with four hairy tentacles and wings?
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Coffee Shop
A man with a broken spine was rescued from a bear den where he claims the bear was saving him for a meal.
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Allan Shumaker
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Coffee Shop
INAH is beginning the study of a few of the thousands of human skulls found in the tzompantli (skull rack) in front of Templo Mayor in Mexico City.
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Allan Shumaker
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Humanities
According to that post " Cynthia Irwin-Williams published the entire site report". Would love to see it. When Mike Waters re-excavated the site he had to work off Irwin-Williams's field notes.
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Allan Shumaker
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Ancient History
Seem to remember a movie with that title. While the fate of the 9th Legion may be in question, it is well documented that 3 Roman Legions were totally destroyed a hundred years earlier in the Tuetoburg Forest.
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Allan Shumaker
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Paper Lens
James Mitchner's Caravans is not free but a very good read. His description of 'the pillar of tongues', though fictional, is grotesque.
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Allan Shumaker
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Humanities
I have been wondering how long after death it would be possible to remove the tusks from the skull. This could have bearing on the assumption that the scavengers were harvesting bone marrow rather than bone flakes for use as tools.
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Allan Shumaker
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Laboratory
there was the 'goat gland doctor'.
Operating from a small clinic in Milford, Kansas with a medical degree from a diploma mill he achieved national fame and soon started his own radio station. Eventually the AMA convinced the State of Kansas to revoke his medical licence, so he ran for Governor and almost won! Unable to appoint his own State Medical Board, he moved to Del Rio, Texas an
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Allan Shumaker
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Coffee Shop
Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> So apparently Eleanor White Dare was a skilled
> stone engraver and had the leisure to carve her
> story in detail. Hmmm.
Looking at the message, I would not call her 'skilled'. However one biography of Ananias Dare lists him as "a tiler and bricklayer" so Eleanor could have picked
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Allan Shumaker
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Paper Lens
That video was shown about 7 years ago. There is a more recent program on the "Dare stones" but I have not found a link for it. This article has a summary
The article points out that the original stone is probably legitimate but the later stones are probably fakes created when Brenau College announced that they would pay $500 for engraved stones found in the area.
What the articl
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Allan Shumaker
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Paper Lens
That original thread got so long that Hermione started a second rope.
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Allan Shumaker
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Ancient History
Here is a link to a rope started back in 2011.
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Allan Shumaker
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Ancient History
Remember reading an article several years ago where they had figured out how to reactivate the gene to form teeth in a chicken embryo.
Makes you wonder about that saying "rare as hen's teeth".
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Allan Shumaker
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Laboratory
and also largest. Hobbs at a Reno zoo weighed in at nearly 1000 lbs.
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Allan Shumaker
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Laboratory
Over in East Kalimantan we put a 12 foot python in a cage at the camp. The snake actually captured himself. He latched onto the boot of the security guard one night and the guard limped back into camp dragging the snake. Must have just shed it's skin because it was beautiful. Anyhow we put it in a cage with a live chicken. The snake just ignored that very nervous chicken. Then during the nig
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Allan Shumaker
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Coffee Shop
That is really amazing. I am sure that the other coprolites will now be analysed.
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Allan Shumaker
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Ancient History
Considering how good J.C.is at criticizing books that he has not read, I would be surprised if he bothered to go view the exhibit.
Can you prove that badgers didn't dig a hole and then an earthquake didn't shake the tusk into the hole?
Rather reminds me of Nede Guidon trying to prove that the crude 50 KYA tools were not geofacts eroded out of the sandstone overhang at Pedra Furad
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Allan Shumaker
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Laboratory
I have 4 kittens about a week old. Want one?
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Allan Shumaker
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Laboratory
The San Diego Zoo's website calls cassowaries the world's most dangerous bird with a four-inch, dagger-like claw on each foot.
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Allan Shumaker
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Coffee Shop
Wish they had filmed the aftermath.
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Allan Shumaker
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Coffee Shop
The study carried out on the monumental stones constituting the Pumapunku site in Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, proves that the stones are artificial and are not carved with unknown technology or by extraterrestrials. It is the human genius, intelligently exploiting the resources of its environment, who created these marvels.
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Allan Shumaker
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Ancient History
When most of us think of Russian winters Siberia or Napoleon's retreat from Moscow come to mind. Actually the climate in Crimea is a few degrees warmer than in northeast Kansas
I don't remember if the article mentioned how cold it was when they were 'dancing around the wood stove' but the coldest I have seen in my lifetime was -27F in December of 1988.
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Allan Shumaker
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Humanities
Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> Yikes! Sounds like a real mismash. And with
> apologies to the Jane's family, why would anybody
> want to be descended from Jesse James?
Jessie James became something of a folk hero to southern sympathizers after the Civil War. This was due in large part to the editor of the Kansas City Times w
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Allan Shumaker
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Paper Lens
From your link:
"Today I present the book description for a new self-published volume, unread by me, "
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Allan Shumaker
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Ancient History
I wish Jason Colavito would confine his barbs to books that he has actually read.
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Allan Shumaker
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Ancient History
Well I have not seen the show but Jason does make the point that the date of 1362 is after the 'Viking Age'. The Norse were settling down in villages and probably looking for farm land.
I am currently reading The Lost Templar Journals of Prince Henry Sinclair: Book 1 - 1353-1395. The Sinclairs and a lot of other Europeans were making regular trips to fish on the Grand Banks off Newfo
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Allan Shumaker
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Ancient History
Hermione Wrote:
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> > Years later they tore down that cabin and
> found
> > about 20 rattlesnakes living under the
> floor.
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> So, years later, the rattlesnakes were found
> there.
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Allan Shumaker
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Humanities