○○○ palimpsest ⪢⪢
So we're looking at a very complex dynamic in
which human populations emerged, they mixed, they separated to some degree.
Further populations emerged and mixed and colonized new areas.
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○○○ James Clerk Maxwell ⪢⪢
Figures like Newton and Huygens worked with light in the 17th century but a more sophisticated description of light
which we call classical electromagnetism was developed largely by James Clerk Maxwell in the 19th century.
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○○○ Mona Lisa ⪢⪢
This is perhaps the best known painting in the world. The Mona Lisa shows the head and shoulders of a dark-haired woman. When people look at this painting, they are often captivated by her smile and by her eyes
which have a look of mystery.
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○○○ topology ⪢⪢
Topology is a branch of math,
which is kind of like geometry. It studies shapes and spaces, but ones that are arbitrarily stretchy and bendy. It's sometimes called rubber sheet geometry.
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○○○ Yemen ⪢⪢
In Yemen, Prime Minister Maeen Abdumalik Saeed blames Shiite rebels and Iran for Wednesday's attack at the Aden airport
which killed at least 25 people.
2020-12-31
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○○○ Monday ⪢⪢
Monday is moon day. Roman mythology had the moon goddess Luna
which is why French has Lundi, Spanish Lunes, but here English substituted its own old English word for moon, Mona. #front #Greece
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○○○ microscopic ⪢⪢
You will often see snakes flicking their tongue in and out. Again this snake is not being rude. It is actually tasting the air - collecting microscopic particles
which it can analyze using a special organ in the roof of its mouth.
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○○○ outlet ⪢⪢
Western media outlets have finally begun reporting on the neo-nazi threat that is growing inside Ukraine
which is a close Western ally against Russia.
2018-07-06
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○○○ vertebrate ⪢⪢
Snakes are also vertebrates
which means that they have a backbone. Actually snakes are almost ALL backbone! A snake's skeleton is most made of its skull, the vertebrate (or bones of the spine) and ribs.
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○○○ marvel ⪢⪢
They battled their way onto civilion planes
which took off with hundreds of passengers jammed inside. One air traffic controller marveled as a pilot ferry 800 people to Dubai in a plane designed for 150.
2021-08-17
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○○○ wild ⪢⪢
And 700,000 years ago the world was only a few degrees cooler than it is now,
which is why at the time the range of the woolly rhinos was restricted to the cold wilds of Siberia.
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○○○ intimidating ⪢⪢
Speed, strength and aggression, these made Mike Tyson the most dangerous person on the planet. His boxing style was both ferocious and intimidating
which was better and more powerful in the style of most other boxers in the ring.
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○○○ impressionist ⪢⪢
One of the most famous modern French painters, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the earliest members of the impressionist movement
which was all about capturing modern life by depicting everyday events.
#art
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○○○ for now ⪢⪢
In sleep he sang to me.
In dreams he came.
That voice
which calls to me and speaks my name.
And do I dream again?
For now I find the phantom of the opera is there inside my mind. #song #lyrics
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○○○ 2014 ⪢⪢
The southern border of Ukraine is along the Black Sea. This was the site of war in Dunbas led by Russian separatists
which led to the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014.
→ lead
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○○○ decry ⪢⪢
Hackers associated with anonymous claimed responsibility for taking down Russian news site RT
which many decry as a propaganda outlet for Vladimir Putin.
2022-02-26
→ Russia Today #bookmark
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○○○ Javelin ⪢⪢
The FGM-148 Javelin is a man-portable fire-and-forget anti-tank missile manufactured in the United States by Texas Instruments
which is now Raytheon Missile Systems and Martin Marietta
which is now Lockheed Martin.
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○○○ 0882 ⪢⪢
In 882, his heir Oleg leaves with an army and conquers Smolensk and Kiev. He then founds the Kievan Rus' of
which he becomes prince. The new state includes mainly Slavic and Finnish tribes.
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○○○ 0972 ⪢⪢
But the Khazar Kingdon, weakened, no longer holds back the nomadic tribes of Central Asia
which come to settle in the South of the Kievan Rus'. Among them are the Pechenegs who in 972 kills Sviatoslav during an ambush.
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○○○ government ⪢⪢
A central government that collects taxes and spends money and a central bank
which is different from other buyers and sellers because it controls the amount of money and credit in the economy.
#economy
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○○○ spin ⪢⪢
Once swallowed, the smaller star continued to orbit within the larger one
which eventually led to the larger star rotating so fast that its mass was spun outwards creating the nebula.
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○○○ elaborate ⪢⪢
When stars with masses a bit bigger than our own sun reach the end of their life and begin to collapse to form light hot dwarf stars, they will throw off their outer layers of matter. This matter will spread and form an elaborate cloud of gas
which ...
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○○○ desperate ⪢⪢
Their military drills threats to Taiwan and aiming a Laser beam at a US ally aircraft have not gone unnoticed, not to mention their seemingly desperate focus on hypersonic weapons
which, according to the US military, are impossible to defend against.
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○○○ route ⪢⪢
The valley it was found in was a popular trade route between Central Asia and China, so it's impossible to say for sure who made the carpet or
which country it was made in. #bookmark
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○○○ Theodor Herzl ⪢⪢
Herzl said that his plan for creating an Israeli state was "something colonial". He refered to it as a European-style colony
which is what it was.
→ colonialism, Zionist, Cecil Rhodes, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe
#bookmark
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• 1202 Leonardo Fibonacci
Fibonacci asked himself how many pairs of rabbits originated from a single pair in one year. Each pair of rabbits will produce exactly one more pair of both sexes per month
which in turn would be fertile from the second month after birth.
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• On The Origin Of Species
How do we explain how animals have evolved over time. Charles Darwin, the British naturalist and geologist, famously answered this question in his book 'On The Origin Of Species'
which proposed the mechanism of evolutionary change within animal species.
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◌◌◌ peridot
Unlike emeralds
which could look as dark as black in lowlight, _____ hold on to their green and gold vibrancy even in candlelight giving them the nickname emeralds of the evening.
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