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Please re-read what you wrote and then READ ABOUT THE MARITIME REPUBLICS OF GENOVA, VENEZIA, PISA, and even AMALFI. Where do you think maritime trade first reappeared after the fall of Rome? In the MARITIME REPUBLICS of Italy, for crying out loud. My God, the utter ignorance of European...

This is an independently made film starring Jim Caviezel in a re-telling of the re-life mission by Tim Ballard, an ex-Homeland of National Security agent to rescue children sold into sexual slavery around the world. I really didn't want to see it, having been exposed to enough of that...

Just saw a tweet where some stupid poster claimed this last week has been the hottest in 100,000 years. I asked how he could know that since we've only had the instruments to measure that and record it for about 100 years. There was, of course, no answer. :)

Also important is the fact that France was reacting to the fact that cars were being used as weapons, i.e that rampage in the south which killed many and injured more. We had an example here in the U.S. of a man plowing through a parade and killing old women, children, families. Had he been...

More nonsensical social science studies based not on any objective criteria but instead on groundless assumptions and biases and a lack of any in depth understanding of other cultures. Just one case in point about a people and culture I know intimately. Italians love to complain, moan and groan...

So, from 4 to 11% WHG depending on time and place. Makes sense given all we've learned so far. In a thousand years or so, it got up to about 20 to 25% if my memory serves.

As I said, it's not so simple, and we don't understand pigmentation completely. Nor should the rules which apply in very homogeneous populations be applied to those which are admixed. My son at about three weeks old. There's no way anyone could mistake the color of his hair. It was BLACK! It...

We've known this, with a few tweaks, from academic papers for a long time.

Oh, I'll watch it too, but I hope Spielberg goes ahead with his proposed miniseries. Going by Band of Brothers, historical accuracy is very important to him. Plus, you can't possibly do justify to a life like Napoleon's in 2 hours and 15 minutes.

I sincerely doubt it's 20X more likely, given the police are afraid to enter the suburban ghettos encircling the city. However, even accepting that estimate, how many times are they more likely to commit crimes than the rest of the population? You'd have to know that figure before labeling...

So much for the trope on the old dna forums and even on anthrogenica and eurogenes that copper was brought to Europe by the steppe people.

I hesitated to intervene in this discussion, but I do have some real life experience with such matters. Human beings aren't perfect, including police officers, and they bring their own baggage, societal and psychological, with them. Some of them should never have been accepted into the police...

Yes, it's called photosensitive hair. I have the snps for it, which means it makes my dark brown hair reddish, and both my children have it, which keeps their hair perhaps lighter than their genes would indicate. Fwiw, my son's hair never fell out; it just got progressively lighter, to the...

So was the Euro. Not so good for Southern Europe.

Fwiw, it looks absolutely dreadful, and not just because of the gross historical inaccuracy. See: Napoleon Movie is Going to be HORRIFIC - YouTube

Honestly, I make the original all the time and it's delicious as is; don't need all the fancier touches.

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See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTBGNEliczc

I don't know about anyone else's babies, but I know about mine. My son: 1 month old, 9 months old, as a young boy. Click to enlarge.I assure you that was black hair. He now has honey colored hair and a reddish brown beard. His coloring is like my brother's. The moral of the story is that...

See: How to Smelt Chalcolithic Copper - Biblical Archaeology Society