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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #255
Saturday, Jun 6, 2009 |
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| D-Day |
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National D-Day Memorial on brink of financial ruin
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· 06/02/2009 4:13:36 PM PDT · Posted by Restore America · 16 replies · 379+ views ·
AP | 06/02/2009 | SUE LINDSEY
By SUE LINDSEY, Associated Press Writer Sue Lindsey, Associated Press Writer -- 39 mins ago BEDFORD, Va. -- On the eve of the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the foundation that runs the National D-Day Memorial is on the brink of financial ruin. Donations are down in the poor economy. The primary base of support -- World War II veterans -- is dying off. And the privately funded memorial is struggling to draw visitors because it's hundreds of miles from a major city. Facing the prospect of cutting staff and hours, the memorial's president believes its only hope for long-term survival...
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| Patton's 6-5-44 Famous Speech |
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"The Speech" - General George S. Patton, Jr. (WARNING: Profanity!!)
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· 09/15/2001 12:43:15 PM PDT · Posted by StoneColdGOP · 181 replies · 5,520+ views ·
The Patton Society | Posted September 15th, 2001 - Originally delivered June 5th, 1944 | George S. Patton, Jr. - General, United States Army
"THE SPEECH" Somewhere in England, June 5th, 1944... "Be seated." "Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men ...
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General Patton's Address to the Troops
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· 10/27/2001 4:52:30 PM PDT · Posted by Bubba_Leroy · 26 replies · 2,922+ views ·
United States Naval Academy Class of 1963 | May 31, 1944 | Gen. George S. Patton
Patton's Speech to the Troops in England May 31, 1944 Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullsh_t. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men ...
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Patton's Speech to the Third Army
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· 11/09/2001 12:08:22 PM PST · Posted by Earl B. · 5 replies · 1,353+ views ·
National Review Online (Weekend Edition) | June 5, 1944 | General George S. Patton
Patton's Speech to the Third Army "Americans play to win all of the time." By General George S. Patton, June 5, 1944 November 10-11, 2001 EDITOR'S NOTE: The Allies had been gathering in lower England for many months, setting for the greatest amphibious invasion in the history of the world and warfare. It was June 5, 1944. The invasion of the French coast at Normandy had already been delayed once when General Eisenhower gave the green light for the commencement of "Operation Overlord." On the evening of the 5th, the Allied gliders and parachutists would enter the interior of ...
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General Patton s Speech Somewhere in England June 5th, 1944
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· 06/30/2002 8:57:02 AM PDT · Posted by Lockbox · 19 replies · 816+ views ·
War Room | 6/5/1944 | General Patton
Herein follows a copy of General Patton's (unabridged) speech to 3rd Army on the eve of D-Day. Although not Politically Correct by contemporary standards, in the context of the pending invasion of Europe and the human losses anticipated, it communicated an important message to his target audience. General Patton's Speech Somewhere in England June 5th, 1944 "Be seated." Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here...
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General Patton's "Blood and Guts" Speech the Troops (Warning Language)
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· 03/17/2003 5:26:05 AM PST · Posted by The Magical Mischief Tour · 21 replies · 3,099+ views General Patton
The Speech Given somewhere in England on June 5th, 1944 "Be seated." Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self-respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real...
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Patton's Third Army Activated August 1, 1944
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· 08/01/2003 12:12:25 PM PDT · Posted by WhiskeyPapa · 36 replies · 350+ views ·
79th Division Website | John J. Pellino
PATTON'S THIRD ARMY Pre-Operational Phase In Normandy When the Third Army Headquarters landed on French soil, the first thing done was to insure absolute security. In accordance with the plan Overlord, the presence of the Third Army was to be kept secret as long as possible. The idea was to keep the German High Command guessing as to the where- about's of General Patton.During the first days in the Allied invasion, the XIX Tactical Air Command, whose primary job was aerial support for the Third Army, established its own headquarters adjacent to the army headquarters. Their detailed planning then started...
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General George S. Patton - Speech to 3rd Army June 5, 1944
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· 06/29/2004 5:41:16 PM PDT · Posted by GLH3IL · 14 replies · 1,591+ views ·
www.military-quotes.com | Mr. Scott Hann
A General Patton's Address to the Troops, Part I, The Background Research Anyone who has ever viewed the motion picture PATTON will never forget the opening. George Campbell Scott, portraying Patton, standing in front of an immensely huge American flag, delivers his version of Patton's "Speech to the Third Army" on June 5th, 1944, the eve of the Allied invasion of France, code named "Overlord." Scott's rendition of the speech was highly sanitized so as not to offend too many fainthearted Americans. Luckily, the soldiers of the American Army who fought World War II were not so fainthearted. After one...
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The Famous Patton Speech
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· 12/22/2004 3:57:19 AM PST · Posted by Flavius · 27 replies · 1,539+ views ·
Patton | June 5th, 1944 | PATTON
The Famous Patton Speech Background - General Patton's Address to the Troops - Part I Anyone who has ever viewed the motion picture PATTON will never forget the opening. George Campbell Scott, portraying Patton, standing in front of an immensely huge American flag, delivers his version of Patton's "Speech to the Third Army" on June 5th, 1944, the eve of the Allied invasion of France, code named "Overlord". Scott's rendition of the speech was highly sanitized so as not to offend too many fainthearted Americans. Luckily, the soldiers of the American Army who fought World War II were not so...
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Gen. Patton's Speech (PROFANITY-Complete and uncensored)
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· 05/30/2006 8:20:05 AM PDT · Posted by 300magnum · 42 replies · 3,516+ views ·
G.S. Patton | June 5, 1944
"Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight. When you, here, everyone of you, were...
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Patton to Troops 1944 (must read) warning: graphic language
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· 01/01/2005 9:01:45 AM PST · Posted by beebuster2000 · 46 replies · 2,160+ views ·
Great speeches Timeline | May 17, 1944 | Genl George Patton
NOTE : This speech contains language that may be considered offensive. User discretion is advised. General George S. Patton, Jr., in characteristic unexpurgated detail, gives his troops a final pep-talk prior to the invasion of Normandy, Enniskillen Manor Grounds, England, May 17, 1944. Men, this stuff some sources sling around about America wanting to stay out of the war and not wanting to fight is a lot of baloney! Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. America loves a winner. America will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise a coward; Americans play...
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General Patton's Address to the Troops(& Date Now, Gen. Patton & Modern World)
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· 07/25/2007 6:51:22 PM PDT · Posted by fight_truth_decay · 36 replies · 1,370+ views ·
m1-garand.com | June 5, 1944 | General George S. Patton, Jr
Before the commencement of Operation Overlord. Somewhere in England "Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like...
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George S. Patton - To the 3rd Army, June 5, 1944
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· 06/04/2008 5:28:57 PM PDT · Posted by pissant · 68 replies · 409+ views ·
Falcon Party | June 5, 1944 | George S. Patton
Be Seated. Men, this stuff we hear about America wanting to stay out of the war, not wanting to fight, is a lot of bullsh*t. Americans love to fight - traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble player; the fastest runner; the big league ball players; the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win - all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why...
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The Famous Patton Speech
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· 06/03/2009 12:42:40 PM PDT · Posted by DFG · 34 replies · 862+ views ·
Pattonhq.com | Charles M. Province
"Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight. When you, here, everyone of you, were...
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| Midway |
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American Heroes: Torpedo Squadron 8 (Battle of Midway,67 Years Ago Today)
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· 06/03/2009 8:55:27 PM PDT · Posted by TonyInOhio · 50 replies · 923+ views ·
Fox News | 05/29/09 | Steven Tierney
A successful American intelligence operation uncovered their plans and the U.S. Pacific Fleet surprised the Japanese forces in early June of 1942, sinking four Japanese carriers while losing only one of their own. Japan's defeat at Midway turned turn the tide of the war in the Pacific and put America squarely on the offensive. But the victory came at a high price, particularly for the men of Torpedo Squadron 8.
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This Day in World War II History June 4, 1942 Battle of Midway Begins
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· 06/04/2009 6:04:53 AM PDT · Posted by mainepatsfan · 26 replies · 432+ views ·
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=6474
June 4, 1942 The Battle of Midway begins On this day in 1942, Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, commander of the fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor, launches a raid on Midway Island with almost the entirety of the Japanese navy. As part of a strategy to widen its sphere of influence and conquest, the Japanese set their sights on an island group in the central Pacific, Midway, as well as the Aleutians, off the coast of Alaska. They were also hoping to draw the badly wounded U.S. navy into a battle, determined to finish it off. The American naval forces were...
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| Battle of Britain |
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The secret fuel that made the Spitfire supreme
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· 05/29/2009 5:03:39 PM PDT · Posted by neverdem · 46 replies · 1,465+ views ·
Royal Society of Chemistry | 13 May 2009 | Brian Emsley
In the year that sees the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, a previously untold story has emerged of how, through a "miracle" chemical breakthrough, Spitfire and Hurricane fighters gained the edge over German fighters to win the Battle of Britain. An American scientist and author has claimed that the famed pair of war-winning aeroplanes gained superior altitude, manoeuvrability and rate of climb by a revolutionary high-octane fuel supplied to Britain by the USA just in time for the battle. Books, documentaries, and movies have chronicled the brilliant contribution of UK designers and engineers behind the...
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| World War Eleven |
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Fully armed Nazi bomber planes 'buried below East Berlin airport'
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· 07/21/2003 8:17:05 PM PDT · Posted by Recourse · 179 replies · 4,305+ views ·
The Scotsman | July 22, 2003 | Allan Hall
Tue 22 Jul 2003 Fully armed Nazi bomber planes 'buried below East Berlin airport' ALLAN HALL IN BERLIN AN AIRPORT used by hundreds of thousands of tourists and business travellers each year could be sitting on top of thousands of live bombs. Papers among thousands of files captured from the Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, claim tons of live Second World War munitions were buried in concrete bunkers beneath the runways of Schoenefeld airport in East Berlin. It is now the main destination for discount airlines, such as Ryanair, and numerous charter companies. Not only did...
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| Underwater Archaeology |
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Secrets of the Deep
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· 06/02/2009 10:30:28 AM PDT · Posted by Fawn · 23 replies · 982+ views ·
New York Magazine | Published May 10, 2009 | Christopher Bonanos
What lies beneath the surface of New York Harbor? For starters, a 350-foot steamship, 1,600 bars of silver, a freight train, and four-foot-long cement-eating worms. The steady transformation of New York's waterfront from wasteland to playground means more of us are spending time along the city's edge. That can lead a person to wonder: What, exactly, is down there? Until recently, we had patchy knowledge of what lies beneath the surface of one of the world's busiest harbors. What we did know came largely from random anecdotes, and depth soundings done the way Henry Hudson did them -- by rope and lead...
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| Korea |
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Hunt for the lost ships of Chilcheon
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· 06/04/2009 2:04:57 AM PDT · Posted by rdl6989 · 10 replies · 624+ views ·
Joon Ang Daily | June 04, 2009
A salvage team has just weeks left to find wrecked turtle ships deep in the mud It was probably Korea's greatest ever naval disaster. Ten thousand Korean sailors were killed on July 16, 1597 in the seas around Chilcheon Island off the coast of South Gyeongsang when 500 Japanese warships launched a surprise attack. Korea also lost five to seven geobukseon, or turtle ships, ironclad vessels shaped like a turtle, and 160 panokseon, another type of battleship. It was Korea's only recorded naval defeat during its seven-year-long war with the Japanese between 1592 and 1598. No authentic examples of geobukseon...
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| Agriculture and Animal Husbandry |
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Cultivation changed monsoon in Asia
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· 06/02/2009 10:57:21 PM PDT · Posted by neverdem · 9 replies · 219+ views ·
Science News | June 1st, 2009 | Sid Perkins
Loss of forests in India, China during the 1700s led to a decline in monsoon precipitation The dramatic expansion of agriculture in India and southeastern China during the 18th century -- a sprawl that took place at the expense of forests -- triggered a substantial drop in precipitation in those regions, a new study suggests. Winds that blow northeast from the Indian Ocean into southern Asia each summer bring abundant rain to an area that's home to more than half the world's population. But those seasonal winds, known as monsoons, brought about 20 percent less rainfall each year to India...
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| Why Did You Say Burma? |
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Ancient Myanmar temple building collapses, six killed
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· 05/30/2009 11:22:36 PM PDT · Posted by rdl6989 · 23 replies · 959+ views ·
Malaysia Star | May 31, 2009
YANGON, Myanmar: (AP) A 2,300-year-old Myanmar temple building totally collapsed while workers were attempting to repair it, killing six people and injuring 30, witnesses said Sunday. Some people were still trapped beneath bricks, bamboo scaffolding and other debris a day after the collapse Saturday, said Tin Shwe, who runs a small shop near the temple. The tall, bell-shaped structure, called a stupa, collapsed because of age and deterioration, said a temple official, Tin Tin Win. Damage to the Danok temple was detected in 2006. Tin Shwe said most of the victims were navy personnel doing reconstruction work on the temple,...
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| Ancient Autopsies |
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Did boy Jesus look like this? Forensic experts use computer images from Shroud
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· 12/24/2004 12:18:11 AM PST · Posted by JohnHuang2 · 164 replies · 10,001+ views ·
WorldNetDaily.com | Friday, December 24, 2004
Computer-generated sketch of boy Jesus based on Shroud of Turin (courtesy Retequattro-Mediaset What did Jesus Christ of Nazareth look like as a boy? While no one knows for certain, forensic experts are now using computer images from the Shroud of Turin along with historical data and other ancient images to make an educated guess. In a documentary called "Jesus' Childhood" airing Sunday night on the Italian TV station Retequattro of the Mediaset Group, police artists use the same "aging" technology employed when searching for missing persons and criminals. "In this case the experts went backwards. Now we have a...
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Forensic Scientists reveal what Jesus may have looked like as a 12-year old
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· 02/12/2005 11:59:27 AM PST · Posted by NYer · 878 replies · 16,541+ views ·
Catholic News Agency | February 12, 2005
Rome, Feb. 11, 2005 (CNA) - Forensic scientists in Italy are working on a different kind of investigation -- one that dates back 2000 years. In an astounding announcement, the scientists think they may have re-created an image of Jesus Christ when He was a 12-year old boy.Using the Shroud of Turin, a centuries-old linen cloth, which many believe bears the face of the crucified Christ, the investigators first created a computer-modeled, composite picture of the Christ's face.Dr. Carlo Bui, one of the scientists said that, "the face of the man on the shroud is the face of a suffering man. He...
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| Faith and Philosophy |
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Ethiopia: lifting the mystery on rock churches 'built by angels'
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· 06/01/2009 5:24:09 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 22 replies · 667+ views ·
AFP | May 31, 2009 | Emmanuel Goujon
The ancient mystery shrouding Lalibela, Ethiopia's revered medieval rock-hewn churches, could be lifted by a group of French researchers given the go-ahead for the first comprehensive study of this world heritage site legend says was "built by angels". The team will have full access to the network of 10 Orthodox chapels chiseled out of volcanic rock -- some standing 15 metres (42 feet) high -- in the mountainous heart of Ethiopia. Local lore holds they were built in less than 25 years by their namesake, the 13th-century King Lalibela, with the help of angels after God ordered him to erect...
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| Egypt |
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Scientists Say Pyramids Could Be Concrete
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· 04/23/2008 1:23:56 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 50 replies · 326+ views ·
Physorg | 4-23-2008 | UPI
Scientists say pyramids could be concrete April 23, 2008 Scientists are taking a new look at Egypt's pyramids to see if some of the blocks could have been made from concrete. Linn W. Hobbs, a materials science professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told The Boston Globe there is a chance ancient Egyptians could have cast the blocks from synthetic material instead of carving them from quarries. Scientists have long believed Romans were the first to use structural concrete. Undergraduates in MIT's Materials in Human Experience class are building a scale-model pyramid made of quarried limestone and blocks cast from...
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| Rome and Italy |
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Remains of temple of Isis found [ Florence Italy ]
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· 06/01/2009 3:46:50 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 10 replies · 356+ views ·
ANSA News in English | May 28, 2009 | unattributed
Workmen inside Florence's courthouse have stumbled across a spiral column and hundreds of multicoloured fragments that experts believe may have belonged to a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. Dating to the second century AD, the remains were discovered as the men dug a five by three metre hole, barely four metres deep, for a new water cistern for the courthouse's anti-incendiary system... Palchetti said the remains were ''comparable'' to others found over the last three centuries in the immediate area that have also been attributed to the temple of Isis, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and...
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| Pole Shift |
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CU-Boulder study shows 53 million-year-old high Arctic mammals wintered in darkness
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· 06/01/2009 12:37:02 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 43 replies · 677+ views ·
University of Colorado at Boulder | Jun. 1, 2009 | Unknown
Ancestors of tapirs and ancient cousins of rhinos living above the Arctic Circle 53 million years ago endured six months of darkness each year in a far milder climate than today that featured lush, swampy forests, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. CU-Boulder Assistant Professor Jaelyn Eberle said the study shows several varieties of prehistoric mammals as heavy as 1,000 pounds each lived on what is today Ellesmere Island near Greenland on a summer diet of flowering plants, deciduous leaves and aquatic vegetation. But in winter's twilight they apparently switched over to foods...
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| Climate |
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North America's Wind Patterns Have Shifted Significantly In The Past 30,000 Years
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· 01/24/2007 7:45:02 AM PST · Posted by blam · 19 replies · 540+ views ·
Science Daily | 1-24-2007 | Dartmouth College
Winds Of Change: North America's Wind Patterns Have Shifted Significantly In The Past 30,000 Years Science Daily -- Dartmouth researchers have learned that the prevailing winds in the mid latitudes of North America, which now blow from the west, once blew from the east. They reached this conclusion by analyzing 14,000- to 30,000-year-old wood samples from areas in the mid-latitudes of North America (40-50°N), which represents the region north of Denver and Philadelphia and south of Winnipeg and Vancouver. Researchers (left to right) Yong Shu, Eric Posmentier, Xiahong Feng, and Anthony Faiia. (Photo by Joseph Mehling) The researchers report their...
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| Catastrophism and Astronomy |
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Cantabrian cornice has experienced seven cooling and warming phases over past 41,000 years
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· 06/03/2009 7:05:25 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 10 replies · 304+ views ·
FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology | Jun 3, 2009 | Unknown
In 1996, an international team of scientists led by the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) started to carry out a paleontological survey in the cave of El Mirón. Since then they have focused on analysing the fossil remains of the bones and teeth of small vertebrates that lived in the Cantabrian region over the past 41,000 years, at the end of the Quaternary. The richness, great diversity and good conservation status of the fossils have enabled the researchers to carry out a paleoclimatic study, which has been published recently in the Journal of Archaeological Science. "We carried out every kind of...
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| The Mayans |
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Temple timbers trace collapse of Mayan culture
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· 06/04/2009 6:26:50 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 18 replies · 412+ views ·
New Scientist | Jun 2, 2009 | Unknown
THE builders of the ancient Mayan temples at Tikal in Guatemala switched to inferior wood a few decades before they suddenly abandoned the city in the 9th century AD. The shift is the strongest evidence yet that Mayan civilisation collapsed because they ran out of resources, rather than, say, disease or warfare.
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Sacred plants of the Maya forest
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· 06/05/2009 5:06:24 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 13 replies · 254+ views ·
BBC | 05 June 2009 | Matt Walker
Some of the Central American rainforest's hidden treasures are being revealed by the Maya, more than a millennium after their passing. A study of the giant trees and beautiful flowers depicted in Maya art has identified which they held sacred. Created during the Maya Classic Period, the depictions are so accurate they could help researchers spot plants with hitherto unknown medicinal uses. The research is published in the journal Economic Botany. Plants played a significant role in the ecology, culture and rituals of the Maya people, whose artwork reflected the rich diversity of plant life around them. But while numerous...
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| Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis |
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University of Florida: Epic carving on fossil bone found in Vero Beach
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· 06/04/2009 8:15:37 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 35 replies · 935+ views ·
Vero Beach 32963 | 04 June 2009 | SANDRA RAWLS
In what a top Florida anthropologist is calling "the oldest, most spectacular and rare work of art in the Americas," an amateur Vero Beach fossil hunter has found an ancient bone etched with a clear image of a walking mammoth or mastodon. According to leading experts from the University of Florida, the remarkable find demonstrates with new and startling certainty that humans coexisted with prehistoric animals more than 12,000 years ago in this fossil- rich region of the state. No similar carved figure has ever been authenticated in the United States, or anywhere in this hemisphere. The brown, mineral-hardened bone...
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| Navigation |
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Anthropologist advances 'kelp highway' theory for Coast settlement
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· 05/31/2009 12:09:51 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 17 replies · 345+ views ·
Vancouver Sun | 28 May 2009 | Larry Pynn
Migrating peoples were sophisticated in sea harvesting, Jon Erlandson says The Pacific Coast of the Americas was settled starting about 15,000 years ago during the last glacial retreat by seafaring peoples following a "kelp highway" rich in marine resources, a noted professor of anthropology theorized Wednesday. Jon Erlandson, director of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon, suggested that especially productive "sweet spots," such as the estuaries of B.C.'s Fraser and Stikine rivers, served as corridors by which people settled the Interior of the province. Erlandson said in an interview these migrating peoples were already...
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| Doctor Bill Haley |
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Expert says turtle boulder is just a rock[Ohio]
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· 06/01/2009 3:11:56 PM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 14 replies · 555+ views ·
Middletown Journal | 22 April 2009 | Marie Rossiter
A local archeology curator said a turtle-head shaped boulder found near Oregonia is not a sculpture, as claimed by its finder. Dirk Morgan, owner of Morgan's Canoe and Outdoor Center, said he believes his find is an effigy of a turtle that could date back to the Hopewell Indians who lived in the area more than 1,000 years ago. Bob Genheimer of the Cincinnati Museum Center viewed the 200-pound boulder at Morgan's home on April 21 and said he found no evidence of shaping or manufacturing. "My strong opinion is that it is an artifact of nature, or an 'ecofact,'"...
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| Mammoth Told Me... |
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Mammoths roasted in prehistoric barbecue pit
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· 06/03/2009 10:54:21 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 34 replies · 710+ views ·
Discovery | Jun 3, 2009 | Jennifer Viegas
Central Europe's prehistoric people would likely have been amused by today's hand-sized hamburgers and hot dogs, since archaeologists have just uncovered a 29,000 B.C. well-equipped kitchen where roasted gigantic mammoth was one of the last meals served. The site, called Pavlov VI in the Czech Republic near the Austrian and Slovak Republic borders, provides a homespun look at the rich culture of some of Europe's first anatomically modern humans.
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| Paleontology |
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The Quaternary Period Wins Out
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· 06/04/2009 9:55:18 PM PDT · Posted by neverdem · 10 replies · 238+ views ·
ScienceNOW Daily News | 3 June 2009 | Richard A. Kerr
Enlarge ImageWe're all here. The newly official Quaternary period includes the span of our genus Homo as well as the comings and goings of the ice ages. Credit: Peter Hoey Geoscientists have cut the Gordian knot of geologic timekeeping. Ever since 19th century geologists divided the history of Earth into four periods -- the Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary, oldest to most recent -- their intellectual descendants have been dismantling that time scale. But the geologists, anthropologists, glaciologists, and paleoecologists studying the last couple of million years became quite attached to the Quaternary. They gave its name to their journals and even themselves -- to...
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| Prehistory and Origins |
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Were our earliest hominid ancestors European?
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· 06/01/2009 4:07:32 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 8 replies · 217+ views ·
New Scientist | Jun. 1, 2009 | Bob Holmes
Millions of years before early humans evolved in Africa, their ancestors may have lived in Europe, a 12-million-year-old fossil hominid from Spain suggests. The fossil, named Anoiapithecus brevirostris by Salvador Moyà-Solà of the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology in Barcelona, Spain, and his colleagues, dates from a period of human evolution for which the record is very thin. While only the animal's face, jaw and teeth survive, their shape places it within the African hominid lineage that gave rise to gorillas, chimps and humans. However, it also has features of a related group called kenyapithecins.
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Were our earliest hominid ancestors European?
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· 06/01/2009 4:15:34 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 29 replies · 451+ views ·
New Scientist | Monday, June 1, 2009 | Bob Holmes
Millions of years before early humans evolved in Africa, their ancestors may have lived in Europe, a 12-million-year-old fossil hominid from Spain suggests. The fossil, named Anoiapithecus brevirostris by Salvador Moyà-Solà of the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology in Barcelona, Spain, and his colleagues, dates from a period of human evolution for which the record is very thin. While only the animal's face, jaw and teeth survive, their shape places it within the African hominid lineage that gave rise to gorillas, chimps and humans. However, it also has features of a related group called kenyapithecins. Moyà-Solà says that A. brevirostris and...
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double |
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Eye Color Explained: Everything you know is wrong
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· 05/31/2009 1:23:07 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 111 replies · 1,722+ views ·
Discover Magazine | March 13, 2007 | Boonsri Dickinson
What most people know about the inheritance of eye color is that brown comes from a dominant gene (needing one copy only) and blue from a recessive gene (needing two copies). University of Queensland geneticist Rick Sturm suggests that the genetics are not so clear. "There is no single gene for eye color," he says, "but the biggest effect is the OCA2 gene." This gene, which controls the amount of melanin pigment produced, accounts for about 74 percent of the total variation in people's eye color. Sturm has recently shown that the OCA2 gene itself is influenced by other genetic...
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| Dinosaurs |
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Similar Dino Tracks Discovered In Wyoming, Scotland
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· 06/01/2009 9:27:06 PM PDT · Posted by smokingfrog · 29 replies · 693+ views ·
redOrbit.com | June 1, 2009 | redOrbit staff and wire reports
Experts are baffled over the discovery of fossilized, three-toed dinosaur tracks that have been found in both north-central Wyoming and on Scotland's coast, The Associated Press reported. Neil Clark, a paleontologist at the University of Glasgow, has not been able to identify any differences between the two sets of 170 million-year-old tracks even after a series of painstaking measurements and statistical analysis. He told AP that since the footprints in Wyoming and Scotland are so similar, they may have been produced by a very similar kind of dinosaur, if not the same species. Paleontologists have never been able to say...
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Did an American dinosaur swim over the sea to Skye 170 million years ago?[Scotland]
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· 06/02/2009 7:59:10 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 49 replies · 791+ views ·
The Scotsman | 02 June 2009 | CLAIRE SMITH
A THREE-TOED dinosaur which once roamed the Isle of Skye may have been the same species as one whose prints have been found in the Red Gulch mountains in Wyoming, paleontologists said yesterday. The 170 million-year-old tracks are so similar that Glasgow paleontologist Neil Clark believes the Wyoming dinosaurs may have swum or waded over to Skye -- which at that time was part of an island off the east coast of America. US scientists now plan to put his theories to the test, using 3D mapping technology to compare both sets of footprints. Dr Clark, Curator of Paleontology at...
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| Biology and Cryptobiology |
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Bigfoot hunters claim they have footprint
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· 06/04/2009 6:52:46 AM PDT · Posted by laotzu · 55 replies · 928+ views ·
WOAI radio | 5/28/09 | (none given)
They say they have a cast of a footprint 5 inches wide and 15 inches long. A group of Bigfoot hunters claim to have found footprints and heard calls of the legendary creature in Oklahoma. About 30 people spent Memorial Day weekend on a Bigfoot hunt in the Kiamichi Mountains in the southeastern part of the state, the Tulsa World reports. They say they have a cast of a footprint 5 inches wide and 15 inches long. "The toes were clearly visible on the cast after it was lifted up," said D.W. Lee, director of the Mid-America Bigfoot Research Center....
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| Oh So Mysteriouso |
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Urine, Fingernail-Filled 'Witch Bottle' Found
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· 06/04/2009 7:37:24 AM PDT · Posted by Cailleach · 20 replies · 490+ views ·
Discovery News | June 4, 2009 | Jennifer Viegas
During the 17th century in England, someone urinated in a jar, added nail clippings, hair and pins, and buried it upside-down in Greenwich, where it was recently unearthed and identified by scientists as being the world's most complete known "witch bottle." This spell device, often meant to attract and trap negative energy, was particularly common from the 16th to the 17th centuries, so the discovery provides a unique insight into witchcraft beliefs of that period, according to a report published in the latest British Archaeology.
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| Middle Ages and Renaissance |
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'Lost' music instrument recreated [the Lituus]
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· 05/31/2009 7:13:58 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 25 replies · 803+ views ·
BBC | Saturday, May 30, 2009 | Pallab Ghosh
New software has enabled researchers to recreate a long forgotten musical instrument called the Lituus. The 2.4m (8ft) long trumpet-like instrument was played in Ancient Rome but fell out of use some 300 years ago. Bach's motet (a choral musical composition) "O Jesu Christ, meins lebens licht" was one of the last pieces of music written for the Lituus. Now, for the first time, this 18th Century composition has been played as it should have been heard... the Lituus produced a piercing trumpet-like sound interleaving with the vocals. Until now, no one had a clear idea of what this...
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| Epigraphy and Language |
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Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read
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· 05/29/2009 9:14:19 PM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 36 replies · 948+ views ·
New Scientist | 27 May 2009 | Andrew Robinson
WRITING is one of the greatest inventions in human history. Perhaps the greatest, since it made history possible. Without writing, there could be no accumulation of knowledge, no historical record, no science - and of course no books, newspapers or internet.The first true writing we know of is Sumerian cuneiform - consisting mainly of wedge-shaped impressions on clay tablets - which was used more than 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Soon afterwards writing appeared in Egypt, and much later in Europe, China and Central America. Civilisations have invented hundreds of different writing systems. Some, such as the one you are...
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| Ireland |
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Farmer's son unearths medieval ring
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· 06/03/2009 10:17:01 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 41 replies · 1,009+ views ·
Belfast Telegraph | 03 June 2009 | Belfast Telegraph
A medieval silver ring dating back more than 800 years has been unearthed on a farm in Northern Ireland. The 12th century artefact was found by 17-year-old Conor Sandford as he was putting up a fence post at the edge of one of his father's fields near the village of Kilmore, Co Armagh. The teenager told a treasure trove hearing in Belfast today he initially thought the engraved finger ring was a ring pull from an old fizzy drink can. "Only when I was putting the soil back into the hole did I notice this wee thing sticking out," he...
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| Early America |
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Ancient coin has ironic currency[Massachusetts]
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· 06/03/2009 10:37:55 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 13 replies · 643+ views ·
Cape Cod Online | 02 June 2009 | Mary Ann Bragg
As Truro celebrates its 300th birthday, one of its residents has unearthed a silver coin that's even older. Peter Burgess, who owns a house next to Old North Cemetery and the site of an early church and meeting house, found a thin coin in his yard a year ago. He was moving dirt in his garden. He picked up the brown disc, which is about the size of a dime and bears markings near the edges. The story of Burgess' find comes at a fortuitous moment, as this seaside village commemorates its incorporation on July 16, 1709....
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| The Civil War |
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Civil War-era cash helps SC make some money
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· 06/04/2009 8:12:18 PM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 3 replies · 240+ views ·
AP | 04 June 2009 | Jeffrey Collins
South Carolina is selling money to make money. State officials have quietly picked through boxes of Civil War state currency and auctioned it on eBay, providing the state archives with an influx of cash amid tight budgets. "These are very bad times. This helps us a great deal. We can pay for things we could never afford otherwise," said Charles Lesser, a senior archivist at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. About 40 boxes of the currency were supposed to be destroyed more than a century ago, but some of the bills were tucked away in the Statehouse...
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This Day In Civil War History May 31, 1862 Battle of Seven Pines/Fair Oaks
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· 05/31/2009 5:48:01 AM PDT · Posted by mainepatsfan · 14 replies · 322+ views ·
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2051
May 31, 1862 Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), Virginia Confederate forces strike Union troops in the Pen insular campaign. During May 1862, the Army of the Potomac, under the command of George B. McClellan, slowly advanced up the James Peninsula after sailing down the Chesapeake Bay by boat. Confederate commander Joseph Johnston had been cautiously backing his troops up the peninsula in the face of the larger Union force, giving ground until he was in the Richmond perimeter. When the Rebels had backed up to the capital, Johnston sought an opportunity to attack McClellan and halt his advance. That...
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| Religion of Pieces |
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Young America's Fight with Islamism (debunks Obama's Cairo reference to 'Treaty of Tripoli')
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· 06/04/2009 11:46:20 AM PDT · Posted by JohnKSmith · 8 replies · 414+ views ·
Hawaii Free Press | June 4, 2009 | Andrew Walden
In light of the reference to the 1796 "Treaty of Tripoli" in Obama's Cairo speech, we are re-publishing this January, 2007 article. It details the levels of tribute excated by the Moslems after the signing of the treaty and the two wars which resulted. Obama in Cairo: "In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, 'The United States has in itself no character of enemity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.'" How did these fine words work out 215 years ago? How will similar fine words work out today? See the story...
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| The Framers |
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the 16th Amendment
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· 06/05/2009 10:59:47 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 12 replies · 352+ views ·
Constitution of the United States, via FindLaw et al | ratified on February 3, 1913 | The Framers et al
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
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| Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles |
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The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army
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· 05/31/2009 1:03:31 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 68 replies · 976+ views ·
Amazon.com | Unknown | Unknown
Even as the Russians retreated before him in disarray, Napoleon found his army disappearing, his frantic doctors powerless to explain what had struck down a hundred thousand soldiers. The emperor's vaunted military brilliance suddenly seemed useless, and when the Russians put their own occupied capital to the torch, the campaign became a desperate race through the frozen landscape as troops continued to die by the thousands. Through it all, with tragic heroism, Napoleon's disease-ravaged, freezing, starving men somehow rallied, again and again, to cries of "Vive l'Empereur!"
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| Antiques and Collectibles |
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Hitler Youth Knife? In MY House?
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· 06/05/2009 3:08:53 AM PDT · Posted by conservativeimage.com · 40 replies · 921+ views E-Mail | 6/5/9 | RedFox
E-mail to my brother: "Mom brought home a knife with a swastika on it today that one of her hospice clients was sending to good will. It turns out to be an authentic Hitler Youth Knife with the original sheath: "I don't want it in the house. I could clean it up and sell it on ebay... I could keep it until one of Obama's youth corps shows up at the door and hand it over to them with a good explanation. Don't know if you would want it. Its interesting for something like this to turn up at a...
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| Roads to Freedom |
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Identity of Tank Man of Tiananmen Square remains a mystery
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· 05/30/2009 7:00:46 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 9 replies · 643+ views ·
The Times Online | 30 May 2009 | Jane Macartney
Outside China he is known simply as Tank Man. Inside the country he is not known at all. No trace is to be found of the young man armed only with shopping bags who 20 years ago blocked a column of tanks rolling through Beijing. His defiance became the defining image of the student demonstrations crushed by the People's Liberation Army. It was on the morning of June 5 that he appeared from nowhere. A line of 18 tanks began to pull out of Tiananmen Square and drove east along the Avenue of Eternal Peace. A day earlier, the square...
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| Thoroughly Modern Miscellany |
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Odd Wisconsin: Madison was once home to a castle
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· 06/04/2009 5:09:29 PM PDT · Posted by JoeProBono · 17 replies · 353+ views ·
madison | JUN 3, 2009
In 1861, a melancholy Englishman named Benjamin Walker settled in Madison and built a medieval castle for his home. Two round turrets framed a square tower. In each turret was an octagonal sitting room, one decorated in red and the other in green. Carved marble mantels topped the fireplaces and gilt-framed oil paintings decorated the walls. A massive oak table and chairs, elaborate candelabras, and fine china furnished the dining room. Walker built a stone barn behind the castle and an underground tunnel to connect the two buildings. Walker was recalled as "a dark, glowering, silent man" who spent most...
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