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12,000-Year-Old Rock Paintings Found in Xinjiang, China 2011-04-29 12:04
Ancient colored rock paintings dating back 12,000 years have been found in a cave in the Altai area of China’s Xinjiang region. The paintings found are mainly handprints, spot images and figures. All of them are colored, mostly painted with red ocher. The cave belongs to the Duogate rock-painting area. The paintings have been designated as a cultural relic site under county-level protection. Seven large-scale rock painting groups have been found in the area. Most of these rock paintings feature cows, horse, sheep, camels and male and female dancers, which are closely related to nomads’ life in ancient times.
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by William D. Welge For nearly twenty years certain groups of Cherokees split off from the western band due to the ever increasing number of white settlers encroaching upon lands set aside for the tribe by the federal government. However, the government didn’t abide by it’s commitment to remove the white intruders as specified by treaty. Consequently, individuals such as The Bowl and Richard Fields gathered up several groups of like-minded tribal members and moved south of the Red River in to Spanish Texas. As early as 1807, a small party of Cherokees visited Texas with the prospect of possibly relocating there. (See: The Texas Cherokees: A People Between Two…
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Hitler Commits Suicide
On this day of April 30th in 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich. Since at least 1943, it was becoming increasingly clear that Germany would fold under the pressure of the Allied forces. In February of that year, the German 6th Army, lured deep into the Soviet Union, was annihilated at the Battle of Stalingrad, and German hopes for a sustained offensive on both fronts evaporated. Then, in June 1944, the Western Allied armies landed…
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