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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Sometimes ancient
Egyptians changed the remains in coffins and removed an original mummy to
replace it with another. Researchers are looking into the case of a somewhat
mysterious mummy with CT scans to determine if the mummy is the original and
even if she was a female, as the coffin...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . The Ancient Greeks,
who designed temples in honor of gods, goddesses and heroes, usually oriented
them facing the rising sun or to the cardinal directions. But a new study shows
that a few of the Greek temples near the ancient Sicilian city of Agrigento are
aligned to the stars, the...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Russian scientists
regained solar activity over the past thousand years and made the forecast to
the year 3200. What is the climate waiting for Russia and Europe in 15-20 years?
Will be there weather abnormalities in the coming decades? Will some areas
experience more severe winter, while the others will...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . In ancient times, a
dark, hairy, horned beast was said to show up at the door to beat children, and
carry them off in his sharp claws. The Krampus could be heard in the night by
the sound of his echoing cloven hooves and his rattling iron chains. The
strangest...
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CONTRIBUTOR:
. We’ve had a spate of spree killings lately, most recently and famously the
killing of 14 people in San Bernardino by two people who should not have owned
firearms but were apparently able to legally purchase assault rifles, pistols,
and thousands of rounds of ammo. So, Senators Joe Manchin and...
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CONTRIBUTOR:
. Guns are the big news coming out of Black Friday. The FBI reports that it
ran a record 185,345 background checks—federally mandated for buyers of new guns
at licensed gun shops—on Black Friday 2015. That equates to about two background
checks per second, and it’s making all the headlines coming...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Human nature's dark
side helped us spread across the world. New research by an archaeologist at the
University of York suggests that betrayals of trust were the missing link in
understanding the rapid spread of our own species around the world New research
by an archaeologist at the University of...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Despite the
difficulty in discerning the finished product of the giant designs from earth,
archaeologists have recently announced that at least some of the great “works of
old men” (as the Bedouin called them in 1927) of the Middle East are
significantly older than the famous Nazca Lines of Peru....
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Wikipedia article:
“The Obelisk of Axum (see photos below) is a 1,700-year-old, 24-metre-tall
(79-foot) granite stele/obelisk, weighing 160 tonnes, in the city ofAxum in
Ethiopia.” Red boxes and red arrows mark structures difficult to carve from
granite. Image source:www.getintravel.com/aksum-ethiopia/ste... See also:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_of_Axum Red box marks structures that are
difficult to...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . The trend toward
direct connections between video content creators and their audiences is well
underway, but the new Apple TV could finally push that trend into the living
room. Although direct-to-viewer relationships are the norm on the web, most
premium TV content in the living room still passes through a...
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