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The Great Forgetting

Cross-posted from http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/have-you-heard-of-the-great-forgetting/ with lengthy article here: . Reference: Quinn, Daniel date-unknown “The Great Forgetting”. Website referenced 1/26/2014 at http://www.filmsforaction.org/news/the_great_forgetting/. Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life Republished from deep-ecology-hub.com … Continue reading

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Binne’s Cairn: The Giant’s Grave, Curraghbinny Woods, Cork, Ireland

Binne’s Cairn, The Giant’s Grave, Curraghbinny Hill, Ireland The Giant’s Grave: Binne’s Cairn* Curraghbinny Woods, County Cork, Munster, Ireland * Latitude: 51°48’41.35″ * Longitude: -8°17’52.72″ * Atop the summit of Curraghbinny Hill in Curraghbinny Forest Recreation Area lies a mound … Continue reading

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Tobar Ghobnatan (St. Gobnait’s House, Church, Cemetery, Statue, & Well)

Tobar Ghobnatan * Ballyvourney (a.k.a. Baile Bhuirne), County Cork, Ireland * Named after the Matron Saint of Ballyvourney and sacred Bee-Keeping mistress, Saint Ghobnatan, this site is a holy pilgrimage location and monastic settlement known as “Tobar Ghobnatan”. This is … Continue reading

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Montezuma Castle

Montezuma Castle National Monument* Camp Verde, Arizona * http://www.nps.gov/moca/index.htm * Thanks to the Antiquities Act of 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt celebrated it by naming and declaring four National Monuments as having such historic and cultural significance, one of these was … Continue reading

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The first USGS Gauging Station 1889

USGS Gauging Station 1889 * Embudo, New Mexico * (south of Taos) * http://md.water.usgs.gov/publications/presentations/md-de-dc_rt98/sld002.htm * As studying stream and river flow patterns, power, and conductivity became a passion with the U.S. Geological Survey, they established their very first gauging station … Continue reading

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Taos Pueblo

Taos Pueblo * Pueblo de Taos * ȉałopháymųp’ȍhə́othə̀olbo * ** Taos, New Mexico * www.taospueblo.com * ca. 1000 C.E./1450 C.E. to Present day * As a southwestern Archaeologist, I have always been inspired and intrigued with the Taos Pueblo, the … Continue reading

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Paul Koudounaris’ lecture on Heavenly Bodies : Spectacular Jeweled Skeletons

Paul Koudounaris: Heavenly Bodies* Lecture, Slide Show, and Book Signing * The Strange Factory * Albuquerque, New Mexico * Friday, November 22, 2013 * A race from Taos to Albuquerque to visit a friend’s lecture on his amazing discoveries about … Continue reading

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Joseph Banks (1743-1820)

Sir Joseph Banks 1743-1820 Well known from his adventures on the HMS Endeavour, this 1st baronet was a world class and well known English botanist / naturalist was one of the right hand men of Captain James Cook. He sailed … Continue reading

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Pecos Valley Diamonds

PECOS VALLEY DIAMONDS New Mexico, one of the nation’s most mineralized states, contains a very large quantity quartz (Si02) . ” This ubiquitous mineral occurs in every district and in many forms. The crystals known as “Pecos Valley ‘Diamonds” however, … Continue reading

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Cicada

From Prince William Forest Park, Occoquan, Virginia CicadaHemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadoidea I’ve experienced the cicadas before when i was younger, and once again got to see a few of them, up close and personal. As we were camping in Prince William … Continue reading

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