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Engineers stopped the Niagara River before the falls in 1969 to clear rocks from its bed
In 1969 the Niagara River was stopped just above the Falls. Engineers intended to clear the riverbed of rocks, the accumulation of which threatened the very existence of the waterfall. In this, however, they did not succeed.
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Russia Takes First Place in Mammoth Tusk Exports
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Traces of bacteria 3.5 billion years old found in ancient rock in Greenland
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Collage of a man in a red sweater riding a green painted dinosaur
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The lost grave of Leonardo da Vinci and the artist's last years in Amboise
I deliberately do not write "the tomb of da Vinci", because his real grave was lost during the Huguenot wars. The record of the death of Leonardo, aged 67, survives in the register of the church of Saint-Florentin in Amboise. Near Amboise, in the Château du Clos
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Leonardo da Vinci's Gravestone in the Chapel of the Château d'Amboise, France
Archaeology · Science
An expedition of the Institute for the History of Material Culture (IIMK) of the Russian Academy of Sciences has discovered an agricultural settlement of the Bosporan Kingdom, dated to about the 4th century BC, on the site of the road being built to the b
The research has shown that one of the inhabitants of the ancient village was an official responsible for keeping account of agricultural produce. "The archaeological excavations covered an area of almost 70,000 square metres, which made it possible to study in detail substantial parts of ancient residential, farming
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On 29 August the last two trains of evacuees left Leningrad; that same day, over Mga station, 7 Soviet fighters fought against 70 bombers
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What a Find Looks Like in Its Natural Setting
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You Have Surely Seen Similar Piercings Among African Tribes
Archaeology · Geography · Ethnography
PIERCING FIVE THOUSAND YEARS OLD
Labrets are traditional Neolithic ornaments, which in this case are made of slate. The plates, resembling gigantic teeth, were fixed to the body by piercing the skin. Labret lip plates are one of the many cultural bridges between Eurasia and America: they are found at Aleut, Eskimo and Indian sites.