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Posted on June 1st, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: metrics.
“Harvard crew remains undefeated, takes the national title!” They’re so excited they haven’t even announced it on their website. Thanks to DM for the heads-up.
Posted on June 1st, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: chain-gang.
I’m excited to see that someone clicked through to my recent spiral narratives story, not from the email I sent to a few friends about it, but from the copy of the email I sent to the feedme archive. Fantastic!
If you want some of your mail to show up in that archive, send a copy to feedme@googlish.com. Your From: email address will show up (so forge it if you can, to throw off spammers) but other addresses you send the email To: won’t appear in the archive.
Posted on June 1st, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: chain-gang.
Recently discovered in Nicaragua: a pre-Mayan civilization which practiced pottery and carved large stone columns, dating back to 3,000 years ago, covered a large geographic area and spanned a millenium.
Recently discovered in Guatemala: a remarkable set of mines, suggesting a previously unknown source the size of Rhode Island[?] for blue jade — the variety that was highly prized in ancient mesoamerican civilizations, not the variety currently prized in Asia — was discovered in the past decade.
Unexplained curiosities apparently out of place in time or geography:
BC-era pyramids on the Canary Islands off of the W. African coast, and in NE Italy [cf. Heyerdahl et al]; Ziggurats in Mexico with unusual internal spiral staircases; Enormous art spanning many miles and visible only/mainly from above (mound art, white chalk art [Britain], more), and more…
It seems easier than I had hoped for great civilizations to become unstuck in time.