Apocalypse, Described in Visions of Long Ago
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âFragments for the End of Time,â the program Benjamin Bagby brought to the Music Before 1800 series at Corpus Christi Church on Sunday, concerned itself with apocalyptic visions.
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Don DeLillo: It's uncanny now to look back at the dust jacket for Don DeLillo's novel, "Underworld," written four years before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. The Twin Towers rise up into the mist, with a church silhouetted in the foreground. A bird, now looking unmistakably like an airplane, seems to target the tower on the right.
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An ancient version of global warming may have been to blame for the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history.
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Starvation and cannibalism were part of life for a population of Neanderthals living 43,000 years ago.
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Haunting images of the tsunami's aftermath attracted both aid and criticism.
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CHICAGO, Dec 4 (Reuters Life!) - From the end of the world to New Testament beginnings. The authors of the controversial but best-selling apocalyptic "Left Behind" series have gone back in time.
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According to &quot;Resident Evil: Apocalypse,&quot; the future is dark. Very dark. In fact, the sun may only be a thing of memory, stored away in our collective mental closet along with green fields, clean air and polite neighbors.
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I forget where I heard this, but there&#39;s an old parable about an angel and a demon (or, maybe it&#39;s God and the Devil) walking down a street, not far from each other.
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Archaeologists said Wednesday they had found evidence that humans lived in North America at least 50,000 years ago, far earlier than has been thought.
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A deluge has created the conditions for an extended famine and taken the areaÂs woes to a whole new level.
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Joel Barker wrote an interesting book entitled, "Paradigms:The Business of Discovering the Future". Originally written several years ago, I find it relevant today. In his book Barker has more of an interest in how we think about the future than making predictions. read more
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For centuries, it has been one of humanity's most graphic, gruesome ways to end a life: sever the head, home to thoughts, dreams and that most personal of features &#151; the face. Decapitation by hand, with sword or knife, smacks of ugly yesterdays &#151; things the West prefers to think it has left behind.
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Evidence is emerging from Africa that colours were being used in a symbolic way perhaps 200,000 years ago, a UK scientist claims.
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New, detailed photographs show evidence of subterranean streams of liquid that once flowed long enough that they could have sustained simple forms of life, researchers say.
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Lucifer knows, he's miserable now In a new book published this week, author Philip Pullman looked back with nostalgia at post-war austerity - and advocated the state cutting off your power as soon as you exceed your Carbon Ration. He also expressed his hope that Polar Bears would kill and eat lots of humans.â¦
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Scientists have discovered a "microworld" of life trapped in tiny drops of Italian amber. The ancient germs lived over 200 million years ago, when the first dinosaurs appeared.
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Where some see stasis, those of us of a certain age tend to see slow-swinging pendulums. Where some perceive exciting ideas as brand new, others perceive in them shades of the past.