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Comic-Con 2008, Friday, July 25: Panelists include cast members David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Michaela Conlin, Tamara Taylor, John Francis Daley and creators Hart Hanson and Barry Josephson.
Sam Bones dressed up and lit up for Halloween.
8:12 PM CDT, October 31, 2022
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama.
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This is one of the smallest bone models in the Museum's collection. Unlike the bigger models, whose hulls are normally made of wood covered with strips of bone, here the hull was fashioned entirely from a single piece of bone.
July 1, 2010 - the Valencia Student Nursing Association (VNSA) on West Campus held a bone marrow registry drive.
These caves have been used by animals and humans since the ice ages. Bones of polar bears, arctic foxes and bears have been found here.
The Pattullo Bridge is a compression arch suspended-deck bridge located in the Greater Vancouver Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. Constructed in 1936-37, it spans the Fraser River and links the city of New Westminster on the north bank of the river to the city of Surrey on the south bank. The Bridge's base is constructed of wood. The bridge forms part of Highways 1A and 99A.
The Pattullo Bridge, which is 1,221 meters (4,006 ft) in total length, consists of four lanes (two in each direction) with no barrier of any sort in the centre, making it highly prone to head-on collisions, especially at excessive speed or bad weather. The province and TransLink have since closed the middle lanes to traffic from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. in an effort to lower the high number of fatal head-on collisions that occur, and installed a series of plastic pillars to raise visibility of the centre lane divider. On January 2, 2006, four people were killed in a T-bone collision between two cars on the southern approach lane.
In response to the high number of crashes that take place on the bridge, TransLink is studying the idea of reducing the number of lanes on the bridge from four to three utilizing a counterflow operation. This arrangement is similar to what is being used on the Lions Gate Bridge with the number of lanes being varied depending on traffic flow and volume. A second key and more controversial proposal, is to install photo radar on the bridge to enforce the existing speed limit. Thus far, the provincial government have ruled out the idea of photo radar being brought back.[1]
On July 31, 2008 TransLink decided to replace the Pattullo Bridge rather than try to repair the aging, narrow-laned structure, and told staff to start planning for it as a toll bridge. [2]
Its appearance of dark orange colour and arch shape highly resembles the Port Mann Bridge, located just a few kilometres upstream. The bridge was named for Thomas Dufferin Pattullo, former premier of British Columbia
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Bones recovered from a construction site from about 1850's. A presbyterian Church and cemetary was at this location.
Partial skull (center), femur (Just below skull) and a few rib bones can be seen. 2 complete skeletons and a baby were found.
Banwell Bone Cave - bones about 70000 years old, bison, reindeer, bear, all sorts of things. Most of the best bones are now in Taunton museum.
A splash of paint across a drain caught my eye as the image of a creeping reptile. Perhaps one of the alligators that live in the sewers.
powell peralta - RAT BONES!!!!
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The Bone Caves are a series of natural caves set into a high limestone cliff called Creag nan Uamh (Crag of the Caves). The caves are named for the large numbers of animal bones found during excavations.
There are four main cave openings in the cliffs, formed before the last ice age by water dissolving limestone in cracks in the surrounding rock. Subsequent glacial action and erosion of the glen by water left the caves hundreds of feet above the valley floor.
There is no indication that the caves were ever used as human habitat, but two separate human burials have been discovered within the caves.
In total, over 1000 pieces of reindeer antler have been found in the Bone Caves, with dates ranging from 47,000 to 8,300 years ago.
One rare find was the skull of a Northern lynx, dated to 1,770 years ago. This is the only Northern lynx ever found in Scotland. Other intriguing remains include a possible polar bear, arctic fox, wolf, and brown bear.
Finds from the caves are kept at the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. (Above Information Off Google)
One last image of St Leonard's to leave you with afore I go.
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St Leonard’s Church has the largest and best-preserved collection of ancient human bones and skulls in Britain. The collection consists of shelves in four arched bays that contain 1,022 skulls in total, and a single stack of bones and skulls measuring 7.5m in length, 1.8m in width and just over 1.8m in height. We know that the stack of bones was reassembled on its brick base in 1910.
It was estimated by past historians that the collection represents the remains of some 4,000 people. It is impossible to estimate the number of bones in the stack, but recent work on the skulls has estimated the likely maximum number as 1,200 and the total of individuals represented as 2,000. Even at this level the collection is still unique in this country.
The earliest references to the collection are 1678 by Samuel Jeake, then Town Clerk of Rye, and 1679 by Rev Brome, Chaplain to the Cinque Ports, both of whom described ‘an orderly pile of dead men’s bones’ in the ‘charnel house’ on the north side of the church. The earliest known drawings are dated 1787 depicting piles of skulls and bones inside the south door, and 1820 showing the south-west bay and stack similar to its present appearance. Postcards in the early 1900s with photographs of the crypt show the layout much the same as it is today.
There have been many theories over the years as to who the people were and how they came to be resting in the crypt. The 1787 drawing, mentioned above, stated in a footnote that the bones were supposed to be those of ‘Danish pirates slain in a battle’ whilst a handwritten footnote on an 1860s illustration referred to them as ‘men who fell in the Battle of Hastings (1066)’. Another argument said they were Anglo-Saxons killed in battle. It was also thought that the people were victims of the Black Death, but such bodies were usually hastily disposed of in quicklime.
There is no firm evidence to support these theories. Moreover a project from 2009 to 2012 to analyse all the skulls on the shelves has shown that there is a higher proportion of females than males, and nearly 10% of sub-adults (juveniles), whilst only a handful of skulls indicate wounds from blows to the head.
The general consensus now is that they were Hythe residents who died over a long period and had been buried in the churchyard (evidenced by the deposits of soil within the skulls), and that the earliest of the remains were dug up in the 13th century when the church was extended eastwards over their graves by the addition of the large chancel. It is also suggested that the collection includes bones from four other graveyards in the Hythe area that are said to have fallen out of use and closed by 1500.
No accurate evidence for the date of death of the people has been determined, and estimates range from 12th to 15th centuries, though more likely to be 13th century if it coincides with the building of the chancel. This can only be answered definitively by dating some of the bones using modern carbon dating techniques, but this project would require significant funding.
Origins of the people
It will also be useful to try and determine the origin of the people. A study in 1908 to determine the cephalic index – the ratio of maximum breadth of a skull to its maximum length – to indicate race concluded that a significant number were descendants of people originally from Italy, which could indicate a link with Romans, in view of the Roman port at Lympne (Portus Lemanis) or of visiting traders connected with Hythe’s importance as a medieval trading port.
A group of osteologists started an exercise in 2009 to measure the dimensions of the skulls (through the technique of craniometry) to identify, through a worldwide database, the origin of a small number of the skulls. The initial findings indicate the people are local to Kent.
A collection such as this provides interesting knowledge about the lifestyle of the people concerned through detailed analysis.
A very small number of skulls reveal injury through sharp blows. One in the south-west bay with a hole right through it (see photograph in this section), which for many years was thought to be a result of trepanning – surgical drilling through the skull – has now been analysed as caused by a sharp object, such as a dagger, because of the radiating fractures inside the skull.
Another skull in the south-west bay shows a severe dent caused by a blunt object such as a stone, whilst a skull in the north-east bay indicates injury from a slicing blow by a sword or similar weapon at the back of the head, which was not immediately fatal and healed over time.
A number of bones indicate breakages during the individual’s lifetime and partial healing, whilst others have evidence of arthritis or bone diseases.
One significant feature of the skulls is the proportion showing evidence of cribra orbitalia, signified by the pin-prick holes in the bone surface around the eye sockets. 22% of the skulls appear to be affected by this, much higher than the 10% recorded for English medieval sites. Cribra orbitalia was a symptom of chronic iron deficiency anaemia related to poor diet or infection, although one theory is that it is an indicator of malaria, which occurred in marshy or swampy areas. Another skull, in the south-east bay, has enlarged eye sockets which would show up as bulging eyes known as Graves’ Disease, caused by an over-active thyroid gland.
The general standard of teeth was good, but many of the back molars were worn down through constantly eating rough food. A small
number indicated abscesses whilst about 10% showed pre-death loss of at least one tooth, which points to lack of dental care/treatment. However, holes in teeth, which today would involve fillings, were non-existent, pointing to a sugar-free diet.
A number of studies have taken place since 2008 – by staff and post graduate students of Bournemouth University, by an individual degree student, and by St Leonard’s Osteological Research Group (StLORG), an independent group of forensic scientists and osteologists working in the crypt for two weeks each year.
These studies have resulted in new information being provided about a small number of skulls and bones that have distinctive pathological features. Details of these can be found in a folder in the crypt.
StLORG members have completed a three-year project to catalogue and profile all 1,022 skulls in the four bays of shelves, for which we are indebted to them for this valuable work. Information provided from this exercise includes more accurate determination of the sex and age at death of each person, and the identification of distinctive features in the shape and size of particular skulls and of evidence of disease or injury. Information from the studies will help us to follow up future research and analytical projects. StLORG’s poster presentation for a national osteological conference in 2011, which summarised their work and initial findings at that time, is on display in the crypt.
These studies, using the latest forensic analysis and measurement techniques, are overturning some long-held arguments as to the causes of death of particular individuals, through evidence from their skulls or bones. They are also dispelling previous evidence of sex and age of some skulls, including a number in the south-east bay which show male/female symbols in ink from a study over 50 years ago but which now appear to be incorrect sex determination.
Identifying juveniles
These latest analytical techniques have helped to identify a larger number of juveniles in the collection than was previously recognised. The age of young people is primarily identified through the eruption and development of teeth. Two very small skulls in the south-west bay, which were argued for many years as being those of dwarfs, have been confirmed by a forensic odontologist (teeth expert) as being children with ages of four and six-seven years respectively, based on their teeth development.
Care and Conservation
All these studies and activities are undertaken with care and respect for the skulls and bones and follow Church of England and English Heritage guidelines for handling human remains. Gloves are worn when handling any skull or bone in the collection. ‘Do not touch’ signs displayed explain the potential harm that hands touching skulls or bones can do through transfer of sweat or grease.
We are now looking at how best we can preserve the collection for the future based on current conservation and practice, for which our small charge for visitors will help in funding practical work.
Future study
We are discussing with other universities possible areas of research or study, whilst some members of StLORG are continuing with follow-up activities.
Our main aims are to try and ascertain more definitively the origin of the people from analysis of a larger sample of skulls, and to seek a more accurate date of death or timeline of the people. The dating may be assessed from identifying in these bones and skulls diseases that were known to exist in medieval populations.
While walking the dogs last night I found these tiny bones (mixed with partially digested fur?) on the sidewalk near my house. I think it came from an owl's stomach.
large bone on glacial moraine,
on moraine, AK
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Ken Bone at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
I am wet to the bone, enough for today! 6000 LED are a good start, another 7000 will follow until Christmas...
In every animal population, strategies have developed to help ensure the strongest individuals get the greatest opportunity to mate. While antler size has no bearing on the age of the individual, it IS a great indicator of the health of the animal. Antlers are renewed each year meaning the stags need to find a large source of calcium to supply the antler growth. With a diet of green vegetation, one might wonder where this secret source of calcium originates. The simple answer - from their own bones (primarily their rib cage). Since only the healthiest males will be able to afford such a large diversion of resources, an impressive set of antlers is also an impressive pedigree for parenthood.