[Signal boosts are awesome. --L.]
- Cretan tools point to 130,000-year-old sea travel
- ATHENS, Greece – Archaeologists on the island of Crete have discovered what may be evidence of one of the world's first sea voyages by human ancestors, the Greek Culture Ministry said Monday A ministry statement said experts from Greece and the U.S. have found rough axes and other tools thought to be between 130,000 and 700,000 years old…
- Lucretia Mott
- Lucretia Mott, born January 3, 1793, worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to initiate the first women's rights convention, in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. Mott was also a key organizer of the 1850 women's rights convention in Rochester, New York…
- The Dow Piano audiolizes the stock market in 2010
- [FlowingData - Nathan Yau]
Each day's closing level determines the pitch played, and trading volume determines how loudly a note is played. Welcome to Dow Jones the musical.
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- Ancient Greek language survives in small community
- An isolated community in north-eastern Turkey has been found to speak a dialect of Greek that is very close to the ancient Greek.
"As few as 5,000 people speak the dialect but linguists believe that it is the closest, living language to ancient Greek and could provide an unprecedented insight into the language of Socrates and Plato and how it evolved.
"…Linguists found that the dialect, Romeyka, a variety of Pontic Greek, has structural similarities to ancient Greek that are not observed in other forms of the language spoken today. Romeyka’s vocabulary also has parallels with the ancient language."
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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