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There are more than 10 different Sami-dialects for the ~35k Sami people living in the Northren Europe, especially Lapland. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_languages Here are the fun facts; currently there are more fluent Inari-Sami speakers in the Helsinki metropolitan area than in the region of Inari, and at one point there were only two remaining people fluent with one of the Karelian Sami dialects, both living in the Soviet Union. Only one of them had a phone. The dialects are not mutually understandable, although all the remaining "main" branches more or less are.
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Der Kyhe posted:There are more than 10 different Sami-dialects for the ~35k Sami people living in the Northren Europe, especially Lapland. This reminds me of another language problem. The language known as Ayapa Zoque/Ayapaneco is thought to have only two remaining native speakers: Manuel Segovia (b. ~1936) and Isidro Velasquez (b. ~1942). The two did not get along, and didn't speak to one another for decades which frustrated anthropologists and linguists to no end. Apparently, they decided to put their issues aside and open up a school together in 2014.
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Aphrodite posted:Nice try, trickster. This has been placed in the area by Dwarves to attack their foes the plant men!
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Nth Doctor posted:This reminds me of another language problem. The language known as Ayapa Zoque/Ayapaneco is thought to have only two remaining native speakers: Manuel Segovia (b. ~1936) and Isidro Velasquez (b. ~1942). The two did not get along, and didn't speak to one another for decades which frustrated anthropologists and linguists to no end. Seriously? From the Wikipedia article you linked in the same post: quote:In 2010 a story started circulating that the last two speakers of the Ayapaneco language were enemies and no longer talked to each other. The story was incorrect, and while it was quickly corrected it came to circulate widely.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:the 'celtic sprig' That's what I call my drat dick.
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Nth Doctor posted:This reminds me of another language problem. The language known as Ayapa Zoque/Ayapaneco is thought to have only two remaining native speakers: Manuel Segovia (b. ~1936) and Isidro Velasquez (b. ~1942). The two did not get along, and didn't speak to one another for decades which frustrated anthropologists and linguists to no end. Somewhat similarly, the last two Jewish people in Afghanistan hated each other and repeatedly denounced each other to the authorities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Afghanistan
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HisMajestyBOB posted:Somewhat similarly, the last two Jewish people in Afghanistan hated each other and repeatedly denounced each other to the authorities. Muslim countries, who had previously existed side by side with Jews for centuries, basically expelled their populations to Israel in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 war. So many Jews left that most muslim countries now have Jewish populations in the double and single digits, and almost all of these are old people who chose not to go to Israel following WW2.
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Dr. Hans Suess was a German nuclear physicist known for his work in radiocarbon dating. In his later years he moved to La Jolla, California, where he would often get mail addressed to another La Jolla resident, Ted Geisel a.k.a. Dr. Seuss. Coincidentally, many of Dr. Suess' personal papers are now located in the Geisel Library at UC San Diego.
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The British army almost didn't adopt the Brody helmet in ww1. Shortly after it was introduced the army saw a massive spike in casualties admitted to field hospitals, so they figured there must have been a defect with the helmets. They soon realized however that the fatality rate had dropped because they had been overwhelmed by the influx of surviving casualties
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In the bronze age Troy was known for their bootlegs, one of their most popular merchandise was fake amber made out of colored glass.
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Oh poo poo, has this thread turned historical too now? Let's remedy that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GduCExxB0vw This is ridiculously cool and looks to me suspiciously like magic, technical explanations notwithstanding
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System Metternich posted:Oh poo poo, has this thread turned historical too now? Let's remedy that: They must apply this at Herculaneum, where there's an entire Roman library waiting to be read.
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That's super cool. Looks like there's also been work (by others) at scanning Herculaneum papyri using similar techniques, too.
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Is there an article that mentions how they obtain the 3d-volume scan of the scroll? Like is that something that a CAT scan can do?
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Greatbacon posted:Is there an article that mentions how they obtain the 3d-volume scan of the scroll? Like is that something that a CAT scan can do? This is the paper written by the research team in question. I haven't read it yet, but I'd imagine that technical details can be found in there
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jesus was the first documented homosexual to suck a dick for a haircut
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System Metternich posted:This is the paper written by the research team in question. I haven't read it yet, but I'd imagine that technical details can be found in there Sweet, thanks for the link. Quick skim says they used x-ray–based micro–computed tomography (micro-CT) which a quick google says is the same realm as a medical CAT scan, just on a smaller scale with higher levels of detail. Cool.
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Nonviolent J posted:jesus was the first documented homosexual to suck a dick for a haircut Stunning, if true.
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Jesus gay, so what?
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Arcsquad12 posted:The British army almost didn't adopt the Brody helmet in ww1. Shortly after it was introduced the army saw a massive spike in casualties admitted to field hospitals, so they figured there must have been a defect with the helmets. They soon realized however that the fatality rate had dropped because they had been overwhelmed by the influx of surviving casualties Related, this same sort of process was how the Americans studied and improved their bombers' armor protection during WW2. Standard practice until 1944 or so was to look at where damaged planes had most been shot up and armor those parts. Around 1944, however, engineers realized they needed to study which parts of damaged aircraft weren't suffering extensive damage, because planes getting hit in those areas typically didn't return to base at all.
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Nonviolent J posted:jesus was the first documented homosexual to suck a dick for a haircut i cut myself on this post
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Cythereal posted:Related, this same sort of process was how the Americans studied and improved their bombers' armor protection during WW2. Standard practice until 1944 or so was to look at where damaged planes had most been shot up and armor those parts. Around 1944, however, engineers realized they needed to study which parts of damaged aircraft weren't suffering extensive damage, because planes getting hit in those areas typically didn't return to base at all. Abraham Wald: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wald https://medium.com/@penguinpress/an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-be-wrong-by-jordan-ellenberg-664e708cfc3d#.ht10lwzac
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bitcoin bastard posted:i cut myself on this post you should be more careful
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I was going to post this to a GBS historical thread, but welp  I am doing a research project on 1880 Detroit, and came across this gem:
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Now I understand why the Danube waltz has so many pauses.
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Rutibex posted:I was going to post this to a GBS historical thread, but welp That's actually kind of sad
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Rutibex posted:I was going to post this to a GBS historical thread, but welp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a31vY8YNTg
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:That's actually kind of sad Even sadder is she probably weighed like 220lbs which wouldn't even lift an eyebrow these days.
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Going off a google books search, she was an orphan and the woman she wrote to was her only living family. It's the suicide of a lonely woman who was mocked all her life. It's more than kind of sad.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Going off a google books search, she was an orphan and the woman she wrote to was her only living family. It's the suicide of a lonely woman who was mocked all her life. It's more than kind of sad. drat son, I didn't even follow up on that one. I assumed there would be nothing! This tid bit is going in my paper, thanks. Its a sad story, but when you read 19th century newspapers all day it just kind of blends into the general sadness: 
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They just didn't investigate poo poo back then.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:They just didn't investigate poo poo back then. They did, but only if you were the right sort. That girl evidently wasn't.
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Despite the comical hats, the late 19th century was pretty loving dark.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Despite the comical hats, the late 19th century was pretty loving dark. Even the hats were a problem: 
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Did someone say hat problems? Slightly later than late 19th century.quote:Although the initial brawl was broken up by police, the fights continued to escalate the next evening. Gangs of teenagers prowled the streets wielding large sticks, sometimes with a nail driven through the top, looking for pedestrians wearing straw hats and beating those who resisted. One man claimed that his hat was taken and the group who had taken his hat joined a mob of about 1,000 that was snatching hats all along Amsterdam Avenue. Hats are serious business. e. I should have taken cues from the newspaper posts earlier, Wikipedia sources some gems 
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Hat crimes are nothing to laugh about.
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Straw Hat Smashing Orgy is a good name for a punk folk band.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Hat crimes are nothing to laugh about. And hat crimes against fashion! That's a very somber matter as well.  Via: http://yesterdaysprint.tumblr.com/post/150851578149/the-daily-republican-monongahela-pennsylvania
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I get enough brutal Victorian era murders watching Ripper Street, thanks.
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