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10 Glorious Lost Cities.

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:43:00 GMT

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MACHU PICCHU (Peru): The Lost City of the Incas _[Wiki]

ANGKOR (Cambodia): Contains the world's largest religious monument _[Wiki]

MEMPHIS (Egypt): ancient capital of Egypt_[Wiki]

PETRA: stone structures carved into rocks _[Wiki]

PALMYRA (Syria): the Bride of the Desert _[Wiki]

POMPEII (Italy): buried by the volcano_[Wiki]

PALENQUE (Mexico): one of Mayan's most exquisite cities _[Wiki]

VIJAYANAGAR (India): capital of one of the largest Hindu empires _[Wiki]

EPHESUS (Turkey): one of the most important cities of early Christianity _[Wiki]

SANCHI (India): the best-preserved group of Buddhist monuments _[Wiki]

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Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Death

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:26:19 GMT

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1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch

2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated

3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider

4. Alexander's funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body

5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle

6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people

7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days

8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years

9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried' in space

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From Little Things, Big Things Grow

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:46:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If the title doesn't fit this clip, then I'll explain the meaning. It's funny how the simplest random act of kindness can be so powerful. It can literally move one to tears. Like someone giving me this clip. I can't take credit where credit is due. Again, random acts of kindness are what make us better human beings. My New Year's resolution is to try to be a better human being. It's an entirely selfish one you know. It not only makes me feel better about myself. It hopefully makes me grow as a person. Thank you.

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Some people will go to any lengths for a pint - even if it involves supping in a tree.

This bar in the trunk of a Baobab has punters travelling from miles around for a brew.

But tourists flock to see the amazing bar inside the hollow 155ft circumference of the trunk.

The tree even has its own cellar, with natural ventilation to keep the beer cool.

The huge tree, in the grounds of Sunland Farm, is so wide it takes 40 adults with outstretched arms to encircle it.

Carbon-dating, which can determine the age of organic materials, has shown the anicent tree is about 6,000 years old. "This tree is likely to be older than the Giza Pyramids of Egypt," said Heather van Heerden, owner of Sunland Farm.

"It is phenomenal to have such a magnificent tree in your back garden. It is possibly the biggest living thing on earth."

Tags: random, acts, of, kindness

What the World Eats : Food habits of people around the globe

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:21:11 GMT

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What the World Eats

What's on family dinner tables in fifteen different homes around the globe? Photographs by Peter Menzel from the book "Hungry Planet"

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Japan: The Ukita family of Kodaira City

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Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily

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Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp

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Kuwait: The Al Haggan family of Kuwait City

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United States: The Revis family of North Carolina

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Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca

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China: The Dong family of Beijing

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Poland: The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna

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Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo

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Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo

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United States: The Caven family of California

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Mongolia: The Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar

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Great Britain: The Bainton family of Cllingbourne Ducis

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Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village

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Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide

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Famous Lost cities and cultures

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:14:39 GMT

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Troy, Turkey

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Ephesus, Turkey

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Memphis, Egypt

Pyramids of Giza

Great Pyramid of Khufu

Pyramids and Sphinx

The Sphinx

Pyramid of Khafre

Inside the Great Pyramid

Great Gallery

Tunnel to the tomb

Funerary Temple

Memphis

Ramses II at Memphis

Step pyramid of Zoser

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Thebes and Luxor, Egypt

Luxor Temple

Main entrance

Avenue of the Sphinxes

Carvings

Great Festival Hall

Side view

Tomb of Merenptah

Temple of Hatshepsut

Tomb chamber

Ancient worker's village

Temple of Hatshepsut

Keeping watch

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Syracusa

Ancient Amman

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Caral: The first city in the New World

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:25:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A brief article on a stunning archaeological discovery in South America. About six years ago, Peruvian/American archaeologist Ruth Shady, introduced the "oldest city in America" to the world. It was Caral; an ancient city on the Pacific coast of Peru, with trade centers, temples and a pyramid complex not less impressive than its counterparts in Mexico and Guatemala. The most exciting thing about Caral was its age: The city was carbon dated to ca. 3000 BCE, which strongly suggested a radical change in history textbooks. All evidence show Caral was not an exception in the region and there are many more ancient towns, waiting to be discovered. Another interesting thing about Caral is, its surprisingly peaceful social order. Archaeologists found no city walls, no forts, no signs of an army and even not a single weapon in Caral. Once again, thanks to Ruth Shady for this fantastic discovery.

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For years it was believed that the first city built in the Americas was in the Andes of South America. More recently, however, archaeologists are excavating a site over a thousand years older than anything previously discovered in an unlikely place: the desert plains of the Supe Valley in Peru

Situated near a river, this site known as Caral has been dated to approximately 2627 B.C. This would mean that the city, which has an extensive complex of pyramids and public buildings, predates even the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt.

Caral was occupied roughly from 3000 BC to 2000 BC, when for some reason the city was abandoned.

One singularly unique thing about Caral is the lack of signs of conflict.

The city had no walls, no fortifications, no signs of any military whatsoever. Even more significant, they found no weapons anywhere.

Carbon dating of sites near Caral have revealed dates as old as 2950 BC, indicating that Caral might have been the culmination of hundreds of years of complex building

Tags: archaeology, peru, caral, ruth shady, south america

A "Second Sphinx" at Giza?

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:03:34 GMT

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After analyzing the elements of the Ancient Egyptian belief system, Egyptologist Bassam El Shammaa comes up with a very unorthodox view that would shake the established Egyptology and most likely, trigger a swarm of fresh debates on the origins of the monuments at Giza. Pointing out the dualist essence of the Ancient Egyptian cosmology, El Shammaa argues the very likely existence of a “Second Sphinx” on the Giza plateau, next to the one we know as The Great Sphinx.

“Whenever we have to deal with the solar cult, we should speak of one lion and one lioness facing each other, posing parallel to each other or sitting in a back-to-back position,” says El Shammaa. He draws our attention to the Egyptian creation myth, where the almighty Atum gives birth to his son Shu and his daughter Tefnut, in the form of a lion and lioness. He also points out that the Dream Stela carved by Thutmosis IV and found between the paws of the giant statue, clearly depicted two sphinxes.

Tags: archaeology, egypt, giza, sphinx

Whale Found in Egypt Desert

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:14:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From 2005. Nat'l Geo will run a special on this story. They found ankle bones!

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April 14, 2005—Egypt may not be the first place you'd look for whales, but once upon a time the Wadi Hitan desert was underwater and teeming with the sea giants.

Just this week here, geologist Philip D. Gingerich announced his team had excavated the first known nearly complete skeleton of a Basilosaurus isis (pictured). The 50-foot-long (18-meter-long), 40-million-year-old fossil will now be shipped to Michigan, where experts will preserve it. Later they will return the fossil to Egypt along with a complete cast of the skeleton.

The first of the truly gigantic whales, Basilosaurus had the serpentine shape of a sea monster and short, sharp teeth for hunting sharks and other prey. Unlike today's whales, it had no blowhole—the ancient behemoth had to raise its head above water to breathe. What's more, Basilosaurus still had the feet it inherited from its land-dwelling ancestors, according to Gingerich, who works for the University of Michigan and is a National Geographic Society grantee.

Tags: whales, egypt, fossils, paleontology, science, research

how were the pyramids made? mystery solved...

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:04:03 GMT

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Are the pyramids concrete?

A Drexel University scientist who hails from Egypt announced provocative new findings yesterday about one of the enduring mysteries of his native land: How did the ancients lug the enormous carved blocks, weighing more than two tons apiece, to build the upper portions of the great pyramids?

The answer, says Michel Barsoum: Some of the blocks were not carved at all, but were made atop the pyramids by pouring a concrete-like "geopolymer" that could be brought up in buckets.

The substance devised by the Egyptians had another surprising attribute, Barsoum said: It was more friendly to the environment than modern-day lime cement, releasing less of the greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

"There's a fabulous irony in that the 5,000-year-old technology is a green technology for today," he said.

Barsoum, a materials engineering professor from Cairo, said he and his associates would not be surprised at resistance to their work, to be published today in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society.

"We have a tough time because we are materials scientists" and not traditional scholars of Egypt, said one of his coauthors, Adrish Ganguly, who now works in the private sector.

Scholars say the Egyptians used ramps to push the limestone blocks into place. But the great pyramid at Giza is more than 150 yards high, which would in theory require a ramp extending at least 750 yards into the desert - an unlikely scenario.

Some have theorized the use of spiral ramps, but Barsoum said he doubts they could have been built with the necessary precision to hoist the blocks into the proper place.

He says he believes that the lower blocks were indeed carved from limestone, as most scholars say, but he argues that the upper sections were made of the concrete-like substance, citing several lines of evidence.

Tags: discovery, pyramids, egypt, technology, research

Average IQ of Countries

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:09:18 GMT

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Average IQ of Countries

Hong Kong 107 Korea, South 106 Japan 105 Taiwan 104 Singapore 104 Austria 102 Germany 102 Italy 102 Netherlands 102 Sweden 101 Switzerland 101 Belgium 100 China 100 New Zealand 100 U. Kingdom 100 Hungary 99 Poland 99 Australia 98 Denmark 98 France 98 Norway 98 United States 98 Canada 97 Czech Republic 97 Finland 97 Spain 97 Argentina 96 Russia 96 Slovakia 96 Uruguay 96 Portugal 95 Slovenia 95 Israel 94 Romania 94 Bulgaria 93 Ireland 93 Greece 92 Malaysia 92 Thailand 91 Croatia 90 Peru 90 Turkey 90 Colombia 89 Indonesia 89 Suriname 89 Brazil 87 Iraq 87 Mexico 87 Samoa (Western) 87 Tonga 87 Lebanon 86 Philippines 86 Cuba 85 Morocco 85 Fiji 84 Iran 84 Marshall Islands 84 Puerto Rico 84 Egypt 83 India 81 Ecuador 80 Guatemala 79 Barbados 78 Nepal 78 Qatar 78 Zambia 77 Congo (Brazz) 73 Uganda 73 Jamaica 72 Kenya 72 South Africa 72 Sudan 72 Tanzania 72 Ghana 71 Nigeria 67 Guinea 66 Zimbabwe 66 Congo (Zaire) 65 Sierra Leone 64 Ethiopia 63 Equatorial Guinea 59

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Japanese ruins - 5000 years older than the Pyramids

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:25:13 GMT

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The Relics of Mu

After years of searching, and combing the Pacific for a possible lost land that could have been the root of one of these legends, it is clear that there is no extra continent in the sea. However, in 1986, a SCUBA diver, Kihachiro Aratake, diving off the coast of the island of Yonaguni-jima discovered something that may lend credence to the existence of Mu or Lemuria. On the sea floor he found vast geometric structures cut out of the rock. There was evidence of stairs, and improbable angles in the stone. He marked the location for future divers, and in the intervening years these undersea ruins have come to be known as the "Yonaguni Monuments".

Efforts to date the monument are derived from the last time the area was above sea level, which would have been approximately 8,000-10,000 years ago– about 3-5 millennia before Egypt's pyramids were erected. If the monuments were indeed built by humankind, it would require some dramatic revisions to the accepted chronological history of humanity.

Not far from a set of cliffs called "Iseki Point", the main structure of the Yonaguni Monuments lies under about two hundred feet of water. It is about 240 feet long, 90 feet wide, and 45 feet tall. There appear to be clear cut stairs, and to many there are distinct similarities to ancient buildings found on Okinawa, or even heiau temples on Hawaii. Various structures surround the main building, and they seem to stretch out into a road spanning approximately 311 miles leading to Okinawa and its neighboring islands.

Tags: lemuria, ruins, japan, pyramids, archaeology

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats ?

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:58:57 GMT

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What People Eat Around The World

From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio www.menzelphoto.com

1. Germany - $500 a week for food

2. North Carolina, USA - $341.98 a week for food

3. Japan - $317.25 a week for food

4. Italy - $260 a week for food

5. Great Britain - $253 a week for food

6. Kuwait - $221.45 a week for food

7. Mexico - $189.09 a week for food

8. California, USA - $160 a week for food

9. Beijing, China - $155.06 a week for food

10. Poland - $151 a week for food

11. Egypt - $68.53 a week for food

12. Mongolia - $40 a week for food

13. Ecuador - $31.55 a week for food

14. Bhutan - $5 a week for food

15. Breidjing Camp - $1.23 a week for food!!!

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The History of Onions

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:31:01 GMT

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onion

It probably originates from Central Asia (between Turkmenistan and Afghanistan) where some of its relatives still grow in the wild

In Caananite Bronze Age settlements, traces of onion remains were found alongside fig and date stones dating back to 5000 BC.

Archaeological and literary evidence suggests cultivation probably took place around two thousand years later in ancient Egypt

Workers who built the Egyptian pyramids may have been fed radishes and onions

Egyptians worshipped it, believing that its spherical shape and concentric rings symbolized eternal life

In ancient Greece, athletes ate large quantities of onion because it would lighten the balance of blood

Roman gladiators were rubbed down with onion to firm up their muscles

The onion was introduced to North America by Christopher Columbus on his 1493 expedition to Haiti

Onions are a staple food in India, and are therefore fundamental to Indian cooking

Adult breast-feeding sucks

Fri, 25 May 2007 17:03:38 GMT

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Cairo, Egypt - Al-Azhar University, one of Sunni Islam's most prestigious institutions, ordered one of its clerics Monday to face a disciplinary panel after he issued a controversial decree allowing adults to breast-feed.

Ezzat Attiya had issued a fatwa, or religious edict, saying adult men could breast-feed from female work colleagues as a way to avoid breaking Islamic rules that forbid men and women from being alone together.

In Islamic tradition, breast-feeding establishes a degree of maternal relation, even if a woman nurses a child who is not biologically hers. It means the child could not marry the nursing woman's biological children.

Attiya - the head of Al-Azhar's department of Hadith, or teachings of the Prophet Muhammad - insisted the same would apply with adults.

He argued that if a man nursed from a co-worker, it would establish a family bond between them and allow the two to work side-by-side without raising suspicion of an illicit sexual relation.

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Egypt's fight against female circumcision clashes with tradition

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:49:04 GMT

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Egypt's fight against female circumcision clashes with tradition

Twice circumcised, Wafaa Helmy swore her own daughters would never suffer the same fate. But one night her own mother secretly took her first-born to go under the knife in their Upper Egypt village.

Despite pronouncements to the contrary by both Muslim and Christian clerics, she believes, as do many Egyptians, that this "purification" is a religious duty that helps preserve a girl's virtue and honour.

The social stigma of not having her granddaughter's labia and/or clitoris cut off was just too strong for her.

Official Egyptian statistics say 97 percent of women aged 15 to 49, Christians and Muslims alike, have undergone what the UN prefers to call female genital mutilation, or FGM.

Tags: egypt, fgm, women, tradition

Clipmarks | Egypt Clips

10 Glorious Lost Cities.

MACHU PICCHU (Peru): The Lost City of the Incas [Wiki]

ANGKOR (Cambodia): Contains the world's largest religious monument [Wiki]

MEMPHIS (Egypt): ancient capital of Egypt[Wiki]

PETRA: stone structures carved into rocks [Wiki]

PALMYRA (Syria): the Bride of the Desert [Wiki]

POMPEII (Italy): buried by the volcano[Wiki]

PALENQUE (Mexico): one of Mayan's most exquisite cities [Wiki]

VIJAYANAGAR (India): capital of one of the largest Hindu empires [Wiki]

EPHESUS (Turkey): one of the most important cities of early Christianity [Wiki]

SANCHI (India): the best-preserved group of Buddhist monuments [Wiki]

Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Death

From Little Things, Big Things Grow

What the World Eats : Food habits of people around the globe

What the World Eats

Famous Lost cities and cultures

Caral: The first city in the New World

A "Second Sphinx" at Giza?

Whale Found in Egypt Desert

how were the pyramids made? mystery solved...

Are the pyramids concrete?

Average IQ of Countries

Japanese ruins - 5000 years older than the Pyramids

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats ?

What People Eat Around The World

The History of Onions

Adult breast-feeding sucks

Egypt's fight against female circumcision clashes with tradition

Egypt's fight against female circumcision clashes with tradition

MACHU PICCHU (Peru): The Lost City of the Incas _[Wiki]

ANGKOR (Cambodia): Contains the world's largest religious monument _[Wiki]

MEMPHIS (Egypt): ancient capital of Egypt_[Wiki]

PETRA: stone structures carved into rocks _[Wiki]

PALMYRA (Syria): the Bride of the Desert _[Wiki]

POMPEII (Italy): buried by the volcano_[Wiki]

PALENQUE (Mexico): one of Mayan's most exquisite cities _[Wiki]

VIJAYANAGAR (India): capital of one of the largest Hindu empires _[Wiki]

EPHESUS (Turkey): one of the most important cities of early Christianity _[Wiki]

SANCHI (India): the best-preserved group of Buddhist monuments _[Wiki]