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shaun smillie

@shsmillie

Independent Journalist with a love for bones, fossils, and other things dug up. Fisherman and occasional beer maker.

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Scarred for Life (@scarredforlife2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Your regular reminder that British public information films were like brutal horror films condensed into 30 second chunks, and shown during primetime (and children's) TV shows.

Paul Salopek (@paulsalopek) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Leaving Ethiopia in 2013, I’d been walking towards #Tianyuan Cave near #Beijing, #China, for 10 years. Fossils of the early humans I’m following on Out of Eden Walk are very rare: Scientists have found the bones of a young man who crawled into Tianyuan to die 40,000 years ago.

Morbid Knowledge (@morbidful) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In the 1980's a family owned and operated a ceramics factory in California called Oscar Ceramics. In 1987, the firm was uncovered as an illegal crematorium when a passerby, who happened to be a Holocaust survivor, recognized the smell of burning bodies from his time at Auschwitz

In the 1980's a family owned and operated a ceramics factory in California called Oscar Ceramics. In 1987, the firm was uncovered as an illegal crematorium when a passerby, who happened to be a Holocaust survivor, recognized the smell of burning bodies from his time at Auschwitz
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Comment: So, in Joburg, the area the President lives in hasn’t had water for days. Multi-day power cuts are a norm. Coalition government is not working well here - it has completely severed the link between ‘government’ and governed.

Irish History Bitesize! (@lorraineelizab6) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#Otd 1967: Michael J. O'Kelly, an archaeologist, discovered that the inner chamber at #Newgrange, a prehistoric passage tomb in Co. #Meath, flooded with light during the winter solstice. Newgrange, is over 5,000 years old, so predates the pyramids by 500 years!

#Otd 1967: Michael J. O'Kelly, an archaeologist, discovered that the inner chamber at #Newgrange, a prehistoric passage tomb in Co. #Meath, flooded with light during the winter solstice. Newgrange, is over 5,000 years old, so predates the pyramids by 500 years!
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Editor Rob Rose explains this week's cover story and other insights to look out for in the latest edition of the Financial Mail. Find it in stores and online now! 📖Read it here: shorturl.at/pEH03

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For years South Africa’s ports have been labouring under capacity shortages, underinvestment and poor equipment maintenance. It’s costing the economy billions. businesslive.co.za/fm/features/co…

Zenzele (@zenzele) 's Twitter Profile Photo

UMkhonto Wesizwe. Location Uganda. Year: 1989. Toyitoyi has its roots in the military camps of Algeria where ZPRAs trained in the early '60s ( by then it was known as the Special Affairs Department).ZPRA then moved with it to the training camps in Tanzania and Zambia. Former

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PUB SHOOTING: Highgate Massacre — NPA to hold inquest 31 years later, families hopeful but under ‘no illusions’ dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0…

Keith Levenstein (@keithlevenstein) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's sad that Frank Duckworth has died. He was the inventor of the Duckworth-Lewis cricket system. His funeral will be held tomorrow at 2pm. If it rains, the funeral will be at 3pm and the number of mourners will be limited to 213. If it's still raining then 199 at 4:35pm.

Stolen Valor (@stolenvalor1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I think I know why the U.S. won’t allow import of the Hilux. Because some of you would be turning them into Technicals! 😂😂

I think I know why the U.S. won’t allow import of the Hilux. Because some of you would be turning them into Technicals! 😂😂
Anthony Scaramucci (@scaramucci) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I just want to personally thank JD Vance for knocking me out of the position of the worst Donald Trump hire. I didn’t think it would happen but here we are and I am grateful. 🙏

FinancialMail (@financialmail) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The walking dead has nothing to do with vampires or zombies; it is a nickname used in the insurance industry for people who fake their deaths or unknowingly have been killed off by fraudsters. businesslive.co.za/fm/features/20…