Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #37
Saturday, April 2, 2005
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PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
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Atlantis [euphemism] in Rock Lake Wisconsin
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 04/01/2005 11:55:22 AM PST · 22 replies · 221+ views
Rock Lake Research Society | April 2003 or thereafter | RLRS writers
Rock Lake may hold in its murky depths some of the answers to the identity of the " Ancient Foreigners" that the local Indian lore speaks of. Who are the people that built the 'Rock Tepees" (pyramidal stone structures) that lay beneath the waters of Rock Lake and where did they come?
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Chemists Probe Secrets In Ancient Textile Dyes From China, Peru (GGG)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 04/01/2005 10:51:02 AM PST · 6 replies · 315+ views
Eureka Alert | 4-1-2005 | Ann Marie Menting/Cory Hatch
Contact: Ann Marie Menting or Cory Hatch amenting@bu.edu 617-358-1240 Boston University Boston University chemists probe secrets in ancient textile dyes from China, PeruChemists journey to Gobi region for samples, discover novel dye in textiles from Peru (Boston) -- Although searching for 3,000-year-old mummy textiles in tombs under the blazing sun of a western Chinese desert may seem more Indiana Jones than analytical chemist, two Boston University researchers recently did just that. Traveling along the ancient Silk Road in Xinjiang Province on their quest, they found the ancient fabrics ñ and hit upon a research adventure that combined chemistry, archaeology, anthropology,...
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NUCLEAR ANALYSIS REVEALS SECRETS OF INCA BURIAL SITE
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Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 03/31/2005 11:22:06 AM PST · 24 replies · 850+ views
Oregon State | 03-22-05 | Jana Zvibleman
CORVALLIS - Researchers have applied a unique nuclear analytic technique to pottery found at an ancient burial site high in the Andes mountains, and believe that the girl buried at this site was transported more than 600 miles in a ceremonial pilgrimage - revealing some customs and rituals of the ancient Inca empire. The findings are being published by scientists from Oregon State University in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. On the highest peaks of the Andes, sacrificial burial sites have been discovered since the early 1900s. In one of them was the fully intact, frozen body of a girl...
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The Polynesian Connection
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 03/31/2005 8:09:03 AM PST · 7 replies · 111+ views
Archaeology, Volume 58 Number 2 | March/April 2005 | Blake Edgar
They called themselves "people of the tomol" and their canoe the "house of the sea." For the Chumash people, who inhabited the southern California coast as well as several islands across the Santa Barbara Channel, the sewn-plank canoe, or tomol, anchored both their identity and economy... Some archaeologists argue that the tomol made possible the complexity of Chumash culture... What if the Chumash encountered the unchallenged masters of oceanic navigation, the Polynesians, and learned the idea from them? ...[N]ow a distinguished California archaeologist and a linguist of the Chumash languages have marshaled new evidence for a Polynesia-California connection.
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Radiation Holds Key to Inca Riddle
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Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 04/02/2005 12:15:42 AM PST · 3 replies · 403+ views
Corvallis Gazette-Times | Mary Ann Albright
An Oregon State University researcher is using modern technology to unravel the mysteries of an ancient South American culture. The Inca empire marked momentous state occasions with a ritual called capacocha. These ceremonies linked the capital of Cuzco to remote Inca provinces through the sacrifice of children and the burial of precious objects. OSU researcher Leah Minc used neutron activation analysis to identify the compositional elements of 15th century pottery found in several sacred burial sites. Establishing the artifacts' makeup allowed her to pinpoint their origins, and ultimately to better understand the capacocha. The findings were published in the March...
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Scientists Study Anasazi Calendar
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 03/27/2005 2:32:14 PM PST · 13 replies · 652+ views
KSL-TV | 3-21-2005 | Ed Yeates
Scientists Study Anasazi Calender Mar. 21, 2005 Ed Yeates reporting Don Smith, College of Eastern Utah, San Juan branch: "I think we're becoming more aware that those people were far more familiar with astronomy, science and possibly math than we give them credit for." In a secluded ravine near Blanding, scientists and researchers gather to watch mysterious images forming right before their eyes. Although the rite of Spring, at least on our calendar, slipped in here yesterday almost unnoticed, it's literally in your face in this strange little canyon. We arrived weeks before spring equinox because people studying this place...
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Ancient Egypt
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BOOK FEATURE: The man who really found Tutankhamen (British Corporal Spy)
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Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 03/31/2005 1:45:59 PM PST · 13 replies · 446+ views
Middle East Times/World peace Times | March 31, 2005 | Desmond Zwar
CAIRO, Egypt -- For the past 36 years journalist and author Desmond Zwar has shared a great secret: that it was not archaeologist Howard Carter who was responsible for the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb, but a humble British corporal whose very presence on the site had to be kept confidential; who in the last days of the dig took a photograph that changed history. Richard Adamson was a 23-year-old spy. He had infiltrated the Wafdist Party -- dedicated to overthrowing British rule in Egypt -- and as a result 28 Egyptians were arrested in Cairo, four of them sentenced to...
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USO Canteen FReeper Style~Ancient Egyptian Military: Fortresses, Siege Warfare~July 22, 2003
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Posted by LaDivaLoca
On News/Activism 07/22/2003 2:52:06 AM PDT · 365 replies · 417+ views
MilitaryHistory.com at the Internet | July 22, 2003 | LaDivaLoca
† † For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. † † Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! † † ANCIENT WARFARE The oldest remaining documentation of military campaigns come from the Middle East where the Egyptians, Assyrians, Hittites, and Persians were the main combatants. Read about the rise of standing armies and how battles were fought 4000 years ago. † Continuation of Part I:Ancient Egyptian MilitaryFortresses Unless an enemy was willing to besiege a stronghold until it surrendered or could surprise its garrison...
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Ancient Greece
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Ptolemy Tilted Off His Axis (lost celestial secret found)
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Posted by Between the Lines
On News/Activism 03/30/2005 10:35:09 AM PST · 63 replies · 2,213+ views
LA Times | March 30, 2005 | John Johnson
Studying a statue of Atlas holding the sky, an American astronomer finds key evidence of what could be a major fraud in science history. In a sunlit gallery of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Italy, astronomer Brad Schaefer came face to face with an ancient statue known as the Farnese Atlas. For centuries, the 7-foot marble figure of the mythological Atlas has bent in stoic agony with a sphere of the cosmos crushing his shoulders. Carved on the sphere - one of only three celestial globes that have survived from Greco-Roman times - are figures representing 41 of the 48...
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Ancient Rome
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Herod's villa becomes outdoor museum
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Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 03/28/2005 10:31:47 AM PST · 4 replies · 354+ views
Kathimerini | 3/26/05 | Iota Sykka
A 0.45-hectare roof will be set up to protect the architectural fragments and famous mosaics at Eva in Kynouria from the elementsEnough sculptures have been excavated at Eva in Kynouria over the past 25 years to fill an entire museum. There is no museum as yet and most of the finds are in storage, but the architectural fragments and the famous mosaics, which cover 1,500 square meters, are to be protected by roofing. The Supreme Archaeological Council has decided on a roof that will cover an area of 0.45 hectares, protecting a large part of the villa of Herod Atticus...
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Swords and Sandals (Spectacular Mosaics of the Glories of Rome Uncovered in Libya)
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Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 03/27/2005 5:12:32 PM PST · 19 replies · 1,003+ views
Smithsonian Magazine | April 2005 | Vivienne Walt
In Libya, again open to U.S. travelers after more than two decades, archaeologists have uncovered spectacular mosaics of the glories of RomeHelmut Siegert returned to the coast of Libya last year to follow up on a tantalizing discovery. In September 2000, his colleague Marliese Wendowski was excavating what she thought was a large farmhouse when, 12 feet deep in the sandy soil, she came across a floor covered with a stunning glass-and-stone mosaic of an exhausted gladiator staring at a slain opponent. The discovery had come too late in that year's expedition to pursue further, so the University of Hamburg...
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Asia
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St Pete Researchers Find Tattoos On Ancient Siberian Mummies
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 03/29/2005 11:19:11 AM PST · 10 replies · 366+ views
Itar - Tass | 3-28-2005
St Pete researchers find tattoos on ancient Siberian mummies St PETERSBURG, March 28 (Itar-Tass) - Infrared photography methods, used for the first time by researchers at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, have made it possible to discover tattoos in ancient mummies excavated in the Pazyryk mounds in the south Siberian Altai Mountains. The mounds date back to the 8th to 5th centuries BC. The discovery was made on three mummies ñ two that used to be female bodies and one male body -- that were produced by special treatment for burial ceremonies. One more male mummy was found in...
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Ancient Europe
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Kernave: Lithuaniaís ëTroyí to celebrate UNESCO heritage site listing
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Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 03/26/2005 5:12:17 PM PST · 6 replies · 256+ views
Baltic Times | 23.03.2005 | Darius James Ross
VILNIUS - Few countries are so fortunate as to have an archaeological treasure trove preserving 10 millennia of human settlement. A discovery so impressive that it bears comparison to the Greek city of Troy, which had been consigned to myth until late nineteenth-century archaeologists dug up a hill in Turkey proving its existence, and showing that a stack of eight cities had been built on top. In the 1970s, Lithuanian archaeologists began following up rumours of a magnificent ancient city, stumbling across a site about 35 km from Vilnius unscathed by war and industrial development, which many now call Lithuaniaís...
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British Isles
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Divers find Bronze Age artefacts off Devon coast
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Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 04/01/2005 11:47:03 PM PST · 3 replies · 247+ views
Telegraph (UK)
Divers have discovered a submerged hoard of Bronze Age artefacts off the Devon coast, it emerged today. The haul, found off Salcombe and believed to have come from an ancient shipwreck, is being studied at the British Museum. Some of the artefacts discovered off the Devon coast It includes swords and rapiers, an axe head, an adze, a cauldron handle and a gold bracelet, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said. The swords are among the earliest found in north-west Europe. The artefacts were found by the South West Maritime Archaeology Group (SWMAG) while diving last summer in an area...
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Gold Love Ring is Treasure Trove (Bronze Age Artefacts Found in Wales)
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Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 04/02/2005 12:00:55 AM PST · 7 replies · 340+ views
BBC | Wednesday, 30 March, 2005
A collection of artefacts dating from the Bronze Age to the 1600s has been declared treasure by a coroner's court in Cardiff. The items were found over the course of 18 months at various sites in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. They included a gold Elizabethan ring with the inscription "Let Liking Last" on its inner rim, found near the ruins of a manor house in Llantrithyd. Five Bronze Age axe heads were also among items found by metal dectectors. The court declared seven items to be treasure, meaning it now becomes the property of the Crown and must...
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Biology and Cryptobiology
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Big Bite: New info on ice age Australian marsupial lion (neat picture)
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Posted by yankeedame
On News/Activism 04/02/2005 6:50:29 AM PST · 23 replies · 1,012+ views
News.Com.AU | April 02, 2005 | staff writer
Aussie lion beats all in bite testApril 02, 2005 From: AAP Big bite ... Thylacoleo carnifex /AAP A MARSUPIAL lion that roamed Australia during the Ice Age had the most powerful bite of any known animal in the world, living or extinct, an Australian and Canadian research team has discovered. More closely related to a wombat than an African lion, the 100 kilo marsupial lion known as Thylacoleo carnifex could out bite the sabre-toothed tiger, the bone-cracking spotted hyena and the Tasmanian Devil. The researchers compared the bite force of the marsupial lion to 38 different species, living and extinct,...
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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BRITAIN'S PLAN TO SAVE PLANET FROM QUAKES AND ASTEROIDS...
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Posted by LoudAmericanCowboy
On News/Activism 03/29/2005 7:05:24 PM PST · 53 replies · 896+ views
The Times | 3/30/05 | Mark Henderson
March 30, 2005 Britain's plan to save planet from quakes and asteroidsBy Mark Henderson, Science Correspondent PLANS for an early warning system to protect the world against natural disasters ranging from earthquakes and tsunamis to asteroid strikes have been drawn up by the Governmentís chief scientist on the orders of the Prime Minister. A panel headed by Professor Sir David King is recommending that Britain push for a global alarm network to reduce the potential devastation of events such as the Boxing Day tsunami, The Times has learnt. The £100 million initiative, which comes as scientists predict a third...
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Cartographers Redrawing Maps After Tsunami [Straits of Malacca 4K feet deep before, now 100 feet?]
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Posted by Mike Fieschko
On News/Activism 01/05/2005 4:20:40 PM PST · 30 replies · 3,103+ views
AP via yahoo | Jan 5, 2005 | Katherine Pfleger Shrader
Water depths in parts of the Straits of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping channels off the coast of Sumatra, reached about 4,000 feet before last month's tsunami. Now, reports are coming in of just 100 feet ó too dangerous for shipping, if proved true. A U.S. spy imagery agency is working around the clock to gather information, warn mariners and begin the time-consuming task of recharting altered coastlines and ports throughout the region. Officials at the Bethesda, Md.-based National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency say the efforts will take international cooperation over months, if not years. Thousands of navigational aides, such...
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Scientists: Volcano Could Swamp U.S. with Mega-Tsunami
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Posted by ex-Texan
On News/Activism 03/29/2005 3:41:11 PM PST · 141 replies · 3,375+ views
China Daily | 3/29/2005 | Staff Writers
A wall of water up to 55 yards high crashing into the Atlantic seaboard of the United States, flattening everything in its path -- not a Hollywood movie but a dire prophecy by some British and U.S. academics. As the international community struggles to aid victims of last month's devastating tsunami in southern Asia, scientists warn an eruption of a volcano in Spain's Canary Islands could unleash a "mega-tsunami" larger than any in recorded history. Hammocks almost buried at the beach of Pajara district in Fuerteventura island (Canary Island), southern Spain. Countries all around the Atlantic rim could be hit...
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"Super volcano" could dwarf Indonesia's earthquake catastrophes: expert
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Posted by DannyTN
On News/Activism 04/01/2005 3:01:49 PM PST · 135 replies · 2,389+ views
Yahoo News | 4/1/05 | AFP
"Super volcano" could dwarf Indonesia's earthquake catastrophes: expert Fri Apr 1,12:21 AM ET Science - AFP SYDNEY (AFP) - As Indonesians struggled to recover from the second deadly earthquake to strike them in three months, an Australian expert warned the country faced the prospect of a "super volcano" eruption that would dwarf all previous catastrophes. AFP/File Photo Professor Ray Cas of Monash University's School of Geosciences said the world's biggest super volcano was Lake Toba, on Indonesia's island of Sumatra, site of both the recent massive earthquakes. Cas told Australian media Friday that Toba sits on a faultline running down...
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Climate
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American Claims Discovery of Atlantis/Reports Point to Proof of Global Warming (sci-news)
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Posted by Turk82_1
On News/Activism 11/15/2004 9:39:40 AM PST · 12 replies · 697+ views
Yahoo News | 11/15/2004 | Yahoo
American Claims Discovery of Atlantis 2 hours, 38 minutes ago An American researcher claimed Sunday to have discovered the remains of the legendary lost city of Atlantis on the bottom of the east Mediterranean Sea, but Cyprus' chief government archaeologist was skeptical. Full Coverage Reports Point to Proof of Global Warming 2 hours, 38 minutes ago Politicians in the nation's capital have been reluctant to set limits on the carbon dioxide pollution that is expected to warm the planet by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit during the next century, citing uncertainty about the severity of the threat. But that uncertainty...
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Origins and Prehistory
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Exploring The Ocean Basins With Satellite Altimeter Data
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 03/28/2005 10:10:48 AM PST · 7 replies · 118+ views
The reason that the ocean floor, especially the southern hemisphere oceans, is so poorly charted is that electromagnetic waves cannot penetrate the deep ocean (3-5 km = 2-3 mi). Instead, depths are commonly measured by timing the two-way travel time of an acoustic pulse. However because research vessels travel quite slowly (6m/s = 12 knots) it would take approximately 125 years to chart the ocean basins using the latest swath-mapping tools. To date, only a small fraction of the sea floor has been charted by ships. Fortunately, such a major mapping program is largely unnecessary because the ocean surface has...
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Homo Sapiens:Scientist plunges into work creating deep-sea probes(300km trip on the sea bottom)
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Posted by TigerLikesRooster
On News/Activism 03/26/2005 7:23:37 AM PST · 13 replies · 252+ views
Asahi Shimbun | 03/26/05 | TOSHIHIDE UEDA
Homo Sapiens:Scientist plunges into work creating deep-sea probes 03/26/2005 By TOSHIHIDE UEDA,The Asahi Shimbun Developing a robot that can independently quarry the secrets of the deep sea is Taro Aoki's dream. For now, the closest he has come is the ``Urashima,'' an autonomous underwater vehicle developed by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Aoki, 57, is the program director for the Urashima, which takes its name from a traditional Japanese folk-tale character who rode a sea turtle and visited a deep-sea castle. The real Urashima is loaded with state-of-the-art technology. Cable-less and unmanned,...
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Scientists Interrupt Search for the “Mayan Atlantis" in the Caribbean.
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 03/30/2005 2:16:20 PM PST · 22 replies · 590+ views
Cuban Newpaper: GRANMA | November 2004 / FR Post 3-30-05 | Editorial Staff
Scientists Interrupt Search for the ìMayan Atlantis" in the Caribbean. Cuban Newpaper: GRANMA Mexico City, November 6, 2004 Forwarded by David Drewelow This story updates this prior story . - A group of scientists searching for a hypothetical ìMayan Atlantis" found a pyramid of 35 meters under the waters of the Caribbean, but it had to interrupt the mission due to technical problems, as reported by the Mexican newspaper Millenium, today. After 25 days of work in the sea, near the southwestern end of Cuba, the investigations deeper than 500 meters had to be abandoned due to problems with the...
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Sundaland (GGG)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 03/31/2005 8:48:54 PM PST · 13 replies · 286+ views
Personal Pages | 3-31-2005
Sundaland The cradle of human civilization may well have been the prehistoric lowlands of the Southeast Asian peninsula, rather than the Middle East. Since those lowlands ësankí beneath the seas thousands of years ago (actually drowned by rising sea levels), humanity has remained unaware of their possible significance up through the early 21st century. Unaware except, that is, for a so-called myth perpetuated by a respected Greek philosopher named Plato, before 347 BC. Plato spoke of an advanced civilization named Atlantis, which sank below the seas perhaps around 9,000 BC. It may well be he wasnít so far off after...
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Oh So Mysteriouso
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Biblical-giants book soars up charts: 'The Nephilim' explains ancient pyramids
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Posted by JohnHuang2
On News/Activism 02/07/2005 11:33:38 PM PST · 114 replies · 2,838+ views
WorldNetDaily.com | Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Biblical-giants book soars up charts 'The Nephilim' explains ancient pyramids, future events Posted: February 1, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com A unique book that purports to explain the past existence of giant beings referred to in the Bible as the Nephilim is skyrocketing up online best-sellers lists, now appearing in the top 10 at Amazon.com. Published by Xulon Press, "The Nephilim and the Pyramid of the Apocalypse" presents an explanation for an unusual verse in the first book of the Bible, Genesis 6:4, which reads: "There were giants (Nephilim) in the Earth in those days, and also after...
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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Ancient Easter Pages Return To Canterbury
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 03/26/2005 3:51:05 PM PST · 4 replies · 227+ views
The Guardian (UK) | 3-26-2005 | Stephen Bates
Ancient Easter pages return to Canterbury Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent Saturday March 26, 2005 The Guardian (UK) A 1,000-year-old manuscript outlining readings for Holy Week has been returned to Canterbury Cathedral after five centuries, just in time for Easter. The double-page spread, called a bifolium, which was part of a devotional book owned by the cathedral in the middle ages, was recently bought for £7,000 from a London bookseller who had found it in Germany. The cathedral has two further pages from the same book, which may be all that survives. Its travels over the last 500 years are...
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Antarctic Oil Painting Shrouded in Mystery
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Posted by nuconvert
On News/Activism 03/28/2005 8:43:46 PM PST · 48 replies · 1,128+ views
yahoo news/AP | Mar 28, 2005
Antarctic Oil Painting Shrouded in Mystery Mon Mar 28, 2005 By MATT APUZZO/ Associated Press Writer NEW HAVEN, Conn. - As art restorers in London inspected a 230-year-old painting by master landscape artist William Hodges, they noticed the canvas was thicker in some areas than others. Using an X-ray machine, they peered behind the lush greens of New Zealand and discovered the oldest known painting of Antarctica. The X-ray revealed two icebergs, painted during Captain James Cook's historic expedition below the Antarctic circle. Until the National Maritime Museum in London made the discovery last year, historians believed that only sketches...
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'Braveheart' Sword Leaves Scotland for 1st time in 700 years (William Wallaceís sword coming to NYC)
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Posted by dead
On News/Activism 03/30/2005 1:06:55 PM PST · 175 replies · 2,757+ views
AP via Yahoo! | Wed Mar 30, 8:12 AM ET Europe - AP
LONDON - One of Scotland's national treasures, the 5-foot sword wielded by William Wallace, the rebel leader portrayed in the Academy Award-winning film "Braveheart," left its homeland for the first time in more than 700 years Wednesday. The double-handed weapon that belonged to Wallace will be the centerpiece of an exhibition at New York's Grand Central Station during Tartan Day celebrations, which begin later this week. Mick Brown a specialist remover prepares to pack William Wallace's sword at the Wallace Monument in Stirling, Scotland Wednesday March 30, 2005. The sword will leave Scotland Wednesday for the first time in more...
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British Library set to return Benevento Missal (World War II Era Plunder)
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Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 03/31/2005 11:55:26 AM PST · 6 replies · 174+ views
The Art Newspaper | Thursday, 31 March 2005 | Martin Bailey
The Benevento Missal is to be returned to Italy, as a result of a claim submitted following an investigation by The Art Newspaper. On 23 March the UKís Spoliation Advisory Panel recommended that the British Library should restitute the 12th century manuscript to Benevento cathedral. This will be the first time that a UK national institution has returned an artwork or manuscript looted during the Nazi era. A change in the law will be required, since the British Library is legally barred from deaccessioning the manuscript. The Art Newspaper heard rumours about the questionable status of the Benevento Missal in...
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CHRISTIANS AMONG MONGOL INVADERS (of Japan)
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Posted by Destro
On Religion 03/27/2005 1:16:52 PM PST · 46 replies · 452+ views
keikyo.com
CHRISTIANS AMONG MONGOL INVADERS Seven hundred years ago, Japan faced the threat of imminent invasion by the Mongol, hordes of Kublai Khan. The entire nation was in a state of alarm and many Japanese felt there was no alternative but to surrender to the invaders . This was to be the most serious threat of aggression from abroad that Japan was to experience until World War II of the twentieth century. This attempted invasion of Japan by Mongol Invaders occurred in 1274 and again in 1281. The nomadic Mongol people, originated in the steppe lands, north of China, now called...
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Possible Michelangelo Self-Portrait Found
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Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 03/27/2005 11:52:14 AM PST · 26 replies · 1,038+ views
Discovery Channel | March 18, 2005 | Rossella Lorenzi
March 18, 2005 ó A unique bas-relief, which might be the first known self-portrait of Michelangelo, has emerged from a private collection, art historians announced in Florence this week. The sculpture, a white marble round work attached to a flat piece of marble, with a diameter of 14 inches depicting a bearded man, was lent by a noble Tuscan family to the Museo Ideale in the Tuscan town of Vinci for a study on the relationship between Michelangelo and Leonardo. "The work speaks for itself: it is a very high-quality sculpture which depicts Michelangelo. The skilled chiselling on the back...
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This Day In History March 27 1945 Germans launch last of their V-2s
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Posted by mdittmar
On General/Chat 03/27/2005 2:38:11 PM PST · 25 replies · 172+ views
The History Channel | 3/27/05 | The History Channel
On this day, in a last-ditch effort to deploy their remaining V-2 missiles against the Allies, the Germans launch their long-range rockets from their only remaining launch site, in the Netherlands. Almost 200 civilians in England and Belgium were added to the V-2 casualty toll. German scientists had been working on the development of a long-range missile since the 1930s. In October 3, 1942, victory was achieved with the successful trial launch of the V-2, a 12-ton rocket capable of carrying a one-ton warhead. The missile, fired from Peenemunde, an island off Germany's Baltic coast, traveled 118 miles in that...
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end of digest #37 20050402
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