February 2012
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oliphants:
i’m sorry but how does this
deserve more of an award than this
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Secret Renaissance Letter Reveals Plan to Save...
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A newly discovered document, written by one of Europe’s most famous philosophers, Thomas Hobbes, reveals a plan that, if successful, could have turned the tide of one of England’s bloodiest wars.
In the words of Hobbes, the plan would prevent the “ruine of the English nation.” The document was written during the height of the English civil war, a series of conflicts...
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Copper beads spring a surprise in Megalithic...
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As part of the second phase of excavation of the Megalithic sites in the district, more earthen burial urns (nannagadis) have been unearthed near Ramakkalmedu.
The excavation is being done as part of the “Discovering Idukki” project of the district panchayat to preserve the historical remains in a heritage museum to be opened at Painavu.
A major discovery at the excavation...
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3,000-year-old shipwreck shows European trade was...
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The vessel, carrying copper and tin ingots used to make weapons and jewellery, sank off the coast near Salcombe in Devon and is thought to date from 900BC.
But it was only last year that the South West Maritime Archaeological Group, a team of amateur archaeologists, brought its cargo to the surface.
The discovery was not announced until this month’s International...
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abagmonster started following you
Welcome aboard! Krampus Cookies for you!
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YOU DO NOT PUT A CLIP OF TITANIC AND FOLLOW IT...
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The two most absurdly overrated movies of the modern era? They are made for each other and you know it….
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Planet Terror
Why did it take me so long to watch you?
Why do I not have an “All or Nothing” box?
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Nut Cracking
the sound is so strangely soothing at the the moment I’m actually enjoying myself… It’s like popping bubble wrap.
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“It is received wisdom that you can’t put a square peg in a round socket. As is...”
– Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (2009)
by Jonathan L. Howard
(via shannonblencowestoofs)
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thatbluebox:
sometimes I forget that doctor who is just a tv show
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Wow. That’s dangerous territory. I’ve seen people end up in hospitals on anti-psychotics for breaking the forth wall like this. People get too far into their fandom, it becomes fantasy, fantasy replaces reality. You wind up being featured on the serial-killers-101 tumblr
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jesuiskayyxo started following you
Have some Krampus cookies…
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BLACK SWAN SHIPWRECK TREASURE COMES TO END
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A fabulous sunken treasure recovered from a Spanish wreck in the Atlantic Ocean is flying back home from the United States ending a five-year legal battle.
The treasure was put aboard two Spanish military C-130s planes. They took off Friday from a Florida Air Force base with 595,000 silver coins and other gold aboard. They are expected to land in Madrid’s Torrejon Air Base...
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“We know that you highly esteem the kind of learning taught in those Colleges,...”
– In June 1744, the College of William & Mary invited the Indians of the Six Nations to send 12 young men to be “properly” educated. This was the reply. (via historical-nonfiction)
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STONE AGE PEBBLE HOLDS MYSTERIOUS MEANING
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A colorful pebble bearing a sequence of linear incisions may be the world’s oldest engraving.
The object, which will be described in the April issue of the Journal of Archaeology, dates back approximately 100,000 years ago and could also be the world’s oldest known abstract art. It was recovered from Klasies River Cave in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
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Greek museums to increase security after thefts
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Culture Ministry says it is taking extra security measures at museums across the country after two major thefts in as many months netted antiquities andpaintings by 20th-century masters.
The ministry said Thursday that a task force set up to review security at museums and archaeological sites recommended increasing surveillance at archaeological...
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Scientists find 4500-year old temple in Ur in Iraq
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Iraqi and foreign archaeologists have uncovered a temple at the Sumerian city of Ur, which dates back to about 2500 B.C., the head of the Antiquities Department says. So far the scientists have uncovered one of the walls of the temple along with numerous graves from the same period, said Hussein Rashid.
Ur is one of ancient Iraq’s most fascinating cities. It has given the...
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Bronze Age hut found on Lipari
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Lipari - Italian archaeologists found a Bronze Age hut during construction work in a town square on the southern Italian island of Lipari. Roman-era Hellenistic slabs were also unearthed, archaeologists said. Lipari, a strategic port throughout history and now a popular holiday resort, is the largest of the Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the north coast of...