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First dinosaur eggs were soft like a turtle's
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Summary: New research suggests that the first dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs -- a...

That reminds me of a gun show I visited in New Hampshire many years ago. I was admiring a Bushmaster rifle in .223. The nice gentleman asked me where...

Fantastic

Thanks

Particularly when it involves Witness. There is something about him ... something troubling. And his preferred units are highly suspect.

You have...

Archaeologists at work on the mosaic believed to be from the 6 th century CE, found during construction of a hotel in Hatay, Turkey.
This 1200 square...

Noted and logged.(one of those smiley things included)

Roman silver snail brooch/fibula, 2 nd – 3 d c. CE.

That’s fucking cool as shit

Reminds me of how they trained wasp to recognize scents. Just about anything, turns out a wasp is about 100 times better...

Which ones are you using?

Works for a lot of sites. Sometimes, when it's active, you can't scroll with the mouse anymore: use the arrow up/down...

We want macrophotographies of the junk! For Science™ !

Interesting. The Ministry of Propaganda looks pretty intact.

When I was there (Berlin) the Luftwaffe building was now the tax office. Looked...

Hmm

↑ No need to painfully dig long narrow tunnels for that.

And when archaeologists say it was for some cult that often means they don't know.

Another...

But...howabout the trilobites and their less crunchy (but quite tasty) cousins crawdadiae.

during a viscous storm

:o

Those swamps didn't just get swampy by lying passively on the ground, y'know. :mrgreen:

For those interested, the French had the roughly contemporaneous Henri Désiré Landru , conman & assassin too.
But the bodies were never found, just...

I love it when they sing it in Old Italian. :)

Or Old Spanish, Romanian, French… These are all Latin dialects. :)

How did they walk?

– J.D.

Noted..... 8)

One of the possible references:

History.

Actual history.

– J.D.

– J.D.

Recent excavations in the ancient Greek city of Pylos revealed a gold pendant featuring the likeness of Hathor, an Egyptian goddess who was a...

All very stimulating.

For low values of stimulating.

Found this in one of the old city directories, thought it might cheer you up:

Roggenburg, Germany.

Maybe they'll find the grain storage after all.

UPDATE !!!

Ok, I bought a Snail Drum magazine. Not going to go into long and unappreciated digression, suffie it to say that these things hold 32...

Well I did have the property surveyed and drew a dick and balls on each wooden stake.

The good 'ole boys doing the work after dealing with poison...

We already had the Willendorf Venus:

She's 8000 years younger. Prehistory dragged on forever. :(

Here's the Femme à la corne (woman with horn),...

I don't suppose this is a great big surprise to anyone?

Then there is Joe Walters, owner of the House of Swords and Militaria. I have written about him here, how I was first exposed to real faking thru his...

Dayum.

And I thought this was going to be about early Mormon shenanigans or something like that. :notsure:

Modern version:

The M1A1 Gunner’s Quadrant is a portable precision leveling instrument used for laying artillery weapons in elevation, measuring...

Swords were actually rarely used in ancient and medieval combat, they were a sidearm much like pistols today. Spears/lances, pikes/halberts, and bow...

Be nice to have a period grapnel with a few fathoms of hemp rope to go with it.

:wink:

Not sure what the wink is for but a fathom 6 feet or...

Carnivorous Cambrian Creature Had Rake-Like Claws and Pineapple-Slice-Shaped Mouth

A new species of marine predator that lived about 506 million...