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The big question, and a topic of active scientific debate, is whether the purple bacteria living on the ancient Earth had the ability to protect themselves from UV radiation well enough to inhabit vast expanses of the land surface, like plants do on the modern Earth, the spectral signature of the pigment would be much stronger if the pigmented bacteria covered the land surface. – Jennifer Glass	Found on CNN 6 years ago
ISIS may have been defeated militarily, but ISIS’s goal is the de-Christianization of Iraq, it’s important that these ancient communities survive. If they don’t, even though ISIS has been driven out, they will have won ideologically. – Andrew Walther	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Sidney’s mom, Megan Fahrenbruch, told the station. SCIENTISTS FIND POSSIBLE CLUE TO ANCIENT' GHOST SPECIES' OF HUMANS Bonday, who has no experience monster hunting, still agreed to help. He went to the Megan Fahrenbruch home Sunday and helped Sidney investigate. Megan Fahrenbruch just checked under the couch, but he wanted to make sure there were n’t any under the couch cushions, and then they ended up going in the front yard to make sure there was no monster activity in the front yard. – Megan Fahrenbruch	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems].” – Vincent Van Gogh	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
It’s not just a single effort, like, okay you go through this Academy of Healing and now you’re on your own, it’s a community of support that mimics the ancient warrior tradition of teamwork. – Tony Hofmann	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Jerusalem is the ancient capital where the Temple stood and David ruled, and that’s why they oppose any further excavations that might confirm Jewish ties to Jerusalem. – Hillel Neuer	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It's an un-hopped beer and a unique recipe that we wanted to stay true to, without the hops in there and with these other unusual ingredients, you get a starchy, grainy flavor and aroma with a bit of sourness, almost like an ancient berliner weisse. – Alex Acker	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I really love the aroma and flavor, there is definitely a cross over to the hunjiu that we brewed with the farmer. This is a beer that I'd enjoy drinking Alex Acker, and I think beer fans are really going to have fun tasting a bit of ancient history. – Alex Acker	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Simplicity is the end, and not the beginning, of design, we developed clean and uncluttered interiors, weaving in ancient metal jaalis screens, antique brass embossing, block printed fabrics and hand-picked artifacts. – Sandeep Khandelwal	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We've spent a long time studying India's architectural history, mogul architecture, Wada architecture and of course the famed ancient stepwells. But we then take these historic designs and re-imagine them, and so you may not even recognize it at first because it's done in a completely new form. – Knobel Gupta	Found on CNN 7 years ago
This is an ancient plant, but is one of the most toxic plants on the planet, it's strongly implicated in the induction of neurodegenerative disease. – Peter Spencer	Found on CNN 7 years ago
My hunch on the Ditka quote is that it comes from a quirk of the King James translation, ancient Hebrew had a particular way of saying things like, 'and the next thing that happened was...' The King James translators of the Old Testament consistently rendered this as 'and it came to pass.' ''When phantom Bible passages turn dangerousPeople may get verses wrong, but they also mangle plenty of well-known biblical stories as well.Two examples: The scripture never says a whale swallowed Jonah, the Old Testament prophet, nor did any New Testament passages say that three wise men visited baby Jesus, scholars say.Those details may seem minor, but scholars say one popular phantom Bible story stands above the rest: The Genesis story about the fall of humanity.Most people know the popular version - Satan in the guise of a serpent tempts Eve to pick the forbidden apple from the Tree of Life. It's been downhill ever since.But the story in the book of Genesis never places Satan in the Garden of Eden. – Bruce Wells	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We're an ancient, wonderful tribe of people, we picked something beautiful. – Gilbert Baker	Found on CNN 7 years ago
He was in many ways prophetic, there was a fierce debate going on in archaeological circles about whether these ancient civilizations could exist. Now, in part sadly because of deforestation, because of satellite imagery, I don't think that's any longer in doubt. – David Grann	Found on CNN 7 years ago
In ancient dental calculus, we are able to find DNA from the microorganisms in the plaque, but also anything else that has gone into the mouth, including food or work items -- for example if ancient people were cutting rope with their teeth, we might be able to see the DNA from the plant material used to make the rope. – Laura Weyrich	Found on CNN 7 years ago
This method really is a new groundbreaking way to do that, we figured out that we could obtain bacterial DNA from dental plaque that was calcified on ancient skeletons. This is the first time it has been applied on an extinct species. Join the conversationSee the latest news and share your comments with CNN Health on Facebook and Twitter. – Laura Weyrich	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The strain from Troy belongs to a lineage that is not commonly associated with human disease in the modern world, we speculate that human infections in the ancient world were acquired from a pool of bacteria that moved readily between humans, livestock and the environment. – Caitlin Pepperell	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We heard there are interesting caves in the region, we began to peer into them, and that’s how we came to this cave, which is extremely impressive with rock-carved niches and engravings on the wall. HANUKKAH SURPRISE : ANCIENT COIN FOUND AT JERUSALEM'S TOWER OF DAVID. – Ido Meroz	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The preliminary results of our investigation are important as they give clear evidence that western Thessaly was no backwater, but a rich and vibrant society within the ancient world. – Robin Rnnlund	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We hope to complete our survey ofthe remains to get a complete picture of the ancient city. – Robin Rnnlund	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The fact that the papyrus itself has been carbon-dated to the seventh century BCE certainly does not mean that the writing on the papyrus is ancient. – Christopher Rollston	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Related : 25 new' Dead Sea Scrolls' revealed The document indicates the payment of taxes or transfer of goods to storehouses in Jerusalem, the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Judah, according to Israel Antiquities Authority. The discovery of the papyrus shows that there are other artifacts of tremendous importance to our heritage that are waiting to be found in the Judean Desert caves, the world’s heritage assets are being plundered on a daily basis by antiquities robbers solely for greed. – Israel Antiquities Authority	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I did n’t have a BlackBerry. What I did do was have a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line( sounds ancient.) So I could communicate with a wide range of friends directly without it going through the State Department servers, i even used it to do business with some foreign leaders and some of the senior folks in State Department on their personal email accounts. I did the same thing on the road in hotels. – Secretary Powell	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I find that it greatly enhances the natural beauty of the land, appropriately makes use of local materials and serves as a tasteful reminder of an ancient method of defining boundaries. – Thomas Beebe	Found on FOX News 7 years ago

The big question, and a topic of active scientific debate, is whether the purple bacteria living on the ancient Earth had the ability to protect themselves from UV radiation well enough to inhabit vast expanses of the land surface, like plants do on the modern Earth, the spectral signature of the pigment would be much stronger if the pigmented bacteria covered the land surface.

– Jennifer Glass

Found on CNN
6 years ago

ISIS may have been defeated militarily, but ISIS’s goal is the de-Christianization of Iraq, it’s important that these ancient communities survive. If they don’t, even though ISIS has been driven out, they will have won ideologically.

– Andrew Walther

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Sidney’s mom, Megan Fahrenbruch, told the station. SCIENTISTS FIND POSSIBLE CLUE TO ANCIENT' GHOST SPECIES' OF HUMANS Bonday, who has no experience monster hunting, still agreed to help. He went to the Megan Fahrenbruch home Sunday and helped Sidney investigate. Megan Fahrenbruch just checked under the couch, but he wanted to make sure there were n’t any under the couch cushions, and then they ended up going in the front yard to make sure there was no monster activity in the front yard.

– Megan Fahrenbruch

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems].”

– Vincent Van Gogh

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

It’s not just a single effort, like, okay you go through this Academy of Healing and now you’re on your own, it’s a community of support that mimics the ancient warrior tradition of teamwork.

– Tony Hofmann

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Jerusalem is the ancient capital where the Temple stood and David ruled, and that’s why they oppose any further excavations that might confirm Jewish ties to Jerusalem.

– Hillel Neuer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's an un-hopped beer and a unique recipe that we wanted to stay true to, without the hops in there and with these other unusual ingredients, you get a starchy, grainy flavor and aroma with a bit of sourness, almost like an ancient berliner weisse.

– Alex Acker

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I really love the aroma and flavor, there is definitely a cross over to the hunjiu that we brewed with the farmer. This is a beer that I'd enjoy drinking Alex Acker, and I think beer fans are really going to have fun tasting a bit of ancient history.

– Alex Acker

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Simplicity is the end, and not the beginning, of design, we developed clean and uncluttered interiors, weaving in ancient metal jaalis screens, antique brass embossing, block printed fabrics and hand-picked artifacts.

– Sandeep Khandelwal

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We've spent a long time studying India's architectural history, mogul architecture, Wada architecture and of course the famed ancient stepwells. But we then take these historic designs and re-imagine them, and so you may not even recognize it at first because it's done in a completely new form.

– Knobel Gupta

Found on CNN
7 years ago

This is an ancient plant, but is one of the most toxic plants on the planet, it's strongly implicated in the induction of neurodegenerative disease.

– Peter Spencer

Found on CNN
7 years ago

My hunch on the Ditka quote is that it comes from a quirk of the King James translation, ancient Hebrew had a particular way of saying things like, 'and the next thing that happened was...' The King James translators of the Old Testament consistently rendered this as 'and it came to pass.' ''When phantom Bible passages turn dangerousPeople may get verses wrong, but they also mangle plenty of well-known biblical stories as well.Two examples: The scripture never says a whale swallowed Jonah, the Old Testament prophet, nor did any New Testament passages say that three wise men visited baby Jesus, scholars say.Those details may seem minor, but scholars say one popular phantom Bible story stands above the rest: The Genesis story about the fall of humanity.Most people know the popular version - Satan in the guise of a serpent tempts Eve to pick the forbidden apple from the Tree of Life. It's been downhill ever since.But the story in the book of Genesis never places Satan in the Garden of Eden.

– Bruce Wells

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We're an ancient, wonderful tribe of people, we picked something beautiful.

– Gilbert Baker

Found on CNN
7 years ago

He was in many ways prophetic, there was a fierce debate going on in archaeological circles about whether these ancient civilizations could exist. Now, in part sadly because of deforestation, because of satellite imagery, I don't think that's any longer in doubt.

– David Grann

Found on CNN
7 years ago

In ancient dental calculus, we are able to find DNA from the microorganisms in the plaque, but also anything else that has gone into the mouth, including food or work items -- for example if ancient people were cutting rope with their teeth, we might be able to see the DNA from the plant material used to make the rope.

– Laura Weyrich

Found on CNN
7 years ago

This method really is a new groundbreaking way to do that, we figured out that we could obtain bacterial DNA from dental plaque that was calcified on ancient skeletons. This is the first time it has been applied on an extinct species. Join the conversationSee the latest news and share your comments with CNN Health on Facebook and Twitter.

– Laura Weyrich

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The strain from Troy belongs to a lineage that is not commonly associated with human disease in the modern world, we speculate that human infections in the ancient world were acquired from a pool of bacteria that moved readily between humans, livestock and the environment.

– Caitlin Pepperell

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We heard there are interesting caves in the region, we began to peer into them, and that’s how we came to this cave, which is extremely impressive with rock-carved niches and engravings on the wall. HANUKKAH SURPRISE : ANCIENT COIN FOUND AT JERUSALEM'S TOWER OF DAVID.

– Ido Meroz

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The preliminary results of our investigation are important as they give clear evidence that western Thessaly was no backwater, but a rich and vibrant society within the ancient world.

– Robin Rnnlund

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We hope to complete our survey ofthe remains to get a complete picture of the ancient city.

– Robin Rnnlund

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The fact that the papyrus itself has been carbon-dated to the seventh century BCE certainly does not mean that the writing on the papyrus is ancient.

– Christopher Rollston

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

– Israel Antiquities Authority

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I did n’t have a BlackBerry. What I did do was have a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line( sounds ancient.) So I could communicate with a wide range of friends directly without it going through the State Department servers, i even used it to do business with some foreign leaders and some of the senior folks in State Department on their personal email accounts. I did the same thing on the road in hotels.

– Secretary Powell

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I find that it greatly enhances the natural beauty of the land, appropriately makes use of local materials and serves as a tasteful reminder of an ancient method of defining boundaries.

– Thomas Beebe

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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