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Unlike the recent footprints discovered in Mexico, a skull fragment discovered in a peat bog in Germany that was said to be 36,000 years old?the “missing link” between Neanderthals and modern man?has been found to be a fraud. This isn’t the first time this has happened.

Luke Harding writes in The Guardian that German anthropologist Reiner Protsch von Zieten has admitted falsifying the dating of important fossils. His discoveries changed much of our knowledge about ancient history?finding they are fake will change this even more. Protsch’s fake fossils seemed to prove that modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed, and perhaps even interbred.
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In fourteenth century Florence, Piero della Francesca created what has become a famous portrait of a pregnant Madonna. Italian architect Renzo Manetti says this painting reveals secrets of the Knights Templar, who were active in Florence during that period. According to Manetti, the pregnant Madonna, with her hand on her swelling stomach, is the symbol of the hidden (pagan) truths that the Knights knew. And people are flocking to Naples to see a statue of Mary that turns flesh-colored and moves. The way the statue changes has been captured on video; however, Bishop Giovanni Rinaldi insists it’s a trick of the light.
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Obese Americans who lose a lot of weight also build wealth as they drop pounds. A new study found that the link between weight loss and wealth gains was particularly strong among white women. Black women and white men also got richer as they lost weight, but not as much as did white women. The wealth of Black men was basically unaffected by their weight. Anne Strieber, who recently lost 100 pounds, asks: “Is this because you have more energy when you?re thinner or because society sees thin people as more legitimate, and thus more hirable?”
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Americans don’t realize that the English they know is not the same as what the rest of the world speaks. As more and more people around the world speak English, the pronunciation and even the meanings of words will change. The same thing happened in the 18 century, when Americans switched from British English to their own unique form of the language.

Language expert Margie Burns says, “Take a simple greeting. In some African English-speaking communities, a person will greet another by saying, ‘You have put on some weight.’ Most Americans would be offended by this greeting, but in Africa, it is a compliment that acknowledges how healthy and prosperous a person looks.”
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