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‘Iceman’ Discovery Wasn’t a Freak Event. More Frozen Mummies May Await
In 1991, hikers in the Alps came across a sensational find: a human body, partially encased in ice, at the top of a mountain pass between Italy and Austria. Police called to the scene initially assumed the man had died in a mountaineering accident, but within weeks archaeologists were arguing he was actually the victim of a 5100-year-old murder.
They were right: Later dubbed Ötzi after the Ötztal Valley nearby, the man’s body is the oldest known “ice mummy” on record…. But Ötzi’s preservation may not be as unusual as it first seemed, archaeologists argue in a paper published today. And that could mean more bodies from the distant past are waiting to emerge as ice melts in a warming climate.
Ötzi “was such a huge surprise when he was found people thought he was a freak event,” says Lars Pilø, an archaeologist working for the Oppland County Glacier Archaeological Program in Norway. But many of the original assumptions about how weather, climate, and glacial ice conspired to preserve him were wrong, Pilø; and other researchers write in the journal The Holocene. “This paper sheds new light on the interpretation of this exceptional archaeological find,” says Matthias Huss, a glaciologist at ETH Zürich, who was not part of the team….
“The general understanding was that Ötzi marked this beginning of a cooler period,” Huss says, “as people were sure that [he] must have been within the ice without interruption since his death.” But with the retreat of glaciers and ice patches around the world over the past few decades, other ancient remains have emerged, including bodies, hunting equipment, horse manure, and skis. “No one expected similar sites,” says Thomas Reitmaier, an archaeologist at the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Grisons in Switzerland and a co-author of the new study. “Now, we have lots, and we find this one fits quite well with the picture of glacial archaeology we’ve developed.”
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The Crown’s portrayal of Diana is upsetting – she wasn’t a wounded animal like she’s presented, says princess’ butler
THE Crown’s portrayal of Diana is “upsetting” – and wrongly shows the princess as a “wounded animal”, her former butler said last night.
The controversial new season of the Netflix series was released on Wednesday, and it recreates the Royal Family‘s lives in the 1990s.
Paul Burrell was Princess Diana’s butler and has revealed his thoughts on the latest season of The Crown[/caption]
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And less than 24 hours after it aired, Diana‘s butler Paul Burrell revealed how he felt about the parts he’d seen so far.
Paul, who worked for the royal family for 21 years, admitted watching the portrayal of the princess was “unnerving” and “very upsetting”.
He was seen wincing when he explained how actress Elizabeth Debicki had near-perfected Diana’s voice on TalkTV.
Speaking on Jeremy Kyle Live last night, Paul said: “It’s my time. I was there.
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“I’m finding it very upsetting. She has a very good portrayal of the Princess and that’s unnerving.
“At times, for me, it’s unnerving at times to hear her voice. She’s obviously studied her voice very well.”
But, he was also angered by the show.
Paul said Diana had been portrayed like a victim – which she wasn’t.
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He said: “What I don’t like, I don’t like to see the Princess constantly portrayed as a wounded animal, constantly crying, constantly alone.
“They have made her into a very tragic figure, which of course he was but not all the time. We did have some fun.”
Speaking of how King Charles wasn’t being shown in the best light, Paul said: “It’s very timely coming at this time just before Harry’s book and just before the Coronation. It’s going to paint a very different picture.
“The danger is that the public will believe everything they see. I wish I could sit on the couch with everybody in the United Kingdom and say, ‘That’s not true, that didn’t happen’.”
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Another former royal employee recently spoke out about season five of The Crown.
Dickie Arbiter, the Queen‘s former press secretary, has critiqued the episodes and pointed out four crucial errors.
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I went on the worst date ever – he checked under my arms to see if I shaved and that wasn’t the worst part
A WOMAN has claimed that she went on the worst date ever after a man checked to see if she had shaved under her arms.
Her dinner date got drunk and continued with his odd and alarming behavior as the evening progressed.
Kailly Jo explained how the “horrible” date unfolded in a recent TikTok video.
“I walked through the rain, back to my car to get away from this man as quickly as possible,” she revealed.
She explained that because she’s a single mom, she doesn’t have a lot of time to go out on dates.
“The date started out decent, he’s not my type but I gave him a chance because I don’t have a lot of luck with my type,” she continued.
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During their date, she explained that she was actually having fun with the man because they had the same interests and had the same political beliefs.
“I have two beers, he has four. Red flag! We go to a second bar and we are talking about cooking and how we love sharp knives.
“I joke about how I shave my legs with a really sharp knife and he says he doesn’t know if I’m serious because of my tattoos.
“And I say ‘Oh I don’t shave at all.’ He lifts my arm to see if I shave and then says ‘If you don’t shave, I wouldn’t be on this date with you because that’s disgusting.’
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“Sir, you claim that you’re a feminist and that you’re a liberal and all of those things but you’re disgusted by the social construct of women’s body hair. So I tried to dig deeper.
“He says that he’s a man and that he wants to date someone who is the opposite of me.
“Uhm no, that’s called misogyny. Then he goes on to say that he’s a feminist but doesn’t like the feminists who wear overalls and are claiming that they get raped but they are the last person to get raped.
“Eventually, I told him he was a misogynist and I walked out of there because we ain’t got time for that, ladies.”
Following their horrible date, Kailly Jo got a text from her date, who said: “That was the worst best date I’ve ever had.
“I’m sorry I wasn’t very open and I’m sorry it ended that way. I had a lot of fun and you’re f**king kick a**! Just wanted to say that!
“It went south so quick and I regret that. Not that it matters. Anywho hope you sleep well and have a good day tomorrow and an awesome weekend.”
KaillyJo felt compelled to clap back at him and said: “That was 1000 percent the worst date I’ve EVER had. I had to give my response a few days because I don’t really want to waste any more of my time but this needs to be said.
“Let me recap the misogynistic, fragile masculinity bulls**t you felt compelled to say on a first date … you said, in so many words, that ugly women do not get raped.
“That by far was one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever heard. You’re one of those people who say ‘well she shouldn’t have been wearing that if she didn’t want to be raped.’
“You told me I was ‘annoying the s**t out of you,’ not once but TWICE. You said, on more than two occasions ‘I f**king hate feminists because … ‘ and then continued to expose that you feel targeted by feminists for simply being a man, when in fact it’s probably because you are not one of those good ones.
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“I am one of those feminists ‘wearing overalls and screaming at people; that you hate. You are the reason we need feminism. You are part of the problem.”
Safe to say, her date quickly ended the conversation and told her she was “nuts” after being called out.
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Kanye West Claims Fentanyl Caused George Floyd Death: “The Guy’s Knee Wasn’t Even on His Neck Like That”
Kanye West has sparked fresh controversy and once again it centers on racial discourse.
Fresh from offending many with comments deemed anti-Semitic, the rapper shared a shocking take on one of the cases at the heart of the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement: the murder of George Floyd.
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Isaiah Washington Says Aaliyah Was a “Businesswoman” In Control Of Her Relationship with R. Kelly: She Wasn’t Made to Do “What She Didn’t Want To”
Across the trials that led to R. Kelly serving his current 30-year sentence for sex crimes against minors (with more years to come once the sentence from a separate child pornography case is handed down), the embattled R&B legend’s sexual and marital relationship with late R&B songstress Aaliyah was explored like never before.
Secretly married in 1994 when he was 27-years-old and she was only 15-years-old,
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