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Secrets of the Powerful Scythian Bow June 02, 2023
The Scythians, nomadic warriors originating in Southern Siberia, flourished between 900 and 200 BC. At their peak their culture spread over central Asia from Western China to the Black Sea.Militarily they were superlative horse-archers and at the hea...
Ancient 'Zombie Viruses' Capable of Infecting Ameobas March 15, 2023
New research from a group of international climate scientists shows that so-called "zombie viruses" once revived, can infect amoeba cells. The study, published in the open journal Viruses, looked at more than a dozen new viruses isolated from seven p...
How Lenin Pushed for Brest-Litovsk March 02, 2023
In January 1918, the long-awaited Constituent Assembly convened. Those supporting Lenin and the Bolsheviks were a minority in the Assembly, and, after the Assembly's first day, Soviet militiamen with bayonets dispersed the gathering. Lenin defended t...
Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers Once Lived in Siberia January 13, 2023
Researchers investigating prehistoric DNA have discovered a mysterious group of hunter-gatherers that lived in Siberia perhaps more than 10,000 years ago. The find was made during a genetic investigation of human remains in North Asia dating from as ...
'Gulag Archipelago' a Window Into Hell December 28, 2022
Afew months ago I read Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s epic The Gulag Archipelago, which is three volumes and about 2,000 pages of sordid memoir recounting one of history’s darker examples of man’s inhumanity to man.Excused by enthusiasts for socialism as th...
When a Bag of Hands Was Found By a Siberian River March 11, 2022
On March 8, 2018, a fisherman was taking a stroll along the Amur River in Khabarovsk, Russia when he stumbled across an unusual find. Along the river's snowy banks the fisherman spotted what appeared to be a severed hand.Alerting local authorities to...
What Was the Tunguska Explosion? June 30, 2021
On today’s date 113 years ago, the largest asteroid impact in recorded history struck on a warm summer morning in Siberia, Russia. We observe Asteroid Day each year on June 30, on the anniversary of what’s now known as the Tunguska explosion.The expl...
New Human Species With Tail Discovered April 02, 2021
A multi-disciplinary and multi-national team of archaeologists, anthropologists and geneticists in Siberia have announced the sensational discovery of a new hominid species that interbred with our own species, Homo sapiens, leaving genetic traces tha...
Clothes Say a Lot, Even as We Get Sloppier February 19, 2021
In the early 1980s, dressed in a bespoke dark velvet three-piece suit and ruffled white silk shirt, my young English friend met me for dinner at the prestigious 21 Club restaurant. He was detained at the door. Where was his tie? After a brief discuss...
1-Million-Year-Old DNA Belongs to 'Mystery' Mammoth February 18, 2021
The oldest DNA ever decoded belonged to a mammoth from a mysterious, previously unknown lineage that lived about 1.2 million years ago, a new study finds.Previously, the oldest known sequenced genome came from a horse that lived up to 780,000 years a...
James Burnham: Unheralded Prophet of the Cold War February 08, 2021
In Washington, D.C., there are no statues of James Burnham. Most Americans know little or nothing about him. He was not a high-level U.S. government official. He was a writer, a political philosopher, and a geopolitician. He started his intellectual ...
Reindeer Herders Find Wooly Mammoth Skeleton in Siberia July 27, 2020
MOSCOW -- Russian scientists are working to retrieve the well-preserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth, which has some ligaments still attached to it, from a lake in northern Siberia.Fragments of the skeleton were found by local reindeer herders in the...
Brutal Reality of Russia Under Nazi Rule June 25, 2020
“Russia cannot be approached with legal or political formulations, since the Russian question is much more dangerous than it seems, and we must use colonial and biological means to destroy the Slavs,” Adolf Hiler told Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai ...
Expedition Becomes 91-Day Trek to Siberia June 16, 2020
On July 8, 1879, amid cheering crowds, the U.S.S. Jeannette, a three-masted former British navy gun vessel specially adapted for Arctic waters, set sail from San Francisco for the Bering Strait.Its mission, Hampton Sides writes in The Kingdom of Ice:...
Earth's Magnetic Pole Lurching Toward Siberia January 16, 2019
Earth's north magnetic pole is on the move, unpredictably lurching away from the Canadian Arctic and toward Siberia. It's wandered so much, that the current representation of the entire globe's magnetic field, just updated in 2015, is now out of date...
Siberia, Crimea and U.S. Involvement in Russia January 19, 2018
Strolling the cavernous and well-appointed halls of Russia's carefully renovated Central Naval Museum [???Ñ?Ñ???Ñ??Ñ?? Ð??????-??Ñ????? Ð?Ñ????] near the Neva River in St. Petersburg, one can find an assortment of interesting artifacts, not least the...
