BBC News – Shackleton’s whisky recovered from South Pole ice

BBC News – Shackleton’s whisky recovered from South Pole ice Five crates of Scotch whisky and brandy belonging to the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton have been recovered after more than 100 years in the ice. They were buried beneath Shackleton’s Antarctic hut, built in 1908 for a failed expedition to the South Pole. Some of [...]

Bringing back to life an ancient language | Cyprus Mail

Bringing back to life an ancient language | Cyprus Mail By Sebastian Heller A COMMUNITY living in northern Scandinavia may hold the key to how the Maronites can save their ancient language which dates back to biblical times. Cypriot Maronite Arabic (CMA) is a distinct language composed of a mixture of Arabic and Aramaic, the [...]

Steak Dinners Go Back 2.5 Million Years : Discovery News

Steak Dinners Go Back 2.5 Million Years : Discovery News The discovery of a new “missing link” species of bull dating to a million years ago in Eritrea pushes back the beef steak dinner to the very dawn of humans and cattle. Although there is no evidence that early humans were actually herding early cattle [...]

FS Ancient Dimensions News: Descendents Of Lost Tribe Of Israel Found In India

FS Ancient Dimensions News: Descendents Of Lost Tribe Of Israel Found In India Original headline: DNA tests prove that Mizo people are descendants of a lost Israeli tribe It has been a long-standing contention of a section of Mizos that the people of Mizoram are descendants of the Menashe, one of the lost tribes of [...]

Costa Rica elects Jewish VP | JTA – Jewish & Israel News

Costa Rica elects Jewish VP | JTA – Jewish & Israel News (JTA) — A Jewish former banker was elected the vice president of Costa Rica. Luis Lieberman will become vice president after Costa Rican voters on Sunday elected Laura Chinchilla as the Central American country’s first female president by a wide margin. Lieberman’s parents [...]

Archaeology treasures: Salt Springs covers prehistoric culture – chicagotribune.com

Archaeology treasures: Salt Springs covers prehistoric culture – chicagotribune.com OCALA NATIONAL FOREST — Thousands of swimmers every year flock to Salt Springs Recreation Area to snorkel and walk along the sandy bottom of the popular water hole. But what they likely don’t know is that beneath their bare feet is an archaeological treasure trove — [...]

Rangel requests leave of absence – washingtonpost.com

Rangel requests leave of absence – washingtonpost.com Rep. Charles Rangel announces that he has requested a leave of absence from his chairmanship of the ways and means committee in a brief statement Wednesday morning. (AP/The Washington Post) read, see, hear more here…. Rangel requests leave of absence – washingtonpost.com Blogged with the Flock Browser

Study Debunks Claims Of Infant Sacrifice In Ancient Carthage – Science News – redOrbit

Study Debunks Claims Of Infant Sacrifice In Ancient Carthage – Science News – redOrbit Researchers examined 348 burial urns to learn that about a fifth of the children were prenatal at death, indicating that young Carthaginian children were cremated and interred in ceremonial urns regardless of cause of death A study led by University of [...]

Army Requests New Combat Vehicle

Army Requests New Combat Vehicle The Army released a request for proposal for the Ground Combat Vehicle — marking an official start for defense contractors to begin competing for the right to build the service’s next combat vehicle. Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli said the new vehicle will not be simply [...]

Op-Ed Contributor – The Victorian Version of Craigslist – NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Contributor – The Victorian Version of Craigslist – NYTimes.com VALENTINE’S DAY 2010: Singles search for love by creating profiles on dating Web sites or posting ads on Craigslist or connecting to a far-flung network via social media. It sounds so … futuristic. Except it’s not. Americans have been writing and reading personals — anonymous [...]

Army May Slash ‘Warrior Task’ Training

Army May Slash ‘Warrior Task’ Training The Army is set to cut down on the number of skills it teaches incoming Soldiers at boot camp and further constrain its “onerous” list of required training for all Joes across the force. According to Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, the Army’s chief of initial military training with Training [...]

First Minoan Shipwreck

First Minoan Shipwreck Crete has seduced archaeologists for more than a century, luring them to its rocky shores with fantastic tales of legendary kings, cunning deities, and mythical creatures. The largest of the Greek islands, Crete was the land of the Minoans (3100-1050 B.C.), a Bronze Age civilization named after its first ruler, King Minos, [...]

Jacksonville Journal – An Oregon Historical Society Looks to the Past for a Future – NYTimes.com

Jacksonville Journal – An Oregon Historical Society Looks to the Past for a Future – NYTimes.com JACKSONVILLE, Ore. — They say economic collapse is what froze this place in time, a gold rush relic all but abandoned when the railroad passed it by. Decades later, that chance preservation positioned Jacksonville to benefit from new interest [...]

Hey squash, time for your close-up: Plants ‘auditioned’ before domestication

Hey squash, time for your close-up: Plants ‘auditioned’ before domestication Plants & Animals Evolution Ecology Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Other Hey squash, time for your close-up: Plants ‘auditioned’ before domestication February 19, 2010 By Alvin Powell <!– –> Enlarge Photo: Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer Humans likely ‘auditioned’ plants and animals that they eventually domesticated by [...]