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• Gaspar: Baby Name of the Day

  
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  Photo credit: Wikipedia We’ve talked about Casper and Ja sper .  How ’bout this version of the name? Thanks to Carmen for suggesting Gaspar as our Baby Name of the Day. Gaspar is the Spanish version of this ancient name, traditionally given to one of the three wise men in the Nativity Story. He sounds ...
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• The last dogs of Pompeii

  
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  Located on the Bay of Naples with fertile soil and a perfect climate, the city of Pompeii was an idyllic place to live in the ancient world. The people kept dogs as pets and guard dogs as we do today. We know they had laws to protect them from cruelty. We know they valued dogs because of the artworks that have been ...
  1 week ago

• Before the Fall: Evidence for a Golden Age

  
  A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS — Authority: 131
  Waking Times : If you asked them what life was like in prehistoric times, most people would conjure up an image like the famous opening scenes of 2001: Space Odyssey– groups of hairy savages grunting and jumping around, foaming at the mouth with aggression as they bash each over the heads with sticks. We take it for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cassandra: Baby Name of the Day

  
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  Photo credit: Wikipedia She’s a Greek cautionary tale and a lovely name. Thanks to Laney for suggesting Cassandra as our Baby Name of the Day. You probably know the bones of Cassandra’s story: She’s a princess, and a looker, too.  Apollo notices her.  Somehow – either because she spurns his ...
  2 weeks ago

• At The Centre Of The Bermuda Triangle

  
  A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS — Authority: 131
  End All Disease: With the use of sonar, oceanographer Dr. Meyer Verlag discovered giant glass pyramids at a depth of two-thousand meters. The use of other devices have allowed scientists to determine that these glass giants are both made of a crystal-like substance, and are nearly 3 times bigger than the pyramid of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zechariah: Baby Name of the Day

  
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  Photo credit: Wikipedia With his stylish Z and the easy nickname Zeke , can’t you imagine boys answering to this Biblical appellation? Thanks to Zoe for suggesting Zechariah as our Baby Name of the Day. My first question – and maybe yours – is whether Zechariah is really a separate name.   He’s one ...
  3 weeks ago

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• Gee, What Do You Think?

  
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  Heres the question being undertaken by two recent scholarly books : Modern anthropological research may be settling the great debate between the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes and the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Was the state of nature a “war of every man against every man” in which life was ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rock-Cut Architecture of the Ancient World

  
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  (Image: andihefti , cc- sa-3.0 ) Rock-cut architecture refers to structures such as dwellings, tombs and temples, which have been carved out of rock (as opposed to extensions of natural caves). Their facades and internal layout reflect the architectural styles of their ancient builders. Some spectacular ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hanging Gardens of Nineveh

  
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  The Hanging Gardens of Babylon is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that may not have ever existed. For now, they are purely legendary. The lack of physical evidence among other ancient remains in Babylon (53 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq) cause some to doubt its existence. Ancient reports ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hanging Gardens of Nineveh?

  
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  According to Stephanie Dalley of Oxford, whom most of us know from her  Myths from Mesopotamia , the hanging gardens belong to an engineering feat of the Assyrian King Sennacherib rather than the Babylonian Nebuchadnezzar.  From the Guardian : She [Dalley] was astonished to find Sennacheribs own description of ...
  4 weeks ago

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