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- [ForTheLose.org - dina]
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- Delicious mass exodus
- [FlowingData - Nathan Yau]
On news that Delicious is on Yahoo's sunset list, thousands of people decided it was time to take a look at simplified competitor Pinboard. The much lower blue area is normal activity for the Pinboard servers, during a three-day period. The green represents activity after the Yahoo leak.
- Urartian King’s tomb opened in Turkey
- The burial chamber of Urartian King Argishti has been opened for the first time in eastern Turkey.
"Centered around the Lake Van in the eastern Turkey, the Urartian Kingdom ruled from the mid 9th century BC till its defeat by Media in the early 6th century BC…
"Argishti I was the sixth known king of the ancient kingdom, reigning from 786 BC to 764 BC. As the son and the successor of Menua, he continued the series of conquests initiated by his predecessors. Victorious against Assyria, he conquered the northern part of Syria and made Urartu the most powerful state in the post-Hittite Near East."
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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