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• Would You Eat Cloned Food?
  consumers are likely going to be very slow to embrace cloning, which will probably further slow any changes in the dairy and meat industry in the US. So, right now, dont worry about whether the hamburger youre buying is from a cloned steer, because its not.
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• Fall Aspens, Owl Creek Pass, Colorado
  The drive offers spectacular views of Courthouse Mountain and Chimney Rock. Owl Creek Pass road gives access to trailheads into the Uncompaghre Wilderness and dispersed camping. Most of the drive is on an unpaved road.
• Wendy Vo,child prodigy -see the video
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• Free Beach Desktop Wallpapers
  Beautiful Ocean scenes to chase away the winter blahs.
• Micronesia Facts and Photos
  These beautiful tropical islands are situated 5,150 km west-southwest of Honolulu in the North Pacific Ocean, and about three-quarters of the way between Hawaii and Indonesia.

• Bizarre Deep Sea Creatures-Ocean Paradise
  The sea contains untold numbers of strange and bizarre creatures. It is said that we know more about our own solar system than we know about our oceans.Indeed, some creatures of the sea can seem more alien than anything you can imagine.But even worse, some of them can seem more frightening than your worst nightmare.
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• Britney Spears Teaches Kids Dance Class-not acting strange
  "She wasnt acting strange last night, and really, we have never seen her act strange," he said. "All the speculation out there that she has a mental illness ... thats never been an issue. Weve never seen or experienced any of that."
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Intern Kevin McCall (Stevenson University) worked today on the flakes that we recovered this spring from the North Field. Hed sort the flakes into decortication, primary, secondary, tertiary, and shatter (representing different stages of reducing a pebble into a stone tool) and Id check his identifications. Here are the results.

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While we were collecting the plowed fields south of town, I noticed what appeared to be different lithic choices between the aboriginal peoples who occupied the Middle Field site and those who lived on sites in the other fields. Specifically, I noticed that many of the flakes and stone tools that we collected in the South Field were quartzites (metamorphosed quartz) of a pinkish or yellowish brown hue, while virtually all of the flakes recovered from the Middle Field (see map below) were... - [Read more]

April found the following quotation last year pertaining to an Episcopal Church and cemetery at Port Tobacco and put it on the Port Tobacco page of our website: www.gibbarchaeology.org:


"Port Tobacco contains about eighty houses; most of which are of wood, and very poor. There is a large English episcopalian church on the border of the town, built of stone, which formerly was an ornament to the place, but is now entirely out of... - [Read more]

In digging our shovel test pits along the northern part of the Compton field, we were pretty sure that we had at least one 18th-century site, possibly pre-dating the American Revolution. This period is of particular interest for a variety of reasons, not least of which is Jean Lees book, The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County (W. W. Norton, 1994). Dr. Lees book, necessarily, has much to say about Port Tobacco. After all, it was the county seat and, as... - [Read more]

Yesterday I wrote about Washington Burch, a long-time resident of Port Tobacco, county jailer, and one of a group of trustees who acquired land for an African American school.

While examining the land records, specifically the deed for the school lot, I was struck by the early date: December 11, 1868. It is an early date because the modern school system in Maryland began in 1865 with enabling legislation enacted after adoption of the new state constitution. A state superintendent... - [Read more]

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Due to an unstable Internet connection, Ive been out of the loop for several days. That does not mean, however, that work has stopped or even slowed. Here are a few updates.

We will hold laboratory sessions at Port Tobacco on Wednesday, July 9 and Saturday, July 12. These will be in the shade in front of the courthouse (inside if it is raining or oppressively hot) between 9:30AM and 3PM. We hope folks down in the Charles County area will be able to join us.

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Our Planet is home to a host of beautiful and bizarre creatures lurking in the colorful world beneath the sea and on the shores. Take a peek and see some of them! Free Desktop wallpapers, Marine mammals,... - [Read more]

In 1727, the General Assembly of Maryland passed an act for the purchase of land and construction of a courthouse and prison on the east side of the Port Tobacco Creek in what was called Chandlers Town. I have transcribed the local proceedings that detail what happened and when and offer the significant portions below. Ive made only a few changes, modernizing spellings to make the text more intelligible. At the end of the selection I have listed a few pieces of information that I find... - [Read more]

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Tom, responding to yesterdays posting, asked about the sources that I use in identifying projectile points. Im happy to answer that question, but first I want to reiterate that classifying projectile points in Maryland is very difficult because many of the point types have been identified elsewhere in the Eastern United States. Brewerton points, for example, were first described by the late William Ritchie in upstate New York and archaeologists and collectors have identified them from Maine... - [Read more]