Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific, successful and respected composers of all time and has contributed a number of scores that are undeniable classics. With the recent release of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western trilogy on Blu-ray, I thought now would be a good time to look at some of Morricone’s finest work to date — via Den of Geek
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“Duke Nukem Forever”, a video game synonymous with never being released, is finally being released — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Guanape Sur island off northern Peru makes money from selling bird droppings – also known as guano. Commonly used in the 19th Century as a fertiliser, this organic product is making a comeback — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Nubians shows that they were regularly consuming tetracycline, most likely in their beer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The fossil of a stocky new dinosaur with two sets of claws on its feet unearthed in Romania has given researchers a window into what European predators looked like in the final years of the Age of Dinosaurs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Britain carried out assassinations during the Cold War, novelist and former secret agent John le Carre has told The Sunday Telegraph newspaper — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Fourteen Battle of Britain veterans have taken to the skies in a special memorial flight — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists have discovered a new type of chlorophyll in ancient Australian bacteria.
The finding could lead to new types of bio-energy to power the future — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The carpet, slightly over 5? x 8? in size, was commissioned by the Maharajah of the Indian state of Baroda in 1865.
This splendid carpet has a surface that is entirely embellished, created using an estimated two million natural seed pearls, known as “Basra” pearls originally collected in the waters of the Gulf. The design is picked out in coloured glass beads and the whole richly encrusted and embellished with gold set diamonds and precious stones in their hundreds… Across the centre there are three large round ‘rosettes’ each made of table cut diamonds set in silvered gold. Further smaller diamond rosettes in the border, all of which are embellished with sapphires, rubies and emeralds set in gold.
The carpet was publicly displayed at the Delhi Exhibition in 1902, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1985. In 2009 it sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $5.5 million — via Neatorama
Archaeologists say they have discovered Britain’s oldest house at a Stone Age site in northern England, and have compared its historical significance to Stonehenge, the country’s most famous ancient monument — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dr. Macro has compiled an impressive collection of high quality photos featuring famous screen personalities from the 1940s and earlier.
The images are scanned from 8×10 publicity photos and presented in all their high rez glory. As an interesting side-note, movie stills from that era were typically captured with medium and large-format cameras with significantly higher resolution than "modern" 35mm SLRs that became common in the 1970s.
Pattern in Islamic Art offers a FREE download of over 4000 images of patterns and other design features drawn from the rich cultural heritage of the Islamic world. Historically, the decorative arts have always formed a major part of Islamic aesthetic expression. Its remarkable achievements in this direction (much of which are represented here) make it an invaluable resource for designers of all kinds as well as for art-historians and art-lovers generally
Crystal skulls have long had a fringe following, and the most famous of them is one named for the explorer-author Frederick A Mitchell-Hedges. Mitchell-Hedges claimed to have found the skull somewhere in Central America in the 1930s, but his adopted daughter Anna later said she found it under a fallen altar or inside a pyramid at the Maya site of Lubaantún in British Honduras (now Belize) some time in the 1920s. Neither of their contradictory accounts is true. In fact, like all the other crystal skulls thus far examined, it is a modern creation, despite its nearly mythical place in the minds of devotees
An Australian Aboriginal rock art may depict a giant bird that is thought to have become extinct some 40,000 years ago, thereby making it the oldest rock painting on the island continent. The red ochre drawing was first discovered two years ago, but archaeologists were only able to confirm the finding two weeks ago, when they first visited the remote site on the Arnhem Land plateau in north Australia
This week marks the end of an era for one of the earliest pieces of Internet history, which got its start at Duke more than 30 years ago. On 20 May, Duke will shut down its Usenet server, which provides access to a worldwide electronic discussion network of newsgroups started in 1979 by two Duke graduate students, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis
The husband-and-wife team of Arlen and Diane Chase tried a new approach to mapping archaeological sites using airborne laser signals that penetrate the jungle cover and are reflected from the ground below. They yielded 3-D images of the site of ancient Caracol, in Belize, one of the great cities of the Maya lowlands. In only four days, a twin-engine aircraft equipped with an advanced version of lidar (light detection and ranging) flew back and forth over the jungle and collected data surpassing the results of two and a half decades of on-the-ground mapping, the archaeologists said. After three weeks of laboratory processing, the almost ten hours of laser measurements showed topographic detail over an area of 80 square miles, notably settlement patterns of grand architecture and modest house mounds, roadways and agricultural terraces
Shortly after Metropolis was released in 1927 it was acquired by Paramount Pictures, which drastically edited the film, cutting an hour of footage. For eighty years efforts have been made to locate the deleted scenes; in 2001 a partially reconstructed version was exhibited to the public. In 2008 an even more complete version was located in Argentina. Except for a few frames, the Argentinian version appears to be complete, and film critics viewing it believe it offers new insights into the original film
A water feature found in the Maya city of Palenque, Mexico, is the earliest known example of engineered water pressure in the new world, according to a collaboration between two Penn State researchers, an archaeologist and a hydrologist. How the Maya used the pressurised water is, however, still unknown
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