Tag: history/mystery
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Tracing Ancestry, Researchers Produce a Genetic Atlas of Human Mixing Events
from nytimes.com: The rise and fall of empires, the march of armies, the flow of trade routes, the practice of slavery — all these events have led to a mixing of populations around the world. Such episodes have left a record in the human genome, but one that has so far been too complex to…
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US Rejects Japan Broadcaster Claim It Used ‘Comfort Women’ in WWII
from world.time.com: Did the American government employ sex slaves during the Second World War? The newly appointed chairman of Japan’s public broadcasting system apparently thinks so. In the latest in a string of revisionist statements by conservative leaders in Japan, Katsuto Momii said the “comfort women” system, in which women were coerced into serving in…
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How Women’s Wisdom Was Lost
from theguardian.com: A mummified crocodile in the back streets of Oxford might not be an obvious guardian for one of life’s great mysteries. But some 2,000-year-old treacle brown remains made up of recycled scraps of Egyptian papyrus, torn up to encase the reptile, hide hard evidence of a substantial historical cover-up. Now stored in 100-year-old…
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Today in History for January 20th: Iran Hostages, JFK’s Inauguration and Wannsee Conference
from youtube.com/ap: Highlights of Today in History: Iran releases American hostages; Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy innaugurated as President.
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Ariel Sharon and the Legacy of US-Backed War Crimes
from antiwar.com: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon died over the weekend. Much of the U.S. and Israeli media have whitewashed Sharon’s legacy, erasing from history the fact that he was a wretched war criminal who was devoted to a Greater Israel and to massacring any civilians he perceived as obstructing that goal.
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Meryl Streep Calls Out Walt Disney As Sexist, Anti-Semitic
from latimes.com: One of moviedom’s modern icons called out one of Hollywood’s historic heroes Tuesday, as Meryl Streep delivered a sharp rebuke to Walt Disney for alleged sexist and anti-Semitic views at the National Board of Review awards gala in New York. Streep was on hand to present an acting award to Emma Thompson for…
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The Year In Food: What 2013 Cooked Up
from newsobserver.com: It was bound to be a weird year in food news for 2013… It was the year National Public Radio reminded us that you shouldn’t wash raw chicken before you cook it (true) but blamed Julia Child for doing it wrong (not fair even if it was true). It was the year that…
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Prehistoric Cave Prints Show Most Early Artists Were Women
(Note: This is our first #MediaMatriarchy post.) from nbcnews.com: Alongside drawings of bison and horses, the first painters left clues to their identity on the stone walls of caves, blowing red-brown paint through rough tubes and stenciling outlines of their palms. New analysis of ancient handprints in France and Spain suggests that most of those…
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Flashback Video: 1983 TV News Report Confirms ‘Satan Sells’
from noisecreep.com: “One thing is for sure: Satan sells.” These were the introductory words to a news report in 1983 following a clip of Motely Crue‘s ‘Take Me to the Top,’ which, as we know, is not about the Horned One. Surprisingly, the news report is actually pretty objective instead of condemning the music. When…
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Did Israel Vandalize Box That Held Bones of Jesus’ Brother?
from foxnews.com: A limestone box said to have once held the bones of the brother of Jesus was at the center of the most controversial forgery case in decades — and it was allegedly vandalized by the Israeli government before being returned to its owner. Called the James ossuary, it is a small stone box…
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Take a Hellish Tour of America’s Most Satanic Landmarks
from theatlanticcities.com: All right, kids, the bags are in the trunk and we’re ready to get this road trip started. Let’s just grab the map to see where we can go. Devil’s Swamp – hmm, that doesn’t sound very fun. Mount Evil… uhh, no. Satan Hill. Lucifer Falls. Lake Chaos. Wait a second – what…
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Interview w/ Exene Cervenka of X
Punk poet and living, loving legend Exene Cervenka of X joins us to talk about the future of everything: corporate culture, mind control music, mythical media, food freedom, Fallon, false flags and much more! Download/Subscribe
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Flowering plant origins pushed back 100 million years
from bbc.co.uk: Flowering plants may have originated more than 100 million years earlier than previously thought, according to scientists in Switzerland and Germany. The previously oldest known flowering plant-like pollen dates from the Early Cretaceous period. But the team described six types of fossil pollen grains from older Middle Triassic core samples that closely resemble…
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New World Next Week: Episode164 – Journalists Under Attack
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode164 – Journalists Under Attack Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week, James and James try something different as they cover a number of updates and addenda to breaking news…
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New World Next Week: Episode158 – Protest Rising, Hastings Murdered, TWA 800 Update
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode158 – Protest Rising, Hastings Murdered, TWA 800 Update Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Brazil Protests Erupt Over Public Services And World Cup Costs Peevski Protests…