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Giants of the Americas: Who were they and where did they come from?

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Selection of news accounts featured in the book, Giants on Record.
"The Iroquois, the Osage, the Tuscaroras, the Hurons, the Omahas, and many other North American Indians all speak of giant men who once lived and roamed in the territories of their forefathers. All over what is now the U.S. are traditions of these ancient giants." 1
Did Giant humans roam Ancient America in the past? Did the Native American's have a royal class of giant rulers entombed in massive burial mounds?

The historical record certainly seems to support this reality. Over a two hundred year period, more than 1000 accounts of seven-foot and taller skeletons have been reported unearthed from ancient burial sites in North America. Newspaper accounts, town and county histories, letters, scientific journals, diaries, photos and Smithsonian ethnology reports have carefully documented this. These skeletons have been reported from coast to coast in burial chambers, stone crypts, caves, ancient battlefields and massive mounds. Strange anatomic anomalies such as double rows of teeth, jawbones so large as to be fit over the face of the finder, and elongated skulls, were documented in virtually every state. Smithsonian scientists identified at least 17 skeletons that stood at over seven feet in their annual reports, including one example that was 8 feet tall, and a skull with a 36-inch circumference (an average human skull has a circumference of about 20 inches). The Smithsonian Institution is mentioned dozens more times as the recipient of enormous skeletons from across the United States.

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1993 Belfast bombing blamed on IRA was actually carried out by British intelligence agent

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© PACEMAKER BELFAST The aftermath of the Frizell’s Fish shop bombing in Shankill Road in 1993, which killed nine in a Loyalist Belfast community... was carried out by the British government and used to justify reprisal attacks against the Nationalist community
Highly-sensitive documents suggest terrorist who plotted attack that killed nine civilians in 1993 was British agent

The police watchdog in Northern Ireland is probing claims that the senior IRA operative who planned the 1993 Shankill Road bombing was an informant who passed on details that could have allowed the security forces to prevent the atrocity.

Nine civilians, including two children, were murdered in the attack on a fish shop in Belfast's loyalist heartland 23 years ago which became one of the most notorious incidents of the Troubles and led to a wave of sectarian reprisal killings.

Highly-sensitive documents stolen by the IRA during a break-in at the fortified headquarters of the then Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in 2002 have now been claimed to show that the terrorist who plotted the bombing was a British agent known as "AA".

Leaks from the stolen papers suggest AA had extensively briefed his MI5 or Special Branch handlers on the aim and likely timing of the attack, which was designed to inflame sectarian tensions by killing the leadership of the loyalist Ulster Defence Association (UDA) terror group as they met above Frizzell's fish shop on a busy Saturday in October 1993.

Comment: There is nothing 'extraordinary' about this incident. It's standard operating procedure for British and American false-flag terrorism.

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The caste system has left its mark on Indians' genomes

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© DrshenoyLord Parshuram with Brahmin settlers commanding Lord Varuna to make the seas recede and allow Brahmins to make their homes in Kerala.
Over 1,500 years ago, the Gupta emperors ruled large parts of India. They helped consolidate the nation, but they also popularized India's caste system, making it socially unacceptable for people to marry outside their castes. Now, a new analysis of genetic variation among contemporary Indians has revealed that this social shift left a distinctive genetic signature behind.

A group of researchers in India conducted this analysis by comparing the genomes of hundreds of Indians from throughout the country. As they write in a paper published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, samples came from "367 unrelated individuals drawn from 18 mainland and two island (Andaman and Nicobar Islands) populations selected to represent geographic, linguistic, and ethnic diversities." Previous studies had suggested that today's Indians came from two ancestral populations, but the new analysis revealed four distinct "haplotypes," or bundles of genetic elements that travel through generations in a package. People with the same haplotypes likely came from the same ancestral groups. The researchers also found a fifth haplotype among people of the Andaman archipelago.

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The world's oldest known monument - Göbekli Tepe

Göbekli Tepe
© Wikimedia CommonsGöbekli Tepe, showing sites A through D.
Located in the southeastern region of Anatolia in Turkey is an archaeological site known as Göbekli Tepe. Deemed "unremarkable" when the site was first discovered in the early 1960s, Klaus Schmidt thought otherwise, and we should be glad he did.

Were someone to ask you what is the oldest monument known to mankind, most people would say the Pyramids of Egypt or perhaps, Stonehenge. However, Gobekli Tepe predates Stonehenge by 7,000 years and Egypt's pyramids by 7,500 years.

The site was first excavated in 1963 by Istanbul University and the University of Chicago. American archaeologist Peter Benedict thought it might be Neolithic, and proposed the upper layers were topped by Byzantine and Islamic cemeteries.

And because the hill where the site was located had been under agricultural cultivation for generations, the site was dismissed because of the number of rocks that had been moved by the area's inhabitants.

When German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt began excavating the site in 1994, he really didn't know what he would eventually find. But until his death in 2014, he uncovered six temple-like structures built on top of each other, spanning a time period of 1,000 years.

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Bones from suspected African burial ground found under street in New York City

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Archaeologists have found evidence of a burial ground beneath a bus depot in Harlem, New York. The remains, which were found on 126th Street, are believed to be of New Yorkers of African descent and are thought to date from between the 17th and 19th century.

More than 140 bones were found by archaeologists who were working for the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the New York Times reports. The researchers also came across a skull, which they believe is likely to have come from an adult woman of African descent.

The finds were made during the summer of 2015; however, they were only announced this week.

Comment: See more: Two centuries-old tombs unearthed beneath historic New York City park


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Popular fairy tales date back to the Bronze Age, answering many questions about British cultural heritage

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© Susana Vera / Reuters
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, academics discovered that the fairy stories passed down from generation to generation may have originated much earlier than previously believed, with some tales dating back to the Bronze Age.

Researchers at Durham University used techniques normally used by biologists to trace the stories back to prehistoric times. The academics examined the common elements from different stories to establish which roots had contributed to modern-day fairy stories.

Anthropologist Dr Jamie Tehrani worked with folklorist Sara Graca Da Silva from the New University of Lisbon, and both believe that the research has answered many questions about British cultural heritage.

Comment: Oral history, oral tradition, legends, or folklore are how stories were passed down from generation to generation . It is what people did before books were made to keep their stories alive for the next generation to learn, laugh, share and add their own.


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Pythagorean theorem and ancient Babylonian

Deriv; A brickwork lion on the ancient Babylonian Ishtar’s Gate.
Deriv; A brickwork lion on the ancient Babylonian Ishtar’s Gate.
Very much like today, the Old Babylonians—20th to 16th centuries BC—had the need to understand and use what is now called the Pythagoras' (or Pythagorean) theorem. They applied it in very practical problems such as to determine how the height of a cane leaning against a wall changes with its inclination. This sounds trivial, but it was one of the most important problems studied at the time.

A remarkable Old Babylonian clay tablet, commonly referred to as Plimpton 322, was found to store combinations of three positive integers that satisfy Pythagoras' theorem. Today we call them primitive Pythagorean triples where the term primitive implies that the side lengths share no common divisor.

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Ancient water technologies are being revived to deal with Peru's ongoing drought

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© Wikimedia CommonsAn Inca-era water canal at Tipón, Peru
Peru has been facing a severe water crisis as chronic problems such as polluted water supplies and environmental change combine to undermine the water security of the entire country. However, the city of Lima is now using a series of ancient canals and irrigation channels built by pre-hispanic cultures around 2,000 years ago, and extended by the Wari and the Inca, in order to supply the inhabitants with clean, unpolluted water, and to maintain parks and other public green areas.

In April, 2015, a new plan was put forward by Lima's water utility company, Sedapal, to revive an ancient network of stone canals that were built by the Wari culture. EFE reports that pre-hispanic canals are now being utilized to serve the water needs of Lima.

Peru's highly populated arid Pacific coast depends on water from glacial melt to compensate for the region's lack of rainfall, but Peru's glaciers have been retreating at a rapid and increasing rate, leaving many areas without adequate access to water. Lima's failing public water system has been unable to address the problem, and privatization has been the preferred formula of the government for fixing the deficiencies - a move that is widely unpopular with the majority of the Peruvian people.

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John Pilger: Australia's Day for secrets, flags & cowards

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On 26 January, one of the saddest days in human history will be celebrated in Australia. It will be "a day for families", say the newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch. Flags will be dispensed at street corners and displayed on funny hats. People will say incessantly how proud they are.

For many, there is relief and gratitude. In my lifetime, non-indigenous Australia has changed from an Anglo-Irish society to one of the most ethnically diverse on earth. Those we used to call "New Australians" often choose 26 January, "Australia Day", to be sworn in as citizens. The ceremonies can be touching. Watch the faces from the Middle East and understand why they clench their new flag.

It was sunrise on 26 January so many years ago when I stood with Indigenous and non Indigenous Australians and threw wreaths into Sydney Harbour. We had climbed down to one of the perfect sandy coves where others had stood as silhouettes, watching as the ships of Britain's "First Fleet" dropped anchor on 26 January, 1788. This was the moment the only island continent on earth was taken from its inhabitants; the euphemism was "settled". It was, wrote Henry Reynolds, one of few honest Australian historians, one of the greatest land grabs in world history. He described the slaughter that followed as "a whispering in our hearts".

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Do the steppes of Ukraine and Russia hold the mysteries of ancient Indo-European culture?

Corded Ware culture
© Bridgeman ImagesThe creators of the Corded Ware culture, named after this intricate pottery, may have spoken an Indo-European language derived from one spoken by herders from the East.
What do you call a male sibling? If you speak English, he is your "brother." Greek? Call him "phrater." Sanskrit, Latin, Old Irish? "Bhrater," "frater," or "brathir," respectively. Ever since the mid-17th century, scholars have noted such similarities among the so-called Indo-European languages, which span the world and number more than 400 if dialects are included. Researchers agree that they can probably all be traced back to one ancestral language, called Proto-Indo-European (PIE). But for nearly 20 years, scholars have debated vehemently when and where PIE arose.

Two long-awaited studies, one described online this week in a preprint and another scheduled for publication later this month, have now used different methods to support one leading hypothesis: that PIE was first spoken by pastoral herders who lived in the vast steppe lands north of the Black Sea beginning about 6000 years ago. One study points out that these steppe land herders have left their genetic mark on most Europeans living today.