The ability to articulate is believed to be dependent upon physiological changes in the height of the larynx between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens sapiens which occurred c. 45,000 BC. The discovery of a hyoid bone (from the base of the tongue) from a cave site on Mt Carmel, Israel shows that Neanderthal man may have been capable of speech 60,000 years ago, but the usual dating is 50,000-30,000 BC.
The earliest known stigmatic was St Francis of Assisi. On the 14 September 1224, it is said that he saw a fiery-winged seraph descending from heaven in the form of a crucified man, believed to be Jesus and there after began to develop bleeding wounds in his hands, feet and side that corresponded to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus. Such wounds, which seem to develop of their own accord and do not become sceptic, have been regularly documented and frequently affecting women, usually of the
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The original game did not include a fast-forward option, meaning the player would have to wait in real time for the lemmings to either die or exit the level. It was only after working on the ultimately doomed attempt to create a Lemmings arcade cabinet for Data East in 1991 that the fast-forward icon was included in Lemmings on the Atari Lynx and Lemmings 2 and the process was sped up. Guinness World Records Gamers’ Edition 2009.
The earliest leather shoe is 5,500 years old and was discovered by archaeologists in the Areni-1 cave, in the south-eastern Vayotoz Dzor province of Armenia in 2008. The shoe, made of a single piece of hide leather and shaped to fit the wearer’s foot, is 24.5 cm (0.8 ft 10 in) long, complete and well preserved thanks to the thick layer of sheep dung in which it was covered and the stable, cool and dry conditions in the cave. Although the Areni-1 finding is the
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Until TOCA Touring Car Championship’s release in 1997, players were used to driving only the fastest supercars in the world. TOCA took a different angle, offering a variety of production cars that were available in showrooms across the country, including theHonda Accord, Vauxhall Vectra and Nissan Primera in the first videogame recreation of the British Touring Car Championship. Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition 2009.
On 19 November 1997 Sir Paul McCartney performed his new classical work, the 75-minute symphonic poem Standing Stone. Taking four years to compose, it was broadcast live from Carnegie Hall in a multifaceted presentation of radio, TV, interactive on-line interview and Internet audio and video broadcast across the World Wide Web.
Less than a minute after Apollo 12 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, on 14 November 1969, the spacecraft suffered severe electrical anomalies, including the loss of the fuel cells that provided power to the command module, leaving it on battery power alone, and also the ‘8 ball’ attitude indicator. Mission control and the crew were able to overcome these and stay on course for Earth orbit. It was determined that Apollo 12 had been struck twice by lighting at 36 and 52 seconds
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Many video games have featured a day/night cycle that affects the gameplay in some way – for example, recent Pokémon games have used an internal clock to tell whether it should be light or dark and changed the game’s settings to match it. The Gameboy Advance title Boktai took this idea one step further by including a light sensor on the cartridge that affected the strength of the game’s vampire enemies. Many gamers were tempted to play only in bright sunlight. Guinness World Records Gamers’
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Paul McCartney (UK) became the first artist to broadcast live to space when he sent a ‘wake up call’ to the International Space Station from his Anaheim concert on 12 November 2005.
Introduced in the Book 13 update, fishing was the first of many hobbies available to inhabitants of Middle-earth. This can be done anywhere in the world with a large variety of fish available to catch. The largest fish that a player can pull out of the water is the 50-lb (22.6 kg) salmon, while the hardest fish to catch is the 20-ft (6.1-m) white sturgeon. Guinness World Records Gamers’ Edition 2009.