Posted on 04/29/2012 7:17:10 AM PDT by wildbill
1. Disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization With a culture that stretched from western India to Afghanistan and a population numbering over five million, the ancient Indus Valley peopleIndia's oldest known civilizationwere an impressive and apparently sanitary bronze-age bunch. The scale of their baffling and abrupt collapse rivals that of the great Mayan decline. But it wasn't until 1922 that excavations revealed a hygienically-advanced culture which maintained a sophisticated sewage drainage system and immaculate bathrooms. Strangely, there is no archaeological evidence of armies, slaves, social conflicts or other vices prevalent in ancient societies. Even to the very end, it seems, they kept it clean.
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You may have some other on your personal list, but that's part of the wonderful mystery of history.
The more we know, the more we don’t know.
Mystery 1.1...How the current resident of the White House got to move in!!!
The Unconscious/Incompetence model explains the different levels of understanding.
They sure never made it to the Illinois Tollway.
``hygienically-advanced culture...
immaculate bathrooms...
Even to the very end, it seems, they kept it clean.
Sounds like hospital-clean to me-
and you know what runs rampant in hospitals?
STAPH
If he had a moving truck it would look like this.
Let's make sure that it is in use again on Sunday, January 20, 2013.
I love this stuff. Thanks for posting!
Their secret to clean bathrooms evidently was never passed to the Chevron gas station down the street from me....
11. Why Socialism ALWAYS fails every time it is tried but is never discredited as a viable economic model.
I’m wondering if this one will ever make the list:
“Why did the History Channel Stop Doing History?”
The secret is bleach, frequently and mercilessly, in an impervious surfaced space, no vinyl, no wallpaper, no sheetrock. Nothing but smooth ceramic tile and gloss oil painted lime plaster walls, so you can hose it out if need be, and there is a need more often than you’d think in a public restroom. People are pigs, especially when they know they’re not going to be cleaning it up.
Oh, and ventilation, plenty of that, being enclosed with such an amount of chlorine fumes will make you see stars and pass out if you don’t get fresh air and quickly.
If a toilet seat is cracked or chipped, it’s going to harbor some nasty microorganisms regardless of how clean the rest of the restroom might be, don’t use it or carefully cover it before using.
“Why did the History Channel Stop Doing History?”
Answer:
1. A History program is hard to document and write and expensive to film if you use period sets and costumes.
2. Reality shows with human conflicts get higher ratings in our popular culture.
3.Cajun gator hunters and lumberjacks work cheap.
4. All of the above.
The correct answer is 4. All of the above.
I hate the journalism lists these days where you have to wait for each number on the list to load its separate page. I avoid them no matter how interesting they may seem.
Ive been wondering the same thing for the past year or so. hell they could just change the name to “The Discovery Channel”.
Pinging Sunken Civ! Not sure if this qualifies for your ping list, but you may find this personally interesting!
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