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Hominid Footprints on Crete Could Change Evolutionary Theory For Good

He was not looking for hominid footprints from the prehistoric past. Paleontologist Gerhard Gierlinski, from Warsaw, Poland, was just trying to get away from it all in the summer of 2002 and enjoy the warm seas and soft sands on the Greek island of Crete with his girlfriend.

A researcher at the Polish Geological Institute, he was always ready to take samples of interesting things he spied on vacations, and he traveled with a hammer, a camera and a GPS for just such occasions.

What he discovered along the Mediterranean shores of the town of Trachilos would rock his world and send some researchers who were convinced that humans evolved solely in Africa, into angry denial, resulting in many of them casting aspersions on his jaw-dropping find.

Gierlinski asked colleagues from Poland, Sweden, Greece, the US and the UK, among them Dr. Per Ahlberg, for their opinions on what he saw as human-like footprints that had somehow been made into a flat rock along the shore.

The 5.6 million-year-old footprints made in Trachilos, Crete 5.6 million years ago. Photo: The Conversation.
The team of experts came to the conclusion that indeed, the impressions had been made by ancient human ancestors 5.6 million years ago, making them by far the oldest footprints ever discovered in Europe.

h/t Marvin

by Sarcasticat•March 4, 2021March 4, 2021•0•Heresy, history, Science

Black history must become part of Ontario’s curriculum to help fight systemic racism in schools, advocates say

Natasha Henry, the head of the Ontario Black History Society, told CTV News Toronto that her organization has been trying to push the province for decades to have Black history part of learning mandated in Ontario.

“It’s an example of systemic anti-Black racism in the country,” Henry said. “There isn’t a level of recognition that’s consistent as it relates to the 400-year presence of Black people here in Canada.”

But Poppy Day bad!

by Sarcasticat•February 27, 2021February 26, 2021•0•history, History - distortion of, Ontario, Race Baiting Grievance Mongers, race/ethnicity

The Great Canadian Flag Debate

There have been many issues that have divided Canada in its history. There was the conscription crisis of 1917, or the referendums that threatened to break up Canada. Even things like Medicare caused furious debate across Canada.

One event that was hotly debated across Canada, loved by some, and hated by others at the time, was the debate over Canada’s flag. For most countries, a flag is created early in its history and there is little debate over its creation. In Canada, no national flag existed until almost 100 years after the formation of the country. Other flags had existed, de facto national flags, but nothing was official.

by Sarcasticat•February 14, 2021February 13, 2021•0•Canada, history

State school standards banish lessons about World War I, II, Holocaust, Civil War

Replacing those significant history topics will be “systemic racism,” how democracy has “excluded certain groups,” an “awareness” of “the LGBTQ+ community” and how the disenfranchisement of freed blacks during Reconstruction connects to “persistent discrimination and inequity” today.

h/t Mom

by Sarcasticat•January 17, 2021January 17, 2021•0•Cultural Marxism, Distorting history, Education, history, History - distortion of

Liberal Education Group Uses Capitol Riots to Push Reparations

The Zinn Education Project, a progressive network that develops teaching resources, sent an email to its 125,000 followers on Wednesday recommending a lesson plan in which students craft their own reparations legislation. The email says the activity will help students reflect on “what a path toward justice might look like” following the riots. It also compares the Capitol riots to the Civil War and claims that following the war, the United States cared more about “traitorous Confederates” than African Americans.

by Sarcasticat•January 16, 2021January 15, 2021•0•history, History - distortion of, Reparations, Revisionist History

Pentagon Begins The Process To Purge Confederate Names From Military Bases

The Pentagon is moving forward to satisfy a congressional directive in the 2021 defense policy bill that will result in the renaming of at least 10 Army bases and possibly two Navy ships that honor the Confederacy.

by Sarcasticat•January 12, 2021January 12, 2021•0•history, History - distortion of, military, Racism, Revisionist History

History: The Boston Massacre

The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. The conflict energized anti-British sentiment and paved the way for the American Revolution.

h/t Todd

by Sarcasticat•January 7, 2021January 7, 2021•0•history, USA

On This Day in 1924, Adolf Hitler Was Released From Prison

OTD in 1924, Adolf Hitler was released from prison, having served just 9 months of a 5-year sentence for leading a Nazi attempt to seize power by force. The @NYTimes reported that Hitler was “a much sadder and wiser man” and “no longer to be feared.” pic.twitter.com/vTj0vEXTLn
— Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) December 20, 2020

by Sarcasticat•December 20, 2020December 20, 2020•0•history, Hitler, New York Times

‘A Day That Will Live In Infamy’: Pearl Harbor Remembered In Silence 79 Years Later

What I did in 2019 to mark the 78th anniversary of Pearl Harbor would be absolutely unthinkable today in 2020.

I joined a group of veterans — several of whom were veterans of the Pacific Theater in World War II — along with a few of their family members and my own fifteen-year-old daughter. We attended a special screening of the film “Midway.”

I watched these men, who were in their mid-nineties, stand tall and salute the “Missing Man” table that was set up at the front of the theater.

by Sarcasticat•December 7, 2020December 7, 2020•0•history, Japan, USA, War