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The reason I am skeptical of very ancient civilizations is population size. There just weren't enough people around back then to make constructing some large buildings worth the trouble. A teepee made of mammoth bones was good enough. The Great pyramid took something like 20,000 laborers. They b...

I don't really think grunge was a mix of hair metal and punk. I think grunge was sorta its own thing. The guitar riffs were different from the punk bands. Punk was all about really simple chords played fast with the lead singer shouting. I didn't get that vibe from the Seattle bands at all. Punk was...

Why would he even show up to church if his wife just killed herself shortly before? I assume he preached a sermon without even mentioning her death, then suddenly mentions it at the end. "Oh by the way..." I guess the question that needs to be asked is what did Hillary have on him or his wife?...

[quote]How could they discern this?[/quote] Found arrow flakes in its spine and the spine never healed. ...

[quote]Just remember that John Adams advocated the Alien and Sedition Acts as President because the newspapers in New York were mean to him.[/quote] They were a series of laws passed, and we should revive all of them except the Sedition Act. [quote]The Naturalization Act increased the requirem...

There is no automotive board, so I figured this board would be better than the OT. I don't feel like hearing "that'll cost you tree fiddy" over there. I have an old arse early 2000's truck that is misfiring. At idle the engine revs up then almost cuts off, then revs up again, etc. While drivin...

[quote]I wonder how tall she was.[/quote] A grown female would be about 5 feet or so. Based on over 40 skeletons, grown males averaged 5'4. However, they were strong and had about twice the muscle mass of humans. An average male could prolly bench tree fiddy or more without any training. If a hu...

I was just watching a video of a guy who went to live with a wild tribe in Tanzania. He asked one of the baws: "What's your greatest fear in life?" The dude said "Lions." That's my answer and I am sticking to it. ...

Speaking of South America, what most people don't know is there was already a movement of Germans to South America even before World War I. Nietzsche, the German philosopher, died in 1900. His sister, Elisabeth, had been living in South America with other Germans before his death. Her husband wa...

Northwestern got cucked. You don't let fricking children tell you what to do. ...