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Week in Pictures: From gauchos being knocked off their saddles to dancers leaping for victory
Here's our pick of the pictures around the world this week...
A gaucho is unseated by an unbroken horse during the annual celebration of Criolla Week in Montevideo, March 25, 2013. Throughout Easter Week "gauchos", the Latin American equivalent of the North American "cowboy", from all over Uruguay and neighboring Argentina and Brazil visit Montevideo to participate in Criolla Week to win the award of best rider. The competition is held March 24 - March 30. (Reuters)
Actor Mario Valencia, portraying Jesus Christ, performs during a baptism ceremony as part of Catholic Holy Week celebrations at the Rimac river in Lima (Reuters)
A man celebrates the Holi festival (the festival of colors) in Mathura city of northern Indian state Uttar Pradesh, March 27, 2013. Holi is one of the major festivals for Hindus and the most vibrant of all. People paint each other with water color on the auspicious day of Holi which is celebrated mainly by north Indians and east Indians. (Caters)
These lambs are real-life WOOLY JUMPERS after farmers decided to give warm sweaters to protect them from Britain's arctic blast. Owners at Beckett's Farm, in Birmingham, have taken the unusual step to protect the newborn lambs aptly dubbed Flake, Frosty and Snowy. The fourth has been given the moniker Michael Fish in honour of the celebrated BBC weather man. The lambs are less than a week old and although we've taken an extreme precaution to keep them warm, this extreme weather is no laughing matter. (Caters)
Sand Martins reflected on the waters surface whilst feeding on Chard Reservoir in Somerset - usually an indicator that Spring really is finally on its way. (SWNS)
Supporters of gay marriage rally in front of the Supreme Court in Washington (Reuters)
A model prepares backstage before the MGPIN collection show by Maogeping Image Design Art School at China Fashion Week in Beijing, March 27, 2013. Fashion week runs till March 30 (Reuters)
One of a set of adorable images of sleeping newborn babies snuggled up in cosy hats - enough to warm anyone up even on the coldest of days. The super sweet tots - captured by photographer Amy Marques - wear a variety of headgear from rabbit ears while sat in a magician's hat to a pointy wizards hat all made from soft wool. Then after they nod off Amy, 49, gets to work by carefully photographing the toddlers in a number of positions from relaxing in a hammock to sitting in a plant pot. Each of the little'uns - who are no older than 10 days - spend up to three hours with Amy but only a small amount of time is spent shooting because she has to wait until they are in deep slumber. (Caters)
An incredible macro shot of an insect moments after a downpour. Ondrej Pakan, from Myjava, Slovakia, captured a stunning series of bug-eye views around the world. This bug can be seen staring down the lens of Ondrej's camera - covered in dots of water. (Caters)
Competitors warm up in the hallway at the World Irish Dancing Championships in Boston, Massachusetts March 24, 2013. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (Reuters)
Posted by Melodie Munro on February 3, 2013 at 3:20pm
NASA shows off stunning satellite photo of Britain under last week's snow The natural-colour image captured by the satellite Terra shows a detailed view of the snows covering Britain on January 26.
The natural-colour image captured by Terra shows a detailed view of the snows covering Britain on January 26.
Instruments aboard a hi-tech NASA satellite have captured an awe-inspiring view of Britain blanketed by snow last week.
The natural-colour image captured by Terra shows a detailed view of the snows covering Britain on January 26.
The Terra satellite orbits at an altitude of 435 miles, and has been collecting data on our changing climate using five sensors since 1999.
Terra has previously captured some of NASA's famous 'Blue Marble' imagery of planet Earth seen from space.
"Snow blanketed most of Great Britain in late January 2013, stretching from London to the northern tip of Scotland," NASA's Terra team said in a statement this week.
"Terra captured this natural-color image on January 26, 2013. Only some coastal areas and the southwestern part of the island were free of snow when MODIS took this picture."
"Skies had mostly cleared by the time MODIS acquired the image, but some clouds lingered in the west, casting shadows onto the snowy surface below."
Posted by Melodie Munro on February 27, 2012 at 3:25pm
Ancient walled city, older than Egypt's pyramids, unearthed off Georgia USA coast
Gary Daniels' photo Gary Daniels Atlanta Road Trip Travel Examiner
(Atlanta) Six hours southeast of Atlanta off the Georgia coast on Sapelo Island, archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an ancient walled city which predates the construction of many of Egypt's pyramids.
Known as the Sapelo Shell Ring Complex, this ancient city was constructed around 2300 B.C. and featured three neighborhoods each surrounded by circular walls twenty feet in height constructed from tons of seashells. Some of the earliest pottery in North America was also found buried in the remains of this lost city.
The site is quite an enigma because at the time of its construction the Native Americans living in the area were simple hunters and gatherers who had yet to invent agriculture. Many scholars believe agriculture is a prerequisite for civilization. Did these simple tribal people somehow make the leap from hunting-and-gathering to civilization in a single bound producing not only a walled city but also the new technology of pottery without the benefit of agriculture? Or did an already civilized people arrive on the coast of Georgia from elsewhere and, if so, where did they come from and why?
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Just thirty years before the construction of the Sapelo Shell Rings researchers have noted that Bronze Age civilizations around the world show a pattern of collapse. According to the website LostWorlds.org:
In the Middle East, Akkadian Sumer collapsed at this time and the Dead Sea water levels reached their lowest point. In China, the Hongsan culture collapsed.
Sediments from Greenland and Iceland show a cold peak around 2200 BC. The population of Finland decreased by a third between 2400 and 2000 BC. In Turkey’s Anatolia region, including the site of ancient Troy, over 350 sites show evidence of being burnt and deserted. Entire regions reverted to a nomadic way of life after thousands of years of settled agricultural life. In fact, most sites throughout the Old World which collapsed around 2200 BC showed unambiguous signs of natural calamities and/or rapid abandonment.
What happened around 2200 B.C. that could have caused such widespread devastation?
Meteor Storms & Cosmic Catastrophe?
Evidence is mounting that this devastation came from the sky. Astronomers have theorized that at this time Earth passed through a dense concentration of cosmic debris. Just picture the asteroid scene in Star Wars and you'll get the idea. Yet researchers don't think much of this debris actually impacted the ground. Instead they believe these meteors exploded in air bursts high above the ground, creating an ancient version of an atomic bomb blast.
These air bursts would have first incinerated everything within tens if not hundreds of miles. Next they would have created hurricane force winds which would have obliterated any above-ground structures as well as forests.
Astronomers believe this catastrophe was similar to the Tunguska Event which flattened 80 million trees over a 2,000 square mile area of Russian Siberia in 1908.
Russian scientists believe this event was caused by the explosion of a large meteor tens of meters across at an altitude of 3-6 miles. A similar event is thought to have caused the climate downturn in 3200 BC which flash froze the so-called Ice Man in the Swiss Alps.
Who Built the Sapelo Shell Rings?
At the time of European contact, two Native American tribes were known for constructing round, walled villages: the Timucua and Yuchi. Archaeologists believe some time in the past the Timucua migrated to Georgia and Florida from South America since their language was similar to that spoken by Indians in Venezuela. Did they flee their homeland after it was devastated by a meteor swarm that destroyed huge swaths of jungle?
The Rio Cuarto impact craters in Argentina are thought by some geologists to date to this time period which supports the idea that South America was affected by the same event that struck the Old World.
The Yuchi also have a legend that they arrived in Georgia after "the old moon broke" and devastated their island homeland. Could they have thought these meteors were pieces of the moon falling to Earth? Could impact tsunamis have devastated their island home in the Bahamas forcing them to flee to the mainland? Only further research will answer the questions.
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Learn more about the lastest research regarding the Sapelo Shell Ring Complex. Or visit the Sapelo Island Visitor's Center at 1766 Landing Road, S.E., Darien, GA 31305. You can also find me on Facebook, subscribe to my newsletter, watch my DVD "Lost Worlds: Georgia" or visit my website LostWorlds.org. You can also purchase posters, mugs, t-shirts, mousepads and other gifts featuring the Sapelo Shell Rings artwork at my Sapelo Gift Shop.
[Note: There is currently no consensus on the dating of Egypt's pyramids. Estimates range from 10,500 BC to 1800 BC and everything in between.
Additionally, the pyramids were not all built at one time and though some of the oldest likely date to 2500 BC others date to around 1800 BC thus the Sapelo Shell Rings are, indeed, older than many of Egypt's pyramids.]
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Posted by Melodie Munro on October 15, 2011 at 5:10pm
Largest virus found off Chile coast
Megavirus chilensis is so large it can be viewed using an ordinary light microsc
Scientists have found the largest-ever virus in water off the coast of South America. Researchers said the "giant virus", Megavirus chilensis, is "isolated off the coast of Chile".
Like the Mimivirus, previously thought to be the largest, it thrives in freshwater amoebae, single-celled organisms.
It has more than 1,000 genes and its genome is 6.5% larger than the DNA code of the Mimiviru The Megavirus has the "largest viral genome fully sequenced so far", the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal said.
It is between 10 and 20 times longer than an average virus and is larger than some bacteria, Professor Jean-Michel Claverie from Aix-Marseille University in France told BBC News. He said: "You don't need an electron microscope to see it - you can see it with an ordinary light microscope."
The scientists found the virus when they were sampling sea water near a marine station in Las Cruces, Chile.
