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VOA has an article about archeology in Camaroon...

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which links to Carthages' Hanno's voyage to westAfrica...

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and an ancient ship with herbal medicines has been found...

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Now Mt Etna is closing airports...check great photos at link.

and the latest volacano eruption in Iceland is simmering, but has a history of dangerous eruptions.

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US Ambassador to the Philippines visits Baguio and remembers the Japanese attacks there, and the FilAm partnership in WWII.. the article also mentions the search for Yamashita's gold.

The Ambassador's father was stationed in the Philippines, so for him it's personal (but the dirty little secret is that although a quarter million common Pinoys fought the Japanese occupation, the elites compromised to stay in power... and a lot of Pinoy bigshots don't want to be reminded of what their grandfathers did)...

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You may have seen the video of that sandstorm that hit Arizona, but did you know that it was caused by UFO's? Photos (or photoshopped photos) HERE.

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Ten years ago the Buddhist Statues of Barniyan were destroyed by the Taliban.
more HERE.

Bookmarked for later reading: The Buddhist/Hindu roots of Afghanistan.

and the Penn Museum had a symposium on the Silk Road: here is Colin Renfew's talk:



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LATimes has an article on Mexican American Shrines to the Madonna of Guadalupe that dot the LA landscape.

Actually shrines to Mary dot the landscape in a lot of places...Wikipedia on "Bathtub Madonna" shrines (a name given to these grass roots devotion by those who think they are superior).