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The now-famous "Ring of Cenotes" (visible in NASA imagery) outlines one of the shock-waves from this impact event in the rock of ~66 million years of age, which lies more than 1 km below the modern ground surface near the centre, with the rock above the impact strata all being younger in age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenote

The Sacred Cenote at Chichén Itzá, Mexico.

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In the Late Cretaceous, snakes recolonized land, and continued to diversify into today's snakes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous

Although the first representatives of leafy trees and true grasses emerged in the Cretaceous, the flora was still dominated by conifers like Araucaria (Here: Modern Araucaria araucana in Chile).

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Orestes then built a larger state in the Peloponnese, but he died in Arcadia from a snake bite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake

Carpet python constricting and consuming a chicken.

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They destroyed the palace of Iolcos (LH III C-1), the palace of Thebes ( late LH III B), then they crossed Isthmus of Corinth (end of LH III B) they destroyed Mycenae, Tiryns and Pylos, and finally they returned northward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenae

The Lion Gate at Mycenae.

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The Catalogue of Ships in particular has the striking feature that its geography does not portray Greece in the Iron Age, the time of Homer, but as it was before the Dorian invasion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_invasion

A record of Pylos, preserved by baking in the fire that destroyed the palace about 1200 BC, according to the excavator, Carl Blegen. The record must date to about 1200, as the unbaked clay, used mainly for diurnal or other short-term records, would soon have disintegrated.

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About 1.8 million words in total, the Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad

Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus (1855) by the Russian realist Nikolai Ge

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A significant form of post-Vedic Sanskrit is found in the Sanskrit of the Hindu Epics—the Ramayana and Mahabharata.

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Draupadi with her five husbands - the Pandavas. The central figure is Yudhishthira; the two on the bottom are Bhima and Arjuna. Nakula and Sahadeva, the twins, are standing. Painting by Raja Ravi Varma, c. 1900.

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The root of the name Vistula is Indo-European *u̯eis- ‘to ooze, flow slowly’ (cf. Sanskrit aveṣan ‘they flowed’, Old Norse veisa ‘slime’) and is found in many European rivernames (e.g. Weser, Viesinta).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit

A poem by the ancient Indian poet Vallana (ca. 900 – 1100 CE) on the side wall of a building at the Haagweg 14 in Leiden, Netherlands

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The Polish forces then assembled on the right bank of the Vistula to defend the capital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistula

Biała Wisełka

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However, in the end, none of the European powers sent troops to aid the Dutch government, partly because of rebellions within some of their own borders (the Russians were occupied with the November Uprising in Poland and Prussia was saddled with war debt).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_Uprising

Seal of the Dictator of the uprising

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At the time of the Belgian Revolution of 1830–1839, and by the 1839 Treaty establishing full independence, Luxembourg's territory was reduced by more than half, as the predominantly francophone western part of the country was transferred to Belgium.

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Charles Rogier leads the 250 revolutionary volunteers from Liège to Brussels (Charles Soubre, 1878)

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One such wholesale farmers' market is the South Carolina State Farmers Market, which is a major supplier of watermelons, cantaloupes, and peaches for produce buyers in the north-eastern US. Farmers' markets also may supply buyers from produce stands, restaurants, and garden stores with fresh fruits and vegetables, plants, seedlings and nursery stock, honey, and other agricultural products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peach

Netsuke Old Man of the South Pole (Jurojin in Japanese tradition), holding a peach

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Farmers' markets, such as the farmers' market in Los Angeles, provide a common land where farmers can sell their product to consumers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_market

Alpacas at the Richmond Farmers' Market in Richmond, Rhode Island, USA.

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Although leaded soil is less of a problem in countries that no longer have leaded gasoline, it remains prevalent, raising concerns about the safety of urban agriculture; eating food grown in contaminated soil can present a lead hazard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture

Edible Oyster Mushrooms growing on used coffee grounds

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A modern version of the "purported dangers" claims that players suffered lead poisoning because armonicas were made of lead glass.

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A lead warning on a fuel pump. Tetraethyllead, which used to be added to automotive gasoline (and still is added to aviation gasoline), contributed to soil contamination.

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Among his many creations were the lightning rod, glass armonica (a glass instrument, not to be confused with the metal harmonica), Franklin stove, bifocal glasses and the flexible urinary catheter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_harmonica

A modern glass armonica built using Benjamin Franklin's design

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In 1750 Benjamin Franklin published a proposal for an experiment to prove that lightning was caused by electricity by flying a kite in a storm that appeared capable of becoming a lightning storm.

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Franklin on the Series 2009 hundred dollar bill

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Aerial survey is conducted using cameras attached to airplanes, balloons, or even Kites.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite

Morro Bay, California Kite Festival 2014

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Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain.

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The development of radiocarbon dating has had a profound impact on archaeology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology

An early photograph of Stonehenge taken July 1877

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Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain.

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Carbon 14 dating of timber remnants date it to between 530 BC and 270 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating

Sheep on the beach in North Ronaldsay. In the winter, these sheep eat seaweed, which has a higher δ13C content than grass; samples from these sheep have a δ13C value of about −13‰, which is much higher than for sheep that feed on grasses.