Myths about migration: historical and philosophical perspectives by Melissa Lane (History & Policy)
Updated: 2010-05-31 09:00:01
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Leon Adams
The God of War
Thoughts on the Italian Invasion of Ethiopia
Mars has again descended from his throne
To ravage earth with bloody human strife;
To break away the bonds of peace and love
And send one nation warring with another,
As sparrows combat o’er a trifling crumb;
To wash the verdant earth with sickening blood
And herald death into a million [...]
The USS Mount Whitney is a Blue Ridge Command ship of the Blue Ridge Class. She came into Portsmouth earlier today.
Prehistoric rock art, which dates back 8,000 years, may hold clues to the dawn of the Egyptian civilization.
Amateur explorers stumbled across the cave, which includes 5,000 images painted or engraved into stone, in the vast, empty desert near Egypt’s southwest border with Libya and Sudan.
Rudolph Kuper, a German archaeologist, said the detail depicted in the [...]
The Daily Mail has put together a fascinating list of ten maps which changed the world. [Thx Tron]
3. CHINESE GLOBE, 1623
Made for the Chinese Emperor, this is the earliest known Chinese terrestrial globe, and a fusion of East and Western cultures.
Its creators are thought to be the Jesuit missionaries Manuel Dias (1574-1659), who introduced the [...]
Weirdworm has compiled a list of 8 strange jobs from throughout history.
1. Whipping Boys
During the 1600’s in England, educating the future king created an interesting problem. Since the monarch’s blood line was considered divine, teachers and caretakers couldn’t punish the young prince even if he acted like a brat. The solution was obvious: get another [...]
An Islamic settlement, buried for 125 years, has been uncovered in Qatar.
Dr Andrew Petersen first became aware of a possible settlement after finding masonry and pottery at Ras Al-Sharig in Qatar.
He thought something might be there after reading sources naming a town called Rubayqa.
“But we certainly weren’t prepared for the scale of the find,” said [...]
A massive find of 57 ancient Egyptian tombs, dating as far back as 4,500 years, has been found in Fayoum.
Archaeologists have unearthed 57 ancient Egyptian tombs, most of which hold an ornately painted wooden sarcophagus with a mummy inside, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said Sunday.
The oldest tombs date back to around 2750 B.C., during [...]
Apparently, 13,000 years ago Mammoths helped fill the atmosphere with methane, altering the climate.
Together with other large plant-eating mammals that are now extinct, they released around 9.6 million tonnes of the gas each year, experts estimated.
When the ”megafauna” disappeared there was a dramatic fall in atmospheric methane which may have altered the climate.
Analysis of gases [...]
I am a teacher at a public school and this new documentary I find interesting. I look forward to seeing this film when it opens in June, 2010: