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Re: Hole-y cow! Swiss cheese 3000 years old?

GarryRF ·
3,000 years old? ? Would that make it extra mature or vintage ?
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Mar 17, 2015: Mystical Stonehenge

IslandMan ·
    Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in Wiltshire, England, about 2 miles (3 km) west of Amesbury and 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is the remains of a ring of standing...
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JetBlue + TWA = new airport hotel? Maybe!

Paul Heymont ·
If the equation seems a bit arcane, so is the problem—recyling an iconic and historic building to both be useful (make money) and still be itself. JetBlue and its hotel partner MCR, think they can do it, and it seems the Port Authority, which...
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The Space Race from the Soviet Side Displayed at London's Science Museum

Travel Rob ·
There's an exhibition at the London Science museum called Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age." It has technology that put the first dog, man and woman into orbit on display and most of it has never seen outside of Russia,   There...
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Bronze Age Treasure found in Denmark

DrFumblefinger ·
  Danish archaeologists have found 2,000 gold spirals buried in a field in Zealand, near a site where several ancient gold bracelets and bowls had previously been discovered.  While not certain of their exact function, it is thought they...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Aug. 13, 2014: A Bronze Market in Basel

Paul Heymont ·
Artistic taste, perhaps, but not very tasty! These kids are admiring a market table of fruits and vegetables...all cast in bronze! We ran into this in the cloister garden of the Basel Munster (cathedral). So far, all I have found in explanation is...
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Hole-y cow! Swiss cheese 3000 years old?

Paul Heymont ·
British archaeologists have found evidence that cheese-making in the high Alpine regions may date back to the Iron Age, 3000 years ago.
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Here's a chance to really dig Spain!

Paul Heymont ·
A team of British archeologists is using crowdfunding to finance an excavation in a Spanish Iron Age hill fort, and to recruit willing diggers.
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Bronze Age village found under a Roman city

Paul Heymont ·
At Aquileia, once one of Europe's key market towns and a World Heritage site, archaeologists have found remains of a large Bronze Age village.
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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre

DrFumblefinger ·
DrFumblefinger visits the fascinating Yukon Beringia Interpretative Center in Whitehorse. The museum presents life in the Yukon during the last great Ice Age.
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Mar 17, 2015: Mystical Stonehenge

GarryRF ·
5 things you didn't know about Stonehenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apSeCIQNKVA
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Re: Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre

GarryRF ·
I would love to visit this area and see the amazing displays. Where I live the Ice Age sent Glaciers south from the Arctic Circle. Massive rocks found underground have their origins traced back to hundreds of miles further North. The Lake District and The Pennine Mountain range (through the centre of England) were carved by glacial action. Global Warming saw the Ice-Age retreating before mankind had any influence.
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Re: Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre

DrFumblefinger ·
We have local rocks that were moved hundreds of kilometers by the glaciers as well. For example, this local collection of rocks is known as the Okotoks erratic, and measures up to 40 m. It was transported here by the glaciers that completely covered Alberta thousands of years ago. Global cooling really terrifies me. Sheets of ice covering much of the planets land are not compatible with life in those areas.
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Re: Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre

GarryRF ·
Wise thoughts Dr F. Many of the life changing events in the history of this planet occur around the time of Volcanic destruction. Mini Ice Ages caused by the sun being blocked from view by the airborne ash that covered the planet. Krakatoa being the most recent eruption. 13,000 times greater than Hiroshima. So severe that the explosion could be heard around the world twice as the sound and ash travelled in all directions. Much easier to blame mankind's excesses. Here in the North of England...
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Re: Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre

Professorabe ·
The consensus appears to be that English wine was finished off in the 19th century by a combination of diseases and changes to the tax regime, not by a sudden cooling or anything of the sort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...m_the_United_Kingdom The varieties grown then were quite different from today's - and the majority were lost when wine production declined, possibly for good.
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Re: Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre

GarryRF ·
“The Romans wrote about growing wine grapes in Britain in the first century and then it got too cold during the Dark Ages. Ancient tax records show the Britons grew their own wine grapes in the 11th century, during the Medieval Warming, and then it got too cold during the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age is a period between about 1300 and 1870 during which Europe and North America were subjected to much colder winters than during the 20th century ." Wikipedia refers to the production of...
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Re: Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre

Professorabe ·
No, the Wikipedia article covers much more than that - and even refers to grapes being tried by the Romans in Lincolnshire. You forgot to attribute your quote to Dennis Avery and you did not quote him in full. He goes on to claim that "it isn't yet warm enough for wine grapes in today's Britain". This is manifestly completely untrue. I don't want to get into a discussion on climate change here - you clearly are in another camp on that issue.
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Aug. 4, 2020: Exploring Portugal's Age of Discovery

Marilyn Jones ·
Lisbon's maritime museum offers an unusual view of history, and of Portugal's role in European exploration
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