Ephraimite Forum-79
Date: 14 September /08 14 Elul 5768
Contents:
1. Denmark: Happiest nation in the World?
2. 10 Happiest and 10 Least Happiest Nations?
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.21

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1. Denmark: Happiest nation in the World?
There's Something About Denmark
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/
content/aug2008/gb20080820_005351.htm
Extract:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Denmark is the world's most content nation, according to a new study on global wellbeing, but the good news is, despite the credit crunch and rising fuel and food prices, all of us are getting happier.
 
Denmark's prosperity and democratic systems are seen as key to its contentment.
 
Researchers at the University of Michigan said Denmark's prosperity, stability and democratic government placed the country at the top of the rankings, with Colombia, Canada, Puerto Rico and Iceland all in the top 10.

The United States -- the world's richest nation -- ranked 16th among 97 countries, while Britain was placed 21st.

Zimbabwe, with its soaring inflation and continuing political crisis, unsurprisingly ranked 97th.

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2. 10 Happiest and 10 Least Happiest Nations?
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/07/02/nations.happiness/index.html
TOP 10 HAPPIEST COUNTRIES
University of Michigan List (2008)
Denmark , Puerto Rico, Colombia, Iceland, N. Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, Austria

10 MOST MISERABLE COUNTRIES
Zimbabwe, Armenia, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Albania, Iraq, Bulgaria, Georgia, Russia
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/
10/03/science/20051004_HAPP_GRAPHIC.html

Another List from
Professor Ruut Veenhoven who runs the World Database of Happiness at Erasmus University Rotterdam
gives slightly different results:
Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Iceland, Finland, Australia, Sweden, Canada, Guatemala, Luxembourg

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3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.21
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 11.21 September 14, 2008
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Jordan is launching a database on ancient sites:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/10/content_9900380.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/arts/12arts-ANTIQUITIESD_BRF.html?ref=arts

Digging Ramat Rachel:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3593003,00.html

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Another Boudicca battle-site candidate:

http://www.therugbyobserver.co.uk/news55035.html

A 2500 b.p. marble sarcophagus from Cyprus:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20080912-1105-cyprus-ancientcoffins.html
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=41363&cat_id=1
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gvNkR_rtIP9zROKV78HIW-5vYHEg

The BBC is working on a documentary on Cleopatra's 'darker side':

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iydCiJrG3tjNXNlatx97ZMytDj6g
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2008/
09/bbc_backs_cleopatra_doc.html

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Stonehenge "partiers" came a great distance:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080912-stonehenge.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/11/stonehenge.neolithic

Saxon burials from Lakenheath:

http://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/mildenhall/Saxon-graves-found-in-Lakenheath.4482205.jp

... and another, possibly more interesting, Saxon burial from
Ramsgate:

http://tinyurl.com/679vcw (Telegraph)

A half dozen Viking burials from Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/14284/20080912/

... and a Bronze Age site therefrom too:

http://www.thelocal.se/14050/20080901/

The 'fake stone of Scone' thing is back in the news:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Is-the-Stone-of-Destiny.4465373.jp

More coverage of what's coming out of that melting Swiss glacier:

http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/
science/story.html?id=7f68a65d-f37f-43a8-bb2e-53d000e12ad1

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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More on that 'ritual execution' find from Australia (first reported
on a few months ago):

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24316604-5006787,00.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A talk on the history of alcohol:

http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_10445041?source=most_emailed

Figs may have been the first cultivated crops:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5446137

Interesting feature on Macchiavelli:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/
2008/09/15/080915crat_atlarge_pierpont
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Troy:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/travel/troy2webonly.html

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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Serious Drinking:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26029

Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/
ALeqM5h-oPZZfpEVS3Fgk-9Z7ngJTcrYnA

Babylon:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/
2008/sep/13/heritage.exhibition


Plans for a major Jewish museum in Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1019627
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127560

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