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Have post-ruin dead bodies ever been found in actual ruins?
I just walked by my family watching the first Indiana Jones movie. One of the bad guys suggested making Indiana a new resident of the ruin.
Has that actually happened in real life? Someone checked out ...
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What was the prehistoric human impact of the Vela supernova?
With some rough back of the envelope calculations, one can estimate that the supernova responsible for the Vela Supernova Remnant (that I'll call SVela from now on) was of apparent magnitude -12, ...
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What is this coin shaped object?
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I found this coin-like thing in my grandfather's closet. To provide some context, we live in Assam (state in India), specifically in Dibrugarh. My grandfather's family has been here since ...
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What does this hill look like -- a neolithic tell, a tumulus, a vineyard terrace?
Southern Romania is full of tells (popularly called "măguri" in Romanian) dated to the neolithic culture of Gumelnița. Recently I have seen one such hill close to the villages of Mavrodin ...
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