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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsArtifacts Discovered Buried In Washington D.C. Suggest Humans Once Passed Laws There
WASHINGTONIn a significant discovery that sheds new light on the regions history, archaeologists excavating a site on Capitol Hill reportedly unearthed evidence this week suggesting that humans once passed laws there.
The team of researchers from the University of Maryland confirmed that it collected a wealth of writing implements and ancient documents, which appeared to indicate that, in earlier ages, approximately 500 humans assembled at a centralized location and worked as a group, with the apparent goal of creating a system of rules designed to govern behavior.
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Our team has carefully cataloged and studied all of the artifacts that were excavated, but we are still unable to explain why the social structure fell out of favor and disappeared from the area, archaeologist Jennifer Bloch said. Perhaps the tragic decline of this once-common human activity was the result of a major conflict, a radical generational shift, general malaise, or a conquering band that invaded the region and displaced the practitioners of this curious and remarkable lawmaking culture.
All we can say for certain is that this ancient practice appears to have been lost to the ages, Bloch added.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/artifacts-discovered-buried-in-washington-dc-sugge,36963/
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Artifacts Discovered Buried In Washington D.C. Suggest Humans Once Passed Laws There (Original Post)
PeoViejo
Sep 2014
OP
Lots of hot air about, spontaneously reverses and accelerates the process.
littlemissmartypants
Sep 2014
#7
It was but they turned them all around so they blow the other way, please try to keep up. n/t
A Simple Game
Sep 2014
#13
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)1. Damn that Onion!!
Gets me (almost) every time!!
Adam051188
(711 posts)2. no way
I don't believe this, sounds like crazy talk to me.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)3. Are the artifacts going to be placed in the Smithsonian?
I'm thinking in years from now folks might be interest in the fall of Congress.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)4. ....
littlemissmartypants
(22,747 posts)5. At high revolutions the world sometimes scrambles. eom
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)6. I thought the World was slowing down
..due to all those Wind Farms and such.
littlemissmartypants
(22,747 posts)7. Lots of hot air about, spontaneously reverses and accelerates the process.
That's why we have "spin doctors."
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)10. Plenty of Methane too.
..and it's not from Cows.
littlemissmartypants
(22,747 posts)11. And thus leading us back to the onion.
It does me at least. If you know what I mean.
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)12. I'll take your word on it.
I'd rather not go there.....lol.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)13. It was but they turned them all around so they blow the other way, please try to keep up. n/t
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)16. At my age, I do the best I can.....
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)21. I'm there too... what were we talking about? n/t
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)18. Imagine whirled peas. nt
littlemissmartypants
(22,747 posts)19. Exactly.
And stop the violins.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)8. Aw C'mon.....
This BS is in a league with there having been an all-powerful supreme being at one time. Of course. WE have Roberts and Scalia.....
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)9. There is....
Dr. Xavier
(278 posts)14. Unfortunately,
the practice of passing gas there remains in full effect.
littlemissmartypants
(22,747 posts)20. Gas passing
And palm greasing. It's all the same.
niyad
(113,544 posts)15. you know, I had heard rumours to that effect, back when I was
in school.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)17. I recall when they passed the federal 55 mph law
The Cheshire Cat once said: To the royal guards of this realm, we are all victims in-waiting.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)22. Artifacts burried in Iraq desert suggest that America once had money.