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N.C. Police Lieutenant Warns Of Martial Law In Early 2013 (Video Report)

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From The Western Center of Journalism

JANUARY 3, 2013 BY 

I hope he is wrong…

Archaeologists claim objects are earliest ‘matches’

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from BBC News

8 August 2012 Last updated at 02:54 ET

By Nick Crumpton BBC News

Researchers from Israel say that mysterious clay and stone artefacts from Neolithic times could be the earliest known “matches”.

Although the cylindrical objects have been known about for some time, they had previously been interpreted as “cultic” phallic symbols.

The researchers’ new interpretation means these could be the earliest evidence of how fires were ignited.

The research was published in the open access journal Plos One.

The journal reports that the artefacts are almost 8,000 years old. . . . Read Complete Report

 

Early Human Ancestor, Australopithecus Sediba, Fossils Discovered in Rock

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from Science Daily

ScienceDaily (July 12, 2012) — Scientists from the  based at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have just announced the discovery of a large rock containing significant parts of a skeleton of an early human ancestor. The skeleton is believed to be the remains of ‘Karabo’, the type skeleton ofAustralopithecus sediba, discovered at the Malapa Site in the Cradle of Humankind in 2009.

Professor Lee Berger, a Reader in Palaeoanthropology and the Public Understanding of Science at the Wits Institute for Human Evolution, will make the announcement at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in Shanghai, China on 13 July 2012. . . . Read Complete Report