Ancient skeleton unearthed in France is latest to be found sitting upright

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• GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It would be funny if it wasn’t the truth.

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Baker

  Found near the Josephine Baker school.

  For the Americans who weren’t taught their own history.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not . . . sure that’s how history works tho

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    • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wow, she was an amazing person. Thank you for drawing attention to our deficit

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Call off Scoob and the gang, we found our suspects!

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• teft@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Holy fuck. They will be walking next.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “A good handle on astronomy” in this context meaning: observing which in direction the sun goes down.

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