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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations: The Athenian Agora
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations. The archaic.the arcane.and fantastic.the historic.Compiled from divers sources. Sunday, October 14, 2012. Model of the Athenian Agora ca. 500 B.C. Model by Petros Demetriades and Kostas Papoulias, Athens, Agora Museum. What did this city center look like and what went on here? Sunday, October 14, 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Ur: A Sumerian City. THE BLACK DRAGON AND THE RED DRAGON – Turkish Folktale. Species New to Science: [Ichthyology • 2007] F...
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations: How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C.
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations. The archaic.the arcane.and fantastic.the historic.Compiled from divers sources. Sunday, July 5, 2015. How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C. Add all of us up, all 7 billion human beings on earth, and clumped together we weigh roughly 750 billion pounds. That, says Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson. One study says we hit as low as 40. We damn near went extinct.". It's not a myth. While details may vary, Toba happened. Toba, The Supervolcano. Once upo...
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations: NOAA's Weather in Focus Photo Contest-Some Photos...
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations. The archaic.the arcane.and fantastic.the historic.Compiled from divers sources. Sunday, July 5, 2015. NOAA's Weather in Focus Photo Contest-Some Photos. Freezing rain attempts to halt spring in this image captured by Mike Shelby, from Elkridge, Maryland, taking home second place in the "smartphone images" category. (Credit: Mike Shelby.). With a Bang by Bob Larson, Prescott, AZ. Proton arc over Lake Superior by Ken William, Clio, MI. Sunday, July 05, 2015. At its h...
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations: CARTOGRAPHY Part I
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations. The archaic.the arcane.and fantastic.the historic.Compiled from divers sources. Friday, May 21, 2010. Üller’s 1507 Map of the World. This map by the German cartographer Martin Waldseem. Üller (ca. 1470–ca. 1522) is accompanied by text explaining the use of the term America to describe the New World. Waldseem. Üller named the continent after the Italian-born explorer Amerigo Vespucci, whose geography identified the Americas as separate from Asia. Friday, May 21, 2010.
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations: Climate Catastrophe
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations. The archaic.the arcane.and fantastic.the historic.Compiled from divers sources. Since 2001, there has been a torrent of new scientific evidence on the magnitude, human origins and growing impacts of the climactic changes that are under way. In overwhelming proportions, this evidence has been in the direction of showing faster change [and] more danger. Time and time again those who have a motive to suppress the bad news about climate change have ignored evidence and...
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations: Spruce Gran Picea
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations. The archaic.the arcane.and fantastic.the historic.Compiled from divers sources. Sunday, July 5, 2015. Spruce Gran Picea #0909 – 11A07 (9,550 years old; Fulufjället, Sweden). This 9,950-year-old tree is like a portrait of climate change. The mass of branches near the ground grew the same way for roughly 9,500 years, but the new, spindly trunk in the center is only 50 or so years old, caused by warming at the top of this mountain plateau in Western Sweden. In Brookly...
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations: MALDEN ISLAND
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations. The archaic.the arcane.and fantastic.the historic.Compiled from divers sources. Tuesday, December 16, 2008. The desolate Malden Island contains an assortment of megalithic monuments. Malden Island is a deserted location a thousand miles from anywhere. Why it contains temples, pyramid-platforms and ancient paved paths leading directly into the ocean is still a mystery. What was the purpose of all these platforms? And what of the paved ways leading into the sea?
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations: Reign of Fire
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations. The archaic.the arcane.and fantastic.the historic.Compiled from divers sources. Monday, October 20, 2008. Note: This article originally appeared in issue 18 of the Prague Pill. Dragons – not nukes – and the end of the world. Directed by Rob Bowman. Written by Gregg Chabot and Kevin Peterka and Matt Greenberg. Starring Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Izabella Scorupco. The high concept is thus: What if dragons are real and were reawakened in the modern world?
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations: TRANSYLVANIA
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations. The archaic.the arcane.and fantastic.the historic.Compiled from divers sources. Wednesday, October 1, 2008. Dracula's original castle lies in ruins. The person who Count Draculs was based on was a Prince named Vlad III. Vlad III was born in Sighisoara in 1431. In the 15th century, Romania was made up of a number of small states, each with an independent ruler. Vlad III earned the surname "Tepes" (The Impaler) because he impaled his enemies. As a ruler, Dracula prob...
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations: Nepenthes attenboroughii digesting shrew on Mount Victoria, Palawan, Philippines
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Old Maps, Expeditions and Explorations. The archaic.the arcane.and fantastic.the historic.Compiled from divers sources. Monday, June 8, 2015. Nepenthes attenboroughii digesting shrew on Mount Victoria, Palawan, Philippines. The summit flora of Mount Victoria includes Leptospermum sp., Medinilla spp., Pleomele sp., Vaccinium sp., various grasses, as well as the sundew Drosera ultramafica, which grows at similar elevations to N. attenboroughii. That pricked the interest of natural history explorer Stewart ...
