• GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    Pffft, big deal. They have oodles of ancient skeletons sitting upright in the US. It’s called Congress!! Heyooooooooo!

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      TBF it seems most of her history in the US was in entertainment and wearing a skirt made of fake bananas. Not really required learning. Her real activity seems to have taken place in France working with the French Resistance and civil rights, and unfortunately her civil rights work here was overshadowed by MLK.

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        22 hours ago

        Now if you can figure out why a great American’s work MOSTLY happened in France, you might actually understand why you didn’t learn about her in school.

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          22 hours ago

          Don’t think you’re catching me out. It was understood the instant I read about her. TF is wrong with you, you go straight to being insulting.

            • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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              21 hours ago

              Sorry you feel insulted by being observed for what you are. Maybe be something better instead?

              What the F. For what I am? Blocked. What is it with Lemmy the last couple days and these deliberately insulting assholes?

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              21 hours ago

              Maybe be something better instead?

              Maybe take your own advice?

              You were insulting in tone when you didn’t have to be. That’s from an unbiased observer.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Glad to see the youth getting involved with science…

    Children at a primary school in eastern France found a strange attraction next to their playground this week: a skeleton sitting upright, peeking out of a circular pit.

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    23 hours ago

    The Egyptians had no word for dying, they just said “going West”.

    Not sure how true that is, but i remember it for whatever reason.

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      22 hours ago

      Given that most/many ancient cultures had a good handle on astronomy, it would make sense if they associated west with death. Since the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, it makes some logical sense to associate the east with beginnings of things and the west with endings

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    1 day ago

    I mean, if i lay down for hours at a time i gotta sit up to stretch every now and then so i get it.