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“The original silphion was said to have appeared suddenly, after a great
downpour. Miski observed that, when rains came to Cappadocia in April, Ferula
drudeana would spring from the ground, growing up to six feet in just over a
month.”
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“Searle looked at two other locations much further to the south: the Azores and
Madeira — and in both places they found mice there carried the same genetic
signature as that carried by the Viking mouse. Crucially, they found very few
mice that carried genetic signatures like those found in mouse populations in
Portugal, whose mariners were also reckoned to be the first to settle on these
islands.”
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“Not a single century passed in which this spot was not being used and
transformed, and every transformation is still here. And all that time, from
the first sacred spring, to the Mithraism, to today’s Irish Dominicans, this
spot has been sacred.”
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“The sharp turns and the difference in floor levels at the junction prove
conclusively that the tunnel was excavated from both ends. At the junction
itself, the floor level drops 60 centimeters from north to south, a
discrepancy of less than one-eighth of a percent of the distance excavated.”
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“Translated, the inscription reads, ‘May this tusk root out the lice of the hair
and the beard.’ … This purpose was confirmed when the authors searched for
evidence of head lice on the comb under a microscope and found some remains on
the second tooth, still in the nymph stage of development.”
(See also the discussion at Language
Hat.)