Victorians… Not Just Repressed Colonialists
I came across this web site in my morning read yesterday and shared it with a few folks on instant messenger. Essentially, its a photo gallery of Victorian era post-mortem photography. Apparently it was...
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There and Back Again
After languishing in the desk drawer of an Oxford professor, a manuscript about places that appeared on no known maps, people that never walked the world and languages never spoken by any culture found...
Tropical Stonehenge may have been found
(Associated Press) A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory — a find archaeologists say indicates early rainforest inhabitants were more sophisticated than...
Backs to the Future
(University of California) Tell an old Aymara speaker to “face the past!” and you just might get a blank stare in return – because he or she already does. New analysis of the language...
Environmentalists hail victory as Japanese firms quit whaling
(Associated Press) Environmentalists have hailed a victory as key Japanese firms quit the whaling business after a pressure campaign, although the government vowed no change to its controversial annual hunt. Fishing giant Nissui and...
