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Supernova SN 185 of 185AD could have been an exploding comet


Malaga Bay
Mon, 01 Jan 2018 18:15 UTC
Supernova SN 185
© Malaga Bay
One of the Jewels in the Crown of Settled Science that's been extracted from the mire of mainstream manuscripts and academic assertions is Supernova SN 185.
A supernova is a transient astronomical event that occurs during the last stellar evolutionary stages of a massive star's life, whose dramatic and catastrophic destruction is marked by one final titanic explosion.
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The earliest recorded supernova, SN 185, was viewed by Chinese astronomers in 185 AD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova

The gaseous shell RCW 86 is probably the supernova remnant of this event and has a relatively large angular size of roughly 45 arc minutes (larger than the apparent size of the full moon, which varies from 29 to 34 arc minutes).

The distance to RCW 86 is estimated to be 2,800 parsecs (9,100 light-years).

Recent X-ray studies show a good match for the expected age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_185
Supernova SN 185 is scientifically important because it's [supposed] remnants suggest a "titanic explosion" occurred in the "hollowed-out cavity" of an object in space.
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Wine

Tantalus bowl: Rare ancient artifact dating back to the 4th century AD proves the Romans were the original pranksters


RT
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 17:40 UTC
Roman artifact
© Bodgan Cristel / Reuters
What have the Romans ever done for us? Well, besides water systems, straight roads and central heating, the discovery of the Tantalus bowl now suggests they were the masters of cracking good jokes.

The function of the Tantalus bowl, which soaks whoever drinks from it in wine, was only fully realized after it was studied by an archaeologist from the British Museum. The bowl was uncovered in Vinkovci, eastern Croatia, in March 2012, and is believed to date back to the 4th century AD.

The silver object is a testimony to how, despite being regarded as one of the most sophisticated societies in the history of human civilization, the Romans were also a total bunch of jokers.

"This is the earliest example of a physical practical joke, certainly for the Romans," said Dr Richard Hobbs, curator of Roman Britain at the British Museum.
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MIB

Declassified documents reveal British government sought Loyalist paramilitaries to assassinate Irish leader Haughey in 1985


RT
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 16:54 UTC
Charles Haughey
© Joost Evers / The Netherlands National ArchiveCharles Haughey
Former Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey was warned by loyalist paramilitaries that they were once tasked with murdering him in an assassination plot purportedly dreamt up by the British secret service.

The sensational disclosure was sent in a letter to the Irish government, newly released under the Public Records Act, which requires documents of historical value to be published by the National Archives within 30 years.

Written on Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) signature paper, the warning claims the terrorist organization was asked by an MI5 operative about the prospect of carrying out an attack on Republic of Ireland leader Haughey in 1985.

At the time, Haughey would have been in opposition as head of political party Fianna Fáil, but details of the solicitation did not become known to Irish authorities until 1987.

Comment: The Loyalists apparently balked at the sheer scummery of the request, which tells you all you need to know about Her Majesty's Secret Services.

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Perfectly preserved 130-million-year-old dinosaur eggs unearthed in China

Tracy You
Daily Mail, UK
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 08:37 UTC
Dinosaur egg in China
A nest of perfectly preserved dinosaur eggs have been discovered under a construction site in China.

Up to 30 fossilized eggs were found by construction workers on Christmas Day in the city of Ganzhou, which is known in China as the 'hometown of dinosaurs', according to Chinese state media. Archaeologists said the incredible eggs were about 130 million years old.

The giant eggs were discovered on December 25 in Ganzhou's Dayu County under the construction site of a middle school, reported People's Daily Online

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Bad Guys

The UN's role in exporting feminist ideology

Janice Shaw Crouse
American Thinker
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:52 UTC
UN women
The Left's route to promoting their radical agenda around the world is engineering the enactment of a United Nations treaty that contains their distorted "women's rights" policies that can then be used to impose their alien feminist views on third world nations.

I know this from my experience of more than 20 years at the UN -- including working as an NGO delegate advising official delegates plus being an official U.S. delegate appointed by President George W. Bush to two sessions, The Children's Summit (2002) and the Commission on the Status of Women (2003).

Comment: Whether conservative or liberal, both sides have ideologies that contribute to the problem.

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Archaeology

Ancient military fortress network discovered in northern Syria

Brooks Hays
United Press International
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:13 UTC
ancient fortress syria
© M.-O. Rousset mission Marges arides/CNRSThe network's Qal'at al-Rahiyya outpost offers a view toward the northwest.
"The purpose of this regional network would have been to defend the territory," researchers wrote.The network's Qal'at al-Rahiyya outpost offers a view toward the northwest.

Researchers have discovered a network of military structures and remains in northern Syria dating to 4,000 years ago.

The ancient surveillance and communication network was discovered a team of French and Syrian researchers who meticulously examined satellite and aerial imagery of the region's rocky terrain. The team detailed their discovery in a paper published this week in the French journal Paléorient.
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Data hidden in Inca knot code discovered by Harvard undergrad

Katherine Davis-Young
Atlas Obscura
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:15 UTC
khipu knots Inca code
© Jon Chase/ President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeA model of khipu knots, representative of many khipus from pre- and post-Conquest Peru
Manny Medrano cut loose on spring break by analyzing a set of khipus.

There are many ways a college student might spend spring break. Making an archaeological breakthrough is not usually one of them. In his first year at Harvard, Manny Medrano did just that.

"There's something in me, I can't explain where it came from, but I love the idea of digging around and trying to find secrets hidden from the past," Medrano says.

With the help of his professor, Gary Urton, a scholar of Pre-Columbian studies, Medrano interpreted a set of six khipus, knotted cords used for record keeping in the Inca Empire. By matching the khipus to a colonial-era Spanish census document, Medrano and Urton uncovered the meaning of the cords in greater detail than ever before. Their findings could contribute to a better understanding of daily life in the Andean civilization.

Comment: Further reading: High in the Andes, Keeping an Incan Mystery Alive

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Info

Elaborate carvings on Moai stone hats, reveal secrets of mysterious Polynesians


Brinkwire
Sun, 24 Dec 2017 18:36 UTC
Moai Statue
© ReutersA view of a Moai statue near the town of Hanga Roa on Easter Island, 2,486 miles west of Santiago, Chile October 19, 2003.
Rapa Nui, Chile - or Easter Island - has monumental statues with massive, stone hats placed on top of them. A recent analysis of these stone hats, known as pukao, shows that the petroglyphs etched into the stone vary wildly, according to a study published in October in Advances in Archaeological Practice. The diversity of the drawings revealed that they were unlikely to be associated with warfare, which counters the common theory that the ancient people of Rapa Nui were a warrior culture.

"The diversity of the petroglyphs challenges that these were symbols of warfare between groups," Carl Lipo, co-author of the study and anthropology professor at Binghamton University, told Newsweek by email. The findings of the study uncovered "quite a bit of diversity in the petroglyphs of the pukao-more so than have been traditionally noted given that we documented all the pukao surfaces."

Polynesians colonized Rapa Nui around 800 years ago, according to the study. They constructed nearly 1,000 monumental statues, called moai, which were topped with the pukao. The pukao are large cylinder-shaped stones made from volcanic rock known as red scoria, weighing multiple tons each. The largest stone hat is nearly seven feet in diameter and weighs over 25,000 pounds. Prehistoric islanders moved the heavy volcanic rocks as far as 7.5 miles.
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Romanticizing the hunter-gatherer way of life

William Buckner
Quillette
Sat, 16 Dec 2017 12:13 UTC
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on Inequality
O Man, to whatever country you belong and whatever your opinions, listen: here is your history as I believe I have read it, not in the books of your fellow men who are liars but in Nature which never lies.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on Inequality
In 1966, at the 'Man the Hunter' symposium held at the University of Chicago, anthropologist Richard B. Lee presented a paper that would radically rewrite how academics and the public at large interpret life in hunter-gatherer societies. Questioning the notion that the hunter-gatherer way of life is a "precarious and arduous struggle for existence," Lee instead described a society of relative comfort and abundance. Lee studied the !Kung of the Dobe area in the Kalahari Desert (also known variously as Bushmen, the San people, or the Ju/'hoansi) and noted that they required only 12 to 19 hours a week to collect all the food they needed. Lee further criticized the notion that hunter-gatherers have a low life expectancy, arguing that the proportion of individuals older than 60 among the !Kung, "compares favorably to the percentage of elderly in industrialized populations."1 On the basis of Lee's work, and other material presented at the symposium, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins coined the phrase "original affluent society" to describe the hunter-gatherer way of life.
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Red Flag

"What were they thinking?!" Russian intellectuals on the Russian Revolution

Daria Prokhorova
NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 19:16 UTC
vladimir lenin
On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 the Jordan Center hosted a talk entitled, "What Were They Thinking? Russian intellectuals interpret the revolution, 1917-1922", delivered by Jane Burbank, Professor of History and Russian & Slavic Studies at NYU and introduced by Joshua Tucker, Director of the Jordan Center. This was the second event in the lecture series entitled "100 Year Anniversary of the 1917 Revolution", hosted by the NYU Jordan Center and co-sponsored by the NYU Department of History.

Burbank opened with the questions: How was the Revolution viewed by people who lived through the uncertainties and hardships of the first years of Bolshevik power? In particular, what were Russian intellectuals thinking? As Burbank noted, today the Revolution and the regime it instituted is often conceptualized around the most prominent figures in Soviet history, i.e. Lenin and Stalin. Burbank, however, decided that it would be useful to consider individuals from a wider political spectrum, including theorists, social scientists and all-around politically active figures from non-Bolshevik parties. For her talk, she selected prominent figures from four categories: anarchists, Marxists, Eurasianists and the political movement "Changing Landmarks."
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