20071218 Cleaning off the computer Reading Notes

Cleaning off the computer Reading Notes

December 18, 2007

The War on the War on Christmas

http://defendchristmas.com/

It is coming — just as it does every year. There is no stopping it. As surely as trees are decorated and stockings are hung by the chimney with care, we brace ourselves for it. It is just part of the routine. You could say it has become tradition.

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Cops help shop to make Christmas a little nicer

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2007/12/16/news/local_news/newsstory5.txt

By Erica Kritt, Times Staff Writer Sunday, December 16, 2007

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First Americans All Came From Siberia, DNA Suggests

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313230,00.html

Wednesday, November 28, 2007 By Dave Mosher

Humans somehow made their way into the Americas from distant lands, but knowing precisely when and from where they made the journey are matters of heated scientific debate.

New genetic evidence, however, backs up the theory of a chilly northwestern arrival to North America from Siberia about 12,000 years ago, via a temporary land bridge spanning the Bering Strait.

The findings further challenge an alternative idea that humans trickled into both North and South America via open-sea voyages 30,000 years in the past.

Click here to read the full journal article at the PLoS Genetics Web site.

Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Archaeology Center.

Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Evolution & Paleontology Center.

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http://www.livescience.com/

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Pirate Captain William Kidd's Ship Possibly Found

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316786,00.html

Friday, December 14, 2007

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A U.S. underwater archaeology team announced Thursday it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny Dominican Republic island.

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http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=17110447&m=17197180

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