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Fascinating stuff, I feel like I'm there.

Altare infinitæ magnitudinis translates altar of great immensity, sorta kinda. Literally altar of infinite hugeness or just really huge altar. Don't know exactly cause my mom is no longer with us and she was the Latin specialist. If this was written by early monks your best bet is to find a translat...

Thank you to everyone, you have pretty much addressed all of my 'yes but's'. Keep up the good work.

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I pm'd him also, I miss him and his rocks. On the up side I've joined his forum and can go there to 'see' him til we talk him into coming back.

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Very informative article mayo. I enjoyed reading it and learned a new term, varves which can be used like tree rings to discover the age of these glacial melt lakes.
Min, nice to know that Arch is alive and well and still antagonizing people all over the web.

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I would like you to know I am being corrupted by you people(Charlie, AD, manystones and co.) :shock: I am actually starting to see something besides 'just rocks' when I look at your photos. I was showing a picture of a choppy thingy to my partner and said "see here is where the notch for the th...

Singing my little heart out. I love this lady!

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Missed this article myself while I was gone. This is the stuff that I find extremely fascinating. Using new technology to find out more detailed information about our past. One of their most prominent studies addressed the origins of Yax K'uk Mo, who founded a dynasty in the Maya city of Copán in we...

Thank you for the info WA, I am looking forward to seeing this one.

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John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called "pullets" and eight or ten roosters, whose job was to fertilize the eggs. The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an...

Welcome back War Arrow, I missed you.

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Thank you for the articles and all the pics. Hatshepsut is my hero, or at least she was when I was a teenager. Now I just read anything about her that I see.

In Ashland the city and the schools are working together to open one of the school libraries each day M-F for the children to have a place to check out books. Plus the laid-off librarians are voluntarily holding story time for the little kids. Over 77% of the people in Ashland voted for the library ...

Around here rednecks and hippies didn't get along at all. There was violence and shit. FYI I was/am the hippie type. Hell, Frank, rednecks fight with each other. We were driving home from the coast one night and took the scenic back roads. When we got to downtown Gold Hill we almost had to detour b...

A man walks into a restaurant with a full-grown ostrich behind him. The waitress asks them for their orders. The man says, "A hamburger, fries and a coke," and turns to the ostrich, "What's yours?" "I'll have the same," says the ostrich. A short time later the waitress ...