Tag: 1960

A 286,000-year-old hominin skull found in Petralona Cave in Greece!

Greece: Petralona Cave “Hominin Skull” Dated to 286,000-Years-Old! (31.5.2026)

Other fossil work has pointed in the same direction. In Spain, fossils from Sima de los Huesos have been linked to the Neanderthal evolutionary line, showing that Neanderthal-related groups were already present roughly 400,000 years ago.

That makes Petralona especially interesting. If the skull represents a more primitive population living around the same broad period, then Europe may have held multiple hominin groups at once. That is a very different picture from the old idea of one dominant human form slowly replacing another.

A similar pattern has appeared outside Europe, too. The Broken Hill skull from Zambia, also known as Kabwe, was directly dated to about 299,000 years old, much younger than many researchers once believed. The Natural History Museum said that date added to evidence that several human lineages may have coexisted around that time.

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Half-Penny from 1966

Brixham: Coins in the Wall! (2.4.2026)

Administrative matters aside – I notice the above “interior” wall looks as if it used to be an “external” wall – as it looks weather-beaten and worn. Furthermore, in the UK, builders often leave a coin featuring the year any renovations were carried-out as a form of “good luck”. Usually, we find these coins under floor-boards, carpets, and lino, etc. Sometimes they are lodged between wooden joints or under various structures. In this wall, the coins seem cemented on the outside of the wall. There is a 1966 half-penny, and a 1960 three-penny. When I was first at school in the early 1970s – these coins were still in use. The old half-penny would today possess the buying power of £5 – whilst the three-penny bit could buy about £30s worth of goods. This was before the UK joined the EEC (1.1.1973). Prior to this, a British pound was comprised of 240 pence – afterwards it was deliberately devalued to just “100” pence. What a disgrace all this was!

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Cuba Remembers US Terrorism!

Cuba: La Coubre – Another Chapter of US Terrorism Against the People! (4.3.2025)

The agency recalled that at around 3:00 p.m. on March 4, 1960, a first explosion occurred with the destructive power of 31 tons of grenades and 44 tons of ammunition inside the ship, a cargo coming from the port of Antwerp, Belgium, with final destination in the Cuban capital.

Shortly afterwards, the genocidal intention of the perpetrators of the attack was confirmed when a second explosion was recorded, precisely when the emergency services, the Fire Department and the Revolutionary Police were providing assistance to the first victims.

The court said the final death toll was 101, with 400 people injured or disabled for life and 82 children left without parents.

He stressed that the explosion at La Coubre “was the result of a terrorist act orchestrated by the United States government, as part of the actions carried out at that time, to discredit the nascent Revolution and destabilize the country, and not an isolated accident.”

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Newspaper - US Terrorism in Cuba!

Cuba: 65th Anniversary of US Terrorism Bombing of the La Coubre Ship! (4.3.2025)

Cuban historiography agrees on pointing out that it was a sabotage prepared at the embarkation point by agents at the service of the United States to prevent the arrival of the shipment of arms and ammunition in Cuba. At the burial of the victims (March 5), Fidel Castro said for the first time the slogan that would accompany the Cuban revolutionary process until today: Homeland or Death.

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Wang Fuzhou, Gongbu, Qu Yinhua - 王富洲、贡布、屈银华

Everest: How PRC Climber – “Xu Jingzeng” [许竞曾] – Located the Body of – Andrew Irvine – in 1960! (24.12.2024)

There is still a chance. The camera they carried with them at the time was not found. Perhaps Irvine’s body will be found one day, which may solve this century-old mystery.

I saw an article on the Internet reporting that Chinese mountaineer Xu Jingzeng once said that he had seen Irvine’s body at 8,300 meters on Mount Everest in 1960. Yesterday, a netizen commented in my previous article that the documentary about the Chinese climbing Mount Everest in 1960 mentioned that they found the bodies of foreign climbers during the climb.

In 1960, the Chinese completed the first ascent of Mount Everest from the north slope. Before that, there were only a few climbing records, including Mallory in 1921 and 1924. It is indeed possible that they found Irvine’s remains, but no one paid attention to these things at the time, and they were lost in history again.

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