From Euronews (includes video)
"Greek scientists and archaeologists have reconstructed the face and head of an 11-year-old girl who died from typhoid fever during a plague in Athens around 2,500 years ago."
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Cancer caused by modern man as it was virtually non-existent in ancient world
From the Telegraph
"Cancer is a modern man-made disease caused by the excesses of modern life, a new study suggests.
Researchers looking at almost a thousand mummies from ancient Egypt and South America found only a handful suffered from when now it accounts for nearly one in three deaths.
The findings suggest that it is modern lifestyles and pollution levels caused by industry that are the main cause of the disease and that it is not a naturally occurring condition."
"Cancer is a modern man-made disease caused by the excesses of modern life, a new study suggests.
Researchers looking at almost a thousand mummies from ancient Egypt and South America found only a handful suffered from when now it accounts for nearly one in three deaths.
The findings suggest that it is modern lifestyles and pollution levels caused by industry that are the main cause of the disease and that it is not a naturally occurring condition."
Badgers dig up human bones in graveyard
From the Telegraph
"Badgers are causing havoc in an ancient churchyard by digging up the remains of people buried there for several hundred years.
And locals have been warned they can do nothing about it because the animals are a protected species.
At least four graves have been disturbed so far; in one instance a child found a leg bone and took it home to his parents."
"Badgers are causing havoc in an ancient churchyard by digging up the remains of people buried there for several hundred years.
And locals have been warned they can do nothing about it because the animals are a protected species.
At least four graves have been disturbed so far; in one instance a child found a leg bone and took it home to his parents."
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
WWI ships to chart past climate
From the BBC
"A new project aims to use old Royal Navy logbooks to help build a more accurate picture of how our climate has changed over the last century.
The public are being called upon to re-trace the routes taken by some 280 Royal Navy ships including historic vessels."
"A new project aims to use old Royal Navy logbooks to help build a more accurate picture of how our climate has changed over the last century.
The public are being called upon to re-trace the routes taken by some 280 Royal Navy ships including historic vessels."
Monday, October 11, 2010
Ten 'most threatened' buildings in England and Wales
From the BBC
It follows a public appeal by the charity to find the most threatened Victorian and Edwardian buildings."
It follows a public appeal by the charity to find the most threatened Victorian and Edwardian buildings."
Monday, October 4, 2010
Document 'proves' Vichy France leader was an anti-Semite
From France24
"A recently discovered Vichy-era document has reignited one of the most divisive questions in post-war France: how far did the Vichy government go in aiding Nazi Germany in its endeavour to exterminate Europe’s Jews?
Serge Klarsfeld, a leading Holocaust historian and Nazi hunter, says a newly discovered document is definitive evidence that French wartime leader Philippe Petain was an anti-Semite who actively supported the holocaust."
"A recently discovered Vichy-era document has reignited one of the most divisive questions in post-war France: how far did the Vichy government go in aiding Nazi Germany in its endeavour to exterminate Europe’s Jews?
Serge Klarsfeld, a leading Holocaust historian and Nazi hunter, says a newly discovered document is definitive evidence that French wartime leader Philippe Petain was an anti-Semite who actively supported the holocaust."
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Why does Germany still owe money for the first world war?
From the Guardian
"According to Bild magazine, the first world war will finally end this weekend when Germany pays off the last instalment of the interest it owes on loans it took out in the 1930s to pay £22bn in reparations to the allied powers. The sum would, of course, have been paid off much earlier were it not for Adolf Hitler, who exploited public resentment at the economic crisis caused by said reparations to a) refuse to pay them, and b) kick off a whole other war – leading to a whole other load of reparations. But news that Germany was still paying reparations from 1919 in 2010 does rather prompt the question: what for?"
"According to Bild magazine, the first world war will finally end this weekend when Germany pays off the last instalment of the interest it owes on loans it took out in the 1930s to pay £22bn in reparations to the allied powers. The sum would, of course, have been paid off much earlier were it not for Adolf Hitler, who exploited public resentment at the economic crisis caused by said reparations to a) refuse to pay them, and b) kick off a whole other war – leading to a whole other load of reparations. But news that Germany was still paying reparations from 1919 in 2010 does rather prompt the question: what for?"
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