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Painting_Agency t1_iykp7xd wrote

Reply to comment by NO_NOT_THE_WHIP in Gold from ancient Troy, Poliochni and Ur had the same origin by IslandChillin

Schliemann's excavations at Troy were the first case that we learned about in my survey-level archeology course at university. Was he an excellent archaeologist? No. Was he better than most the people at the time who just dug things up and washed them off and sold them? Yes (although he also did that).

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Painting_Agency t1_iy41vom wrote

Reply to comment by SilasCrane in [WP] Humanity has finally reached the stars and found out why no one had contacted us. The universe is in a sad state. As such, Doctors without Borders, Red Cross, and many othe charities go intergalactic. by JustLookingForMayhem

I love those commercials about as much as everyone else, but I'm glad that Sarah McLachlan will persist into the distant interstellar future, because she really is all that and a bag of Antarean protein flakes.

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Painting_Agency t1_iy1znfp wrote

Reply to comment by wigzell78 in LPT: Dear novice hobbyists, not only is it okay to copy* from the more experienced, it is encouraged. It is the most enjoyable way to learn while producing end results you can be proud of. by Telkhine_

> He said he was good with a brush but lacked the creativity to come up with something new by himself so all his work was copying various other artists instead.

I'm going to bet that he actually had a fair bit of creativity, because nothing is more artist-y than thinking that you suck and have nothing to offer. Artistic megalomaniacs like Andy Warhol are the exception, not the rule.

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Painting_Agency t1_ixjmeoc wrote

Reply to comment by Pornalt190425 in Lost islands cited in Welsh folklore and poetry are plausible, new evidence on the evolution of the coastline of west Wales has revealed by marketrent

Sorry, for some reason I thought this was linked to in the comment we were threading.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-sea-rise-tale-told-accurately-for-10-000-years/

> How could such tales survive hundreds of generations without being written down?

> “There are aspects of storytelling in Australia that involved kin-based responsibilities to tell the stories accurately,” Reid said. That rigor provided “cross-generational scaffolding” that “can keep a story true.”

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Painting_Agency t1_ixja9gh wrote

Reply to comment by Pornalt190425 in Lost islands cited in Welsh folklore and poetry are plausible, new evidence on the evolution of the coastline of west Wales has revealed by marketrent

> The "problem" with objectively believing folklore or oral traditions without any other evidence is that they are folklore and oral traditions.

They're not believed without any other evidence. Traditional stories can be used for "hypothesis generating"; suggesting what we can then examine using other methods.

> A story that gets retold thousands or tens of thousands of times is going to change slightly with each retelling

The link suggests that Aboriginal storytellers often have some kind of familial oath or expectation to maintain accuracy in the oral tradition. If they're keeping references to islands that no longer exist, rather than adjusting stories to fit their absence, then there must be a belief that that information is important to maintain. Even if it has no practical purpose.

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Painting_Agency t1_ix92boa wrote

Reply to comment by LUNA_FOOD in My grandpa being the decorated in 1942 for saving what was left of the cruiser Trento’s crew the, sunk during the allied operation Harpoon. He was a machinist engineer. Later half of his family would sadly be executed by the Germans for harboring fugitives destined to concentration camps. by LUNA_FOOD

Mussolini being a fascist wasn't your grandfather's doing, and here, he's just doing what many heads of state would also do, recognizing a high-profile act of extraordinary bravery and service.

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