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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #412 Saturday, June 9, 2012 |
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| Catastrophism & Astronomy | |
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| Mysterious radiation burst recorded in tree rings |
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· 06/04/2012 10:58:45 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 46 replies · · Nature · · Sunday, June 3, 2012 · · Richard A. Lovett · |
Just over 1,200 years ago, the planet was hit by an extremely intense burst of high-energy radiation of unknown cause, scientists studying tree-ring data have found. The radiation burst, which seems to have hit between AD 774 and AD 775, was detected by looking at the amounts of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in tree rings that formed during the AD 775 growing season in the Northern Hemisphere. The increase in 14C levels is so clear that the scientists, led by Fusa Miyake, a cosmic-ray physicist from Nagoya University in Japan, conclude that the atmospheric level of 14C must have jumped... |
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| The Cosmic Story of Carbon-14 |
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· 06/05/2012 12:48:06 AM PDT · · Posted by LibWhacker · · 16 replies · · Starts with a Bang · · 6/4/12 · · Ethan Siegel · |
"Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties." --James Jeans Here on Earth, every living thing is based around four fundamental, elemental building blocks of life: hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and, perhaps most importantly, carbon.Image Credit: Robert Johnson / University of Pennsylvania. From diamonds to nanotubes to DNA, carbon is indispensable for constructing practically all of the most intricate structures we know of. Most of the carbon in our world comes from long-dead stars, in the form of Carbon-12: carbon atoms containing six neutrons in their nucleus. About 1.1% of all carbon is Carbon-13, with one... |
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| Fossil Discovery: More Evidence for Asia, Not Africa, as the Source of Earliest Anthropoid Primates |
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· 06/07/2012 2:49:58 PM PDT · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 28 replies · · Science Daily · · 06/07/2012 · |
An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of Afrasia djijidae, a new fossil primate from Myanmar that illuminates a critical step in the evolution of early anthropoids -- the group that includes humans, apes, and monkeys. The 37-million-year-old Afrasia closely resembles another early anthropoid, Afrotarsius libycus, recently discovered at a site of similar age in the Sahara Desert of Libya. The close similarity between Afrasia and Afrotarsius indicates that early anthropoids colonized Africa only shortly before the time when these animals lived. The colonization of Africa by early anthropoids was a pivotal step in primate and human evolution,... |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis & PreClovis | |
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| Old Vero Man Site History |
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· 06/04/2012 6:29:20 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 7 replies · · Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee · · obtained Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 · · unattributed · |
In 1913 the Indian River Farms Company was dredging the Main Relief Canal in Vero Florida, in preparation to handle an expanding population. (It was not called Vero Beach until 1925.) The workers on this project kept seeing fossilized bones in the walls or banks of the freshly dredged canal. Some of these bones were presented to the state geologist, Dr E.H. Sellards. Dr. Sellards suggested that they also look for human bones during a visit to the site. In 1916 Dr Sellards, working with Frank Ayers, Isaac Wells, and others found more human bones in the strata known as... |
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| There IS a link between genius and madness - but we don't know why we evolved this 'gift' |
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· 06/04/2012 6:33:40 AM PDT · · Posted by C19fan · · 60 replies · · UK Daily Mail · · June 4, 2012 · · Rob Waugh · |
There IS a link between creative genius and madness - with both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder frequent in highly creative and intelligent people. The idea was investigated by a panel of scientists who had all suffered some form of mental disorder. Kay Redfield Jamison of John Hopkins school of Medicine, who suffers from bipolar disorder, said that intelligence tests on Swedish 16-year-olds had shown that highly intelligent children were most likely to go on to develop the disorder. |
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| New discovery at early Islamic site in Jordan: Uncovered inscription reveals name of Umayyad prince |
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· 06/07/2012 5:23:36 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 6 replies · · Art Daily · · Thursday, June 7, 2012 · · Art, or someone who knows him · |
The site is a small building dating to the Umayyad period and is known for its mural paintings. Gazelle and wild donkey hunts, dances, musicians, court scenes and allegories, and zodiac symbols are all painted on interior surfaces. The inscription, which previously could not be read due to accumulated dirt and previous unsuccessful cleaning attempts, is an invocation to Allah beginning with the formula "Allahumma aslih al-Walid ibn YazÓd" ("Oh God! Make al-WalÓd ibn YazÓd virtuous"). This inscription was painted in white above a window in old Kufic alphabet without any diacritical dots. Sections of the three-line inscription are... |
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| Vandals cause 'irreparable damage' to 1,600-year-old mosaics in Tiberias synagogue |
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· 06/05/2012 6:35:04 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 10 replies · · Times of Israel · · Tuesday, May 29, 2012 · · Michal Shmulovich · |
An ancient Tiberias synagogue was extensively vandalized overnight Tuesday, causing irreversible damage and potentially necessitating millions of dollars in rehabilitation costs. Police opened an investigation, and officials said they suspected ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremists who oppose archaeological excavations of ancient tombs were to blame. "The damage is widespread. Some of the damage is irreversible," said Shaul Goldstein, executive director of the Nature and Parks Authority. The Hammat Tiberias site, which also serves as an archaeological park, boasts 1,600-year-old mosaics. The site's two synagogues date from 286 and 337 CE, when Tiberias was the seat of the Sanhedrin rabbinical court. Among the... |
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| Bulgarian Archaeologists Find Late Antiquity Church on Black Sea Coast |
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· 06/05/2012 4:02:17 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 1 replies · · Novinite · · Monday, May 28, 2012 · · unattributed · |
Bulgarian archaeologists have found a church dating back to the late Antiquity period, which is located near the village of Sarafovo, on the Black Sea coast. The site, which is close to the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Burgas, has been excavated by the team of Prof. Dr. Lyudmil Vagalinski, who is the Director of the National Archaeology Institute and Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, since the start of May 2012. The excavations at Sarafovo (a village also known for hosting a military airfield) began after over the winter the sea waves uncovered parts of a Roman structures... |
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| Continuity down through the ages: Proof of a thousand years' use of a Sicilian farmland estate |
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· 06/05/2012 4:15:08 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 8 replies · · PhysOrg · · Tuesday, May 29, 2012 · · Australian Science Fund · |
Archaeological excavations have provided the first substantiation that a farmland estate in Sicily boasts a history which reaches back over a thousand years. Numerous finds demonstrate the continuous use of the land complex as a nexus of settlement and economic and religious life between the 5th and 16th century. The findings are the result of two projects of the Austrian Science Fund FWF which comprise the first in-depth archaeological exploration of Sicily's Byzantine period... While the ancient era saw the island dominated first by the Greeks and later the Roman Empire, in the High Middle Ages it was the centre... |
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| The True Story Of Dracula (Interesting read) |
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· 08/05/2005 9:06:30 AM PDT · · Posted by robowombat · · 47 replies · · 4,142+ views · · Useless-knowledge.com · · October 18 , 2004 · · Mark Gelbart · |
Halloween is a time when friendly neighbors pretend to be tricked by children dressed up as ghosts, goblins, superheroes, clowns, fairies, and Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles. And in return the adults--feigning surprise--pass out sugary treats; a tradition that has helped those in the dental profession for many generations. Unlike most of the characters that make an annual appearance on our door steps, Dracula is based on a real person. Most people are familiar with the fictional version of Dracula created by Bram Stoker, but they are only vaguely aware... |
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| Ancient 'Vampire' Corpses Unearthed by Bulgarian Archaeologists |
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· 06/06/2012 3:52:39 AM PDT · · Posted by Renfield · · 25 replies · · Medical Daily · · 5-5-2012 · · Christine Hsu · |
More than 100 "vampire" corpses have been dug out from graves across Bulgaria during historic excavations, according to the country's archaeologists. Bozhidar Dimitrov, head of the National History Museum in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, said on Tuesday that Bulgarian archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Middle Ages pierced through the chest with iron rods to keep them from turning into the undead. Dimitrov said that the two "vampire" remains were found last weekend near the Black Sea town of Sozopol. The tradition of hammering an iron rod through the chest bones and heart of 'evil' people to prevent them... |
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| Muslims demand Hagia Sophia be converted into a mosque on anniversary of the fall of Constantinope |
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· 05/29/2012 3:56:54 PM PDT · · Posted by Gillibrand · · 4 replies · · Catholic Church Conservation · · 29 May 2012 · · Cathcon · |
Includes video of the 2012 annual celebrations of the fall of Constantinople which take place in Turkey |
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| Muslims demand Hagia Sophia be converted into a mosque on anniversary of the fall of Constantinope |
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· 05/29/2012 3:56:58 PM PDT · · Posted by Gillibrand · · 58 replies · · Catholic Church Conservation · · 29 May 2012 · · Cathcon · |
Includes video of the 2012 annual celebrations of the fall of Constantinople which take place in Turkey |
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| Chariots in Red Sea: 'Irrefutable evidence' |
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· 06/07/2012 6:56:12 PM PDT · · Posted by ReformationFan · · 79 replies · · World Net Daily · · June 7th, 2012 · · Joe Kovacs · |
A news report that stunned the world nine years ago about the discovery of possible ancient chariot wheels at the bottom of the Red Sea is suddenly gaining fresh attention with new video claiming "irrefutable evidence" that corroborates the find. In June 2003, WND interviewed Bible enthusiasts who dove the waters of the Red Sea, alleging they found and photographed parts of chariots that may be the actual remains of the catastrophe brought upon the Egyptian army which pursued the Israelites, according to the Book of Exodus in the Bible. "I am 99.9 percent sure I picked up a chariot... |
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| Freeman Dyson: Science on the Rampage |
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· 05/09/2012 10:28:59 AM PDT · · Posted by neverdem · · 34 replies · · New York Review of Books · · April 5, 2012 · · Freeman Dyson · |
Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything by Margaret Wertheim Walker, 323 pp., $27.00, Pierpont Morgan Library/Art Resource: An engraving by William Blake from The Song of Los, 1795 -- Physics on the Fringe describes work done by amateurs, people rejected by the academic establishment and rejecting orthodox academic beliefs. They are often self-taught and ignorant of higher mathematics. Mathematics is the language spoken by the professionals. The amateurs offer an... |
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| Primeval Giant Among Giants (African Scientist find skull of 18,000 pound Dinosaur eating Crocodile) |
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· 10/29/2001 11:47:01 AM PST · · Posted by umbra · · 60 replies · · 1,051+ views · · Int'l Herald Tribune · · October 27, 2001 · · Guy Gugliotta · |
The crocodile was a silent stalker, as long as a school bus and weighing almost 18,000 pounds. It cruised the primordial rivers of what is now Saharan Africa, looking for unwary dinosaurs to eat."It was absolutely enormous, said a University of Chicago paleontologist, Paul Sereno, of the 8,165 kilogram creature. "There is nothing that would be able to handle that animal. It's like a torpedo of muscle five feet in diameter. (with body armour) The skull of the world's largest living crocdile looks like an hors d'oeuvre by comparison." In an age of giants 110 million years ago Sarcosuchus imperator ... |
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| Dinosaurs were lighter than previously thought, new study shows |
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· 06/05/2012 7:39:30 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 16 replies · · PhysOrg · · Tuesday, June 5, 2012 · · U of Manchester · |
...University of Manchester biologists used lasers to measure the minimum amount of skin required to wrap around the skeletons of modern-day mammals, including reindeer, polar bears, giraffes and elephants. They discovered that the animals had almost exactly 21% more body mass than the minimum skeletal 'skin and bone' wrap volume, and applied this to a giant Brachiosaur skeleton in Berlin's Museum f¸r Naturkunde. Previous estimates of this Brachiosaur's weight have varied, with estimates as high as 80 tonnes, but the Manchester team's calculations -- published in the journal Biology Letters -- reduced that figure to just 23 tonnes. The team... |
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| Dinosaurs Skinnier Than Previously Thought |
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· 06/06/2012 3:57:55 AM PDT · · Posted by Renfield · · 13 replies · · Discovery News · · 6-5-2012 · · Jennifer Viegas · |
Dinosaurs were often hefty, but not as plump as previously thought. A new study describes a new technique used to measure the weight and size of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. It could forever change museum exhibits, book illustrations, and other recreations of these now-extinct species. The study appears in the latest issue of Biology Letters "This is a huge help for any sort of reconstruction," lead author William Sellers told Discovery News. "We now have a number that suggests how much flesh to add to the bones and that should help people produce animals that are the right balance... |
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| Ye olde vampire slaying kit: Victorian oak box complete with wooden stakes |
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· 06/07/2012 8:07:49 AM PDT · · Posted by C19fan · · 13 replies · · UK Daily Mail · · June 7, 2012 · · Tom Gardner · |
They say you can never be too prepared... but even for the most superstitious person this may be overkill. A 19th century Vampire slaying kit, which includes a wooden mallet and four oak stakes, glass vials of holy water and garlic paste is expected to fetch up £2,000 when auctioned later this month. The macabre artefact also has a percussion cap pistol - invented in the 1830 - and a steel bullet mold, all carefully crafted to offer the best protection against any creatures of the night. |
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| The Revolution | |
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| George Washington, Circular Letter to the States |
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· 06/08/2012 2:13:48 PM PDT · · Posted by Jacquerie · · 18 replies · · The Founders' Constitution · · June 8th, 1783 · · George Washington · |
When word that peace with Great Britain was assured, General Washington issued a blistering condemnation of Congress. In addition to demands for soldier's back pay, he called for reforms to the Articles of Confederation. His admonitions would culminate in 1788 with ratification of the Constitution. George Washington: When we consider the magnitude of the prize we contended for, the doubtful nature of the contest, and the favorable manner in which it has terminated, we shall find the greatest possible reason for gratitude and rejoicing; this is a theme that will afford infinite delight to every benevolent and liberal mind, whether... |
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| Dr Charles Leale's long-lost medical report details his treatment after Lincoln was shot |
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· 06/05/2012 9:07:29 PM PDT · · Posted by smokingfrog · · 16 replies · · dailymail.co.uk · · 5 June 2012 · · Beth Stebner · |
They were filed away and for nearly 150 years, but now researchers have found the report of the young army surgeon who was first to reach Abraham Lincoln after he was shot in the head in Ford Theatre. The 21-page report, written by Dr Charles Leale, a 23-year-old doctor just six weeks into his medical practice who happened to be 40 feet from Lincoln, details his original perceptions of the president's fatal injuries. The historians who discovered the report in the National Archives in Washington believe it was filed, packed in a box, stored at the archives and not seen... |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #413 Saturday, June 16, 2012 |
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| 13th century volcano mystery eruption may be solved (Little Ice Age cause?) |
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· 06/15/2012 1:49:41 PM PDT · · Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach · · 18 replies · · watts Up With That? · · June 15, 2012 · · Anthony Watts · |
A photo of the Rinjani caldera in Indonesia, while Lavigne won't name the volcano until his paper is published, insiders suggest this a likely candidate for the missing 1258 AD eruption. Image: Wikipedia From ScienceNews: Indonesia implicated as location of biggest eruption in last seven millennia By Alexandra Witze SELFOSS, Iceland -- One of the biggest mysteries in volcanology may finally have a solution. An eruption long thought to have gone off in the year 1258, spreading cooling sulfur particles around the globe, happened the year before in Indonesia, scientists report.Until now, researchers have known a big volcano went off... |
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| Humans Did Not Kill Off Mammoths; Comet, Climate Change Helped, Studies Show |
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· 06/12/2012 7:03:32 PM PDT · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 115 replies · · Indian Country Today · · June 13, 2012 · · ICTMN Staff · |
Although human hunting played a part in the demise of the woolly mammoth about 10,000 years ago, homo sapiens were but bit players in a global drama involving climate change, comet impact and a multitude of other factors, scientists have found in separate studies. Previous research had blamed their demise on tribal hunting. But new findings "pretty much dispel the idea of any one factor, any one event, as dooming the mammoths," said Glen MacDonald, a researcher and geographer at the University of California in Los Angeles, to LiveScience.com. In other words, hunting didn't help, but it was not instrumental.... |
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| Monmouth ruin find could pre-date pyramids |
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· 06/16/2012 10:56:54 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 1 replies · · BBC News · · June 13, 2012 · · unattributed · |
Monmouth Archaeology, which found the wooden foundations, said they dated to at least the Bronze Age, but could be early Neolithic, about 6,500 years old... Steve Clarke of Monmouth Archaeology, who has 55 years' experience, claimed nothing like it had been discovered in Britain before and he was checking if something similar had been unearthed on mainland Europe. He said the structure, possibly a long house, had been built on the edge of a long-lost lake, which had silted up over time. The building's foundations were made from entire tree trunks, measuring about a metre wide... Mr Clarke said the... |
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| Spain claims top spot for world's oldest cave art (Is it a Neanderthal "painting?") |
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· 06/15/2012 8:06:11 AM PDT · · Posted by LibWhacker · · 11 replies · · Nature · · 6/14/12 · · Ewen Callaway · |
Archaeologists say red disk that is more than 40,000 years old could have been painted by Neanderthals. [Snip... Photos at link] It's no Mona Lisa, but a smudged red disk in northern Spain has been crowned the world's earliest cave painting. Dated to more than 40,800 years ago, the shape was painted by some of the first modern humans to reach the Iberian Peninsula -- or it may have been done by Neanderthals, residents of the Iberian peninsula for more than 200,000 years. "There is a very good chance that this is Neanderthal," says Alistair Pike, an archaeological scientist at... |
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| Scientists are accused of distorting theory of human evolution by misdating bones |
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· 06/13/2012 3:28:02 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 18 replies · · The Observer · · Saturday, June 9, 2012 · · Robin McKie · |
Britain's leading expert on human evolution, Professor Chris Stringer, of the Natural History Museum, has warned in the journal Evolutionary Anthropology that the team in charge of La Sima has got the ages of its fossils wrong by 200,000 years and has incorrectly identified the species of ancient humans found there. Far from being a 600,000-year-old lair of a species called Homo heidelbergensis, he believes the pit is filled with Neanderthal remains that are no more than 400,000 years old. The difference in interpretation has crucial implications for understanding human evolution... La Sima de los Huesos was discovered by potholers... |
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| Book Review: George Washington's Military Genius |
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· 06/12/2012 7:10:47 PM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 48 replies · · Human Events · · 6/12/2012 · · Jarrett Stepman of review · |
George Washington is justifiably called the "Father of America" for his military and civilian leadership during the American Revolution and his two terms as America's first president, however, in the new book, George Washington's Military Genius, General David Palmer persuasively argues that Washington's strategic military talent was key to his success. Gen. Palmer, who is a former superintendent of West Point, attempts to bust the myths surrounding Washington's American Revolutionary War experience and to put the accomplishments on the battlefield in perspective. Some historians view Washington as an incompetent bungler who merely got lucky in a few engagements with the... |
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· 06/14/2012 11:53:56 AM PDT · · Posted by iowamark · · 12 replies · · Webpronews · · 6/14/2012 · · Todd Rigney · |
George Washington's copies of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, both of which are 223 year-old, are scheduled to hit the auction block at Christie's next week. The documents, which are bound in a book containing notes by the first President of the United States himself, were made available to the press earlier this week. Those who are looking to own a piece of history will have an opportunity to do so on June 22nd. Potential bidders better have plenty of money in the bank, as the documents are expected to fetch upwards of $3 million. What separates this... |
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| Presidential Election History from 1789 to 2008 [Re-elected Ones *Gain* Votes!] |
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· 06/12/2012 12:14:11 PM PDT · · Posted by SoFloFreeper · · 17 replies · · Procon,org · · 6/12/12 · · SFF · |
[The final call on Rush Limbaugh today referred to the history of Presidential elections and the re-election history of our Presidents. A review of this history shows the depth of the problems for Barack Hussein Obama.]The presidential candidates and their political parties, number of electoral and popular votes received, and vice presidential candidates for every election from 1789 to 2008 are listed below, in reverse chronological order. Every candidate that received either more than 100,000 popular votes or at least one electoral vote has been included. |
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· 06/15/2012 6:12:49 AM PDT · · Posted by C19fan · · 38 replies · · UK Daily Mail · · June 15, 2012 · · Chris Brooke · |
When archaeologists claimed to have found the bones of John the Baptist amid the ruins of an ancient Bulgarian monastery experts were understandably sceptical. But carbon dating tests carried out at Oxford University have provided scientific evidence to support the extraordinary claim. A knucklebone has been dated to the 1st Century AD - a time when the revered Jewish prophet is believed to have lived. |
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· 06/15/2012 8:47:02 AM PDT · · Posted by dead · · 80 replies · · NPR.org · · June 15, 2012 · · Christopher Joyce · |
The famous paintings on the walls of caves in Europe mark the beginning of figurative art and a great leap forward for human culture. But now a novel method of determining the age of some of those cave paintings questions their provenance. Not that they're fakes -- only that it might not have been modern humans who made them. The first European cave paintings are thought to have been made over 30,000 years ago. Most depict animals and hunters. Some of the eeriest are stencils of human hands, apparently made by blowing a spray of pigment over a hand held... |
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· 06/15/2012 9:26:33 AM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 25 replies · · post-gazette · · June 15, 2012 · · John Noble Wilford · |
Stone Age artists were painting red disks, handprints, clublike symbols and geometric patterns on European cave walls long before previously thought, in some cases more than 40,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday, after completing more reliable dating tests that raised a possibility that Neanderthals were the artists. A more likely situation, the researchers said, is that the art -- 50 samples from 11 caves in northwestern Spain-- was created by anatomically modern humans fairly soon after their arrival in Europe. The findings seem to put an exclamation point to a run of recent discoveries: direct evidence from fossils that Homo... |
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| The Birth of Bureaucracy (Where Long Lines, Red Tape & Arcane Rules Began; 1650 to 1100 B.C.) |
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· 06/13/2012 7:32:01 PM PDT · · Posted by DogByte6RER · · 17 replies · · Archaeology · · July/August 2012 · · Amanda Summer · |
The Birth of Bureaucracy At the site of Iklaina, excavations are revealing new evidence of how the Mycenaean state functioned - Pylos, in Greece's southwestern Peloponnese, is known for its miles of soft sandy beaches, rocky islets soaring out of the water marking the edges of the Bay of Navarino, and the mountains that cut it off from the rest of Greece. The surrounding region, known as Messenia, is also home to dozens of archaeological sites. Since the nineteenth century, Messenia has attracted archaeologists hoping to uncover remains of Greece's Mycenaean age, the period from approximately 1650 to 1100 B.C.,... |
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| New book offers definitive account of Lindbergh kidnapping |
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· 06/12/2012 4:50:52 PM PDT · · Posted by Robwin · · 20 replies · · Daily Caller · · 06/12/2012 · · Arthur T. Vanderbilt, II · |
Through some incredibly persistent sleuthing, consultation with specialists in modern criminal investigative analysis, and a good dose of luck, author Robert Zorn has solved what has been correctly called "the crime of the century": the Lindbergh kidnapping. And so the [Hauptmann] case ended with as many questions open as answered, all of which are laid out in Cemetery John with precision. And then, with new evidence and equal precision, the author proceeds to answer each one. |
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