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Extraordinary Pompeii discovery: Racehorse remains found among ancient city's ruins
Fox News.com ^
| May 14, 2018
| James Rogers
Posted on 05/14/2018 2:29:58 PM PDT by Kaslin
Archaeologists have unearthed the final resting place of an ancient racehorse among the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii in Italy.
The horse was discovered in Pompeii’s northern outskirts, beyond the walls of the Roman city. The stable where the horse belonged to a villa in Pompeii’s suburb of Civita Giuliana.
Experts discovered the horse’s remains when they were investigating tunnels used by tomb raiders, according to a Facebook post.
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KEYWORDS: 79ad; agriculture; ancientautopsies; animalhusbandry; chastelovers; civitagiuliana; equid; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; huntergatherers; massimoosanna; mountvesuvius; pompeii; romanempire; workingdogs
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To: Donkey Odious
Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79AD
You couldn't ask a more ridiculous questein
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posted on
05/14/2018 3:41:47 PM PDT
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Kaslin
(Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
To: Donkey Odious
Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79AD
You couldn't ask a more ridiculous question
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posted on
05/14/2018 3:42:08 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
To: DoughtyOne
"Conserving our Natural Racehorses"
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posted on
05/14/2018 3:51:17 PM PDT
by
CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
To: Kaslin
I’ve heard of horses that were good “mudders”, but not too many “lava-ers” …
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05/14/2018 3:52:02 PM PDT
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mikrofon
(Marvelous Monday BUMP)
To: Fantasywriter
Right, the breed was developed in England. A cross between Arabian stallions and sturdy English mares.
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posted on
05/14/2018 4:23:32 PM PDT
by
Andy'smom
(Proud member of the basket of deplorables)
To: Andy'smom
Safe to assume, I guess, that these archeologists aren't major thoroughbred horse fans. 😉
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posted on
05/14/2018 4:33:02 PM PDT
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Fantasywriter
(Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
05/14/2018 4:36:18 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(I have already previewed this composition.)
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
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posted on
05/14/2018 4:43:03 PM PDT
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DoughtyOne
(01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
To: mikrofon
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posted on
05/14/2018 4:45:45 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: mewzilla; SunkenCiv; All
Excellent
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posted on
05/14/2018 4:54:40 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Donkey Odious
You couldn't ask a more ridiculous question I'm thinking he's onto something he doesn't want us to know about!
To: Kaslin; Red Badger; BenLurkin; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; ...
Thanks Kaslin for the topic, and thanks Red Badger and BenLurkin for the pings that I missed prior to posting a different article about the same thing. Mea culpa.
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05/16/2018 10:43:19 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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