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i know what scat is.. i believe it came from a greek word meaniong dung
But where does singing scat come from? I was goining to link tos some ella fitzgerald favorites like a tisket a basket but decided not to.

Ever since the Falklands wolf was described by Darwin himself, the origin of this now-extinct canid found only on the Falkland Islands far off the east coast of Argentina has remained a mystery.

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to see photos of this handsome animal, do a Google Image search on "maned wolf".

TypeIasupernova welcome to the group. I hope you will find a lot to keep you interested here. Please join in on any post and feel free to bring back any of the old ones. There's a wide variety of topics to talk about so have fun.

This book i am esding has some prettu cool pictures of frescoes painted in the 1400's.
they fo not describr how the artists make a fresco just that it is a difficult art form. Can someone explain what a painter does to make a fresco?

I have been wondering as humans left Africa what size group would have "best" made the trip?
My theory: numbers under 60 with death so easily around the corner illness did not offer the critical mass in numbers needed to be bigger then 59 however once I started to think about large numbers as numbers 700 to thousand range As hunter gathers they would clean out an area to fast.?

Attila the Hun has conquered every country, nation, realm that has been in his path,as he and his troops went east to west. He is ready to move into Europe, In 452, Pope Leo I gets o his (Pope ride) horse and rides northward to meet with Attilla The two met alone for a few hours. What could the pope have said that kept Attila from taking a quick ride south and taking Rome a pretty much unprotected city? and then the erst of western europe?

In yesterdays Smithsonian Magazine was the announcement of the Columbia University 4 year dig at Alexandria (the above water site found the antechamber of the Phorma septorium. (The receptacle of all Forms Remember no F in ancient Greek). It was in Alexandria that Plato, Democtitus, Eudoxus and Simpliticius all practiced math. Developed the laws of relationship, ratios. And from Simpliticius who gave us the short form Law that a shorter form will not move anything faster.
Let start from the beginning 750 Plato makes the discovery that once a form is added. What should take 1 hour becomes the “F constant” 24 hours. Plato finds this constant no matter how complicated the task or easy the phorm. 700 Eudoxus, a philosopher mathematician notes that the “beauty” of forms is its power in checking the balance of power. By 670 his work phormas that water down spirit reveals how the “F Constant does not only act as a check and balance but it true purpose is to water down anyone with a desire to act or to be an overwhelming agent of control. Finally the female mathematician who would follow a form from signing to implementing work throughout the kingdom
Found the F Constant still in work and the only thing that could speed the process up was the passing of dinars between certain hands. On the way to the academia to report her findings Hippias was grabbed by a group of highly painted men all bald and slash by a hundred knife wounds she died with no report ever being made..

I am currently reading the abridged version of Douglas Southall Freeman's famous book , Lee's Lieutenants , cut back from the original 2500 or so pages to a " slim " 800 , LOL .It covers the careers of every man who was a general in the Army of Northern Virginia , 156 in all .The form of the book is very interesting . It tells the battle history chronologically and introduces each general as he " comes onto the stage " .

Happy Birthday Marine Corps..............



Maybe you guys would like to discuss the history of the Marine Corps (or your branch of service) or of Veterans Day...............thanks to all who served.

I have always wondered the Roman Empire collapses yet throughout the land there are estates, bath houses, aqueducts left standing then in a short period of time, People had no idea of running water toilets, how to maintain the aqueduct system. The t probably would walk through an estate and just see a stone house with the ability to se its beauty. How it was situate so heat at one end can warm the entire first floor structure. Or the commodes that had water running down a pipe to remove al l human excrement. What did they see when the saw columns perfectly placed to give an impression that the estate ids a perfect square and no mater where you looked out from your view was unimpeded. I just never understood this short term memory of both intellectual and physical capabilities