AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL dig has uncovered the hidden industrial heritage of a west Cumbrian village.
Dearham Parish Council wanted to develop an overgrown part of the village park for use as a recreation facility, but an evaluation of the site revealed that there was an 19th century pottery buried there.
A £10,000 grant from Awards for All – a national lottery scheme – and the Cumbria Community Trust enabled them to employ a team of archaeologists to assess the site.
Village dig: Front row left to right, Jack Burns, 9, Eleanor Herbert, 9, Liam Stephenson, 9, back row left to right, Shauna Pike, 10, Amy Gallimore, 9, all from Dearham Primary School
Couldn't they have found a bit more money in order to hire 'professionals'
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
-- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
"Give us the timber or we'll go all stupid and lawless on your butts". --Redcloud, MTF
Scientists have discovered a dramatic variation in the genetic make-up of humans that could lead to a fundamental reappraisal of what causes incurable diseases and could provide a greater understanding of mankind.
The discovery has astonished scientists studying the human genome - the genetic recipe of man. Until now it was believed the variation between people was due largely to differences in the sequences of the individual " letters" of the genome.
It now appears much of the variation is explained instead by people having multiple copies of some key genes that make up the human genome.
Until now it was assumed that the human genome, or "book of life", is largely the same for everyone, save for a few spelling differences in some of the words. Instead, the findings suggest that the book contains entire sentences, paragraphs or even whole pages that are repeated any number of times.
The findings mean that instead of humanity being 99.9 per cent identical, as previously believed, we are at least 10 times more different between one another than once thought - which could explain why some people are prone to serious diseases
New genetic evidence suggests Australia may have been populated by two separate groups of humans, one arriving via Papua New Guinea, the other via Indonesia, a researcher says.
After all the discussion we've had on this topic, this may not sound like big news.
From todays news section - a Clovis point found in Pennsylvania. Probably not a big deal in the larger scheme of things but newsworthy in the local Sentinel.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Yeah, I haven't heard of them in the northeast. We're supposed to have plenty in Tennessee but I've never seen one. I recently went through a friends collection of about a hundred points and no clovis. Woodland culture points are very common here.
well the news got it wrong either way
Eureka is an english word
in greek its heureka
first person singular perfect active indicative of heuriskein "to find"
now conjugate the verb to go in roman
Unlikely that there ever was a St Paul...especially in Rome during the mid-first century.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Marduk: even if it wasn't they'd still say it was ... money money money
Digit: I don't believe this! Marduk and I agree on something!
Yes, it looks like we have also found a similarity between the Pope and Zawass ... when both of them need to refill the cash register, they come up with a new discovery for the faithful.
