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Veterans Day: Only 19 WWII veterans still living in Allegany County

Olean Times Herald 11 Nov 2023
With Veteran’s Day at hand, there are few left in Allegany County with firsthand knowledge of the start of World War II in 1939 — and very few left who fought after the United States entered the war in December 1941 ... Luckey served in the U.S ... From any level of society. As young as 15 or as old as 72 serving anywhere from Greenland to New Guinea ... .
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Glacial rock flour creates new opportunities for Greenlandic agriculture

Phys Dot Org 18 Oct 2023
New research indicates that the use of glacial rock flour could enhance water absorption in cultivated fields in Greenland ... The study is published in the Soil Science Society of America Journal ... Weber et al, Glacial rock flour reduces the hydrophobicity of Greenlandic cultivated soils, Soil Science Society of America Journal (2022).
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Exploring Native American influence on founding mothers: a fascinating podcast discussion

The Cincinnati Herald 09 Oct 2023
Native women, on the other hand, were fully equal in their society and played an integral role in political affairs and in keeping harmony with nature ... The societies that emerged from these populations date back over 10,000 years and they represent a wide scope of social organizations from tribal groups to city states to empires.
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‘Kalak’: San Sebastian Review

Screen Daily 28 Sep 2023
Even so, as Jan and family move from Nuuk to a more rugged and remote settlement in the east, he strives to become a  – a term translated here as ‘dirty Greenlander’, seemingly both insult and compliment, but apparently implying the possibility of Jan’s total integration into the society he has chosen to escape to. .
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Collapse 2.0

Consortium News 21 Aug 2023
Bear in mind that, for their time and place, the societies Diamond studied supported large, sophisticated populations ... Mayan civilization is believed to have supported a population of more than 10 million people at its peak between 250 and 900 A.D., while the Norse Greenlanders established a distinctively European society around 1000 A.D.
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Is Industrial Society on the Verge of Collapse?

Democratic Underground 20 Aug 2023
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, geographer Jared Diamond focused on past civilizations that confronted severe climate shocks, either adapting and surviving or failing to adapt and disintegrating ... 250 and 900, while the Norse Greenlanders established a distinctively European society around A.D.
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Michael Klare: Collapse 2.0

Scheerpost 18 Aug 2023
Bear in mind that, for their time and place, the societies Diamond studied supported large, sophisticated populations ... Mayan civilization is believed to have supported a population of more than 10 million people at its peak between 250 and 900 A.D., while the Norse Greenlanders established a distinctively European society around 1000 A.D.
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NSFW Video Shows Greenland Shark's Heart Beating Outside Its Body

IFL Science 11 Aug 2023
A video posted to Twitter shows the massive heart of a Greenland shark beating – outside the animal’s body ... You can watch researchers with The Physiological Society release a Greenland shark carrying a pop-up satellite archival tag (PSAT), which helps scientists to track the shark's movements and learn from its migratory habits, below.
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Huge tipping events have dominated the evolution of the climate system

Phys Dot Org 09 Aug 2023
... reports of evidence of melting under the impact of the current climate warming, translating a trend towards a potential tipping point that could accelerate the disappearance at least of Greenland and West Antarctica, with serious repercussions for our societies" says Rousseau.
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The Inner Circle Acknowledges, Sonya Reese Greenland as a Top Pinnacle Professional for her contributions ...

Victoria Advocate 18 Jul 2023
LOS ANGELES, July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Prominently featured in The Inner Circle, SonyaReese Greenland is acknowledged as a Top Pinnacle Professional for her contributions to the fields of Genealogy and Education.���� ... Greenland pursued higher education at Los Angeles Junior College where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Sociology.
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NASA scientist, 37, lifts the lid on the WILDEST experiences she's had while traveling to ...

The Daily Mail 27 May 2023
Some of her more terrifying travel encounters include spotting polar bear prints in Greenland and falling into a glacial river in Nepal which 'took my breath away.' ... 'Through this jolting experience I learned first-hand about the hunting society in northern Greenland; how life operates here above the Arctic Circle.
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CryoSat reveals ice loss from glaciers

Phys Dot Org 27 Apr 2023
While Greenland and Antarctica are losing masses of ice, so too are most of the glaciers around the world, but it's tricky to measure how much ice they are shedding ... In addition, ice being lost from glaciers is contributing more to sea-level rise than the ice being lost from either of the giant ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica.
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The P-38F Lightning ‘Glacier Girl’ Was Buried Beneath The Ice For 50 Years

War History Online 25 Apr 2023
Unlike other aircraft, it was eventually recovered from where it fell 50 years prior, having been trapped in a vast sheet of ice in Greenland, earning it the nickname Glacier Girl ... It wasn’t until 1981 that the Greenland Expedition Society, founded by Pat Epps and Richard Taylor, decided to try and find the aircraft.
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More Evidence Shows Vikings Were In America Long Before Columbus

IFL Science 19 Apr 2023
Microscopic analysis of wood suggests that Norse people in Greenland were using timber that came from North America over 700 years ago ... Historical records have long suggested that medieval Norse Greenlandic society (985–1450 CE) imported timber from the Americas, but this is some of the first scientific evidence to back up the claim.
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How cascading crises may have chased Viking settlers from North America

The Hill 18 Apr 2023
Rising seas and increased flooding may have helped chase Viking colonists out of Greenland, a new study has found ... The study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science adds additional color to a stark — and strikingly modern — story of a society struggling for generations to adapt in the face of complex environmental change.

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