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Russia bans Indigenous peoples' traditional fishing (IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Jun 2016
(Source. IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs) Activists protesting violation of right to food. On May 29, 250 indigenous Itelmen and Koryaks living in Kovran village in the North of Kamchatka peninsula, traditionally celebrated the day of smelt. A ceremony was held at noon at the mouth of Kovran river, where Offerings were made to the river and to the God of the sea Nuzavuch ... But this year, tension hung in the air ... ... ....

Natural Quasicrystals May Be the Result of Collisions Between Objects in the Asteroid Belt (California Institute of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Jun 2016
(Source. California Institute of Technology). Naturally formed quasicrystals-crystal-like solids with supposedly impossible symmetries-are among the rarest structures on Earth. Only two have ever been found ... two-fold, three-fold, four-fold, or six-fold ... The grain came from a small sample of the Khatyrka meteorite, an extraterrestrial object known only from a few pieces found in Russia's Koryak Mountains ... 'Nature is crazy.' ... (noodl....

Women In Museum History: Dina Jochelson-Brodskaya (American Museum of Natural History)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Mar 2016
To survey the Koryak, Yukaghir, and Sakha peoples of Siberia, Boaz recruited a leading ethnographer, Waldemar Jochelson, who had spent considerable time in Siberia ... A medical scholar whose interests included the measuring of human anatomical traits, Brodskaya was responsible for collecting data and capturing photographs that documented the cultures of the region's Koryak, Yukhagir, and Sakha peoples....

Elena LaQuatra crowned Miss Pennsylvania USA 2016

Edit The Examiner 07 Dec 2015
Elena LaQuatra was crowned Miss Pennsylvania USA 2016 on Sunday, according to the pageant's website. She was also named Miss Photogenic during the competition ... Other semifinalists were Nicolette Bendick, Kelsey Fanelli, Chelsea Koryak, Karla McCormick, Julia Pauline, Natalie Romano, Andrea Shen, Olivia Suchko, Monet Tiberii and Cristina Virgilio ... ....

Vincentian runner off to record start

Edit Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 17 Apr 2015
Andrew Koryak is one of the most accomplished athletes in Vincentian Academy track and field history. ....

Oddball 'Crystal' Survived Crash to Earth Inside Meteorite

Edit Space 20 Mar 2015
An X-ray tomography image of the whole mineral grain (top) where the quasicrystal was found (shown in a scanning electron micrograph image in the bottom panel). Credit. Paul Steinhardt. View full size image ... Both known quasicrystals originated in the same meteorite collected several years ago in the Koryak Mountains in Chukkotka, Russia, though the new one was embedded in a different grain within that meteorite ... EDITOR'S RECOMMENDATIONS ... ....

Artifact Of Alien Technology? Quasicrystal With ‘Forbidden Symmetry’ Found In 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite

Edit The Inquisitr 20 Mar 2015
Although scientists are working under the assumption that the quasicrystals are naturally occurring, some alien and UFO enthusiasts have suggested they could be artifacts of alien technology preserved in the meteorite. The quasicrystal was discovered inside an ancient meteorite that crashed into a remote region of the Koryak Mountains in Chukotka, northeastern Russia, about 15,000 years ago ... The ten-sided disks are stacked in a column....

Quasicrystal article wins international physics journalism prize (IOP - Institute of Physics)

Edit noodls 18 Mar 2015
(Source. IOP - Institute of Physics). 18 March 2015 ... The tale, which includes maths, physics, materials science, geology, and a little bit of planetary science, follows physicist Paul Steinhardt and his band of colleagues from Steinhardt's lab in Princeton, NJ, to a rock museum in Florence, Italy, and eventually to a streambed in the Koryak mountains in far eastern Russia, where a meteorite struck hundreds of thousands of years ago....

The Last Man Standing Series 2 Episode 6 Kamchatka

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 11 Nov 2014
Freezing conditions in the Siberian wastelands await the athletes as they prepare for the 16km Koryak spring festival race over hills and through woods where the temperatures drop to minus 30. ....

Public paychecks: Search through city of Orlando government salaries

Edit The Business Review 24 Sep 2014
PKG ACCOUNTING SPEC II $20.92 BURNETT-BALTHAZAR,ONEKA A REC COMMUNITY CENTER MANAGER $20.91 STEPHENSON,STEVEN M WPO LIFT STATION OPER "A" $20.90 DUNHAM,RHONDA L OPA EMERGENCY COMM SPEC III $20.87 JORGE,TONNI OPA EMERGENCY COMM SPEC III $20.87 KUNZE,JR,JAMES H PKS CREW LEADER $20.87 STURGILL,MARYLOUISE OPA EMERGENCY COMM SPEC III $20.87 ......

Hallucinogenic plants: are humans hard-wired to seek them out?

Edit The Daily Telegraph 20 Sep 2014
Related Articles. Herbs. make the most of nature's medicine cabinet 13 Feb 2014. Kew Gardens facing 'significant threat to its future' as 100,000 sign petition 09 Jun 2014. Plant theft. the world's most popular black market plants 24 Jan 2014 ... Dancing goats ... A similar process was observed by ethnologist Waldemar Jochelson in the early 20th century, in his studies of the Koryak peoples of north-eastern Siberia ... Telegraph Gardenshop» ... EE ... ....

It's OK, Todd Carney: Where drinking urine and other taboos are normal

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 02 Jul 2014
But in other cultures, it’s not seen as such a big deal ... Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are few cultures where urine is seen as a pleasant alternative to a nice glass of Semillon blanc, but the Koryak people of Siberia aren’t averse to a drop ... Advertisement ....

Where drinking urine and other taboos are normal

Edit Stuff 02 Jul 2014
Poor Todd Carney has been marched out of the Cronulla Sharks for his unconventional taste in beverages. His now infamous "bubbling" photo, in which he allegedly drinking his own urine, has caused widespread disgust ... Drinking urine. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are few cultures where urine is seen as a pleasant alternative to a nice glass of Semillon blanc, but the Koryak people of Siberia aren't averse to a drop ... Spitting in the street....
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