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Fossil HD History: Yom Kippur-A History
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011. Friday, October 7, 2011 is the date in which most American Jews will take time to observe Yom Kippur. For many Christians, Jewish traditions are very foreign even though Christianity finds it's roots in Judaism. Yom Kippur is known as the Day of Atonement. It is considered the holiest day of the year for most Jews. In the Torah, Yom Kippur is called Yom HaKippurim. In the book of Leviticus, chapter 23 and verse 27, it forbids work on Yom Kippur. During the service, the Kohen G...
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Fossil HD Geography: NOAA and partners demonstrate success of multibeam sonar to detect and map deep-sea gas seeps
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Thursday, September 15, 2011. NOAA and partners demonstrate success of multibeam sonar to detect and map deep-sea gas seeps. A perspective of the seafloor showing preliminary results of has seeps detected NOAA Ship Okeanos. Explorer multibeam sonar in vicinity of Biloxi Dome in Northern Gulf of Mexico. Gas seep locations are shown. As blue dots and are overlaid on the seafloor bathymetry that was collected. (Image produced by the University. 8220;This capability will help increase our knowledge of the ma...
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Fossil HD Travel: The Corn Palace
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Friday, August 12, 2011. The Corn Palace stands tall in a small town in South Dakota.( Photo by Parkerdr-Wikipedia). Everyone has heard of many of the major tourist attractions in South Dakota: Mount Rushmore, the Crazy Horse Memorial, Deadwood, and Sioux Falls. But few have heard of a place called The Corn Palace. So, if you are headed to Mount Rushmore, check out one of the more agrarian wonders of the region. The Corn Palace is home court for the Dakota Wesleyan University Tigers and Mitchell High Sch...
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Fossil HD Anthropology: Early Coastal Man
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Sunday, September 25, 2011. Norway's rugged coast has perhaps no better analogue than the glacially scoured shoreline of Patagonia, 13,000 kilometres away and a hemisphere apart. Their similarities, isolated from each other, make the two locations perfect natural laboratories for archaeologists interested in how early man lived in and adapted to marine environments. Worlds apart – but almost the same. Locations in Norway, organic material in Patagonia. The main difference is that we have 1000 known local...
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Fossil HD Anthropology: When did the Neolithic Start?: Excavation of islands around Britain meant to establish origins of Neolithic period
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011. When did the Neolithic Start? Excavation of islands around Britain meant to establish origins of Neolithic period. Archaeologists in Southampton and Liverpool are investigating three island groups around Britain to help understand why people changed from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to farming the land. 8220;We know that the first signs of domestication occurred in the Middle East around 10,000BC and reached France by 5,000BC. However, it appears to be another 1,0...
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Fossil HD Travel: Oriental Institute exhibit examines commerce, trade in ancient Near East
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011. Oriental Institute exhibit examines commerce, trade in ancient Near East. Among the other receipts in the show is one for the delivery of a dead sheep written in wedge-shaped cuneiform script on a clay tablet. A third tablet, dating to about 2000 B.C., is a request for money to purchase a female slave. Brittany Hayden and Andrew Dix, both doctoral students at the Oriental Institute, are curating the exhibit. This story was a press release from the University of Chicago.
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Fossil HD: Ancient Seal of Samson
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Ancient Seal of Samson. While the seal does not reveal when the stories about Samson were originally written, or clarify whether Samson was a historical or legendary figure, the finding does help to "anchor the story in an archaeological setting," says Prof. Shlomo Bunimovitz of TAU's Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations. Prof. Bunimovitz co-directs the Beth Shemesh dig along with Dr. Zvi Lederman. The right place, the right time. The border disputes ...
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Fossil HD Geography: After the Unthinkable: Reefs Recovered Faster After Mass Extinction Than First Thought
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Saturday, October 1, 2011. After the Unthinkable: Reefs Recovered Faster After Mass Extinction Than First Thought. Reef-forming sponges, Early Triassic era(Photo by the University. Metazoan-dominated reefs only took 1.5 million years to recover after the largest species extinction 252 million years ago, an international research team including paleontologists from the University of Zurich has established based on fossils from the southwestern USA. Growth thanks to new reef-forming metazoan organisms.
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Fossil HD Travel: TRAVELOCITY AND MATCH.COM REVEAL SUMMER’S TOP 10 U.S. DESTINATIONS FOR SINGLES
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Monday, August 22, 2011. TRAVELOCITY AND MATCH.COM REVEAL SUMMER’S TOP 10 U.S. DESTINATIONS FOR SINGLES. Cities are Favorite Destinations for Single Travelers. SOUTHLAKE, Texas – July 20, 2011 – If your plan this summer is to finally find that special someone, choose a sizzling city as your summer vacation destination. Travelocity teamed up with Match.com to see if singles were traveling and where they were headed this summer. It’s probably no surprise that Sin City comes in at the number-one desti...
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Fossil HD: Successful Failure
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Friday, May 20, 2011. De Soto's failed quest for wealth that discovered a new world. After taking part in both the conquest of the Aztecs in Central America and later Peru, de Soto found himself a rich man. Fame and riches were soon followed by marriage and a close relationship to King Charles of Spain. Those royal ties rewarded de Soto with the Governorship of Cuba, which at the time could have been seen as the Capitol of all the eastern portion of Spanish North America. These were the hopes and dreams ...
