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POPS'Cloud People' - more on the lost Peruvian city
continues: "We suspect that the ancient inhabitants used this as a lookout point from where they could spot potential enemies." The ruins were initially discovered by local people hacking through the jungle. They were drawn to the place due to the sound of a waterfall. The local people "armed with machetes opened a path that arrived at the place where they saw a beautiful panorama, full of flowers and fauna, as well as a waterfall, some 500 metres high," said the mayor of Jamalca, Ricardo Cabrera Bravo. Initial studies have found similarities between the new discovery and the Cloud Peoples' super fortress of Kulep, also in Utcubamba province, which is older and more extensive that the Inca Citadel of Machu Picchu, but has not been fully explored or restored. Little is known about the Chachapoya, except that they had been beaten into submission by the mighty Incas in 1475. When in 1535 the Spanish Conquistadores arrived in Peru, they found willing allies in the Cloud Peop
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POPS"How The Nazis Stole Christmas" continues (full text at source): We tend to think of the relationship between organised religion and totalitarian regimes – as in the Soviet Union – as one in which freedom of religious belief and expression are ruthlessly suppressed in the name of the unity of the state. But if that is the case, what exactly is taking place in our notional Christmas scene – one which could be taking place in any German town from 1933 to 1943? Does the substitution of the swastika for the cross reveal the Nazis’ transformation of a key Christian festival into a pagan rite, an appropriation of a popular tradition for political ends or an uneasy coexistence between the German people’s old-fashioned Christmas pleasures and the imperatives of their new masters?
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POPS"State Secret: Thousands Secretly Sterilized" Sterilized Without Her Knowledge Riddick was raped and became pregnant at the age of 13. Social workers labeled her promiscuous and too feeble-minded to ever be a responsible parent. So, after giving birth in 1968, Riddick was sterilized without being told. She learned the truth years later, when she married and tried to have more children. "They took so much away from me," Riddick said. "They took away my spirit and my soul." North Carolina sterilized close to 8,000 women in hospitals across the state. Even though the practice ended more than 30 years ago, some say the time has come to make amends. North Carolina was one of the first states out of 33 that once practiced sterilization to offer an apology. State Rep. Larry Womble is crafting a bill to provide financial reparations. Some wonder where the state will get the money. "They say, 'Well, we can't afford it,' " said Womble, a Democrat. "Well, we cannot not afford it." Riddick went on to earn a college degree
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POPSYorkshire Accent My wife, Busmom (for such is her codename) is re-reading "The Secret Garden" and asked me what a Yorkshire accent sounds like; after various other you tube demonstrations I came across this. I defy you to watch it without laughing or at least smiling.
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POPSBronze Age Amber Necklace Found continues: "It's associated with burials in the prehistoric period but it's not readily available, the nearest source is in the Baltic . "So to find that in conjunction with a cist, it shows it was a burial of somebody particularly important at that time."
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POPSFarmer Builds Robot Army continues: Out of all of his mechanical 'sons', Wu says he loves Wu No.25, a robot which can pull a rickshaw, the best. Each day, Wu No.25 pulls his inventor around the local area. It can walk for up to six hours on one battery charge.
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