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January 11, 2012, 1:41 pm

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Revolution Number 99

America was full of angry people in September 2011, when a few hundred citizens decided to make their anger count. V.F.’s oral history of Occupy Wall Street shows how the spark was lit in Zuccotti Park as a disparate, passionate mix of activists, celebrities, and accidental protesters changed the national conversation

COMING HOME Occupy Wall Street protesters celebrate being allowed to return to Zuccotti Park after their early-morning eviction on November 15, 2011

Read More Here:http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/02/occupy-wall-street-201202

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January 11, 2012, 4:01 pm

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WWII letter discovered in Louis XV desk at Versailles:

For 67 years, a message from Nazi-occupied France remained hidden in a secret drawer of a desk that belonged to France’s 18th century King Louis XV.

Restorers at the Chateau of Versailles recently discovered the letter, written by a World War II-era colleague who last restored the…

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January 12, 2012, 12:25 pm

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Bulgarian Archaeologist Discovers Ancient Thracian Relief:

A ceramic relief of an Ancient Thracian horseman, a major ancient deity, has been found at the holy rock city of Perperikon by Bulgarian archaeologist Nikolay Ovcharov.

Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov, also known as the Bulgarian Indian Jones, presented his find before the media on Thursday.

Read More Here: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=135654

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January 12, 2012, 12:27 pm

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Greece Secures Swiss Confiscation of Rare Ancient Coin that was Allegedly illegally Excavated:

THESSALONIKI, Greece — A Swiss court has ordered the confiscation of a very rare ancient silver coin that was allegedly illegally excavated in northern Greece and sold at auction in Switzerland, Greek and Swiss officials say.

The lawyer representing Greece in the case said Thursday that the ruling in October opens the way for the early 5th century B.C. coin’s return to Greece. The debt-crippled country’s rich cultural heritage has long suffered depredations from antiquities smugglers supplying a lucrative international market. 

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Elizabeth Brumfiel, 1945-2012

January 12, 2012, 12:38 pm

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Elizabeth Brumfiel, 1945-2012:

archaeologicalnews:

Elizabeth Brumfiel, a past president of the American Anthropological Association, was a widely recognized scholar in the field of feminist archaeology.

She spent more than 20 years studying Aztec culture in the Mexican village of Xaltocan, examining not only the functional and economic…

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January 12, 2012, 9:40 pm

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Cliffs End Farm - skeleton of an old man by Wessex Archaeology on Flickr.

Five skeletons were found in a Late Bronze Age pit, this one appears to be pointing towards the centre of a large horshoe ditch which was the focus of ceremonies.
There is a piece of chalk in his left hand.

Read more about the excavation site at Cliffs End Farm, Ramsgate, here:

www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/kent/ramsgate/cliffs_end/

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January 12, 2012, 9:45 pm

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Guards agree to open sites and museums on weekends

January 13, 2012, 7:14 am

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Guards agree to open sites and museums on weekends:

Guards at museums and archaeological sites have decided to suspend their weekend strikes over unpaid wages.

State-run museums and famous sites like the Acropolis had remained shut on weekends due to the protests.

Guards are demanding that the government pass a law ensuring that – in contrast to other civil servants – they are paid for working on weekends and public holidays.

The Finance Ministry has attached an amendment to a bill that has been submitted to Parliament that will make sure that the guards receive the appropriate payment.

Article Here:  http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_7_13/01/2012_422459

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One of World's Oldest Korans Goes on Display at British Museum

January 13, 2012, 7:16 am

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One of World's Oldest Korans Goes on Display at British Museum:

One of the oldest known copies of the Koran went on show at the British Museum today ahead of a new exhibition.

The Koran, lent by the British Library, will be part of the exhibition, Hajj: Journey To The Heart Of Islam, the first major collection dedicated to the Hajj, the pilgrimage to to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

Mecca is viewed as a spiritual centre as the place where Prophet Mohammed received the first revelations in the early 7th century….

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January 13, 2012, 9:33 am

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Ah, childhood.

For the longest time, I wanted a Jack Russel Terrier because that’s how much I loved this dog. It’s Wishbone. <3

WHAT’S THE STORY, WISHBONE?

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January 13, 2012, 2:18 pm

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Check your garages — some rust turns to gold. This old bike, which just happens to be one of the first motorcycles ever made, just sold for $72,540!

1850s Bathroom Being Preserved

January 13, 2012, 2:20 pm

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1850s Bathroom Being Preserved:

NATCHEZ — National Park Service staff disassembled a bathroom dating back to the 1850s in Dunleith Thursday in hopes of preserving it as a cultural artifact.

Park service employees carefully took apart the bathroom’s bathtub, shower, flush toilet and three large cisterns in the attic that…

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January 13, 2012, 2:24 pm

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Tools of the trade. 

Hittite Joke 

January 13, 2012, 2:26 pm

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Hittite Joke 

Remarkable Cave City Needs Guardian Angels

January 13, 2012, 2:27 pm

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Remarkable Cave City Needs Guardian Angels:

It is off the beaten path of world tourism. Unlike the great monuments of ancient Rome, Greece, Egypt, China and Mesoamerica, it sees comparatively fewer visitors. Yet if casual tourists or expeditionary scholars were to see it, they would likely say that it is every bit as impressive as the…

Read More Here: http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/remarkable-cave-city-needs-guardian-angels

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January 13, 2012, 2:32 pm

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These photographs of a 15th century Ottoman scroll of the Koran come from historian Rachel Leow, who took them at the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singapore. This is how she describes what you’re seeing:

There are two levels of wording on the scroll. The large Arabic letters, unravelling in perfect thulth script across the scroll, form a prayer, beginning with the invocation of Allah’s blessings on Muhammad, followed by the names of the twelve Shiite Imams and an invocation to ‘Ali. But those letters are shaped from smaller words: in fact, no less than the words of the entire Qur’an, painstakingly inscribed in tiny tiny ghubar script according to the design of the larger prayer…

It’s an incredible work of art, and it must have been tremendously difficult to execute. How much planning would it take to get the entire Koran spaced out just right so that it spelled out the initial prayer and invocation? Not to mention the years of training to be able to write with such tiny calligraphy.

Leow collects and shares photos of extraordinary books and book environments — bookstores and libraries on her blog.

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January 13, 2012, 2:35 pm

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“This is an artist’s conception of what an ancient city such as Uruk in Mesopotamia may have looked like. Typically, people lived in their homes, but slept on the flat roofs at night where the desert breeze cooled them off.”

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January 13, 2012, 2:36 pm

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“An act making an alteration in the Flag of the United States”

Approved by President George Washington on January 13, 1794, this act called for the Flag of the United States to have fifteen stripes and fifteen stars, reflecting the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union. Faced with the admission of five more states in 1818, the flag design would return to the original thirteen stripes.

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