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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #277 Saturday, November 7, 2009 |
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| The Revolution | |
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| Revolutionary War hero Pulaski becomes honorary US citizen |
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· 11/06/2009 6:39:18 PM PST · · Posted by Saije · · 17 replies · · 214+ views · · Augusta Chronicle · · 11/6/2009 · · AP · |
Finally, Gen. Casimir Pulaski became an American, 230 years after the Polish nobleman died in Georgia fighting for what became the United States. President Barack Obama signed a joint resolution today of the Senate and the House of Representatives that made Pulaski an honorary citizen. Pulaski's contribution to the Americans' effort to leave the British Empire began with a flourish. He wrote a letter to Gen. George Washington, the Revolution's leader, with the declaration: "I came here, where freedom is being defended, to serve it, and to live or die for it." Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich, whose home city of... |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis | |
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| Oldest American artefact unearthed. Oregon caves yield evidence of continent's first inhabitants. |
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· 11/05/2009 6:37:36 PM PST · · Posted by GSP.FAN · · 28 replies · · 727+ views · · Nature.com · · 5 November 2009 · · Rex Dalton · |
Archaeologists claim to have found the oldest known artefact in the Americas, a scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave that dates back 14,230 years. |
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| Mayans | |
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| Divers probe Mayan ruins submerged in Guatemala lake |
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· 10/31/2009 1:11:54 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 17 replies · · 634+ views · · Reuters · · Oct 30, 2009 · · Sarah Grainger · |
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -- Scuba divers are exploring the depths of a volcanic lake in Guatemala to find clues about an ancient sacred island where Mayan pilgrims flocked to worship before it was submerged by rising waters. Samabaj, the first underwater archaeological ruins excavated in Guatemala, were discovered accidentally 12 years ago by a diver exploring picturesque Lake Atitlan, ringed by Mayan villages and popular with foreign tourists. "No one believed me, even when I told them all about it. They just said 'he's mad'," said Roberto Samayoa, a businessman and recreational diver who grew up near the lake where... |
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| Divers probe Mayan ruins submerged in Guatemala lake |
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· 11/01/2009 5:36:13 AM PST · · Posted by Frenchtown Dan · · 24 replies · · 833+ views · · Reuters · · 10/30/09 · · Sarah Grainger · |
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -- Scuba divers are exploring the depths of a volcanic lake in Guatemala to find clues about an ancient sacred island where Mayan pilgrims flocked to worship before it was submerged by rising waters. |
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| Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy | |
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| Ohio Wesleyan art professor uncovers celestial connection in desert Southwest |
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· 11/03/2009 12:13:27 PM PST · · Posted by BGHater · · 37 replies · · 1,053+ views · · THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH · · 01 Nov 2009 · · Doug Caruso · |
Jim Krehbiel was up past midnight making a piece of art by layering maps and field notes onto photos he had taken of an ancient ritual site high on a cliff ledge in the desert Southwest. He looked at the image of the kiva and remembered how the ruins were nearly inaccessible. Krehbiel had to lower himself on a rope to reach them. Why, he wondered that night in the fall of 2007, would anyone build something so important in such a remote spot among the canyons and mesas? It was then that the chairman of Ohio Wesleyan University's art... |
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| Ancient Civilization Cut Path to Demise (Nasca, S. America) |
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· 11/02/2009 5:03:41 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 7 replies · · 226+ views · · Live Science · · Nov 2, 2009 · · Staff · |
The ancient South American Nasca civilization may have caused its own demise by clear-cutting huge swaths of forest, a new study has found. The civilization disappeared mysteriously around 1,500 years ago, after apparently prospering during the first half of the first millennium A.D. in the valleys of south coastal Peru. Scientists have previously suggested a massive El NiÃ’o event disrupted the climate and caused the Nasca's demise, but new research suggests that deforestation may have also played an important role. The Nasca are best known for leaving behind large geoglyphs called Nazca lines carved into the surface of the vast,... |
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| How the ancient Nazca civilisation sealed its own fate by cutting down forests |
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· 11/02/2009 5:04:13 PM PST · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 8 replies · · 284+ views · · dailymail.co.uk · · Nov. 2, 2009 · · Daily Mail Reporter · |
The mysterious people who etched the strange network of 'Nazca Lines' across deserts in Peru hastened their own demise by clearing forests 1,500 years ago, according to British scientists. The Nazca people, famed for giant animal drawings most clearly visible from the air, became unable to grow enough food in nearby valleys because the lack of trees made the climate too dry. Archaeologists examining the remains of the Nazca, who once flourished in the valleys of south coastal Peru, discovered a sequence of human-induced events which led to their 'catastrophic' collapse around 500 AD. Author Oliver Whaley, of the Royal... |
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| Prehistoric Clovis culture roamed southwards: Stone tools and bones of an ancient tusker found... |
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· 11/05/2009 2:29:13 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 4 replies · · 250+ views · · Nature · · October 21, 2009 · · Rex Dalton · |
The bed of artefacts in the state of Sonora in northwest Mexico also includes the bones of an extinct cousin of the mastodon called a gomphothere. The beast was probably hunted and killed by the Clovis people, known for their distinctive spear points, who mysteriously disappeared within about 500 years of leaving their first archeological traces. Intact Clovis camp sites and extensive evidence of hunting has been found across the United States, with the highest concentration of sites just north of the Mexican border, in the San Pedro River basin of southeastern Arizona. But relatively little is known about their... |
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| Falklands Wolf First Appeared in North America, Researchers Say |
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· 11/05/2009 11:04:05 AM PST · · Posted by BGHater · · 16 replies · · 496+ views · · The New York Times · · 04 Nov 2009 · · Henry Fountain · |
The Falklands wolf has puzzled evolutionary biologists since Charles Darwin first encountered it during the voyage of the Beagle in the 1830s. It was the only native land mammal on the Falkland Islands, which are 300 miles off the coast of Argentina. No one knew how it got there or what mainland animals it was descended from -- and it did not help that the wolf was hunted to extinction by 1876. But using genetic analysis, Graham J. Slater, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues have solved some of the mystery. The closest living... |
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| Tsunami Waves Reasonably Likely To Strike Israel, Geo-archaeological Research Suggests |
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· 10/26/2009 7:24:23 PM PDT · · Posted by rdl6989 · · 15 replies · · 340+ views · · Science Daily · · Oct. 26, 2009 · |
"There is a likely chance of tsunami waves reaching the shores of Israel," says Dr. Beverly Goodman of the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences at the University of Haifa following an encompassing geo-archaeological study at the port of Caesarea. "Tsunami events in the Mediterranean do occur less frequently than in the Pacific Ocean, but our findings reveal a moderate rate of recurrence," she says. Dr. Goodman, an expert geo-archaeologist, exposed geological evidence of this by chance. Her original intentions in Caesarea were to assist in research at the ancient port and at offshore shipwrecks. "We expected to find... |
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| In the Mediterranean, Killer Tsunamis From an Ancient Eruption |
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· 11/05/2009 12:15:24 PM PST · · Posted by BGHater · · 5 replies · · 283+ views · · The New York Times · · 02 Nov 2009 · · WILLIAM J. BROAD · |
The massive eruption of the Thera volcano in the Aegean Sea more than 3,000 years ago produced killer waves that raced across hundreds of miles of the Eastern Mediterranean to inundate the area that is now Israel and probably other coastal sites, a team of scientists has found. The team, writing in the October issue of Geology, said the new evidence suggested that giant tsunamis from the catastrophic eruption hit "coastal sites across the Eastern Mediterranean littoral." Tsunamis are giant waves that can crash into shore, rearrange the seabed, inundate vast areas of land and carry terrestrial material out to... |
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| Akrotiri, Santorini: the Minoan Pompeii - part 1 [of 6] |
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· 11/01/2009 11:02:02 AM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 15 replies · · 383+ views · · Cultural Travel Examiner · · August 28, 2009 · · Rachel de Carlos · |
The site was found by accident when the Suez Canal was being constructed in 1860. Workers quarrying Santorini's volcanic ash discovered the ruins, but serious excavations at the site didn't begin until 1967. An unfortunate collapse of the roof in 2005, which killed a British tourist, caused the site to be closed. It's scheduled to be reopened sometime after 2010. Greek bureaucracy has brought the repairs of the building to a halt, which has caused Santorini's tourist trade to suffer. Akrotiri is referred to by some as the "Minoan Pompeii" because of the similarities of the destruction by volcano and... |
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| A Storm in Egypt during the Reign of Ahmose [The Tempest Stele] |
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· 11/01/2009 8:04:33 AM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 22 replies · · 446+ views · · Thera Foundation · · September 1989 · · last modified March 26, 2006 · · E.N. Davis · |
An inscribed stele erected at Thebes by Ahmose, the first Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, documents a destructive storm accompanied by flooding during his reign. Fragments of the stele were found in the 3rd Pylon of the temple of Karnak at Thebes between 1947 and 1951 by the French Mission. A restoration of the stele and translation of the text was published by Claude Vandersleyen (1967). In the following year (1968), Vandersleyen added two more fragments, one from the top of the inscription and a small piece from line 10 of the restored text, which had been recovered by Egyptian... |
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| Scotland Yet | |
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| Treasure hunt novice struck £1m gold on first outing[Scotland] |
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· 11/05/2009 11:46:18 AM PST · · Posted by BGHater · · 25 replies · · 947+ views · · Times Online · · 05 Nov 2009 · · Mike Wade · |
Five days after he took delivery of a metal detector and seven steps into his first treasure hunt, a novice archaeologist has helped to rewrite Scottish history and may be a millionaire after he unearthed four 2,300-year-old torcs made of pure gold a few feet from his parked car. David Booth, a game warden at Blair Drummond Safari Park, in Stirlingshire, bought his £240 detector from a website that claimed "treasure need not be an idle dream". What then seemed an absurd sales puff has proved strangely prophetic. The hoard he discovered at the edge of a field was described... |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| 13th Century marble pieces found in Acre |
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· 11/03/2009 5:12:34 AM PST · · Posted by SJackson · · 6 replies · · 427+ views · · Jerusalem Post · · 11-3-09 · · JAMIE ROMM · |
In an excavation conducted in late October, about 100 meters north of the Old City wall of Acre, a unique find was discovered from the Crusader period in the 13th Century; a hoard of 350 marble items that were collected from destroyed buildings. According to Dr. Edna Stern, excavation director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, the hoard was found within the framework of an archaeological excavation conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority before the Acre Municipality began building a new structure to house classrooms in the Hilmi Shafi Educational Campus. "We have here a unique find, the likes of which... |
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| Teutoburg Forest: The Battle That Saved the West |
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· 10/31/2009 8:03:49 PM PDT · · Posted by Coleus · · 13 replies · · 817+ views · · tna · · 09.11.09 · · John Eidsmoe · |
September, 9 A.D., Kalkriese Hill, northern Germany: the Germanic warriors waited in grim silence. Three Roman legions, commanded by General Publius Quintilius Varus, advanced across the Rhine into Anglo-Saxon territory. The Romans hoped to expand Roman power, Roman law, and Roman culture. The Germans hoped to preserve their Teutonic laws and institutions and their way of life.†Probably neither side realized that the Battle of Teutoburg Forest would decide the course of Western law and Western civilization for millennia to come.†And now, in the year 2009, the 2,000th anniversary of the battle, very few Americans have even heard of... |
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| Finding Critics for Science |
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· 11/04/2009 10:37:40 AM PST · · Posted by bs9021 · · 16 replies · · 171+ views · · Accuracy in Academia · · November 4, 2009 · · Allie Winegar Duzett · |
Finding Critics for Science Allie Winegar Duzett, November 4, 2009 There are many fields with rigorous critics; many writers make a living critiquing music, dance, art, and literature. At Accuracy in Media and other media watchdog groups, employees critique the claims of major news organizations. But one crucial field regularly goes without any public criticism: the field of science, and scientific discovery. "Science lacks for critics," David Berlinski claimed at a recent Heritage Foundation Bloggers' Briefing. "It is really remarkable that in the sense in which literature or dance or music has always entered public consciousness with a very rich... |
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| Kissing was developed 'to spread germs' |
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· 10/31/2009 7:46:34 AM PDT · · Posted by Dysart · · 18 replies · · 621+ views · · Telegraph · · 10-31-09 · |
They say the gesture allows a bug named Cytomegalovirus, which is dangerous in pregnancy, to be passed from man to woman to give her time to build up protection against it. The bug is found in saliva and normally causes no problems. But it can be extremely dangerous if caught while pregnant and can kill unborn babies or cause birth defects. Writing in the journal Medical Hypotheses, researcher Dr Colin Hendrie from the University of Leeds, said: "Female inoculation with a specific male's cytomegalovirus is most efficiently achieved through mouth-to-mouth contact and saliva exchange, particularly where the flow of saliva... |
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| Oh So Mysteriouso | |
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| Ancient Atomic Bombs |
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· 11/02/2009 10:17:50 AM PST · · Posted by BGHater · · 57 replies · · 1,625+ views · · The Epoch Times · · 31 Oct 2009 · · Leonardo VintiÃ’i · |
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." -- The Bhagavad Gita Seven years after the nuclear tests in Alamogordo, New Mexico, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, was lecturing at a college when a student asked if there were any U.S. atomic tests before Alamogordo. "Yes, in modern times," he replied. The sentence, enigmatic and incomprehensible at the time, was actually an allusion to ancient Hindu texts that describe an apocalyptic catastrophe that doesn't correlate with volcanic eruptions or other known phenomena. Oppenheimer, who avidly studied ancient Sanskrit, was undoubtedly referring to a passage in... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| Hormone That Affects Finger Length Key To Social Behavior |
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· 11/04/2009 10:57:21 AM PST · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 28 replies · · 1,082+ views · · sciencedaily · · Nov. 4, 2009 · |
Research at the universities of Liverpool and Oxford into the finger length of primate species has revealed that cooperative behavior is linked to exposure to hormone levels in the womb. The hormones, called androgens, are important in the development of masculine characteristics such as aggression and strength. It is also thought that prenatal androgens affect finger length during development in the womb. High levels of androgens, such as testosterone, increase the length of the fourth finger in comparison to the second finger. Scientists used finger ratios as an indicator of the levels of exposure to the hormone and compared this... |
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| New Dinosaur Built Like a Sherman Tank |
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· 10/30/2009 7:19:16 PM PDT · · Posted by NormsRevenge · · 36 replies · · 952+ views · · LiveScience.com · · 10/30/09 · · Jeanna Bryner · |
A husband and wife team of paleontologists has discovered a newfound species of armored dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago in what is now Montana. The duo, Bill and Kris Parsons of the Buffalo Museum of Science in New York, spotted the dinosaur's skull on the surface of a hillside in Montana in 1997. Over the next few years, they retrieved more of the now nearly complete skull along with skin plates, rib fragments, a vertebra and a possible limb bone from the dinosaur species. Now called Tatankacephalus cooneyorum, the beast is a type of ankylosaur, or a group... |
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| Newly Discovered Ankylosaur Dinosaur Is 'Biological Version Of An Army Tank' |
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· 11/01/2009 8:33:49 AM PST · · Posted by Frenchtown Dan · · 21 replies · · 725+ views · · Science Daily · · 11/01/09 · · Science Daily · |
A husband and wife team of American paleontologists has discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago during the early Cretaceous of central Montana |
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| What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey |
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· 10/02/2009 8:21:19 AM PDT · · Posted by MplsSteve · · 163 replies · · 1,738+ views · · 10/02/09 · · MplsSteve · |
OK everyone, it's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" survey. I always ask this because I consider most Freepers to be extremely well-read, possibly some of the more well-read groups on the Web. What you are currently reading can be anything - a technical journal, an NY Times bestseller, a classic novel, in short anything. Please do not defile this thread by replying "I'm reading this thread". It became un-funny a long time ago. I'll start. I'm reading "The Approaching Fury: Voices Of The Storm (1820-1861) by Stephen Oates. This book covers the major controversies and... |
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| In 1942, it came down to one Marine |
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· 11/02/2009 10:48:15 PM PST · · Posted by Neil E. Wright · · 41 replies · · 1,692+ views · · Las Vegas Review Journal · · October 25, 2009 · · VIN SUPRYNOWICZ · |
Oct. 25, 2009 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: In 1942, it came down to one Marine It's hard to envision -- or, for the dwindling few, to remember -- what the world looked like on Oct. 26, 1942, when a few thousand U.S. Marines stood essentially stranded on the God-forsaken jungle island of Guadalcanal, placed like a speed bump at the end of the long blue-water slot between New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, the most likely route for the Japanese Navy to take if they hoped to reach Australia.On Guadalcanal, the Marines struggled to complete an airfield.... |
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| History Lesson From the 'Twenties (how government policies caused the Great Depression) |
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· 11/01/2009 3:52:19 AM PST · · Posted by reaganaut1 · · 6 replies · · 435+ views · · Barron's · · November 2, 2009 · · Thomas. G. Donlan · |
... The Great Depression was caused by misguided government policies adopted to avoid the "unsatisfactory conditions" signaled by the crash. The run-of-the-mill recession that ought to have followed the crash was magnified by the policies of the federal government during the administration of Herbert Hoover. In a paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research published last August, Lee E. Ohanian examines a continuing mistake during the Hoover administration that helped transform difficulty into calamity. An economics professor at UCLA, Ohanian has written numerous papers on the Depression. In one earlier paper, he pinned the persistence of high unemployment on... |
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| Is Barack Obama Anti-American? Barack Obama is trying to destroy America's essence |
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· 11/01/2009 10:59:46 AM PST · · Posted by American Dream 246 · · 17 replies · · 671+ views · · American Thinker · · 11/01/09 · · American Thinker · |
Everything has a fundamental essence, a quality that makes it uniquely itself. Take an orange, for example. It's not only a citrus fruit -- it's an orange-colored citrus fruit. Horticulturists can alter its size, its texture, its sweetness, and even (to a limited extent) its color, but as long as its color is orange, the fruit remains "an orange" because that color is its definition. Change the color, however, and suddenly you have the un-orange, the anti-orange. You have something completely different that no longer contains the essence of the original fruit. Lose the essence and you lose the orange.... |
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| Preserved in ice for 100 years, the whisky Shackleton used to keep out the cold. |
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· 11/04/2009 6:03:37 PM PST · · Posted by GSP.FAN · · 35 replies · · 1,014+ views · · MailOnline · · 03 March 2007 · · Peter Gillman · |
They say whisky matures with age...but leaving it embedded in the Antarctic ice for almost 100 years may be going a bit far. |
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· 10/30/2009 6:05:01 PM PDT · · Posted by GSP.FAN · · 33 replies · · 1,196+ views · · A Blog on Oddities · · 7 19 2008 · · Odee · |
Prypiat is an abandoned city in the Zone of alienation in northern Ukraine. It was home to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers, abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. Its population had been around 50,000 prior to the accident. |
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· 11/03/2009 9:34:00 AM PST · · Posted by Borges · · 47 replies · · 885+ views · · Yahoo - AP · · 11/03/09 · |
PARIS -- Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100. The French intellectual was regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing the concept of structuralism -- concepts about common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in a wide range of human societies. Defined as the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity, structuralism compared the formal relationships among elements in any given system. During his six-decade career, Levi-Strauss authored literary and anthropological classics... |
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· 11/03/2009 11:48:21 AM PST · · Posted by 1rudeboy · · 1 replies · · 255+ views · · AP via Yahoo · · November 3, 2009 · · ANGELA DOLAND · |
PARIS -- Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100. The French intellectual was regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing structuralism -- concepts about common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in a wide range of human societies. Defined as the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity, structuralism compared the formal relationships among elements in any given system. During his six-decade career, Levi-Strauss authored literary and anthropological classics including "Tristes Tropiques"... |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #278 Saturday, November 14, 2009 |
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| Evidence found in Ga. of Spanish explorer's trail- Hernando de Soto in Georgia |
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· 11/05/2009 3:53:22 PM PST · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 27 replies · · 791+ views · · hosted · · Nov. 5, 2009 · |
An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up beads, metal tools and other artifacts that may pinpoint part of the elusive trail of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. Dennis Blanton of the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta was scheduled to present his findings Thursday to the Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Mobile, Ala. Excavations since 2006 in rural Telfair County uncovered remains of an Indian settlement along with nine pea-sized glass beads and six metal objects, including three iron tools and a silver pendant. Blanton says the artifacts are consistent with items Spanish explorers traded... |
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· 11/09/2009 1:13:31 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 19 replies · · 819+ views · · Live Science · · Nov 9, 2009 · · Andrea Thompson · |
Recently excavated Mayan murals are giving archaeologists a rare look into the lives of ordinary ancient Maya. The murals were uncovered during the excavation of a pyramid mound structure at the ancient Maya site of Calakmul, Mexico (near the border with Guatemala) and are described in the Nov. 9 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
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| World's Largest Pyramid Discovered, Lost Mayan City Of Mirador, Guatemala? - VIDEO |
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· 11/10/2009 12:44:51 AM PST · · Posted by restornu · · 21 replies · · 1,134+ views · · CNN · · October 27, 2009 · · Posted by majestic · |
Just in time for the 2012 craze, CNN reports on a brand new massive Mayan pyramid discovery, including an amazing stone frieze showing the Maya sacred creation story, the Popol Vuh: World's Largest Myran Pyramid Discovered VIDEO |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis | |
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| Severed heads among discovery at Sacsayhuamán |
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· 11/13/2009 5:35:44 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 13 replies · · 310+ views · · En Peru 'blog · · November 13, 2009 · · unattributed · |
Above the Inca capital of Cusco (Q'osco) sits the important ceremonial site and one of human-kinds most impressive constructions called Sacsayhuamán, which despite its global fame still offers up secrets to investigators. Yesterday the discovery was announced of three burials, one of which contained the severed heads of the Inca's enemies. The discovery was made within the archaeological park of Sacsayhuamán in the area of Qowikarana, under threat from illegal settlements of the city's poor. Chief on-site archaeologist Washington Camacho explains that three separate burials were found -- one of an older man buried with a ceremonial knife, one of... |
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| The Last Laugh, a.k.a. The Father of History | |
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| Legendary Lost Persian Army Found in Sahara |
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· 11/09/2009 5:18:05 PM PST · · Posted by LibWhacker · · 55 replies · · 1,620+ views · · FOXNews · · 11/9/09 · · Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni · |
Herodotus wrote of a 50,000-man strong army that set out on foot into the Egyptian desert in 525 B.C. and was never heard from again ... until today.A pair of Italian archaeologists have uncovered bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert. Twin brothers Angelo and Alfredo Castiglioni are hopeful that they've finally found the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Cambyses II and his armied were buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C. He wrote, "a wind... |
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· 11/09/2009 8:05:43 PM PST · · Posted by Charlespg · · 13 replies · · 837+ views · · Daily mail · · 10th November 2009 · · Cher Thornhill · |
The legend of the lost Persian army has survived over two and a half millennia - despite a blatant lack of hard evidence. But now two Italian experts believe they have found its remains. Twin brothers Angelo and Alfredo Castiglioni uncovered hundreds of human bones, weapons and jewelery in the Sahara desert, west Egypt, that they believe belonged to the 50,000-strong army. |
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· 11/12/2009 11:19:30 AM PST · · Posted by FromLori · · 15 replies · · 956+ views · · Boing Boing · · 11/10/09 · |
2,500 years ago, an army of 50,000 men left an oasis in western Egypt and were never heard from again. Now, archaeologists think they may have uncovered the missing troops, who were probably killed in a sandstorm. ...the team decided to investigate Bedouin stories about thousands of white bones that would have emerged decades ago during particular wind conditions in a nearby area. Indeed, they found a mass grave with hundreds of bleached bones and skulls. "We learned that the remains had been exposed by tomb robbers and that a beautiful sword which was found among the bones was sold... |
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| Veterans Day 2009 | |
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| Happy 234th! USMC |
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· 11/10/2009 7:26:45 PM PST · · Posted by SgtBob · · 26 replies · · 235+ views · |
To my Brothers, and Sisters: Happy Birthday! WE LOVE YOU!!! |
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| Freedom's Destruction through Constitutional Deconstruction |
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· 11/13/2009 8:07:21 AM PST · · Posted by wysiwyg · · 8 replies · · 194+ views · · Tenth Amendment Center · · 24 October 2009 · · Timothy Baldwin · |
During the Constitutional Convention, from May to September 1787, delegates from the colonies were to gather together for the express purpose of amending the Articles of Confederation to form a "more perfect union" (NOT a completely different union!). The men that met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were under direct and limited orders from their states to attend the Federal Convention explicitly to preserve the federation and State rights and to correct the errors of the existing federal government for the limited purposes of handling foreign affairs, commerce among the states and common defense. Yet, during that private and secret convention, there... |
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| One Man's Solemn Mission to Recover WWII Remains |
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· 11/11/2009 12:23:44 PM PST · · Posted by fishhound · · 20 replies · · 715+ views · · AOl/ Sphere · · 11/11/09 · · Steve Freiss · |
(Nov. 11) -- At first, it seemed like a sick joke or, worse, some sort of scam. The caller from North Carolina was telling John Lenox that the wreckage of his father's plane had been located. Staff Sgt. Alvin Lenox had been dead for two weeks longer than his 66-year-old son, John, had been alive. The Army Air Force radio operator crashed with four others in a cargo plane flying a supply mission from Yantai, China, to Joraht, India, in August 1943. They went down in a treacherous mountain region known as The Hump, which swallowed about 600 U.S. planes... |
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| Catastrophism and Astronomy | |
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| Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months |
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· 11/13/2009 4:48:50 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 37 replies · · 732+ views · · New Scientist · · Nov 11, 2009 · · Kate Ravilious · |
JUST months - that's how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by an ice age. The scenario, which comes straight out of Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, was revealed by the most precise record of the climate from palaeohistory ever generated. Around 12,800 years ago the northern hemisphere was hit by the Younger Dryas mini ice age, or "Big Freeze". It was triggered by the slowdown of the Gulf Stream, led to the decline of the Clovis culture in North America, and lasted around 1300 years. Until now, it was thought that the mini ice age took... |
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| Cave Study Links Climate Change To California Droughts |
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· 11/13/2009 6:27:10 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 8 replies · · 205+ views · · ScienceDaily · · November 10, 2009 · · unattributed · |
California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to a new study by UC Davis doctoral student Jessica Oster and geology professor Isabel Montañez. The finding, which comes from analyzing stalagmites from Moaning Cavern in the central Sierra Nevada, was published online Nov. 5 in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. The sometimes spectacular mineral formations in caves such as Moaning Cavern and Black Chasm build up over centuries as water drips from the cave roof. Those drops of water pick up trace chemicals in... |
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| Stone Age humans crossed Sahara in the rain |
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· 11/12/2009 5:56:28 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 50 replies · · 529+ views · · New Scientist · · November 9, 2009 · · Jeff Hecht · |
Wet spells in the Sahara may have opened the door for early human migration. According to new evidence, water-dependent trees and shrubs grew there between 120,000 and 45,000 years ago. This suggests that changes in the weather helped early humans cross the desert on their way out of Africa... While about 40 per cent of hydrocarbons in today's dust come from water-dependent plants, this rose to 60 per cent, first between 120,000 and 110,000 ago and again from 50,000 to 45,000 years ago. So the region seemed to be in the grip of unusually wet spells at the time. That... |
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| Longer Perspectives | |
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| Petroglyphs in Southeast Alaska |
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· 11/09/2009 9:03:11 AM PST · · Posted by BGHater · · 20 replies · · 671+ views · · CCW · · 04 Nov 2009 · · Bonnie Demerjian · |
Scattered across the beaches of Southeast Alaska, and indeed along the entire Northwest Pacific coast from Kodiak to the Columbia River, are intensely staring eyes, totemic animals and geometric patterns carved into boulders and bedrock. These mysterious petroglyphs, carvings in stone, raise questions that have perplexed archeologists and casual observers for well over a century. Most of those questions remain unanswered and may ultimately be unanswerable. Perhaps because of these mysteries, petroglyphs arouse fascination in anyone fortunate enough to see them, particularly if they are still embedded in their original location. Questions about petroglyphs-their age, purpose, makers and method of... |
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| 'Hardwired' to create rock doodles; professor says ancient art was 'an instinct' |
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· 11/13/2009 6:01:02 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 13 replies · · 226+ views · · Prescott Daily Courier · · Monday, November 09, 2009 · · Bruce Colbert · |
Images pecked in stone hundreds to thousands of years ago could be for religious reasons, to mark territories or simple doodles such as those still made today by children and adults. That is according to Dr. Ekkehart Malotki, a preeminent researcher into the history of rock art. "Creating art is a distinct piece of our biological make-up," he told about 50 people Saturday during his lecture at Deer Valley Rock Art Center. "It is an instinct." Malotki, a professor emeritus of languages at Northern Arizona University, said no one would ever know the true meaning of images pecked or painted... |
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| Multiregionalism | |
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| Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory |
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· 11/10/2009 8:39:50 PM PST · · Posted by TigerLikesRooster · · 49 replies · · 753+ views · · New Scientist · · 11/03/09 · · Phil McKenna · |
Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory 00:01 03 November 2009 by Phil McKenna The discovery of an early human fossil in southern China may challenge the commonly held idea that modern humans originated out of Africa. Jin Changzhu and colleagues of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing, announced to Chinese media last week that they have uncovered a 110,000-year-old putative Homo sapiens jawbone from a cave in southern China's Guangxi province. |
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| Prehistory and Origins | |
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| Longevity Tied to Genes That Preserve Tips of Chromosomes |
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· 11/11/2009 4:03:13 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 35 replies · · 607+ views · · Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University · · November 11, 2009 · · Unknown · |
(BRONX, NY) -- A team led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found a clear link between living to 100 and inheriting a hyperactive version of an enzyme that rebuilds telomeres -- the tip ends of chromosomes. The findings appear in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Telomeres play crucial roles in aging, cancer and other biological processes. Their importance was recognized last month, when three scientists were awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for determining the structure of telomeres and discovering how they protect... |
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| The Survey Said... | |
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| Top 10 Things that Make Humans Special |
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· 11/11/2009 7:11:15 AM PST · · Posted by wildbill · · 17 replies · · 640+ views · · Live Science · · Nov. 2009 · · Charles Choi · |
Humans are unusual animals by any stretch of the imagination, ones that have changed the face of the world around us. What makes us so special when compared to the rest of the animal kingdom? Some things we take completely for granted might surprise you. - |
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| Central Africa's tropical Congo Basin was arid, treeless in Late Jurassic |
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· 11/10/2009 3:23:21 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 11 replies · · 263+ views · · Southern Methodist University · · Nov 10, 2009 · · Unknown · |
Geochemical analysis of rare ancient soil produces new paleoclimate data. The Congo Basin -- with its massive, lush tropical rain forest -- was far different 150 million to 200 million years ago. At that time Africa and South America were part of the single continent Gondwana. The Congo Basin was arid, with a small amount of seasonal rainfall, and few bushes or trees populated the landscape, according to a new geochemical analysis of rare ancient soils. The geochemical analysis provides new data for the Jurassic period, when very little is known about Central Africa's paleoclimate, says Timothy S. Myers, a paleontology... |
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| I'm Driftin' I'm Driftin'... | |
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| New fossil plant discovery links Patagonia to New Guinea in a warmer past |
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· 11/10/2009 1:51:51 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 7 replies · · 149+ views · · American Journal of Botany · · Nov 10 2009 · · Unknown · |
How revising an ancient species can change what we know of a lineage's historical distribution and the climate in which it livedFossil plants are windows to the past, providing us with clues as to what our planet looked like millions of years ago. Not only do fossils tell us which species were present before human-recorded history, but they can provide information about the climate and how and when lineages may have dispersed around the world. Identifying fossil plants can be tricky, however, when plant organs fail to be preserved or when only a few sparse parts can be found. In... |
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| Dinosaurs | |
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| Key to Success? Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded |
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· 11/11/2009 12:32:37 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 22 replies · · 426+ views · · Live Science · · Nov 10, 2009 · · Charles Q. Choi · |
Many dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded just like mammals or birds, potentially explaining their extraordinary success before their extinction. For decades, scientists assumed that because dinosaurs resembled lizards, they were cold-blooded as well, their internal temperature rising and falling with the outside world. However, birds are warm-blooded, and the fact that birds seem to be descended from dinosaurs raises the question of whether their ancestors were as well. If dinosaurs were warm-blooded, they would have possessed the potential for athletic abilities rivaling those of mammals and birds. They could have survived in colder habitats that would kill cold-blooded creatures, such... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| Early life stress 'changes' genes |
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· 11/09/2009 11:55:52 AM PST · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 21 replies · · 467+ views · · bbc · · 8 November 2009 · · Victoria Gill · |
A study in mice has hinted at the impact that early life trauma and stress can have on genes, and how they can result in behavioural problems. Scientists described the long-term effects of stress on baby mice in the journal Nature Neuroscience. Stressed mice produced hormones that "changed" their genes, affecting their behaviour throughout their lives. This work could provide clues to how stress and trauma in early life can lead to later problems...... The team found that mice that had been "abandoned" during their early lives were then less able to cope with stressful situations throughout their lives. The... |
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| Uracil Made in the Lab |
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· 11/09/2009 4:17:24 PM PST · · Posted by IronKros · · 9 replies · · 271+ views · · AstroBiology Magazine · · 11/8/2009 · |
NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life. Pyrimidine is a ring-shaped molecule made up of carbon and nitrogen and is the basic structure for uracil, part of a genetic code found in ribonucleic acid (RNA). RNA is central to protein synthesis, but has many other roles. "We have demonstrated for the first time that we can make uracil, a component of RNA, non-biologically in a laboratory... |
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| NASA Reproduces A Building Block Of Life In Laboratory |
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· 11/13/2009 4:12:59 PM PST · · Posted by OldNavyVet · · 18 replies · · 503+ views · · Science Daily · · 11 November 2009 · · NASA · |
NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life. Pyrimidine is a ring-shaped molecule made up of carbon and nitrogen and is the basic structure for uracil, part of a genetic code found in ribonucleic acid (RNA). RNA is central to protein synthesis, but has many other roles. "We have demonstrated for the first time that we can make uracil, a component of RNA, non-biologically in a laboratory... |
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| Biology and Cryptobiology | |
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| Ancient penguin DNA raises doubts about accuracy of genetic dating techniques |
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· 11/10/2009 10:54:53 AM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 154 replies · · 1,360+ views · · Oregon State University · · Nov 10, 2009 · · Unknown · |
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of traditional genetic aging measurements, and suggest those approaches have been routinely underestimating the age of many specimens by 200 to 600 percent. In other words, a biological specimen determined by traditional DNA testing to be 100,000 years old may actually be 200,000 to 600,000 years old, researchers suggest in a new report in Trends in Genetics, a professional journal. The findings raise doubts about the accuracy of many evolutionary rates based on conventional types of genetic analysis. "Some... |
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| Method, not a Body of Knowledge | |
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| Scientists decipher the formation of lasting memories |
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· 11/10/2009 7:19:06 AM PST · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 22 replies · · 560+ views · · Karolinska Institute (SWEDEN) · · Nov 10, 2009 · · Karlen, Olson, et. al. · |
[PRESS RELEASE, 10 November 2009] Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered a mechanism that controls the brain's ability to create lasting memories. In experiments on genetically manipulated mice, they were able to switch on and off the animals' ability to form lasting memories by adding a substance to their drinking water. The findings, which are published in the scientific journal PNAS, are of potential significance to the future treatment of Alzheimer's and stroke. Lars Olson Photo: Camilla Svensk "We are constantly being swamped with sensory impression," says Professor Lars Olson, who led the study. "After a while, the brain must... |
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| China | |
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| Han Dynasty city ruins discovered in China's Inner Mongolia |
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· 11/13/2009 7:02:25 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 4 replies · · 217+ views · · People's Daily Online · · November 11, 2009 · · unattributed · |
Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) city ruins have been discovered in Wuyuan County, Hetao Plain, China's Inner Mongolia. It's said that the scale of the city ruins is rarely seen in Hetao Plain. The city ruins are located in Taal Town of Wuyuan County, Bayannaoer City in China's Inner Mongolia and once covered with grassland. The city wall was about 2 km long and 1 km wide and is made up of compressed earth. The east wall is 2 meters high and remarkably preserved, while, the south wall has already collapsed and is now a road base 80 centimeters high... |
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| Rome and Italy | |
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| Traces of Mithras in Malta |
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· 11/10/2009 10:11:25 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 8 replies · · 350+ views · · The Malta Independent · · Nov 10, 2009 · · Noel Grima · |
The Mithraic Mysteries was a mystery religion that became popular among the military in the Roman Empire, from the 1st to 4th centuries AD. Information on the cult is based mainly on interpretations of monuments, which depict Mithras as born from a rock and sacrificing a bull. His worshippers had a complex system of seven grades of initiation, with ritual meals and they met in underground temples. Little else is known for certain. |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| Israel displays coins from ancient Jewish revolt |
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· 11/11/2009 1:51:52 PM PST · · Posted by NormsRevenge · · 11 replies · · 416+ views · · AP on Yahoo · · 11/11/09 · · Michael Barajas - ap · |
JERUSALEM ñ Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago. About 70 coins were found in an excavation at the foot of a key Jerusalem holy site. They give a rare glimpse into the period of the Jewish revolt that eventually led to the destruction of the Second Jewish Temple in A.D. 70, said Hava Katz, curator of the exhibition. The Jews rebelled against the Roman Empire and took over Jerusalem in A.D. 66. After laying siege to Jerusalem, the Romans... |
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| Minoans | |
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| Remains of Minoan-style painting discovered during excavations of Canaanite palace |
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· 11/10/2009 8:30:40 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 12 replies · · 445+ views · · Eurekalert · · Monday, November 9, 2009 · · Amir Gilat, Ph.D., Rachel Feldman · |
The remains of a Minoan-style wall painting, recognizable by a blue background, the first of its kind to be found in Israel, was discovered in the course of the recent excavation season at Tel Kabri. This fresco joins others of Aegean style that have been uncovered during earlier seasons at the Canaanite palace in Kabri. "It was, without doubt, a conscious decision made by the city's rulers who wished to associate with Mediterranean culture and not adopt Syrian and Mesopotamian styles of art like other cities in Canaan did. The Canaanites were living in the Levant and wanted to feel... |
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| Egypt | |
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| Austrian archaeologists make Babylonian find in Egypt [sync'd with Hyksos] |
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· 11/10/2009 8:06:42 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 9 replies · · 318+ views · · Austrian Times · · Friday, October 9, 2009 · · Lisa Chapman · |
Austrian archaeologists have found a Babylonian seal in Egypt that confirms contact between the Babylonians and the Hyksos during the second millennium B.C. Irene Forstner-M¸ller, the head of the Austrian Archaeological Institute's (÷AI) branch office in Cairo, said today (Thurs) the find had occurred at the site of the ancient town of Avaris near what is today the city of Tell el-Dab'a in the eastern Nile delta. The Hyksos conquered Egypt and reigned there from 1640 to 1530 B.C. She said a recently-discovered cuneiform tablet had led archaeologists to suspect there had been contact between the Babylonians and the Hyksos.... |
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| Soldiers help preserve Iraq's ancient history |
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· 11/09/2009 3:54:39 PM PST · · Posted by SandRat · · 3 replies · · 178+ views · · Multi-National Force - Iraq · · Sgt. Jon Soles, USA · |
>Nouri Obeyd Kathem (left), an archaeologist with the Iraqi Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism, explains the Sobbar Abu Habba site to Maj. Charles Morrison (center) and Capt. Ross Boyce with the 120th Combined Arms Battalion, Nov. 4. Photo by Sgt. Jon Soles, Multi-National Division -- Baghdad. BAGHDAD -- What may look like large, weathered mounds of dirt on rural farmland near Mahmudiyah are actually artifact-filled ruins of an ancient civilization. Soldiers of the North Carolina National Guard's 120th Combined Arms Battalion, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team here surveyed the sites recently with officials from the Government of Iraq's Ministry of... |
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| Epigraphy and Language | |
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| Digitized inscriptions reveal ancient messages |
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· 11/10/2009 11:44:46 PM PST · · Posted by neverdem · · 14 replies · · 898+ views · · LA Times via sfgate.com · · November 8, 2009 · · Duke Helfand · |
Four thousand years ago, a government bureaucrat in Mesopotamia jotted down a tally of slave laborers on a clay tablet. The bureaucrat left behind the count in wedge-shaped symbols that proved hard to fully decipher with the naked eye. Until now. Researchers at the University of Southern California's West Semitic Research Project have helped uncover its hidden narrative with the aid of lighting and imaging techniques that are credited with revolutionizing the study of ancient texts. Over the last three decades, the USC project has produced thousands of crisp images of inscriptions and other artifacts from biblical Israel and other... |
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| Long Before the Vikings | |
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| Man finds 3,000-year-old sword |
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· 11/13/2009 6:04:57 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 50 replies · · 1,374+ views · · United Press International · · Friday the 13th of November 2009 · · unattributed · |
A Norwegian man said experts told him the sword he found abandoned at a roadside four years ago dates back 3,000 years. Ernst Skofteland said he asked a team of archaeologists digging on a farm near his home to look at the sword, which he discovered at the side of a lumber road in a forest area four years ago, and they told him it dates from around 1100-900 B.C., Aftenposten reported Friday. "When they told me how old it was, I thought they were kidding me," Skofteland said. He said he turned the sword over to government authorities for... |
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| Middle Ages and Renaissance | |
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| Cromwell's Legacy Damages Tomb of Black Prince |
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· 11/10/2009 10:00:03 PM PST · · Posted by nickcarraway · · 18 replies · · 474+ views · · The Telegraph · · 02 Nov 2009 · |
Damage caused by Oliver Cromwell's army 350 years ago is threatening to ruin the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.Stained glass windows overlooking the tomb of Edward, Prince of Wales, were destroyed by Puritan iconoclasts in the 1640s, allowing damaging UV rays to enter the cathedral unfiltered. Since then, clear replacements have been installed and the deterioration of the paintwork on the 14th century canopy surrounding the prince's resting place has continued. The brilliant colours of the artworks that look down on the bronze figure of the prince are fading rapidly and the red pigment used by the... |
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| World War Eleven | |
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| 71 Years Ago--> Kristallnacht "The Night of Broken Glass |
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· 11/08/2009 7:10:27 PM PST · · Posted by Shellybenoit · · 25 replies · · 726+ views · · The Lid · · 11/8/09 · · The Lid · |
Kristallnacht also known as Night of Broken Glass was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany on November 9th-10th 1938. Kristallnacht was the day Hitler's final solution "came out of the closet" It is viewed by many historians as the beginning of the final solution, leading towards the genocide of the Holocaust In a coordinated attack on Jewish people and their property, 99 Jews were murdered and 25,000 to 30,000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps. 267 synagogues were destroyed and thousands of homes and businesses were ransacked. This was done by the Hitler Youth, Gestapo,and the SS. Kristallnacht also... |
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| Thoroughly Modern Miscellany | |
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| Stalin Declassified |
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· 11/13/2009 1:18:10 PM PST · · Posted by mainestategop · · 5 replies · · 266+ views · · Yotube · |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KHcQsjFdC8&feature=channel Joseph Stalin declassified. Newly revealed documents about Stalin and the founding of the USSR and his inner circle. About the purges and memos concerning STalin. |
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| Lost Charlie Chaplin film bought on eBay for $5 |
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· 11/07/2009 12:40:44 PM PST · · Posted by DogByte6RER · · 17 replies · · 1,153+ views · · Telegraph.co.uk · · 06 Nov 2009 · · Telegraph.co.uk · |
Lost Charlie Chaplin film bought on eBay for $5 A lost Charlie Chaplin film has been discovered in a can of nitrate film bought on eBay for £3.20 ($5). Morale Park from Henham, Essex, purchased the tin simply because he liked the look of it. He was amazed to discover its fragile contents: a previously unknown seven-minute film Chaplin film called Zepped. His interest was piqued, he said, when he could not find any mention of it on the internet. The film features footage of Zeppelin airships flying over England during the First World War, and out-takes from three pictures... |
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