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The Blythe Intaglios: California’s Nazca Lines
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Posted on 11/27/2013 7:41:44 AM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
11/27/2013 7:41:44 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
can only be seen properly from the air.
So who declares what is proper for viewing? After all, the makers may not have looked at it that way at all.
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posted on
11/27/2013 7:49:24 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: SunkenCiv
To: BenLurkin
“Ancient artists created the figures using the intaglio process.”
How “ancient” could they have been if they depicted horses and horseshoes? Those things didn’t exist in North America until a few centuries ago.
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posted on
11/27/2013 7:51:03 AM PST
by
Boogieman
To: BenLurkin
Unseen by whites until the 20th century What is a white besides a color?
A person can be a "white person" or "black person" but not a "black" or a "white".
To: cripplecreek; All
An inconceivably weird sentence from the article:
Unseen by whites until the 20th century
No doubt indians, hispanics, asians and blacks could see it then..........
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posted on
11/27/2013 7:52:40 AM PST
by
Lakeshark
(Mr Reid, tear down this law!)
To: a fool in paradise
A person can be a "white person" or "black person" but not a "black" or a "white". Really? Show me a white person or a black person. Did you mean Caucasian or Negro?
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11/27/2013 7:56:28 AM PST
by
laweeks
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posted on
11/27/2013 8:00:24 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: BenLurkin
Cool site. They’ve got oddities and weird stuff listed for all 50 states.
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posted on
11/27/2013 8:01:52 AM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/27/2013 8:59:02 AM PST
by
absalom01
(You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
To: a fool in paradise
What is a white besides a color?
A pejorative.
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posted on
11/27/2013 11:06:12 AM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: absalom01
Not far rorm the river. Interesting!
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posted on
11/27/2013 12:32:35 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Mastador1
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posted on
11/27/2013 3:01:46 PM PST
by
publius911
( At least Nixon had the good grace to resign!)
To: a fool in paradise; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks a fool in paradise. These Intaglios were made by the Blythe Danner party during a six-day binge on location.
Okay, I can't substantiate any of that.
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posted on
11/27/2013 6:19:30 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
To: Boogieman
At the creation museum there is a triceratops with “horse” shoes on all four hooves. Supposedly Moses himself shod these beasts to help bring Egyptian loot across the Red Sea.
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posted on
11/27/2013 6:49:52 PM PST
by
Sawdring
To: SunkenCiv
Under Weird California they describe the Forestiere Underground Gardens of Fresno. http://www.weirdus.com/states/california/personalized_properties/forestiere_underground_gardens/index.php
I can’t believe that these are now an official tourist attraction! During the years between Mr. Forestiere’s death and their opening to the public, we used to sneak out there and explore when we were in high school. These man-made caves were just in an old field. We’d take flashlights out there and explore all the passage ways and rooms. It was a good chance for the boys to scare the girls and to make up strange stories about this odd place. It was all in good fun, and we never told our parents. I can’t believe that the plants survived, because I don’t think it ever was watered, except for natural rain (which is less than 10 inches per year normally.)
By the way, they were way out in the country when I was in high school. Now they are in the center of the populated town.
To: Boogieman
How ancient could they have been if they depicted horses and horseshoes? Those things didnt exist in North America until a few centuries ago.
There are
fossil horse teeth in Florida from the Pleistocene.
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posted on
11/27/2013 6:55:19 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: aruanan
Sure, but the only problem is that they went extinct before any human teeth showed up.
To: Sawdring
To: Boogieman
I’d take the local Indians at their word that the figures represent mountain lions. It just looks like a four-legged animal.
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posted on
11/27/2013 8:57:42 PM PST
by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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