http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/history-chat/ en-us Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:04:46 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075547/posts Folks--I was trying to put into words the chemistry I see between John McCain and Sarah Palin when they are together. And it just came to me. Sarah is John's wingman. She flies next to him and protects him. He fights for her, and she fights for him. She does what is necessary for him to successfully complete his mission. As a former Naval Aviator, McCain knows the importance of an excellent wingman. As a novice pilot, Palin has shown that she is a natural. self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075547/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:04:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075402/posts Today, excavators at the Oymaagac mound in the Black Sea city of Samsun's Vezirkopru district are reveling in their potential find, believing the evidence is mounting and Oymaagac will be unveiled as the holder of Nerik. The geographical location of Oymaagac, the impressive representative building on top of the acropolis, and especially the tiny cuneiform writing style on the tablet fragments all suggested the excavators might find Nerik here... the tiny cuneiform writing resembled that on clay tablets from the Bogazkoy/Hattusha archives dealing with Nerik... the writings, along with several ritual texts from the Hittite period, suggested Oymaagac had to... Turkish Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075402/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:48:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075382/posts For over a millennium, a fortified settlement with a shrine stood on a plateau near the eastern Larnaca coast ringed with a defensive wall, foreign and Cypriot archaeologists believe. Earlier theories about the significance of the site were confirmed during this year's fieldwork at the Pyla-Koutsopetria locality by the identification of a section of the wall, datable to the Late Bronze Age... The settlement, located on a hill known as Kokkinokremmos/ Vigla – Red Cliff/Lookout Post, is estimated to have been inhabited from the Cypro-Archaic period in the 13th-14th century B.C. to Hellenistic and Roman times. The site is situated... Cyprus Weekly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075382/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:31:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075367/posts According to director of the centre of protection and research of the archeological monuments of the department of culture of the Poltava Regional State Administration Oleksandr Suprunenko, the woman was very influential. The things found next to her prove this, namely a bronze mirror, a dagger and iron scissors as well as a unique silver brooch. Besides, an iron awl was stuck in the woman's head. Sarmatians is a general name of the people that dominated in the Ukrainian steppes after collapse of the Scythian state. According to Herodotus, the Sarmatians originated from Amazonians who married Scythian men. National Radio Company of Ukraine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075367/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:06:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075362/posts What do Johann Sebastian Bach, Saint Nicholas, and the firstborn son of Pharaoh Rameses II all have in common? The answer? All their faces have been reconstructed using cutting-edge computer technology. BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075362/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:01:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075321/posts This year’s election is all about change. The country is intoxicated with it. It’s clear that without this odd mindset the culture seems to be in, that we wouldn't have Barrack Obama in the position as the Democratic nominee. It’s the worst case of impulse buying I have seen in my life, and the repercussions are far worse than waking up the day after buying that lime green El Camino which that slick used car dealer talked you into. Looking at the resumes of the Republican ticket vs. the Democratic ticket objectively, one would clearly see that the Republican ticket... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075321/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 15:00:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075217/posts NUREMBERG FILLED WITH NAZIS ON EVE OF PARTY MEETING Nearly a Million Gathering for the Congress – Hitler’s Plans Kept Secret LONDON IS STILL WORRIED Fears Blow in Hitler’s Terms to the Czechs and Thinks Time Limit Has Been Set A stream of singing Nazis marched into Nuremberg yesterday in preparation for the party congress opening today. Although rain was general in Germany, tens of thousands were on the roads. A huge tent city outside the walls will accommodate most of the visitors. Adolf Hitler was expected to make his chief address, defining his foreign policies, at the close of... Microfiche-New York Times archives http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075217/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 12:20:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075135/posts Yesterday the archaeology department of China's Chongqing Municipality announced a remarkable discovery: a Qing Dynasty tomb of an almost unique style, made out of more than 2,000 qing hua ci (blue and white porcelain) bowls. The Chongqing Economic Times quoted archaeologists as saying that this kind of tomb is very rare and had probably been constructed by migrants to the area... The tomb was discovered on the morning of August 24... in the Yuzhong district of Chongqing... The archaeology department sent a team to investigate. They discovered a tomb constructed from porcelain bowls. Lying just 60 centimeters under the road... China.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075135/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 06:17:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075126/posts The gene in question codes for a protein receptor called CCR5. The HIV virus binds to this receptor before entering cells. One gene variant, called CCR5-Delta32, has 32 DNA base pairs missing and produces a receptor that HIV cannot bind to, which prevents the virus from entering the cells. People with this variant have some resistance to HIV infection and also take longer to develop AIDS. Generally, only people in Europe and western Asia carry the variant, and it becomes less and less frequent as you move south. For example, more than 15 per cent of people in some areas... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075126/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 05:56:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075122/posts A rocky islet and a nearby hillside have yielded evidence of one of Greece's oldest and most enigmatic ritual sites. Imported stones and fragmented marble statuettes show that Dhaskalio and Kavos were "a symbolic central place for the Early Bronze Age" in the Aegean, according to Professor Colin Renfrew. Kavos is a stony, scrub-covered slope on the Cycladic island of Keros. Forty-five years ago Professor Renfrew, then a PhD student at Cambridge, found extensive looting there, with fragments of marble bowls and the famous Cycladic folded-arm figurines scattered across the surface. The date of the Dhaskalio Kavos site, based on... Times of London http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075122/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 05:49:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075120/posts The remains of a 30-year-old woman were found today at an archeological excavation in Pinczow, in the Swietokrzyska region, southern Poland. The body, identified as female, dates back 6,500 years. The director of the dig, Przemyslaw Duleba, from the Institute of Archeology at the University of Warsaw, stated that this is the oldest discovery every to be found in this region. "The skeleton of the young woman is perfectly preserved and laid on her left side in an embryonic position." Duleba says that this skeleton provides evidence as to the funereal rites of the people that lived on this land... Polskie Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075120/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 05:44:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075116/posts The second church was inaugurated in A.D. 405, after being built upon the remnants of the first church at the same site, which dates to A.D. 360... No scientific examinations have yet been carried out on the flooded ground four meters beneath the floor of the museum. According to Akkaya, the water found below is connected to the Basilica Cistern and Topkapi Palace. "Yes, the area underneath Hagia Sophia is filled with water. I assume the layers contain pieces of pottery and ceramics, as well as relics from the second church of Hagia Sophia," Akkaya acknowledged... Recently, a team of... Turkish Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075116/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 05:38:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075020/posts Editor, Times-Dispatch: Each year I get to celebrate Independence Day twice. On June 30 I celebrate my independence day and on July 4 I celebrate America's. This year is special, because it marks the 40th anniversary of my independence. On June 30, 1968, I escaped Communist Cuba and a few months later I was in the United States to stay. That I happened to arrive in Richmond on Thanksgiving Day is just part of the story, but I digress................ Richmond Times-Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075020/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 00:59:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2074928/posts The choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified many conservatives and strengthened John McCain's claim that his administration would be far more reform-minded than Barack Obama's. At the same time, it has triggered accusations that Gov. Palin is far too inexperienced to be vice president, and has little knowledge of national security issues. Mrs. Palin's lack of mastery of national security issues is often contrasted with Mr. Obama's vice presidential pick, Joseph Biden Jr. Mr. Biden has served in the Senate since 1973, is currently chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and is often described as a "statesman." In... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2074928/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:22:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2074657/posts Woolly mammoths' last stand before extinction in Siberia wasn't made by natives - rather, the beasts had American roots, researchers have discovered. Woolly mammoths once roamed the Earth for more than a half-million years, ranging from Europe to Asia to North America. These Ice Age giants vanished from mainland Siberia by 9,000 years ago, although mammoths survived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until roughly 3,700 years ago. "Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no... Live Science http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2074657/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:42:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2074469/posts Well the liberal media is falling all over themselves to do their "FACT CHECK" saying Huckabee was wrong when he said Palin got more votes for mayor that Biden got for President. (Huck was right) The media going into contortions to prove their falsity and embarrass the GOP. They are saying Biden got 79,000 votes, but they were NOT for President, they were for the Democratic Party Primary for the nomination to be the Party's CANDIDATE. Nobody has gotten ANY votes for President, the election isn't until this coming November! Now here's an easier question for the stupid media: WHO... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2074469/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:36:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2074433/posts THE NEWS OF THE WEEK IN REVIEW [Pg E3] HITLER FAILS TO CRACK MORALE OF OPPONENTS First Phase of Czechoslovak Campaign Not Successful – Nazi Chief Shows Hesitation on His Next Move ARMY SAID TO OPPOSE ACTIONBy EUGENE J. YOUNG One phase of the great European conflict can now be regarded as finished. It is the psychological one. The German attack on the nerves of Britain, France, Czechoslovakia and others reached its climax last week. And it can be said to have failed. The assault, with all its menaces, in no way cracked the morale of the statesmen or peoples... Microfiche-New York Times archives http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2074433/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 12:47:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2074294/posts "Governor Palin, I think I speak for the entire United States when I ask..." "Do you have any sisters?" grey_whiskers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2074294/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 05:50:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2074171/posts Queen Victoria was undoubtedly one great World leader. She had NINE children. She had a very ill son, Leopold. Leopold was a hemophiliac and was always at risk for bleeding to death. He did as a young adult. Her son, Bertie, Prince of Wales was a wild man. He had the habit of sleeping with married women from his teens on. In times when sleeping with a married woman could get you killed. Victoria was always saving him from messes. Her husband died when her youngest was only 4 and several children were under 13. She raised them just fine.... FR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2074171/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:32:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073580/posts I personally dug up this "Treasure" and thought about what it meant to someone who lost it. I imagine that the dime was an emergency fund because it was solidly stuck to this gas cap. I really wanted to share it with the world because I think its a great visual aid. Feel free to distribute this image widely. I believe that the cap is from a gas can. I have since removed the dime from the cap but am in the process of trying to clean it up. I know that in the 20's one dime was about an... pennyfarmer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073580/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:04:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073534/posts Hebrew University excavations in the north of Israel have revealed a prehistoric funerary precinct dating back to 6,750-8,500 BCE. The precinct, a massive walled enclosure measuring 10 meters by at least 20 meters, was discovered at excavations being undertaken at Kfar HaHoresh. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site in the Nazareth hills of the lower Galilee is interpreted as having been a regional funerary and cult center for nearby lowland villages. Prof. Nigel Goring-Morris of the Hebrew University's Institute of Archaeology, who is leading the excavations, says that the precinct is just one of the many finds discovered at the site... ScienceDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073534/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 04:56:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073528/posts For local officials and some historians, Mexcaltitan is nothing less than the mythical Aztlan, birthplace of the ancient Aztecs. According to legend, the Aztecs left an island in 1091 and wandered for two centuries before settling in what is now Mexico City. There, they founded the legendary city of Tenochtitlan, an island city of canals and floating gardens, and lorded over an empire that stretched from Guatemala to northern Mexico before the Spanish conquered them in 1521... In Mexcaltitan, located in the Pacific state of Nayarit, clues that this was once Aztlan are tantalizing. In Nahuatl, the language of the... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073528/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 04:51:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073472/posts The Ithaca Journal--no excerpt allowed/link onlyhttp://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080902/LIFESTYLE02/809020302/1024/LIFESTYLE The Ithaca Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073472/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 03:01:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073411/posts Electoral College Map could lead to a tie. Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073411/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:13:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073357/posts Biden's career provides grist for McCain's mill By PETE YOST and HOLBROOK MOHR – Aug 23, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) — In August 2007, three men who later became entangled in a Mississippi bribery scheme raised money for Sen. Joe Biden's run for president. A month later, two of the three were overheard in a phone call recorded by the FBI discussing federal legislation and a prospective meeting with Biden's brother, Jim. It's unclear whether any meeting ever occurred or whether legislation was ever discussed, so the episode may mean little — except as an example of the potential political vulnerabilities... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073357/posts#comment Tue, 2 Sep 2008 23:38:31 GMT