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Shakespeare’s Ghosts Live! What Secret Messages do The Spirits Reveal about the Nature of Reality?
... 5) but very few scientists have actually taken this on-board. So let's use this axiom to look at a fascinating ...
Annekatrin and Adrian - 07/05/2021 - 23:05
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Blood, Emeralds, Snakes & Poop: Bizarre European Medieval Plague Cures
Originating in China in the 1300s, plague arrived in Europe aboard a ship, bringing fearsome death in its wake. The Black Death ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, carrying away at least a third of its population, about 25 to 30 million people. The black buboes or black and swollen lymph nodes of plague victims gave the disease its name. Throughout the medieval period and well into the 17th century, localized outbreaks kept decimating populations in Europe.
Sahir - 04/06/2022 - 22:57
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6th Century Roman Law Text Discovered After Being Hidden for Centuries Inside Parchment Recycled as Medieval Bookbinding
... suggestion of writing beneath the parchment on the book board which incited new questions. When NU-ACCESS researchers ... the bookbinder tried to remove the writing on the book board, likely through washing or scraping. The book board, however, retained two ghostly columns of writing ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 25/07/2017 - 22:49
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Advanced Ancient Architecture of Puma Punku Site is Fully Recreated With 3D Printing
... the majority of the stones of Puma Punku are too large to move and that field notes from previous research by others ...
ancient-origins - 19/12/2018 - 13:52
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13-year-old Mythical Beast Filmed in Canadian Wilderness?
... much as a few millimeters causes the spec to "appear" to move several feet in video footage. A good way to recreate ... room. Now close one eye and look at the finger. When you move your finger a few millimeters, notice how it covers and ... , it all began when a 4chan user posted on a /b/ board inviting others to contribute their ideas for the ...
ashley cowie - 06/08/2018 - 18:55
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The Amazing Study of CEMI Field Theory and Why It’s Important to Our Wellbeing
While consciousness is a term that is difficult to define, there is evidence to link it with the EM field of the brain. This EM field is well known and is utilized in many brain-scanning techniques such as EEG that depend on electrical signals.
Walter Cruttenden - 14/01/2019 - 13:58
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Whatever Happened to Blackbeard’s Silver-Plated Skull?
... Teach in exchange for some of his loot. Regardless, this move made surrounding governors and lieutenants wary of Eden, ... had more precious valuables than North Carolina, he had to move fast. Spotswood launched a raid on North Carolina which ... Teach and his men with their own weapons. This was a risky move, as many had heard about Blackbeard’s skills in ...
Lex Leigh - 29/04/2022 - 22:52
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The Mysterious Riace Warriors: From Greece To Italy To Discovery
... to the Universal Exposition is in fact “a blatant money move to gin up ticket sales at EXPO 2015?” By the way, in ...
dhwty - 13/11/2020 - 21:25
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Court Declares Ayodhya Hindu Land, Offers Muslims Other Space
... Sabha group and a Sunni Muslim organization, the Wafiq Board, in the highest court in India. The Supreme Court ... muted. Zafaryab Jilani, a lawyer who represented the Wafiq Board, stated that “We respect the verdict, but we are not ...
Ed Whelan - 09/11/2019 - 18:53
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Groom of the Stool: Was The King’s Toilet Guy The Worst Job Ever?
... cloth fair in green; And the hole himself, look there no board be seen; Thereon a fair cushion, the ordure no man to ...
dhwty - 27/11/2020 - 18:00
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The Battle of Agincourt: The Muddy Massacre of the Hundred Years’ War
... was a prelude to the Battle of Agincourt. (British Library Board / Public Domain ) The defenders resisted longer than ... positions, each waiting for the other to make the first move. Nothing happened in the three hours that followed and ... The king began to advance his men, which was a risky move, as it meant that he had to uproot the stakes that were ...
dhwty - 09/04/2020 - 23:01
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The So-Called Druid of Colchester: Physician, Mystical Man, or Both?
... time. Mugwort. ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Another curious item is a board game that looks like a modern chess board. If the man was a Druid, why did he need this item in ... Your move Doctor! The gaming board and other discoveries from ...
Natalia Klimczak - 14/12/2016 - 14:47
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Nearly 11,000-Year-Old Megastructure Is Oldest Ever Found in Europe
The oldest known megastructure built by humans has been found in Europe in the form of a Stone Age wall, almost an entire kilometer in length! Located at a depth of 21 meters (69 feet) in the Bay of Mecklenburg, Germany, the ‘Blinkerwall’ was found to be stretching along the seafloor, located by accident by scientists operating a multibeam sonar system from a research vessel on a student trip 10 kilometers (6 miles) offshore.
Sahir - 13/02/2024 - 16:23
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Floating Islands Seen at Sea: Myth and Reality
... by Aeolus: since he controls the winds, he can have them move his island wherever he pleases. Or perhaps the mobility ... the water in the pot was about to boil the island began to move, and the monks ran to the boat, leaving behind ... narratives fire is what causes the whale-island to move; curiously there are two other medieval narratives in ...
chetvanduzer - 02/08/2014 - 13:47
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Luxor Temple: The Sacred Sanctuary With An Eternal Legacy
... to Luxor Temple. This was also a large advertisement board for the pharaoh, as Ramesses decorated it with scenes ...
dhwty - 04/05/2020 - 14:02
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The Return of the Moai: Rapa Nui and the Fight for its Ancestors
... to Rapa Nui, an island with no port, it then remained on board until conditions allowed for it to be transferred and ...
Cecilia Bogaard - 10/03/2022 - 21:52
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Rome vs. Carthage: The First Punic War and the Birth of a Superpower
... ships to allow a heavy infantry unit of around 100 men to board them. The Corvus, the Roman ship boarding device. ...
Robbie Mitchell - 22/05/2023 - 22:56
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Why Ghosts Haunt England at Christmas but Steer Clear of America
... the Downton Abbey Christmas special featured a ouija board which communicated a message from a dead character. ... the Downton Abbey Christmas special featured a ouija board which communicated a message from a dead character. ...
ancient-origins - 19/12/2016 - 03:45
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Five Bloodcurdling Medical Procedures That are No Longer Performed … Thankfully
Surgeries and treatments come and go. A new BMJ guideline, for example, makes “strong recommendations” against the use of arthroscopic surgery for certain knee conditions. But while this key-hole surgery may slowly be scrapped in some cases due to its ineffectiveness, a number of historic “cures” fell out of favour because they were more akin to a method of torture. Here are five of the most extraordinary and unpleasant.
ancient-origins - 21/05/2017 - 01:59
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Hippalos: Hazardous Journeys by Camel and Caravan – Part II
(Read Part 1, Hippalos: Early Navigation of Deep Sea Routes Between India and Egypt)
Assuming the presence of military was a deterrent to the local pirates, the Greek ship loaded with trade goods would make its forty-day crossing directly from Musiris to Ocelis, near modern Aden.
Chris Morgan - 08/05/2016 - 21:45