Some fascinating statistics.
Here’s a quick guide to indian restaurants in our area, I wanted to play with google maps and did this up for my wife, it’s not very comprehensive, just ones we are aware of and wanted to remember.
I used Chris Houser’s excellent js to embed the map.
This is my mother’s direct maternal line’s migratory pattern. These are her results from participating in the National Geographic’s Genographic Project.
Her mtDNA identifies her as:“Your mtDNA results identify you as a member of haplogroup M*. The asterisk indicates that this is a macro-haplogroup. This haplogroup is the final destination of a genetic journey that began some 150,000 years ago with an ancient mtDNA haplogroup called L3.”
This is my direct paternal line’s migratory pattern. These are my results from participating in the National Geographic’s Genographic Project.
My yDNA identifies me as:
“Your Y chromosome results identify you as a member of haplogroup Q, a lineage defined by a genetic marker called M242. This haplogroup is the final destination of a genetic journey that began some 60,000 years ago with an ancient Y chromosome marker called M168.”
Read more about my results here…
From 2001 to 2002 this site was a blog that conducted a conversation between a lot of folks. Mainly my family and friends. We used Blogger then, I’m resurrecting it now with WordPress, let’s see if I get the time to maintain it again. Lost a lot of posts in the shuffle, time is a cruel mistress, ain’t she.
NASA digital images discover ancient “Ramayana” bridge between India, Lanka.
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The NASA Shuttle has imaged a mysterious ancient bridge between India and Sri Lanka, as mentioned in the Ramayana.
The recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam’s Bridge made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long, in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka, reveals a mystery behind it. The bridge’s unique curvature and composition by age reveals that it is man made. The legends as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the a primitive age, about 17,50,000 years ago and the bridge’s age is also almost equivalent. This information is a crucial aspect for an insight into the mysterious legend called Ramayana, which was supposed to have taken place in treta yuga (more than 17,00,000 years ago). In this epic, there is a mentioning about a bridge, which was built between Rameshwaram (India) and Srilankan coast under the supervision of a dynamic and invincible figure called Rama who is supposed to be the incarnation of the supreme. This information may not be of much importance to the archeologist s who are interested in exploring the origins of man, but it is sure to open the spiritual gates of the people of the world to have come to know an ancient history linked to the Indian mythology.
The evidence, say experts matter-of-factly, is in the Digital Image Collection.
Source : http://www.hindustantimes.com/
10 October 2002