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“Milky Way above the Himalayas” by Anton Jankovoy

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When I was a kid, I thought those pillars went down to the sea floor.

In reality, they usually go down to some large submerged floats.

The Phenomenon Of “Crown Shyness” Where Trees Avoid Touching

“Too much of anything is too bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.”

- Mark Twain

Thousand-year-old Viking fortress reveals a technologically advanced society

When archaeologists uncovered four ancient ring-shaped fortresses in Denmark in the 1930s, the find profoundly changed the way they thought about the Vikings that built them. Rather than mindless marauders, Vikings in the Middle Ages must have been a complex, technologically advanced people to build these fortifications. Now, Danish archaeologists have described a fifth ring fortress—the first such discovery in more than 60 years—revealing even more about these architecturally gifted warriors.

The new fortress, called Borgring, was found principally using an aerial, laser-based surveillance method called LIDAR, which returns an extremely high-resolution 3D ground map. It’s located on the Danish island Zealand, south of Copenhagen. The stronghold is a perfect circle with an outer diameter of 144 meters, and has four main gates crisscrossed by wood-paved roads. Read more.