Photo: AP Photo/Luis Benavides
Medillin has an escalator in their slums.
Hmmm...this kind of thing would be great for those living on the side of the hills in Baguio too...
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nasa photo of the day.UhOH: Looks like God has a hangover with bloodshot eyes...
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WTF medical article of the day: H Pylori, that causes ulcers, might protect you against diarrhea.
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When an intelligence firm is hacked, none of us are safe. Luckily, it seems to have been done as a prank, and money from the stolen credit cards was gifted to charities...
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Dave Barry asks:
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Hmmm...what was the Ming china doing in Mapungubwe?
Chinese celadon ceramics dated to the Song (1127-1279 AD), Yuan (1279-1368 AD) or early Ming (1368-1644 AD) dynasties of China were recovered from the site.
Over 100,000 glass beads were eventually identified at Mapungubwe, a quarter of which were recovered from one burial. Mapungubwe's bead assemblage included "Dutch Dogons" made in Germany, hexagonal beads from Czechoslovakia, Indo-Pacific beads from India and Sri Lanka, Islamic beads from al-Fustat, and Venetian glass beads: all of these attest to the breadth of the trade system connecting Mapungubwe to the rest of the world.
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In a related item: the Suakin island is now open to tourists.
more HERE. and HERE
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Photosource Wikipedia.
then there's the mystery of the Klerksdorp Spheres.
By all scientific accounts, the rounded objects with even latitudinal grooves are 3 billion-year-old rocks that were naturally formed by carbonate concretions. Over the process of their development the tiny pyrophyllite spheres, which range in size from .5-10 cm, were created when minerals formed in the space between sediments. Weathering of these specimen left them as tiny balls, with evenly spaced lines circumscribing them.
more HERE.
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msNBC reports the ancient mysteries of 2011, including:
- Remains of domesticated dogs go back 31,500 years
- Does tomb in Guatemala hold remains of female Maya ruler?
- Roman gladiator school mapped out by radar in Austria
- Ancient Chinese takeout found in bronze vessel
- War destroyed (and built up) Peruvian societies
- Atlantic whaler found in Pacific, with 'Moby Dick' connection
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