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Earliest evidence of humans in Ireland
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| March 21, 2016
Posted on 03/21/2016 7:57:11 AM PDT by rdl6989
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This artifact was stored in a box at the museum for almost a century. It makes me wonder what other important artifacts are just sitting in a box waiting to be rediscovered.
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03/21/2016 7:57:11 AM PDT
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rdl6989
To: SunkenCiv
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03/21/2016 7:57:23 AM PDT
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rdl6989
To: rdl6989
O’ping. It is Ireland after all.
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03/21/2016 7:59:20 AM PDT
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22202NOVA
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To: 22202NOVA
This kind of article always seems to come up around St. Patricks Day. :D
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03/21/2016 8:01:53 AM PDT
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rdl6989
To: rdl6989; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks rdl6989.
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03/21/2016 8:03:14 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: rdl6989
Have they ever found any snake fossils in Ireland? (Pre-Patrick, of course.)
To: rdl6989
This artifact was stored in a box at the museum for almost a century. It makes me wonder what other important artifacts are just sitting in a box waiting to be rediscovered.
Just like The Ark of the Covenant.
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03/21/2016 8:17:26 AM PDT
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Idaho_Cowboy
(I Samuel 8:19-20 The New Spirit of America?)
To: 22202NOVA
In Ireland the bear had to watch out for the caveman!
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03/21/2016 8:19:33 AM PDT
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going hot
(Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
To: rdl6989
And next to the bear bone, the archeologists found an empty jug
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03/21/2016 8:23:05 AM PDT
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COBOL2Java
(Rubio: All the slipperiness of Bill Clinton, with none of the smarts.)
To: rdl6989
A great deal.
If something was not unique (by the standards of the time) or pretty, it often was packed up and stuck on a shelf.
Museum basement "excavation" can be a career maker. And you don't have to live in a tent.
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03/21/2016 8:23:55 AM PDT
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Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
To: COBOL2Java
Ahh, a drop of the creature.
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03/21/2016 8:24:40 AM PDT
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dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: rdl6989
Remind me of a joke, a little Irishman goes into the men’s room at his local where a gorilla that escape from the Bronx Zoo is hiding, he attacks the Irishman and a battle ensues, heard by the entire neighbor hood, then the little guy exits the men’s room and tells the bartender “when that guy wakes up, tell him is fur coat in in the alley out back...
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03/21/2016 8:26:29 AM PDT
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Rumplemeyer
(The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
To: rdl6989
The ice had not been gone very long 12,500 years ago. Must have been a tough life.
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03/21/2016 9:48:11 AM PDT
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JimRed
(Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
To: rdl6989
"It makes me wonder what other important artifacts are just sitting in a box waiting to be rediscovered."
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03/21/2016 11:54:57 AM PDT
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Jaxter
(Si vis pacem para bellum.)
To: Verginius Rufus
Have they ever explained the physical difference between the Harps in the South and the Harps in the North?
I was a fan of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makum when I was a kid. Tommy was out of place, tall and raw boned he didn't have the padding that the Clancy's had.
So I looked at my mothers kin tall raw boned and nasty as opposed to other relatives who were short well padded and nasty.
To: rdl6989
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03/21/2016 12:39:19 PM PDT
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ZULU
(Trump is the answer. The Establishment is the problem.)
To: Verginius Rufus
Don’t think so. Ireland was completely glaciated. Only one or two species of small lizard found there.
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03/21/2016 12:41:18 PM PDT
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ZULU
(Trump is the answer. The Establishment is the problem.)
To: ZULU
Bede, in his
Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation says of Ireland that no snake can live there--if there is a snake on a ship approaching Ireland, it dies as soon as the air from the island touches it.
Bede says nothing about St. Patrick driving the snakes from the island.
To: Little Bill; SunkenCiv; blam; All
Are you writing about Harps as people or the musical instrument. I am currently writing a novel about the evil Harpe brothers whose parents came to the US in the middle 1700s. If you know anything about that please write, private message if you wish. However, it is suggested that the parents were Scots covenanters.
To: JimRed; rdl6989; ZULU; SunkenCiv; All
It is important how accurate the 12,500 date is. A little before that time the earth had been warming and the ice melting. Then something big happened, throwing the earth into the 1,500 year Younger Dryas cooling. It is certainly conceivable that in the several thousand years before the YD that man was living in that area, but then for a few thousand years was not able to live there because of the YD. (SC—the book?)
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