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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #273 Saturday, October 10, 2009 |
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| Catastrophism and Astronomy | |
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| New Ancient Fungus Finding Suggests World's Forests Were Wiped Out In Global Catastrophe |
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· 10/08/2009 6:50:24 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 20 replies · · 367+ views · · ScienceDaily · · October 2, 2009 · · Adapted from materials provided by Imperial College London · |
Tiny organisms that covered the planet more than 250 million years ago appear to be a species of ancient fungus that thrived in dead wood, according to new research published October 1 in the journal Geology. The researchers behind the study, from Imperial College London and other universities in the UK, USA and The Netherlands, believe that the organisms were able to thrive during this period because the world's forests had been wiped out. This would explain how the organisms, which are known as Reduviasporonites, were able to proliferate across the planet... By analysing the carbon and nitrogen content of... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| Human genetics: Hit or miss? |
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· 10/07/2009 9:16:02 PM PDT · · Posted by neverdem · · 2 replies · · 133+ views · · Nature News · · 7 October 2009 · · Kelly Rae Chi · |
Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of genetic clues to disease. Kelly Rae Chi looks at three to see just how on-target the approach seems to be. Download a PDF of this story Five years ago human geneticists rallied around an emerging concept. Technology had granted the ability to compare the genomes of individuals by looking at tens of thousands of known single-letter differences scattered across them. These differences, called single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs, served as reference points or signposts of common variation between individuals. The idea was that common variants in the genome might contribute to the genetics... |
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| 3-D Structure Of Human Genome: Fractal Globule Architecture Packs Two Meters Of DNA Into Each Cell |
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· 10/08/2009 6:27:40 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 11 replies · · 252+ views · · ScienceDaily · · Thursday, October 8, 2009 · · Adapted from original article written by Steve Bradt, Harvard University · |
...they describe a new technology called Hi-C and apply it to answer the thorny question of how each of our cells stows some three billion base pairs of DNA while maintaining access to functionally crucial segments... says co-first author Erez Lieberman-Aiden... "But if the double helix didn't fold further, the genome in each cell would be two meters long. Scientists have not really understood how the double helix folds to fit into the nucleus of a human cell, which is only about a hundredth of a millimeter in diameter. This new approach enabled us to probe exactly that question."... |
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| Prehistory and Origins | |
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| Europe's oldest stone hand axes emerge in Spain [900,000 years B.P.] |
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· 09/27/2009 6:26:16 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 36 replies · · 768+ views · · Science News · · Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 · · Bruce Bower · |
A new analysis finds that human ancestors living in what is now Spain fashioned double-edged stone cutting tools as early as 900,000 years ago, almost twice as long ago as previous estimates for this technological achievement in Europe. If confirmed, the new dates support the idea that the manufacture and use of teardrop-shaped stone implements, known as hand axes, spread rapidly from Africa into Europe and Asia beginning roughly 1 million years ago, say geologist Gary Scott and paleontologist Luis Gibert, both of the Berkeley Geochronology Center in California. Evidence of ancient reversals of Earth's magnetic field in soil at... |
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| Make It An Ardi's Night | |
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| Fossils radically alter ideas about the look of man's earliest ancestors |
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· 10/03/2009 4:08:45 PM PDT · · Posted by Pride_of_the_Bluegrass · · 63 replies · · 1,156+ views · · Los Angeles Times · · October 2, 2009 · · Thomas H. Maugh · |
A treasure trove of 4.4-million-year-old fossils from the Ethiopian desert is dramatically overturning widely held ideas about the early evolution of humans and how they came to walk upright, even as it paints a remarkably detailed picture of early life in Africa, researchers reported Thursday. The centerpiece of the diverse collection of primate, animal and plant fossils is the near-complete skeleton of a human ancestor that demonstrates our earliest forebears looked nothing like a chimpanzee or other large primate, as is now commonly believed. Instead, the findings suggest that the last common ancestor of humans and primates, which existed nearly... |
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| Fossils Shed New Light on Human Past (Our ancestors were more modern than scholars had assumed) |
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· 10/02/2009 7:10:16 AM PDT · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 8 replies · · 360+ views · · Wall Street Journal · · 10/2/2009 · · Robert Lee Hotz · |
After 15 years of rumors, researchers made public fossils from a 4.4 million-year-old human forebear they say reveals that our ancestors were more modern than scholars had assumed, widening the evolutionary gulf separating humankind from apes and chimpanzees. The highlight of the extensive fossil trove was a female skeleton a million years older than the iconic bones of Lucy, the primitive female figure that has long symbolized humankind's beginnings. An international research team led by paleoanthropologist Tim White at the University of California, Berkeley, unveiled on Thursday remains from 36 males, females and young of an ancient prehuman species called... |
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| Ardi's Secret: Did Early Humans Start Walking for Sex? |
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· 10/03/2009 12:34:59 PM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 46 replies · · 1,282+ views · · nationalgeographic · · October 1, 2009 · · Jamie Shreeve · |
The big news from the journal Science today is the discovery of the oldest human skeleton -- a small-brained, 110-pound (50-kilogram) female of the species Ardipithecus ramidus, nicknamed "Ardi." She lived in what is now Ethiopia 4.4 million years ago, which makes her over a million years older than the famous Lucy fossil, found in the same region 35 years ago. Buried among the slew of papers about the new find is one about the creature's sex life. It makes fascinating reading, especially if you like learning why human females don't know when they are ovulating, and men lack the clacker-sized testicles... |
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| Give It To Me Straight, Doc | |
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| Lack Of Sex Could Be A Signpost To Extinction, Claim Researchers [2005] |
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· 10/08/2009 7:56:16 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 33 replies · · 419+ views · · ScienceDaily · · October 29, 2005 · · Adapted from materials provided by Imperial College London · |
Researchers from Imperial College London believe that when species become asexual they could be on their way to extinction... P. marneffei is a fungus which causes disease in people with damaged immune systems, such as HIV/AIDS patients, and it is only found in parts of south-east Asia... Dr Bill Hanage, one of the paper's authors, from Imperial College London, adds: "By being asexual, P. marneffei is not only limiting its ability to adapt, it may be at risk of becoming extinct. If it is unable to adapt to new environments, it will be unable to adapt to changes in its... |
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| India | |
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| The beef-eaters of ancient India ( Book Review |
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· 08/07/2002 10:19:39 AM PDT · · Posted by swarthyguy · · 13 replies · · 717+ views · · TLS · · 8.1.02 · · Wendy Doniger · |
The only shocking thing about this book is the news that someone has found it shocking -- has been "shocked, shocked" (as Claude Raines would have said) by the argument that people used to eat cows in ancient India. The Myth of the Holy Cow is a dry, straight academic survey of the history of Sanskrit texts dealing with the eating, or not-eating, of cows. The author, Dwijendra Narayan Jha, Professor of History at the University of Delhi, has marshalled indisputable evidence proving what every scholar of India has known for well over a century: (1) In ancient India, from... |
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| Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy | |
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| Prehistoric site found near UK's Stonehenge |
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· 10/04/2009 9:08:08 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 7 replies · · 360+ views · · Associated Press · · Oct 3, 2009 · · Unknown · |
Researchers have dubbed the site "Bluehenge," after the color of the 27 Welsh stones that were laid to make up a path. The stones have disappeared, but the path of holes remains. |
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| Canary in a Coal Mine | |
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| Ancient Rainforest Revealed in Coal Mine |
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· 04/23/2007 8:11:31 PM PDT · · Posted by A. Pole · · 60 replies · · 2,243+ views · · Yahoo News · · Mon Apr 23, 2007 · · Jeanna Bryner · |
Scientists exploring a mine have uncovered a natural Sistine chapel showing not religious paintings, but incredibly well preserved images of sprawling tree trunks and fallen leaves that once breathed life into an ancient rainforest. Replete with a diverse mix of extinct plants, the 300-million-year-old fossilized forest is revealing clues about the ecology of Earth's first rainforests . The discovery and details of the forest are published in the May issue of the journal Geology. "We're looking at one instance in time over a large area. It's literally a snapshot in time of a multiple square mile area," said study team... |
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| The Lumber Region | |
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| Researchers Probe Fossilized Rain Forest |
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· 04/23/2007 8:44:05 PM PDT · · Posted by Valin · · 17 replies · · 620+ views · · Townhall · · 4/23/07 · |
Standing on the wind-swept flatlands of southern Vermilion County, you might think you'd have to drive the 180 miles to Chicago's Field Museum to find the nearest fossilized tree trunk from the Pennsylvania Age, 300 million years ago. Nah, just drill straight down. That's where coal miners working south and west of Georgetown have unearthed, chunk by fossilized chunk, what has revealed itself over the past few years to be the remains of a fossilized rain forest. It covers about 15 square miles, all more than 200 feet below ground, and probably is the largest intact rain forest from that... |
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| India | |
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| Cluster of dinosaur eggs found in southern India |
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· 10/04/2009 5:54:35 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 11 replies · · 417+ views · · Reuters · · Oct 2, 2009 · · Reporting by S. Murari; Editing by Matthias Williams and Sanjeev Miglani · |
CHENNAI, India (Reuters) -- Geologists have found a cluster of fossilized dinosaur eggs, said to be about 65 million years old, in a village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, according to media reports. The clusters were under ash from volcanic eruptions on the Deccan plateau, which geologists said could have caused the dinosaurs to become extinct. |
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| Biology and Cryptobiology | |
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| Baby Mammoth Yields Secrets After 40,000 Years In Siberian Tundra [Amazing Find!] |
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· 10/04/2009 4:26:37 PM PDT · · Posted by Steelfish · · 31 replies · · 1,227+ views · · London Times · · October 04th 2009 · |
October 5, 2009 Baby Mammoth Yields Secrets After 40,000 Years In Siberian Tundra [Pic in URL] Sam Lister A baby woolly mammoth that died after being sucked into a muddy river bed 40,000 years ago has revealed more prehistoric secrets of how the species survived in its icy habitat. The mammoth, known as Lyuba, was about a month old when she died in the Siberian tundra, where she remained until she was discovered by reindeer herders three years ago. Her body was so well preserved in the permafrost that her stomach retained traces of her mother's milk, and scientists identified... |
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| Ice, Ice Baby: Perfectly Frozen Mammoth |
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· 10/05/2009 4:09:01 PM PDT · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 41 replies · · 938+ views · · Sky News · · Oct. 5, 2009 · |
A baby woolly mammoth, frozen in soil for 40,000 years in Siberia, was so well preserved that traces of her mother's milk were still in her stomach. Lyuba, who was thought to be just one month old, was discovered three years ago when nomadic reindeer dug her up. Scientists believe she died after being sucked into a river bed. Mud was found in her trunk and throat, suggesting she had suffocated. The body is preserved enough to provide DNA samples, but the prospect cloning the creature is still a long way off. Researchers found the animals' hump acted like a... |
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| Man of the Cloth | |
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| Teacher Has Theory on the Shroud of Turin |
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· 10/08/2009 11:35:33 AM PDT · · Posted by Nikas777 · · 57 replies · · 654+ views · · AP via forteantimes.com · · Thursday March 24, 2005 1:46 PM · · NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS · |
Nathan Wilson is an English teacher with no scientific training, but he thinks he knows how Jesus' burial cloth was made and he thinks it's not a physical sign of the resurrection. In other words, in Wilson's estimation, the Shroud of Turin is a fake - produced with some glass, paint and old cloth. And that theory, especially with Easter this weekend, has so-called -- Shroudies" a buzz. -- A lot of religious people are upset," said Wilson,... |
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| Italian scientist reproduces Shroud of Turin |
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· 10/05/2009 11:22:44 AM PDT · · Posted by Gamecock · · 584 replies · · 5,122+ views · · Yahoo · · 5 Oct 2009 · · Philip Pullella · |
An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat that he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere as Jesus Christ's burial cloth is a medieval fake. The shroud, measuring 14 feet, 4 inches by 3 feet, 7 inches bears the image, eerily reversed like a photographic negative, of a crucified man some believers say is Christ. "We have shown that is possible to reproduce something which has the same characteristics as the Shroud," Luigi Garlaschelli, who is due to illustrate the results at a conference on the para-normal this weekend in northern Italy,... |
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| Shroud of Turin Reproduced by an Italian Scientist |
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· 10/05/2009 2:01:23 PM PDT · · Posted by pantherskincreek · · 39 replies · · 1,110+ views · · Reuters · · October 5 2009 · · Philip Pullella · |
An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat that he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere as Jesus Christ's burial cloth is a medieval fake.ntist Reproduces the Shroud |
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| Italian group claims to debunk Shroud of Turin |
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· 10/05/2009 6:17:42 PM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 71 replies · · 1,127+ views · · sfgate · · October 5, 2009 · · ARIEL DAVID · |
Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin -- revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb -- and say the experiment proves the relic was man-made, a group of Italian debunkers claimed Monday The shroud bears the figure of a crucified man, complete with blood seeping out of nailed hands and feet, and believers say Christ's image was recorded on the linen fibers at the time of his resurrection. Scientists have reproduced the shroud using materials and methods that were available in the 14th century, the Italian Committee for Checking Claims on the Paranormal said. The group said... |
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| Scientist re-creates Turin Shroud to show it's fake |
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· 10/08/2009 10:14:43 AM PDT · · Posted by Nikas777 · · 22 replies · · 586+ views · · cnn.com · · 3:41 p.m. EDT, Wed October 7, 2009 · · Richard Allen Greene · |
Scientist re-creates Turin Shroud to show it's fake updated 3:41 p.m. EDT, Wed October 7, 2009 By Richard Allen Greene CNN (CNN) -- An Italian scientist says he has reproduced one of the world's most famous Catholic relics, the Shroud of Turin, to support his belief it is a medieval fake, not the cloth Jesus was buried in. Luigi Garlaschelli created a copy of the shroud by wrapping a specially woven cloth over one of his students, painting it with pigment, baking it in an oven (which he called a "shroud machine") for several hours, then washing it. His result... |
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| Asia | |
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| Chinese imperial throne breaks record |
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· 10/08/2009 6:57:57 PM PDT · · Posted by Pan_Yan · · 10 replies · · 266+ views · · CNN · · updated 4:43 a.m. EDT, Thu October 8, 2009 · · Pauline Chiou · |
HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- An imperial "dragon" throne owned by a Chinese emperor set the world auction record for Chinese furniture Thursday, selling for about US $11 million. There was frenzied bidding among mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan collectors at the Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong. Thirty-six bids came in 10 minutes, with tension building as a new telephone bidder jumped into the competition. "These mainland (China) buyers, mainland collectors are ready to pay the premium it takes to secure an object of this quality," said Nicolas Chow, international head of Chinese ceramics and art at Sotheby's. The winning... |
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| Australia and the Pacific | |
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| Dragon's Paradise Lost: Komodo Dragons Most Likely Evolved In Australia, Dispersed To Indonesia |
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· 10/02/2009 4:11:59 PM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 25 replies · · 881+ views · · sciencedaily · · Oct. 1, 2009 · |
The world's largest living lizard species, the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), is vulnerable to extinction and yet little is known about its natural history. New research by a team of palaeontologists and archaeologists from Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia, who studied fossil evidence from Australia, Timor, Flores, Java and India, shows that Komodo Dragons most likely evolved in Australia and dispersed westward to Indonesia. |
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| Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles | |
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| Ebola, Marburg Source Found in Fruit Bat(Congratulations Mother Abigail & Free Republic) |
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· 10/07/2009 2:57:55 PM PDT · · Posted by James Oscar · · 28 replies · · 777+ views · · Pro Med · · Oct. 6, 2009 · · International Society for Infectious Diseases · |
Scientists are closing in on the source of Ebola and Marburg [hemorrhagic fevers], 2 of the world's most-lethal infectious diseases. After a 5-year search in the jungles of Africa, an international team of virus hunters has identified... |
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| Plop Plop, Fizz Fizz, Clunk Clunk | |
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| Aspirin Misuse May Have Made 1918 Flu Pandemic Worse |
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· 10/02/2009 10:44:59 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 30 replies · · 678+ views · · HIV Medicine Association · · October 2, 2009 · · Unknown · |
The devastation of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic is well known, but a new article suggests a surprising factor in the high death toll: the misuse of aspirin. Appearing in the November 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases and available online now, the article sounds a cautionary note as present day concerns about the novel H1N1 virus run high. High aspirin dosing levels used to treat patients during the 1918-1919 pandemic are now known to cause, in some cases, toxicity and a dangerous build up of fluid in the lungs, which may have contributed to the incidence and severity of symptoms,... |
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| Rock and Roll | |
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| Princeton paleomagnetists put controversy to rest |
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· 10/02/2009 2:00:19 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 11 replies · · 441+ views · · Princeton University · · October 2, 2009 · · Kitta MacPherson · |
The well-exposed layering of basalt flows in formations near Lake Superior is aiding scientific understanding of the geomagnetic field in ancient times. Nicholas Swanson-Hysell, a Princeton graduate student, examines the details of the top of a lava flow. (Photo: Catherine Rose) Princeton University scientists have shown that, in ancient times, the Earth's magnetic field was structured like the two-pole model of today, suggesting that the methods geoscientists use to reconstruct the geography of early land masses on the globe are accurate. The findings may lead to a better understanding of historical continental movement, which relates to changes in climate. By... |
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| Climate | |
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| The Yamal Implosion |
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· 09/30/2009 11:30:22 PM PDT · · Posted by SteveH · · 17 replies · · 824+ views · · Bishop Hill · · September 29, 2009 · · Bishop Hill · |
The Yamal Implosion September 29, 2009 There is a great deal of excitement among climate sceptics over Steve McIntyre's recent posting on Yamal. Several people have asked me to do a layman's guide to the story in the manner of Caspar and the Jesus paper. Here it is. The story of Michael Mann's Hockey Stick reconstruction, its statistical bias and the influence of the bristlecone pines is well known. McIntyre's research into the other reconstructions has received less publicity, however. The story of the Yamal chronology may change that. |
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| Chilly reception for theory on global warming |
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· 10/05/2009 9:08:52 AM PDT · · Posted by Nikas777 · · 29 replies · · 891+ views · · sfgate.com · · Sunday, October 4, 2009 · · David A. Fahrenthold · |
Chilly reception for theory on global warming David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post Sunday, October 4, 2009 Has climate change been around as long as the pyramids? It is an odd-sounding idea, because the problem is usually assumed to be a modern one, the product of a world created by the Industrial Revolution and powered by high-polluting fossil fuels. But a professor emeritus at the University of Virginia has suggested that people began altering the climate thousands of years ago, as primitive farmers burned forests and built methane-bubbling rice paddies. The practices produced enough greenhouse gases, he says, to warm the... |
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| Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis | |
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| THE TELLO OBELISK |
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· 02/03/2003 1:17:59 PM PST · · Posted by vannrox · · 9 replies · · 972+ views · · THE TELLO OBELISK · · 2000 FR Post 2-3-03 · · James Q. Jacobs · |
The Tello Obelisk is a prismatic granite monolith from the archaeological site of Chavin de Huantar in north-central Peru. The Obelisk features one of the most complex stone carvings known in the Americas for its time. Chavin is situated at 3,150 m in the upper Monsa River drainage, between the Cordillera Blanca and the Cordillera Oriental, two of the three ranges in the Central Andes. ChavÃŒn is located on a pass to the Callejon de Huaylas, a high elevation valley between the Cordillera Blanca and the Cordillera Negra, the western range. Radiocarbon... |
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| Egypt | |
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| Egypt Severs Ties with Louvre Over 'Stolen' Ancient Egyptian Artifacts |
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· 10/07/2009 6:33:33 PM PDT · · Posted by Pan_Yan · · 39 replies · · 361+ views · · Voice of America · · October 7, 2009 · · Staff · |
Egypt's antiquities chief says Egypt is suspending ties with the Louvre, saying the French museum has not returned what he says are stolen artifacts. Zahi Hawass on Wednesday said the Louvre has repeatedly ignored requests to return steles, or large reliefs, that date back to the time of the Pharaohs. Hawass said the Louvre purchased the four archeological reliefs that were stolen from a tomb in Luxor in the 1980s. French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said Wednesday that France is willing to return the relics if they were indeed stolen from the tomb site. He says he has asked a... |
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| Anatolia | |
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| 5,000-year-old Venus figure found in Canakkale |
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· 10/02/2009 8:11:42 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 24 replies · · 580+ views · · Today's Zaman · · Friday, September 25, 2009 · · unattributed · |
A 5,000-year-old Venus figure and a seal have been found in an excavation. A 5,000-year-old Venus figure has been found as part of an excavation being carried out in «anakkale's Ezine district. The excavation began in the field three weeks ago in cooperation with Germany's University of T¸bingen. Assistant Professor R¸stem Aslan, who is vice head of the excavation, told the Anatolia news agency that the aim of the dig is to find settlements outside Troy from the Bronze Age. Some interesting findings have been unearthed during the excavation, Aslan said. "We found a 5,000-year-old Venus figure, which used to... |
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| Greece | |
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| "The Catastrophe" What the End of Bronze-Age Civilization Means for Modern Times |
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· 09/28/2009 9:26:36 AM PDT · · Posted by Nikas777 · · 75 replies · · 1,200+ views · · brusselsjournal.com · · Tue, 2009-09-15 09:20 · · Thomas F. Bertonneau · |
'The Catastrophe' - Part 1: What the End of Bronze-Age Civilization Means for Modern TimesFrom the desk of Thomas F. Bertonneau on Tue, 2009-09-15 09:20 Introduction to Part I: Modern people assume the immunity of their situation to major disturbance or -- even more unthinkable -- to terminal wreckage. The continuance of a society or culture depends, in part, on that very assumption because without it no one would complete his daily round. A man cannot enthusiastically arise from bed as the sun comes up and set about the day¬'s errands believing that all undertakings will issue vainly because the... |
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| Rome and Italy | |
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| Ancient Rome's Real Population Revealed |
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· 10/07/2009 5:08:10 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 32 replies · · 1,035+ views · · Live Science · · Oct 5, 2009 · · Andrea Thompson · |
The first century B.C. was one of the most culturally rich in the history of the Roman Empire - the age of Cicero, Caesar and Virgil. But as much as historians know about the great figures of this period of Ancient Rome, they know very little about some basic facts, such as the population size of the late Roman Empire. Now, a group of historians has used caches of buried coins to provide an answer to this question. During the Republican period of Rome (about the fifth to the first centuries B.C), adult male citizens of Rome could be taxed... |
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| Gloucester body 'is Goth warrior'[UK] |
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· 10/09/2009 9:21:37 AM PDT · · Posted by BGHater · · 8 replies · · 282+ views · · BBC · · 09 Oct 2009 · · BBC · |
A late Roman period body unearthed in Gloucester has stunned experts after tests suggested it was a Goth warrior from eastern Europe. The man, aged 25 to 30, who was dug up north of Kingsholm Square in 1972, had always baffled archaeologists. His elaborate silver belt fittings, shoe buckles and inlaid knife were believed to be from an area between the Balkans and Southern Russia. Chemical tests now prove he was from east of the River Danube. This has led historians to suggest he was a Goth mercenary in the Roman Army. Pirate warden? The large bones date to about... |
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| A High-Tech Hunt for Lost Art |
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· 10/06/2009 6:22:58 PM PDT · · Posted by BGHater · · 8 replies · · 373+ views · · The New York Times · · 06 Oct 2009 · · JOHN TIERNEY · |
If you believe, as Maurizio Seracini does, that Leonardo da Vinci's greatest painting is hidden inside a wall in Florence's city hall, then there are two essential techniques for finding it. As usual, Leonardo anticipated both of them. First, concentrate on scientific gadgetry. After spotting what seemed to be a clue to Leonardo's painting left by another 16th-century artist, Dr. Seracini led an international team of scientists in mapping every millimeter of the wall and surrounding room with lasers, radar, ultraviolet light and infrared cameras. Once they identified the likely hiding place, they developed devices to detect the painting by... |
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| UNDERWORLD - Graham Hancock |
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· 10/06/2009 8:25:06 AM PDT · · Posted by Nikas777 · · 8 replies · · 397+ views · · dailygrail.com · · 12:09, 30 Apr 2004 · · Greg · |
UNDERWORLD - Graham Hancock Posted by Greg at 12:09, 30 Apr 2004 Let's get this straight, right from the outset - UNDERWORLD is not FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS. I say this, because I know that fans of Graham Hancock's work like to compare his latest efforts with the monolithic benchmark that is FOTG. And this simply isn't a valid comparison - FOTG smashed its way into our consciousness in the main because it introduced us to (or re-introduced to some) the amazing mysteries that were present in what we thought was a mundane old world. A decade or so on,... |
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| Oh So Mysteriouso | |
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| Numerous evidence of Pre-Historic Nuclear War exists |
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· 10/06/2009 7:13:37 AM PDT · · Posted by Nikas777 · · 109 replies · · 2,267+ views · · agoracosmopolitan.com · · Tuesday 6. Oct 2009 · · Brad Steiger · |
Numerous evidence of Pre-Historic Nuclear War exists: Columns of Smoke Rose as if from a Mighty Furnaceby Brad Steiger Ancient Indian Epics, especially the Mahabharata, document apparent pre-historic nuclear devastation and destruction, that is being verified by diverse scholars."Then the Lord rained down fire and tar from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah, and utterly destroyed them." Genesis 19:24. My previous article in The Canadian , in which I reflected upon my book Worlds Before Our Own, provoked dozens of inquiries from readers. LINK Some stated that one of the cable channels -- some thought it was the History Channel; others,... |
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| Face of Defense: Soldier Uses History for Motivation |
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· 10/05/2009 4:38:53 PM PDT · · Posted by SandRat · · 7 replies · · 210+ views · · Face of Defence · · Pfc. Andrya Hill, USA · |
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan, Oct. 5, 2009 -- The Army is rich in history and legacy, and most soldiers can answer questions regarding basic knowledge such as when the Army was founded. But a 25th Infantry Division noncommissioned officer here takes historical knowledge a step further to draw motivation for his daily responsibilities. Army Staff Sgt. Tyler Fosheim, a paratrooper, considers himself a history buff. He said he uses common sense and the Army's legacy for insight and inspiration in his NCO duties as a platoon sergeant for Company D, 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat... |
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| If You Hate Obummer Read This Now... |
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· 10/08/2009 7:54:44 AM PDT · · Posted by h20skier66 · · 18 replies · · 1,266+ views · · Commodity News Center · · 10/8/09 · · Casey Research · |
This without question is one of the most thought provoking articles I've ever read. After reading it I got the full article which is 17 pages in .pdf format and even more profound. (For the record I am in no way affiliated with Casey, David Galland, or Neil Howe). If you want to know whats happening with our country and how Obummer is able to manipulate, control, decieve, and cheat the American people this is for you. Here's an excerpt: A Casey Research interview with Neil Howe, co-author of The Fourth Turning The Fourth Turning is an amazingly prescient book... |
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| US First Lady 'slave roots' found |
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· 10/08/2009 3:58:21 PM PDT · · Posted by Daffynition · · 32 replies · · 883+ views · · BBC · · 8 October 2009 · · staff reporter · |
Research into the family of US First Lady Michelle Obama has revealed that her great-great-great-grandmother was a slave given away at the age of six. According to genealogist Megan Smolenyak, the girl was described in papers only as "negro girl Melvinia". In her early teens, working as a slave on a farm in Georgia, she was made pregnant by an unknown white man. The son she gave birth to around the year 1859, Dolphus, was Michelle's great-great grandfather. Megan Smolenyak, whose discoveries have been detailed in the New York Times newspaper, said she was not surprised by what she discovered.... |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Pennsylvania historians to mark 150th anniversary of Civil War |
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· 10/07/2009 8:03:35 PM PDT · · Posted by Ditto · · 4 replies · · 163+ views · · Pittsburgh Tribune Review · · October 7, 2009 · · Bob Karlovits · |
Pennsylvania historians announced plans Tuesday to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with a statewide commemoration. "The Pennsylvania Civil War 150 commemoration is far more than a formal remembrance," said Barbara Franco, executive director of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. "It is a collection of stories brought to life that are as epic as the fields of Gettysburg and as small as the struggles of a soldier's wife working to survive her husband's absence on a Pennsylvania farm." The early kickoff of the Civil War program is primarily a call for participation to state residents and historical... |
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| Officials think S. Carolina Civil War flag found in Iowa |
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· 10/02/2009 10:35:25 AM PDT · · Posted by iowamark · · 46 replies · · 792+ views · · Cedar Rapids Gazette · · 10/02/2009 · · AP · |
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Researchers seem to have solved the mystery of what happened to the "Big Red" flag flown by Citadel cadets when they fired on a ship trying to resupply Fort Sumter three months before the Civil War. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports a 10-by-7-foot flag with a large white Palmetto tree and a white crescent on a red field has been located in storage at an Iowa museum. Researchers think it is the same flag that flew over Morris Island when cadets fired on the supply ship Star of the West, forcing the ship to... |
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| Citadel believes it has found the original "Big Red,' its Civil War-era flag |
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· 10/03/2009 3:46:48 AM PDT · · Posted by Daffynition · · 14 replies · · 543+ views · · The (Charleston) Post and Courier · · Oct. 02, 2009 · · Diane Knich · |
CHARLESTON -- In the days leading to the Civil War, a battery of Citadel cadets on Morris Island fired at the supply ship "Star of the West" as it approached Fort Sumter, forcing the ship to turn around. A red palmetto flag flew over the cadets during the attack on Jan. 9, 1861, which marked a victory for them, and was a significant precursor to the war. The war officially began on April 12, 1861, with the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter. But some Citadel alumni and others consider the shots fired at "Star of the West" to be the... |
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| Jerusalem, the City of David | |
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| What Temple? Fatah says 'only a Muslim holy site' |
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· 10/05/2009 3:15:59 AM PDT · · Posted by Man50D · · 15 replies · · 594+ views · · WorldNetDaily.com · · October 04, 2009 · · Aaron Klein · |
JERUSALEM -- The Temple Mount does not exist alongside the Western Wall, and neither Jews nor Christians should be allowed to pray on the Mount site, Dimitri Diliani, the spokesman for Fatah in Jerusalem, told WND in an interview. Fatah, once named by the U.S. as a Mideast "peace partner," is the party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Diliani spoke hours after Fatah and PA officials were accused of inciting a riot on the Temple Mount, claiming Jews were threatening the site. "Don't use the term Temple Mount," Diliani lectured WND. "It doesn't exist. I don't know where... |
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| Third Temple Was Already Built in Jerusalem |
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· 10/05/2009 4:49:21 PM PDT · · Posted by STD · · 25 replies · · 1,315+ views · · self · · 10/05/09 · · self · |
On a recent History Channel presentation of 'The Naked Archeologist' the show examined the Bar Cochba Revolt of 135 AD. According to Josephus the Herodian Temple had a rectangular base measuring 450 X 450. Silver coins minted during the revolt featured a Fig Tree on one side and the rebuilt temple on the other. If the only evidence for the rebuilt temple was the widespread discovery of hundreds of thousands of the Bar Cochba silver throughout ancient Israel, there would be no controversy today. However, when the base of the Temple Mount was measured recently, the base was discovered to... |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| Sole Video Footage of Anne Frank Posted Online |
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· 10/03/2009 3:49:15 PM PDT · · Posted by NYer · · 24 replies · · 1,492+ views · · Fox · · October 2, 2009 · |
A video showing the only footage of Anne Frank ever recorded is now available on YouTube. The video, uploaded by the Anne Frank House of Amsterdam on Wednesday, depicts the front of an apartment building where Frank's family lived on July 22, 1941, roughly a year before her family went into hiding in a secret apartment. Frank is seen on video leaning out of the second-floor window of her Amsterdam home to get a glimpse of her neighbor, who is getting married. Click here to see the video. Additional videos of an interview with Frank's father, Otto, and Frank... |
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| Warsaw Ghetto uprising leader Edelman dies at 90 |
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· 10/05/2009 3:22:53 PM PDT · · Posted by rabscuttle385 · · 25 replies · · 464+ views · · AP · · 2009-10-03 · |
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of WWII Warsaw Ghetto uprising, died Friday in Warsaw at the age of 90. Paula Sawicka told The Associated Press that Edelman died at her family's home at 2 p.m. EDT (1800GMT) of old age. "He died at home, among friends, among his close people," Sawicka said. |
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| Thirty-Six Years Ago Today, Richard Nixon Saved Israel -- but Got No Credit |
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· 10/06/2009 7:30:20 AM PDT · · Posted by Jbny · · 64 replies · · 1,524+ views · · Commentary Magazine · · October 6th, 2009 · · Jason Maoz · |
Precise details of what transpired in Washington during the first week of the Yom Kippur War, launched by Egypt and Syria on October 6, 1973, are hard to come by, in no small measure owing to conflicting accounts given by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger regarding their respective roles. What is clear, from the preponderance of information provided by those directly involved in the unfolding events, is that President Richard Nixon -- overriding inter-administration objections and bureaucratic inertia -- implemented a breathtaking transfer of arms, code-named Operation Nickel Grass, that over a four-week period... |
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| Das Loot: WWII GI Returns Books Taken in Germany Six Decades Ago |
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· 10/07/2009 8:22:54 PM PDT · · Posted by Saije · · 9 replies · · 719+ views · · Washington Post · · 10/8/2009 · · Michael E. Ruane · |
Robert E. Thomas, 83, breezed into the National Archives on Tuesday with a smile on his face, a white hankie peeking out of his suit coat pocket and an old briefcase containing the two rare books he filched in Germany 64 years ago. He was a World War II GI then, fresh from the horrors of combat. He had blundered into one of the notorious salt mines where the Germans stashed their national treasures. And this one contained books. Millions and millions of books from institutions across Germany. Thomas poked around, saw two that looked old and took them. Now,... |
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| Thoroughly Modern Miscellany | |
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| Weird US at Florida's Coral Castle |
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· 10/07/2009 9:10:55 AM PDT · · Posted by Nikas777 · · 13 replies · · 689+ views · · youtube.com · · February 15, 2007 · · WeirdUSTV · |
Weird US at Florida's Coral Castle Coral Castle: Excerpt from our History Channel show (produce by KPI) in which we explore one of the oddest and most perplexing structures in the US--if not the world--Florida's Coral Castle! |
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| Not So Ancient Autopsies | |
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| 160 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe finally to get proper funeral |
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· 10/06/2009 10:47:11 AM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 36 replies · · 578+ views · · canadianpress · · 2 hours ago · · Ben Nuckols · |
BALTIMORE -- It's been a good 200th anniversary year for Edgar Allan Poe. The master of gothic horror has been celebrated at events in several cities to mark the bicentennial of his birth. And on Sunday in Baltimore, he'll get the funeral he never had. Fewer than 10 people attended Poe's funeral when he died in October 1849 at age 40. His cousin, Neilson Poe, never announced the great writer's death publicly. Because of intense interest, Baltimore will host two funerals. Each is expected to draw about 350 people to Westminster Hall, the former church adjacent to Poe's grave. Actors... |
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| Amazon staves off the competition -- again ( Reduces prices on Kindle reader -- again ) |
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· 10/07/2009 11:40:10 AM PDT · · Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach · · 28 replies · · 495+ views · · MarketWatch · · Oct. 7, 2009, 12:32 p.m. EDT · · Therese Poletti · |
Commentary: Behemoth cuts prices on its Kindle e-book reader SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Amazon.com Inc. cut prices on its Kindle electronic book reader for the second time in three months, gearing up to stave off the looming competition from a host of new e-readers about to descend on the market. |
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| Would you Adam 'n' Eve it ... dinosaurs in Eden (CRE-VO) Mixing science with creationism |
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· 05/24/2005 9:14:01 PM PDT · · Posted by restornu · · 39 replies · · 994+ views · · THE OBSERVER · · 2005May 22, 2005 · · By Paul Harris · |
Eureka Springs, Arkansas The razor-toothed Tyrannosaurus rex, jaws agape, loomed ominously over the gentle Thescelosaurus, looking for plants to eat. Admiring the museum diorama were old and young visitors, listening on headphones to a stentorian voice describing the primeval scene. But the Museum of Earth History is a museum with a controversial difference. To one side, peering through the bushes, are Adam and Eve. The display is not an image of the Cretaceous. It is Paradise. 'They lived together without fear, for there was no death yet,' the voice intoned about Man and Dinosaur. Nestling deep in the Ozark mountains... |
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· 10/16/2003 8:40:50 AM PDT · · Posted by VadeRetro · · 69 replies · · 356+ views · · Discovery Channel · · Oct. 9, 2003 · · Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News · |
New pterosaur fossils and studies are revealing just how unusual these huge, flying reptiles from the dinosaur era were. Based on current findings, many pterosaurs, which lived on nearly every continent during the Mesozoic Era from approximately 248 million to 65 million years ago, possessed tweezer-like heads, body fur and incredibly large, varied head crests. The recent discoveries, outlined in the current issue of Biologist, also suggest that pterosaurs walked on four limbs instead of two, as previously believed. Paleontologists have struggled with this issue, due to the bat-like way the flying reptile's wings were attached to its fore-limbs and... |
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| Reproductive riddle unscrambled [Fossilized eggs found inside dinosaur supports a link with birds] |
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· 04/15/2005 6:39:50 AM PDT · · Posted by doc30 · · 495 replies · · 4,905+ views · · The Globe and Mail · · 4/15/05 · · By DAWN WALTON · |
A pair of fossilized eggs found inside pelvis of dinosaur supports a link with birds Friday, April 15, 2005 Updated at 8:30 AM EST From Friday's Globe and Mail Calgary -- Scientists have for the first time discovered fossilized eggs inside the body of a dinosaur, which provides concrete clues about ancient reproduction and supports the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs, according to research published today. The pair of hard-shelled eggs about the size of large, long yams were found inside the pelvis of a female oviraptorid, a meat-eating bipedal dinosaur that lived about 80 million... |
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| (Baseball Legend) Ted Williams' Frozen Head For Batting Practice At Cryogenics Lab: Book |
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· 10/04/2009 9:43:07 AM PDT · · Posted by DogByte6RER · · 21 replies · · 893+ views · · NYDailyNews.com · · Friday, October 2, 2009 · · Nathaniel Vinton · |
Head of Ted Williams was abused by employees at Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., whistleblower says. AP Ted Williams, who spent his entire career with the Red Sox, died in 2002 at the age of 83. 'Frozen,' by former Alcor exec Larry Johnson, makes shocking claims about how employees treated Ted Williams' frozen head. Take our PollCryonics: Critical or near-criminal? In "Frozen," Larry Johnson, a former exec at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation... |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #274 Saturday, October 10, 2009 |
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| Crete quarry could be original site of ancient Greek Labyrinth |
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· 10/16/2009 6:34:03 PM PDT · · Posted by BGHater · · 2 replies · · 112+ views · · Telegraph · · 16 Oct 2009 · · Telegraph · |
An old stone quarry on the Greek island of Crete which has a network of underground tunnels could be the original site of the ancient Labyrinth, the maze that housed the Minotaur of Greek legend, scholars believe. An Anglo-Greek team believes that the site, near the town of Gortyn, has just as much claim to be the place of the Labyrinth as the Minoan palace at Knossos 20 miles away, which has been synonymous with the Minotaur myth since its excavation a century ago. The 600,000 people a year who visit the ruins at Knossos are told the site was... |
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| Sunken Civilizations | |
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| Real Tsunami May Have Inspired Legend of Atlantis |
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· 10/10/2009 8:07:16 AM PDT · · Posted by BGHater · · 33 replies · · 629+ views · · LiveScience · · 09 Oct 2009 · · Charles Q. Choi · |
The volcanic explosion that obliterated much of the island that might have inspired the legend of Atlantis apparently triggered a tsunami that traveled hundreds of miles to reach as far as present-day Israel, scientists now suggest. The new findings about this past tsunami could shed light on the destructive potential of future disasters, researchers added. The islands that make up the small circular archipelago of Santorini, roughly 120 miles (200 km) southeast of Greece, are what remain of what once was a single island, before one of the largest volcanic eruptions in human antiquity shattered it in the Bronze Age... |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| Footprints found under ancient mosaic |
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· 10/14/2009 10:39:12 AM PDT · · Posted by Jet Jaguar · · 12 replies · · 393+ views · · JPost · · October 14, 2009 · · By JAMIE ROMM · |
While they may not have been the markings of a pair of Naot sandals, Israel Antiquities Authority conservators discovered footprints over 1,700 years-old, under the Lod Mosaic and at least one print resembling a modern sandal. Head of the Israel Antiquities AuthorityArt Conservation Branch Jacques Neguer said that when removing a section of a mosaic it is customary to clean its bedding, and study the material from which it is made and the construction stages and during that process, they found the footprints under the mosaic. "We look for drawings and sketches that the artists made in the plaster and... |
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| Ancient Artisans' Footprints Discovered Beneath Lod Mosaic |
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· 10/14/2009 8:54:53 PM PDT · · Posted by bogusname · · 12 replies · · 295+ views · · Arutz Sheva · · 10/14/09 · · Hana Levi Julian · |
The ancient footprints of the artisans who built a stunning 1,700-year-old mosaic floor in Lod were discovered recently, when conservators from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) were in the process of detaching the huge work of art from the ground. As the conservation experts worked on the plaster bedding to be done before detaching the mosaic, they were surprised to notice there were ancient foot and sandal prints beneath it. Clearly, the builders that had worked on the floor sometimes wore their sandals, and sometimes worked in their bare feet... |
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· 10/15/2009 5:45:51 AM PDT · · Posted by SJackson · · 16 replies · · 502+ views · · Jerusalem Post · · 10-15-09 · |
Last week's despoilment and devastation at the Negev's Avdat National Park, the most important Nabatean site after Petra, was shocking. UNESCO declared Avdat a World Heritage Site in 2005, but that distinction all too evidently did not bestow immunity upon it. Many of Avdat's ancient walls were daubed with black oily paint. Columns which had endured for nearly two millennia were smashed. Debris from shattered artifacts littered the compound. Vandals covered artifacts at the Ovdat National Park with paint. There is a link between this incident of extreme vandalism and the recent seething unrest in Jerusalem arising from contentions that... |
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| Pharaonic-era sacred lake unearthed in Egypt |
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· 10/16/2009 5:19:36 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 22 replies · · 328+ views · · Reuters · · Oct 15, 2009 · · Writing by Cynthia Johnston · · editing by Philippa Fletcher · |
CAIRO (Reuters) -- Archaeologists have unearthed the site of a pharaonic-era sacred lake in a temple to the Egyptian goddess Mut in the ruins of ancient Tanis, the Culture Ministry said on Thursday. The ministry said the lake, found 12 meters below ground at the San al-Hagar archaeological site in Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, was 15 meters long and 12 meters wide and built out of limestone blocks. It was in a good condition. |
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| Egypt asks British Museum for the Rosetta Stone after Louvre victory |
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· 10/09/2009 4:47:57 PM PDT · · Posted by Pan_Yan · · 29 replies · · 687+ views · · telegraph.co.uk · · 12:03AM BST 10 Oct 2009 · · Samer al-Atrush · |
Egypt wants to borrow the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum after winning a battle with France over ownership of painted rock fragments "stolen" from the Valley of the Kings. The French culture ministry has decided to return the 3,200-year-old frescoes, which disappeared in the 1980s, Egypt said, and were acquired by the Louvre in Paris in 2000 and 2003. Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt's supreme council of antiquities, had threatened to sever relations with the Louvre unless it handed back the relics. That would have forced the French museum to suspend excavation work in the Pharaonic necropolis of... |
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| Technology brings new insights to ancient language (Aramaic) |
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· 10/15/2009 10:27:10 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 12 replies · · 296+ views · · The University of Chicago · · October 14, 2009 · · Unknown · |
Tablets uncovered at Persepolis in Iran are covered with writing in Aramaic. The archive, being studied at the University of Chicago, provides new insights on the language, which has been written and spoken in the Middle East continuously since ancient times. (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East's oldest continuously spoken and written languages. Members of the West Semitic Research Project at the University of Southern California are helping the University's Oriental Institute make very high-quality electronic... |
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· 10/16/2009 11:02:27 AM PDT · · Posted by EveningStar · · 11 replies · · 443+ views · · YouTube · · September 22, 2009 · · NationalGeographic · |
When Surya the orangutan meets a hound dog by the river, the two carry on like long lost friends. |
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· 10/11/2009 8:13:39 PM PDT · · Posted by neverdem · · 4 replies · · 176+ views · · Nature News · · 8 October 2009 · · Elie Dolgin · |
Proposed rankings would classify genomes by completeness and quality.Scientists have proposed classifying genome sequences into six groups, based on their quality.A. Sumner / Science Photo Library Researchers who have mapped a species' genome need to be more explicit about the quality of their sequence, says an international team of genome researchers."People generating these sequences should discriminate a bit more between the products that they provide to the rest of the scientific community," says Patrick Chain of the Joint Genome Institute at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico who is first author of a policy paper on genomic standards... |
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| Smithsonian Plans to Open Human Evolution Hall |
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· 10/14/2009 6:49:44 PM PDT · · Posted by HokieMom · · 16 replies · · 288+ views · · WTOP · · October 14, 2009 · · BRETT ZONGKER · |
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History plans to open a hall next year dedicated to the story of human evolution over 6 million years, officials announced Wednesday. The nearly $21 million Hall of Human Origins will follow milestones in history -- when humans started walking upright and started speaking, for example -- as well as the impact of climate change and extinction of ancient species. It's scheduled to open on March 17, 2010, marking the museum's 100th anniversary on the National Mall. *break* This is the Smithsonian's first permanent exhibit focused solely on human evolution. It will include hundreds... |
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| Prehistoric titanic-snake jungles laughed at global warming (at 3-5° hotter then ) |
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· 10/14/2009 11:54:03 AM PDT · · Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach · · 18 replies · · 843+ views · · The Register · · 13th October 2009 12:35 GMT · · Lewis Page · |
Fossil boffins say that dense triple-canopy rainforests, home among other things to gigantic one-tonne boa constrictors, flourished millions of years ago in temperatures 3-5°C warmer than those seen today -- as hot as some of the more dire global-warming projections. Just like a modern jungle. Except with bloody enormous snakes. The new fossil evidence comes from the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia, previously the location where the remains of the gigantic 40-foot Titanoboa cerrejonensis were discovered. The snake's discoverers attracted flak from global-warming worriers at the time for saying that the cold-blooded creature would only have been able to survive... |
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| Paper Challenges Ideas About 'Early Bird' Dinosaur [Archaeopteryx ] |
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· 10/14/2009 7:23:23 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 6 replies · · 226+ views · · New York Times · · October 8, 2009 · · John Noble Wilford · |
The first fossil of the raven-size species was an immediate sensation when it was excavated in 1860, in southern Germany. It had feathers and a wishbone, like birds, but teeth and a long, bony tail, like reptiles. Coming the year after publication of "The Origin of Species," the discovery swayed many scientists into accepting Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin's staunch ally, recognized the fossil in a limestone slab as a transitional species between dinosaurs and birds. Over time, the 10 known specimens of Archaeopteryx became widely regarded as examples of the earliest bird, which... |
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· 10/14/2009 7:48:21 PM PDT · · Posted by NormsRevenge · · 12 replies · · 310+ views · · AFP on Yahoo · · 10/14/09 · · AFP · |
BEIJING (AFP) -- Paleontologists in east China may have discovered the remains of a new species of dinosaur at what is said to be the world's largest group of fossilised dinosaur bones, state media said Wednesday. Scientists in Zhucheng city, Shandong province, have for months been exploring a gully over 500 metres (1,650 feet) long and 26 metres deep that is strewn with thousands of dinosaur bones, the Jilu Evening News said. Paleontologists believe that a fossilised skeleton dug up in Zhucheng and shipped to the China Academy of Sciences in Beijing last week could be a new species of... |
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| New Study Shows Tyrannosaurus Rex Evolved Advanced Bird-Like Binocular Vision |
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· 07/03/2006 12:32:51 PM PDT · · Posted by Al Simmons · · 700 replies · · 5,207+ views · · Science News Online · · June 26 2006 · · Eric Jbaffe · |
In the 1993 movie Jurassic Park, one human character tells another that a Tyrannosaurus rex can't see them if they don't move, even though the beast is right in front of them. Now, a scientist reports that T. rex had some of the best vision in animal history. This sensory prowess strengthens arguments for T. rex's role as predator instead of scavenger. Scientists had some evidence from measurements of T. rex skulls that the animal could see well. Recently, Kent A. Stevens of the University of Oregon in Eugene went further. He used facial models of seven types of dinosaurs... |
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| New Giant Lizard: Komodo Cousin "A Nasty Piece of Work" |
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· 10/10/2009 12:53:30 PM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 42 replies · · 1,430+ views · · nationalgeographic · · October 6, 2009 · · Christine Dell'Amore · |
A possible new species of giant prehistoric lizard -- bigger and badder than the deadly Komodo dragon -- may have stalked the ancient Australian outback, a new study says. Three fossilized bones of the mysterious 13-foot-long (4-meter-long) lizard were collected in 1966 in western Timor island, part of Indonesia. When study leader Scott Hocknull recently examined the fossils, he was "astounded" to find that they belonged neither to the Komodo dragon -- the only giant lizard species alive today -- nor Megalania, a 16-foot-long (5-meter-long) extinct monster that's among the largest lizards known to have ever lived. Giant Lizard "a Nasty Piece of Work" The "tantalizing bones" -- which date... |
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| Fingerprint points to $19,000 portrait being revalued as £100m work by Leonardo da Vinci |
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· 10/13/2009 1:57:21 AM PDT · · Posted by Stoat · · 20 replies · · 1,012+ views · · Antiques Trade Gazette · · October 12, 2009 · · Simon Hewitt · |
Art Market Fingerprint points to $19,000 portrait being revalued as £100m work by Leonardo da Vinci 12 October 2009 ATG correspondent SIMON HEWITT gains exclusive access to the evidence used to unveil what the world's leading scholars say is the the first major Leonardo Da Vinci find for 100 years. New scientific techniques have uncovered evidence that this picture is a previously unrecognised work by Leonardo da Vinci. Is this 13 x 9in (33 x 24cm) portrait, in chalk, pen and ink on vellum, mounted on an oak board, a long-lost work by Leonardo da Vinci? That... |
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| £12,000 portrait revealed to be £100m Leonardo -- art detectives discover master's fingerprint |
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· 10/13/2009 5:53:05 PM PDT · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 8 replies · · 406+ views · · dailymail.co.uk · · Oct. 13, 2009 · · Daily Mail Reporter · |
Art experts believe a new Leonardo da Vinci portrait may have been discovered -- thanks to a fingerprint. The painting, titled Young Girl in Profile in Renaissance Dress, recently sold for a mere £12,000 ($19,000). It was billed at a Christie's sale in 1998 as 'German, early 19th century'. Now a growing number of leading art experts agree that it is almost certainly by Leonardo da Vinci and could be worth about £100 million. A Paris laboratory has found that a fingerprint on the picture is 'highly comparable' to one on a da Vinci work in the Vatican, which was... |
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| Leonardo fingerprint reveals $150 million artwork |
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· 10/15/2009 1:26:32 AM PDT · · Posted by bogusname · · 7 replies · · 386+ views · · npr · · October 14, 2009 · · The Associated Press · |
A portrait of a young woman thought to be created by a 19th century German artist and sold two years ago for about $19,000 is now being attributed by art experts to Leonardo da Vinci and valued at more than $150 million. The unsigned chalk, ink and pencil drawing, known as "La Bella Principessa," was matched to Leonardo via a technique more suited to a crime lab than an art studio -- a fingerprint and palm print found on the 13 1/2-inch-by-10-inch work. Peter Paul Biro, a Montreal-based forensic art expert, said the print of an index or middle finger... |
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| Hudson River School | |
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| Taking in the Views That Led to Great Art [1800s Hudson River School of landscape painting-PHOTOS] |
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· 10/11/2009 7:01:19 AM PDT · · Posted by ETL · · 37 replies · · 840+ views · · New York Times · · October 9, 2009 · · BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO · |
From the North Lake Beach parking area in the Catskill Forest Preserve, a narrow foot trail climbs a rocky incline. After following the trail for about 20 minutes, hikers reach Artists Rock, which gives a sweeping view of the Hudson Valley, the river a sliver of silver in the distance. The trail then leaves the ledge and in less than a half mile it meets a junction with a side trail toward Sunset Rock, the prized view from atop North Mountain that by the late 19th century had become an iconic view of the northern Catskills, celebrated in the work... |
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| Art Mystery | |
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| The Puzzle of Brueghel's Paintings of Telescopes |
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· 10/15/2009 11:09:42 AM PDT · · Posted by BGHater · · 22 replies · · 761+ views · · Technology Review · · 02 Oct 2009 · · TR · |
A painting from 1617 appears to show a type of telescope thought not to have been built until much later. It's hard to find an invention more emblematic of the birth of modern science than the telescope. And yet surprisingly little is known about its early development. The inventor of the telescope remains unknown to this day. Now a study of the paintings of Jan Brueghel the Elder, a Flemish painter of the Baroque era who was working in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 17th century, is throwing some light on the early development of the telescope. It has... |
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| Middle Ages and Renaissance | |
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| Experts find rare Crusader-era murals in Syria (12th century chapel inside the al-Marqab Citadel) |
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· 10/15/2009 1:39:53 PM PDT · · Posted by NormsRevenge · · 10 replies · · 709+ views · · AP on Yahoo · · 10/15/09 · · Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue -- ap · |
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Archaeologists have discovered two Crusader-era murals depicting heaven and hell in a medieval church near Syria's coast -- a rare find that could reveal new information about the Christian knights who battled Muslims for control of the Holy Land hundreds of years ago. Experts are now renovating the 12th century paintings, which were discovered last year by a joint Syrian-Hungarian team excavating an old Crusader fortress on a hilltop near the Mediterranean Sea in the western province of Tartous. ... The murals, which measure about 8 feet (2.5 meters) high and 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) wide, were... |
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| Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis | |
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| A Darker Side of Columbus Emerges in US Classrooms |
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· 10/11/2009 8:18:44 AM PDT · · Posted by reaganaut1 · · 83 replies · · 1,262+ views · · Associated Press · · October 11, 2009 · |
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Jeffrey Kolowith's kindergarten students read a poem about Christopher Columbus, take a journey to the New World on three paper ships and place the explorer's picture on a timeline through history. Kolowith's students learn about the explorer's significance -- though they also come away with a more nuanced picture of Columbus than the noble discoverer often portrayed in pop culture and legend. ''I talk about the situation where he didn't even realize where he was,'' Kolowith said. ''And we talked about how he was very, very mean, very bossy.'' Columbus' stature in U.S. classrooms has declined... |
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| Yesterday's SAVAGE Nation ... Columbus Day -- Oct. 12, 2009 |
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· 10/13/2009 7:36:22 AM PDT · · Posted by fishtank · · 12 replies · · 309+ views · · edsitement.neh.gov · · Oct. 13, 2009 · · fishtank · |
Kennewick Man coverup -- referenced to Columbus Day |
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| Catastrophism and Astronomy | |
| Giant Impact Near India -- Not Mexico -- May Have Doomed Dinosaurs |
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· 10/15/2009 10:07:58 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 54 replies · · 759+ views · · The Geological Society of America · · Oct 15, 2009 · · Unknown · |
Boulder, CO, USA -- A mysterious basin off the coast of India could be the largest, multi-ringed impact crater the world has ever seen. And if a new study is right, it may have been responsible for killing the dinosaurs off 65 million years ago. Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University and a team of researchers took a close look at the massive Shiva basin, a submerged depression west of India that is intensely mined for its oil and gas resources. Some complex craters are among the most productive hydrocarbon sites on the planet. Chatterjee will present his research at... |
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| North America comet theory questioned |
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· 10/13/2009 8:08:29 AM PDT · · Posted by BGHater · · 22 replies · · 503+ views · · Nature · · 12 Oct 2009 · · Rex Dalton · |
No evidence of an extraterrestrial impact 13,000 years ago, studies say. An independent study has cast more doubt on a controversial theory that a comet exploded over icy North America nearly 13,000 years ago, wiping out the Clovis people and many of the continent's large animals.Sediments at the San Jon site, in eastern New Mexico, contained very low abundances of magnetic spherules said to be evidence of an impact.Vance Holliday Archaeologists have examined sediments at seven Clovis-age sites across the United States, and did not find enough magnetic cosmic debris to confirm that an extraterrestrial impact happened at that time,... |
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| Dice with the Cosmos | |
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| Sun's Plasma Balls Could Wipe Out Human Civilization.... |
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· 10/14/2009 8:32:04 PM PDT · · Posted by TaraP · · 154 replies · · 2,075+ views · · Natural News · · October 11th, 2009 · |
Natural fluctuations in the sun's atmosphere could cause it to fire a giant plasma ball at Earth, shutting down the planet's electric grids and leading to widespread social collapse, according to a report from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Funded by NASA, the report draws attention to naturally occurring events known as coronal mass ejections (CME), in which a ball of plasma -- the charged, high-energy particles that comprise stars -- is fired from the sun. If such a ball strikes the Earth, it could produce rapid changes in the planet's magnetic field, leading to a surge of... |
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| Not for an Age | |
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| Computer program proves Shakespeare didn't work alone, researchers claim |
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· 10/12/2009 10:28:02 AM PDT · · Posted by BGHater · · 20 replies · · 512+ views · · Times Online · · 12 Oct 2009 · · Jack Malvern · |
The 400-year-old mystery of whether William Shakespeare was the author of an unattributed play about Edward III may have been solved by a computer program designed to detect plagiarism. Sir Brian Vickers, an authority on Shakespeare at the Institute of English Studies at the University of London, believes that a comparison of phrases used in The Reign of King Edward III with Shakespeare's early works proves conclusively that the Bard wrote the play in collaboration with Thomas Kyd, one of the most popular playwrights of his day. The professor used software called Pl@giarism, developed by the University of Maastricht to... |
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| Early America | |
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| Washington: First in War, Peace -- and Accounting |
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· 10/12/2009 9:55:54 AM PDT · · Posted by BGHater · · 9 replies · · 225+ views · · The Washington Post · · 12 Oct 2009 · · Joel Achenbach · |
Vast Cache of Financial Papers Is Rich in Details One day in 1791, President George Washington received a bill for 60 pounds, 1 shilling and 7 pence from his physician friend James Craik, who regularly made the rounds at Mount Vernon. The invoice ran two pages: "Anodyne Pills for Breachy . . . Laxative Pills for Ruth . . . syphilic Pills for Maria . . . oz 1 Antiphlogistie Anodyne Tincture . . . Bleeding Charlotte . . . oz 4 Powdered Rhubarb . . . Extracting one of your Negroes tooth . . . a Mercurial Purge for... |
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| The Framers | |
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| Adams papers, Lee family papers to prove NBC in Constitution came from Vattel? |
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· 10/15/2009 2:58:49 PM PDT · · Posted by rxsid · · 86 replies · · 1,481+ views · · Examiner.com (comments) · · 10/15/2009 · · rxsid · |
Joe says: Gorefan -- My heritage includes the Adams of Massachusetts and the Herndons of Virginia. The Adams papers I am in possession of plainly state they looked to "Vattel's Law of Nations" for guidance in determining who might be qualified as a "natural born Citizen". (Yes, they capitalized "Citizen".) Do you actually believe there was no discussion of the topic by the Founding Fathers? Are you truly that ignorant of how well the Founding Fathers understood the law and its possible impact on future generations? It is very clear you haven't a clue how well educated and intelligent... |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Global Generation Republicans: The Next Birth of Freedom |
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· 10/15/2009 1:47:27 PM PDT · · Posted by AreaMan · · 10 replies · · 232+ views · · Big Government · · 15 Oct 2009 · · Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter (R-MI) · |
Global Generation Republicans: The Next Birth of Freedom Posted By Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter (R-MI) On October 15, 2009 @ 10:30 am In Culture, Featured Story, Politics · · 36 Comments They were "Wide Awakes" -- scores of torchbearers marching through sleepy hamlets to herald the emancipation of a people from the bonds of slavery into God-given liberty. These despised and decried champions of human freedom and defenders of American Union proudly called themselves "Republicans." Through the ensuing decades of political triumphs, falters and defeats, we Republicans never forgot our honorable heritage -- until today. Amidst the stormy present, some of... |
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| Military History | |
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| Itching to watch a Civil War movie? Civil War buffs take note |
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· 10/16/2009 6:22:57 AM PDT · · Posted by NavyCanDo · · 7 replies · · 346+ views · · IMDB ^ · |
The Colt (2005) During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Union Jim Rabb's beloved mare. Refusing the orders to shoot it, lest it prove a hindrance, Rabb keeps the colt as a consolation in these desperate times-a symbol of hope that leads the men of the First Cavalry on a journey of self-discovery and newfound brotherhood. A gift of hope arrives on a very special dawn for a desperate Civil War cavalry struggling to survive in the midst of battle... It's May of 1864 and the First Michigan... |
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| The Great War | |
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| The Pity of War (Review of "The Somme: Darkest Hour on the Western Front") |
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· 10/14/2009 2:13:38 PM PDT · · Posted by mojito · · 13 replies · · 432+ views · · The Atlantic · · Nov. 2009 · · Christopher Hitchens · |
Many years ago, I went to the Central Lobby of the Houses of Parliament in London to keep an appointment with the almost picturesquely reactionary Conservative politician Alan Clark. He was the son of Kenneth (later Lord) Clark -- the art historian and author of the Civilisation series -- and the heir to Saltwood Castle, in Kent. He was also the author of a 1961 book, The Donkeys, which was a history of the British General Staff in the First World War. The title came from a famous comment that had supposedly been made at that epoch by a German military strategist. Told by... |
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| World War Eleven | |
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| Recruited by MI5: the name's Mussolini. Benito Mussolini |
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· 10/14/2009 2:57:24 PM PDT · · Posted by Daffynition · · 9 replies · · 257+ views · · The Guardian UK · · 13 October 2009 · · Tom Kington · |
History remembers Benito Mussolini as a founder member of the original Axis of Evil, the Italian dictator who ruled his country with fear and forged a disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany. But a previously unknown area of Il Duce's CV has come to light: his brief career as a British agent. Archived documents have revealed that Mussolini got his start in politics in 1917 with the help of a £100 weekly wage from MI5. For the British intelligence agency, it must have seemed like a good investment. Mussolini, then a 34-year-old journalist, was not just willing to ensure Italy continued... |
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| Kelly's Heroes? | |
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| Hitler's Gold: Uncovering the Biggest Bank Heist in History |
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· 10/09/2009 7:24:03 AM PDT · · Posted by BGHater · · 11 replies · · 658+ views · · Money Hacker · · 22 Sep 2009 · · Joseph McCullough · |
Image: via Food Court LunchAmong the chaos of the collapse of Hitler's empire in April 1945 the biggest heist in history took place. Gold bars, jewels and stolen foreign currency with an estimated worth of $3.34 billion vanished from the Reichsbank vaults, in Germany.Reichsbank, Berlin 1933 Image: German Federal Archive In the ensuing decades small quantities of this bounty have turned up in Portugal, Switzerland, Turkey, Spain and Sweden but the majority remains missing. Across the world search teams look for this missing treasure and the supreme prize of the legendary Amber Room, an acquisition from St. Petersburg during WWII,... |
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| Obituary | |
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| MICHAEL KURYLA JR., 1925-2009: Survived USS Indianapolis |
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· 10/10/2009 3:58:40 PM PDT · · Posted by Saije · · 20 replies · · 722+ views · · Chicago Tribune · · 10/9/2009 · · Joan Giangrasse Kates · |
Michael Kuryla Jr. found strength from his fellow stranded Navy comrades floating in shark-infested waters of the South Pacific for nearly five days in 1945 during World War II. Their ship, the USS Indianapolis, sank in just 12 minutes after being hit by two Japanese torpedoes shortly after the ship had delivered the atomic bomb that would level Hiroshima. Three hundred of Mr. Kuryla's shipmates died that day when the ship went down. Nine hundred were left floating in only life preservers, facing a harsh sun and sharks, as three SOS calls went unanswered. An anti-submarine plane spotted them four... |
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| Presidents of the United States, and Obama | |
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| Washington to Obama -- searchable database of presidential papers and spoken remarks |
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· 10/12/2009 10:14:07 AM PDT · · Posted by deks · · 5 replies · · 247+ views · · The American Presidency Project · · Univ. of California, Santa Barbara · · 2009 · · John Woolley and Gerhard Peters · |
While searching for the context of a surprising and fragmented presidential quote I came across this database. It had the full quote in the full context. It appears to be extensive in documenting all kinds of written and spoken presidential remarks. "The American Presidency Project is the only online resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized into a single searchable database: The Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Washington -- Taft (1789-1913) The Public Papers of the Presidents: Hoover to Bush (1929-1993) The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: Clinton -- Obama (1993-2009) Our archives also contain... |
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| Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles | |
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| Earlier flu viruses provided some immunity to current H1N1 influenza, study shows |
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· 10/14/2009 12:31:12 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 13 replies · · 356+ views · · University of California -- Davis · · Oct 14, 2009 · · Unknown · |
University of California, Davis, researchers studying the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, formerly referred to as "swine flu," have identified a group of immunologically important sites on the virus that are also present in seasonal flu viruses that have been circulating for years. These molecular sites appear to result in some level of immunity to the new virus in people who were exposed to the earlier influenza viruses. More than a dozen structural sites, or epitopes, in the virus may explain why many people over the age of 60, who were likely exposed to similar viruses earlier in life, carry antibodies... |
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| Blinded We With Science | |
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| High-Speed 'Other' Internet Goes Global |
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· 10/16/2009 5:41:46 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 9 replies · · 380+ views · · Live Science · · Oct 15, 2009 · · Robert Roy Britt · |
A super high-speed global Internet devoted solely to science and education has just expanded to include half the countries of the world, and yes, you at home can be jealous. The Taj network, funded by the National Science Foundation, now connects India, Singapore, Vietnam and Egypt to the larger Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development (GLORIAD) global infrastructure, and "dramatically improves existing U.S. network links with China and the Nordic region," according to an NSF statement. > GLORIAD's Taj Network is not the same as "Internet 2," a domestic project aimed at connecting U.S. scientists with one another. |
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| Longer Perspectives | |
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| Row at US journal widens -- Three papers caught up in journal probe of (peer) review process. |
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· 10/11/2009 9:15:33 PM PDT · · Posted by neverdem · · 18 replies · · 789+ views · · Nature News · · 9 October 2009 · · Elie Dolgin · |
Lynn Margulis.Javier Pedreira A dispute between the editorial board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and an academy member has put the fate of three studies in question. In the wake of rows over a controversial paper published by the journal online in August -- but not in print -- two additional papers linked to the same academy member are now in limbo.Last month, PNAS editor-in-chief Randy Schekman wrote to academy member Lynn Margulis, a cell biologist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, asking for "a satisfactory explanation for [her] apparent selective communication of reviews" for... |
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| Thoroughly Modern Miscellany | |
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| Barnes & Noble e-reader rumored to be merging of Kindle, iPhone |
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· 10/16/2009 5:31:49 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 33 replies · · 337+ views · · AppleInsider · · Wednesday, October 14, 2009 · · Neil Hughes · |
Book seller Barnes & Noble is expected to announce its own e-reader next week, and a new report states the device will sport both black-and-white e-ink and a multi-touch, iPhone-like color display. New information and photos of the device were provided to Gizmodo, which revealed that a majority of the device will have a traditional e-ink display, much like the Amazon Kindle, which provides superior battery life. It will be a 6-inch screen with an 800x600 pixel resolution. But the bottom portion of the device will have an LCD color display sporting multi-touch technology. It will be used to browse... |
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| Oh So Mysteriouso | |
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| Doomsday: 2012 is not the end of the world, Mayan elder insists |
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· 10/13/2009 10:36:12 AM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 39 replies · · 943+ views · · telegraph · · 11 Oct 2009 · |
The year 2012 will not bring the end of the world, a Mayan elder has insisted, despite claims that a Mayan calendar shows that time will "run out" on December 21 of that year. Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the end of the world. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff," he said. A significant time period for the Mayans does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens... |
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| Easter Island | |
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| Astronomy Picture of the Day |
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· 10/12/2009 5:32:34 AM PDT · · Posted by sig226 · · 17 replies · · 757+ views · · NASA · · 10/12/09 · · Stephane Guisard (Los Cielos de Chile) · |
Stars Over Easter Island Credit & Copyright: Stephane Guisard (Los Cielos de Chile) Explanation: Why were the statues on Easter Island built? No one is sure. What is sure is that over 800 large stone statues exist there. The Easter Island statues, stand, on the average, over twice as tall as a person and have over 200 times as much mass. Few specifics are known about the history or meaning of the unusual statues, but many believe that they were created about 500 years ago in the images of local leaders of a lost civilization. Pictured above, a large... |
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| Australia and the Pacific | |
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| Obama successfully negotiates with the Japanese for the release of 112 year old Amelia Earhart.... |
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· 10/09/2009 12:38:11 PM PDT · · Posted by Vaquero · · 14 replies · · 431+ views today · · self · |
Obama successfully negotiates with the Japanese for the release of 112 year old Amelia Earhart....Ms. Earhart today...... |
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| Canary in a Coal Mine | |
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| ON MONDAY VENT AT THE NOBEL COMMITTEE IN NORWAY BY PHONE FOR FREE!!!!!!! |
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· 10/09/2009 11:37:40 PM PDT · · Posted by rf11404 · · 18 replies · · 479+ views rf11404 · |
On Monday Morning USE FREE 411 at 1-800-373-3411 and after listening to the ad say "Free Call" then listen to another ad and then call the Nobel Peace Prize Foundation in Norway (47) 22 12 93 00 You will get 5 minutes to vent at them for Free. |
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