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King Burial Article

What is the story of the death of King Richard lll?

How did he die, effect lead to, his condition, location of burial

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  • At the climatic Battle of Bosworth
  • Ended the War of the Roses
  • Started the house of Tudor
  • Buried in the friary of Greyfriars Church in the city of Leichester
  • Thought to be destroyed during the reign of Henry Vlll
  • The King was descriped as a hunch back, and though he had a common form of scoliosis, it was an even curve and probably not too visible
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King Burial Article

Where was King Richard lll discovered to have been buried?

Location, how this was found, current state

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  • Body found in a car park in the English city of Leicester
  • Given scheduled monument status
  • Five centuries later, British archeaologist were comparing different maps
  • According to Philippa Langley, it was determined the church was most definitely located in the parking lot
  • DNA tests comfirmed his identity
  • Making the site a scheduled monument means that the remains will be protected for future generations, according to Heritage Minister John Glenn
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Buddhist Temple Article

What was found recently in Pakistan’s Swat Valley?

What was it, what was found with it as well

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  • A roughly 2,000 year old Buddhist temple
  • Built over another temple
  • The dig was led by Luca Maria Olivieri
  • Ruins stand around 10 ft tall
  • Consists of a ceremonial platform and a stupa, smaller stupa at the front, a room for monks, the podium of a column/pillar, a staircase, vestibule rooms and a public courtyard
  • Coins, jewelry, pottery, statues, seals and other artifacts were found as well
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Buddhist Temple Article

Where was the Buddhist temple found in Pakistan?

Location, history of the city and region, previous finds there

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  • In the historic region of Gandhara
  • Trade crossroads between India, Central Asia and the Middle East
  • In the town of Barikot in the Swat Valley
  • Described in ancient literature as “Bazira” or “Beira”
  • Alexander the Great relied on the city as a breadbasket, as the microclimate supported a heavy grain harvest
  • Excavations here had revealed two other Buddhist sanctuaries, leading scientists to speculate that there was a street of temples
  • Buddhist gained traction in the region by the reign of Menander l, but was practised by the elite
  • In the Kushan Empire, Swat emerged as a sacred Buddhist centre
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Footprint Article

What was the discovery of the footprints?

Where was it, who discovered it, what was it

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  • Spotted by Mary Pappen Jr.
  • Young aboriginal girl
  • Set of 700 hundred fossilized footprints, 400 grouped in a set of 23 tracks
  • Found in Mungo National Park
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Footprint Article

What is known about the footprints left in Australia?

Who left them, what they were doing, discoveries

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  • You could see movements, how a child paused, turned, ran away from the group then briskly walked back
  • Tracks belonged to several groups who crossed the wetland
  • A one legged man, a small child, family of five and hunters were included
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Footprint Article

Was the ancient aboriginal man who left the footprints the faster runner in history?

Who did it, calculations, previous records

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  • Steve Webb
  • Calculated one runner was running as fast as 37 kilometres an hour
  • Usain Bolt holds the record of 37.9 on a track, not in the mud like this man
  • Only one print shows this, so it can be misleading
  • Sprinters can go much faster, like Donovan Bailey who reached up to 43.6 km/h
  • However, regardless, the aboriginal man was definitely an elite athlete
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T. Rex Article

Did T. Rex have feathers?

Different facts supporting this, what was previously thought

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  • In the past, dinosaurs were viewed like large reptilian monsters
  • Now, there is evidence suggesting that T. Rex were covered in feathers
  • There is no direct fossil evidence of this, but it is not surprising
  • Feathers, muscle, skin and internal organs rarely preserve well in fossils
  • In China, large volcanic eruptions buried many dinosaurs in ash, preserving them well
  • Some of these, Yutyrannus and Dilong are close relatives of the T. Rex, and they had feathers
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Paleoart Article

What is the Paleoart image by Philip Henry Delamotte?

Name, brief description

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  • Model Room at the Crystal Palace
  • Engraving which shows dinosaurs being sculped for the Crystal Palace by natural history artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
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Paleoart Article

What is the Paleoart image by Adolphe François Pannemaker?

Name, brief decription

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  • The Primitive World
  • Image mixed with biblical imagery
  • Showing the past as an apocalyptical warzone with volcano, fighting beasts, fire and lightning
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Paleoart Article

What is the Paleoart image by Édouard Riou; engraved by Laurent Hotelin and Alexandre Hurel?

Name, brief description

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  • The Ichthyosaur and the Plesiosaur
  • These two prehistoric creatures were long depicted as dire enemies, symbolising naval conflic as well
  • Shows these two creatures fighting above the waves
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Paleoart Article

What is the Paleoart image by Charles R Knight?

Name, brief description

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  • Laelaps
  • Shows incredible movement and hunting
  • Some believe the two fighting dinosaurs represent the competitive archeaologists Othniel C Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope
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Paleoart Article

What is the Paleoart image by Alexei Petrovich Bystrow?

Name, brief description

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  • Inostrancevia, devouring a Pareiasaurus
  • These two species were commonly seen in Soviet paleoart
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Paleoart Article

What is the Paleoart image by Zdeněk Burian?

Name, brief description

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  • Mammoth (Elephas primigenius)
  • This Czech artist illustrated many different books
  • He later met a famed archeaologist and went on to illustrate his works as well
  • He showed artistic representation of extinct species
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Paleoart Article

What is the Paleoart image by Konstantin Konstantinovich Flyorov?

Name, brief description

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  • Tarbosaurus and armoured dinosaur
  • The Russian artist identified mainly as a scientist
  • However, he rarely used actual evidence in his art and did not consult specialists in the field
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Paleoart Article

What is the Paleoart image by Ely Kish?

Name, brief description

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  • One of the few women to work in the field
  • She commonly portrayed climate change, a new idea at the time
  • She commonly portrayed events that killed off the dinosaurs, with a modern sense of anxiety and fear
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Rosetta Stone

What is the Rosetta Stone?

Where was it found, what it contained, historical context

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  • Granodiorite stele
  • With a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt
  • Top script is is Egyptian hieroglyphs
  • Middle script is Egyptian demotic
  • Bottom script is Greek
  • Possibly first displayed in a temple, the used in the construction of a temple of Rashid (Rosetta)
  • Jean-François Champollion translated the Egyptian text, some 20 years after the Greek was translated
  • This bilingual Ptolemaic decree was key in being able to understand Egyptian texts
  • After King Ptolemy V was crowned, the stele was erected to show the divine rule of the king on Earth
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Borobudur

What is Borobudur?

Historical context, location

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  • 9th Century Mahayana Buddhist temple
  • Central Java, Indonesia
  • World’s largest Buddhist temple
  • Consisting of 9 stacked platforms topped by a central dome
  • Surrounded by 72 Buddhas each in a stupa
  • UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Built during the Sailendra Dynasty
  • Abandoned following the decline of Buddhism in Java
  • Indonesian Buddhists celebrate Vesak Day there
  • Indonesia’s single most visited tourist attraction
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Petra

What is Petra?

Location, appearance, historical significance

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  • Historic city in Jordan
  • With rock-cut architecture
  • Beautiful and featured in Indiana Jones movie
  • Inhabited by the Nabateans (Nomadic Arabs)
  • The trading business was important for these people
  • Petra was the focus of this wealth
  • Petra then fell to the Romans
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Sutton Hoo

What is Sutton Hoo?

Location, contents, historical significance

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  • The site of two Anglo-Saxon cemetaries
  • Near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
  • In the area, a ship burial was previously found, containing a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artifacts
  • First excavated by Basil Brown
  • Contents of the burial include a suite of metalwork dress fittings, a ceremonial helmet, lyre, sword and shield and a silver plate from the Byzantine Empire
  • A purse, belt buckle and shoulder clasp was also found
  • This discovery was very important for the understanding of the Anglo-Saxons of Anglia, a very little understood culture at the time
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Library of Alexandria Article

What is the Library of Alexandria?

Who started it, where was it and what was it,

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  • Located in Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great
  • The Museum/Royal Library of Alexandria was founded by his successor Ptolemy I Soter
  • The Museum was a shrine to the Muses, lecture areas, a garden, a zoo, shrines for all nine muses as well as the actual library
  • It was thought to contain over half a million works
  • Over 100 scholars lived and worked there to do research
  • A branch or daughter library was located in the temple of Serapis to hold more works
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Library of Alexandria Article

What are some theories for the burning of the Library of Alexandria?

Different people and events said to have burned down the library

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  • One person to blame for the event is Julius Ceasar, who while persuing Pompey into Alexandria got cut off by Egyptian fleet and had to escape, but not before ordering some boats being burned, which resulted in the burning of some parts of the city
  • He never admitted to this and that is not surprising, but what is surprising is that his public haters never mentioned him burning down the library along with other parts of the city
  • The second story, more believable but more complex, is that Theophilus converted the temple of Serapis into a Christian church, and riots broke out after a Christian monk was killed
  • Alexandria had tight politics with Christians, Jews, and Pagans, and one theory is that after the monk was killed, the Jews and Pagans led more Christians out into the streets to be murdered, and in retaliation, the Christians murdered Head Librarian/last member of the Library, Hypatia, signalling the end of the library
  • The final person blamed was Moslem Caliph Omar, who, when the Moslems overtook Alexandria, was said to burn all of the books for fuel, but this story came from a very biased Christian source
  • Unfortunately, all accounts are biased and we may never know the actual story
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House of Wisdom Article

What is the House of Wisdom?

What was it, it’s history and how it got destroyed

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  • In the rule of the Abbasid Caliphs, it was a library in Bagdad which was first a private library
  • Works in Pahlavi, Syriac, Greek and Sanscript were translated into Arabic, making this place a hub of education for centuries
  • Muawiyah l of the Umayyad Dynasty was a bibliophile and collected many books in Damascus, laying the foundation for the library
  • This was during the Islamic Golden Age
  • The new Caliph Al-Mansur promoted scholarship and made a library for scholars over the world to exchange knowledge
  • Caliph Al-Mamun made the library public and was very passionate about academia, making it a status symbol of the time
  • Nearly 5 hundred years after the establishment of the library, Mongols attacked Baghdad, under Hulagu Khan, the grandson of Ghengis Khan
  • The Mongols pillaged the entire city, executing the Caliph and massacring many locals
  • The books were thrown into the river Tigris making it run black for half a year, and the leather covers were used to make sandals
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Richard III

What is the new Richard III production?

Basics and controversy

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  • Michelle Terry
  • Playing Richard III in the new Globe Theatre production
  • The role has previouly been played by actors both with and without disability
  • The new casting has raised controversy, with people saying that a disabled actor should play the part to authentically portray the King who in real life had scoliosis
  • Terry also happens to be artistic director which also sparked controversy
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Ostia Antica Article

What are some things to know about Ostia Antica?

Travel arrangements and basic backstory

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  • Kristin Jackson
  • Was once the ancient port of Rome
  • Has hundreds of 2,000 year old buildings spread over hundreds of acres
  • Overshadowed by Pompei and other famous Roman sites
  • Half-hour ride from central Rome
  • For around one euro, you can take the “trenino”, the above ground subway, and the station is only 10 minutes by taxi from hte Coliseum
  • The train goes to Ostia but get off at the Ostia Antica stop
  • Admission is around four euros for adults, with a small museum adjoining the ruins
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Ostia Antica Article

What are some features of Ostia Antica?

Things that can be found and seen here, quality

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  • Edged by fields, and very quiet and peaceful
  • Decumanus Maximus is the main road
  • This is a working town, a port at the mouth of the Tiber river, so gives a sense of ordinary life
  • However, did have rich merchants, and a large theatre
  • Brick building ruins are seen since marble facades were scavanged centuries ago for other buildings
  • The “Square of Corporations” includes elaborate mosaics
  • The plumbing was very advanced, with a communal restroom and public baths as well
  • It was preserved by tidal mud and blowing dirt
  • Ostia is nearby, close to a 15th century castle
  • The town is sleepy and quiet, but includes an old-fashioned resteraunt called II Monumento
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Girsu Article

What was the Girsu project?

Background, discovery, parties involved

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  • 4,500 year old lost palace complex from the Sumerian city Girsu in southern Iraq
  • Technology and drone photography was used to identify subsurface remains at Tablet Hill, known as the “cradle of civilization”
  • Previously, mudbrick walls and cuneiform tablets detailing administrative records of Girsu were found
  • Eninnu temple, the main sanctuary of the Sumerian god Ningirsu was found
  • Temple of the White Thunderbird was very significant
  • Joint initiative between Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage and the British Museum wiht funding from the Getty trust and Museum
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Pompeii Article

What is known about the streets of Pompeii?

What is known, how was this recreated

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  • Proffessor Eric Poehler
  • Had about 100 narrow one-way streets
  • Each streets had stepping stones like a crosswalk, still low enough for carts to pass over
  • Poehler used 3D mapping technology and put together a map showing the traffic system of Pompeii
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Pompeii Article

What is known about the food of Pompeii

Main ingredient, where this came from and history, type of cooking

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  • Fish sauce was commonly consumed
  • One neighbourhood was lined with fish sauce vats where the sauce was churned out
  • Small fish-sauce businesses were put out of business until Umbricius Scaurus expanded the business, competing with Spanish traders and becoming very wealthy and influential
  • Pompeiians were gourmet cooks, with songbirds, meat, sea urchins, shellfish and pork
  • Pigs were even fed different things to taste different, much like today
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Pompeii Article

How are scientists recreating the faces of the people of Pompeii?

What is the technique

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  • After Mount Vesuvius erupted, Pompeiians were buried under much volcanic ash
  • When the bodies decomposed, they left cavities in the ash, so by pouring plaster in these cavities, scientists can make moulds of the bodies
  • Determining sex, age and overall health
  • Now using 3D scans and photogrammetry, it is possible to make scans of the faces, seeing if the person was in pain, or scared
  • Seeing their last moments
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Taposiris Magna

What was the Taposiris Magna stele?

Basics

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  • Taposiris Magna
  • Semi-destroyed temple located on the edge of Lake Mariout in Borg El Arab
  • About 50 kilometers west of Alexandria
  • A hieroglyphic and Demotic stele has also been located, indicating that the temple was considered holy ground
  • About how Ptolemy V gave part of Nubia to the Egyptian goddess Isis
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Calendar Stone

What was the Aztec calendar stone?

Basics

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  • AKA Aztec Sun Stone or Piedra de Sol
  • After Spanish conquest was buried in the Zocalo, the main square in Mexico city
  • Later mounted in Mexico city Cathedral
  • Was originally located in Tenochtitlan
  • Used as a work of art, possibly a sacraficial stone
  • Includes days of the year but not used for this purpose
  • A central disk representing the sun deity is surrounded by shapes representing the previous 4 eras
  • Followed by a ring listing the 20 days of the 18 months and five nemontemi of the Aztec solar calendar
  • The third ring shows two fire serpents, then the edge of the stone depics a starry sky
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Ocomtun

What is Ocomtun?

Basics

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  • Ancient Late Classic city
  • Located on the Yucatan Peninsula in the Mexican state of Campeche
  • Analysis of pottery fragments found in the area indicate the area was inhabited by the Maya people
  • Archaeologists named the site Ocomtún after the Mayan word for stone column
  • Discovered during an expedition led by Dr. Ivan Šprajc after he received Lidar images showing significant human cultural structures hidden in the landscape
  • The area around it, due to lush vegetation and jungle, was not previously explored
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Montevideo Maru

What is Montevideo Maru?

Basics

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  • Merchant ship of the Empire of Japan
  • Pressed into service as a military transport during World War II
  • Sunk by the American submarine USS Sturgeon
  • Drowning over 1,000 people
  • Mostly Australian prisoners of war and civilians who were being transported from Rabaul, the former Australian territory of New Guinea, to Hainan
  • The sinking is considered the worst maritime disaster in Australia’s history
  • The wreck of the Montevideo Maru was discovered in 2023
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Endurance

What is the HMS Endurance?

Basics

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  • HMS stands for Her/His Majesty’s Ship: for British Royal Navy
  • Royal Navy ice patrol vessel
  • Came to public notice when she was involved in the Falklands War
  • Final surrender of the war, in the South Sandwich Islands, took place aboard Endurance
  • The ship was built and launched in Germany as Anita Dan for the Lauritzen Lines
  • UK government purchased the vessel and then had Harland & Wolff carry out the conversion prior to being commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Endurance
  • Named after the sailing ship Endurance that took the explorer Ernest Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic
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Ardi

What is Ardi?

Basics

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  • Fossilized skeletal remains of an Ardipithecus ramidus
  • It is the most complete early hominid specimen
  • In all, 125 different pieces of fossilized bone were found
  • Discovered at Aramis in the arid badlands near the Awash River in Ethiopia by a college student, Yohannes Haile-Selassie
  • Discovery was made by a team of scientists led by UC Berkeley anthropologist, Tim D. White
  • Her fossils were also found near animal remains which indicated that she inhabited a forest type of environment, contrary to the theory that bipedalism originated in savannahs
  • Ardi was not the first fossil of A. ramidus to come to light
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Lucy

What is Lucy?

Species, historical context

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  • AL 288-1
  • Also known as Lucy or Dinkinesh
  • Early australopithecine fossil
  • Discovered in Ethiopia
  • Several hundred piece fossil making up 40 percent of Australopithecus afarensis
  • Discovered by Donald Johanson
  • Showed evidence of being bipedal and upright
  • Name came from a Beatles song “Lucy in the sky with diamonds”
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Java Man

What is Java Man?

Basics

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  • Homo erectus erectus
  • Early human fossil discovered on the island of Java (Indonesia)
  • At the time of its discovery, the oldest hominid fossil ever found, and it remains the type specimen for Homo erectus
  • Arguing that the fossils represented the “missing link” between apes and humans, Dubois gave the species the scientific name Anthropopithecus erectus, then later renamed it Pithecanthropus erectus
  • Few accepted that Java Man was a transitional form between apes and humans
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Taung Child

What is Taung Child?

Basics

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  • Taung Baby
  • Fossilised skull of a young Australopithecus africanus
  • Discovered by quarrymen working for the Northern Lime Company in Taung, South Africa
  • Raymond Dart described it as a new species in the journal Nature
  • The Taung skull is in repository at the University of Witwatersrand
  • Dean Falk, a specialist in brain evolution, has called it “the most important anthropological fossil of the twentieth century
  • “An extinct race of apes intermediate between living anthropoids and man”
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Oldowan Tools

What are oldowan tools?

Basics

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  • Widespread stone tool archaeological style in prehistory
  • These early tools were simple, usually made with one or a few flakes chipped off with another stone
  • By ancient Hominins (early humans) across much of Africa
  • The term Oldowan is taken from the site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where the first Oldowan stone tools were discovered
  • By the archaeologist Louis Leakey
  • Mary Leakey was the first to create a system to classify Oldowan assemblages, and built her system based on prescribed use
  • The system included choppers, scrapers, and pounders
  • Its emergence is often associated with the species Australopithecus
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Paranthropus robustus

What is Paranthropus robustus?

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  • Species of robust australopithecine from the Early and possibly Middle Pleistocene
  • Cradle of Humankind, South Africa
  • It was among the first early hominins described, and became the type species for the genus Paranthropus
  • It has been argued by some that Paranthropus is an invalid grouping and synonymous with Australopithecus
  • So the species is also often classified as Australopithecus robustus.
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Tujiaaspis vividus

What is Tujiaaspis vividus?

Basics

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  • Silurian jawless fish
  • There was little evidence for the gradual evolution of fins
  • Galeaspids give great insight into jawless vertebrates and how they developed
  • These fish fossils recently found in China give new insight into full bodies and the evolution of paired fins
  • These fish fins could have even evolved eventually into whales fins, bird wings and even people
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Vesuvius Challenge Article

What was the Vesuvius challenge?

People involved, discoveries, premise

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  • Elon Musk said he would provide financial support to the Vesuvius Challenge
  • This is a competition to read ancient scrolls using artificial intelligence
  • Youssef Nader, Luke Farritor and Julian Schilliger won after using AI to read the hidden text of charred scrolls buried after Mount Vesuvius’ eruptiom
  • Over 1,000 scrolls were recovered by a mansion thought to be owned by Julius Caesar’s father in law
  • The Herculaneum Papyri could be virtually unwrapped
  • The next phase is going to involve reading entire scrolls, and Elon Musk is highly supportive of the project and is offering to make a huge donation
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Voice Dubbing

What is the new voice dubbing technology?

What it does and example

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  • Hey Gen is a new AI feature
  • Allows people to dub videos in different languages even changing the mouth movements and making the voice sound realistic
  • The YouTube feature Aloud does something a bit similar but will not change how the mouth moves and also the voice is just one voice and not yours
  • If this works may be able to open up a lot of opportunity to connect through many languages over video
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Library Article

What is the tenth largest library?

Basics

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  • The Danish Royal Library
  • National library of Denmark and university of the University of Copenhagen
  • Even includes the manuscript for a medival Wikipedia
  • Holds nearly all printed Danish works dating back to the 15th century
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Library Article

What is the ninth largest library?

Basics

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  • National Library of China
  • Largest library in Asia
  • A legal depository for copies of domestic publications
  • Holds the largest collection of Chinese literature and historical documents in the world
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Library Article

What is the eight largest library?

Basics

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  • National Diet Library of Japan
  • Meant to assist members of the National Diet with research
  • Includes Japanese political history documents, rare and old books and map collections
  • Japan’s only national library but it has two main facilities, one in Tokyo and on in Kyoto
  • Also has other branches, and it is available to anyone 18 or over
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Library Article

What is the seventh largest library?

Basics

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  • National Library of Russia
  • Located in St. Petersburg
  • Oldest public library in the nation
  • Established by Empress Catherine the Great
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Library Article

What is the sixth largest library?

Basics

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  • Bibliotheque Nationale de France
  • The library traces it origins to the 1300s and moved locations several times
  • WiFi was banned for a while, but was then reconnected again
  • Offers guided tours of its branches
  • Membership open to the reference library open to anyone over 16
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Library Article

What is the 5th largest library?

Basics

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  • Moscow
  • Reorganized by Vladimir Lenin who studied libraries in Russia and Western Europe
  • The national book depository in Russia
  • Initial collection incorporated books from confiscated public libraries
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Library Article

What is the fourth largest library?

Basics

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  • New York Public Library
  • Featured in several films
  • Participant of the Google Books Library Project
  • Some popular services inlcude a reference question service, free events, exhibitions, computer lessons and ESL lessons
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Library Article

What is the third largest library?

Basics

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  • Library and Archives Canada
  • The oldest surviving document printed in Australia was found tucked into a scrapbook by one of the library’s librarians
  • The library is located in Ottawa
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Library Article

What is the second largest library?

Basics

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  • British Library
  • Acts as a legal deposit library
  • Thus automatically receives a copy of every publication produces in the UK and Ireland
  • Acess is open to the public provided they have a reader pass
  • The collection includes the Magna Carta, the Beatles manuscripts and the recording of Nelson Mandela’s Rivonia Trial Speech
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Library Article

What is the largest library?

Basics

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  • Library of Congress
  • Officially meant for use by the Congress of the United States but also available for anyone with a reader ID
  • It is housed in 3 buildings on the Capitol
  • Books can only be read inside the library
  • Holdings include the rough draft of the Declaration of Indipendence
  • Offers free guided tours
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Muzeon Article

What is the Muzeon Park of Arts?

Basics

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  • This park is the resting place for many statues evicted from parks and squares following the collapse of Communism
  • There are now over 700 sculptures
  • Highlights include a huge steel sculpture of the Soviet world, many pedestal-less Lenins, monuments to the red army, and a de-nosed Stalin
  • Benches, a fountain, byicycle-hire and a cafe make this place a comfortable place to hangout
  • Moscow
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Statues

What are some examples with statues being removed due to politics?

Different examples around the world

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  • The potential tearing down of Confederate statues in the US
  • Removing the statue of Saddam Hussein in Iraq
  • Destruction of images of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt at the height of the Arab Spring
  • Showcasing NAZI memorabilia is a crime now in Germany, except for certain grounds used to show the terror they spread
  • Many soviet statues were collapsed along with the soviet union, like the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the USSR’s feared secret police force, the KGB
  • Hungary includes a park (Budapest’s Memento Park) which contains 42 pieces of post-WWii communist-era work
  • In Spain, there are monuments to show the impact of dictators like Fransisco Franco, where art is preserved but “convincing” memorabilia is not
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Confederate Statue Article

What happened with the Confederate statue incident?

Background, what occured

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  • In Richmond, Virginia lie the remains of Confederate statues
  • The exact location is kept secret for security reasons
  • Statues such as those for Gen Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson were taken down after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis
  • The statues are now owned by the Black History Museum and Cultural Centre of Viriginia
  • Mary C Lauderdale, the museum director of collections, is clear on two things
  • The decisions will be made as a community, and that she doesn’t want the statues in the museum’s headquarters
  • The statues were erected as part of the Lost Cause promoted by descendants of the Confederate soldiers who were defeated
  • Devon Henry was in charge of removing and storing statues, getting frequent death threats and having it be a dangerous job
  • The Valentine depicts a fallen statue of Jefferson Davis
  • There were mixed reactions as to what to do with it, now it is going to LA where two local museums will display it in it’s toppled form along works by African American artists

WSC Curriculum Regional/Global Round Kit Amalia 2024 (17 decks)

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