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Ancient man believed there were four states of matter: Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire. Today, modern science has proven there are actually four states of matter: Solid, Gas, Liquid, and Plasma. Thank God for progress.” -Kelvin R. Throop III – Kelvin Throop	added by kidcash912 2 months ago
We are not in Martian Kansas anymore, we’re flying over the dried-up remnants of an ancient river that is filled with sand dunes, boulders, and rocks, and surrounded by hills that could have us for lunch. And while we recently upgraded the navigation software onboard to help determine safe airfields, every flight is still a white-knuckler. – Josh Anderson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are many people from the town or children of local natives who, like me, are born or live elsewhere but who every year return to San Severino and go up ngoppa u ’ paese viecchio( ‘ on the back of the ancient village ’) to find their origins and imagine what the life of their parents, uncles or grandparents could be like in the past, the attachment to the place is so strong for all the inhabitants( living in the new town) and those who have moved to other places for work, but whose heart belongs here. – Monica Gillocchi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was just incredibly ancient, everything was kind of lost in time. – Doug Johnson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If grass and other plants grow in or on the ancient walls and houses this is a problem. So we try to have a sustainable approach to the whole environment in order also to avoid using substances then to avoid growing plants, having plants growing on the walls and ruins. – Gabriel Zuchtriegel	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When people were attempting to persuade others in the legendary Arena in ancient Greece, frame battles were frequently conducted. The delivery and techniques may have changed over time, but the fundamental ideas behind frame control have mostly remained the same.” – Josh King Madrid	added by JoshKingMadrid 1 year ago
That, we think, is probably the biggest physical challenge of the ancient environment for these animals. – Chris Beard	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This bar dates back to 1947, it used to be a brothel and gay hotspot, then the owner decided to adopt the phallus motif, which was an ancient Greek symbol of sexual potency and fertility, to reaffirm the virility of Sicilian men. It also brings good luck. – Waitress Giorgia Ponturo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The rocks are ancient beings, my job as a custodian is to share our stories and spread awareness in a way that makes people feel and understand the power of this place. – Josie Alec	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In the distant past, the sand, mud, and salts that now make up the Wildcat Ridge sample were deposited under conditions where life could potentially have thrived, the fact the organic matter was found in such a sedimentary rock -- known for preserving fossils of ancient life here on Earth -- is important. However, as capable as our instruments aboard Perseverance are, further conclusions regarding what is contained in the Wildcat Ridge sample will have to wait until it's returned to Earth for in-depth study as part of the agency's Mars Sample Return campaign. – Ken Farley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our study shows how effective archaeology, and particularly new scientific techniques such as ancient DNA, can be in providing new perspectives on historical events, ralph de Diceto's account of the 1190 AD attacks is evocative, but a deep well containing the bodies of Ashkenazi Jewish men, women, and especially children forces us to confront the real horror of what happened. – Tom Booth	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Last night, my mother, Nichelle Nichols, succumbed to natural causes and passed away. Her light however, like the ancient galaxies now being seen for the first time, will remain for us and future generations to enjoy, learn from, and draw inspiration, hers was a life well lived and as such a model for us all. – Kyle Johnson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Ancient DNA technique is a really powerful tool, it tells us quite definitively that the Red Deer Cave people were modern humans instead of an archaic species, such as Neanderthals or Denisovans, despite their unusual morphological features. – Bing Su	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Part of the misconception about its age came from mixing of fossils from different layers during early excavations, using this method, we can more accurately place ancient humans and their relatives in the correct time periods, in Africa, and elsewhere across the world. – Darryl Granger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Sadness and Happiness is a comparison between your fleeting momentary choices between past and future, modern and ancient.” – Wesley D'Amico	added by WesleyD'Amico 1 year ago
A bond between souls is ancient - older than the planet. – Author Unknown	added by unochickie 1 year ago
There are lots of other things that help protect us, there are barriers in the nose. There are different kinds of proteins and things which are very ancient, primordial, protective systems, and they are likely to have been contributing to them not being infected, and we're really interested in trying to understand what those are. – Christopher Chiu	Found on CNN 2 years ago
China needs commodities and Russia may have to sell it cheap, one ancient Chinese idiom is that when two clams fight, the fisherman stands to benefit. – Hao Hong	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Then said Littleheart son of Bronweg: ·'Know then that Tuor was a man who dwelt in very ancient days in that land of the North called Dor-lómin or The Land of Shadows and of the Eldar the Noldoli know it best' . – J.R.R. Tolkien	added by jessr.85566 2 years ago
It's had about a thousand lives in it, some brittle and cold, others quaint and lively. The wallpaper's peeling and the pipes are rusting. The shingles are breaking away, falling to ancient earth but the hearth still smells of warm breakfast, eggs sizzling in their beds, toast crisp with strains of raspberry jam, griddlecakes tanning themselves, milk being topped off. Somewhere there is a rumbling, a truck bearing gifts of furniture, a car with parents cooing to their young and calming the family pets as they speed on to their destination. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
There is no relation between Blacks and the origin of the ancient Egyptian civilization at all. – Zahi Hawass	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is a property where you can almost tangibly feel that it is healing, that it is recovering, you walk through the forest and, even as you see the kind of ghostly stumps of ancient trees that were harvested, you could also in the foggy landscape see the monsters that were left behind as well as the young redwoods that are sprouting from those stumps. – Sam Hodder	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This work settles the idea that hybrids were in fact created by ancient Mesopotamians, which is very cool, but we still don't know how widespread this animal was and it also doesn't address additional questions relating to other types of hybrid equids created in Bronze Age. So there are plenty more questions. – Benjamin Arbuckle	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Restoring oyster beds is as profound as restoring ancient forests. – William Sanderson	Found on CNN 2 years ago

Ancient man believed there were four states of matter: Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire. Today, modern science has proven there are actually four states of matter: Solid, Gas, Liquid, and Plasma. Thank God for progress.” -Kelvin R. Throop III

– Kelvin Throop

added by kidcash912
2 months ago

We are not in Martian Kansas anymore, we’re flying over the dried-up remnants of an ancient river that is filled with sand dunes, boulders, and rocks, and surrounded by hills that could have us for lunch. And while we recently upgraded the navigation software onboard to help determine safe airfields, every flight is still a white-knuckler.

– Josh Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are many people from the town or children of local natives who, like me, are born or live elsewhere but who every year return to San Severino and go up ngoppa u ’ paese viecchio( ‘ on the back of the ancient village ’) to find their origins and imagine what the life of their parents, uncles or grandparents could be like in the past, the attachment to the place is so strong for all the inhabitants( living in the new town) and those who have moved to other places for work, but whose heart belongs here.

– Monica Gillocchi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was just incredibly ancient, everything was kind of lost in time.

– Doug Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If grass and other plants grow in or on the ancient walls and houses this is a problem. So we try to have a sustainable approach to the whole environment in order also to avoid using substances then to avoid growing plants, having plants growing on the walls and ruins.

– Gabriel Zuchtriegel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When people were attempting to persuade others in the legendary Arena in ancient Greece, frame battles were frequently conducted. The delivery and techniques may have changed over time, but the fundamental ideas behind frame control have mostly remained the same.”

– Josh King Madrid

added by JoshKingMadrid
1 year ago

That, we think, is probably the biggest physical challenge of the ancient environment for these animals.

– Chris Beard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This bar dates back to 1947, it used to be a brothel and gay hotspot, then the owner decided to adopt the phallus motif, which was an ancient Greek symbol of sexual potency and fertility, to reaffirm the virility of Sicilian men. It also brings good luck.

– Waitress Giorgia Ponturo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The rocks are ancient beings, my job as a custodian is to share our stories and spread awareness in a way that makes people feel and understand the power of this place.

– Josie Alec

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the distant past, the sand, mud, and salts that now make up the Wildcat Ridge sample were deposited under conditions where life could potentially have thrived, the fact the organic matter was found in such a sedimentary rock -- known for preserving fossils of ancient life here on Earth -- is important. However, as capable as our instruments aboard Perseverance are, further conclusions regarding what is contained in the Wildcat Ridge sample will have to wait until it's returned to Earth for in-depth study as part of the agency's Mars Sample Return campaign.

– Ken Farley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our study shows how effective archaeology, and particularly new scientific techniques such as ancient DNA, can be in providing new perspectives on historical events, ralph de Diceto's account of the 1190 AD attacks is evocative, but a deep well containing the bodies of Ashkenazi Jewish men, women, and especially children forces us to confront the real horror of what happened.

– Tom Booth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Last night, my mother, Nichelle Nichols, succumbed to natural causes and passed away. Her light however, like the ancient galaxies now being seen for the first time, will remain for us and future generations to enjoy, learn from, and draw inspiration, hers was a life well lived and as such a model for us all.

– Kyle Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ancient DNA technique is a really powerful tool, it tells us quite definitively that the Red Deer Cave people were modern humans instead of an archaic species, such as Neanderthals or Denisovans, despite their unusual morphological features.

– Bing Su

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Part of the misconception about its age came from mixing of fossils from different layers during early excavations, using this method, we can more accurately place ancient humans and their relatives in the correct time periods, in Africa, and elsewhere across the world.

– Darryl Granger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sadness and Happiness is a comparison between your fleeting momentary choices between past and future, modern and ancient.”

– Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
1 year ago

A bond between souls is ancient - older than the planet.

– Author Unknown

added by unochickie
1 year ago

There are lots of other things that help protect us, there are barriers in the nose. There are different kinds of proteins and things which are very ancient, primordial, protective systems, and they are likely to have been contributing to them not being infected, and we're really interested in trying to understand what those are.

– Christopher Chiu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

China needs commodities and Russia may have to sell it cheap, one ancient Chinese idiom is that when two clams fight, the fisherman stands to benefit.

– Hao Hong

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Then said Littleheart son of Bronweg: ·'Know then that Tuor was a man who dwelt in very ancient days in that land of the North called Dor-lómin or The Land of Shadows and of the Eldar the Noldoli know it best' .

– J.R.R. Tolkien

added by jessr.85566
2 years ago

It's had about a thousand lives in it, some brittle and cold, others quaint and lively. The wallpaper's peeling and the pipes are rusting. The shingles are breaking away, falling to ancient earth but the hearth still smells of warm breakfast, eggs sizzling in their beds, toast crisp with strains of raspberry jam, griddlecakes tanning themselves, milk being topped off. Somewhere there is a rumbling, a truck bearing gifts of furniture, a car with parents cooing to their young and calming the family pets as they speed on to their destination.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

There is no relation between Blacks and the origin of the ancient Egyptian civilization at all.

– Zahi Hawass

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is a property where you can almost tangibly feel that it is healing, that it is recovering, you walk through the forest and, even as you see the kind of ghostly stumps of ancient trees that were harvested, you could also in the foggy landscape see the monsters that were left behind as well as the young redwoods that are sprouting from those stumps.

– Sam Hodder

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This work settles the idea that hybrids were in fact created by ancient Mesopotamians, which is very cool, but we still don't know how widespread this animal was and it also doesn't address additional questions relating to other types of hybrid equids created in Bronze Age. So there are plenty more questions.

– Benjamin Arbuckle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Restoring oyster beds is as profound as restoring ancient forests.

– William Sanderson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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