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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #418 Saturday, July 21, 2012 |
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| Neandertal / Neanderthal | |
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| Neanderthal Arm Morphology Caused by Scraping, Not Spear Thrusting |
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· 07/21/2012 6:55:13 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 15 replies · · Popular Archaeology · · Wednesday, July 18, 2012 · · PLoS ONE · |
It was scraping hide, not thrusting spears, that caused dominant strength on their right sides. Unique arm morphology in Neandertals was likely caused by scraping activities such as hide preparation, not spear thrusting as previously theorized, according to research published July 18 in the open access journal PLoS ONE*. The researchers, led by Colin Shaw of the University of Cambridge, took muscle measurements of modern men performing three different spear thrusting tasks and four different scraping tasks. They found that muscle activity was significantly higher on the left side of the body for spear thrusting tasks relative to the right... |
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| PreHistory, & Origins | |
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| 300 000 year old flint tools found in Northern France |
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· 07/17/2012 8:15:24 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 24 replies · · Past Horizons · · Monday, July 16, 2012 · · Source: INRAP · |
The deposits at Etricourt Manancourt in the Picardie region of France documents the history of early European settlements, revealing at least five prehistoric levels, ranging between 300,000 and 80,000 years old... Archaeologists from Inrap looked at 17 hectares in 2010, which revealed a Palaeolithic level and more evidence was found in 2012, when 3,200 square metres were excavated over 4 month period. The most recent occupation comes from the Middle Paleolithic (80,000 years old) and belongs to the Neanderthals. Twenty sites of this period are already known in northern France. The next two levels are also Neanderthal and belong to... |
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| Agriculture & Animal Husbandry | |
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| Neanderthals Had Knowledge Of Plant Healing Qualities |
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· 07/19/2012 9:56:13 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 20 replies · · redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports · · Thursday, July 19, 2012 · · Naturwissenschaften · |
A team of researchers has provided the first molecular evidence that Neanderthals not only ate a range of cooked plant foods, but also understood their nutritional and medicinal qualities... The researchers, led by the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and the University of York, combined pyrolysis gas-chromatography-mass spectrometry with morphological analysis of plant microfossils to identify material trapped in dental calculus (calcified dental plaque) from five Neanderthals from the north Spanish site of El Sidrón. Their results provide another twist to the story -- the first molecular evidence for medicinal plants being used by a Neanderthal individual. According to a prepared... |
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| Diet & Cuisine | |
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| An olive stone from 150BC links pre-Roman Britain to today's pizzeria |
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· 07/21/2012 7:25:39 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 36 replies · · guardian.co.uk · · Thursday 19 July 2012 · · Maev Kennedy · |
Iron Age Britons were importing olives from the Mediterranean a century before the Romans arrived with their exotic tastes in food, say archaeologists who have discovered a single olive stone from an excavation of an Iron Age well at at Silchester in Hampshire. The stone came from a layer securely dated to the first century BC, making it the earliest ever found in Britain -- but since nobody ever went to the trouble of importing one olive, there must be more, rotted beyond recognition or still buried. The stone, combined with earlier finds of seasoning herbs such as coriander, dill... |
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| Little Ice Age (Solar Influence) |
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· 12/20/2002 3:38:20 PM PST · · Posted by PeaceBeWithYou · · 41 replies · · 744+ views · · CO2 Science Magazine · · December 18, 2002 · · Staff Summary · |
How much of an influence the sun has exerted on earth's climate during the 20th Century is a topic of heated discussion in the area of global climate change. The primary reason for differing opinions on the subject derives from the fact that although numerous studies have demonstrated significant correlations between certain measures of solar activity and various climatic phenomena (Reid, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2000), the magnitude of the variable solar radiative forcing reported in these studies is generally so small it is difficult to see how it could possibly produce climatic effects of the magnitude observed (Broecker, 1999). Supporters... |
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| Central Asia | |
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| Wet climate may have fueled Mongol invasion |
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· 07/20/2012 6:55:45 PM PDT · · Posted by rjbemsha · · 38 replies · · NBC News · · July 20, 2012 · · Stephanie Pappas · |
Consistent rain and warm temperatures may have given the Mongols the energy source they needed to conquer Eurasia: grass for their horses (huge amount of grass needed to feed the 10 horses for each Mongol warrior). |
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| Megaliths & Archaeoastronomy | |
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| How Big is the Entire Universe? |
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· 07/21/2012 12:57:15 AM PDT · · Posted by LibWhacker · · 43 replies · · Starts with a Bang · · 7/18/12 · · Ethan Siegel · |
(25) Millenium simulation from Volker Springel et al., from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." --Stephen Hawking. The Universe is a vast, seemingly unending marvel of existence. Over the past century, we've learned that the Universe stretches out beyond the billions of stars in our Milky Way, out across billions of light years, containing close to a trillion galaxies all told.Image credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team. And yet, that's just the observable Universe! There are good reasons to believe that the... |
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| Age of Sail | |
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| Ships' logs give clues to Earth's magnetic decline |
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· 05/13/2006 9:51:41 AM PDT · · Posted by Crazieman · · 59 replies · · 1,699+ views · · New Scientist · · May 11, 2006 · · Patrick Berry · |
The voyages of Captain Cook have just yielded a new discovery: the gradual weakening of Earth's magnetic field is a relatively recent phenomenon. The discovery has led experts to question whether the Earth is on track towards a polarity reversal. By sifting through ships' logs recorded by Cook and other mariners dating back to 1590, researchers have greatly extended the period over which the behaviour of the magnetic field can be studied. The data show that the current decline in Earth's magnetism was... |
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| Religion of Pieces | |
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| Ancient Map Shows Egg-Shaped England |
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· 06/06/2004 5:45:19 PM PDT · · Posted by blam · · 54 replies · · 281+ views · · The Guardian (UK) · · 6-6-2004 · · Vanessa Thorpe · |
It is known as a catalogue of 'marvel for the eyes' and tomorrow the public will be able to judge for themselves at last. A previously unknown medieval Arabic map with the earliest representation of an identified 'England' -- a tiny, egg-shaped lump -- is to go on public display in Oxford. The unique and, until now, unseen map is part of a manuscript called the Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels, which was originally put together, probably in the Nile... |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| Gold coins from the Crusades found in Israel |
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· 07/17/2012 5:13:53 AM PDT · · Posted by NYer · · 14 replies · · cna · · July 16, 2012 · |
Tel Aviv, Israel, Jul 16, 2012 / 04:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Israeli archeologists have found more than one hundred gold coins from the time of the Crusades, when conflict arose between Muslims and Christians over control of the Holy Land. "It is an unusual find. We don't have much gold from the time of the Crusades," said Oren Tal, a professor at the University of Tel Aviv who led the investigation. The treasure was found in the ruins of a castle in Arsuf, a strategic bastion during the Crusades of the 12th and 13th centuries. The 108 coins... |
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| No, No, Rudolph, the *Schmidt* House! | |
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| How Ancient Greeks Named Their Puppies |
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· 07/16/2012 10:00:55 PM PDT · · Posted by afraidfortherepublic · · 45 replies · · The Smithsonian · · 7-9-12 · |
Dogs played a special role in ancient Greek society and mythology; Cerberus guarded the gates of Hades, the goddess Artemis used dogs in her hunt, and Greek citizens employed dogs for hunting and protection. To the ancient Greeks, picking your new pup was an important decision, just as it is today. But, according to Stanford University researcher Adrienne Mayor, writing for Wonders & Marvels, the process could have been just a little bit different. Like moderns, the ancients looked for an adventurous and friendly nature, but one test for selecting the pick of the litter seems rather heartless today. Let... |
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| Younger Dryas --The Rest of the Story! |
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· 06/21/2012 2:16:17 PM PDT · · Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach · · 8 replies · · watts Up With That? · · June 16, 2012 · · Anthony Watts · · Rodney Chilton · |
WUWT readers may recall this recent story: New evidence of Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact. The story below provides much more detail about the Younger Dryas event and the split that has developed in the scientific community over the cause. I've added this graph below from NCDC to give readers a sense of time and magnitude of the event. |
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| Impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts/impacts 12,900 years ago |
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· 07/14/2012 6:00:04 AM PDT · · Posted by rjbemsha · · 11 replies · · PNAS · · 10 July 2012 · · Ted Bunch et al. · |
This paper supports the proposal that fragments of an asteroid or comet impacted Earth, deposited silica-and iron-rich microspherules and other proxies across several continents, and triggered the Younger Dryas cooling episode 12,900 years ago. |
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| Comet May Have Collided With Earth 13,000 Years Ago(MEXICO) |
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· 07/15/2012 5:03:34 PM PDT · · Posted by ForGod'sSake · · 49 replies · · Spacedotcom · · March 6, 2012 · · Clara Moskowitz · |
Central Mexico's Lake Cuitzeo contains melted rock formations and nanodiamonds that suggest a comet impacted Earth around 12,900 years ago, scientists say. CREDIT: Israde et al. (2012) New evidence supports the idea that a huge space rock collided with our planet about 13,000 years ago and broke up in Earth's atmosphere, a new study suggests. This impact would have been powerful enough to melt the ground, and could have killed off many large mammals and humans. It may even have set off a period of unusual cold called the Younger Dryas that began at that time, researchers say. The... |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, & PreClovis | |
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| Small Dig, Big Discovery: Chumash Jaw Bone Found Under Vets Center |
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· 07/21/2012 6:13:02 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 11 replies · · Santa Barbara Independent · · Thursday, July 19, 2012 · · Nick Welsh · |
The past and future recently collided in the dirt five feet beneath Santa Barbara's Veterans Memorial Building on Cabrillo Boulevard ...could well knock out of consideration long-simmering plans to erect a three-story museum in the courtyard behind the vets building honoring Santa Barbara's servicemen and women who fought in all foreign wars since World War I. The archeological work took place this June... along the waterfront was once the site of Syuxtun, a major Chumash community for about 1,000 years with about 500 people in its prime, so UCSB archeologist and anthropology professor Lynn Gamble... overseeing a team of UCSB... |
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| Mayans | |
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| Mayans used reservoir, sand-filtered water to support urban population at Tikal |
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· 07/16/2012 5:47:59 PM PDT · · Posted by rjbemsha · · 10 replies · · Science Daily · · 16 July 2012 · · Vernon Scarborough et al. · |
Around 700 AD, Tikal had the largest dam built by the ancient Maya of Central America, used sand filtration to cleanse water entering reservoirs, a "switching station" that accommodated seasonal filling and release of water, and the deepest, rock-cut canal segment in the Maya lowlands. All this to support a population at Tikal of perhaps 60,000 to 80,000 inhabitants and an estimated population of five million in the overall Maya lowlands. |
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| Paleontology | |
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| Where Have the Hawk-Sized Insects Gone? |
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· 07/17/2012 2:44:00 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 60 replies · · ScienceNOW · · June 4, 2012 · · Sid Perkins · |
Around 300 million years ago, dragonflies with the wingspans of hawks flitted above coal-producing swamps. Such giants don't exist today, partly because oxygen levels in the atmosphere are much lower. But another reason is that the evolution of birds and their increasing agility in the air forced flying insects to shrink, according to a new study. Like all multicellular animals, insects fuel their metabolism by taking in oxygen. Unlike creatures with lungs, however, insects draw in air through holes in their shell-like exoskeletons. The oxygen diffuses from those holes to the creatures' tissues through a dense network of tubes. Because... |
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| Beat Rick's Nuts -- Wait, What? | |
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| (Vavavooom!) 600-year-old bra and underwear discovered in an Austrian castle |
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· 07/20/2012 10:24:09 PM PDT · · Posted by DogByte6RER · · 52 replies · · IO9 · · Jul 18, 2012 · · Annalee Newitz · |
600-year-old bra and underwear discovered in an Austrian castle Contemporary bras are more comfortable, modified versions of corsets -- or so it was believed, until a 2007 discovery changed the way we see women's underwear. Working with a team of her colleagues, archaeologist Beatrix Nutz recently publicized her discovery of several linen bras and some underwear in a medieval castle. Nutz has presented academic papers about her discovery, and even analyzed the underwear for DNA (see picture). But the public didn't hear about the medieval bras until a BBC history program showed pictures of them. Nutz and colleagues also found... |
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| Middle Ages & Renaissance | |
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| Cash-strapped Berlin stalked by 450-year-old trillion-Euro debt |
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· 07/19/2012 8:41:06 PM PDT · · Posted by JerseyanExile · · 7 replies · · Reuters · · July 19, 2012 · · Reuters · |
The sleepy hamlet of Mittenwalde in eastern Germany could become one of the richest towns in the world if Berlin were to repay it an outstanding debt that dates back to 1562. A certificate of debt, found in a regional archive, attests that Mittenwalde lent Berlin 400 guilders on May 28 1562, to be repaid with six percent interest per year. According to Radio Berlin Brandenburg RBB.L, the debt would amount to 11,200 guilders today, which is roughly equivalent to 112 million euros. Adjusting for compound interest and inflation, the total debt now lies in the trillions, by RBB's estimates.... |
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| Longer Perspectives | |
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| History Repeating Itself: The Vendee Genocide |
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· 07/20/2012 1:11:30 AM PDT · · Posted by Perseverando · · 7 replies · · Barnhardt · · July 18, AD 2012 10:20 AM MST · · Ann Barnhardt · |
Here's my latest video recorded by the good folks at FreedomTalkNetcast.com down in Pueblo, Colorado. This presentation covers the almost unknown war and genocide against the people of the Vendee region of France during the proto-Marxist French Revolution. This genocide by the atheist, godless, totalitarian French Revolutionaries against the Church killed 450,000 people, and has served as a the tactical template for Marxist governments who have fomented statist schisms and then entered into open war against the Church over the last century, including the Soviets and Mexicans in the early 20th century, and the Red Chinese and Vietnamese, and Marxist... |
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| 6 Factors in the Decline of the Roman Empire (and perhaps America) |
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· 06/25/2009 11:16:21 PM PDT · · Posted by Osnome · · 84 replies · · 4,150+ views · · Osnome · · 6-25-09 · · Osnome · |
Six Most Important Factors that destroyed Roman Civilization: 1)Overtaxation 2)Opression of the Provences by the Central Government 3)Government topheavy with bureaucracy 4)Military power overextended across the world(their world at the time) 5)The Populace diverted by degenerate mass entertainment 6) The Borders poorly defended against increasing foreign migration(in their case, Barbarians) |
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| World War Eleven | |
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| Search for Earhart's Wrecked Plane Continues |
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· 07/19/2012 3:18:06 PM PDT · · Posted by P.O.E. · · 9 replies · · Discovery News · · 07-16-2012 · · Rossella Lorenzi · |
After some technical problems, the search for the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra has begun near the reef slope off the west end of Nikumaroro, a tiny uninhabited island between Hawaii and Australia where the legendary aviator may have landed and died as a castaway 75 years ago. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) is carrying on the the hunt, which relies on a torpedo-shaped Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) called Bluefin-21 and a Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV). |
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| Common Criminals | |
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| Did Yugoslav dictator Tito poison Stalin? |
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· 07/18/2012 7:09:07 AM PDT · · Posted by C19fan · · 20 replies · · UK Daily Mail · · July 18, 2012 · · Staff · |
When Russian leader Josef Stalin died, on March 5 in 1953, a letter was found in his office that had been written by Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito. The two leaders were bitter enemies, after Tito had used World War II as an opportunity to spark a revolution and lead Yugoslavia to independence from Soviet influence. A combination of pride, fear and jealousy had spurred Stalin to attempt to have Tito killed -- and no less than 22 assassination attempts had been made in the years after the war. |
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| Thoroughly Modern Miscellany | |
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| 5 men withstand 1.7 kiloton nuclear explosion |
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· 07/19/2012 7:42:23 PM PDT · · Posted by moonshot925 · · 37 replies · · Youtube · · 3 November 2011 · · atomcentral · |
On July 19, 1957, five men stood at Ground Zero of an atomic test that was being conducted at the Nevada Test Site. This was the test of a 2KT (kiloton) MB-1 nuclear air-to-air rocket launched from an F-89 Scorpion interceptor. The nuclear missile detonated 10,000 ft above their heads. A reel-to-reel tape recorder was present to record their experience. You can see and hear the men react to the shock wave moments after the detonation. The placard reading "Ground Zero; Population Five" was made by Colonel Arthur B. "Barney" Oldfield, the Public Information Officer for the Continental Air Defense Command in Colorado Spring who arranged for the volunteers to participate. The five volunteers were: Colonel Sidney Bruce, Lt. Colonel Frank P. Ball (technical advisor to the Steve Canyon tv show), Major Norman "Bodie" Bodinger, Major John Hughes, Don Lutrel, and George Yoshitake, the cameraman (who wasn't a volunteer). See George discuss his work photographing atomic and nuclear explosions in "Atomic Filmmakers." |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #419 Saturday, July 28, 2012 |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| Polar bears' ancient roots pushed way back |
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· 07/25/2012 6:22:06 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 28 replies · · Science News · · Monday, July 23rd, 2012 · · Devin Powell · |
...A new analysis of its DNA suggests that Ursus maritimus split from the brown bear between 4 million and 5 million years ago -- around the same time when, some scientists believe, the Arctic's thick sea ice first formed. With such old origins, the creature must have weathered extreme shifts in climate, researchers report online July 23 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Simulations of how the DNA changed over time suggest that polar bear populations rose and fell with the temperature. After thriving during cooler times between 800,000 and 600,000 years ago, the bears seem to... |
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| Little animals spread sperm for smelly mosses |
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· 07/25/2012 4:05:46 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 10 replies · · Science News · · Friday, July 20th, 2012 · · Susan Milius · |
Male moss plants don't make pollen, but instead send sperm off to try to swim through dew to find a female moss. Earlier research in dry lab containers showed that the sperm can hitchhike on mites and little arthropods called springtails... Now, lab tests with two moss species show that in more natural, dewy conditions, springtails increased moss fertilization. With water alone, sperm found female moss in roughly a third of moss test clumps, but water plus springtails raised the number to almost half, Eppley and her colleagues report online July 18 in Nature. The new paper improves the case... |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, & PreClovis | |
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| Utah dig unearths large Fremont Indian structure |
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· 07/25/2012 1:04:12 PM PDT · · Posted by ApplegateRanch · · 12 replies · · AP via Indian Country News · · July, 2012 · · unlisted · |
Source is AP story, so only able to post a short excerpt; much more at the link.Archaeologists have struck gold at a dig near the town of Goshen about 35 miles south of Provo: the largest Fremont Indian structure ever found. Jim Allison, anthropology professor at Brigham Young University, said the 850-square-foot structure is unique because it served as a communal area that brought the entire village together. It's several times larger than typical Fremont structures, which average between 80 and 90 square feet. |
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| Prehistoric human remains found along Hwy 99 (Harris County in Texas) |
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· 07/26/2012 4:53:28 PM PDT · · Posted by a fool in paradise · · 24 replies · · ABC News KTRK Channel 13 Houston · · July 26, 2012 · · Deborah Wrigley · |
Work crews clearing the land for the Grand Parkway expansion have made a surprising discovery -- human remains which are being described as 'prehistoric.' The remains were found in the stretch of land known as Grand Parkway segment E. The Grand Parkway segment between I-10 and Highway 290 has been under construction for nearly a year. Last month, in advance of bulldozers moving in, a state archeologist working on the project found something not unexpected for those who seek out the past -- a handful of bones dating back to prehistory. "I know it's a rare find, but knowing this... |
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| Hills in Them Thar Gold | |
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| Stylized Figure Pendant, 5th-7th century Panama; International Style Gold |
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· 07/25/2012 10:18:23 AM PDT · · Posted by muawiyah · · 15 replies · · metropolitan museum of art · · 1977 · · Alice K. Bache · |
Cast in gold over a core, this stylized anthropomorphic figure fluidly integrates human and animal traits. A realistic human face capped by a sweeping headdress extends forward from the abstract body. The generalized depictions of crouching legs, outspread wings, and notched fishtail may connote earth, sky, and sea. The pendant is part of a group of ornaments of uniform style and technology. Both the puzzling combination of elements from different creatures and the superbly finished surfaces set the pendants in the group apart from other Central American goldwork. The group is widely distributed -- they are known from Colombia in the south... |
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| "Dramatic" New Maya Temple Found, Covered With Giant Faces [ El Zotz ] |
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· 07/22/2012 8:12:13 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 81 replies · · National Geographic News · · Friday, July 20, 2012 · · Ker Than · |
Some 1,600 years ago, the Temple of the Night Sun was a blood-red beacon visible for miles and adorned with giant masks of the Maya sun god as a shark, blood drinker, and jaguar. Long since lost to the Guatemalan jungle, the temple is finally showing its faces to archaeologists, and revealing new clues about the rivalrous kingdoms of the Maya. Unlike the relatively centralized Aztec and Inca empires, the Maya civilization -- which spanned much of what are now Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico's Yucatan region (Maya map) -- was a loose aggregation of city-states. "This has been a growing... |
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| Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles | |
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| Ancient Poop Gives Clues to Modern Diabetes Epidemic |
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· 07/25/2012 9:13:27 AM PDT · · Posted by Renfield · · 35 replies · · Live Science · · 7-24-2012 · · Stephanie Pappas · |
The ancient Native Americans of the desert Southwest subsisted on a fiber-filled diet of prickly pear, yucca and flour ground from plant seeds, finds a new analysis of fossilized feces that may explain why modern Native Americans are so susceptible to Type II diabetes. Thousands of years of incredibly fibrous foods, 20 to 30 times more fibrous than today's typical diet, with low impact on the blood sugar likely left this group vulnerable to the illness when richer Anglo foods made their way to North America, said study researcher Karl Reinhard, a professor of forensic sciences at the University of... |
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| Greenland Ice Melt every 150 years is "right on time' |
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· 07/24/2012 7:44:35 PM PDT · · Posted by Rocky · · 14 replies · · Watts Up With That? · · July 24, 2012 · · Anthony Watts · |
"Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time," says Lora Koenig, a Goddard glaciologist and a member of the research team analyzing the satellite data. I covered this over the weekend when Bill McKibben started wailing about the albedo going off the charts. I thought it might be soot related. The PR below and quote above is from NASA Goddard. I had to laugh at the title of their press release, where they cite "Unprecedented... |
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| Tree-rings prove climate was WARMER in Roman and Medieval times than it is now |
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· 07/21/2012 8:40:01 PM PDT · · Posted by dennisw · · 30 replies · · dailymail. · · 11 July 2012 · · Science Reporter · |
How did the Romans grow grapes in northern England? Perhaps because it was warmer than we thought. A study suggests the Britain of 2,000 years ago experienced a lengthy period of hotter summers than today. German researchers used data from tree rings -- a key indicator of past climate -- to claim the world has been on a "long-term cooling trend' for two millennia until the global warming of the twentieth century. This cooling was punctuated by a couple of warm spells. These are the Medieval Warm Period, which is well known, but also a period during the toga-wearing Roman... |
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| Vesuvius, 79 AD | |
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| House of the Telephus Relief: raising the roof on Roman real estate |
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· 07/27/2012 7:47:28 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 8 replies · · Guardian UK · · Monday 23 July 2012 · · John Hooper in Ercolano · |
With several dozen rooms, the House of the Telephus Relief was "top-level Roman real estate", said Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, the director of the Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP). It was more of a palace or mansion, thought to have been built for Marcus Nonius Balbus, the Roman governor of Crete and part of modern-day Libya, whose ostentatious tomb was found nearby. The most lavishly decorated part of the immense residence was a three-storey tower. On the top floor was a nine-metre high dining room with a coloured marble floor and walls, a suspended ceiling and a wrap-around terrace... ...the wind changed direction... |
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| 10 Civilizations That Disappeared Under Mysterious Circumstances |
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· 07/24/2012 7:54:00 PM PDT · · Posted by Sir Napsalot · · 51 replies · · io9 · · 7-23-2012 · · Annalee Newitz · |
For almost as long as we've had civilization, we've lost it. There are records going back hundreds of years of explorers discovering huge temples encrusted with jungle, or giant pits full of treasure that were once grand palaces. Why did people abandon these once-thriving cities, agricultural centers, and trade routes? Often, the answer is unknown. Here are ten great civilizations whose demise remains a mystery. 1. The Maya The Maya are perhaps the classic example of a civilization that was completely lost, its great monuments, cities and roads swallowed up by the central American jungles, and its peoples scattered to... |
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| Were The Dark Ages Really Dark? |
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· 12/10/2002 11:12:37 AM PST · · Posted by Mike Darancette · · 18 replies · · tripod · · September, 1999 · · Greg Bryant · |
.... snip ... Physical Aspects Of The Dark Ages Let's first look at the onset of "the" Dark Ages in the sixth century AD. The Roman Empire was finished, nothing was happening in the sciences, and worse was happening in nature. The Italian historian Flavius Cassiodorus wrote about conditions that he experienced during the year AD 536 : "The Sun...seems to have lost its wonted light, and appears of a bluish colour. We marvel to see no shadows of our bodies at noon, to feel the mighty vigour of the Sun's heat wasted into feebleness, and the phenomena which accompany... |
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| Discovery of early medieval royal stronghold in southwest Scotland [ the Picts ] |
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· 07/27/2012 9:55:32 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 24 replies · · Past Horizons · · Thursday, July 26, 2012 · · unattributed · |
Trusty's Hill, near Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries and Galloway, is best known for the Pictish Symbols carved into a natural rock outcrop at the fort's entrance. However, in recent years, many historians have begun to doubt whether these carvings were genuine, some even suggesting that the carvings are forgeries... As well as an abundance of domestic waste, including animal bones, stone and metal tools and a spindle whorl, from 'dark soil' occupation deposits sealed by the collapsed ramparts of the fort, the excavators recovered numerous crucible and clay mould fragments, metalworking debris and a variety of iron pins and... |
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| Farty Shades of Green | |
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| Kerry island structure may be due to tsunami waves in medieval times |
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· 07/26/2012 8:31:59 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 8 replies · · Irish Central · · Thursday, July 26, 2012 · · Patrick Counihan · |
Alan E Hayden, the director of more than 200 medieval excavations in Ireland, believes the grouping of islands off the Kerry coast suggests earthquake and tsunami wave style damage... The Times report adds: "A folk tale collected by a teacher in the early part of the last century offers an explanation for local place names connected to a road that ran from Dolus Head through the islands to Skellig. "The road, a pre-medieval structure, is called Bothar na Scairte, or road of the cataclysm, and it is traceable for some distance on Valentia. In the folk tale the road and... |
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| Middle Ages & the Renaissance | |
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| Mona Lisa's Skeleton Found? |
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· 07/22/2012 1:11:04 PM PDT · · Posted by BenLurkin · · 20 replies · · Discovery News · · Wed Jul 18, 2012 01:01 PM ET · · Rossella Lorenzi · |
Archaeologists say they have found a complete skeleton buried beneath the floor of an abandoned nunnery in Florence, Italy, which might belong to Lisa Gherardini, the woman believed to have inspired Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The bones were found beneath the remains of an altar in the church of the now derelict Convent of St. Orsola. "That altar was certainly in use at Lisa Gherardini's time," said Valeria D'Aquino, an archaeologist at the Tuscan Superintendency |
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| Prehistory & Origins | |
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| Archaeologists uncover Palaeolithic ceramic art |
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· 07/27/2012 5:43:10 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 18 replies · · Phys.org · · Wednesday, July 25, 2012 · · U of Cambridge · |
Evidence of a community of prehistoric artists and craftspeople who "invented" ceramics during the last Ice Age -- thousands of years before pottery became commonplace -- has been found in modern-day Croatia. The finds consist of 36 fragments, most of them apparently the broken-off remnants of modelled animals, and come from a site called Vela Spila on the Adriatic coast. Archaeologists believe that they were the products of an artistic culture which sprang up in the region about 17,500 years ago. Their ceramic art flourished for about 2,500 years, but then disappeared... Most histories of the technology begin with the... |
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| 6,500 year old hunting trophy found in eastern Croatia |
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· 07/27/2012 7:52:49 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 19 replies · · Croatian Times · · Wednesday, July 25, 2012 · · unattributed · |
Archaeologists in Bapska, eastern Croatia have stumbled across 6,500 year old deer antlers. The hunting trophy was found hanging on the wall of prehistoric house along with valuable items of jewellery, writes website dalje.com. "We have the oldest deer hunting trophy in Croatia," said Marcel Buric, the head researcher at the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. According to Buric, local hunters from Bapska have estimated that the deer, where the antlers trophy has come from, would have weighed between 220 and 250 kilograms and would have been extremely strong due to its 12 antlers.... |
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| Egypt | |
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| First Dynasty funerary boat discovered at Egypt's Abu Rawash |
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· 07/27/2012 7:34:39 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 15 replies · · Ahram Online · · Wednesday, July 25, 2012 · · unattributed · |
During routine excavation works at the Archaic period cemetery located at Abu Rawash area northeast of the Giza Plateau, a French archaeological mission from the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo (IFAO) stumbled on what is believed to be a funerary boat of the First Dynasty King Den (dating from around 3000BC). The funerary boat was buried with royalty, as ancient Egyptians believed it would transfer the king's soul to the afterlife for eternity. Unearthed in the northern area of Mastaba number six (a flat-roofed burial structure) at the archaeological site, boat consists of 11 large wooden planks reaching... |
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| Pharaoh's playground revealed by missing fractals |
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· 07/27/2012 7:37:52 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 13 replies · · New Scientist · · Friday, July 20, 2012 · · Colin Barras · |
The Dahshur royal necropolis in Egypt was once a dazzling sight. Some 30 kilometres south of Cairo, it provided King Sneferu with a playground to hone his pyramid-building skills -- expertise that helped his son, Khufu, build the Great Pyramid of Giza. But most signs of what went on around Dahshur have been wiped away by 4500 years of neglect and decay. To help work out what has been lost, archaeologists have turned to fractals. All around the world, river networks carve fractal patterns in the land that persist long after the rivers have moved on (see picture). "You can... |
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| Alexander the Great | |
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| Alexander the not so Great: History through Persian eyes |
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· 07/25/2012 9:39:37 AM PDT · · Posted by Renfield · · 31 replies · · BBC · · 7-14-2012 · · Ali Ansari · |
Alexander the Great is portrayed as a legendary conqueror and military leader in Greek-influenced Western history books but his legacy looks very different from a Persian perspective. Any visitor to the spectacular ruins of Persepolis -- the site of the ceremonial capital of the ancient Persian Achaemenid empire, will be told three facts: it was built by Darius the Great, embellished by his son Xerxes, and destroyed by that man, Alexander. ~~~snip~~~ He razed Persepolis to the ground following a night of drunken excess at the goading of a Greek courtesan, ostensibly in revenge for the burning of the Acropolis... |
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| The Trojan War | |
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| 'Myths' Are More Plausible than Fiction |
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· 07/24/2012 8:31:13 PM PDT · · Posted by rjbemsha · · 16 replies · · Daily Telegraph via Europhysics Letters · · 25 July 2012 · · Nick Collins · |
[Research] "findings support historians' belief that ancient myths ... may be based, at least in part, on real communities and people." Researchers from Coventry University analysed the texts of three ancient stories and compared the complex web of characters' relationships with the type of "social networks" that occur in real life. The results showed that the societies depicted in the stories strongly mirrored real social networks that had been mapped out by others. But modern fiction differed from the ancient myths, as well as from real social networks, in telltale ways. |
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| Early America | |
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| Ohio's Mysteries: The Old Stone Fort |
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· 07/24/2012 5:51:29 PM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 90 replies · · nbc4i.com · · July 23, 2012 · · Anon · |
It's believed to be the oldest building in Ohio, and possibly the Midwest. But the mystery remains: who built it and why? COSHOCTON, Ohio -- It's believed to be the oldest building in Ohio, and possibly the Midwest -- built nearly a century before the American Revolution. But the mystery remains: who built the Old Stone Fort and why? On an ordinary plot of farm land on County Road 254 in eastern Coshocton County sits what is arguably one of the most important buildings in Ohio history. It is believed that the Old Stone Fort was built sometime around... |
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| The Revolution | |
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| Did any Hessian troops imprisoned in Reading [PA] stay in America after the Revolutionary War? |
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· 07/26/2012 5:42:40 PM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 31 replies · · Reading Eagle · · 7-26-12 · · Ron Devlin · |
Ask Ron Devlin: Country they fought against became home Reading Eagle: Tim Leedy The state historical marker for Hessian Camp on Mineral Spring Road. Dorothy Johnston, who grew up near Hessian Camp in Reading, wondered what happened to the German mercenaries imprisoned in Reading during the Revolutionary War. First, some background. Faced with open revolt in its American Colonies, Britain arranged with the Prince of Hesse-Cassel, the Duke of Brunswick and other German nobles to send troops to the Colonies. By some estimates, 30,000 German mercenaries, including those called Hessians, were sent to help the British squelch the rebellion. After... |
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| Princeton: Battlefield group appeals Planning Board finding |
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· 07/25/2012 9:38:25 AM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 12 replies · · Princeton Packet · · July 24, 2012 · · Jennifer Bradley · |
The Princeton Battlefield Society has filed an appeal of the Princeton Regional Planning Board's decision to allow the Institute for Advanced Study to build faculty housing on a part of the battlefield known as Maxwell's Field on Friday, and is also seeking funds to support the society's fight. According to the society, the proposed development area of the battlefield is believed to be the site of a winning counterattack lead by George Washington during the Battle of Princeton. The appeal includes 12 counts that challenge the Planning Board's decision. "The Planning Board failed numerous times to properly support its decision... |
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| Underwater Archaeology | |
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| Button is clue to sunken ship's history |
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· 07/24/2012 6:03:20 PM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 2 replies · · The St. Augustine Record · · July 23, 2012 · · Marcia Lane · |
A ship's bell from a wreck found off St. Augustine has yielded another clue to the possible identify of the ship that may date from the American Revolution. The clue: a button found in the concretion still attached to the bronze bell that was discovered in 2010 by archaeologists with the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program. "It's in rough shape," Sam Turner, director of archaeology at the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum, said of the button. Even so, the top part of a crown can be seen on the button and similar crowns are found on Royal Provincial buttons plus the... |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Remarkable photos capture life in besieged Washington during the Civil War |
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· 07/26/2012 6:07:43 AM PDT · · Posted by C19fan · · 15 replies · · UK Daily Mail · · July 26, 2012 · · Staff · |
These are the striking black-and-white images which capture America on the cusp of monumental change during the Civil War. But instead of portraying dramatic events such as the bloody Battle of Antietam or Abraham Lincoln's historic address at Gettysburg, the images reveal day-to-day life for those caught during wartime in Washington DC. Defending the nation's capital, which was ripe for invasion by Confederate forces that had set their sights on the city, became a top priority for the U.S. government. |
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| Before the Airplane | |
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| America steams ahead: Incredible black-and-white pictures capture how railroads and steamboats helped forge its future at the turn of the 20th century |
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· 07/20/2012 6:29:52 AM PDT · · Posted by C19fan · · 23 replies · · UK Daily Mail · · July 19, 2012 · · Staff · |
They are images of a nation in motion -- of a country building its future with expanding railroads and industrial opportunities. These glorious black-and-white photographs, which have been released by the Library of Congress, reveal America reveling in its new-found productivity, at a time when steam engines and steamboats were forging the nation ahead. The images, taken between 1870 and 1920, capture the determination with which America tackled the new century -- and how the country also began enjoying the fruits of the 19th century's industrial labour, in what was termed the Gilded Age. |
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| Thoroughly Modern Miscellany | |
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| Latest Amelia Earhart search falls short |
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· 07/23/2012 11:52:52 PM PDT · · Posted by iowamark · · 16 replies · · CBS News · · July 24, 2012 · · AP · |
A $2.2 million expedition that hoped to find wreckage from famed aviator Amelia Earhart's final flight is on its way back to Hawaii without the dramatic, conclusive plane images searchers were hoping to attain. But the group leading the search, The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, still believes Earhart and her navigator crashed onto a reef off a remote island in the Pacific Ocean 75 years ago this month, its president told The Associated Press on Monday. "This is just sort of the way things are in this world," TIGHAR president Pat Thrasher said. "It's not like an Indiana... |
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| Two Submarines | |
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| Search team returning to Churchill River after release of sonar images showing suspected Nazi submarine |
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· 07/27/2012 6:48:39 AM PDT · · Posted by Squawk 8888 · · 10 replies · · National Post · · July 26, 2012 · · Jake Edmiston · |
Until this week, proof of a sunken Nazi submarine in Labrador was confined to old rumours of dark shadows in the Churchill River. The stories go back decades, suggesting that German U-boats had snaked along the river bottom and deep into Labrador. Now newly released sonar images depicting a mysterious submerged shape near Happy Valley-Goose Bay have generated excitement among those who believe the old tales and skepticism among those who don't. |
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| German U-boat Found 100 Kilometers Inland in Labrador |
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· 07/27/2012 8:01:04 AM PDT · · Posted by JerseyanExile · · 36 replies · · Canadian Broadcasting Corporation · · July 25, 2012 · · CBC News · |
An important piece of history from the Second World War may be sitting in a river in Labrador. Searchers believe they've found a German U-boat buried in the sand on the bottom of the Churchill River. The discovery has yet to be authenticated. Two years ago, searchers scoured the bottom of the Churchill River with side-scanning sonar. They were looking for three men lost over Muskrat Falls. When they reviewed the footage from that search, they made an unexpected discovery. "We were looking for something completely different, not a submarine, not a U-boat -- I mean, no one would ever... |
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| Explorers find downed German U-Boat off Mass. |
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· 07/27/2012 4:03:08 PM PDT · · Posted by robowombat · · 39 replies · · Associated Press · · Jul 27, 5:22 PM EDT · · Jay Lindsay · |
BOSTON (AP) -- Divers have discovered a World War II-era German submarine nearly 70 years after it sank under withering U.S. attack in waters off Nantucket. The U-550 was found Monday by a privately funded group organized by New Jersey lawyer Joe Mazraani. It was the second trip in two years to the site by the team, some of whom had been searching for the lost U-boat for two decades. Using side-scan sonar, the seven-man team located the wreck listing to its side in deep water about 70 miles south of Nantucket. Sonar operator Garry Kozak said he spotted the... |
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| World War Eleven | |
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| Doolittle Raiders share memories of their exploits at EAA |
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· 07/25/2012 2:30:04 PM PDT · · Posted by GOP_Party_Animal · · 15 replies · · Milwaukee Journal Sentinal · · 7-25-2012 · · Meg Jones · |
Oshkosh -- As they flew over Tokyo, Richard Cole and David Thatcher realized with relief that Japanese anti-aircraft gunners had never before fired at enemy planes. As the first Americans to strike Japan's home islands during World War II, Cole and Thatcher found that the ack-ack-ack of the flak guns did little damage to the 16 B-25B Mitchell medium bombers that achieved fame as the Doolittle Raiders. It was only four months after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and Japanese military commanders had promised their nation that it was invulnerable. The American crews lost all their planes and their... |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| Fundamentally Freund: Jewish unity and Joseph's Tomb |
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· 07/25/2012 7:41:13 PM PDT · · Posted by Former Fetus · · 5 replies · · The Jerusalem Post · · 7/25/2012 · · MICHAEL FREUND · |
Last week, in the most unlikely of places, I came face to face with the power of Jewish unity. It was well after midnight when the convoy of heavily-guarded Israeli cars and buses began the short drive through the deserted streets of Shechem (Nablus). Posted along the way were young men in IDF uniforms, keeping a watchful eye on the hundreds of Jews who were braving the late hour and our hostile neighbors to visit an ancient Jewish holy site in the heart of Palestinian-controlled territory. For years, I had wanted to visit Joseph's Tomb, the burial place of one... |
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| Bytes of Reality | |
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| Researchers Produce First Complete Computer Model of an Organism |
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· 07/21/2012 9:27:35 AM PDT · · Posted by onedoug · · 22 replies · · Science Daily · · 21 JULY 2012 · · Max McClure, Stanford University · |
In a breakthrough effort for computational biology, the world's first complete computer model of an organism has been completed, Stanford researchers reported last week in the journal Cell. A team led by Markus Covert, assistant professor of bioengineering, used data from more than 900 scientific papers to account for every molecular interaction that takes place in the life cycle of Mycoplasma genitalium, the world's smallest free-living bacterium. .... |
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| Panspermia | |
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| SETI and Intelligent Design |
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· 12/02/2005 8:35:59 AM PST · · Posted by ckilmer · · 213 replies · · space.com · · posted: 01 December 2005 · · Seth Shostak · |
SETI and Intelligent Design By Seth ShostakSETI Instituteposted: 01 December 200506:37 am ET If you're an inveterate tube-o-phile, you may remember the episode of "Cheers" in which Cliff, the postman who's stayed by neither snow, nor rain, nor gloom of night from his appointed rounds of beer, exclaims to Norm that he's found a potato that looks like Richard Nixon's head.This could be an astonishing attempt by taters to express their political views, but Norm is unimpressed. Finding evidence of complexity (the Nixon physiognomy) in a natural setting (the spud), and inferring some deliberate, magical mechanism behind it all,... |
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| Didn't Get the Memo? Fiction Has To Make Sense | |
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| 1987 Time Capsule of Predictions on 2012 by Sci-Fi Authors |
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· 07/25/2012 10:09:45 AM PDT · · Posted by JerseyanExile · · 61 replies · · Writers of the Future · |
ISAAC ASIMOVAssuming we haven't destroyed ourselves in a nuclear war, there will be 8-10 billion of us on this planet -- and widespread hunger. These troubles can be traced back to President Ronald Reagan who smiled and waved too much. GREGORY BENFORD YOUR FUTURE AND WELCOME TO IT -- 25 years from now. World population stands at nearly 8 billion. The Dow-Jones Industrial Average stands at 8,400, but the dollar is worth a third of today's. Oil is running out, but shale-extracted oil is getting cheaper. The real shortage in much of the world is water. Most Americans are barely literate, think in... |
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| Africa | |
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| Massive Underground Water Supply Found In Desert African Country (Supply could last 400 years) |
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· 07/21/2012 12:25:47 PM PDT · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 51 replies · · Business Insider · · 07/21/2012 · · Michael Kelley · |
A newly discovered water source could supply half of Africa's driest sub-Saharan country with 400 years of water, reports Matt McGrath of BBC. The new aquifer -- called Ohangwena II -- flows under the border between Angola and Namibia, covering an area of about 43 miles by 25 miles on Namibia's side. The water is up to 10,000 years old and cleaner to drink than many modern sources. Project manager Martin Quinger told BBC that the stored water could last 400 years based on current rates of consumption. Currently the 800,000 people living in the northern part of the country... |
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| Primatology | |
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| Gorillas filmed performing amazing feat of intellectual ability |
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· 07/24/2012 7:44:59 PM PDT · · Posted by Engraved-on-His-hands · · 28 replies · · PhysOrg · · July 23, 2012 · · Bob Yirka · |
Researchers working in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda have filmed gorillas dismantling snares set by poachers to catch smaller game. Previously, anecdotal evidence had suggested that silverback gorillas had been seen dismantling snares. In this instance it was two young blackback, mountain gorillas that were involved. The team, part of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund's Karisoke Research Center, filmed first a silverback motioning towards the snare. Next, two young male blackbacks arrived on the scene, surveyed the situation, then proceeded to take apart the snare, avoiding being caught in it in the process. |
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| Faith & Philosophy | |
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| Buddha tree alive and healthy at age 2,500 |
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· 07/22/2012 6:21:13 PM PDT · · Posted by TigerLikesRooster · · 33 replies · · UPI · · 07/20/12 · |
Published: July 20, 2012 at 5:54 PM BODH GAYA, India, July 20 (UPI) -- The 2,500-year-old tree under which Gautama Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment is alive and healthy, Indian scientists said Thursday. The Bodhi tree, a large Sacred Fig (Ficus religiosa,) is in Bodh Gaya in India's eastern state of Bihar, about 60 miles from the state capital of Patna. "The Bodhi tree is fully healthy," Subhash Nautiyal of the Forest Research Institute in India's northern state of Uttarakhand said. Nautiyal and colleagues examined the tree after removing the cement slabs around its base, China's Xinhua News... |
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