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This sphinx looks like a sorority girl after a long night

posted 19 May, 2013
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Archaeologists find clear evidence of cannibalism in 17th century Jamestown

Jamestown, Virginia was one of the first European colonies in the New World, and almost every single one of these early settlements dealt with incredible hardship. Archaeologists have now found evidence of cannibalism in 17th century Jamestown during the deadly winter of 1609-1610, in which 80% of the colonists died of cold and starvation.

In witness whereof—hear my voice, Alexander Graham Bell.

Groundbreaking digital technology has allowed researchers to recover Alexander Graham Bell’s voice from a recording held at the Smithsonian. Complement with Bell on creativity, innovation, and the secret of success.

posted 26 April, 2013
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Epic Rap Battles of History: Rasputin vs. Stalin

Creepy magic powers versus an iron fist… who wins?

Steve Carrell and James Gandolfini to star in a movie about feuding archaeologists called ‘Bone Wars’

HBO Films recently announced ‘Bone Wars’, a comedy about feuding archaeologists starring Steve Carrell and James Gandolfini.

The evolution of music from the 11th century to today

So apparently people were making music before the 1950s? Weird.

Helen Keller Speaking

Remarkably clearly, too, despite having never heard a sound almost from birth. I also was struck by how she doesn’t seem to have the same types of random eye movements you see with many blind people, but perhaps that’s because she wasn’t born blind?

Anyway, here she takes a moment to express her sincerest joy in knowing that her disabilities allowed her to be spared from hearing any Justin Bieber music, unlike her unfortunate younger sister Anne Frank who was forced to listen to it whilst hiding from the Nazis under the floorboards of an Amsterdam office building.

Justin Bieber thinks Anne Frank would have been a Belieber

While touring Europe, Justin Bieber stopped at the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, and when he signed the visitor’s book, he mentioned that he thinks Anne Frank would have been a big Bieber fan, that is, if she weren’t blind and deaf.

Website of the day: Distractions in Space

Distractions in Space has a good collection of transcripts of conversations between astronauts and ground control from various Apollo missions, including this one about a turd floating through the cabin during Apollo 10.

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Archeologists just uncovered Plutonium, the Greco-Roman “gateway to hell”. Learn more about this incredible historical discovery, here - http://bit.ly/ZsUWjx

posted 31 March, 2013
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Crazy russians illegally climbed the pyramids of Egypt and took these incredible photos

Last week, a group of Russians photographers apparently climbed the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. They hid from guards for four hours after the end of the visits and began to climb. According to one of the photographers, climb the pyramid can give punishment of one to three years. But it was worth it. “I was speechless,” he wrote. “I felt a creepy pleasure, an absolute happiness.”

11 Most Bizarre European Ossuaries

Across Europe in many predominantly Catholic or Orthodox countries are sites known as ossuaries, often referred to as “bone churches”. Creepy by today’s standards, these churches decorated from floor to ceiling with human skeletal remains were often used in places where major plagues had hit or where burial space had become scare. Though the original intention in many areas was for bones to be buried when space became available, many of these remains are still up and hanging in these bone churches as a testament to this peculiar religious tradition.

Discovering the Wild Men of Europe

Dressing up as animals, spirits, gods and ancestors is something that humans have been doing almost as long as there have been humans. And even in the developed, urbanized landscape of Europe, some of these ancient traditions still survive, ushering in solstices and equinoxes and harvests.