โGonzalo Fernandez Oviedo (trans. Glen Dille), citing the cleric Juan de Areyzaga, who sailed with Loasya. First impressions of an armadillo,
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โGonzalo Fernandez Oviedo (trans. Glen Dille), citing the cleric Juan de Areyzaga, who sailed with Loasya. First impressions of an armadillo,
25.10.2025 21:49 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Rio Santa Cruz, 1526: A companion brought on board an animal...the size of a sucking pig with a pig's muzzle, cloven hooves and a body covered with a shell like armor for a horse. When it wanted, it covered itself completely with that shell and grunted like a pig. They named it "armor horse."
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17.10.2025 21:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"A new paper documents the first-ever discovery of Iron Age ship cargoes within a former port city in Israel and provides rare, direct evidence of trade in a period previously understood largely through land-based finds."
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Researchers have unveiled findings about artillery carried by a Danish-Norwegian ship that sank mysteriously off the Swedish coast in 1495. This late medieval vessel offers an unparalleled look at the technological crossroads โฆ
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Throughout history, few games have achieved what chess has: becoming a mirror of thought, an instrument of contemplation, and a bridge between civilisations.
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Englishman James Ketchell is looking to become the first person to circumnavigate the globe on land, in the air, and at sea as he sets off in a sailboat from a harbor in Hampshire: 30,000 miles, 9 months now await Ketchell, who is undertaking the voyage alone.
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The Maclean brothers from Scotland are in the final stretch of their attempt to row nonstop across the Pacific from Peru to Australia. Theyโre going for more than a world record โ theyโre raising money for clean water projects in East Africa.
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While Mexico is advancing the southern line of its Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to the Guatemalan border, the responsibility for extending the railway into Guatemala will fall onto the Guatemalan government, President Claudia Sheinbaumโฆ
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โThe stalemate was a resounding failure for the environment and for international diplomacy at a time when its frailties are in the spotlight.โ ๐ฅค๐ www.straitstimes.com/world/world-...
15.08.2025 11:18 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Excellent article by Anthony and Helen Reid on Henry Stanley, Baron of Alderley and translator of Pigafetta, Barbosa, and others, and the first Muslim in the House of Lords.
A Voice for Southeast Asian Muslims in the High Colonial Era.
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13.08.2025 21:25 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1So much for Merrick Garland.
12.08.2025 04:55 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โโฆincreased exposure to extreme heat has reduced bird populations in tropical regions by 25โ38% since 1950.โ ๐ฆ๐ก๏ธ theconversation.com/70-years-of-...
11.08.2025 21:42 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene
The dispersal of archaic hominins beyond mainland Southeast Asia (Sunda)1 represents the earliest evidence for humans crossing ocean barriers to reach isolated landmasses. Previously, the oldest indication in Wallaceaโฆ
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"โฆ paying companies so you can pretend to work for them has become popular among young, unemployed adults in China. It has led to a growing number of such providers.
โฆ comes amid China's sluggish economy โฆyouth unemployment remains stubbornly high, at more than 14%." www.bbc.com/news/article...
This stone tool is over 1 million years old. How did its maker get to Sulawesi without a boat? โ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ฉ theconversation.com/this-stone-t...
06.08.2025 21:13 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
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Pete Hegseth has to GO
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โฆone of eight surviving accounts by crew members, it covers the fate of the TrinidadโฆSome historians discount the Roteiro's valueโ"humdrum," "boring"โit opens an interesting subplot in the Magellan story
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A research project I am working on has pivoted from documenting impacts of anti-DEI legislation to documenting what we have lost. We need to create archives of pre-P47 curriculum, scholarship, and programs. This is why. #academicsky #meded #medicaleducation
11.03.2025 20:49 โ ๐ 37 ๐ 17 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1The Not-So-Humdrum Story of Magellan's "Genoese Pilot"
โฆone of eight surviving accounts by crew members, it covers the fate of the TrinidadโฆSome historians discount the Roteiro's valueโ"humdrum," "boring"โit opens an interesting subplot in the Magellan story
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