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He added: “It shows us a dark side of medieval beliefs and provides a graphic reminder of how different the medieval view of the world was from our own.”

Medieval sources offer various remedies for dealing with the restless dead, believed to be individuals who were evil or cursed in life and still bore a grudge against the living in death. Solutions included digging up and decapitating or burning the skeletons. The condition of the Wharram Percy bones suggests that the bodies were decapitated quite soon after death, when the bones were still soft, and burned.

Only the ruined church, a few cottages, and a series of humps and bumps in the fields remain of Wharram Percy, once a prosperous village with two manor houses and dozens of more humble houses. It was extensively excavated in the 20th century, and is one of the best documented of thousands of villages which were eventually abandoned due to plague, depopulation, or changing agricultural practice.

The bones were from at least 10 individuals aged between two and 50, including seven adults, two of them women, and three very young children. They were excavated in the 1960s when archaeologists were investigating the foundations of a house, but had not been studied in detail until now. They were buried in three overlapping pits, between the houses, some distance from the church and graveyard.

The scientists rejected cannibalism – not uncommon in times of famine, and revealed at several English sites including the Ice Age human remains at Cheddar Gorge – as an explanation because those cut marks would typically be at the joints, not clustered around the head.

The scientists also wondered if the people represented by their fragmented remains could have been outsiders, regarded with suspicion by the villagers. However analysis of the isotopes in some of the teeth – which can give a distinctive signature revealing where the individual lived in childhood when the teeth grew – showed that they were very local.

Alistair Pike, professor of archaeological sciences at Southampton, said: “Strontium isotopes in teeth reflect the geology on which an individual was living as their teeth formed in childhood. A match between the isotopes in the teeth and the geology around Wharram Percy suggests they grew up in an area close to where they were buried, possibly in the village. This was surprising to us as we first wondered if the unusual treatment of the bodies might relate to their being from further afield rather than local.”

When the bones were found in the 1960s the archaeologists thought they were probably older than the village, and belonged to early Romano-British settlers whose remains were disturbed and reburied by the villagers. The truth has proved to be more sinister.

• This article was amended on 3 April 2017. An earlier version said the study was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

Good read, thanks for posting. it's about time someone posted some non-political news.

"The life forms we find in amber can reveal so much about the history and evolution of diseases we still struggle with today," Poinar said. "This parasite, for instance, was clearly around millions of years before humans, and appears to have evolved alongside primates, among other hosts."

Part of what makes these fossils unique, Poinar said, is the clarity by which the parasites and blood cells are preserved, almost as if they had been stained and otherwise treated in a laboratory for inspection. The parasites were different enough in texture and density to stand out clearly within the red blood cells during the natural embalming process for which amber is famous.

>Trump's Russian connections are of heightened interest because of an FBI investigation into possible collusion between Trump's presidential campaign and Russian operatives to interfere in last fall's election. What’s more, Trump and his companies have had business dealings with Russians that go back decades, raising questions about whether his policies would be influenced by business considerations.

>Trump told reporters in February: "I have no dealings with Russia. I have no deals that could happen in Russia, because we’ve stayed away. And I have no loans with Russia. I have no loans with Russia at all."

>Yet in 2013, after Trump addressed potential investors in Moscow, he bragged to Real Estate Weekly about his access to Russia's rich and powerful. “I have a great relationship with many Russians, and almost all of the oligarchs were in the room,” Trump said, referring to Russians who made fortunes when former Soviet state enterprises were sold to private investors.

>Five years earlier, Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. told Russian media while in Moscow that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of our assets" in places like Dubai and Trump SoHo and elsewhere in New York.

>New York City real estate broker Dolly Lenz told USA TODAY she sold about 65 condos in Trump World at 845 U.N. Plaza in Manhattan to Russian investors, many of whom sought personal meetings with Trump for his business expertise.

>“I had contacts in Moscow looking to invest in the United States,” Lenz said. “They all wanted to meet Donald. They became very friendly.” Many of those meetings happened in Trump's office at Trump Tower or at sales events, Lenz said.
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>Dealings with Russian oligarchs concern law enforcement because many of those super-wealthy people are generally suspected of corrupt practices as a result of interconnected relationships among Russia's business elite, government security services and criminal gangs, according to former U.S. prosecutor Ken McCallion, as well as Steven Hall, a former CIA chief of Russian operations.

>“Anybody who is an oligarch or is in any position of power in Russia got it because (President) Vladimir Putin or somebody in power saw some reason to give that person that job,” Hall said in an interview. “All the organized crime figures I’ve ever heard of (in Russia) all have deep connections and are tied in with people in government.”

>FBI Director James Comey acknowledged at a congressional hearing into Russian interference in the U.S. election March 20 that many wealthy Russians may have close ties to the Kremlin and may be acting on its behalf.

>Trump has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection to any of the individuals mentioned in this article.

>However, the deals, and the large number of Russians who have bought condos in Trump buildings, raise questions about the secrecy he has maintained around his real estate empire. Trump is the first president in 40 years to refuse to turn over his tax returns, which could shed light on his business dealings.

>The White House declined to comment about this article, referring questions to the Trump Organization in New York. Amanda Miller, a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, denied any transactions with people named in this article.

>“The allegations ... are entirely without merit," Miller said in an email. "The Trump Organization never entered into a single transaction with any of these individuals and the condominium units were all owned and sold by third parties — not Trump.”
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>Trump's privately held company works through a network of subsidiaries and partnerships that make direct connections hard to trace, particularly since he has refused to release his tax filings. In addition, some of the Trump Organization's investors and buyers operate through shell companies and limited liability corporations that hide the identities of individual owners.

>Trump and the Trump Organization signed licensing agreements for an ownership stake in properties such as Trump SoHo and Trump International Beach Resort, which bear the Trump name without requiring an investment by him. In the SoHo project, Trump received an 18% share of the profits in return for use of his name,according to a deposition Trump gave in 2007 for a defamation lawsuit he brought against an author.

>Among Trump's partners in the SoHo project was Felix Sater, a Russian immigrant who spent a year in prison for the 1991 stabbing. He later cooperated with the FBI and the CIA for a reduced sentence after he was convicted in a $40 million stock manipulation and money-laundering scheme in New York state.

>Sater was a partner in the Bayrock Group, which developed the Trump SoHo. Sater's criminal past was not well-known until publicly divulged in 2007. As he sought investment opportunities in Russia, he carried business cards identifying him as a senior adviser to the Trump Organization that included the company's email and phone number.

>In February, Sater introduced a Ukrainian politician pushing a pro-Russian peace proposal to Michael Cohen, Trump's personal lawyer and former chief counsel at the Trump Organization, Cohen told NBC News.
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What the fuck is BLMM? Tucker Carlson is so desperate for racebait stories that he's using statistically insignificant twitter groups as strawmen to mine outrage out of people for adsense.

>>128157
haha its so fun to watch. fuck leftists

>>128160
It's funny that every leftist I've ever met, while having plenty of flaws, are nothing like these twitter idiots. Twitter has the effect of bringing the biggest idiots together IRL no matter what side they are on. BLM is a fine example, but so is Milo and his followers (before he got banned). BLMM (whatever that really is) is much much worse because it's derivative.

>>127965
They weren't hacked. It's just a false flag to make Trump supporters look like nazi hackers.

>>127991
They were hacked. Its just that they paid a hacker to do it to them.

>>127991
Yeah trump supporters are the ones that compare him to Hitler, sure.

>>127543
Cnn Investigates Russian Salad Dressing
https://youtu.be/_b_rhU0EVWs

>>127552

>hurrr fake news

how is that fake news

russian salad dressing is not actually made in russia, it's made in NH, and CNN is pointing that out.

i get that spicer was being sarcastic, but from the tone of the CNN report, I wouldn't be surprised if their giving a detailed rebuttal was also just piling on to the sarcasm.

I frankly don't see how any of this is fake news. Maybe Trump supporters define fake differently than most Americans.

A lot of conservatives have difficulty with consistency in their worldview. When Obama was president, republicans looked trhough a fine toothed comb to find fault with everything he did.
They invented actual fake stories, like death panels and obama phones.
They said they'd make it a point to ensure his presidency failed.

But they can't take any criticism, they're the most thin skinned people alive.

>>127554
Haha. You almost got me.

>>124741
This story will get quietly buried like Putin's victims.

>>124741
lol. Putin. sure..

here info about the killer: https://youtu.be/YtGwnkX_Hf8

"russophobe, ukrainian neonazi, heavy crime tug, when being under search warrant for crimes he signed the contract with madianek goverment to kill people in the former east ukraine as part of innert ministry battalions. got wounded there. got "vyteran pension" active member in neonazi circles in the middle and west ukraine. got allowance to work and live in Canada since 3 weeks. his main salary in ukraine was hitman jobs for maidaneks since 2014 in east ukraine."

i would say the guy was about to "get some cash to start new life in free canada". he wasnt ready that someone would shoot back at him. he was wounded and let evidences. maidaneks ordered heavy clean up and polishing of his life and just executed him in hospital.

>>124821
Thanks RT

>>127258
Unfortunately, most of the people who would be most affected by the classification, won't be assed to do anything about it until it's too late.

>>127261
>>127258
By the way, misleading subject:
Caveats
ICD-11 Beta draft is:
NOT FINAL
updated on a daily basis
It is not approved by WHO
NOT TO BE USED for CODING except for agreed FIELD TRIALS

Have a better article;
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/03/economist-explains-24

>>128034
>>128034

>>127779
>korrespondent.net
Got an English language source?
Preferably one that doesn't forward my IP address to the Kremlin.

>>127780

rolf you stupid fuck. the link is ukrainian president owned media.

>>127779
BUMP

>>127771
>grant Medicare to all US citizens

Trump will back it. Mark my words.

>>127771
Will it?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sanders-already-concedes-defeat-on-his-single-payer-healthcare-bill/article/2618926

>>127771
Universal health care doesn't have to be public health care, why can't we just adopt Romney's plan in Massachusetts and apply it on a National Scale

>Other sexual meetups involved drinking alcohol, taking off their clothes together and the boy performing oral sex on Harper. Harper also sent multiple nude photos via smart phone to the boy. Police said the two communicated 76 times between June 1 and July 31.

>Police said the two knew each other because Harper was the boy’s former tennis coach and teacher when he attended Tidwell MS.

>District officials were notified of the improper relationship in Dec. 2016 and said Harper was placed on administrative leave.

>Harper was arrested on March 21 by Trophy Club police and booked into the Denton County jail and released after posting a $15,000 bond.

>>127562
He is fucked when she sues for child support.

>>127566
Lmao my immediate thought.

>On Feb. 21, a coalition of the 17 largest companies that sell cars in the United States sent two letters to Mr. Pruitt, asking him to revisit the tailpipe rules. They said it may be “the single most important decision the E.P.A. has made in recent history.”

>They complained about the steep technical challenge posed by the stringent standard, noting that only about 3.5 percent of new vehicles are able to reach it. That even excludes some hybrid cars, plug-in electric cars and fuel cell vehicles, the automakers wrote. “Even today, no conventional vehicle today meets that target.”

>The automakers estimated their industry would have to spend a “staggering” $200 billion between 2012 and 2025 to comply and said the tailpipe emissions rule was far more expensive for the industry than enforcing the Clean Power Plan.

>Former Obama administration officials and environmentalists denounced Mr. Trump’s expected announcement.

>“The rest of the world is moving forward with electric cars. If the Trump administration goes backward, the U.S. won’t be able to compete globally,” said Margo T. Oge, a former senior E.P.A. official and the author of “Driving the Future: Combating Climate Change With Cleaner, Smarter Cars.”

>“This means they’ll just keep polluting,” said S. William Becker, the executive director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies. He also predicted that “if this administration goes after the California waiver, there will be an all-out brawl between Trump and California and the other states that will defend its program.”

>The tailpipe pollution regulations were among Mr. Obama’s major initiatives to reduce global warming and were put forth jointly by the E.P.A. and the Transportation Department. They would have forced automakers to build passenger cars that achieve an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, compared with about 36 miles per gallon today.
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>Eventually achieving those targets would have drastically reduced the nation’s vehicle tailpipe pollution, which accounts for about a third of the United States’ total greenhouse gas emissions.

>Those regulations are locked into place for vehicle model years through 2021, and just before Mr. Trump took office, the E.P.A. put forth a final rule intended to cement them for vehicles built from 2022 through 2025. However, the E.P.A. did not jointly release its plan to do so with the Transportation Department, leaving a legal loophole for the Trump administration to take advantage of.

>The E.P.A.’s Clean Power Plan regulations, which would cut climate-warming pollution from power plants, will probably be much harder for Mr. Pruitt to undo. He will have to legally withdraw the existing rule and propose a new rule to replace it, a process that could take up to two years and is expected to be fraught with legal challenges and delays along the way.

>The effort to undo the tailpipe standards will be much more legally simple. After withdrawing the Obama administration’s requirement for model years 2022 through 2025, the Trump administration will have a year to put forth an alternative set of efficiency standards, people familiar with the matter said.

>>117807
Why is Trump so fucking retarded.

>>127845
>A slim majority of Americans favor an independent investigation
So the majority of Americans do not want an investigation.

>>127880
Somebody rode the short bus to school.

>>127845

this shit is getting hilarious.

muh russia. when did the left become insane conspiracy theorists? i can't wait until trump imprisons all the fucking scum who knowingly fabricated this sort of shit. it's felonious slander, and even treason. treason carries the death penalty.

>>128018
if your protest means that a bunch of degenerates will try to kill you then you have my support

if your protest has as a goal to kill Innocent people then i don't support you