Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Passing
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
3,400-year-old tomb
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At Luxor, Egyptologists have unearthed a ca. 3,400-year-old tomb.
(Egypt Ministry of Antiquities)
The Untold History of ‘Soul Train’
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Churchill now and forever
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Medieval Injury
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Did this medieval knight die while jousting? Breaks on 12th century skeleton suggest noble was injured during tournament
The bones (pictured) were found at Hereford Cathedral in England and show signs of injury to the right shoulder as well as fractured ribs.
Edward John Eyre - Governor of Jamaica 1864-66
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Edward John Eyre - Governor of Jamaica 1864-66.
"Eyre’s behaviour sparked intense controversy among prominent British intellectuals that included John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and Thomas Henry Huxley who advocated his trial for murder, while Eyre was supported by Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and Alfred Lord Tennyson." britannica.com.
For access to the NLJ's digital collection on Eyre: http://dloc.com/CA01099983/00001
the lost ‘City of the Monkey God’
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Monday, March 2, 2015
Ann Lowe
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Did you know Ann Lowe (1898 – February 25, 1981) was “the first African American to become a noted fashion designer?" She also designed American fashion icon Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. http://www.afropunk.com/photo/ann-lowe
Did you know Ann Lowe (1898 – February 25, 1981) was “the first African American to become a noted fashion designer?" She also designed American fashion icon Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. http://www.afropunk.com/photo/ann-lowe
Princess Diana had an eye for Eric Clapton
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2971237/Princess-Diana-began-sucking-suggestively-piece-ice-gave-Eric-Clapton-eye-rock-god-s-dalliance-Di-soured-fell-hard-temptress-Carla-Bruni-Mick-Jagger-stole-away-new-book-reveals.html#ixzz3TFtLvF9R
Royal fan: Princess Diana was still married to Charles when she first met Eric Clapton. She was clearly a fan
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2971237/Princess-Diana-began-sucking-suggestively-piece-ice-gave-Eric-Clapton-eye-rock-god-s-dalliance-Di-soured-fell-hard-temptress-Carla-Bruni-Mick-Jagger-stole-away-new-book-reveals.html#ixzz3TFtLvF9R
The Sumerian creation tales
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Do
the Sumerian creation tales not only tell about the creation of man, but also
the creation of Earth?
The Sumerian creation tales not only tell about the creation of man, but also the creation of Earth. In the bible we have a consolidated version that says God created the heavens and Earth in 7 days. Well the Sumerian “7 tablets of creation” tell a much more detailed story about the creation of Earth. -
See more at: http://ancientexplorers.com/blog/sumerian-creation-tales/#sthash.4VILTPP6.dpuf
How Linguists Are Pulling Apart the Bering Strait Theory
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"In 1892, when the geologist George Frederick
Wright published his massive study, Man and the Glacial Period, which
challenged some of the tenets of the Bering Strait Theory as it was then
formulated, he was attacked, as David J. Meltzer pointed out in First Peoples
in a New World, “with a barrage of vicious reviews which were unprecedented in
number and savagery.” One critic of the book, William John McGee, the head of
the Bureau of American Ethnology, 'was especially bloodthirsty... read on http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/03/19/how-linguists-are-pulling-apart-bering-strait-theory-154063?page=0%2C0
INDIANCOUNTRYTODAYMEDIANETWORK.COM
presidents in US history
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Friday, February 27, 2015
The story of the first West Indians to arrive in Britain on the troop ship Empire
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North America's first black president
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Nimoy farewell
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Live long and prosper our dear animal loving friend ...
We report the passing of the legendary Leonard Nimoy who died this morning, age of 83, in the comfort of his home in Los Angeles. Nimoy succumbed to the end stages of COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
Startrekker
22 million reasons black America doesn’t trust banks
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22 million reasons black America doesn’t trust banks
22 million reasons black America doesn’t trust banks
1952
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Remember wooden desks, chalkboards and cursive writing charts?
The 1952 third grade class of Lincoln Elementary School in Cook County Illinois.
Count Matchukie
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Did you know Count Matchukie is regarded as the 1st deejay in Jamaica when he started a toast at a session of the sound system of Tom the Great Sebastian on December 26, 1950?
Viking Discovery
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In Norway, archaeologists discovered that the grave of a Viking dating to A.D. 950 held not only a sword, but a shield boss with a surprise hidden inside.
(Åge Hojem/NTNU Museum of Natural History and Archaeology)
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Temple Wood Stone Circle, Kilmartin
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Temple Wood Stone Circle, Kilmartin
A ritual and funerary complex
A ritual and funerary complex
It seems to have been in use for over 2,000 years, during the later Neolithic and early Bronze Age (between 5,500 and 3,500 years ago). Excavations in the 1970s revealed that the site was even more complex than previously thought.
Primary Ritual circles
For around the first thousand years the site was used exclusively for ritual ceremonies. Some time before 3000 BC, it seems, a circle of upright timbers was erected. This circle is now marked by a ring of concrete posts. (Evidence of timber circles later replaced by stone ones has also been found at Machrie Moor, Arran.) The process of converting the timbers into stone uprights was begun but never completed.
At some date after 3000 BC, a second circle was constructed to the south-west of the timber one. It was oval in shape and comprised 22 standing stones (of which 13 remain in place). Each stone stood no higher than 1.6m, and one of them has been marked with a spiral motif, a symbol closely paralleled in Irish passage-grave art.
Later, the gaps between the individual stones were infilled with low interval slabs. The slabs were evidently designed to restrict access into the circle, but not the view from outside it.
Funerary cairns
Around 2000 BC the ritual site became the focus of funerary activity. Initially, two small burial cairns were placed immediately outside the stone circle.
These were followed over subsequent centuries by more cist burials, which were covered over with a mound of stones. This turned the stone circle into a great burial cairn, much like we see in the linear cemetery nearby (the cairns of Glebe, Nether Largie North, Nether Largie Mid, Nether Largie South and Ri Cruin).
The only item of human remains found was a child’s tooth. By 1000 BC the site had been abandoned.
As with most archaeological site whether a small monument such as this one of a large one such as Stonehenge when they are excavated their history usually reveals that they are multi phased and have often, during life, been used for a variety of functions.
Katherine Dunham
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A humanitarian Diva, was the creator of the Dunham style dance and founder of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company in the early 1930's.
She was "the matriarch and queen mother" of Black American Dance and an engaged anthropologist, dancer, choreographer, educator, writer, social activist. At the age of 82 she went on a 47 day hunger strike to protest the US's forced repatriation of Haitian refugees in the early 90's.
At Babiy Yar
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At Babiy Yar approx. 200,000 Jews, Russian, Roma and others were shot having been deemed subhuman by Nazi and Ukrainian Nationalists standards.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
five countries that escaped European colonialism
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'Gerbils replace rats' as main cause of Black Death
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Black rats may not have been to blame for
numerous outbreaks of the bubonic plague across Europe, a study suggests. The
Black Death, which originated in Asia, arrived in Europe in 1347 and caused one
of the deadliest outbreaks in human history. Professor Nils Christian Stenseth and his
colleagues from the University of Oslo do not think a rat reservoir was to
blame. The team believes that specific weather conditions in Asia may have
caused another plague-carrying rodent - the giant gerbil - to thrive and this
then later led to epidemics in Europe. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31588671
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