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Strata - September 2016
Tehran 2015; Temple of the Giants
ALI Director Rick Pettigrew attended the 2015 edition of the Cinema Verite Iran International Documentary Film Festival at the organizers’ invitation. The affluent Greek city of Akragas in Sicily; an ambitious tyrant; an incredible victory over the most dreaded enemy; a temple of colossal proportions...
Dive Into History: The Shipwrecks of Biscayne National Park - Episode V, 19th Century Wooden Sailing Vessel
Divers and snorkelers can tour six shipwrecks on the Maritime Heritage Trail in Biscayne National Park. One is an unnamed 19th Century wooden sailing vessel, commonly called the “Schooner Wreck.”…
Tauste
In the Spanish town of Tauste, excavators uncovered a large Moorish cemetery dating from the 8th to the 11th Century. Twenty-two university students with different specialties and from different places of Spain worked in Tauste for one month…
Dive Into History: The Shipwrecks of Biscayne National Park - Episode IV, S.S. Lugano
Divers and snorkelers can tour six shipwrecks on the Maritime Heritage Trail in Biscayne National Park. The British steamer Lugano ran aground in a storm in 1913. Lugano was passing through the waters of Biscayne National Park…
Strata - August 2016
Reading Herculaneum scrolls; historic British Columbia and Nevada miner
About 2000 years ago, Mt. Vesuvius in southern Italy exploded, carbonizing a private library in Herculaneum. The papyrus scrolls are extremely fragile and many have been damaged. William Culverville, a British miner in the Cariboo mining district of British Columbia, skedaddled (i.e., escaped debts) to Nevada. While driving a stagecoach...
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