Cartoon – Stonehenge Decoded
Tag: history
Neanderthals—the other white meat
Neanderthals, a sturdy hominid species closely related to Homo sapiens, lived in Europe for about 270,000 years until humans arrived on the continent, about 30,000 years ago, at which point they quickly disappeared. The latest theory for their puzzling extinction is that humans exterminated, and maybe even ate, their Neanderthal cousins. French anthropologist Fernando that the bacterial disease was present […]
Read moreAntarctica’s Balmy Past
When the atmosphere had much higher levels of carbon dioxide, Antarctica was as warm as California. New research has revealed that 430 million to 50 million years ago, temperatures on the frozen continent averaged 57 degrees Fahrenheit, with part of the surrounding Pacific Ocean reaching up to 72 degrees. In this ancient era, known as the Eocene epoch, carbon dioxide […]
Read moreBarbara Bloom Quote – Filling The Cracks With Gold
“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.” – Barbara Bloom
Read moreHugh Trevor-Roper Quote – History Is Not Merely What Happened
“History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.” – Hugh Trevor-Roper
Read moreCartoon – How We Remember our Ancestors
Giant flightless bird wandered the Arctic 50 million years ago
It’s official: There really was a giant, flightless bird with a head the size of a horse’s wandering about in the winter twilight of the high Arctic some 53 million years ago. The confirmation comes from a new study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and the University of Colorado Boulder that describes the first and […]
Read moreDwight D. Eisenhower Quote – The Tracks of History
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Read moreCartoon – How the tissue came to be
Cartoon – Codger Of The Future
