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Vietnam War exhibition reminds world of Russian support to Vietnamese in face of extreme American aggression


Sputnik
Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:31 UTC
Vietnam war photos exhibit
An exhibtiion of photos taken during the Vietnam War
An exhibition showcasing old photos taken during the Vietnam War has opened in Moscow, with the majority of items made public for the first time, Chairman of the Organization of Vietnam Veterans of Russia Nikolai Kolesnik told Sputnik Vietnam.

Kolesnik was deployed to Vietnam as part of the first group of Soviet missile officers. They came to the Southeast Asian nation in the spring of 1965. The 22-year-old sergeant was tasked with training soldiers of the 236th and 285th surface-to-air-missile regiments of the People's Army of Vietnam. On August 11-12, Kolesnik took part in the second missile fight with US warplanes. His regiment shot down four aircraft.

"Photographs for the exhibition came from archives of Russian servicemen, veterans of the Vietnam War. The exhibition's goal is to remind the younger generation how extreme America's aggression against the Vietnamese people was, how much courage the Vietnamese displayed while protecting their motherland, and how massive our support to Vietnam was," he told Sputnik Vietnam.
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Archaeology

Remains of pyramid dating back to 13th Dynasty discovered in Egypt's Dahshur Necropolis

Nevine El-Aref
Ahram Online
Mon, 03 Apr 2017 17:50 UTC
New corridor discovered
© Egyptian Ministry of AntiquititiesThe corridor discovered on Monday at Dahshur.
Archaeologists have revealed a portion of the pyramid's internal structure, described as being in very good condition

The remains of a 13th Dynasty pyramid have been discovered by an Egyptian archaeological mission working in an area to the north of King Snefru's Bent Pyramid in the Dahshur Necropolis.

Mahmoud Afifi, the head of the ancient Egyptian antiquities sector at the antiquities ministry, announced the find, adding that the remains are in a very good condition and further excavation will take place to reveal more of the structure.
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Ancient concession stands and shops found at Roman gladiator arena

Megan Gannon
Live Science
Tue, 04 Apr 2017 15:19 UTC
gladiator arena
© LBI ArchPro/7reasons
The team, from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology (LBI ArchPro), created digital reconstructions of what the area around the amphitheater would have looked like.
Just like spectators at modern-day sporting events, people who attended ancient Roman gladiator fights would have gotten hungry and might have even wanted to shop for little souvenirs. Archaeologists in Austria say they have detected the remains of the bakeries, fast-food stands and shops that would have served spectators at the ancient Roman city of Carnuntum.

Today, Carnuntum is a sleepy town on the southern bank of the Danube, outside Vienna. But in its heyday, it was the fourth-largest city in the Roman Empire, and it was home to as many as 50,000 people, including, for a few years in the second century A.D., the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius. [See Reconstructions of the Ancient Roman Shops and Arena]
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In Ice Age Indonesia, people were making jewelry and art

Charles Q. Choi
Live Science
Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:10 UTC
ice age jewelry
© Griffith University
Dated to between 26,000 to 22,000 years ago, this artifact, made from the bone of a bear cuscus, was likely worn as a pendant on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi where it was found.
Art and jewelry dating back to the last ice age have been unearthed in a cave in Indonesia —a discovery that suggests the people who lived there at that time were more culturally advanced than some experts previously thought.

The artifacts, which include pendants and beads made from the bones of "pig-deer" and monkey-like marsupials, date back at least 22,000 years, researchers report in a new study.

Archaeologists discovered the artifacts in Wallacea, a 1,000-mile-wide (1,600 kilometers) zone of mainly Indonesian islands separating Southeast Asia from Australia, and the items are now shedding light on the colonization of this area and nearby Australia. Previous research found that modern humans reached Wallacea by about 47,000 years ago.
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Book review: State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel

Rod Such
The Electronic Intifada
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:27 UTC
book cover state of teror
© Thomas Suárez
Ron Such reviews Thomas Suárez's history of Zionist terror in the conquest of Palestine.

Israel's propaganda playbook attempts to reframe the Palestinian liberation struggle as a question of terror, not territory. Thanks to a dutiful media, this effort to portray Palestinians as terrorists has had significant traction among some demographics.

But how did terrorism originate in Palestine and what was its outcome, both historically and today?

Thomas Suárez sheds much new light on those questions in State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel. He does this largely by mining previously neglected declassified documents from the British National Archives, covering the period of the British Mandate for Palestine (1920-1948).

Suárez's principal thesis is that Zionist terrorism "ultimately dictated the course of events during the Mandate, and it is Israeli state terrorism that continues to dictate events today."

The author cautions that while he unequivocally condemns Palestinian terrorism against civilians, he recognizes that some were driven to extreme measures due to an asymmetry in power and in reaction to attempts to subjugate the Palestinian people and expropriate their resources, land and labor.
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Sentinelese tribe: Rare footage of one of the world's last un-contacted indigenous people

Loulla-Mae Elefheriou-Smith
Independent, UK
Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:05 UTC
Sentelise tribe
© Via YouTube/LoveBite Productions
Rare footage of one of the world's last uncontacted tribes has emerged, showing its members on the beaches of North Sentinel island in the Bay of Bengal.

The footage is part of a documentary by LoveBite Productions on the Sentinelese tribe. The narrator states that the people and their ancestors are thought to have inhabited the island for nearly 60,000 years.

"Working on this project, reading about them, watching all these videos, brought tears to my eyes," the narrator says.

The Sentinelese are known to throw arrows at low flying aircraft such as helicopters and reject all attempts at communication. After the 2004 Tsunami, a photo was captured of one of the tribesmen taking aim at an emergency helicopter with an arrow. It was taken as proof the tribe had survived the disaster.

Little is known about the tribe which could reportedly have as little as 50 and as many as 500 members. The Sentinelese tribe and the tribes on the more remote parts of the Andaman and Nicobar islands are hunter-gatherer people who are semi-nomadic and who have rejected attempts for them to be integrated into other societies, according to Survival International.

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Elaborate mosaics shed light on enigmatic past of ancient Roman city in France

Léa Surugue
International Business Times
Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:25 UTC
roman mosaic france
© Denis Gliksman-InrapThe mosaic was found in a large building
Stunning mosaics shed light on enigmatic past of Roman city in southern France

Until now, the city of Ucetia was only known by name and by a few isolated mosaic fragments.

Archaeologists have unearthed part of an ancient Roman city in southern France, known as Ucetia. To date, the settlement had only be known by name, and this is the first time that some of its impressive features have come to light.

The excavations began in October 2016 at the request of the French state, after local authorities bought land near the modern-day city of Uzes (near Nimes) to build a boarding school and a canteen. A team led by Philippe Cayn from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) excavated the 4,000m sq site, to make sure construction works wouldn't destroy any major artefacts. In the process, the researchers shed a light on the mysterious past of the Roman city of Ucetia.
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JFK journal's stunning admission: 'No complete evidence' Hitler's body was ever found

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
JFK Hitler
© The Free Thought Project
If you aren't convinced, you're in good company — recently revealed documents from a personal journal make candid skepticism from a man who could arguably be termed the Führer's polar opposite — President John F. Kennedy.

While questioning the official narrative pertaining to one of the most opprobrious tyrants in history might not be a comfortable matter, the theory has gained wide traction from a number of reputable sources and analyses in recent years — but, apparently, the beloved former president harbored qualms about the April 30, 1945 deaths.

"Hitler's Reich Chancellery was a shell," Kennedy penned in 1945, several years before ascending to the White House.
"The walls were chipped and scarred by bullets, showing the terrific fight that took place at the time of its fall. Hitler's air-raid shelter was about 120 feet down into the ground — well furnished but completely devastated. The room where Hitler was supposed to have met his death showed scorched walls and traces of fire. There is no complete evidence, however, that the body that was found was Hitler's body. The Russians doubt that he is dead."
That Kennedy and Hitler share in common entire tomes positing theories on their lives and the manner of their deaths makes the former president's skepticism on the latter's dubious demise an especially fitting observation.
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Archaeology

Archeological find affirms Heiltsuk Nation's oral history

Roshini Nair
CBC News
Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:27 UTC
Settlement on B.C.'s Central Coast dated back to 14,000 years

archeology team
© Joanne McSporranMembers of the archeology team, from left to right, John Maxwell, Alisha Gauvreau, and Seonaid Duffield work on excavating the site.
An ancient archeological find on Triquet Island on B.C.'s Central Coast is adding credence to the oral histories of the Heiltsuk Nation.

"Heiltsuk oral history talks of a strip of land in that area where the excavation took place. It was a place that never froze during the ice age and it was a place where our ancestors flocked to for survival," said William Housty, a member of Heiltsuk Nation.
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Ancient Mega-Sloths dug massive tunnels in South America

BEC CREW
Science Alert
Sat, 01 Apr 2017 14:40 UTC
underground tunnel
© Heinrich Frank
Researchers have found several colossal burrows in South America that are so huge and neatly constructed, you'd be forgiven for thinking humans dug them as a passageway through the forest.

Turns out, they're far more ancient than they look, estimated to be at least 8,000 to 10,000 years old, and no known geologic process can explain them. But then there's the massive claw marks that line the walls and ceilings - it's now thought that an extinct species of giant ground sloth is behind at least some of these so-called palaeoburrows.

"I didn't know there was such a thing as palaeoburrows," lead researcher behind the latest study, Heinrich Frank from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, told Andrew Jenner at Discover.

"I'm a geologist, a professor, and I'd never even heard of them."
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