Denny: Half Neartethall , half Denisovan human (Small colection of articles)

A.You discover the first daughter of sex between two different human species | society

More than 50,000 years ago, a Neanderthal woman and a Denisovan man had sex, and a few months later she gave birth to a girl . Many centuries later, in a Siberian cave next to the Altai Mountains, the bones were found that left this half-breed woman who was about 13 years old at his death . It has been known for almost a decade that Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern humans under certain circumstances had offspring, but a son of a mixed couple was never found .
Today, the magazine Nature published the genome of the first of these people . A team from Viviane Slon and Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig analyzed the DNA extracted from a bone fragment of the young woman and concluded that the mother was Neanderthal and Denisovan Father . The first connects the adolescent with the lineage of a well-known species, to which the first known artistic expressions are attributed and which have left their bones and tools throughout Europe. Her father makes her the descendant of a much more mysterious group, known only from the genetic analysis of small bone fragments found only in the Russian Denisova Cave.

WW2 Bulgarian Armor (parts1+2)

 

 

Bulgarian Armor – part I

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Silentstalker

Hello everyone,
today we will have a look at one of the armored forces, that gets often neglected by literature and usually deserves no more than small articles behind the Axis section: the armor of Bulgaria.
After World War I, in which the Bulgarian kingdom fought on Central Powers’ side and lost, its army was severely weakened and – as with other former Central Powers – forced by the Allies to accept certain conditions, limiting the number of men and weapons, while other types of weapons (including armored vehicles) being banned outright. The Allied committee, that oversaw the disarming of Bulgaria, openly favoured Yugoslavia and Greece and the terms were very strict. This, combined with the regional specifics (Balkan peninsula always was a powderkeg of sorts), planted a part of the seeds, that would eventually grow into the most destructive conflict in human history.

Κίνημα Γεωργίου Κονδύλη 22ης Αυγούστου 1926

Το Κίνημα Γεωργίου Κονδύλη της 22ης Αυγούστου 1926 ήταν η καθοριστική ενέργεια που οδήγησε στην ανατροπή της δικτατορίας του Θεόδωρου Πάγκαλου. Ηγέτης του κινήματος ήταν ο επικεφαλής των «Δημοκρατικών Ταγμάτων» Γεώργιος Κονδύλης ο οποίος αιφνιδίασε τον δικτάτορα που παραθέριζε στις Σπέτσες. Αποτέλεσμα του κινήματος υπήρξε η επαναφορά του δημοκρατικού πολιτεύματος και η φυλάκιση του στρατηγού Παγκάλου επί διετία.

Το καλοκαίρι του 1925 η δημοκρατικά εκλεγμένη κυβέρνηση του Ανδρέα Μιχαλακόπουλου ταλανιζόταν από προβλήματα και διαφωνίες που είχαν οδηγήσει τη χώρα σε πολιτική αστάθεια. Το γεγονός αυτό εκμεταλλεύθηκε ο στρατηγός Θεόδωρος Πάγκαλος, παλαιός πρόμαχος της Δημοκρατίας και την ανέτρεψε με στρατιωτικό κίνημα. Ακολούθως, διεκήρυξε την απόφασή του να εγκαθιδρύσει μονοκομματικό κράτος, επεξεργάσθηκε νέο Σύνταγμα το οποίο επέβαλε στη Βουλή, την οποία εν συνεχεία διέλυσε.

ΟΛΟΚΑΥΤΩΜΑ ΤΩΝ ΧΩΡΙΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΚΕΔΡΟΥΣ (22 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ 1944)

Η ομιλία αυτή του εκλεκτού Βασίλη Αποστολάκη έγινε στο Αμαριώτικο Σπίτι Σοφοκλέους 53Α στην Αθήνα στις 7 Οκτωβρίου 2012 στο Αρχιερατικό Μνημόσυνο προς τιμή των Ηρώων Αμαριωτών.

Αιδεσιμώτατε, Ερίτιμες κυρίες, Αξιότιμοι κύριοι, που τιμάτε και κοσμείτε τη σεμνή αυτή εκδήλωση,
Συναισθανόμενος την τιμή και την ευθύνη, που απορρέουν από τη θέση, στην οποία ευρίσκομαι αυτή τη στιγμή, επιθυμώ να ευχαριστήσω, από καρδιάς και την Ομοσπονδία Σωματείων επαρχίας Αμαρίου, για την εξαιρετική τιμή που μου έγινε να είμαι ο ομιλητής και όλους εσάς, για την ευγενική σας παρουσία.

Προσωποιημση του θέρους

Summer has arrived- A mid 2nd century AD mosaic with a female personification of summer, wearing a strange hat. From Antioch, now at the Princeton Museum of Art.

Ιταλία: και τώρα, τί; …

Κατά το διήμερο 22-23 Φεβρουαρίου διοργανώθηκε στις Βρυξέλλες μια εκδήλωση από το Κέντρο Μελετών Ευρωπαϊκής Πολιτικής (Centre for European Policy Studies), με υψηλούς καλεσμένους, οι οποίοι θα συζητούσαν όλα τα προβλήματα που αντιμετωπίζει η Ενωμένη Ευρώπη. Την εκδήλωση άνοιξε ο πρόεδρος της Κομμισσιόν Ζαν-Κλωντ Γιούνκερ, από τον οποίο ζητήθηκε να κάνει και μια εκτίμηση για τις -επικείμενες τότε- προχτεσινές ιταλικές εκλογές. Ως συνήθως, ο Γιούνκερ δεν πολυσκέφτηκε πριν απαντήσει:

122nd INFANTRY BATTALION

This photo, taken in Camp Carson, Colorado in early 1943, pictures the first and only time a foreign flag was allowed to fly next to the American flag leading a United States Armed Forces group on American soil.!!! Passing in review for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and General George C. Marshall, the soldiers were Greek-American and Greek Immigrants, many of whom were not yet American citizens.

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WW1 Military Rifles 

 

Nov 13, 2017 Andrew Knighton

 

iStock.com/Johncairns

 

“The only real power comes out of a long rifle.” – Joseph Stalin.

During WWI, millions of men were given rifles and sent into the trenches to fight. They were the weapons that turned civilians into soldiers. Machine-guns and artillery might have defined the war, but the rifle was a soldier’s constant companion. On the Western Front in particular, what made for a good rifle changed. Sitting in trenches for months at a time, enduring the terrible weather, then fighting in rushed advances and brutal close combat, men needed a rugged weapon that could take a battering.

ΡΩΣΙΚΉ ΕΞ. ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΉ ΚΑΙ ΕΝΈΡΓΕΙΑ 

    Ως βασικό εργαλείο άσκησης εξωτερικής πολιτικής χρησιμοποιεί η Ρωσία τον πετρελαϊκό γίγαντα Rosneft προκειμένου να επεκτείνει την επιρροή της στον κόσμο και να θέσει υπό αμφισβήτηση τα συμφέροντα των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών. Για την τρίτη μεγαλύτερη παραγωγό πετρελαίου και πρώτη μεγαλύτερη φυσικού αερίου παγκοσμίως, η ενέργεια ήδη από την εποχή της Σοβιετικής Ένωσης αποτελούσε αγαθό ζωτικής σημασίας αλλά και μέσο οικονομικής προόδου.

ΟΙ ΤΟΙΧΟΓΡΑΦΙΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΟΥ ΤΑΦΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΑΓ.ΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΟΥ
(τελευταίο τέταρτο του 4ου αι. π.χ.)

Η πρόσοψη του τάφου είναι κατάγραφη. Το τριγωνικό αέτωμα κοσμούν μυθικοί γρύπες με ολόχρυσα φτερά, ακολουθούν βαθυκύανα τρίγλυφα και λευκές μετόπες, ενώ στη στενή ζωφόρο επάνω από το θυραίο άνοιγμα ξετυλίγεται μια σκηνή συμποσίου, τόσο οικεία από διάφορες φιλολογικές μαρτυρίες ή την αγγειογραφία, αλλά για πρώτη φορά τόσο ζωντανά μπροστά στα μάτια των επισκεπτών.

78 Years Ago Nazi Germany Invaded Poland and Started World War II, These Are The Pictures From That Operation

 Damian Lucjan

 

German troops removing a gate at a border checkpoint, Zoppot-Gdingen (Sopot-Gdynia) Street in Danzig (Gdańsk), 1st September 1939 (Wikipedia)

 

On the 1st of September, 77 years ago, the horror World War II was unleashed upon the world when the German Army invaded Poland. The Invasion of Poland, also known as a September Campaign in Poland or Fall Weiss (Case White) in Germany,  was a joint attack by Nazi Germany, the Free City of Danzig, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent.

‘Just’ 10 Japanese Atrocities From World War II

On the eve of VJ Day and with Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe expressing ‘profound grief’ for WWII. We are going to look at just 10 Japanese Atrocities From World War II by listverse.com

Laha Airfield Massacre
February 1942

This ghoulish event, which killed more than 300 Australian and Dutch POWs, followed the Japanese capture of the Indonesian island of Ambon. Allegedly as an act of reprisal after the Allies destroyed one of their minesweepers, the Japanese randomly selected prisoners and executed them via beheading and bayonet near the island’s airfield. They then repeated the process three more times during the month.
The magnitude of this atrocity was enough for an Australian military tribunal to prosecute more than 90 Japanese officers and soldiers after the war in one of the biggest war crime trials in history. The tribunal sentenced four of the accused to death and handed out a range of sentences for the others. Unfortunately, they never got to try the mastermind, Rear Admiral Hatakeyama. The Japanese officer died while awaiting his trial.

On this day in Byzantine history: The death of Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros.

By roberthorvat

July 26th 811 CE

The battle of Varbitza Pass and the death of Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros.

There have been many Byzantine Emperors who had died in battle – Emperors Julian, Valens and famously Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last emperor who couldn’t hold back the might of the Ottomans in 1453. But not many are familiar with the story relating to the death of Emperor Nikephoros and the desecration of his dead body by the Khan of Bulgaria, Krum.

Seven reasons why the Battle of Naseby changed British history forever

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On 14th June 1645, the fields between the Northamptonshire villages of Naseby and Sibbertoft saw one of the most significant battles in British history.
Royalist troops loyal to King Charles I and the Parliamentarian ‘New Model Army’ led by Sir Thomas Fairfax met in the culmination of a three-year bloody civil war that had pitted families and friends against each other and the fates of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland rested in the balance. 
So why is The Battle of Naseby so important in British history…?
There are acres and acres of writing about the most “pivotal” moments in history, those occasions when the future seems to turn on a single act and everything after it owes its existence that that moment.

In lists of British history, the Battle of Naseby is one such moment.

The Russian land battleship - KV-VI Behemoth tank

Read this fascinating tale of state power over commonsense military design. Stalin wanted a land battleship, and he was going to get one no matter how impractical it was.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, new facts have surfaced about the secret weapons developed by the Red Army during WWII.

Wars of Religion

Detail of a Hadith referring to the succession of the Twelve Imams, at the shrine of Sayyida Ruqayya, Damascus; from People of the Prophet’s House edited by Fahmida Suleman (275pp. Azimuth. £35. 978 1 898592 32 7)

THOMAS SMALL

This piece forms part of a TLS Special Feature, our primer on the complex politics and religions of the Middle East

A hadith (or saying of the Prophet Muhammad) considered sound by all major authorities and widely circulated among Sunni Islamists states that the history of the umma will go through five phases: first, the Prophet himself will rule over it and teach it the right way to live; then will come the time of caliphate, when caliphs will rule according to the Prophet’s teachings; then the time of benign kingship obtained by force, followed by the time of oppressive kingship; finally, the time of caliphate will rise again, where a caliph will rule once more in accordance with the Prophet’s teachings, and usher in the end of the world.

From this eschatological perspective, Ataturk’s abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1923 marked the end of the third of those five phases, the phase of benign kingship. Since then, the Islamic world has been suffering the injustice of oppressive kingship, whether at the hands of brutal dictators or morally bankrupt monarchs. And though jihadist groups differ over the best way to achieve it, they are united by an ultimate aim, which they share, broadly speaking, with all forms of Islamism: the restoration of the Caliphate as a necessary step along the way to the Last Judgement.

Struggling with reality | On reading Mein Kampf

ANSON RABINBACH

On October 29, 1945, the Allied Control Council in Germany issued a decree dissolving the organizations of the National Socialist Party including its leading press agency and publishing house, the Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH. Since the headquarters of the firm was in Munich, the property of the Eher Verlag was transferred to the Free State of Bavaria, which also assumed legal succession and trusteeship of its assets. A provisional court in Munich (Spruchkammer) initiated criminal proceedings against Max Amann, who had amassed a considerable fortune as the head of Nazi Germany’s largest publishing enterprise, sentencing him to ten years imprisonment. In 1948, all copyrights were transferred to the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance, including the copyright to Mein Kampf, which belonged to the literary estate of Adolf Hitler. Since German copyright law stipulates that all rights revert to the public domain seventy years after the death of the author, the copyright to Mein Kampf expired on December 31, 2015. Mein Kampf was never actually banned in the Federal Republic of Germany; it was sold in second-hand bookshops, was obtain­able in libraries, and in recent years has been readily available on the internet. Only the publication of the book was proscribed.

Graf Zeppelin: Diving at the unique WW2 German aircraft carrier (photos and videos)

 

Underwater photos by Tomasz “Tomek” Stachura
Graf Zeppelin (Flugzeugträger A, Aircraft Carrier A) was the only aircraft carrier launched by Germany during World War II. It represented part of the Kriegsmarine’s attempt to create a well-balanced oceangoing fleet, capable of projecting German naval power far beyond the narrow confines of the Baltic and North Seas.
A diving team from Poland, including experienced scuba divers Dimitris “Dima” Stavrakakis and acclaimed underwater photographer Tomasz “Tomek” Stachura share with pierrekosmidis.blogspot.com their experience and stunning underwater photos of a unique WW2 Wreck, the only German aircraft carrier that was never meant to see active duty.
Stavrakakis says:
“The diving expedition was well prepared and planned, since we were the first scuba divers to visit the shipwreck, with special permission from the authorities.
“We had two doctors and a hyberbaric chamber on board, because of the demanding nature of those dives at depths ranging from 75 to 95 metres.
By Pierre Kosmidis / pierrekosmidis.blogspot.gr

WWII Super Submarine discovered off the coast of Hawaii

A Second World War mega-submarine of Imperial Japanese Army had been successfully mapped and filmed, a year and half after it was first discovered off the coast of Hawaii.
Decades ahead of its time, the I-400 submarine was among the largest and technologically most advanced submarines of its era. The aircraft hangar of the submarine was large enough to facilitate the launch of at least three float-plane bombers.

China's Race To Space Domination

 

To gain an edge here on Earth, China is pushing ahead in space

By Clay Dillow, Jeffrey Lin, and P.W. Singer September 20, 2016

Before this decade is out, humanity will go where it’s never gone before: the far side of the moon. This dark side—forever facing away from us—has long been a mystery. No human-made object has ever touched its surface. The mission will be a marvel of engineering. It will involve a rocket that weighs hundreds of tons (traveling almost 250,000 miles), a robot lander, and an unmanned lunar rover that will use sensors, cameras, and an infrared spectrometer to uncover billion-year-old secrets from the soil. The mission also might scout the moon’s supply of helium-3—a promising material for fusion energy. And the nation planting its starry flag on this historic trip will be the People’s Republic of China.
After years of investment and strategy, China is well on its way to becoming a space superpower—and maybe even a dominant one. The Chang’e 4 lunar mission is just one example of its scope and ambition for turning space into an important civilian and military domain. Now, satellites guide Chinese aircraft, missiles, and drones, while watching over crop yields and foreign military bases. The growing number of missions involving Chinese rockets and taikonauts are a source of immense national pride.
“China sees space capability as an indication of global-leadership status,” says John ­Logsdon, founder of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University. “It gives China legitimacy in an area that is associated with great power.”