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in 1942 a British mountain scout stumbled upon a lake over 16,000 feet in elevation high in the Himalaya Mountains in far north India. The lake contained the bones of around 500 individuals later determined to have died around 850 CE for most of them. Why were they there and what could have caused their deaths in such a remote venue?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/...n-lake/596416/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roopkund
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Interesting...........
I wonder if they will find Jimmy Hoffa?
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I thought he was the night manager at a Cinnabon in Nebraska...Or was that Judge Crater?...Originally Posted by Mike
...Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Every once and awhile Joe reads something worth while
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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I’ve mentioned this before, but I recommend an RSS reader app named ”Flipboard” as a nice site which accumulates articles from all over the web. You can program it to fetch articles from your various areas of interest. Your own robot as it were. The article above came from my interest in archeology, I think.
Maybe others have better RSS news readers they can recommend. I have tried several others that are duds. I am not sure Flipboard is on other platforms than Apple.
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I will have to take a look at that---but my "awaiting pile" seems to move only in one direction!
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Flipboard was Steve Jobs favorite app. I've used it for several years after learning that. I still use it everyday, but there is a newer app from Microsoft called Hummingbird that is much the same and at the same time very different. I read both of them several times a day. They are both news aggregators. Flipboard seems a little more dignified to me while Hummingbird is more of a just go for it type of place.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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Sadly, Hummingbird does not appear available for IOS.
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I read Google News......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Joe, it appears that there is an IOS app for Hummingbird.
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"Fair and balanced".........lolI read Google News...
OPINION....a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
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Here ya go, Joe. Hummingbird for IOS in the Apple store.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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I downloaded it to find it required I signed up with my email address with Microsoft, Mike. That was not going to happen.
Thanks though.
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Okay. I've been using it for a long time with no problems. Your results may differ. Safe surfing is a good policy.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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