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Article #145A WINNER IN "WORLD'S OLDEST TOOL" CONTEST
From: Intrepid
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:39
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:39
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< http://www.nurple.com/sideshow/ < First THE RUNNER-UP -- dated by Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, David Iain Greig (moderator of talk.origins), Paul PZ Myers of the University of Minnesota at Morris, David Pilbeam of Harvard and The Smithsonian -- at 280,000,000 years (give or take a decade or two). < http://www.edconrad.com/pics/OldestTool.jpg < But THE WINNER -- dated at 280,000,042 years) -- is . . . < http://www.edconrad.com/pics/PetrifiedPP.jpg (Meet the man who crafted this tool long before the inventor of Craftsman was even a twinkle in his daddy's eye and that Boy Scout knives wouldn't be sold at WalMart for eons). < b]MORE ON THE MAN WHO MADE THE WORLD'S OLDEST TOOL AND WHERE PARTS OF HIS BODY WERE FOUND[/b] < Photo shows 662-pound boulder after it was removed from between coal veins approximately 250 feet underground. < http://www.edconrad.com/oldascoal/page3_files/body_data/skulla.jpg < Photo reveals the dramatic similarity to the contour of a human cranium. < http://www.edconrad.com/oldascoal/page3_files/body_data/skullb.jpg < American Medical Laboratories in Chantilly, Va., identified dried blood in granules removed from the interior of what bears a distinct likeness to a human skull < It also contains Haversian canals, the tell-tale indicator of B-O-N-E (petrified or otherwise). < MAP SHOWS WHERE PETRIFIED CRANIUM WAS FOUND (Please Keep the Location Between You and Me) < http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Jln&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=np&q=mahanoy+city+pa&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x89c5944e0d01bcfb:0xcb5f9d0452d77011,Mahanoy+City,+PA&gl=us&ei=83RCTt75M8ro0QGF4fGtCQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=2&ved=0CCYQ8gEwAQ < ================== < [b]WARNING -- Ignore the line below because it doesn't mean a pot of beans./b] < http://www.edconrad.com/wellread.html < SEE! You should've listened.
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X-Google-Thread: fcca9,d359d707b90c0406,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 116469,d359d707b90c0406,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gidc8eef97c82,gideb4416e36f,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!q1g2000vbj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Intrepid <Intrepid517@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: dc.smithsonian,alt.atheism,alt.fan.ed-conrad,sci.anthropology.paleo,rec.arts.tv Subject: A WINNER IN "WORLD'S OLDEST TOOL" CONTEST Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 56 Message-ID: <a87b262b-659b-4553-8324-2a7c07fc4448@q1g2000vbj.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.72.53.102 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1312979943 23086 127.0.0.1 (10 Aug 2011 12:39:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:39:03 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q1g2000vbj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.72.53.102; posting-account=1K__0QoAAABfENAd2ds-R3COw0XGZJNQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0,gzip(gfe)