Thursday, May 06, 2010

Stuff below the fold

The recent decoding of the Mayan Code showed that they were as bloody as the Aztecs, not the peaceful people that we had been told about.

so now, the myth of the peaceful Minoans has been shattered, when Anthropologists found large walls for defense.

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Hell on earth: Or rather, man made hells on earth.

The Gates of Hell in Turkmenistan, thanks to Russian drillers hitting a pocket of natural gas...

Related places:

Pitcher Oklahoma, the most polluted place in the US...
and Centralia PA is still burning...
and then there is that man made mud volcano...in Indonesia
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The Hanging coffins of SW China are well known thanks to a TV program about them.

But tribes in the Northern Philippines also used to bury their dead on cliffs.

Now, Atlas Obscura links to Torajaland, Indonesia, with similar burial practices.


the Discovery channel special is on youtube:



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