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It's one of the most lavish burials of the European Bronze Age; and, although the woman was buried with a man, most of the expensive grave goods were hers, suggesting that she was of much higher social status.By comparing her grave to that of other El Argar women, researchers led by archaeologist Vicente Lull of the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain have concluded that women in this culture could have played a more important political role than we previously knew.The grave itself, a large ceramic jar named grave 38, was discovered in 2014, at the La Almoloya archaeological site...

The results of the study showed no evidence of interbreeding. Nevertheless, the team were able to confirm previous results showing high levels of Denisovan ancestry in the region.[Yes, the article really does say that. High levels of ancestry, but without any evidence of interbreeding.]

Rolling Stone is punching back after a blog post claimed that the magazine “sold out” to President Trump and the Saudis under its owner Jay Penske led to calls for a boycott. The story, by “The Hill Reporter” dubbed “The Demise of Rolling Stone: How A Legendary Magazine Sold Out to Trump and the Saudis,” ignited calls across the Twitterverse to #BoycottRollingStone on Friday in part by resurfacing old information about magazine’s parent company’s ties to the Saudis. The story also blasted the Penske Media CEO for his ties to Trump, although it appeared to conflate the media mogul with...

A 2,500-year-old slab, a relief depicting marching Ancient Greek warriors, or hoplites, has been discovered among other finds in the recent archaeological excavations of two temples of ancient god Apollo on the St. Cyricus Island, today a peninsula, in the Bulgarian Black Sea town of Sozopol.The newly discovered slab with Ancient Greek warriors, or hoplites, appears to a piece of a larger depiction, other parts of which were discovered during digs in 2018 and 2019 in the zone of the two temples of deity Apollo Iatros ("The Healer") – one from the Late Archaic period and one from the Early...

Major League Baseball is now hand in hand with the leftist fascsist "woke" crowd. The Rangers stated, they would be at full capacity for opening day, and Joe Biden critisziied them.

Released on the heels of Israel's fourth election in two years, the survey found that among the Jewish public, division still remains as to the potential roles of Israel's Arab parties in the government coalition-forming process. According to the survey, some 44% of the Jewish public support a government propped up by the Arab parties, in contrast to 41% who oppose it.This is in stark difference to a similar poll taken more than a year earlier in February 2020, when only 23% of Israeli Jews supported Arab parties propping up a government coalition. Among the Arab populace, the survey found...

Before the #FightBack Foundation came to be associated with lawyer Lin Wood’s post-election conspiracy theories, the non-profit group known by the Twitter hashtag had been affiliated with Kyle Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse was 17 years old when he was charged with killing two men and injuring a third during protests and riots that broke out in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Rittenhouse claimed self-defense, and #Fightback raised the $2 million that his legal team needed to bail him out on Nov. 20, just weeks after a presidential election whose results Wood repeatedly tried to overturn.

“My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge” (Proverbs 5:1, 2).

The arrests were made in Béziers in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday morning by DGSI Five women, one of whom is suspected of planning to commit violence, were arrested in the south of France, according to local media reports on Sunday.

If you're a walking fan, like Pilgrimages and are in the mood to have all of your sins forgiven then this is a good time to walk the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Why? It's a Holy Year when the Feast of Saint James falls on a Sunday, and this year it is on July 25th. They open a special door at the back of the Cathedral. If you go through that door, go to the Apostle's tomb, ask forgiveness for your sins, go to confession, pray for the Pope, go to mass and receive communion you will have all...

Your sports league might be a little too woke if it will freely do business with Communists in China and Cuba, but boycotts a US state that wants people to show an ID to vote. #MLBAllStarGame #mlb— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) April 3, 2021

The Georgia county that was set to host the 2020 Major League Baseball All Star Game said over the weekend that it will lose more than $100 million after the league pulled the game and draft out of the state — a decision that comes after Democrats Madeline number of false claims about the state’s new election law and signaled they would support the league boycotting the state. Holly Quinlan, president and CEO of Cobb Travel and Tourism, said that the “estimated lost economic impact” for the county was more than $100 million. “This event would have directly impacted our...

Benedict Cumberbatch is worried he might have been "patient zero". The Imitation Game star was really sick towards the end of 2019 after flying into South Africa and he now worries he helped to spread coronavirus around the world before the first cases had even been confirmed. Speaking to the independent.co.uk, he explained: "I was incredibly ill, to the point that when all this Covid stuff suddenly broke in the new year, I was thinking, oh my god was I actually patient zero. I was so ill – it was borderline pneumonia." We didn't just raise the bar, we redefined...

Morris "B.B." Dickerson, the bassist and co-founding member of the band War, has died at the age of 71. The musician’s death was confirmed to Billboard by a family representative. He had reportedly been battling “a long, undisclosed illness” prior to his passing. Born and raised in Southern California, Dickerson began playing bass at the age of 12. He’d soon latch on with a band called the Creators, which later evolved into another group named the Nightshift. The band was backing football player turned singer Deacon Jones when record producer Jerry Goldstein caught their performance. He’d soon connect them with...

....Like many before him, most especially the Girondins who had (fatally to both parties) scorned an alliance with the Dantonists, Danton sought to arrest the revolution where he stood. The confrontation that finished him was precipitated by Danton’s attempt — with the assistance of his longtime confederate Camille Desmoulins, the most notable of the other men to lose their heads this day — to apply the brake to the excesses of Robespierre’s Committee of Public Safety, that lethal organ he himself established as a pillar of order for a time of peril now abated. With the worst of the very...

An oversight board created to scrutinize research that would enhance highly dangerous pathogens did not review a National Institutes of Health grant that funded a lab in Wuhan, China, to genetically modify bat-based coronaviruses. Experts say the NIH grant describes scientists conducting gain-of-function research, a risky area of study that, in this case, made SARS-like viruses even more contagious. Federal funding for gain-of-function research was temporarily suspended in 2014 due to widespread scientific concerns it risked leaking supercharged viruses into the human population. Federal funding for gain-of-function research was resumed in late 2017 after the Potential Pandemic Pathogens Control and...

....With some schools shutdown for over a year – many of Chief union toady Diane Ravitch...recently implored her readers in a vapid blog post not to believe the “learning loss hoax.”... Additionally, a recent poll of American parents reveals that more than 40 percent say their kids have fallen behind in school during the lockdowns, and, even worse, they “lack interest in classes.” The whole mess is best summed up in an extraordinarily moving blog post written by Darren Miller, a veteran high school math teacher in the Sacramento area, and force behind the “Right on the Left Coast” blog......

Do vaccinated people end up: "getting infected more"? That question is on the table among other matters for Israel's coronavirus "czar"... The coronavuirus passport plan for the United Kingdom is being rolled out to be used for sports events, other large events and nightclubs.... President Trump calling for a boycott of Major League Baseball and corporations like Coca-Cola and Delta that have come out in opposition to the new election laws passed in Georgia... (Story Updated) A Jordanian official is saying that a former Israeli intelligence agent offered to help the wife of Jordan's Prince Hamza bin Hussein leave the...

The United States has put Johnson and Johnson in charge of a plant that ruined 15 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine and has stopped British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc from using the facility, a senior health official said on Saturday. J&J said it was “assuming full responsibility” of the Emergent BioSolutions facility in Baltimore, reiterating that it will deliver 100 million doses to the government by the end of May. In a separate statement late Sunday, Emergent said it expects to align with the U.S. government and AstraZeneca to ramp down manufacturing for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine at its Baltimore plant....

Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez, who received two doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine earlier this year, has tested positive for Covid-19, his doctor confirmed. Fernandez had earlier said that he was self-isolating after receiving a positive result from an antibody test. A polymerase chain reaction test, which is more definitive, had confirmed the result, according to a statement signed by Federico Saavedra, Fernandez’s long-time personal doctor and now a member of his medical staff. Fernandez is “stable, asymptomatic and with indicators within normal ranges, Saavedra said. The president had taken a test after running a fever and suffering a headache...