Skip to comments.
Lost Kingdom of Tambora Uncovered
Discovery Channel ^
| Feb. 28, 2006
| Rossella Lorenzi,
Posted on 03/01/2006 2:16:48 PM PST by uglybiker
Feb. 28, 2006 — A Pompeii of the East has emerged from 10 feet of pumice and ash on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, according to a U.S. volcanologist who has discovered what appear to be the remnants of the lost kingdom of Tambora.
Wiped out in 1815 by the largest volcanic eruption in human history, the tiny kingdom is known only from a few reports from the Dutch and British colonial governments that ruled the East Indies in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
< snip >
Like Pompeii, frozen in time by Mount Vesuvius's eruption in Italy in 79 A.D., the kingdom of Tambora has been lying undisturbed under volcanic debris and ash for centuries.
"All the people, their houses and culture are still encapsulated there as they were in 1815," Sigurdsson said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dsc.discovery.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-54 next last
To: TonyRo76
Wow, another Young-Earth Creationist....
Always kind of cool when one pops up from time to time. Like I've said, they need some sort of nature preserve where you guys can roam free and people can take their kids and gawk at you guys.
To: Strategerist
There was no history before humans began to write and record events and conditions. History is specifically written accounts.
22
posted on
03/01/2006 2:59:13 PM PST
by
ThanhPhero
(di hanh huong den La Vang)
To: Strategerist
There is no unrecorded history. History is the record of the past, not conjecture about the past and not even the reality of the past except as it was written down. It is records. Recorded history is redundant.
23
posted on
03/01/2006 3:01:53 PM PST
by
ThanhPhero
(di hanh huong den La Vang)
To: FreedomFarmer
I see the Ape Girl went on to bigger things...
24
posted on
03/01/2006 3:03:13 PM PST
by
uglybiker
(Don't blame me. I didn't make you stupid.)
To: ThanhPhero
Nothing meaningful happened until I showed up. ;-)
25
posted on
03/01/2006 3:04:00 PM PST
by
uglybiker
(Don't blame me. I didn't make you stupid.)
To: TonyRo76
Come to think of it... anybody existing before me is pure speculation...
26
posted on
03/01/2006 3:04:56 PM PST
by
trashcanbred
(Anti-social and anti-socialist)
Comment #27 Removed by Moderator
To: TonyRo76
Hereabouts we don't even mess with that ' . It's just "yall."
28
posted on
03/01/2006 3:26:57 PM PST
by
ThanhPhero
(di hanh huong den La Vang)
To: TonyRo76
"Y'all" is the southern equivilent of "youse guys"
29
posted on
03/01/2006 3:38:06 PM PST
by
ScreamingFist
(Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
To: ScreamingFist
yes, but what is the plural of y'all?
all y'all!
Comment #31 Removed by Moderator
Comment #32 Removed by Moderator
To: Cruising Speed
33
posted on
03/01/2006 4:11:17 PM PST
by
ThanhPhero
(di hanh huong den La Vang)
To: ScreamingFist
Nothing is the equivalent of something so base as "youse guys."
34
posted on
03/01/2006 4:12:00 PM PST
by
ThanhPhero
(di hanh huong den La Vang)
To: FreePaul
To: uglybiker
they are NOT sheepherders! They are Cow Boys!!! C'mon get it right.
BushfaultJustTryingToSaveLivesItsForTheChildren
To: uglybiker
We may have one like this, but I'll check it later. Thanks for this.
37
posted on
03/01/2006 4:51:43 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
To: TonyRo76
IOW, the occurrence of any pre-human history is pure speculation!
---
Any occurrence of history prior to September 30, 1950 is pure speculation. In other words, if I wasn't here how do I know it happened?
Yeah, yeah, you tell me it happened, but I've caught some of you in lies, and I've got my suspicions about all the rest of you.
And you! Over there! You think I don't know what you were doing behind my back?
To: uglybiker
I don't suppose there's any point in speculating that the natives were called "tamborines"?
Didn't think so.
To: trashcanbred
Come to think of it... anybody existing before me is pure speculation...
Actually, anyone I haven't met does not exist.
And the world was just created a second ago and all my memories were
created with it so that I only *think* I've been around for decades.
Prove I'm wrong :-)
40
posted on
03/01/2006 5:16:36 PM PST
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-54 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson