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| Source: ArtNet News (link below) |
Heskestad had an inkling the twisted gold ring was something unique. “It was really heavy, and shiny,” she told the newspaper Bergansavisen BA, “It looked very special.”...
But instead of bringing it straight to a dealer or auction house to cash in, she delivered it to the municipal cultural heritage department of Vestland County, in Western Norway. Karoline Hareide Breivik, the acting head of the department, confirmed in a statement that the ring dated to the late Iron Age or Viking Age. She noted that the find was extremely rare; it also marked the first time she was aware of a ring from the Scandinavian Viking Age having been found in an online auction....
Here is the link.
I wonder if they just threw the gold ring in the pile of costume jewelry because it was not marked gold. That can be an easy mistake to make.
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Here is a brown embossed Piso Vo. bottle found on the Treasure Coast.
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| Here is a Treasure Coast Bottle Find: Piso's Consumption Cure. Top photo embossing: TRADE PISO'S MARK. Bottom photo embossing: PISO CO. WARREN PA. U. S. A. |
Talbott’s original formula for Piso’s Cure included opium and possibly other morphine derivatives. But the immediate post-Civil War era brought a revulsion against those drugs as many returning veterans had developed addictions to them as a result of treatment for their wounds. Although Congress only later outlawed opium-derived ingredients in patent medicines, the Trio saw the ban coming and by 1872, according to company literature, eliminated opium and morphine from Piso’s ingredients. They later won a lawsuit on that score. The medicine still contained cannabis (marijuana), chloroform, and alcohol, but Piso’s label did not mention them.
Below is a trade card image advertising Piso's cure for consumption and catarrh.
Whether it was the effects of the Great Depression or the 1937 passage of the Marijuana Tax Act, effectively barring cannabis in medicine, Piso’s corporate life ended before World War II...
Here is a link with much more information on the Piso company and its medicines.
BandE_Pages_1-24.pmd (fohbc.org)
A lot of the early 20th century bottles are medicine bottles.
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A stately home's "ghost gardens" have become visible after the recent extreme heat.
Grass on parts of Longleat's baroque garden in Wiltshire has dried out to such an extent it has revealed historic features long buried in the landscape.
New overhead drone images of the imprints show what the grounds would have looked like in the 17th Century.
The parch marks have been described as an "invaluable window" into the site's history...
Longleat's 17th Century gardens revealed by heatwave - BBC News
Drought can provide opportunities for the alert detectorist. The above article describes one way that a drought can reveal clues to the past.
Drought can also drop water levels and provide easy access to previously submerged lands.
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I was reading the University of Louisville alumni magazine and saw an article on the brain waves of a dying person being observed and recorded. The fact was heralded in the magazine and many other places as being something really amazing. I was not impressed at all. Despite the way it was presented, in my opinion they learned next to nothing, other than perhaps that brain waves immediately befoire and after the time of death are somewhat similar to those of common states such as dreaming or meditation.
Who would expect all organs to shut down simultaneously? I wouldn't, and I don't find it all surprising that the brain continued a short time after the heartbeat and respiration ceased. They evidently did not use the concept of "brain death" which has been an important concept since at least1968. If death was determined by brain death, the person recorded wasn't yet dead. And if you used criteria such as respiration and heart rate to determine the time of death, why would you expect the brain to shut down at precisely the same moment as those other functions?
Furthermore, they tried to suggest that the brain waves observed during those last moments to the types of consciousness often reported as the result of near-death experiences, such as seeing loved ones or your life passing before your eyes, but I am very skeptical of any attempt to tie correlate brain waves or EEG patterns with the contents of consciousness being experienced by a living or dying human being. And they admitted this was a special case with the patient having neurological abnormalities. Also, don't forget that correlation does not mean causation. There are other possible relationships between brain activity and reported mental states.
So overall, I didn't find it surprising or informative that the brain did not shut down simultaneously with any other physiological measures used to define the state of death, AND, I find any hypothesized relationship between experienced consciousness and brain waves tenuous, at best. Bottom line the entire thing is much ado about nothing.
The common interpretation is that brain activity causes experiences of consciousness. That is not necessary, and in my opinion, there is a more empirical way to look at it.
I was hoping to learn something interesting from the article because I am very much interested in the topic, but found the article, which you will see mentioned all over the internet now, as very disappointing. Secondly, it illustrates the current state of journalism, which is poor. They can get away with that because people much of the population does not read critically. Perhaps there is just too much out there, but reading today, like much of modern discourse, is more about feelings than thinking, which allows journalism, as well as thought in general, to be imprecise and sloppy. Almost anything can be put over on a large segment of the population.
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The National Hurricane Center map shown below doesn't really show it, but the Atlantic is hearing up, but there is still no real threat of significant storms in the next few days. By the way, have you noticed how the TV weather now calls every little rain a storm. I guess it gets more attention.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov |
There is that one little system that could develop, but that is about it for now. Don't expect any big changes in the next couple of days.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net