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First antiquated human DNA found from key Asian movement course
The 7,000-year-old skeleton of an adolescent agrarian from Sulawesi in Indonesia could be the main remaining parts found from a secretive, old culture known as the Toaleans, analysts report this week in Nature1.
By Mashud M Alfoyez 4 years ago in FYI
Edward VII
He was the heir apparent to the British throne for almost 60 years. As King, he modernized the British Home Fleet, and reorganized the British Army after the Second Boer War. He ‘re-instituted’ traditional ceremonies as public displays and ‘broadened’ the range of people with whom Royalty socialized. He was Edward VII!
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff4 years ago in FYI
Big Bee Problem
The high loss of bees has led to an increase in the number of beekeepers each year, and rental rates for bee colonies have increased, Williams said. Rapid overwork and low-quality queens and beekeepers have also led to the loss of colonies, although buying queens from excellent sources and breeding them well can improve colonial productivity and health.
By Srijan Kunwar4 years ago in FYI
Tuk Origins
Tuk Origins The coiled serpent motif of Ba’al remained afterward in most desert traditions and rites, mostly as a warning. Afterward, specialized languages separated knowledge from science from religious texts and soon enough people were separated from one another by language.
By Lawrence Finlayson4 years ago in FYI
Lady with an Ermin painting by Leonardo da Vinci
Lady with the Ermine (No. 1) is one of four surviving female figures by Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, the other featuring Ginevra Benci, La Belle Ferronniere, and Mona Lisa. Cecilia Gallerani, the wife of Ludovico Sforza il Moro, Governor of Milan, is his headmaster, and Leonard was a painter in Sforza court at the time of his assassination.
By Rashmi Dahal4 years ago in FYI
What are we doing?
There has been a thought that has been nagging me for a long time now. Why is there so much wrong with our world? Well to cut to the point, we are what is wrong with the world. I am not expecting this essay to receive any likes, nor am I really expecting for it to be published but it needs to be said. We have all been fed this idea that someone in the world must be hated. No one has said it bluntly like that obviously, because of course no one would want to agree with that. It is, however, very true. Everyone feels that they must hate someone.
By Aidan Schultz4 years ago in FYI
What Happened to the Children of Marie Antoinette?
Most of us are at least in part familiar with the tragic history of the child queen Marie Antoinette, and her equally young and inexperienced husband Louis VXI of France. That she lived a life of unadulterated luxury and opulence while the people she governed languished in poverty until the Revolution broke out in 1789 is universally understood. And that she was eventually executed with her husband by guillotine is fairly infamous. But what about the four children she had before her execution? What became of them?
By Katie Alafdal4 years ago in FYI
Before Salem: The Real-Life Werewolf Trials That Plagued European Nations
On October 31, 1589, in the German town of Bedburg, Peeter Stubbe was strapped to a wooden wheel, the flesh torn from his limbs with burning pincers, his arms and legs ripped from his torso. Using the blunt side of an ax-head, his limbs were broken, his head cut off, and everything burned on a pyre. His daughter watched in horror as she herself was flayed, strangled, and burned alongside him.
By Austin Harvey4 years ago in FYI
How The Rosetta Stone Revealed The Secrets Of Ancient Civilizations. Top Story - August 2021.
How the Rosetta Stone Revealed the Secrets of Ancient Civilizations When Pierre-François Bouchard’s men discovered the ancient stone slab that was to change the world on July 19, 1799, they were not at an archaeological dig; they were doing a last-minute construction job. The French soldiers occupied a derelict fortress in Rosetta, Egypt, and had only a few days to fortify their defenses for battle with troops from the Ottoman Empire.
By Christopher Harvey4 years ago in FYI
Science behind dreams
Scientists have learned by studying brain function during REM sleep that the distribution of brain activity is linked to certain aspects of dreams by learning about brain function. One study found that the current stimulation of the lower Gamma-ray band of REM sleep has an effect on continuous brain function and triggers cognitive self-awareness during dreams. In recent decades, research has shown that during non-REM sleep, people experience nightmares that are different in nature.
By Dipan Pathak4 years ago in FYI
Search for D.B. Cooper
Cooper, who went missing wearing a business suit and a $ 200,000 parachute bag after a Boeing 727 in the cold northwest rain, is a legal historian looking for evidence along the Columbia River near Vancouver, Washington. Eric Ulis, a historian and astronomer and star of Discovery's "Great Mysterious History", has begun digging the river in hopes of finding evidence of an unknown trafficker D. B. Cooper. Cooper, who disappeared in a plane in the Pacific Northwest in 1979, was wearing a business suit, a jumpsuit and a $ 200,000 cash bag - criminal historians are looking for evidence.
By Dipan Pathak4 years ago in FYI
