Friday, January 31, 2014

No Buried Spitfires In Burma

No Buried Spitfires In Burma
A place in history: A poster unveiling the Spitfire from around 1939. Daily Mail 

Archaeologists Believe No Spitfires Buried In Burma -- BBC 

Archaeologists hunting representing World War II Spitfires in Burma believe at hand are rejection planes buried next to the sites wherever they own been digging, the BBC understands.

The archaeologists own concluded to facilitate evidence does not support the real thing retrieve to facilitate as many as 124 Spitfires were buried next to the top of the war, the BBC's Fergal Keane reports.

Wargaming.Obtain, the solidify financing the dig, has furthermore held at hand are rejection planes. But project leader David Cundall says they are looking in the injure place.
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More News On The Failure Of Finding Spitfires In Burma  

There are NO Spitfires buried in Burma: Hunt for missing WWII planes ends in disappointment -- Daily Mail
Spitfire search in Burma draws a blank -- The Guardian
Archaeologists: No planes buried in Myanmar -- UPI
Search for lost Spitfires ends in failure for treasure hunters -- The Telegraph
Burma Spitfire Hunt Appears Doomed After No Planes Found -- IBTimes
Myanmar Spitfire hunters say search has hit snag -- Huffington Post
Archaeologists find no buried World War II surplus Spitfires in Burma -- Slashgear
Are there perfectly preserved WWII-era Spitfire airplanes buried in the Burmese jungle? -- io9 Myanmar Spitfire hunter still optimistic -- AFP  

Editor: Bummer.

A Gallery Of Top Secret Australian Military Sites As Seen By Google Earth

A Gallery Of Top Secret Australian Military Sites As Seen By Google Earth

Secret Australian Military Bases Revealed By Google Maps [PHOTOS] -- Business InsiderTo the same extent an epic to Australian and British foreign and apology officials summit in Australia at the moment to discuss stronger armed ties, Australian news locate NEWS.Com.Au has compiled a gallery of top secret Australian armed sites as seen by Google Earth.

Previously aviation historians own revealed to facilitate the U.S. Flew highly classified Global Hawk spy hum missions from a vile in South Australia, but we've not at all seen such a broad look next to the secret installations wherever Australia does classified handiwork and collaborates with other governments. 

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My Comment: It appears that you cannot keep a secret nowadays.

Why Wolves Cannot Be Tamed

Why Wolves Cannot Be Tamed
Why Wolves Cannot Be Tamed
Why Dogs Can Be Tamed But Wolves Cannot -- Science 2.0 

Wolves and dogs are genetically very comparable, so why did dogs be converted into "man's matchless friend" while wolves stay wild? Kathryn peer of the realm then to the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests the discrete behaviors are interrelated to the animals' preliminary sensory experiences and the judgmental stage of socialization.

Not much is branded around sensory development in wolf pups and assumptions are typically extrapolated from show your face again? Is branded representing dogs - but next to administer are major differences in young at heart development amid wolf and dog pups, chief amid them timing of the capability to wander.

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My Comment: Bottom line .... wolves are tricky animals to have as a pet.

Where Did Europe`s Jews Come From?

Where Did Europe`s Jews Come From?
Where Did Europe`s Jews Come From?
 
Jews fling stones next to the sea to representatively cast sour their sin on September 20, 2009 in Nice, France, as part of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Jews of European origin are a mix of ancestries, with many hailing from tribes in the Caucasus who converted to Judaism and twisted an empire to facilitate lasted semi a millennium, according to a gene study available on Thursday.

Gene Study Settles Debate Over Origin Of European Jews -- France24 

AFP - Jews of European origin are a mix of ancestries, with many hailing from tribes in the Caucasus who converted to Judaism and created an empire that lasted half a millennium, according to a gene study published on Thursday.

The investigation, its author says, should settle a debate that has been roiling for more than two centuries. Jews of European descent, often called Ashkenazis, account for some 90 percent of the more than 13 million Jews in the world today. According to the so-called Rhineland Hypothesis, Ashkenazis descended from Jews who progressively fled Palestine after the Moslem conquest of 638 AD.

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My Comment: In short .... they came from the Middle East and the Caucasus.

9 Interesting Facts On The U.S. Pentagon

9 Interesting Facts On The U.S. Pentagon
The Pentagon (Wikipedia)

9 Things You May Not Know About the Pentagon -- History

On January 15, 1943, handiwork was done on the modern command center representing the U.S. War Department (the modern-day Department of Defense) in Arlington, Virginia. The massive convoluted, commonly branded as the Pentagon, was built to terrace the virtually 30,000 apology workers tasked with serving America win World War II. With more than 17 miles of corridors, it remains solitary of the main work buildings in the globe, and has be converted into a symbol—for better and representing worse—of armed might. Eighty years in the same way as its completion, now are nine things you may well not know around the Pentagon.

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Editor: Wikipedia's entry on the Pentagon is very comprehensive. That link is here.