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Excavations at the city, famous for its pre-Columbian mounds, challenge the idea that residents destroyed the city through wood clearing. A thousand years ago, a city rose on the banks of the Mississippi River, near what eventually became the city of St. Louis. Sprawling over miles of rich farms, public plazas and earthen mounds, the city — known today as Cahokia — was a thriving hub of immigrants, lavish feasting and religious ceremony. At its peak in the 1100s, Cahokia housed 20,000 people, greater than contemporaneous Paris. By 1350, Cahokia had largely been abandoned, and why people left the city...

The birth family of the Ohio teenage girl who was shot by police outside her foster home Tuesday is mulling a lawsuit, according to a report.Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, was shot dead after calling police for help when two woman started fighting with her outside the Columbus home, her cousin Deja Torrence told Insider. Police opened fire as she lunged at one of the women with a knife, according to dramatic footage released by police.Nicholas Reardon, the officer who killed Bryant, has been assigned to desk duty while the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation looks into the shooting, the report said....

Senator Cruz called out Yale for discrimination Senate Democrats voted down an amendment from Senate Republicans, including Ted Cruz, John Kennedy, and Bill Haggerty. It would have barred “Federal funding for any institution of higher education that discriminates against Asian Americans in recruitment, applicant review, or admissions.” “This amendment is straightforward, it targets the ongoing discrimination that is being directed against Asian-Americans by colleges and universities across the country,” Cruz said. He specifically mentioned Harvard and Yale as “denying admission to qualified Asian-American applicants in favor of underrepresented minority groups.” Cruz said that the Department of Justice had sued these...

The worst impacts of COVID-19 have shifted to younger people, who have had less opportunity to get vaccinated and may be in the biggest hurry to return to their old social routines. “We are seeing a trend in younger individuals. That’s both cases and hospitalizations,” said Dr. Eugene Curley, an infectious disease specialist with York-based WellSpan Health. At Penn State Children’s Hospital, more teenagers are being hospitalized with COVID-19 than during the two pandemic surges, said Dr. Jessica Ericson, a pediatric infectious disease specialist. “We are on a regular basis taking care of critically ill children, teens and young adults,”...

Planet Earth is under a Geomagnetic Storm Watch on Sunday and, luckily, that isn’t as scary as it sounds. In fact, some people in these situations pack up and hop on a plane – not to flee to safety, but to view the beautiful result: auroras, or the Northern Lights. Scientists recorded a partial halo CME and determined based on it’s size and intensity, that Earth will experience geomagnetic storm conditions early to mid-day Sunday. They expect G2, or moderate storm levels, and it’s predicted to cause hours of brilliant aurora. G2 storm conditions can trigger voltage alarms in power...

Benchmark Education has created Social Justice resources for three of its ten units. Units 1, 4, and 6 now have a layer of questions that promote collaborative conversations and productive struggle in which student engage critically with the texts already in the unit. Benchmark designed this layer of questions and additional reading suggestions to encourage students to discuss and share experiences using students' personal stories and cultural histories as lenses for analyzing texts. This will help deepen cultural understandings and expand students' world views. The materials will be a resource for sustaining a literacy classroom that allows for various ways...

All of the astronauts — representing the U.S., Russia, Japan and France — managed to squeeze into camera view for a congratulatory call from the leaders of their space agencies.

A high school track coach in Oregon is calling for an end to rules mandating mask-wearing during competition after one of his athletes collapsed from “complete oxygen debt.” After a nearly two-year break from track meets, high schools in Oregon once again began competing, but the state added a new rule, requiring students to wear masks at all times, even when competing in sports. Summit coach Dave Turnbull was not thrilled about the masks The biggest problem for the coach and his runners came in the 800-meter race when student Maggie Williams collapsed on the track just meters short of...

Antifa takes on the frying pan man

Fear-Mongering: Nature “No Longer Forgives”Francis honoured the pagan April 22 “Earth Day” with two video messages, one for an Earth Day Live Internet event, another for a global climate summit hosted by Joe Biden.In the first message, Francis is panicking that the planet is “at the brink” and humanity has to avoid “the path of self destruction.” According to Francis, nature cannot continue to be disrespected, because it “does no longer forgive.”These words are unquestionably true if applied to the Catholic Church and Catholic dogma.In the second video, Francis calls the Biden climate show “beautiful,” adding that “I am with...

ADVICES BY GOVERNMENT MESSENGERS. GEN. SCOTT ORDERS A DEMONSTRATION UPON BALTIMORE -- ARMSTRONG GUNS COMING FROM ENGLAND. By the arrival of two Government messengers, who left Washington late on Saturday night, we have intelligence from the National Capital. At that time they report that no fears were felt for A gentleman who left Washington at 3 o'clock on Sunday last has just given us important information regarding the state of affairs at the Capital. At the safety of the city, but the authorities were anxious regarding Fort Monroe, of the reinforcement of which they had not heard. The messengers came...

One of the larger myths of progressivism is that they are heralds of liberalism. In order to justify this, they have had to do two things: (both of which, sadly, have been successful) 1) Paint the picture of Enlightenment > Founders(Liberals) > Abolitionists > Feminists > Progressives 2) The hijacking of the word liberal In order to justify their own existence, progressives have sent out their historians over the last several decades to manufacture this concept of progress and tie it all together in a very disorderly and quite frankly, convoluted way. #1 is really the big meme, and the...

Thodex, a crypto platform based in Turkey, said its platform has been “temporarily closed” to address an “abnormal fluctuation in the company accounts.” Local media reports say that Faruk Fatih Ozer, Thodex’s founder, has flown to Albania, taking $2 billion of investors’ funds with him. According to the state-run Anadolu Agency, Turkish authorities have now issued an international warrant seeking Ozer’s arrest. ...In 2019, Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX went bankrupt after its CEO died, resulting in millions of dollars’ worth of digital assets being trapped in a digital wallet.

Third Week of Easter John 6:60–69 Friends, we come today to the end of the extraordinary sixth chapter of John’s Gospel. He has told his listeners, “Unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood, you do not have life within you.” We hear that “many of Jesus’ disciples . . . said, ‘This saying is hard; who can accept it?’” Knowing their murmuring, Jesus says, “Does this shock you?” Now, if his words were meant in a symbolic sense, they wouldn’t have had this explosive, shocking effect on his listeners. Given every opportunity to...

Vatican Health Conference: A Platform to Combat COVID-19 ‘Vaccine Hesitancy?’The May 6-8 event features the CEOs of Moderna and Pfizer, as well as Dr. Anthony Fauci and an array of other prominent vaccination advocates.VATICAN CITY — An upcoming Vatican health conference, titled “Unite to Prevent & Unite to Cure” and co-hosted by the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Cura Foundation, will not only place a significant focus on COVID-19 treatments and prevention but also provide a platform for promoting vaccines produced by large pharmaceutical companies. The advocacy of the anti-COVID vaccines was already evident both by the names...

Every child lives in a world of innocent self involvement. I gave my youth to raising our children and I tried very hard to protect them from the negativity and ungodliness of the outside world. We home schooled our kids and as a military family we moved a lot. Home-schooling was an obvious choice for us and everywhere we went we found similar minded home-schoolers and home-school associations that provided a wide variety of expertise in education. Moving around the country gave us the opportunity to explore new places and we gave our kids lots of field trips, teaching was...

The Indonesian navy chief of staff said a scan had detected the submarine at 850 metres (2,788 feet), well beyond its survivable limits. The submarine, which disappeared as it prepared to conduct a torpedo drill, is designed to withstand a depth of up to 500 metres (1,640 ft).

Texas Republican George P. Bush has declared 2019 the “Year of Education” at the General Land Office, and he’s using that banner to travel around the state to stress how important it is to hit the books. It’s a lesson he freely admits he didn’t always apply himself. The heir to the Bush dynasty was on the road to flunking out at Rice University in Houston after two years. He might have been born into politics, but he failed a political science class called “Public Opinion, Polling & The Media.” Right before that he got a C-minus in “Congress” —...

A regional independent drug assessment center, the CTIAP (Centre territorial d’Information indépendante et d’Avis pharmaceutiques), which is linked to the Cholet public hospital in the west of France, recently published a report showing that the vaccines used against COVID were not only submitted to insufficient clinical testing, but that the quality of the active substances, their “excipients, some of which are new,” and the manufacturing processes are problematic. “These new excipients should be considered as new active substances,” the Cholet hospital team stated, in a study that according to them raises issues that have not been commented to date. The...

Have the wokesters finally reached a tipping point? Leftists of multiple stripes have been making public schools horrible places, and now students are bolting. In California, that's making news. According to the Associated Press: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California public schools have experienced a sharp decline in enrollment this year as the pandemic forced millions into online school, according to data made public Thursday. The drop came as the state’s school districts dawdled in bringing children back to the classroom, making California one of the slowest in the country to reopen schools.