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The Town Devoured By Rock | Environmental GraffitiEnvironmental Graffiti The Town Devoured By Rock Mon, Apr 27, 2009 Struck by a meteor? A Setenil Street Image via Oddity Central The 3,000-odd inhabitants of Setenil de las Bodegas, a city in Spain’s beautiful Andalucia region, seem to be stuck between a rock and a hard place. When ...
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Germany Returns Makart Painting Lost in Nazi-Era Forced Sale - Bloomberg.comGermany Returns Makart Painting Lost in Nazi-Era Forced Sale By Catherine Hickley Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The German government returned a Hans Makart painting, which had been in the collection of a museum in Muenster for 40 years, to the heirs of a Jewish woman persecuted by the Nazis and ...
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200911242698 | Supervolcano Eruption In Sumatra Deforested India 73,000 Years AgoThis page is viewed 28 times Science Daily A new study provides "incontrovertible evidence" that the volcanic super eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter, researchers report. The volcano ...
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200911242702 | Are Chinese descendants of an African Eve?China.org.cn Professor Jin Li of the Research Center of Contemporary Anthropology at Shanghai Fudan University (RCCASFU) says he has proved modern Chinese people originated in Africa. But archeologists have spent decades studying the fossil remains of ancient populations of hominids that ...
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The History Blog » Blog Archive » Diplomat tries to leave Iran with 6 tons of antiqutiesHe actually had the gonads to describe them as “personal effects” in his customs declaration, banking on his diplomatic immunity to ship them out of the country without setting off alarms. Unfortunately for Argentinean embassy functionary Sebastian Zavalla, security noticed discrepancies between ...
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Findings - A Case in Antiquities for ‘Finders Keepers’ - NYTimes.comA Case in Antiquities for ‘Finders Keepers’ Zahi Hawass regards the Rosetta Stone, like so much else, as stolen property languishing in exile. “We own that stone,” he told Al Jazeera , speaking as the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. The British Museum does not ...
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New Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction - NYTimes.comNew Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction Whenever modern humans reached a new continent in the expansion from their African homeland 50,000 years ago, whether Australia, Europe or the Americas, all the large fauna quickly disappeared. This circumstantial evidence from the fossil ...
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Researcher: Text proves Shroud of Turin real | CapeCodOnline.comResearcher: Text proves Shroud of Turin real A A ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME - A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth. The claim made in a new book by historian Barbara Frale drew ...
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WreckedLast week, the New York Post reported that “a charred bottle of beer that survived the explosion of the Hindenburg will be auctioned off this month for an estimated $7,500.” The single bottle of Löwenbräu was recovered from the airship disaster by a New Jersey fireman. Much of its original ...
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Submersibles discover top-secret Japanese submarinesTwo World War II Japanese submarines, designed with revolutionary technology to attack the U.S. mainland, have been discovered off the Hawaiian coast of Oʻahu. They are the I-14, which carried two aircraft while submerged; and the I-201, one of the fastest attack subs of WWII. The submarines are ...
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