Historical Fragments

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From 1980, a year I remember fondly. A lot of glimpses of the future in this one.

[Catoptric]

Automata- The Extraordinary 'Robots' Designed Hundreds Of Years Ago - Mechanical Marvels - Timeline


Automatons 18th century Swiss (1963 Alan Whicker reported for Tonight)
https://fb.watch/m_MU9RTtaz/?mibextid=NnVzG8


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Uri Geller knowingly bullshits.

THE PRESIDENT (which one specifically?) Of Mexico had given him a crystal skull, which he believes waa carved by either the Aztecs or Inca. . . Doesn't know which, and likely has no intention of even pretending to know more about them.

https://www.facebook.com/10004455543418 ... tid=6aamW6

All of the skulls are a fraud originating from a hoax that sourced the crystals from european mines, and it's possible that one of the Mexican Presidents wanted to encourage tourism from dunces, though I wouldn't be surprised the real dunce was Uri spreading a lie.

These Infamous Crystal Skulls Aren’t From Aztecs Or Aliens, But Just Victorian Hoax Artists
https://allthatsinteresting.com/crystal-skull

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Atomic bomb military guinea pigs from the UK ships recite their experience
https://fb.watch/mH7wJMJh-o/?mibextid=NnVzG8


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An underwater portion of New Zealand has been overlooked for some time, and a larger subcontinent exists beneath the ocean at large, which is referred in this article as the 8th missing continent(al shelf?) hidden in plain sight.

The missing continent that took 375 years to find
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2021 ... -continent


For the longest time the Mercator projection map seemed to "hack off" New Zealand, and even to this day major blunders have accidentally omitted it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-47171599

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I always imagined a ‘Mad Piper’ would be an excellent final boss in an epic battle video game or movie. Each time he blows through the bagpipe, a missile will shoot out, and if you make him angry he will leap up and cause an earthquake tremor. His eyes would light up a bright red and he would stare down the enemy, shooting lasers at them.





"Over a thousand pipers died during WWI. These extraordinary men were sitting ducks as they went over the top to pipe their men into battle. Piper Harry Lunan was the last surviving piper, and he said, 'I just played whatever came into my head, but I was worried about tripping on the uneven ground, which interrupted my playing. The enemy fire was murderous, and the men were falling all around me. I was lucky to survive. Hearing the pipes gave the troops courage.'"

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This place was recently demolished (2 years after the last owner died in the 1930s, and would have belonged to a Parr noble at one time.) It was destroyed to make room for new estate development, during the Great Depression of all things. . . It's surrounded by fucking farm land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_Hall

Maud Parr inherited the estate along with Ralph Lane, whose son I just discovered was the first Governor of the Virginia Colonies. . . I had the chance to check out the Governor's Palace in Colonial Williamsburg (of course, at the time Ralph Lane was alive, nothing of the sort even existed in Virginia for another century.)

https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/lane/bio.ht ... mptonshire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_ ... n_Colonies

It seems it was between him and Sir Walter Raleigh who introduced tobacco to England (though it's assumed not much proof exists of Ralph Lane, who was mostly forgotten.)

This is what they were dealing with

https://northcarolinahistory.org/encycl ... ke-island/

Seems the guy never married (though even if he never had kids, he apparently had other siblings https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Parr-769 ) and the estate was passed off to a Montagu family who continued to own it for several centuries afterward until the land (and building which it seems was deemed to expensive to maintain after the Monarchy became less relevant) was demolished. The land for Horton Hall was a 3,764 acre estate stretching across nine parishes on the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire borders. . .


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They ate cheese with crackers, and some meat. . . Just don't ask how they were resourceful.

Flight 571
https://healthdailyadvice.quora.com/Wha ... ype=answer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan ... Flight_571



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A fairly interesting story

Woman’s search for biological father linked to 50-year mystery of a 1971 Oregon John Doe known as ‘Frog Boy’
https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold-c ... -rcna95550



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Much of this film uses original footage (though it is not the actual movie, which is presumably lost forever.)


Lost Films: Saved From the Titanic (1912)
https://www.filmsfatale.com/blog/2021/7 ... he-titanic

The lead Actress, Dorothy Gibson, was an actual Titanic survivor who was lambasted as capitalizing on a tragedy, which was not the same outcome for 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown.' Distraught, she was also left to work on much lower-quality production films. She eventually ended up in a concentration camp and freed herself while posing as a Nazi spy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Gibson

I started thinking of the lifeboats. . . Supposedly the hard tack used on the lifeboats remained (shockingly) but the boats is kind of mercurial. It seems no one thought of making a museum about the incident.




It has come to my consideration that Captian Smith was a very incompetent Captain. Often the people involved with the boilers would intentionally underpower the boats whenever the egos of the Captains demanded they go faster, for fear (or actually KNOWING) that they would run out of fuel or would damage the boilers, etc. but even then the mismanagement of the ships were readily apparent.

This discusses the evident fact that the Captain was responsible for the damage to Olympic, but also Titanic (because he wanted to make a speed record while also ignoring the reports of the Icebergs on numerous occasions, which some speculate would consider him a narcissistic sociopath or psychopath. This also should be considered even after his damage to the Olympic, but also before the Titanic even got off the building dock and into his control, he wanted to "let it rip" and nearly hit another boat when the suction from the propeller pulled the SS New York loose from the docking.

"The Admiralty inquiry found that the Olympic had indeed been responsible for the collision but absolved Smith specifically of blame, for his ship was under compulsory pilotage."

Captain EJ Smith - RMS 'Olympic' and Two Collisions
https://www.titanicofficers.com/titanic ... 20pilotage.


Titanic and SS New York near miss and the stabbing of an officer
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/235730 ... her%20from

I was thinking, it kind of echoes the Civil War General, Daniel Sickles (who I mentioned earlier,) whose ass-kissing let him get away with murder as a Senator but also put him in a position to skirt duties after being given command within the Union army.

The situation however, could be a bit more questionable, since he never was officially in control of Olympic when it was hit, since it was in control by a harbor pilot.

https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Captain-S ... -HMS-Hawke


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Historical photos of Utah (that place is pretty strange)
http://diestelmichigan.weebly.com/sugar ... -uofu.html


I was looking into the Utah War (which mostly was disputes with non-military)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_War


Edit: I'll add this link to Mormon documentaries
https://archive.org/details/17-miracles_202010


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When watching Chevalier (2022) representing Joseph Balogne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges,) the opening, and subsequent sequences represent Mozart as very standoffish with racist overtones.

The only basis for the character development in the movie (based on a pseudo-biography of St George) is due to the question, "What inspired Mozart when constructing his opera 'The Magic Flute?' which apparently when it premiered was full of black caricatures popular in Europe at the time (probably egged on by Mary Antoinette's association with people like Joseph Balogne.)

I suspect most likely the character Monostatos is an amalgamation of Toussaint Louverture (who would have been rebelling against the ruling power of Haiti and setting it on the path of independence) as well as St George, amongst others (perhaps the xenophobic nature of France towards French colonies in Africa, and the Caribbean, etc.) which wasn't made any easier when the ongoing conflicts with Britain would have made people skeptical of the extravagances that were making the proletariat increasingly distant from the perceived inequality and idealization of the ruling class, which the increased creolization was demonstrating an irregularity within the bourgeoisie.

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: The man who got under Mozart's skin
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 59191.html

THE CHARACTER, MONOSTATOS, IN MOZART’S OPERA, THE MAGIC FLUTE (1791)
https://blackcentraleurope.com/sources/ ... lute-1791/

Though it might be the various adaptions, I think the character was more enigmatic and difficult to identify with any particular culture or place, and more of an anachronism of time and place (a bit like what compels people to wonder about things like the supernatural.) In some images he looks like a genie, and at other times like Gannondorf (hence I wonder if that was a popular portrayal when Shigeru Miyamoto was creating Zelda?) At other times he looks more like Nosferatu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevalier ... nt-Georges

As for the movie, it's decent with scenery and acting when you accept that their speaking English is really French and that the incongruity of foreign language when interjected was a representation of how alienated Joseph's character is from his slave family background (that he was removed from his surroundings and was to cultivate a demeanor of success. I don't believe it ever really pulls back the curtain and gives anything truly meaningful, and is mostly surface-level depth, but I'll revise this if it becomes apparent I'm wrong (the movie attempts to be biographical and to some extent the music scene was not much different from the reputation of rockstars today (even the fruitiest looking eunochs/Castrato had to scat the women away like flies.) The character development seems to rely on not searching any further than the surface.


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Mary Shelley wrote part of Frankenstein from the ancient Roman baths, in England.


'A 200-year-old secret': plaque to mark Bath's hidden role in Frankenstein
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/ ... ankenstein


‘This fatal catastrophe’: The sad life and strange death of Harriet Shelley (who while married to Percy, became estranged and was found dead 2 years from the start of estrangement, dead from suicide after last being seen a month prior to discovery, floating in a river. This would make Percy available to marry Mary, who she was also intended to go on a trip in Europe with prior to her wandering in despair. This is explored in the last link.)
https://lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com ... t-shelley/

It seems Mary Shelley (nee Godwin) had been surrounded by death much like Edgar Allan Poe, and focused a lot of her creative attention on the subject. Percy was also a radical that caused her father to disown her. It would only be 4 years after publication that Percy would also drown, though by accident.

Did a Real-Life Alchemist Inspire Frankenstein?
https://time.com/3648440/mary-shelley-f ... in-history

Alchemist Johann Konrad Dippel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Konrad_Dippel


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A 1990s relic, floppy disks get second life at California warehouse
https://www.reuters.com/technology/1990 ... 022-10-20/

Floppy Disks Survive — Thanks to One 73-Year-Old’s Business
https://thenewstack.io/floppy-disks-sur ... -business/

https://www.floppydisk.com/


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_songs

When considering these are hymns, the actual instrumental score will only exist from about 13th century AD onward, because that's when it originated (everything prior would likely just be memorized and accompany the spoken words.

Other songs:
https://www.oldest.org/music/songs/

Hymns like Hildegard Von Bingen (12th century) aren't even listed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen

Pitch would have been denoted above the words, much like you will find in songbooks in churches.
https://www.geographyrealm.com/a-brief- ... eval-music


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For some reason, I was thinking the Opium War might have had a similar agreement to Andrew Jackson with Jean Lafitte when Britain was stirring up crap in the Gulf of Mexico, and needed a fleet of pirate ships to help defend the coastline and to achieve a pardon for piracy, but China's piracy was ended prior.

Zheng Yi Sao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Yi_Sao


https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biog ... an-lafitte

And the odd thing is, Britain had knowingly been smuggling opium into China after it was outlawed, and currently China is mass producing Fentanyl which is being smuggled into the USA and causing massive problems with people dying (and yet you will find idiots on the internet who somehow think the medical establishment is causing more problems by having illegal drugs outlawed. . . Even when it's spelled out for them about the problems of illegal drugs with low standards of quality control to ensure people don't die or get scammed out of existence by frauds selling "miracle cures."


Similar allegations have been made of the CIA, though I wonder to what extent fentanyl has any government backing, or it's purely out of greed and private endeavors?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegatio ... rafficking

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Hopewell culture octagon mound in Ohio

The US' 2,000-year-old mystery mounds
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/2022 ... ery-mounds

Now a UNESCO site
https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/0 ... story.html

Hopeton Earthworks
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopeton_Earthworks

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When Native Americans Were Slaughtered in the Name of ‘Civilization’
https://www.history.com/news/native-ame ... ted-states

European colonizers killed so many indigenous Americans that the planet cooled down, a group of researchers concluded
https://www.businessinsider.com/climate ... his%20year

95% of Natives died within 200 years, and it wasn't just the result of unintentional disease transmission.

The reality was a combination of germ warfare, outright assault, and manmade famine (the mass slaughter of buffalo is an example.) Yes, the germs that were introduced probably had a significant part of it, but so were the white colonials disregarding land treaties and then justifying the massacre (and vice versa, when the Natives felt they were being discriminated against by the whites, they retaliated, hence the biggest mass hanging by Abraham Lincoln was their punishment.)

Because the census was mostly limited to whites, and much of which was not recorded prior to the 1800s, the numbers are very difficult to know.

I should note that I recall reading reports by a white settler that managed to survive the assault by Natives leading up to Lincoln addressing the problem by hanging the culprits, and it was pretty terrifying (many innocent people were killed and raped, much as if you were dealing with prison inmates escaping and taking their anger out on a population) while other reports of houses being spared and the people left alone, whom they had pleasant contact with from prior engagements. It's easy for people to find such incidents and see why hollywood westerns paint a generic picture of scenarios, when too often it get's obscures by the narrative and agendas (much as Lincoln would be biased because his own grandfather had been attacked and or died when Indians decided to attack him when he was settling in frontier country.)



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Warship Mars
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_warship_Mars


Explore a 16th-Century Underwater Battlefield
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adve ... rchaeology


A pretty cool image of the wreck site
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?stor ... tid=CDWPTG

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Shrewsbury Prison circa 1880 (closed more recently and converted to a museum and entertainment or tourist attraction, such as escape room.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrewsbury_Prison

Prison tour
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_ ... gland.html

A guy that does urbex was doing one of the tours where you wear the jumpsuit (uniform for inmates.)
https://fb.watch/nmKyQR4Kva/?mibextid=NnVzG8

This part is worth watching (nothing paranormal that I notice, but it is humorous, and has some interesting details.) I suspect the spot is off limits because it's adjacent to an executioners hanging spot (hence the possible paranormal sightings?)

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Norsuntepe: The enigmatic prehistoric site in Turkey contemporary to the Göbekli Tepe

https://mysteriesrunsolved.com/norsunte ... te-turkey/

Seems odd I hadn't heard of it. The artifacts are nowhere to be seen, and the site was flooded over?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/825809675 ... tid=9drbnH





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The Sullivan Institute Was A Psychotherapy Cult Based In New York's West Side That Demonized Nuclear Families
https://www.ranker.com/list/saul-b-newt ... jodi-smith

The argument that people go into the field of psychotherapy, in order to figure themselves out?




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DNA of ancient Phonecian could make us reconsider history of human migration
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scie ... 48046.html

They found it contained an extremely rare type of genome sequence, known as U5b2c1, which is almost unknown among modern populations. The research has now been published in the scientific journal Plos One.


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Micro Center seems to be the only place like this that's still around (though I am a bit skeptical of how well they will hold on after picking up a laptop.)




Basically, I was forced to find a replacement after my MSI GT80 stopped loading in bios, and after reading about SSD failure, it seems that can cause the machine to start but not load until a replacement is inserted. So now I'm looking at dissassembly and was trying to determine if I should go with a more unproven/unreliable larger 4tb ssd, or just see if I can manage to restore my old laptop, since it has a lot of peripherals that are now going the way of the dodo.

Disassembly video I'll be utilizing while I'm still setting up the new laptop, since I don't fully know what I should be considering of options (and I'm a bit po'd with what to make of things.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLz1Vg6muBw

It seems most of the options for new laptop require it to be external (hence the type C usb are now being heavily relied upon for everything). . . The MSI I had been using configured two 250gb ssd drives to work in conjunction for increased speed (I think it's possible to retrieve data from one of them and what might have happened is one of them failed and it won't recognize the install configuration.) I might just buy the external ssd NMVe reader and possibly get another drive to rely on, rather than doing a clone of one, but this isn't what I was hoping to do.

Since an extra port is possible to experiment with on the ssd, I can try to read off of it to make a decision somewhat easier, and use the external reader to clone a new SSD if it somehow resolves the bios/load issue. . . People are still selling the old laptop for more than I paid for a reasonably decent laptop. I also will need to seel some external monitors that only connect to display port adapters, since those aren't really worth buying $40 adapters just to see if they extend from the graphics card (many won't extend off of it since they weren't designed to be configured for it.) It would be a lot easier if I just had the stuff to mess with.

Seems it won't be possible without an bracket kit, and it's explained here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MSILaptops/com ... tana_1715/




Some notes:

Spoiler

Show

I'll need to contact MSI 888-447-6564 and ask for these parts
E2Y-6S11111-CA7 - SSD Thermal Paste x1
E43-1202512-G68 - SSD Bracket Screw x2
E2M-5850311 -A89 - SSD Bracket x1
E43-1203007-G68 - SSD Screw x1


Converting internal 1tb to a drive to read off
- SABRENT 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool Free External Hard Drive Enclosure [Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III] Black (EC-UASP


utilizing the type c port for mini displayport (which might conflict with using the hdmi for extended display, as apparently for some computers it will just mirror the main one?)
- Knaive USB Type C to Female Mini DisplayPort 0.6ft DP Adapter Support 4K@60Hz Compatible with MacBook Pro Dell XPS and USB C Device to Mini DP Monitor/Display

Utilizing the Blu Ray drive with an external enclosure
- Ultra Slim USB 3.0 Portable External Optical Disc Drive Enclosure Kit ODD Caddy for HP Dell Lenovo Asus Acer Laptop Internal 9.5mm 9mm SATA Tray-Loading CD DVD…

The SSD card I was planning to add (it would at least allow me not to need an external drive for archival junk)
- Crucial P3 4TB PCIe Gen3 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, up to 3500MB/s - CT4000P3SSD8

In an attempt to retrieve files from SSD (or if needing to wait for a bracket to install it; in the mean time I might just see if the new laptops ssd mounts to the old one to check bios.)
SSK Aluminum M.2 NVME SATA SSD Enclosure Adapter, USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) to NVME PCI-E SATA M-Key/(B+M) Key Solid State Drive External Enclosure Support

Update: The SATA drive replacement didn't affect the bios startup on my old laptop, and since it doesn't beep and still shows startup without "posting" bios, it's assumed to be a cpu issue (and yet, it seems that it initiates the normal processes of a startup, such as cd drive activity, though due to the gpu being fucked up by the update, the only solution would be to swap the graphics cards to see if it really resolves it. . . So I'll just cannibalize the equipment to try and repurpose the usable stuff and see if it resells.

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Stone hand axe is believed to have been constructed 500,000 in paleolithic Britain, and is believed to be the earliest artistic inspired man-made object/tool, since they intentionally left the seashell fossil in embedded, and worked around it.
https://stonetoolsmuseum.com/artefact/e ... xe-3/1878/

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The Bear Gates of Traquair
Traquair House
Scottish Borders, Scotland
The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the ... c7f5c04667


Left the palace and would remain outside of it for decades, in an attempt to rally support for retaking the throne.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward_Stuart


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Hundreds of years before the Nicene Council, the original Christian Bible (version of the New Testament) from Greek, has books different from the Hebrew adoption, with books like Laodiceans, Evangelicon, etc. which contrast with the adoption by the Roman church to the Old Testament (which various denominations oppose.) Of course, contradictions exist no matter which texts you look at. . .

Marcionite Church of Christ
https://marcionitechurchofchrist.org/

Here is a translation of the Greek:
https://ia800207.us.archive.org/7/items ... 00west.pdf

Laodiceans is considered an apocryphal forgery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laodicean ... %20Hebrews



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People have assumed the book of revelation might be apocryphal, though another book attributed to John also exist, written in prose style.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Patmos

https://www.interfaith.org/christianity ... n-of-john/

Most of the books added to the Bible were written starting with the Jewish conflict with Rome in 66 AD and it's thought that the book of Revelation was an anti Nero (Roman Emperor) statement.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_J ... 3Roman_War

This is probably the best summary of what can actually be attributed to John.
https://overviewbible.com/john-the-apostle/

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The founder of the 'Piggly Wiggly' grocery stores (circa 1920s mostly, though you will find traces of it still around) started an automated grocery process well before technology was considered ready for it (long before barcode scanners, basically.)

Keedoozle, We Hardly Knew Ye: Remembering America’s First Automated Grocery
https://www.life.com/people/keedoozle-a ... d-grocery/

It seems slightly short-sighted about volume and means of transactions, and how people would adopt a system. It should have been trial-run to conduct a better understanding of market strategies, but this was a guy that gambled badly in trying to counter-act the stock market, and failed miserably as a result (years before the great depression, hence why his "Pink Palace" he built was turned over to the State and made into a museum in the 1930s.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_ ... s_(grocer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Pala ... lanetarium


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The Aral sea is disappearing completely and has a lot of historical significance (Alexander the Great tried to cross it with some difficulty) and an unknown civilization has remnants from it.

Between the Aral and Caspian Seas: The Magnificent History and Archeology of Turkmenistan
https://voicesoncentralasia.org/between ... kmenistan/


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Rabies
https://fb.watch/oQ1CchCGJD/




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https://allthatsinteresting.com/vintage ... performers


The Muses Talk Back
The story of two abducted brothers takes us to the origins of black celebrity in America.
https://newrepublic.com/article/137906/muses-talk-back

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A lot more interesting than I was expecting


PYGMIES ON THE NILE
https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/F48.1.html

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He did end up dying in a car accident btw, though that's beyond the point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson_(boxer)



The boxing film that was banned around the world
https://www.vox.com/videos/2021/2/24/22 ... m-jeffries

Though it was filmed in Sidney, Australia, it was because the "black man" was defeating the "white man," Police intervened during the fight. Race riots were started all around the world (probably mostly in former slave states where people wanted to know the results of the fight but could never actually watch it; or at least all prize fights would become banned at some point once it became available.)

This really is the sort of thing that movies should be focused on making, namely with his beginnings as a boxer (such as doing illegal boxing matches which then get's exploited by the local police with $200,000 bail which are partially paid off for boxing matches inside the jailhouse.)

They did make one about his love relation with a white woman, performed by James Earl Jones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great ... ope_(film)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/great_white_hope

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5 layers deep of mummified remains in the deserts of China, genetically most similar to european/Siberian ancestry (using upturned boats similar to how Vikings would have been buried.) The effigies remind me of some Japanese funerary figures that would have existed around the same time as well, which I saw in a museum (possibly Dallas.)

Xiaohe: A 4000-Year-Old Desert Cemetery
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/09/x ... etery.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bergman
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q727393

It was referred to as a small river cemetery basin, when a river once went through the area.

effigy
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/o--569142471630696635/
https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=25984

article
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/scie ... rcheo.html