Ziad Shihab

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Rift Valley

February 20th, 2023

Rift Valley SimpCSourceURL: https://refind.com/links/141565788?via=refind RefindWe are restless even in death. Entombed in stone, our most distant ancestors still travel along Earth’s subterranean passageways. One of them, a man in his 20s, began his journey around 230,000 years ago after collapsing into marshland on the lush edge of a river delta feeding a vast lake in East Africa’s Rift Valley. He became the earth in which he lay as nutrients leached from his body and his bone minerali...

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Henry Every

September 30th, 2021

Henry Every (b. 1653), also known as Henry Avery, Benjamin Bridgeman, ‘Long Ben’ and (incorrectly) John Avery, was one of the most savage and successful pirates in the Golden Age of Piracy. Capturing a treasure ship of the Mughal emperor in 1695 with a cargo worth over $95 million today, he promptly disappeared and was never seen again. Thanks to his jackpot capture of the Ganij-i-Sawai, Every gained the nickname ‘Arch Pirate’. It has long been said that Every’s huge success inspired ma...

The Mystery Of Whale Bone Alley: Who Build It, And Why?

August 7th, 2021

The history of the human race is of contsant interest to us. Many strange and unknown peoples have walked the earth before us, and everything that we see today holds a piece of history in it. Our human history, the story of who we are, is as intriguing to us as anything else on this planet. Without it, we cannot know ourselves.  History, therefore, stands like a window that opens on different portals and different times. This allows people to look into the past, not only out of idle curiosity...

Ishango Bone -- from Wolfram MathWorld

March 15th, 2020

Ishango Bone -- from Wolfram MathWorldSourceURL: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/IshangoBone.html Algebra Applied Mathematics Calculus and Analysis Discrete Mathematics Foundations of Mathematics Geometry History and Terminology Number Theory Probability and Statistics Recreational Mathematics Topology Alphabetical Index ...