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The question for me is how long before we find the first Martian fossil

It's an old urban legend that there is a plug in the bottom of the canal and that if you pull the chain the canal will drain It seems it's not an urban legend A rather enthusiastic amateur urban historian investigates

Long past the main Rio Carnivale was a local event, but Hollywood and tourism seemed to have ended that. But there is still a "Carnivale" for the people, the Bate-Bola (Ball Hitters)

Although the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank once had a reputation as hoaxers, scammers, bilkers and conmen they have always been into feng shui as the example of their Hong Kong Tower demonstrates. HSBC Building Feng Shui Cannons via Atlas Obscura

For myself, the question is not so much "how" but "why" The traditional answer seems to be that, where there was mortar in the walls it strengthened that or possibly made it less porous as the heating does not strengthen the stone. My idea is to ask what colour these walls would have appeared...

Wasn't there an experiment done with using brushwood loosely packed being able to generate the necessary temperatures? Ah, yes! THE EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTION OF THE PHENOMENA DISTINCTIVE OF VITRIFIED FORTS. BY PROFESSOR V. G. CHILDE AND WALLACE THORNEYCROFT, in 1937 found via Skeptoid...

This is one of the points made by modern Mythicist students such as Carrier, Lataster, Fitzgerald and Price; the term "Christ" and its Jewish equivalent "Messiah" (both have the meaning anointed) was not a unique appellation *. None of these says that however the term came to be used, the...

H'mmm you need a brew with more body - try Betty Stogs

So unlike our own dear moderators ...

Found this link Modern Rosicrucian groups which gives a long list of Rosicrucian groups. They don't mention the "Fathers" specifically but perhaps AMORC (Antique Mysticusque Ordo Rosæ Crucis) could advise you

Maybe but this might mitigate against that interpretation

One robber to Jesus "Got wood?

A couple of "in"-famous ones

Foxes were domesticated by humans in the Bronze Age Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-02-foxes-domesticated-humans-bronze-age.html#jCp

Seeing a need for oil, coal and nuclear plants might take a hit when you find that battery grid-scale storage is one of the fastest growing pars of US utilities. Utilities are starting to invest in big batteries instead of building new power plants

No, there was criticism because that's what science does. In practice, Mann's early construction of 1999 was vindicated but shown to be a little less extreme than his early work implied. McIntyre's 2004 criticism was shown to be wrong by Wahl's work of 2007 What evidence is there for the...

Some artists seem to have a "thing" for Jesus

Emphasis mine Abuse statistics found buried on Vatican's website Article originally in L'Espresso cited by Stuff NZ

"Closed Stacks" A stack is an array of shelves Or Restricted in the BL. The Victorians were dis-GUST-ing

Another big problem with Atwill is that the fabrication was supposedly done by Josephus and this version of the historian supposedly had forgotten all he had known about: Galilee (Josephus was the Jewish Military Commander of Galilee); The topology of the region; Roman legal processes; Roman...

Dragées - People who attend a performance by people in drag or the people wearing the drag???

This article from Haaretz a few years back would seem to fit here Is the Bible a True Story? Some Samples

Tapioca was tropical frogs eggs Local Public Libraries had underground storage with all the books hidden there

Glitter has serious uses.

Part of the moral of "Flowers for Algernon"/"Charly" I remember tearing up when I first read that story

Readers may or may not be aware that about 20 years ago many kids with too much time on their hands found you could make really cool plasmas by nuking halved grapes in a microwave. Seem like a waste of time? Wrong This has turned into SCIENCE! One of those kids was physicist, Aaron Slepkov...

So the Village of the Damned is in China and not Europe? Or will "Charly" be Chinese?

No. To repeat what many have said in many forums; atheism is a null hypothesis and until there is evidence for an alternative positive hypothesis (eg a God, gods, spirits ancestors, reincarnation etc then the nonacceptance holds. There is nothing "active" about not holding a belief in a thing...

Atheism is not a belief system any more than having no opinion is an opinion

So nothing about the Stick and Bucket Dance, then Are you calling me friendly????

Free speech is only the freedom from the Government restricting what you say Private entities can shut you down at any time on resources they control

Nice try at a Gish Gallop, have one in return The fastest growing element of "faith" is non-belief whether or not you think that Agnosticism and Atheism are the same. Atheism is a null hypothesis that requires you to produce verifiable evidence to overturn it and, until there is such evidence...

"Turn the other Cheek" is not unprecedented, it appears in the Essene "Manual of Discipline" and, worse quite a few scholars claim the term is misinterpreted though exactly how this misinterpretation applies differs. Most see it as "Turn the Left Cheek" which implies making the assailant...

Yup it's a Sheela, check the upside down image

What I was taught as a meter reader applies: Stand 45 degrees on Take off a cap because it can look like forward flattened, hence aggressive ears position Confident but higher pitched voice; male voices, in particular, can sound like growling Use don't look directly but do not drop your head...

Atwill? Personally, I think it is a load of bollocks Again we come across the problem of a Jewish conception of a Messiah, which Titus would fulfil for Josephus (just as Cyrus fulfilled Elisha's standard for a Messiah) and the Christian conception of the Messiah. Parallels between the Jewish...

There are many stories of "surprise babies" Source "Surprise Babies" - Not as Rare as You Think and 3 scholarly articles are cited as sources for the figures

There seems to be no specific thread for Pulp covers, perhaps this will help Sourced from Pulp Covers website

I see the Alpha Zero program's defeat of Stockfish 8 was mentioned about 2 years ago but I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned either Leela Chess Zero "... a free, open-source, and neural network based chess engine and distributed computing project" or Alpha Zero taking on and beating human...

via "Atlas Obscura" An interesting article

Errr, darker skin was the norm in early populations. Light skin colour only came into Europe with a migration from the Steppes about 6,000 BCE

Eye, hair and skin colour can be found in DNA, not sure about skin and hair texture

"Rose's are red Violet's are blue But she lives in the Arctic So what can she do?"

It seems someone has emulated "Starlite" using corn starch, PVA glue and bicarbonate of soda; he even emulates the egg experiment at 7:04

Obviously he's the guy who works down the chip shop

Dodgson was satirising the semantics of philosophers changing the meanings of words to support their arguments - which is exactly Anselm's "crime" - the fact Dodgson he used "Glory" in his example is probably irrelevant although given the religious meaning of "Glory" possibly not. The quotation...

Words have meanings, claiming that the understanding of a word is "naive" is special pleading and hides the fact that the concept itself is flawed. Using omnipotence only to mean what he wanted it to mean merely made Anselm Humpty Dumpty.

According to the legend, 8 Jesuit missionaries survived the Hiroshima blast unscathed despite being within half a mile of ground zero in an area where no-one else survived. They attributed this to their faithful living of the message of Fatima and their telling of the Rosary. This is one I had...

The apologist William Lane Craig pointed to the problem of eternal in his formulation of the Kalam Cosmological Argument; anything that is eternal (temporally infinite) is subject to infinite regression making it impossible to have any point of origin for the universe as each cause must have...