until now. Northwestern Medicine researchers have discovered the first evidence of a human DNA fragment in a bacterial genome -- in this case, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea. Further research showed the gene transfer appears to be... |
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| Near East | |
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| Thousands of Tombs in Saudi Desert Spotted From Space |
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· 02/16/2011 8:15:23 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 83 replies · · Live Science · · February 15, 2011 · · Rebecca Kessler · |
Little is known about the archaeology of Saudi Arabia, as the government has historically forbid aerial photographs of the landscape and religious sensitivities have made access tricky. But Google Earth is changing that. Satellite images available via the Web-based 3-D map program show that large portions of the country hold a wealth of archaeological remains that predate Islam and may be several thousand years old. Researchers recently discovered nearly 2,000 tombs by peering through one high-resolution "window" at a rocky lava field east of the city of Jeddah -- all without having to set foot in the Saudi desert. Judging... |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| 'World's first skyscraper sought to intimidate masses' |
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· 02/14/2011 5:44:35 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 20 replies · · Jerusalem Post · · Tuesday, February 15, 2011 · · Arieh O'Sullivan / The Media Line · |
Long before its Biblical walls came tumbling down, Jericho's residents were being enticed to give up hunting and gathering and start farming for a living. They settled in this oasis next to the Jordan River and built a mysterious 8.5-meter (28-foot) stone tower on the edge of town. When discovered by archaeologists in 1952, it was dated at over 11,000 years old, making it the first and oldest public building even found. But its purpose and the motivation for erecting it has been debated ever since. Now, using computer technology, Israeli archaeologists are saying it was built to mark the... |
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| Catastrophism & Astronomy | |
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| The moment Britain became an island |
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· 02/14/2011 6:31:35 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 62 replies · · BBC News Magazine · · Monday, February 14, 2011 · · Megan Lane · |
The coastline and landscape of what would become modern Britain began to emerge at the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000 years ago. What had been a cold, dry tundra on the north-western edge of Europe grew warmer and wetter as the ice caps melted. The Irish Sea, North Sea and the Channel were all dry land, albeit land slowly being submerged as sea levels rose. But it wasn't until 6,100BC that Britain broke free of mainland Europe for good, during the Mesolithic period -- the Middle Stone Age. It is thought a landslide in Norway triggered one... |
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| Ancient Britons 'drank from skulls' |
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· 02/16/2011 3:40:26 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 45 replies · · BBC · · February 16, 2011 · · Jonathan Amos · |
Ancient Britons were not averse to using human skulls as drinking cups, skeletal remains unearthed in southwest England suggest. The braincases from three individuals were fashioned in such a meticulous way that their use as bowls to hold liquid seems the only reasonable explanation. The 14,700-year-old objects were discovered in Gough's Cave, Somerset. Scientists from London's Natural History Museum say the skull-cups were probably used in some kind of ritual. "If you look around the world there are examples of skull-cups in more recent times - in Tibetan culture, in Fiji in Oceania, and in India," said Dr Silvia Bello,... |
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| Briton snaps pic of 'Bownessie' |
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· 02/19/2011 8:56:35 AM PST · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 42 replies · · upi · · Feb. 18, 2011 · |
WINDERMERE, England - A British man said he used his cellphone to snap a picture of what he said is "Bownessie," a legendary creature in England's Lake Windermere. Tom Pickles, 24, said he snapped the picture of the creature, known as the English counterpart to Scotland's Loch Ness monster, Feb. 11 while on a kayaking exercise with his company, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday. Pickles said the creature was the size of three cars and was visible for about 20 seconds. "Its skin was like a seal's but its shape was completely abnormal -- it's not like any animal I've... |
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| Learning and Performing Shakespeare |
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· 02/08/2011 3:06:17 PM PST · · Posted by nickcarraway · · 8 replies · · TribLocal · · 2/7/2011 · · Peter Tantillo · |
Reading lists for middle school and high school students routinely include Shakespearean plays, but most teens find themselves struggling to translate the plays into language they can understand. However, from day one back in October, Mrs. Mary Raithel assured the St. Alphonsus Liguori middle school students that they would not have to read Macbeth. They would be learning by performing Macbeth. And so they did, as the entire St. Alphonsus Middle School staged their outstanding performances of Scenes from Macbeth on Wednesday, January 26, for an audience of nearly 150 proud parents, family members and guests. Eight scenes from this... |
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| Archaeoastronomy & Megaliths | |
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| English Heritage steps in to rescue prehistoric earthwork ["Roman Ridge"] |
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· 02/14/2011 6:16:22 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 10 replies · · Stone Pages · · Sunday, February 13, 2011 · · Archaeo News · |
The so-called Roman Ridge is a 2,000-year-old earthwork which pre-dates the arrival of the Romans in Britain. Experts believe it was constructed to mark territories or grazing areas for cattle in an area which once marked the southern borders of the Brigantes, the biggest tribe in Celtic Britain who lived in what is now northern England. The portion of the earthwork, which stands up to two metres tall and stretches for 730 metres into Swinton Wood, is a rare survivor. The feature once covered 12 miles between Wincobank and the area beyond Wath upon Dearne. It will now be repaired... |
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| Roman Empire | |
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| Roman child's footprints found |
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· 02/17/2011 7:26:28 AM PST · · Posted by Silentgypsy · · 34 replies · · Sky News · · 02/15/2011 · · Gerard Tubb · |
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/2000-Year-Old-Roman-Childs-Footprints-Discovered-By-Archaeologists-In-North-Yorkshire/Article/201102315931164?f=rss Exclusive: Roman Child's Footprints Found 4:38pm UK, Tuesday February 15, 2011 Gerard Tubb, north of England correspondent Two thousand-year-old footprints left by a Roman child playing by the side of a road have been found in North Yorkshire. |
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| The Vikings | |
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| Secrets in Stone: Rare Archaeological Find in Norway |
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· 02/05/2011 8:50:14 PM PST · · Posted by Red Badger · · 36 replies · · Science Daily · · 1-31-2011 · · Staff · |
It looked to be a routine excavation of what was thought to be a burial mound. But beneath the mound, archaeologists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Museum of Natura History and Archaeology found something more: unusual Bronze Age petroglyphs. "We believe these are very special in a Norwegian context," says museum researcher and project manager Anne Haug. The excavation in Stjørdal, just north of Trondheim, was necessitated by the expansion of a necessitated by the expansion of a gravel pit. Given that project archaeologists didn't anticipate that the dig would be very complicated the museum researchers dedicated... |
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| Evidence of clan-based societies in Megalithic period |
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· 02/14/2011 5:55:40 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 7 replies · · The Hindu · · Saturday, February 12, 2011 · · Giji K. Raman · |
Earthen burials were recently found in Amaravathy and Cheruthoni. This is in addition to such findings at Santhanpara, Chempakapara, Udumpanchola, Marayur, Adimaly, Anakkara, Thopramkudy, Murikkattukudy, Kambilikandam, Parathodu and Rajakkad, he said. The findings are evidence to the existence of a clan-based society in the Megalithic period in the High Ranges of Idukki district. Researchers have found evidence of settlers near the rock mountains at Anappara in Anakkara village, he said. Heavy man-made granite structures ('veerakkallu') were found at Anappara, Adayalakkallu and many other areas. Veerakkallu is a marked burial place of warriors in the pre-historic era. These urns and granite... |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis & PreClovis | |
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| Ancient canals on the Suncoast?[FL] |
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· 02/15/2011 3:54:50 PM PST · · Posted by Palter · · 54 replies · · WWSB · · 15 Feb 2011 · · Josh Taylor · |
A Central Florida man believes he has discovered what's left of a highly advanced ancient civilization by using some new technology, and says some of the evidence is right here on the Suncoast. "Looking further, I begin to find the real beauty in Cortez." John Jensen is no archaeologist. He says he's just an amatuer researcher of what's under the water. Well, what he says he's observed from the sky could rewrite the history of the world. "I recognize some patterns that appear to be man-made, or at least not natural." He's identified more than 60 sites in places like... |
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| Peru & the Andes | |
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| Incan artefacts at Yale to be returned to Peru (Yale returns stolen artifacts) |
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· 02/12/2011 8:41:59 AM PST · · Posted by eleni121 · · 158 replies · · Financial Times · · Feb 11, 2011 · · Naomi Mapstone · |
One hundred years after American explorer Hiram Bingham took tens of thousands of artefacts from the Incan city of Machu Picchu back to his alma mater, Yale University is sending them home. |
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| Oh So Mysteriouso | |
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| Secret of Voynich Manuscript, an Ancient Book Written in 'Alien' Code, Partly Revealed |
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· 02/12/2011 2:01:35 PM PST · · Posted by FTJM · · 61 replies · · FoxNews.com · · 2/11/11 · |
Part of the mystery behind an 'alien' book no one can read has at last been unraveled. Found in a chest of books outside Rome by a dealer in antique books, the Voynich manuscript is among literature's great mysteries. The book of aging parchment is written in alien characters, some resembling Latin letters, others unlike anything used in any known language, and arranged into what appear to be words and sentences -- except they don't resemble anything written or read by human beings. And for decades, the manuscript has mystified scientists. "Is it a code, a cipher of some kind?"... |
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| The Mystery Of The Voynich Manuscript (New) |
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· 06/27/2004 6:33:08 PM PDT · · Posted by blam · · 40 replies · 487+ views · · Scientific American · · 6-28-2004 · · Gordon Rugg · |
The Mystery of the Voynich ManuscriptNew analysis of a famously cryptic medieval document suggests that it contains nothing but gibberish By Gordon Rugg Image: BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY, YALE UNIVERSITYSTRANGE IMAGES of heavenly spheres, fantastic plants and nude women adorn the pages of the Voynich manuscript, which is written in an odd script that does not match that of any known language. The manuscript now resides at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Overview/A Medieval Mystery In 1912 Wilfrid Voynich, an American rare-book dealer, made the find of a lifetime in the library of... |
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| The Voynich manuscript - Another twist in the tale (((Democrat play book I'd guess))) |
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· 01/08/2004 6:41:17 PM PST · · Posted by Phil V. · · 9 replies · 187+ views · · The Economist print edition · · Jan 8th 2004 · · staff · |
The Voynich manuscript Another twist in the tale Jan 8th 2004 From The Economist print edition A possible explanation for the world's most enigmatic book Worth 600 ducats of anybody's money! THE Voynich manuscript, once owned by Emperor Rudolph II in 16th-century Bohemia, is filled with drawings of fantastic plants, zodiacal symbols and naked ladies. Far more intriguing than its illustrations, however, is the accompanying text: 234 pages of beautifully formed, yet completely unintelligible script. Modern scholars have pored over the book since 1912, when Wilfrid Voynich, an American antiquarian, bought the manuscript and started circulating copies in the... |
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| Strange Artifacts - Voynich Manuscript |
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· 01/18/2003 2:37:38 PM PST · · Posted by vannrox · · 13 replies · 751+ views · · World Mysteries · · Various - FR post 1-5-03 · · Various · |
Introduction The Voynich Manuscript is considered to be 'The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World'. To this day this medieval artifact resists all efforts at translation. It is either an ingenious hoax or an unbreakable cipher. The manuscript is named after its discoverer, the American antique book dealer and collector, Wilfrid M. Voynich, who discovered it in 1912, amongst a collection of ancient manuscripts kept in villa Mondragone in Frascati, near Rome, which had been by then turned into a Jesuit College (closed in 1953). The Voynich Manuscript is a cipher manuscript, sometimes attributed to Roger Bacon. Scientific text... |
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| The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript (APOD) |
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· 08/27/2002 6:26:51 AM PDT · · Posted by Jalapeno · · 17 replies · 339+ views · · APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) · |
Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 August 26 The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Credit: Yale University ; Digital Copyright: B. E. Schaefer (U. Texas) Explanation: The ancient text has no known title, no known author, and is written in no known language: what does it say and why does it have many astronomy illustrations? The mysterious book was once bought by an emperor, forgotten on a library shelf, sold for thousands of dollars, and... |
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| Astronomy Picture of the Day 8-26-02 |
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· 08/25/2002 10:16:02 PM PDT · · Posted by petuniasevan · · 12 replies · 230+ views · · NASA · · 8-26-02 · · Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell · |
Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 August 26 The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Credit: Yale University ; Digital Copyright: B. E. Schaefer (U. Texas) Explanation: The ancient text has no known title, no known author, and is written in no known language: what does it say and why does it have many astronomy illustrations? The mysterious book was once bought by an emperor, forgotten on a library shelf, sold for thousands of dollars, and... |
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| World War Eleven | |
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| Third Reich 3D movies unearthed - Documaker Philippe Mora finds unknown pre-war pics |
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· 02/15/2011 11:57:42 AM PST · · Posted by Arec Barrwin · · 10 replies · · Variety · · February 15, 2011 · · Nick Holdsworth · |
Posted: Tue., Feb. 15, 2011, 6:59am PT Third Reich 3D movies unearthed Documaker Philippe Mora finds unknown pre-war pics By Nick Holdsworth BERLIN -- Films shot on 3D in pre-war Nazi German have been unearthed in Berlin's Federal Archives. Two 30 minute black and white propaganda films in 1936 were found by Australian director Philippe Mora, who is prepping a feature length documentary on how the Nazis used images to manipulate reality. Mora broke new ground with his first film "Swastika" when it was released in 1973 featuring previously unseen color footage from Hitler's "home" movies shot on a 16mm... |
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| If Only Democrats Loved America Like Pilsen Czechs |
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· 02/17/2011 5:16:29 PM PST · · Posted by maddog55 · · 7 replies · · Plancks Constant · · 15 Aug 2010 · · Bernie · |
Early in the morning of 6 May 1945, American soldiers from the 2d Cavalry Group, Third Army, under the command of General George S. Patton, reached south-western Bohemia and decisively helped in the liberation of the city of Pilsen in what is now the Czech Republic. It wasn't until the fall of Communism that the citizens of Pilsen finally learned who it was that liberated their city and so every year since 1990 the city has held a "Liberation Festival" to honor American soldiers. The festival has become a local tradition and many American and Allied veterans make it a... |
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| White House Science Advisor: Climate Change Skeptics Are "Heretics' |
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· 02/18/2011 11:09:51 AM PST · · Posted by jazusamo · · 79 replies · · CNSNews · · February 17, 2011 · · Chris Neefus · |
John Holdren, Director of White House Science and Technology Policy with President Barack Obama at The White House (CNSNews.com) -- President Obama's top science advisor, Dr. John Holdren, told a congressman asking about climate change skeptics that climate change is accepted science and that "there are always heretics" in the scientific community."This is not the view of a few isolated scientists, this is the overwhelming view of scientists who study this matter around the world," Holdren said, adding, "There are always skeptics, there are always heretics. That's in the nature of science. VIDEO 2:57 minutes Holdren, who heads the... |
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| Longer Perspectives | |
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| Time for a new rigorous Association of Scientists |
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· 02/14/2011 7:19:05 AM PST · · Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach · · 34 replies · · JoNova · · February 14th, 2011 · · Joanne · |
Below is the O so apt resignation of Steven J. Welcenbach from the American Chemical Society (ACS). In it he describes how the largest scientific society in the world has become a non-scientific activist group bowing to political pressure and ignoring it's members objections. Such is his ire and dismay, he is not only pulling his membership but vows to do all he can to make sure ACS does not receive public money. He suggests that many former members will form a new society that rigorously follows the scientific method (hear hear). It's time to start talking about that new... |
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| 711-2011: East Meets West Conference |
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· 02/08/2011 12:47:50 PM PST · · Posted by triumphant values · · 17 replies · · Virginia Military Institute · · January, 2011 · · VMI · |
A fusion between two worlds began 1300 years ago with Tariq ibn Ziyad's crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar in 711. Please join us to commemorate the brilliant contributions resulting from the blending of eastern and western cultures. The agenda will tell the vital story of the achievements when Christians, Jews, and Muslims thrived side by side in Western Europe, building a society that lit the Dark Ages. Experts will discuss how to transform education, promote tolerance, civility, political reform, and advance human development so that we can emulate the spirit and triumphs of the early years. Diplomacy and Democratization... |
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| Thoroughly Modern Miscellany | |
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| The Collapse of Arab Civilization? |
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· 02/13/2011 8:35:02 AM PST · · Posted by kingattax · · 89 replies · · American Thinker · · February 13, 2011 · · Michael Fraley · |
Five years ago, Lt. Col James G. Lacey published the article "The Impending Collapse of Arab Civilization" in The Naval Institute: Proceedings." He disputed the conclusions of two books which have particularly influenced recent foreign policy and grand strategy: The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, by Bernard Lewis, and The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington. In his article, he stated: A more accurate understanding of events leads to the conclusion that Arab, not Muslim, civilization is in a state of collapse, and it just happens that most Arabs are... |
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| The Revolution | |
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| This Presidents Day, A Lesson In Greatness |
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· 02/18/2011 4:48:35 PM PST · · Posted by Kaslin · · 4 replies · · IBD Editorials · · February 18, 2011 · · MICHAEL RAMIREZ · |
Presidents Day is a good time to reflect both on the accomplishments of presidents past and on the lessons of history. It's also a time to honor our truly great presidents: George Washington, the father of our country; Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator; and Ronald Reagan, the great communicator. Reagan, the greatest president of modern times, provides all of us a lesson in presidential leadership. True, it was his oratorical skill that made Reagan such a potent force. But it was his ideas and his unwavering belief in America's greatness that made him great. Take America's Cold War with the... |
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| The Framers | |
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| Our new Jeffersonian Era |
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· 02/13/2011 5:30:20 PM PST · · Posted by Kaslin · · 17 replies · · Townhall.com · · February 13, 2011 · · Salena Zito · |
WASHINGTON- Apropos of our democracy, Alexander Hamilton's and Thomas Jefferson's statues stand miles apart here. America always has been at odds with these two Founders' philosophies of where the nation's exceptionalism would be found. Today we are in the midst of a cultural U-turn away from a Hamiltonian meritocratic-elitist, centralized-power society to a more Jeffersonian Main Street focus, with state and local governments as the primary powerbrokers. "When the country feels as though we have pushed too far in one direction, it swings back to the other side," says Dr. Lara Brown, author of "Jockeying for the American Presidency." Prone... |
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· 02/18/2011 2:01:29 AM PST · · Posted by RJR_fan · · 10 replies · · youtube · · Feb. 17, 2011 · · unknown · |
HERE is a link to an amazing little video, 6 minutes 25 seconds long, that covers 200 years of compulsory education. Memorable quotes, worth sharing widely. |
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· Saturday, February 19, 2011 · 37 topics · 2670569 to 2672674 · 765 members · |
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Welcome to the 344th issue. The begin-end topic numbers were the same last week (2669177 to 2669177), which was a mistake, and of course no one noticed because no one uses those but me. :') I've had to figure out what's up with that. And this week I've again experienced a formatting problem, and frankly I'm not going to worry about it. :') I need to automate this process a bit more. |
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