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I am stealing this idea from another room , which in turn stole the idea from the TV show Cash Cab . Since we are devoted to history , cash cab seemed to modern , so I opted for a more ancient and classical mode of transportation . It works like this , I ask a question and the person who comes up with the correct answer first gets to ask the next question , preferably relating to archaeology and history .

Fairly modern, from Espirit, World War II

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The world's oldest works of art have been located in caves in Spain.

Six paintings of seals are the only known ones carried out by Neanderthal man it's claimed.

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This'll blow your socks off. Looks as if the Flintstone cars were for real.
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In Nebraska and S& N. Dakota in 1886 a huge storm occurred called either great blizzard of 1888 or the School Children’s blizzard. Started in North Dakota worked its way south and east In Nebraska what stated out as a thirty degree day saw temperatures plummet 50 -70- degrees. Snow as fine s flour blowing a foot an hour. By 2:30 when children were let out of school the blizzard was blowing such that visibility was zero. And temperatures continued falling. 200 children died mostly by exposure after getting lost attempting to walk home A teacher, Alma Shattuck, kept her students inside As she went out to get wood for the wood stove she became disoriented. She feels a haystack burrows in hoping it would offer shelter. After three days the blizzard moved on. Farmers who went out into the fields saw cows frozen where they stood. The mist from their breath frozen looking like glass around their heads. Alma screaming for help and was found. Her feet and hands were frostbitten such that that needed to be amputated. All the children in her one room school house survived. Frost bite: When the outside skin reaches 45 degrees nerve synapses no longer fire. The tissue begins to freeze. Water inside the cell moves to the outside cell wall and protein breaks down Ice forms and its edges begin to shred the membranes (remember wooly caterpillars and glycol?) The extremities freeze and are damaged first flesh dies. At a point the one option especially in 1888 was to amputate. I found this by Emily Dickenson
“ A freezing person recollects the snow
First chill, then stupor, then letting go.”
I think she knew something about exposure to extreme cold weather.

In Cambridgeshire an amazing find has been made. 6 totally intact Bronze Age boats were discovered. See this article from Current Archaeology. view link

In the frozen arctic is an insect, the wooly bear caterpillar. You probably have seen one Its dark furry looking at the ends, its middle a reddish looking fur. This caterpillar has been found a way to live north of the arctic circle where temperatures go below minus 60 degrees. Its body produces glycol (antifreeze the insect freezes in sections yet its glycol protects its cytoplasm from freezing solid and then breaking the cell membrane, It stays in this semi frozen state for all but for three weeks of the year where it “comes alive” eats all that it can and then returns to its semi frozen state. The caterpillar does this for thirteen years, Finally after 13 years it turns into an Arctia caja moth for less than a year. It lives for only part of the Arctic summer, mates, lays eggs, and dies

A question?
Many experts say that Neanderthals had feelings of taking care of members of the group . with graves they might have felt loss and sorrow. But over a camp fire what kind of humor would or could the Neanderthal express?

Origen of the term bigot
A simple definition. One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

It is from the “Old French”
HISTORY
First recorded use of the term was in 1596. meaning a “superstitious hypocrite"
Legend has it that Rollo, the first duke of Normandy, refused to kiss the foot of the French king Charles III, uttering the phrase “no by got”, his borrowing of the assumed Old English equivalent of our expression: by God.
Bigot was used by the French as a term of abuse for the Normans? Later it became a term of abuse toward the he Beguines, members of a Roman Catholic lay sisterhood.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. described bigots with the following quote: "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract."