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• The Ancient Maya

  
  Suzanne Lieurance - Writing Coach and Freelance Writer — Authority: 119
  This book is part of the Civilizations of the Ancient World series from Enslow Publishers.
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• Was Homeland Security Created To Protect Those Who Deceived America?

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 571
  Rense By Jeff Gates 11-13-9 Was Fort Hood really the target of a terrorist attack? The first clue to the real culprit emerged when Senator Joe Lieberman sought to blame this mass murder on the U.S. military. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, he promised hearings on how ...
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• Even more PC game download sales show up

  
  Big Download Blog — Authority: 633
  Filed under: Downloads , Puzzle , Strategy You thought we were done with PC game download sales on Thursday, didnt you? As it turns out there are a few more price cuts that we found out about after we posted up the news yesterday.: Steam has just launched the indie puzzle game QuantZ and is giving folks a ...
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• Greece: Gay Rights in One of the Oldest Civilizations

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  Homosexuality dates back thousands of years in Ancient Greece, where same-sex relationships were well known - even among the gods. The word “lesbian” also comes from the island of Lesbos, where Sappho wrote some of her love lyrics to other women. But today in Greece, gay rights are not as accepted. ...
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• Collecting Coins of the World

  
  Vintage Antique Collectible — Authority: 498
  Start with your pocket change Start out by studying coins you pull from your pockets, or failing that, some old coins from your attic, on your floor, or out in public. As a novice coin collector, it makes no sense to spend a lot of your money on coins if you do not understand their nuances thoroughly. Spend a good ...
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• The Vatican, Alien Life and UFOs

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 124
  As the discovery of the number of planets outside of our little Solar System increases (the count is now 400 ), the possibility of discovering earth-type planets (or moons) increases also. Among which perhaps 10% of the estimated total in the whole galaxy could approximately be at least 10 Billion worlds . And ...
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• Ancient Egyptians and Beads

  
  Ravi's Gadgets — Authority: 121
  The discovery of thousands of Egyptian mummies in a network of tombs reinforces the fact that Egyptians were obsessed with dressing the mummies in the proper clothing and jewelry to prepare them for their trip to the underworld.Egyptian burial sites have provided knowledge about the history and use of beads in ancient ...
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• The Lost Village of Skara Brae

  
  Unsolved Mysteries In The World — Authority: 113
  Five thousand years ago, a thriving community existed on an island north of Scotland. Skara Brae (pronounced /ˈskɑrə ˈbreɪ/) is a large stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It consists of ten clustered houses, and was occupied from ...
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• Ignorant Jingoistic Bigot Thinks She Agrees with Me

  
  Catholic and Enjoying It! — Authority: 604
  Reader Greta writes to comment on my remark that we should be profiling those who express enthusiasm for violence against the innocent, not on the basis of race or ethnicity and manages to be a stupid as possible: We do not profile. We do not put people in camps because of their race or religion. We search grandmas ...
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• King Tut tomb to get makeover

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 733
  Mysterious brown spots in the Tomb of Tutankhamun will be fully investigated during a five-year project to restore the burial of the boy King, Egypts antiquities department announced today. The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has partnered with the California-based ...
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• Cavaliere by Marino Marini sold for $1,082,500

  
  What One Million Dollars Buy — Authority: 137
  Marino Marini’s sculpture titled Cavaliere was sold for $1,082,500 at Sotheby’s Impressions & Modern Art Evening Sale on Nov. 9, 2009 in New York. From the lot’s note: “A dominant theme of Marini’s art, the subject of horse and rider underwent a number of stylistic transformations throughout the ...
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• Mummy Of A Deformed Priestess Discovered in Peru

  
  Baxter King's Creepy — Authority: 130
  Lima (Peru), November 9 (ANI) : “An archaeological excavation has uncovered the mummy of a young priestess, a member of the elite, with several precious items dating from the period of 300-450 AD in Cahuachi, Peru.” “According to a report in Travel Culture History News, the mummy was found inside a series of ...
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• Vanished Persian army of 50,000 Warriors, said found in desert

  
  Baxter King's Creepy — Authority: 130
  “The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.” “Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds ...
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• We Need More Osman Danquahs

  
  Catholic and Enjoying It! — Authority: 604
  Fewer Gen. Caseys would be good too.
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• But they did nothing because...

  
  Catholic and Enjoying It! — Authority: 604
  there is no more horrible evil in the universe than profiling. Innocent Americans must simply be expected to watch their children die in perfectly preventable bloodbaths in order to protect Muslims from the horror of profiling. Meanwhile, as media Talking Hairdos furrow their brows and wonder whether Islam had ...
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• The quest for Cambyses lost army

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 733
  Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army -- 50,000 strong -- of Persian King Cambyses II, ...
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• Meanwhile, in the Post-Christian Britain...

  
  Catholic and Enjoying It! — Authority: 604
  the theologically illiterate booboisie do their bit to demonstrate to future generations how the English made themselves ripe for Islamic cultural domination and, eventually imposition of sharia. This is how empires, including ours, end.
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• Fr. James Schall on the Ambiguity of Islam

  
  Catholic and Enjoying It! — Authority: 604
  The guy pretty much sums up my take on the problem. We want very much to believe that Violent Islam is a perversion of the Islamic tradition and Wise and Benevolent Islam is the Real Islamic tradition. But the reality is that Islam is an invented human religion that borrows from Judaism and the Catholic Faith and ...
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• With friends like these...

  
  Catholic and Enjoying It! — Authority: 604
  So how does Italian Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini defend the crucifix from the "make a desert and call it peace" machinations of the EU?: No one, and certainly not an ideological European court, will succeed in erasing our identity, th Education Minister said. The presence of the crucifix in classrooms is ...
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• SETI and Mars. In 1924

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 124
  SETI didn’t have it’s start in 1960 with the venerable Frank Drake with his Project Ozma . Apparently, a version was tried in 1924 that corresponded with a close approach to Mars: “Here’s a 1924 telegram from then Chief of U.S. Naval Operations, Edward W. Eberle, instructing all Naval stations to ...
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