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first 10 mins sounded like razors in my ears, the sound was horrible, but soon enough they kicked off.. i broke a few ribs while jumping around maniacally. other people's of course. well it's not my fault they were standing still.
Built in 2009 at the site on the Neuse River where the CSS Neuse was fitted out from 1863 - 1864, the CSS Neuse II is a full-sized, fully fitted out replica. Interior compoartments and equipment are replicated as well as all external features. The Neuse II is the only 100% complete life-sized Civil War ironclad replica (the life-sized replica of USS Monitor in Newport News, Virginia, is an external model only with no internal compartments). Kinston, North Carolina (Nathanael Miller, 6 Feb. 2018)
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The CSS Alabama was the most successful commerce raider of all time.
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Ovi Chris Rouly, Ph.D. Candidate,Department of Computational Social Science, George Mason University. Chris’s talk entitled “At The Root Of Sociality: Working Towards Emergent, Permanent, Social Affines"
Abstract: Complexity science often uses generative models to study and explain the emergent behavior of humans, human culture, and human patterns of social organization. In spite of this, little is actually known about how the lowest levels of human social organization came into being. That is, little is actually known about how the earliest members of our hominini tribe transitioned from being presumably small-groups of ape-like polygynous/promiscuous individuals (beginning perhaps with Ardipithecus or Australopithecus after the time of the Pan-Homo split in the late Pliocene to early Pleistocene eras) into family units having stable breeding-bonds, extended families, and clans. What were the causal mechanisms (biological, possibly cognitive, social, and environmental, etc.) that were responsible for the conversion? To confound the issue, it is also possible the conversion process itself was a complex system replete with input sensitivities and path dependencies i.e., a nested complex system. One author has referred to similar processes and their distinctive social arrangements as, “the deep structure of society” (Chapais, 2010). This paper reviews ongoing research attempting to model-then-understand a few of the underlying social, environmental, and biological systems present at the root of human sociality.