| Falkirk Wheel |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|01:36 am] |
"Designed to reconnect the Forth and Clyde Canal and the Union Canal, this remarkable and elegant mechanical marvel is the only rotating boatlift in the world and truly one of a kind.
The Falkirk Wheel can carry eight or more boats at a time with a single trip taking about 60 minutes and providing an unforgettable experience and great 'day out' for all the family.
Visitors can enjoy 'The Falkirk Wheel Experience' using special "trip" boats at the site and the distinctive new visitor centre gives an absolutely sensational viewpoint from which to see The Falkirk Wheel in action." |
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| Explorator |
[Jun. 28th, 2009|06:10 pm] |
Prehistoric European Cave Artists Were Female
Until recently, most scientists assumed these prehistoric handprints were male. But "even a superficial examination of published photos suggested to me that there were lots of female hands there."
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The first Europeans were cannibals, say Spanish archaeologists
The remains of the "first Europeans" discovered at an archaeological site in northern Spain have revealed that these prehistoric men were cannibals who particularly liked the flesh of children...they ate their rivals after killing them, mostly children and adolescents.
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Huge Pre-Stonehenge Complex Found via "Crop Circles"
Etched into crops, the outlines of Bronze Age burial mounds surround a roughly 190-foot circular Stone Age temple site about 15 miles from Stonehenge in southern England in an undated aerial photo.
Discovered during a routine aerial survey by English Heritage, the U.K. government's historic-preservation agency, the "crop circles" are the results of buried archaeological structures interfering with plant growth. True crop circles are vast designs created by flattening crops.
The features are part of a newfound 500-acre prehistoric ceremonial site which was unknown until the aerial survey, archaeologists announced in June 2009.
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Facedown Burials Widely Used to Humiliate the Dead
Burying the dead facedown in ancient times didn't mean RIP, according to new research that says the practice was both deliberate and widespread. The first global study on the facedown burials suggests that it was a custom used across societies to disrespect or humiliate the dead.
Some people had their hands and feet tied together, suggesting they had been criminals or prisoners of war. Rule-breaking nuns and convicted witches were also buried in prone positions. |
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| Mark Sanford |
[Jun. 25th, 2009|01:35 am] |
"Republican Party In My Pants."
"Now we know why Sanford didn't need stimulus."
"Sanford's Penis Resigns From Republican Governors Association"
~ Andy Borowitz |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 21st, 2009|01:38 pm] |
On June 15 there was crazy weather. These videos were taken about 5 miles from my house.
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| Cake |
[Jun. 20th, 2009|10:57 pm] |
Where there's cake
puppy is not far behind
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[Jun. 10th, 2009|01:10 am] |
17th century urine-filled 'witch bottle' found
Discovery provides a unique insight into witchcraft beliefs of that period
During the 17th century in England, someone urinated in a jar, added nail clippings, hair and pins, and buried it upside-down in Greenwich, where it was recently unearthed and identified by scientists as being the world's most complete known "witch bottle."
An Old Bailey court record from 1682 documents that a husband, believing his wife to be afflicted by witchcraft, was advised by a Spitalfields apothecary to "take a quart of your Wive's urine, the paring of her Nails, some of her Hair, and such like, and boyl them well in a Pipkin."
The excavated bottle appears to have been made according to those, or similar, instructions. |
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| My Garden |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|01:24 pm] |
I decided to grow food but it had to be the laziest garden possible - no digging in the ground, no crawling around on my knees and no weeding - and maybe watering it once in a while.
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| Gettysburg |
[Jun. 1st, 2009|12:03 am] |
Gettysburg is a celebration of war and death
"The four years of the Civil War were the bloodiest in the nation's history. Some 620,000 soldiers and sailors died in the war...Americans fought one another over three fundamental issues: the survival of the Union, the fate of slavery, and the common rights of citizenship - what it means to be an American. The war resolved the first two issues. The nation struggles with the third to this day." wtf
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