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A cultural history of tweed (sort of!)

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Tweed is originally from Scotland. At the beginning it was a good country cloth for working outside. In the 19th century, tweed was still for active people. Such images were possible, but in reality they are only AI creations. The truth is that only later was the tweed appropriated by rural aristocracy. more about this: Sic tranzit! Tweed and football were iconic for Britons. Today, only football remains.Created with DreamUp for a Deviant Art contest: Image from a soccer game where in…  Read More »

The Earliest Modern Human Secret - The Romanian Clue

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photo - wikipedia - see infra for credits "Field research" projects often require scientists to endure discomfort and danger to get where they need to be, but not many can trump this summer's expedition to what may be the world's most inaccessible human fossil site, a cave in the foothills of Romania's Carpathian Mountains. For the seven-member team, the hazards of reaching the site, accessible only by diving through frigid underwater passages, were worth it. Their finds may help answer some of the most hotly debated questions about early humans: Did they make love or war with Neanderthals? Were Neanderthals intellectually inferior to our human ancestors? Trinkaus made a CT scan of the face to measure the unerupted teeth. "To find wisdom teeth that big," he said, "you have to go back 500,000 years." The team considered whether early humans might have interbred with other hominids with Neanderthal-like features, but "in this time period,...

Video: „Liberation” and the Utopias of 1968 - by Gregory Claeys

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https://youtu.be/rzarFXBP0G8 Part of thematic colloquia „1968: Counterculture, Ideology, Utopia”, Sinaia 2018, Under the Auspices of the Royal Family of Romania. See all in the playlist 1968 Counterculture Additional infos at http://b-critic.ro/