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September 14, 2017
BREAKING: Signs that say "I AM A RACIST PIG" selling like hotcakes!!!!!
Here's a picture of one:
September 11, 2017
http://nypost.com/2017/09/08/viking-skeletons-dna-test-proves-historians-wrong/
Viking skeletons DNA test proves historians wrong
This upends a misogynistic view of ancient history:
Viking skeletons DNA test proves historians wrong
The remains of a powerful Viking long thought to be a man was in fact a real-life Xena Warrior Princess, a study released Friday reveals.
The lady war boss was buried in the mid-10th century along with deadly weapons and two horses, leading archaeologists and historians to assume she was a man, according to the findings published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Wrong.
Its actually a woman, somewhere over the age of 30 and fairly tall, too, measuring around [5 feet 6 inches] tall, archaeologist Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson of Uppsala University, who conducted the study, told The Local.
And she was likely in charge.
....
The remains of a powerful Viking long thought to be a man was in fact a real-life Xena Warrior Princess, a study released Friday reveals.
The lady war boss was buried in the mid-10th century along with deadly weapons and two horses, leading archaeologists and historians to assume she was a man, according to the findings published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Wrong.
Its actually a woman, somewhere over the age of 30 and fairly tall, too, measuring around [5 feet 6 inches] tall, archaeologist Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson of Uppsala University, who conducted the study, told The Local.
And she was likely in charge.
....
http://nypost.com/2017/09/08/viking-skeletons-dna-test-proves-historians-wrong/
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