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blogomatic2000 | 2005-11-14 23:43

Clash of the Dummies - Brett Holman at Air-Minded has an interesting post tracking down the origins and permutations of the famous tale of the Germans who constructed a fake airfield to deceive the British and the British who, undeceived, responded by striking it with a fake bomb. [Blog Them Out of the Stone Age]

blogomatic2000 | 2005-11-14 23:23

3000-year-old warrior still fighting at Gohar-Tappeh

society

3000-year-old warrior still fighting at Gohar-Tappeh -
A team of archaeologists working at the 3000-year-old site of Gohar-Tappeh in Iran's northern province of Mazandaran have recently unearthed a skeleton of a warrior buried in an attacking pose with a dagger in his hands.

"He is holding a 26-centimeter dagger and appears to be making a forward thrust. The evidence shows that he was originally buried in this pose," the director of the team, Ali Mahforuzi, said.
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blogomatic2000 | 2005-11-14 23:21

The Lotus Bridge

society | technology
The Lotus Bridge - Have you ever wondered what happens to traffic at a border between two countries that drive on opposite sides?

The Lotus Bridge between mainland China and the former Portuguese colony of Macau was completed in 1999 and is a fantastically elaborate construction, featuring three lanes in each direction and dual bridges which loop around each other [...]
[Google Sightseeing]