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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #225 Saturday, November 8, 2008
Prehistory and Origins
'Devils' trails' are world's oldest human footprints
	11/06/2008 5:42:40 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 11 replies · 732+ views New Scientist | October 13, 2008 | Catherine Brahic It's official: the oldest human footprints ever found are 345,000 years old, give or take 6000. Known as the "devils' trails", they have been preserved in volcanic ash atop the Roccamonfina volcano in Italy. The prints were first described to the world by Paolo Mietto and colleagues of the University of Padova in Italy in 2003 after amateur archaeologists pointed them out. At the time, the team estimated that the prints were anywhere between 385,000 and 325,000 years old, based on when the volcano was thought to have last erupted. Now, Stephane Scaillet and colleagues at the Laboratory of Climatic...
Ancient Autopsies
Man or Gorilla? Scientist Questions Skull Theory
	07/12/2002 8:56:17 AM PDT · Posted by Junior · 98 replies · 1,511+ views Reuters | Fri Jul 12,10:29 AM ET | John Chalmers PARIS (Reuters) - A prehistoric skull touted as the oldest human remains ever found is probably not the head of the earliest member of the human family but of an ancient female gorilla, a French scientist said on Friday. Brigitte Senut of the Natural History Museum in Paris said certain aspects of the skull, whose discovery in Chad was announced on Wednesday, were actually sexual characteristics of female gorillas rather than indications of a human character.Two other French experts cast doubt on the skull as Michel Brunet, head of the archeological team that discovered it, was due to present his...
Primates Americans Won't Do
New fossil reveals primates lingered in Texas
	11/06/2008 4:10:01 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 12 replies · 524+ views EurekAlert! | October 13, 2008 | Chris Kirk, University of Texas at Austin More than 40 million years ago, primates preferred Texas to northern climates that were significantly cooling, according to new fossil evidence discovered by Chris Kirk, physical anthropologist at The University of Texas at Austin. Kirk and Blythe Williams from Duke University have discovered Diablomomys dalquesti, a new genus and species of primate that dates to 44-43 million years ago when tropical forests and active volcanoes covered west Texas. The researchers have published their discovery in the Journal of Human Evolution article, "New Uintan Primates from Texas and their Implications for North American Patterns of Species Richness during the Eocene." During...
Paleontology
Paleontologists doubt 'dinosaur dance floor' (No Discoaceous Period?)
	11/07/2008 3:10:14 PM PST · Posted by decimon · 11 replies · 328+ views University of Utah | Nov. 7, 2008 | Unknown Potholes or tracks? Both sides team for follow-up study -- A group of paleontologists visited the northern Arizona wilderness site nicknamed a "dinosaur dance floor" and concluded there were no dinosaur tracks there, only a dense collection of unusual potholes eroded in the sandstone. So the scientist who leads the University of Utah's geology department says she will team up with the skeptics for a follow-up study. "Science is an evolving process where we seek the truth," says Marjorie Chan, professor and chair of geology and geophysics, and co-author of a recent study that concluded the pockmarked, three-quarter-acre...
'T.rex footprint' found by British dinosaur hunter: report
	10/09/2007 5:02:37 PM PDT · Posted by NormsRevenge · 17 replies · 694+ views AFP on Yahoo | 10/09/07 | AFP LONDON (AFP) - A Britain-based palaeontologist believes he has found the world's first known Tyrannosaurus rex footprint, he told a BBC television documentary Wednesday. Phil Manning said he has high hopes the one square metre (about 11 square feet) print, from the famed Hell Creek area of the northwest US state of Montana, is from the flesh-eating giant, although 100 percent certainty is impossible. "People have been trying to find T.rex tracks for a hundred years," Manning, who specialises in Jurassic and Cretaceous period dinosaur tracks, told the BBC. "Unless you come across an animal dead in its tracks you...
Makin' Thunderbirds
Ancient Birds Flew On All Fours
	09/22/2006 6:27:23 AM PDT · Posted by Tokra · 181 replies · 2,529+ views eurekalert | Spet. 22, 2006 | Nick Longrich The earliest known ancestor of modern-day birds took to the skies by gliding from trees using primitive feathered wings on their arms and legs, according to new research by a University of Calgary paleontologist. In a paper published in the journal Paleobiology, Department of Biological Sciences PhD student Nick Longrich challenges the idea that birds began flying by taking off from the ground while running and shows that the dinosaur-like bird Archaeopteryx soared using wing-like feathers on all of its limbs. "The discussions about the origins of avian flight have been dominated by the so-called 'ground up' and 'trees down'...
Africa
New Classification Of African Middle Stone Age
	11/03/2008 2:14:18 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 5 replies · 206+ views ScienceDaily | Monday, November 3, 2008 | Universitaet zu Koeln The Cologne archaeologist Dr. Ralf Vogelsang from the Africa Research Centre of the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology and a team of international researchers have succeeded in dating layers in South Africa that provide information about stone tool innovation on the Middle Stone Age. This archaeological epoch began at the same time as the earliest appearances of humans (homo sapiens sapiens), about 200,000 years ago, in Africa and differs from the European Middle Stone Age chronologically. It is categorized as an era of change and marked by the development of regional stone tool traditions, the appearance of many innovations and the...
Faith and Philosophy
Earliest known shaman grave site found: study[Israel]
	11/03/2008 11:01:34 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 6 replies · 348+ views Reuters | 03 Nov 2008 | Reuters An ancient grave unearthed in modern-day Israel containing 50 tortoise shells, a human foot and body parts from numerous animals is likely one of the earliest known shaman burial sites, researchers said on Monday. The 12,000-year-old grave dates back to the Natufian people who were the first society to adopt a sedentary lifestyle, Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher Leore Grosman and colleagues said. "The interment rituals and the method used to construct and seal the grave suggest this is the burial of an ancient shaman, one of the earliest known from the archaeological record," they wrote in the Proceedings of...
The Conquest of Canaan
Inside, Outside: Where Did the Early Israelites Come From?
	11/05/2008 3:59:31 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 21 replies · 816+ views Biblical Archaeology Review [34:06] | Nov/Dec 2008 | Anson Rainey On one thing all scholars agree: In the period archaeologists call Iron Age I, from about 1200 to 1000 B.C.E., approximately 300 new settlements sprang up in the central hill country of Canaan that runs through the land like a spine from north to south. Almost everyone also agrees that these were the early Israelites settling down. The famous hieroglyphic text known as the Merneptah Stele, which dates to about 1205 B.C.E., refers to "Israel" at this time as a people (not a country or nation) probably located in Transjordan... In 1962 George E. Mendenhall... introduced a new theory of...
Epigraphy and Language
Shasu or Habiru: Who Were the Early Israelites?
	11/05/2008 3:47:04 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 8 replies · 424+ views Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR 34:06) | November/December 2008 | Anson Rainey Because of the surface similarity of the words habiru and "Hebrew," many scholars assumed the habiru were closely related, if not identical to, the earliest Israelite tribes. Upon closer examination, however, all similarity disappears. It is linguistically impossible to equate habiru and 'ivri (the Hebrew word for "Hebrew") and, in any case, the word habiru was not used to describe a single ethnic group but rather an array of disenfranchised social groups that inhabited the fringes of Bronze Age Near Eastern society. Since then, we have literally hundreds of references to habiru ('apiru) from Egypt, Nuzi (beyond the Tigris), Syria...
Let's Have Jerusalem
First Temple-Era Water Tunnel Revealed in Jerusalem
	10/30/2008 5:32:06 AM PDT · Posted by SJackson · 12 replies · 431+ views Arutz Sheva | 10-30-08 First Temple-Era Water Tunnel Revealed in Jerusalem by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) A tunnel built thousands of years ago -- and which may even have been used during King David's conquest of Jerusalem -- has been uncovered in the ancient City of David, just outside the Old City and across the street from the Dung Gate. Renowned Israeli archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazer, who is leading the dig, revealed the findings from the discovery Thursday morning at an archaeological symposium at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mazer, who also uncovered King David's palace, has led the world in ancient Jerusalem findings....
Rome and Italy
Limestone altar Discovered at Dalheim Roman Dig [Luxembourg]
	11/03/2008 6:52:43 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 1 replies · 269+ views Station Network | Thursday, October 30, 2008 | unattributed Following previous archaelogical discoveries at the Dalheim dig, another artefact has been discovered. The site of the former Gallo-Roman baths has now produced what is described as an "exceptional archaeological discovery". The National Museum of History and Art (MNHA), led by the young German archaeologist Heike Posch and overseen by the curator John Krier, has uncovered fragments of a large 1.3m high limestone altar. The discovery dates from the 3rd century AD and has a Latin inscription showing that the altar was dedicated to the goddess Fortuna. The text over 10 lines mentions not only the people of Ricciacum vicus,...
British Isles
Caesar's British Landing Site Pinned Down
	11/06/2008 3:34:59 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 9 replies · 794+ views LiveScience | Saturday, November 1, 2008 | Harvey Leifert, Natural History Magazine When Julius Caesar arrived off the coast of Britain with his hundred-ship force in August, 55 b.c., he was greeted by a host of defenders poised to hurl spears down on his invading army from the towering Dover cliffs. Seeking a better landing site, he sailed on a strong afternoon current and landed his troops at a beach seven miles away, according to his own account. Caesar neglected to mention, however, whether he sailed southwest or northeast. The only shoreline within seven miles of Dover that matches Caesar's description lies to the northeast, near present-day Deal. That would settle it,...
Saxon Bling
Herefordshire Saxon find is declared as treasure[UK]
	11/05/2008 8:08:53 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 3 replies · 508+ views Hereford Times | 05 Nov 2008 | Hereford Times A Saxon hook tag found in a Herefordshire field field has been declared as treasure. Assistant county coroner Roland Wooderson confirmed that the item, used for securing clothing or bags, was treasure at an inquest last week. The silver hook tag was found in Brampton Abbotts in June 2007 by Maxine Jones, from Swansea. In a statement, she said she spent her spare time looking for treasure using a metal detector and had sought permission from Mr Scudamore, who owns the land where the item was found. After the discovery was made, the hook tag was sent to the British...
Anatolia
Excavations put Izmir at 8,500 years old
	11/03/2008 6:43:13 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 16 replies · 236+ views Turkish Daily News | Friday, October 31, 2008 | unattributed New excavations have revealed that Izmir, once believe to be 5,000 years old, may be as old as 8,500 years. Associate professor Zafer Derin of the Ege University archeology department, the head of the excavation team, said in a written statement his team had removed 150 artifacts discovered at the Yeflilova Tumulus excavation site, reported the Anatolia news agency. Saying the findings discovered in the excavation played an important role in identifying those who lived in the area 8,500 years ago, Derin said: "Findings obtained from the excavation determined that those who lived in this area 8,500 years ago had...
Greeks
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Brought Back to Life
	11/06/2008 6:03:06 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 45 replies · 1,364+ views Biblical Archaeology Review | November 6, 2008 | unattributed One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is set to be resurrected in Selcuk, Turkey. The famous Temple of Artemis was built at the expense of the Lydian king Karun in the 7th century B.C. Its architecture included 120 columns and 25,000 cubic meters of marble. The massive structure was dedicated to Artemis, the Greek goddess of virginity, fertility and the hunt. The original temple was destroyed during the early period of Christianity in Anatolia. In 2007, the Artemis Culture, Arts, and Education Foundation, was founded with the objective of rebuilding the ancient temple approximately 1,500 meters away...
Trojan War
Trojan arrows and unique seals from Perperikon stand out in archaeological summer '08
	11/03/2008 7:04:35 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 5 replies · 166+ views Bulgarian News | October 27, 2008 | Veneta Pavlova, Daniela Konstantinova, bnr.bg The place acted as a cult site as early as the end of 5 and the early 4 millennium BC. Researchers have come across finds from the second millennium BC and there is evidence the city prospered during Thracian times in Antiquity. An Episcopal center was set up here in the Middle Ages. At a press conference in Sofia Nikolay Ovcharov showed unique finds originating from different periods in the history of Perperikon. The oldest one is dated to the Trojan War, the archeologist contends. "It is a sword with a broken handle from 12-13 c. BC. It is made...
The Vikings
The Vikings' burning question: some decent graveside theatre
	11/03/2008 6:32:27 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 9 replies · 254+ views The Times of London | October 26, 2008 | Magnus Linklater The average Viking lived a life in which spirituality and thoughts of immortality played a far more important part than the rape and pillage more usually associated with his violent race, according to new research. A study of thousands of excavated Viking graves suggests that rituals were performed at the graveside in which stories about life and death were presented as theatre, with live performances designed to help the passage of the deceased from this world into the next... Detailed analysis of the burials revealed a remarkable variety of objects found alongside the bodies - from everyday items to great...
Phoenicians
French dig exposes underside of Tyre
	11/03/2008 5:44:29 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 7 replies · 172+ views Daily Star | Saturday, November 1, 2008 | Mohammed Zaatari A French excavations team from the Universite de Lyon has wrapped up phase I of works in the southern port city of Tyre, the head of the Directorate General of Antiquities (DGA) in the South told The Daily Star on Friday. "Excavations are centered in two main sites inside Tyre's Al-Mina ancient ruins area," Ali Badawi said. He added that archaeologists were working on uncovering the tomb of Frederic Archbishop of Tyre, which is said to be buried under an ancient cathedral dating back to the times of the Crusaders in the coastal city. "A German excavating team came to...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Phoenicians Left Deep Genetic Mark, Study Shows
	11/03/2008 5:16:13 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 13 replies · 283+ views New Jack City Times | Thursday, October 30, 2008 | John Noble Wilford The Phoenicians, enigmatic people from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, stamped their mark on maritime history, and now research has revealed that they also left a lasting genetic imprint. Scientists reported Thursday that as many as 1 in 17 men living today on the coasts of North Africa and southern Europe may have a Phoenician direct male-line ancestor. These men were found to retain identifiable genetic signatures from the nearly 1,000 years the Phoenicians were a dominant seafaring commercial power in the Mediterranean basin, until their conquest by Rome in the 2nd century B.C... The scientists who conducted the...
Diet and Cuisine
World's Oldest Cooked Cereal Was Instant
	11/06/2008 5:49:18 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 31 replies · 630+ views Discovery News | Friday, October 24, 2008 | Jennifer Viegas Dating from between 5920 to 5730 B.C., the ancient cereal consisted of parboiled bulgur wheat that Early Neolithic Bulgarians could refresh in minutes with hot water. "People boiled the grain, dried it, removed the bran and ground it into coarse particles," lead author Soultana-Maria Valamoti told Discovery News. "In this form, the cereal grain can be stored throughout the year and consumed easily, even without boiling, by merely soaking in hot water," added Valamoti, an assistant professor of archaeology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. She and her colleagues studied the Bulgarian grain, excavated at a site called Kapitan...
Climate
Monsoon link to fall of dynasties[China]
	11/07/2008 8:53:13 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 11 replies · 254+ views BBC | 06 Nov 2008 | BBC The demise of some of China's ruling dynasties may have been linked to changes in the strength of monsoon rains, a new study suggests. The findings come from 1,800-year record of the Asian monsoon preserved in a stalagmite from a Chinese cave. Weak - and therefore dry - monsoon periods coincided with the demise of the Tang, Yuan and Ming imperial dynasties, the scientists said. A US-Chinese team report their work in the journal Science. Stalagmites are largely made up of calcium carbonate, which precipitates from groundwater dripping from the ceiling of a cave. Chemical analysis of a 118mm-long stalagmite...
China
Chinese emperor was poisoned with arsenic
	11/04/2008 11:10:03 AM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 6 replies · 520+ views The Telegraph | 04 Nov 2008 | Richard Spencer Analysis of hair and other fragments taken from the tomb of the Guangxu emperor, who died 100 years ago this month, showed high levels of the chemical. The findings are seen as proving suspicions that the emperor was murdered, and the implications will be eagerly discussed, not just by historians. The traditional secrecy of Chinese rulers through the centuries makes the fate of China's last dynastic rulers important for understanding modern-day Communist Party politics. The Guangxu emperor, like all Chinese rulers, was known by a formal title given to his reign since commoners were not allowed to speak his name....
Navigation
Small Islands Given Short Shrift In Assembling Archaeological Record
	11/03/2008 5:26:29 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 4 replies · 124+ views ScienceDaily | Thursday, October 30, 2008 | University of Florida Small islands dwarf large ones in archaeological importance, says a University of Florida researcher, who found that people who settled the Caribbean before Christopher Columbus preferred more minute pieces of land because they relied heavily on the sea... Early Ceramic Age settlements have been found in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Montserrat, for example, but are absent from all of the larger islands in the Lesser Antilles, Keegan said. And all of the small islands along the windward east coast of St. Lucia have substantial ceramic artifacts -- evidence of settlement -- despite being less than one kilometer, or .62...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
No burial for 10,000-year-old bones: U of California denies request for repatriation of remains
	11/03/2008 5:07:01 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 25 replies · 323+ views Nature 455, 1156-1157 | Wednesday, October 29, 2008 | Rex Dalton In the latest twist in the tug-of-war between Native Americans and anthropologists, officials at the University of California have decided not to repatriate a pair of well-preserved skeletons that are nearly 10,000 years old. Archaeology students unearthed the bones in 1976 near the clifftop home of the chancellor of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). It may be possible to extract some of the oldest human DNA in North America from the exquisitely preserved remains, say researchers. But in the past two years the bones have become a political football over US$7-million plans to demolish and rebuild the house....
Mayans
New Maya Olmec Archeological Find in Guatemala [Takalik Abaj]
	11/03/2008 5:01:49 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 6 replies · 182+ views Guatemala Times | Thursday, October 30, 2008 | unattributed It is known that the fragments of this enigmatic sculptures were placed into the buildings during the second part of the Late Pre- Classic Period (Phase Ruth 200 BC - 150 AD), which is when the early Mayan culture was florishing. Therefore this sculpture must have been carved before this time. There are two possibilities, it was carved at the start of the early Mayan era, or a little earlier, when the changes in Tak'alik Ab'aj from the Olmec era to the Mayan era was taking place, what is called the transition period. Could it be that the early Mayan...
Australia and the Pacific
Epic Voyage To Discover Origins And Migration Routes Of Ancestors Of Ancient Polynesians...
	11/06/2008 3:25:54 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 6 replies · 236+ views ScienceDaily | Thursday, November 6, 2008 | Durham University Two Durham University scientists are to play a key part in a 6000km trip following the migration route of ancient Pacific cultures. Drs Keith Dobney and Greger Larson, both from the Department of Archaeology, will be joining the voyage, which will be the first ever expedition to sail in two traditional Polynesian boats -- ethnic double canoes -- which attempts to re-trace the genuine migration route of the ancient Austronesians. The main aim of the voyage is to find out where the ancestors of Polynesian culture originated but the Durham University researchers will also be examining the local wildlife. Dr...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Scientists Race to Save "Water Monster" From Extinction
	11/05/2008 9:43:59 PM PST · Posted by nickcarraway · 23 replies · 1,094+ views nbc11 | Nov 3, 2008 Beneath the tourist gondolas in the remains of a great Aztec lake lives a creature that resembles a monster - and a Muppet - with its slimy tail, plumage-like gills and mouth that curls into an odd smile. The axolotl, also known as the "water monster" and the "Mexican walking fish," was a key part of Aztec legend and diet. Against all odds, it survived until now amid Mexico City's urban sprawl in the polluted canals of Lake Xochimilco, now a Venice-style destination for revelers poled along by Mexican gondoliers, or trajineros, in brightly painted party boats. But scientists are...
Bring Out The Dead
Frozen mice cloned - are woolly mammoths next? - how about Ted Williams?
	11/03/2008 3:10:47 PM PST · Posted by JoeProBono · 23 replies · 326+ views reuters | Mon Nov 3, 2008 5:30pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long 16 years and said on Monday it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species..."There is hope in bringing Ted Williams back, after all," cloning and stem cell expert John Gearhart of the University of Pennsylvania said in an e-mail. The family of Williams, the Boston Red Sox hitter, had his body frozen by cryogenics firm Alcor after he died in 2002..."
Cloned Mammoths Made More Likely by Frozen Mice
	11/07/2008 4:00:13 AM PST · Posted by Renfield · 6 replies · 288+ views Fox News | 11-05-08 Jurassic Park? Still not close to being real. But cloned woolly mammoths just became more possible, thanks to Japanese researchers who announced Monday that they'd cloned dead mice that had been frozen for 16 years. When animal tissue freezes, cell walls burst and the DNA inside the cell nuclei can be seriously damaged. Because of that, most scientists had assumed it'd be impossible to get any good DNA from the thousands of frozen mammoths thought to still lie in Siberian permafrost. The Japanese team figured, however, that the high concentration of sugar in brain tissue might preserve DNA. So they...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Martin Luther's Death Mask on View at Museum in Halle, Germany
	11/03/2008 8:58:17 AM PST · Posted by Alex Murphy · 23 replies · 673+ views Artdaily.org | November 3, 2008 HALLE.- Martin Luther's original death mask belongs to the treasures and witnesses from the Reformation that Halle is amply equipped with. In one room of the tower, you can see the death mask of the great reformer, as well as a later plaster cast and a pulpit that stems from Luther's time. Presumably, the mask was created after a plaster cast that had been made by the local painter Lukas Furtenagel on Luther's deathbed in Eisleben on February 19, 1546. As Luther's body had to be taken to Wittenberg for the planned burial, his coffin was placed in the...
Early America
Little object, big find from shipwreck [ Blackbeard , Queen Anne's Revenge ]
	11/03/2008 10:48:33 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 12 replies · 550+ views Freedom ENC | October 28, 2008 | Jannette Pippin One of the smallest artifacts recovered during the latest dive expedition at the shipwreck presumed to be Queen Anne's Revenge is getting big attention. The circular, dime-sized piece has been resting on the ocean floor for 300 years, but early examination indicates it may be the first coin to come from the site believed to be the flagship of the pirate Blackbeard... QAR Conservation Field Supervisor Wendy Welsh said.. a coin weight with a bust of Queen Anne was recovered from the site during a 2006 dive but no actual coins. Shanna Daniel, assistant conservator at the QAR lab in...
Possible Blackbeard Ship Cannon Found
	10/15/2004 9:22:23 AM PDT · Posted by Area Freeper · 38 replies · 1,108+ views Associated Press | Fri Oct 8 Underwater archaeologists have found another cannon from the wreckage of what they believe was the flagship of the notorious pirate Blackbeard. Historical records indicate Blackbeard had 40 guns on the French frigate he captured in 1717 and renamed Queen Anne's Revenge. Since 1996, when the wreckage of the ship was discovered in Beaufort Inlet, divers have found 22 at the site. "We're pretty positive that we have cannon number 23," said project archaeologist Chris Southerly. It is a large cannon that probably shot a 6-pound or 8-pound ball, Southerly said. Divers uncovered the cannon while excavating an area of the...
Cavalry
First-hand account of the Charge of the Light Brigade unearthed
	11/04/2008 4:53:19 PM PST · Posted by bruinbirdman · 31 replies · 2,064+ views The Telegraph | 11/4/08 | Nick Britten A graphic first-hand account by the last survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade, describing his ride 'in the valley of death' during the Crimean War, has been unearthed. Pte James Olley, of the 4th Light Dragoons, who was in the van of the 1854 cavalry action, tells of how he relentlessly fought the Russians despite having an eye blown out and a chunk of his head torn off. The three-page document is believed to be one of the only eyewitness accounts by a frontliner and is expect to fetch about £2,000 at auction. Pte Olley, who was aged...
World War Eleven
Airman Missing In Action From WW ll is Identified Staff Sgt. Martin F. Troy, U.S. Army Air Forces
	11/05/2008 3:40:46 PM PST · Posted by Dubya · 15 replies · 964+ views DOD | DOD Airman Missing In Action From WW ll is Identified The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. He is Staff Sgt. Martin F. Troy, U.S. Army Air Forces, of Norwalk, Conn. He will be buried on Nov. 20 in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. Representatives from the Army's Mortuary Office met with Troy's next-of-kin to explain the recovery and identification process and to coordinate interment with military...
Vietnam
Marines Missing From Vietnam War Are Identified NOV 08
	11/06/2008 4:23:54 PM PST · Posted by Dubya · 61 replies · 2,236+ views DOD | DOD The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of four U.S. servicemen, missing from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to their families for burial with full military honors. They are Lance Cpl. Kurt E. La Plant, of Lenexa, Kan., and Lance Cpl. Luis F. Palacios, of Los Angeles, Calif. Remains that could not be individually identified are included in a group. Among the group remains are Lance Cpl. Ralph L. Harper, of Indianapolis, Ind., and Pfc. Jose R. Sanchez, of Brooklyn, N.Y. All...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
How We Used to Vote.
	11/02/2008 1:39:09 PM PST · Posted by Bubba_Leroy · 6 replies · 370+ views Slashdot | November 2, 2008 | Staff Think hanging chads, illegal purges of the voter rolls, and insecure voting machines are bad? The New Yorker looks back at how we used to vote back in the good old days: 'A man carrying a musket rushed at him. Another threw a brick, knocking him off his feet. George Kyle picked himself up and ran. He never did cast his vote. Nor did his brother, who died of his wounds. The Democratic candidate for Congress, William Harrison, lost to the American Party's Henry Winter Davis. Three months later, when the House of Representatives convened hearings into the election, whose...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Nostradamus Writings Predict McCain Victory
	11/03/2008 6:18:43 AM PST · Posted by backinthefold · 52 replies · 3,827+ views http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/10/30/nostradamus-writings-predict-mccain-victory/?icid=200100397x1212350706x1200748789 CAP NEWS - "Conventional wisdom picks Obama. Nostradamus, four and a half centuries ago, picked John McCain," said Dr. Hubert Evans, professor of Renaissance Studies at Yale University and author of the best-selling "Nostradamus: Prophesize This!" "Quatrain 78, Century X in particular seems to indicate that Obama had better not be measuring the White House windows for curtains quite yet, at least by my interpretation," said Dr. Evans. The quatrain to which Dr. Evans refers - Quatrain 78 - is located in the grouping of stanzas known as Century X. Originally published in 1555 in Nostradamus' still-popular Les Prophecies, Quatrain...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #225 20081108 · Saturday, November 8, 2008 · 38 topics · 1706261 to 2123354 · 691 members ·
	Saturday Nov 8 2008 v 5 n 16 view this issue	Welcome to the 225th issue. Hey, at least we can now enjoy ourselves for a year, until the campaign for the midterms begins in earnest. Dunno about you, but I haven't much enjoyed myself for over a year, vis a vis A) tv, B) radio, C) print media, and D) the internet. Over the past four plus years, I've been on the verge of quitting Gods, Graves, Glyphs, and while FairOpinion was still around, I used to take off a week now and again. That hasn't happened in a while, and other details of my real life show it. Sure am glad I haven't been in a relationship, or that would probably have ended. Or maybe I'd be ecstatically happy and someone else would be the pingmeister of GGG. This week we've got a big bunch of topics, including some that were somehow missed back when, and a few which are new but more or less duplicates. I got to work on it earlier, and stayed up late enough to post it on time, but the variety was so broad that I couldn't figure out quite as many cool and logical segues. The number of members increased by one, which means at least two have joined, since someone quit yesterday. We've made a healthy bite out of volume five, and in a mere ten issues, i.e., sometime in I guess January, we'll be halfway through that. Amazing. Christmas is six weeks, five days from today. Sending people you hardly know (but whom you greatly appreciate) stuff from their Amazon Wish Lists is almost guaranteed to please, and you'll get a warm feeling inside. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #226 Saturday, November 15, 2008
Anatolia
Gobekli Tepe: The World's First Temple? ( massive carved stones about 11,000 years old )
	11/11/2008 5:08:14 PM PST · Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 86 replies · 214+ views Smithsonian magazine | November 2008 | # Andrew Curry # Photographs by Berthold Steinhilber Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern Turkey, Klaus Schmidt has made one of the most startling archaeological discoveries of our time: massive carved stones about 11,000 years old, crafted and arranged by prehistoric people who had not yet developed metal tools or even pottery. The megaliths predate Stonehenge by some 6,000 years. The place is called Gobekli Tepe, and Schmidt, a German archaeologist who has been working here more than a decade, is convinced it's the site of the...
Phoenicians
Lebanon finds 2,900 year old Phoenician remains
	11/12/2008 8:35:33 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 6 replies · 251+ views Reuters | 12 Nov 2008 | Yara Bayoumy Lebanese and Spanish archaeologists have discovered 2,900-year-old earthenware pottery that ancient Phoenicians used to store the bones of their dead after burning the corpses. They said more than 100 jars were discovered at a Phoenician site in the southern coastal city of Tire. Phoenicians are known to have thrived from 1500 B.C. to 300 B.C and they were also headquartered in the coastal area of present-day Syria. "The big jars are like individual tombs. The smaller jars are left empty, but symbolically represent that a soul is stored in them," Ali Badawi, the archaeologist in charge in Tire, told Reuters...
Egypt
Borrowers heal ancient Egyptian coffin smashed in 1969 protest [smashed by leftists]
	11/14/2008 5:33:15 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 1 replies · 16+ views CBC News | Friday, November 14, 2008 | unattributed A rare 2,500-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus shattered in a student protest almost four decades ago is expected to be a whole, new artifact when it returns to its home in Montreal after a sojourn in Gatineau. The elaborately-painted Hetep-Bastet coffin and the mummy inside are on loan to the Museum of Civilization, which plans to hand the ancient wooden coffin back to its owner, the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), in far better condition than when it left. Over the past three months, conservators at the museum have been painstakingly piecing together a few large pieces and hundreds of tiny...
Pyramids
Egypt unveils discovery of 4,300-year-old pyramid
	11/11/2008 2:05:06 PM PST · Posted by Jet Jaguar · 15 replies · 60+ views AP via brietbart | Nov 11, 2008 | KATARINA KRATOVAC SAQQARA, Egypt (AP) - Archaeologists have discovered a new pyramid under the sands of Saqqara, an ancient burial site that has yielded a string of unearthed pyramids in recent years but remains largely unexplored. The 4,300-year-old monument most likely belonged to the queen mother of the founder of Egypt's 6th Dynasty, and was built several hundred years after the famed Great Pyramids of Giza, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass told reporters in announcing the find Tuesday. The discovery is part of the sprawling necropolis and burial site of the rulers of ancient Memphis, the capital of Egypt's Old Kingdom, about 12...
Let's Have Jerusalem
2,000-year-old gold earring found in Jerusalem
	11/10/2008 6:35:07 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 26 replies · 10+ views AP | 10 Nov 2008 | SHAWNA OHM Israeli archeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old gold earring beneath a parking lot next to the walls of Jerusalem's old city, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Monday. The discovery dates back to the time of Christ, during the Roman period, said Doron Ben-Ami, director of excavation at the site. The piece was found in a Byzantine structure built several centuries after the jeweled earring was made, showing it was likely passed down through generations, he said. The find is luxurious: A large pearl inlaid in gold with two drop pieces, each with an emerald and pearl set in gold. "It must...
The Bible on PartisanBS television
PBS' 'The Bible's Buried Secrets': Seek and ye shall find?
	11/14/2008 4:58:23 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 12 replies · 233+ views Orlando Sentinel | Saturday, November 16, 2008 | Hal Boedeker The Bible's Buried Secrets supplies theories by examining how history and Scripture intersect. The PBS program generated controversy with a sensational preview last summer... More controversy is likely. But the two-hour Nova program, which debuts at 8 p.m. Tuesday, is low-key, detailed and scholarly. Writer-director Gary Glassman deftly uses maps, drawings and re-enactments to illustrate points. Liev Schreiber is the narrator, and Stockard Channing reads portions from the Bible. Buried Secrets focuses on the first five books and suggests that they came together in the sixth century B.C. Discrepancies in the text indicate that at least four groups were writing...
Ancient Autopsies
12,000-Year-Old Shaman Unearthed in Israel
	11/11/2008 1:47:33 PM PST · Posted by decimon · 12 replies · 21+ views Time | Nov. 11, 2008 | ISHAAN THAROOR A new figure in humanity's history emerged last week when archaeologists announced the discovery of what could be one of the world's oldest known spiritual figures. After years of meticulous excavation just miles from Israel's Mediterranean coast, scientists from the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem unearthed a 12,000-year-old grave that held the remains of a diminutive "shaman" woman. Buried alongside the woman's small, huddled corpse were selected pieces of animal bone, a cowtail, an eagle wing, the foot of another human, and, most curiously, some fifty tortoise shells deliberately arranged around the woman's body - all...
Faith and Philosophy
Early Christian church found in Syrian desert city
	11/13/2008 10:15:31 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 13 replies · 550+ views AFP | 13 Nov 2008 | AFP Polish and Syrian archaeologists have uncovered a 1,500-year-old Christian church in the famed Roman-era desert city of Palmyra, the director of the Palmyra museum said on Thursday. The discovery was made during a dig at the site 220 kilometres (135 miles) northeast of the capital Damascus, Walid Assaad told AFP. "Christianity came to Palmyra in the year 312, at a time when Christians had begun to build churches," he said. "And this one is huge -- the biggest ever found in Syria. It dates to the fourth or fifth centuries after Jesus Christ." The rectangular building measures 12 metres by...
Moderate Islam / ROP Alert
Fourteen Centuries of War Against European Civilization
	10/02/2008 6:47:25 AM PDT · Posted by x_plus_one · 15 replies · 340+ views Eurpoe News | Sept. 30, 2008 | Fjordman By Fjordman September 30 2008 The following essay is an amalgam of my previous online essays, among them Who Are We, Who Are Our Enemies -- The Cost of Historical Amnesia, Why We Should Oppose an Independent Kosovo, Refuting God's Crucible and The Truth About Islam in Europe. The Jihad, the Islamic so-called Holy War, has been a fact of life in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East for more than 1300 years, but this is the first history of the Muslim wars in Europe ever to be published. Hundreds of books, however, have appeared on its...
Asia
Phia Mun Cave reveals wealth of archaeological treasures
	11/14/2008 4:29:30 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 3 replies · 87+ views Vietnam News | Thursday, November 13, 2008 | VNS Archaeologists have finished the second phase of excavation at Phia Mun Cave, Na Hang District in the province of Tuyen Quang and have uncovered over 1,000 relics and 12 tombs of the Neolithic Hoa Binh culture. Excavations began in May last year and archaeologists soon realised the importance of the site, as they quickly uncovered objects 6,000 to 7,000 years old, and concluded that the cave was inhabited during Neolithic times... During excavation of the first strata archaeologists uncovered stone tools, animal bones and sea snail shells, proving that the inhabitants of the cave had contact with coastal tribes. They...
Epigraphy and Language
Record find of oracle bones in Shaanxi
	11/14/2008 8:53:14 AM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 4 replies · 167+ views China Daily | November 12, 2008 | Ma Lie Archaeologists in Shaanxi province have unearthed more than 1,100 oracle bone characters, shedding new light on the number of such inscriptions in existence. The find was made at a cluster of tombs in Qishan county that date back to the Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC). Lei Xingshan, head of the dig team, said in Xi'an yesterday: "Prior to our discovery at the Temple of Duke Zhou, less than 1,100 Chinese characters written on pieces of bone and tortoiseshell had ever been found." Members of the team have been unearthing scripts almost every day since the excavation began on...
India
Chandigarh was part of Harappan civilisation 5,000 years ago
	11/14/2008 4:00:16 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 2 replies · 86+ views Newstrack India | Friday, November 14, 2008 | ANI About 5,000 years ago Chandigarh was home to the Harappans. The gently sloping plain, on which the city today exists, was once a part of Himalayas. The stone implements, potsherds, ornaments and copper arrowheads discovered during the excavation in 1950s and 1960s in Chandigarh suggest that the city was once home to Harappans. The relics preserved at the Government Museum and Art Gallery in Chandigarh present a mixed assemblage. On one side, there are inimitable Harappan shapes as the dish-on-stand, pointed goblet, dish basin bearing an inscription in Harappan characters. On the other hand, there are shapes and designs that...
Climate
Earth may face freeze worse than Ice Age--study
	11/12/2008 10:37:18 AM PST · Posted by Sub-Driver · 62 replies · 1,607+ views alertnet.org Earth may face freeze worse than Ice Age--study 12 Nov 2008 18:10:28 GMT Source: Reuters By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The planet could face a freeze worse than an Ice Age starting in as little as 10,000 years, giving future societies a headache the opposite of coping with global warming, scientists said on Wednesday. The researchers, based in Britain and Canada, said that now-vilified greenhouse gases might help in future to avert a chill that could smother much of Canada and the United States, Europe and Russia in permanent ice. They said the study, based...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Woolly Rhinoceros Discovery Is Oldest in Europe
	11/13/2008 7:12:44 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 11 replies · 282+ views LiveScience | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | Staff A woolly rhinoceros was just 12 years old when it died in a pool of meltwater flowing off an inland glacier in Germany. That was 460,000 years ago. Now, scientists have pieced together the skull of this extinct mega-mammal and found it to be the oldest woolly rhinoceros in Europe. The skull was discovered more than a century ago in a gravel pit at the foot of the Kyffhäuser range, near Bad Frankenhausen (a town in Germany), but it was broken into more than 50 fragments. "This is the oldest woolly rhinoceros found in Europe, and it gives us a...
Scotland Yet
Climate change 'doomed ancient Argyll site' [not about sweaters]
	11/10/2008 5:21:12 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 24 replies · 20+ views Times o' London | November 7, 2008 | Scotland Staff An ancient Scots religious site predating the Pyramids and Stonehenge may have been abandoned because of climate change, according to archaeologists. Kilmartin Glen, in Argyll, has one of the most important concentrations of Neolithic and Bronze Age remains in Europe. The glen -- a place of sacred rites from 3700BC or earlier -- contains at least 350 ancient monuments, including burial cairns, rock carvings and standing stones. The most spectacular of the remains is the fortress of the Scots at Dunadd, capital of the kingdom of Dalriada. But archaeologists have identified a period of almost 1,000 years in which no...
The Celts
Ancient Celtic coin cache found in Netherlands
	11/13/2008 4:24:58 PM PST · Posted by BGHater · 14 replies · 476+ views AP | 13 Nov 2008 | AP A hobbyist with a metal detector struck both gold and silver when he uncovered an important cache of ancient Celtic coins in a cornfield in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht. "It's exciting, like a little boy's dream," Paul Curfs, 47, said Thursday after the spectacular find was made public. Archaeologists say the trove of 39 gold and 70 silver coins was minted in the middle of the first century B.C. as the future Roman ruler Julius Caesar led a campaign against Celtic tribes in the area. Curfs said he was walking with his detector this spring and was about...
British Isles
Archaeologists hail 'remarkable' Roman settlement uncovered during pipeline work
	11/14/2008 5:29:55 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 1 replies · 42+ views 24dash.com | Thursday, November 13, 2008 | Jon Land A Roman settlement has been unearthed by a water company laying pipelines. The civilian settlement in Cumbria is believed to date to the first century AD and includes the remains of timber buildings and cobbled streets. The discovery was made by United Utilities engineers during excavations for a sewage pipeline near Penrith in October. Archaeologists believe the settlement was attached to a fort and used to house soldiers' families and local market traders. Researchers have discovered jewellery including jade beads and copper alloy buckles at the site, along with a large quantity of gaming counters and drinking vessels... The site...
Rome and Italy
Ancient Rome lives again on Google Earth
	11/12/2008 7:20:36 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 21 replies · 653+ views Times of London | November 12, 2008 | Mike Harvey, Technology Correspondent The glory that was Rome is to rise again. Visitors will once more be able to visit the Colosseum and the Forum of Rome as they were in 320 AD, this time on a computer screen in 3D. The realisation of the ancient city in Google Earth lets viewers stand in the centre of the Colosseum, trace the footsteps of the gladiators in the Ludus Magnus and fly under the Arch of Constantine. The computer model, a collection of more than 6,700 buildings, depicts Rome in the year 320 AD. Then, under the emperor Constantine I, the city boasted more...
Greeks
Introduction to Ancient Greek History
	11/10/2008 12:09:28 AM PST · Posted by BCrago66 · 34 replies · 30+ views Yale University | September, 2007 | Donald Kagan Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University. A former dean of Yale College, he received his Ph.D. in 1958 from The Ohio State University. His publications include The Archidamian War, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, Pericles and the Birth of the Athenian Empire, On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace, and The Peloponnesian War. In 2002 he was the recipient of the National Humanities Medal and in 2005 was named the National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecturer.
We Are The Boys of the Chorus
Ancient gags show nothing's changed
	11/13/2008 8:25:45 AM PST · Posted by JoeProBono · 37 replies · 773+ views news | November 14, 2008 A DIRECT ancestor of Monty Python's renowned "Dead Parrot" sketch has been found in a book of jokes dating back to Greece in the fourth century AD. A new English translation of Philogelos: The Laugh Addict contains a joke in which a man complains that a slave he has just bought has died. "By the gods," answers the slave's seller, "when he was with me, he never did any such thing." In the Python sketch, written 16 centuries later, the shopkeeper claims the parrot, a "Norwegian Blue," is not dead, but just "pining for the fjords."
Helix, Make Mine a Double
The Origin of Form Was Abrupt Not Gradual [ Extended Synthesis ]
	11/11/2008 5:32:55 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 14 replies · 68+ views Archaeology | October 11, 2008 | Stuart Newman interviewed by Suzan Mazur "I don't want to be a Steve Gould," New York Medical College cell biologist Stuart Newman told me recently when I visited him at his lab in the village of Valhalla, a short train ride north along the Hudson River from Manhattan. Newman, an elegant, engaging and somewhat enigmatic man actually went to the same New York City high school as Gould but says he doesn't like being compared. While he considers himself a public intellectual, he also enjoys having a private life and getting lost in art. But some of those precious moments gazing at the composition of a...
Step By Step, One By One
Now: The Rest of the Genome
	11/10/2008 7:54:59 PM PST · Posted by Soliton · 29 replies · 74+ views The New York Times | November 10, 2008 | CARL ZIMMER Over the summer, Sonja Prohaska decided to try an experiment. She would spend a day without ever saying the word "gene." Dr. Prohaska is a bioinformatician at the University of Leipzig in Germany. In other words, she spends most of her time gathering, organizing and analyzing information about genes. "It was like having someone tie your hand behind your back," she said. But Dr. Prohaska decided this awkward experiment was worth the trouble, because new large-scale studies of DNA are causing her and many of her colleagues to rethink the very nature of genes. They no longer conceive of a...
Erectus
Prehistoric pelvis offers clues to human development
	11/14/2008 5:19:53 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 1 replies · 41+ views Eurekalert! | Thursday, November 13, 2008 | Sileshi Semaw, Scott Simpson, Jay Quade, Naomi Levin, Robert Butler, & Guillaume Dupont-Nivet Discovery of the most intact female pelvis of Homo erectus may cause scientists to reevaluate how early humans evolved to successfully birth larger-brained babies... A reconstruction of the 1.2 million-year-old pelvis discovered in 2001 in the Gona Study Area at Afar, Ethiopia, that has led researchers to speculate early man was better equipped than first thought to produce larger-brained babies. The actual fossils remain in Ethiopia... Reconstructing pelvis bone fragments from the 1.2 million-year-old adult female, Semaw and his co-workers determined the early ancestor's birth canal was more than 30 percent larger than earlier estimates based on a 1.5-million-year-old juvenile...
Prehistory and Origins
How warfare shaped human evolution
	11/13/2008 4:31:39 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 17 replies · 300+ views New Scientist | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | Bob Holmes Now a new theory is emerging that challenges the prevailing view that warfare is a product of human culture and thus a relatively recent phenomenon. For the first time, anthropologists, archaeologists, primatologists, psychologists and political scientists are approaching a consensus. Not only is war as ancient as humankind, they say, but it has played an integral role in our evolution. The theory helps explain the evolution of familiar aspects of warlike behaviour such as gang warfare. And even suggests the cooperative skills we've had to develop to be effective warriors have turned into the modern ability to work towards a...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Portal to Maya "hell" found in Mexico?
	11/11/2008 5:26:00 PM PST · Posted by Choose Ye This Day · 18 replies · 72+ views KAZINFORM | November 11, 2008 | KAZINFORM A labyrinth filed with stone temples and pyramids in 14 caves--some underwater-have been uncovered on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, archaeologists announced recently. The discover has experts wondering whether Maya legend inspired the construction of the underground complex--or vice versa. According to Maya myth, the souls of the dead had to follow a dog with night vision on a horrific and watery path and endure myriad challenges before they could rest in the afterlife.
Middle Ages and Renaissance
700-year-old coins found in field[UK]
	11/10/2008 11:57:47 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 10 replies · 12+ views BBC | 10 Nov 2008 | BBC Three 700-year-old coins which were found in a field have been declared treasure by a coroner at Flint. The silver pennies date back to between 1307 and 1314, to the reigns of both Edward I and his son Edward II. Archaeology enthusiast Peter Jones, from Holywell, found a coin in 2006, then returned to the same spot a year later, when the other two were found. The coins were analysed by experts at Cardiff's National Museum of Wales who discovered they were 90% silver. Mr Jones regularly scours a field owned by his friend Ron Davies, for pre-historic items. He...
Early America
Revolutionary War Beacons
	11/12/2008 7:57:29 AM PST · Posted by Pharmboy · 27 replies · 328+ views Hudson Valley Press | 11 Nov 2008 | Anon On November 25, 2008, to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the evacuation of the United States of America by British troops, the Palisades Parks Conservancy, in collaboration with the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, Scenic Hudson, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, and Palisades Interstate Park Commission will symbolically light five beacon sites that replicate the original signal locations used by the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. These vital systems summoned the militia in both New York and in neighboring New Jersey and warned residents of the approaching British Redcoats. The types of...
World War Eleven
Very Strange Video: American Flag Stuck In Ground Next To Russian Runway At Battle Of Stalingrad ?
	11/14/2008 10:58:59 AM PST · Posted by MindBender26 · 40 replies · 1,375+ views Military Channel | Military Channel Need some assistance in identifying something really weird I just saw on The Military Channel. From 1300 to 1400 hrs., Eastern daylight Time, The Military Channel was showing the first hour of a two-part documentary on the Russian defense of Stalingrad during World War II. A lot of it is really great video and includes major segments of film shot during the war by German and Soviet military camera. At nine minutes after the hour the program was covering Russian efforts to reduce a German salient into their territory. The picture shows two early war Russian fighter aircraft taking off...
The Holocaust
Auschwitz architectural plans uncovered
	11/09/2008 9:00:24 AM PST · Posted by mojito · 88 replies · 22+ views Jerusalem Post | 11/9/2008 | Staff The German newspaper Bild published never-before-seen architectural plans of the Auschwitz extermination camp on Saturday that reveal, in their unequivocally marked sections, that everyone involved in the operation of Auschwitz knew full well that it was intended for the systematic extermination of human beings, the paper said. The floor plans, cross-sections and maps on yellowing paper, mostly on a scale of 1:100, were reportedly found during the evacuation of an abandoned Berlin apartment. They were drawn up between 1941 and 1943. The 28 documents include detailed blueprints of prisoner barracks, gas chambers marked clearly Gaskammer (Gas chamber) in a Gothic-inspired...
Diet and Cuisine
Obituary: Ellen Kohler, 91, Penn archaeologist
	11/11/2008 4:52:16 PM PST · Posted by SunkenCiv · 3 replies · 15+ views Philadelphia Inquirer | Sunday, November 9, 2008 | Gayle Ronan Sims Ellen Lucile Kohler, 91, a key University of Pennsylvania archaeologist who excavated the site in central Turkey where artifacts of Alexander the Great and King Midas were found, died Monday at Bryn Mawr Terrace. She was a longtime resident of University City. The Gordion archaeological project, which began in 1950, was one of Penn's most famous excavations, said Gareth Darbyshire of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. "Her death is the end of an era," he said. Dr. Kohler was one of the last surviving members of the first team at the ancient Phrygian capital of Gordion...
Navigation
New shipwreck documentary released on anniversary Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking
	11/09/2008 8:44:08 PM PST · Posted by Joe 6-pack · 56 replies · 22+ views The Muskegon Chronicle | 11/09/08 | Local Reports Thirty-three years ago today after a fierce winter storm sent the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald to the bottom of Lake Superior, a new video has been released that explores the latest theories behind the ship's sinking. Mark Gumbinger of Kenosha, Wis., who has produced 31 documentaries on shipwrecks and lighthouses, recently released "The Edmund Fitzgerald Controversy." "The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is arguably the most famous shipwreck story told around the Great Lakes," Gumbinger said. "Yet the question remains, 'What really happened to the Mighty Fitz that cold November night?' " The ship sank on Nov. 10, 1975, with a...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Marking 110 Years Sinice the 1898 Race Riot[Democrats lead only Coup D'etat in American History][NC]
	11/10/2008 7:14:17 AM PST · Posted by BGHater · 14 replies · 27+ views WHQR | 09 Nov 2008 | Catherine M. Welch It's been 110 years Monday since the bloody overthrow of Wilmington's black government. Hundreds of residents and local leaders gathered over the weekend to dedicate the 1898 Memorial, marking the only coup d'etat in U.S. history. Many who came to see the memorial called it a step toward reconciliation. And it wasn't lost on Reverend John Veasey that the dedication came less than a week after the U.S. elected its first black president. "I'm just glad to see what has happened and is going to happen, not only in Wilmington but also in the United States and in the world....
Pages
Some Christmas Book Suggestions from an Author and Avid Reader
	11/12/2008 4:21:35 AM PST · Posted by LS · 10 replies · 135+ views self | 11/12/08 | LS As a diversion from the gloomy election news, here are some suggestions for Christmas reading: Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction. This one is thick, I won't deny it. It's a history of the Nazi economy from Hitler's ascension through the surrender in 1945. But he has startling insights on almost every page. Usually I mark my books---this one has something underlined everywhere. Among other points, Tooze argues that Hitler's "economic miracle" was an illusion; that the "Volkswagen" was never, ever sold to average people; that the choices for weapons procurement in 1936-7 dictated the blitzkrieg, not vice versa. Tony...
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