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US actor-manager Harry Watkins (1825–1894) was no one special. He yearned for fame, but merely skirted the edges of it. If Watkins has any “historical significance” at all, it is because he left behind a voluminous diary in which he chronicled his experiences during the years leading up to the US Civil War. When the author discovered the manuscript in 2008, Watkins’s lackluster became the subject...
More than 40 years ago R. Schild reported the presence of obsidian and Vistulian lithics at Rydno XIII/1959 in central Poland, and speculated that the geological source for the obsidian lay in the Tokay region of Hungary. Non-destructive energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence analysis was conducted recently on the Rydno XIII obsidian artifacts, and the data generated support R. Schild, M. Marczak and...
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