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TechBytes looks at Twitter's redesign, a new tablet, and the lunar eclipse. Dec. 9, 2011 — -- In today's TechBytes, a redesign for Twitter. Chief among the changes are tabs across the top of ...
Tablets added to the British Museum's collection many decades ago have finally been deciphered. Live Science 'A king will die': 4,000-year-old lunar eclipse omen tablets finally deciphered.
Mystery behind 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets predicting doom solved One ominous prediction says lunar eclipse in morning means ‘end of a dynasty’ Vishwam Sankaran ...
Wrigley's Eclipse gum may not actually "kill" the germs that cause bad breath, according to a new ruling by the National Advertising Divsion. NAD is an industry supported advertising police force.
The tablet is about the size of a thick smartphone with 384 dots that pop up and down — refreshing in real time as they're fed animations, streaming data, scrolling maps, video games and the like.
The tablets, which date to the early second millennium B.C., ... Old Babylonian Lunar-Eclipse Omen Tablets in the British Museum. Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 76, 127–161.
A 1970 study originally claimed the tablet described the eclipse of May 3, 1375 BCE, because its authors matched the beginning of ḫiyaru with the end of April and beginning of May on the modern ...
Chewing gum magnate W.M. Wrigley Jr. may have bit off more than he can chew when his company advertised its “Eclipse” gum as having germ-fighting powers.. A group of disgruntled gum-chewers ...
Scholars have finally deciphered 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets found more than 100 years ago in what is now Iraq. The tablets describe how some lunar eclipses are omens of death, destruction ...