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Posted in History on Mar 28th, 2008
Researchers have converted a paper recording of a lady singing “Au Clair de la lune” circa 1860. They took the graph and converted it to sound. This means that is the first time that “recording” has been heard since 1860, one hundred and forty-eight years ago. The United States hadn’t even started our Civil War [...]
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, History, Intelligent Design, People on Dec 5th, 2007
The View is a tv show that has offered the world all kinds of insight into what really goes on in the world. A while back we learned that fire can’t melt steel. I need an image here:
Now, we learn that Christians predate Greeks thanks to Sherri Shepherd:
“Keep in mind that probably when [Epicurus] was [...]
That’s the headline that accompanied this:
While there are an estimated 7,000 languages spoken around the world today, one of them dies out about every two weeks, according to linguistic experts struggling to save at least some of them……
Losing languages means losing knowledge, says K. David Harrison, an assistant professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College.
“When we [...]
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Film, Global Warming, History, Religion on Feb 26th, 2007
A recent documentary claiming to have found the tomb of Jesus, along with some “shocking” news that Jesus may have had a son, is taking heat from basically all directions. I’ve read some on it, but not seen it. However, from what I’ve read, it’s got a LOT of obvious holes. The most obvious being [...]
Posted in History on Dec 1st, 2006
This is very cool:
Archaeologists discovered a rare Roman limestone sarcophagus containing a headless skeleton at the site of a historic London’s church, authorities said Friday.
The find dates to about A.D. 410 and lies 10 feet (3 meters) below the grounds of the St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church near central London’s busy Trafalgar Square, outside the boundaries researchers [...]
Posted in History on Sep 29th, 2005
The tomb of Odysseus has been found, and the location of his legendary capital city of Ithaca discovered here on this large island across a one-mile channel from the bone-dry islet that modern maps call Ithaca….
The discovery of what is almost certainly his tomb reveals that crafty Odysseus, known as Ulysses in many English renditions [...]