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Robert Hansen was a notorious criminal who abducted, sexually assaulted, and killed between 17 and possibly more than 30 women in and around Anchorage, Alaska. [14] In 1983, Louis D. Hastings carried out an attack in McCarthy, Alaska, killing 6 people and wounding 2 more. His aim was to sabotage the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.
Damascus is surrounded by the Ghouta, irrigated farmland where many vegetables, cereals, and fruits have been farmed since ancient times. Maps of Roman Syria indicate that the Barada River emptied into a lake of some size east of Damascus. Today it is called Bahira Atayba, the hesitant lake because in years of severe drought, it does not even ...
It is located on the Pacific coast of Katmai National Park and Preserve, in the mainland portion of Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska. The most important site in the bay is on Mink Island, which contains evidence of human habitation from 7,300 to 500 years ago, and is one of the oldest known places of human habitation on the Alaska Peninsula .
The Swan Point Archeological Site is located in eastern central Alaska, in the Tanana River watershed. It is one of a collection of sites in the area that have yielded the oldest evidence of human habitation in the state, in addition to megafauna no longer found in Alaska, such as wapiti (elk), bison, and woolly mammoth.
The old city of Damascus (Arabic: دِمَشْق ٱلْقَدِيمَة, romanized: Dimašq al-Qadīmah) is the historic city centre of Damascus, Syria. The old city, which is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, [ 1 ] contains numerous archaeological sites, including some historical churches and mosques.
Relying on surveys and other data, the UN estimated that 1 in 20 adults — a quarter-billion people around the world — used at least one drug in 2014. These maps show how dangerous illegal ...
Imagine life with no humans. One group of researchers has done exactly that -- and they even made a map to show how the world might look sans homo sapiens. SEE ALSO: California drought may ...
North Bight Beach, Buldir Island. Archeological evidence of human occupation on Shemya and Kiska, on either side of Buldir, dates back to at least 2000 BCE. [5] [6] Given the long distance between the Rat Islands and the Near Islands, prehistoric peoples likely stopped at Buldir in transit between the two larger groups, but no evidence has yet been found.