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An interesting article with a mildly amusing aspect or two...

 

  

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Non-soft-ware python alert...

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http://www.dws.org/sousa/mid/liberty.mid

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Startling Discovery: The First Human Ritual
LiveScience | 11/30/06 | Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 11/30/2006 2:14:15 PM EST by LibWhacker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1746522/posts

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70,000 years later, there are still about 2 billion people who worship a rock, in Mecca.

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'Oldest sculpture' found in Morocco
by Paul Rincon

A 400,000-year-old stone object unearthed in Morocco could be the world's oldest attempt at sculpture... The object, which is around six centimetres in length, is shaped like a human figure, with grooves that suggest a neck, arms and legs. On its surface are flakes of a red substance that could be remnants of paint. The object was found 15 metres below the eroded surface of a terrace on the north bank of the River Draa near the town of Tan-Tan. It was reportedly lying just a few centimetres away from stone handaxes in ground layers dating to the Middle Acheulian period, which lasted from 500,000 to 300,000 years ago... A 200,000-300,000-year-old stone object found at Berekhat Ram in Israel in 1986 has also been the subject of claims that it is a figurine. However, several other researchers later presented evidence to show that it was probably shaped by geological processes.

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