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  • Video shows fight in Jacksonville Beach, police investigation ongoing

    05/28/2013 7:17:21 PM PDT · by Old Yeller · 26 replies
    WOKV ^ | 5/28/13 | Staff
    Jacksonville, FL — It's going to take police some time to sort out everyone involved in a big fight in Jacksonville Beach on Memorial Day. Police from Neptune Beach, Atlantic Beach, and the city of Jacksonville assisted Jax Beach police in shutting down streets to avoid retaliatory attacks. Police Chief Patrick Dooley tells our partner Action News nobody was seriously hurt. "We're just trying to keep people from gathering up in large groups again. What we don't want to have happen is any of these people involved in the fights earlier to come back in any kind of retaliation or...
  • Ice-Age Ivory Flute Found in German Cave (35K years old]

    12/10/2004 12:57:32 PM PST · by Pharmboy · 56 replies · 1,704+ views
    Reuters Science ^ | Dec. 10, 2004 | Anon EuroWeenie
    BERLIN (Reuters) - A 35,000-year-old flute made from a woolly mammoth's ivory tusk has been unearthed in a German cave by archaeologists, the University of Tuebingen said on Friday. The flute, one of the oldest musical instruments discovered, was pieced together from 31 fragments found in a cave in the Swabian mountains in southwestern Germany, the university said. The mountains have yielded rich pickings in recent years, including ivory figurines, ornaments and other musical instruments. Archaeologists believe humans camped in the area in winter and spring. Mammoths, now extinct, were large elephant-like creatures with hairy coats and long, upcurved tusks....