Giant Stone-age Axes Found In African Lake Basin:
"ScienceDaily (Sep. 14, 2009) — A giant African lake basin is providing information about possible migration routes and hunting practices of early humans in the Middle and Late Stone Age periods, between 150,000 and 10,000 years ago."
AIMS Media Release - February 17, 2005:
"AIMS biologist Dr Dan Alongi said the expedition was surveying the impact of nutrients on coastal inshore areas when scientists unearthed mangrove forests in old river channels they believe may snake for 30 kilometres to the edge of the continental shelf.
Scientists have long theorised that sea level rose very gradually over several thousand years, but these remnant mangrove forests tell another story.
While it was previously known that relic river beds exist beneath the Great Barrier Reef, formed 9000 years ago when the sea level was lower than the continental shelf, their significance was never studied."
'Ark of the Covenant' about to be unveiled?:
"The patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia says he will announce to the world Friday the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, perhaps the world's most prized archaeological and spiritual artifact, which he says has been hidden away in a church in his country for millennia, according to the Italian news agency Adnkronos."
Morning people and night owls show different brain function: University of Alberta study:
"Are you a 'morning person' or a 'night owl?' Scientists at the University of Alberta have found that there are significant differences in the way our brains function depending on whether we're early risers or night owls. "
Silos of the past: New find reveals ancient food storage structures: Scientific American Blog:
"Archeologists have uncovered surprisingly sophisticated grain storage that predates plant domestication. An excavation site near the Dead Sea in Jordan has revealed an 11,000-year-old granary, which even had elevated floors to prevent rodent pilfering and to increase air circulation. "
"The full report – which has never been published – was extremely critical of most US policies. It suggested that supply reduction and law enforcement strategies have failed, and that options such as decriminalisation might be explored, flagging up such programmes in Australia, Bolivia, Canada and Colombia. 'Approaches which over-emphasise punitive drug control measures may actually contribute to the development of heath-related problems,' it said, before committing heresy by recommending research into the adverse consequences of prohibition, and discussing 'harm reduction' strategies."
America's Black Holocaust Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
"America's Black Holocaust Museum located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the only memorial dedicated specifically to the victims of the enslavement of Africans in the United States. It was founded by James Cameron, America's last living survivor of a lynching. In 2008, the museum's board of directors announced that the museum would be closed temporarily because of financial problems.["
The Incredible Story of Strange Fruit:
"Marion, Indiana, 1930. Three black men accused of murder and rape, were taken from custody by a mob. Two were mutilated, murdered and hung from a tree. This is the story of Strange Fruit and those involved in its planting and cultivation."
Seven Civil War stories your teacher never told you - CNN.com:
"Lincoln proposed voluntary emigration to Central America, seeing it as a more convenient destination than Liberia. This idea didn't sit well with leaders like Frederick Douglass, who considered colonization to be 'a safety valve...for white racism.'"
World Mysteries - Mystic Places - Pyramids of China:
"Early stories about the pyramids in China began right around the Second World War. A US Air Force pilot named James Gaussman reportedly saw a white-topped pyramid during a flight between China and India in 1945. "
RACE - The Power of an Illusion . Background Readings | PBS:
"Racism exists when one ethnic group or historical collectivity dominates, excludes, or seeks to eliminate another on the basis of differences that it believes are hereditary and unalterable."
Happy Belated Penis Day!!! « Laurie Kendrick:
"Modern day Japanese celebrate ‘Penis Day’ as a rite of seasonal passage. It’s Springtime and spring springs to mind newness, birth and rebirth, and of course, fertility. And we all know the penis is one of two ingredients needed to pinpoint the real, grass roots definition of creationism. And celebrate, they do. They have for centuries. This particular Japanese festival in Komaki, celebrates a statue of a penis to which Geisha and her lovely bevy of prostitutes prayed in the 17th Century to protect them from sexually transmitted diseases."
San Diego CityBeat - Hush-hush archaeology:
"‘Number one, it’s a spiritual violation to destroy those sites. And if we waive all of our environmental laws we are setting a precedent for other projects,’ Lucas, a 20-year Marine Corps Veteran, told CityBeat. ‘You can see the systematic destruction of America’s history and prehistory all across this country.’"
Badass of the Week: Ching Shih:
"Ching Shih was one of the most badass pirates of all time. In a ten-year span, Ching's 'Red Flag Fleet', a pirate armada consisting of somewhere around four hundred Chinese twenty-gun junks and several thousand men, sailed up and down the coast of Imperial China kicking asses, sacking towns, breaking necks and cashing cheques. Few pirates ever enjoyed such unbridled financial and military success as the Red Flag Fleet, thanks in a large part to the cunning and ruthlessness of Captain Ching Shih and her desire to be the most feared pirate in history. "
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