Thule

Thule (Greek: Θούλη, Thoúlē) was a far-northern location in classical European literature and cartography. Though often considered to be an island in antiquity, modern interpretations of what was meant by Thule often identify it as Norway, an identification supported by modern calculations. Other interpretations include Orkney, Shetland, and Scandinavia. In the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, Thule was often identified as Iceland or Greenland. Another suggested location is Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea. The term ultima Thule in medieval geographies denotes any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world". Sometimes it is used as a proper noun (Ultima Thule) as the Latin name for Greenland when Thule is used for Iceland.

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The Greek explorer Pytheas is the first to have written of Thule, doing so in his now lost work, On the Ocean, after his travels between 330 BC and 320 BC. He supposedly was sent out by the Greek city of Massalia to see where their trade-goods were coming from. Descriptions of some of his discoveries have survived in the works of later, often sceptical, authors. Polybius in his Histories (c. 140 BC), Book XXXIV, cites Pytheas as one "who has led many people into error by saying that he traversed the whole of Britain on foot, giving the island a circumference of forty thousand stadia, and telling us also about Thule, those regions in which there was no longer any proper land nor sea nor air, but a sort of mixture of all three of the consistency of a jellyfish in which one can neither walk nor sail, holding everything together, so to speak."

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Edit WorldNews.com 30 Sep 2016

A male customer refused a refund on an Apple product because it fell outside the store’s return policy took revenge on all of the stores iPhones by smashing each and every one in an incident caught on camera, Digital Spy reported Friday. The unnamed customer is seen smashing dozens of new iPhone 7s on the video before turning his attention to the store’s iPad and Mac line-ups ... "They refused to reimburse me, I told them ... They said no....

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'Donald Trump Is Vomiting Bile Over The United States,' Sir Bob Geldof Tells Youth Leaders

Edit WorldNews.com 30 Sep 2016

Singer and political activist Sir Bob Geldof unleashed a vitriol-induced tongue lashing against Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump at the opening ceremony of the One Young World Summit in Ottawa, Canada recently, Newsweek reported. Speaking to 1,300 current and future young leaders, Geldof called Trump a “racist” and a “liar” who is “vomiting bile over the United States .”....

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In this Tuesday, May 11, 2010 file photo, a Fulani nomad woman collects drinking water for her family's donkeys, sheep, and cattle, in Gadabeji, Niger.

China's quest to buy up global supply of donkeys halted by African nations

Edit The Independent 30 Sep 2016

A number of African countries have banned China from buying their donkeys, saying demand for the four-legged creatures has become unsustainable ... Read more....

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Hurricane Joaquin off the coast of the Bahamas, 30 September, 2015.

Hurricane Matthew may approach US next week

Edit AOL 30 Sep 2016

By Alex Sosnowski for AccuWeather.com. Matthew has become a hurricane in the Caribbean and may approach the U.S. during next week. Matthew will drift west-southwestward over the open waters of the central Caribbean Sea through Saturday. Matthew strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane early Friday morning. There is the potential for Matthew to strengthen even further during the weekend. Matthew to turn toward or steer east of US next week ... ....

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Cause Of 2 U.S. Sisters' Deaths in Seychelles Remains A Mystery

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Patrick Lank, a Northwestern Medicine assistant professor of emergency medicine in Chicago, said edemas are commonly seen in drug overdoses. But fluid on the lungs can also be caused by viral infections or by living at altitude, though the Seychelles is not situated at elevation."Two people at the same time is odd ... – Dr. Patrick Lank....

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Funds advised by Apax Partners divest Plantasjen to Ratos (NAXS Nordic Access Buyout Fund AB)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Sep 2016

... on NASDAQ Stockholm through an IPO Nordic Capital has sold its entire remaining holding in Thule Group AB (publ) and thereby fully exited the company NAXS Interim Report January-March 2016 Resurs Holding AB, a Nordic Capital Fund VII portfolio company, announces its intention to launch an initial public offering and listing on NASDAQ Stockholm....

Contracts For Sept. 26, 2016 (US Department of Defense)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Sep 2016

... Garcia Station, Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory; Guam Tracking Station, Andersen Air Force Base, Guam; Hawaii Tracking Station, Kaena Point, Oahu, Hawaii; New Boston Air Force Station, New Hampshire; Eastern Vehicle Checkout Facility, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida; and Thule Tracking Station, Thule Air Base, Greenland....

Obit: James Webb

Edit Times Free Press 22 Sep 2016

An avid traveler, Jim, usually accompanied Jo and often by Debbie as well as other friends and family, journeyed to virtually every continent and virtually every country on earth, from Alaska to Zanzibar and from Thule, Greenland, in the Arctic and Tierra de Fuego, Argentina, near the Antarctic, and from the Seychells Island to Columbo, Sri Lanka, ......

We used to think shyness was refined. That was before social media

Edit The Guardian 18 Sep 2016

When the distinguished sociologist Erving Goffman was starting out on his career, he spent 18 months on the Shetland island of Unst doing the groundwork for his doctoral thesis ... The immodest pronoun “I” rarely featured ... On what’s known as the shy-bold continuum of human behaviour, Unst stands out as an ultima Thule of shyness (though perhaps only because other northern islands lack a similar sociological study) ... An example ... Nobody did ... ....

Who Killed the People of California? Should Kaepernick Protest His Uniform?

Edit CounterPunch 16 Sep 2016

As long as we’re opening our eyes to unpleasant history hiding in plain sight, it’s worth asking why the 49ers is not a team name that everyone associates with genocide. Why isn’t Kaepernick protesting his uniform? ... The book is An American Genocide ... media ... rule. . ... In 1953, the United States made a deal with Denmark to remove 150 Inughuit people from Thule, Greenland, giving them four days to get out or face bulldozers ... ....

Nicola Mining Ships and Receives Payment for Approximately 190 Dry Metric Tonnes Concentrate (Nicola Mining Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Sep 2016

Frank Hogel, Chairman of the Company, commented, 'Nicola holds a unique position in the junior mining sector because it is able to generate cash flow yet also provide significant exploration upside, as highlighted in its September 7, 2016 exploration news release on Thule Copper Property .' ... The Company also owns 100% of the 10,084 hectare Thule ......

Arctic Sea Ice Annual Minimum Ties Second Lowest on Record (Goddard Space Flight Center)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Sep 2016

(Source. Goddard Space Flight Center). NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, recently finalized two overlapping campaigns at both of Earth's poles ... Heimdal Glacier in southern Greenland, in an image captured on Oct ... Credits. NASA/John Sonntag ... 24, when IceBridge researchers onboard NASA Langley Research Center's Falcon 20 aircraft flew their first mission from Thule Air Base in northwest Greenland ... 24 ... Related Link....

Lourdes Teacher Thaws out after Fellowship in the Arctic (Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Sep 2016

(Source. Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania). Kelly McCarthy, in her classroom at Lourdes, shows several photos from her Arctic expedition earlier this year ... Ms. McCarthy was selected from among 300 candidates and was assigned with a research team that flew over the Arctic Circle with NASA's Operation IceBridge ... The first was at the Thule Air Base, and their focus was the measurement of sea ice before the melt season ... Ms....

Standing vigilant from the top of the world (USAF - United States Air Force)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Sep 2016

USAF - United States Air Force) THULE AIR BASE, Greenland (AFNS) --. Stretching from the confines of Thule Air Base, the northernmost U.S ... The site is part of Thule AB ... At Thule AB, storm season lasts from mid-September to mid-May ... The remote location is home to many types of interesting wildlife around the Thule AB area, including musk oxen, arctic foxes and arctic hares....

Connolly/Martineau: Isokoski/Paananen review – Wigmore season opens in fine form

Edit The Guardian 12 Sep 2016

4 / 5 stars. Wigmore Hall, London. Sarah Connolly brought intensity to lieder by Schumann and Mahler, and finesse to Berlioz and Debussy, while Soile Isokoski’s astonishing Brahms left the audience rapt ... Friday’s opening concert was given by Sarah Connolly and Malcolm Martineau ... Isokoski started tentatively with Schubert’s Der König in Thule, and we had to wait a few minutes before we heard her voice in all its beauty ... ....

Artifacts recovered at ancient Thule site in Nunavut

Edit CBC 07 Sep 2016

Whale and seal bones, a possible arrowhead and a blue seed bead were among some of the artifacts recovered from an ancient Thule site in August in one of Canada's most northern national parks ... ....

Nicola Mining Inc. Intersects 1.11% Copper Over 85.92 Metres at the Thule Copper Property in Southern BC (Nicola Mining Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Sep 2016

NIM) (the 'Company' or 'Nicola') is pleased to report that significant copper mineralization has been intersected on the Thule Copper Property located 14 km northwest of Merritt, British Columbia. The Thule Copper Property covers 10,084 hectares along the southern end of the Guichon Batholith and is 100% owned by Nicola ... Significant drill hole intersections from the 2016 Thule Property drilling program....

Nicola Mining Inc. Intersects 1.11% Copper over 85.92 Metres at the Thule Copper Property in ...

Edit Stockhouse 07 Sep 2016

NIM) (the “Company” or “Nicola”) is pleased to report that significant copper mineralization has been intersected on the Thule Copper Property located 14 km northwest of Merritt, British Columbia ... The Thule Copper Property covers 10,084 hectares along the southern end of the Guichon Batholith and is 100% owned by Nicola ...  Significant drill hole intersections from the 2016 Thule Property drilling program....

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'Thule' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

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