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Notes: this post one hundred twentieth in a series...see previous...and, and it's the last in the series with the streaming game...game on in a bit, like forty five minutes...have tickets for game tomorrow night, and Sunday afternoon...last two games of the season...I have three strada easel contest cosmic shells to do, so three more shells to go with three more games...so I'll post up re-caps of those last two with the last two shells...but, but that's it....I'm done...for a bit...like until next baseball season again before I take up again with the Mystereons and their ancient enigmas...oh...I learned that that old movie I watched on youtube last night, movieTreasureOfTheIncas1953, was lifted for movieRaidersOfTheLostArc...I had mistaken it for movieKingsOfTheSun1963...that might be on youtube now too...couldn't find full screen version of Kings when I looked before...Indiana Jones was a scholar/archaeologist/tomb raider...Harry, in Treasure, played by Carlton Heston, is a tour guide in Peru, and a tomb raider...a more selfish sort, (a more Han Solo sort!) who has a change of heart when at the end he returns the Sun Disk to the Peruvians...Treasure is spot on with historical accuracy...even accurate that tour guides are probably tomb raiders, some of them...they are an interface between native folk and very wealth tourists eager to pocket artifacts!...Treasure is an obscure movie, locked away for like thirty years until someone snuck it onto the internet...thought is someone didn't want the similarity between it and Raiders to be noted...film buffs have now noted it...search
Treasure of the Incas Raiders of the Lost Arc...the Inca Sun Disc in the movie is part of a real legend...
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The Golden Sun Disk was used to control 41 ceke lines (energy lines) which emanated from the Temple across the entire Inca territory which were believed to control the spiritual climate of the Inca people, who made ritual offerings at alters and shrines located upon these ceke lines.
http://blog.world-mysteries.com/mystic-places/quest-incas-golden-sun-disk/
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close read that page last night...fact better than a Clyde Cussler fiction!...put that Inca book of his down unfinished...and today a go figure in the news feed...
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"Thus someone viewing the sunset from these lines during
the winter solstice would have seen the sun setting directly behind, or sinking into, the adobe pyramid," they write. "Thus the pyramid and the linear geoglyph constitute part of a single architectural complex, with potential cosmological significance, that ritualized the entire pampa landscape." (The word "pampa" stands for plain.)
https://www.livescience.com/29335-astronomical-alignment-found-at-peru-pyramid.html
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the Andeans took sundials to a new level...in Treasure is the Hitching Post of the Sun at Machu Pichu...there's another somewhat like it at:
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White Rock (Yurak Rumi in Quechua) the legendary home of the great Yurak Rumi Inca Oracle. Looking south.
The Incas reshaped massive natural rocks so that they best suited the state ideology and their mystical solar religion, and they became
‘huacas’ (sacred sites located on ceke lines).
The White Rock Oracle is like nothing I had ever seen before. I’m from Scotland and I know all about standing stones, but this boulder is around 400 tonnes in weight and it has been carved so intricately that it almost looks mechanical in nature. In many ways the rocks function was mechanical, in that it was essentially a great big sun and moon dial.
http://blog.world-mysteries.com/mystic-places/quest-incas-golden-sun-disk/
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author is a real deal kind of Indiana Jones...scholar/archaeologist/adventurer...that there still are such!...oh!...game on...on the radio...Angels and A's at home in Anaheim....A's have qualified for wild card spot...one game against Yankees in Yankee stadium...Boston, Cleveland, Houston, won their divisions...need a fourth team, so they came up with the wild card slot...two best records after the division winners...I'll root for the A's!...I'm not going to get to bees in the New World...wait...just one bit...ground out to Simmons...
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Ah-Muzen-Cab[pronunciation?] is one of the
Maya gods of
bees and
honey. He is possibly the same figure as "the Descending God" or "the Diving God" and is consistently depicted upside-down. The Temple of the Descending God is located in
Tulum. The bees used by the ancient Maya were
Melipona beecheii and
Melipona yucatanica, species of
stingless bee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah-Muzen-Cab
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https://andrewgough.co.uk/mesoamerican-bee-god-quest/
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author has extensive takes on ancients and bees!...I had the take that the bees' proboscis was the curly cue on the Egyptians Eye of Horus, and Red Crown...123...to bottom of 1st...Calhoun up...I didn't think!...bees have short pointy tongues...I was thinking of butterflies, and moths...they have the long curly cue proboscis....bees have a kind of well known face...one out...Trout up...pop out...to top of 2nd...
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For starters, they look like aliens,
http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/East-End/566221/Furry-Eyeballs-And-Probing-Proboscii-A-Study-In-Bee-Faces
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pop out two out...I thought I had it nailed down that the ancient rosettes harked to opium buds...posted this pic, a kind of treasure, as I found it in wikis take on the history of jewelry, and I don't think any of the many going on about rosettes and opium had found it!...I travel well traveled footpaths!...
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Pendant with naked woman, made from electrum, Rhodes, around 630-620 BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewellery
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Barria on mound...only Angel pitcher in double figures for wins...and that just ten...123...to bottom of 2nd...seeing that necklace, I noted the rosettes together with what look like opium buds...and noted too the kind of Egyptian headdress look on the two faces at top...this all tiny tiny...need to finger zoom in with touch screens...thought that harked to Phoenician artistry...and it being said to be from Rhodes...Ohtani up...ripped just foul...after reading about the bees and bulls, I did a double take...there's a strange connection in the myths with bees and bulls...bees emerging from bull carcasses...there are carrion bees...flare drops in for hit...Ohtaini on leading off...oh, carrion bees are just a new world species...hmmph...a curio...I don't follow the import of the bull/bee myths...there's a lion/bee myth too...a motif in heraldry...a dead lion with bees...from the Bible...anyway, I got to looking at the necklace closely, at the middle 'face', and with my new thought that rosettes relate to bees, thought, is that little alien looking face a bee's face!...need to zoom in close study to see this!...and, and I went off and did
bees ancient greek search... and, and right there in the middle of the images page....wala!!!...double steal...Ohtani and Upton to second and third...missed how Upton got on...tenth steal for Ohtani...fc brings in Ohtani...Angels 1-0...ball driven deep into left field...Ward waps a home run...Angels 3-0...that's cool...Wards a good player...
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Gold plaques embossed with winged bee goddesses, perhaps the
Thriai, found at Camiros
Rhodes, dated to 7th century BCE (
British Museum)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_(mythology)
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and, that's just like the best enigma I've figured out!!!...the headdress is the same as on the two little faces on the necklace...the Egyptian banded headdress...but not in Egypt...and there are the rosettes...and more, the wings...that in a sec...Angels made out...to top of 3rd...ground out...123...to bottom of 3rd...
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There has been some scholarly debate about whether these are really breasts… and in fact it may be a “play on words” or a mix of symbolism. The breasts may also represent bee eggs or pomegranates
(likely, as amber pendants in the shape of pomegranates have been discovered – these were draped on the Goddess as offerings).
http://floweringmoon.com/2015/08/goddess-as-queen-bee-artemis-of-ephesus/
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Ohtani owns a new major league uniqueness...ten steals, ten home runs, ten games pitched...that author has a great page with a lot of things...reading that, I note what I thought to be opium buds on the necklace, could be pomegranates...Fernandez waps a one out double...and I'm pretty sure the necklace is from Ephesus...Trout waps a home run!...Angels 5-0...Ohtani waps a double down the line...TroutTimeShoeiTime...author has this remarkable pic which looks to be from Ephesus, but source not clear...line out for second out...Simmons up...
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http://floweringmoon.com/2015/08/goddess-as-queen-bee-artemis-of-ephesus/
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almost too much of a fit to be real...rosettes inside hexagons...a wonder if it is a modern replica...or some such...and on the left is a staff with two bee hives on each end...and they look like pine cones...which goes back to Dionysius and his Thrysus...
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In
Greek religion, the staff was carried by the
votaries of Dionysus.
Euripides wrote that
honey dripped from the thyrsos staves that the Bacchic
maenads carried.
[5] The thyrsus was a sacred instrument at religious
rituals and
fĂȘtes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyrsus
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the reason I question where that stone relief is from, is that there is next to nothing left of the Temple to Artemis at Ephesus...
ephesus artemis bees...A's with two out runner...
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Coin from Ephesus. 4th Century B.C.E.
http://hearthmoonblog.com/lions-and-bees-whats-the-connection/
page has the story of Lions and Bees...note the angle of the bee's wings...
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She was associated with the planet
Venus and her most prominent symbols included the
lion and the
eight-pointed star.
hook-shaped knot of reeds,
eight-pointed star,
lion,
rosette, dove
Terracotta relief of Ishtar with wings from
Larsa (second millennium BC)
The "
Burney Relief," which is believed to represent either Ishtar or her older sister
Ereshkigal (
c. 19th or 18th century BC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna
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However, whether it represents
Lilitu,
Inanna/Ishtar, or
Ereshkigal is under debate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burney_Relief
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wikis takes are mercurial...I'm settled it is Innana...the others follow ons...Angels made out...to top of 5th...
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Winged gods, other mythological creatures, and birds are frequently depicted on cylinder seals and steles from the 3rd millennium all the way to the Assyrians. Both two-winged and four-winged figures are known and the wings are most often extended to the side. Spread wings are part of one type of representation for
Ishtar.
[28] However, the specific depiction of the hanging wings of the nude goddess may have evolved from what was originally a cape.
same wiki
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ah, no...Innana's wings are bees wings...that's the hark of the angles...too, see her feet!, wings in general...Inanna is a bee goddess too like Artemis...
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The pollen bag © Andrew Gough
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author has it...the mystery of the wrist watch...and doesn't see it...instead focused on the Mystereons' pollen bag...the Mystereons' wrist watch is the rosette!...two out walk...and it is all a fit...the pollen bag, the pine cone bee hive, the rosette/flower...there figures on either side of Trees of Life...come back to this for images...have been to this page in past posts...come to it this time looking for Innana as bee goddess...Barria doesn't get the victory...too many pitches pitched, and now with two walks, a reliever comes in...need to go five full inning for win...that rule should change...pitchers not put in to go long distances any more...as it will happen, a relief pitcher who is on the mound when winning run scores becomes eligible for the win...oh...worse...he had a no hitter going...eeesh...Scoscia not being old school at all...and he's from old school!...
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Intriguingly, there is a tradition that bees selected Ethiopian kings, and perhaps the best-known source for this legend is the famous ruler of the Ethiopian Zagwe dynasty, King Lalibela, who reigned from 1167 to 1207. According to legend, a swarm of bees surrounded the Prince at his birth, which his mother interpreted as soldiers who would later serve her son, prompting her to choose for him the name Lalibela, meaning ‘the bees recognise his sovereignty’.
same site
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hmmph...learned up above in bit about 'they look like aliens', that bees can recognize individual human faces!...K...to bottom of 5th...hits off base of wall for a double for Calhoun...what ever is the opposite of star crossed, that's what the Angels are so far tonight!...
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Another account of the bee in Mesopotamian mythology relates to Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love and war, who appears as early as 4000 BCE. Inanna was the goddess of Venus, the morning and evening star, and as a result she is associated with dualities such as love and war and fertility and lust. Interestingly, the Mayans considered Venus to be a bee, due to the fact that both the bee (waggle dance) and Venus (seven-year, pentagonal-shaped orbit) exhibited intelligent movements.
same site
https://andrewgough.co.uk/articles_pollen/
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Trout up...0-1...base hit...to third Calhoun...Trout on first...Ohtani up...
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Curiously, Inanna is portrayed in the Adda Seal, which the British Museum describes as:
The Akkadian greenstone seal (height 3.9cm) shown here, dating to about 2300 BC, is shown alongside its modern impression. Gods and goddesses are depicted, identified by their horned head-dresses and attributes as a hunting god, the goddess Ishtar, the sun god Shamash and the water god Enki followed by his vizier.
The description is benign and fails to mention that Ishtar, which is another name of Inanna, is depicted with what appea
rs to be bee wings and, according to scholars, she is holding a date fruit from a palm tree. Furthermore, she is standing on a platform of beehives that spans the length of the seal.
same site
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a curio!...sac fly to the warning track...Angels 6-0...
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I feel it is important to not think of kings portrayed as bee-gods as being a speculative notion, for the honey bee and its many life-affirming by-products were vital to flourishing civilisations in antiquity. So, why should the King not revere them? Take for instance Ancient Egypt, where the King’s titles included ‘He of the Sedge and the Bee’ and ‘Beekeeper’, and where the King included a picture of the bee in his cartouche and was buried in a yellow and black, horizontally striped death mask that clearly appears to have been inspired by the bee.
same site
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well, that's where I went too with the headdress banding...banding on bees abdomen...but, but I too mixed it up with the checkerboard/diagonal checkerboard/network/goddessNut/stars/milky way...bees have the starry sky on their bottoms...the starry crown...
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Was the White Crown of Egypt a symbolic beehive, a symbol of wisdom and leadership?
same site
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I dunno...but looking at this image, where before I've noted the angle of the forearms, I now note the angle of the upper arms--the bee wing angle of Innanna/bees...a reach to be sure...A's get their first hit...top of 7th I think...
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It is also interesting that the Red Crown of Egypt was called ‘dsrt’, and that E.A. Wallis Budge transcribed the Red Crown as ‘Deshret’, which is very similar to the Jaredite word for bee: ‘deseret’. Could both words refer to the honey bee? If so, then this would mean that both the Egyptian Crown (Wisdom of the King) and Red Crown (leadership over the worker bees) were inspired by bees.
same site
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I dunno...author tying in the Mormons...he rolls right through history...bit about Napoleon and bees is telling...and from that same conspiratorial time...
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George Washington’s Masonic Apron, with a Beehive located top centre
https://andrewgough.co.uk/articles_bee3/
same author at another page...I can follow on on that with what I've gone on about before...there is the checkerboard...where things are is what things are...it has the same heraldry locations as the stele/shields...at top is the rosette stylized, eight sided, stylized around the bee hive...the four pillars are the four djed pillars...the arc over thing is goddessNut/rainbow serpent of the Andeans...the beams coming down from the eye, eye of horus, are the lotus flower beams...there's the fan/splay/two hemsipheres...a reach: even a bit of the scarab pushing the sun about it all...worse, it has a modern version of contour rivalry...Ward and Cowert make out...to top of 7th...overall, I imagine, the apron represents planet earth, an odd kind of plaque like the one on Explorer space probe...page has the Napoleon bit too, which is even more fantastic...oh, author has the fleur de lis too...not a rock unturned, I'd say!
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As an aside, the researcher Robert Lawlor studied the design of the Bee and Fleur-de-lys in his book; ‘Sacred Geometry’ and concluded that the 1:√ proportion of the Fleur-de-lys is also found in the design of the Islamic Mosque. Intriguingly, the mystical dimension of Islam known as Sufism maintained a secret brotherhood called Sarmoung, or Sarman, meaning Bee. Members of the organization viewed their role as collecting the precious ‘honey’ of wisdom and preserving it for future generations.
same site
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hmmmph...A's make out...to bottom of 7th...to be continued next Spring...bees, after all, need to hibernate...
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Many insects hibernate, especially in the larval or pupal stages, and a few hibernate in the adult stage. Queen bumble bees, for example, hibernate all by themselves in the ground for approximately five months.
However, honey bees remain “awake” all winter, during which time they eat and keep the hive warm. The winter activities—especially heating the hive—require vast amounts of food energy and are the reason that honey bees store so much nectar.
https://honeybeesuite.com/monday-morning-myth-honey-bees-hibernate/
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Calhoun up...that, that would have been a wonder not to be missed/incorporated into a myth...brb...Calhoun waps another lead off double!...Marte fc moves Calhoun to second...Trout up...or Ohtani...???...
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He demonstrated that bees can recognize a desired compass direction in three different ways: by the sun, by the
polarization pattern of the blue sky, and by the earth's magnetic field. He showed that the sun is the preferred or main compass; the other mechanisms are used under cloudy skies or inside a dark
beehive.
[59] Bees navigate using spatial memory with a "rich, map-like organization".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee
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a curio!...Ohtani a nubber by the pitcher for infield hit and drives in Calhoun...Angels 7-0...wait...it's proving hard to nail down what bees do in winter...each species may have a different take...somewhere in that wiki take, where I can't find, the general populations lives for one season...and the queen hibernates...Simmons up...A's I think 123...and it is bottom of 7th...oh..a long inning...Simmons bases loaded W...Angels 8-0...Trout scores...don't know how he got on...Arcia up...shot to mound and a 123 double play...to top of 8th...
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In D'Arcy Thompson's translation: "At early dawn they make no noise, until some one particular bee makes a buzzing noise two or three times and thereby awakes the rest; hereupon they all fly in a body to work. By and by they return and at first are noisy; ... until at last some one bee flies round about, making a buzzing noise, and apparently calling on the others to go to sleep".
same wiki
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Scientists are investigating the growing phenomenon of bumblebees remaining active throughout the winter months.
... ... ...
Traditionally, the queens go into hibernation in protected places such in soil or under moss, from late July or August. They then emerge in March, as the weather warms, with each queen starting up her own colony, where she lays eggs.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/6521434/Scientists-investigate-phenomenon-of-the-winter-bees.html
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A's get a run...and a runner on third...error on a throw...
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But honeybees are different.
They’ve evolved a strategy for winter survival that is unique, one that relies heavily on frenzied visitation to flowers throughout the summer and a Herculean group effort in the months beyond. Believe it or not, their success in this endeavor depends on choices that you make for your yard and garden.... ... ...
As temperatures drop, honeybees cluster together within their hive to share the warmth that their “shivering” generates (picture a ball of bees a foot in diameter and sliced through by sheets of honeycomb). At the core of this cluster, worker bees keep themselves and their queen at a temperature that is only a few degrees lower than that of a healthy human. The cluster’s outer layer consists of tightly packed, slightly cooler workers that insulate the core as effectively as bird feathers or mammalian fur—don’t worry, everyone gets to rotate.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/help-honey-bees-survive-t_b_1835883.html
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that, that I've seen before else ware!...
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To prevent themselves freezing to death, they huddle together in tightly-packed groups to conserve heat and shelter themselves from the intense winds.
Now it seems these huddles can actually be too good at keeping the emperor penguins warm.In the time-lapse below, you can see that penguin huddles constantly rotate. The most obvious behaviour is that penguins on the outskirts regularly muscle their way inside the huddle.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151107-how-penguins-avoid-overheating
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where things are is what things are...lots of runners on...9 walks given up by the Angels...'not one has scored'...new reliever on mound for Angels...and now a wild pitch...runners to second and third...runner scores on bobbled grounder scored a hit...another hit...three runs score with a double...Angels 8-5...Angels are playing a play off team...
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"If one penguin starts a wave," perhaps shuffling too close to its neighbor, "it travels in both directions, like a Mexican wave in a football stadium," said
Daniel Zitterbart, a physicist at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany who filmed and then analyzed the movements of the penguin herds.
https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/emperor-penguins-do-wave-keep-warm-2D11744233
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the 'midnight ceremony'...hmmph...Simmons stops the A's assault...to bottom of 8th...Ward makes out...Cowert up...ground out...Hermesillio up...pop out...to top of 9th...well, they are likely there, somewhere, in the ancients' myths...the story of wintering bees made into a story...Angels have a farm team called The Bees...from Utah, of course...K...Robles on mound...K...100 mile an hour pitch...base hit to right...Blash gets it back in...
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https://www.google.com/search?q=salt+lake+bees&rlz=1T4TSNJ_enUS440US440&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGiNulvN_dAhVO5awKHW_CDMIQ_AUIDigB&biw=1038&bih=402#imgrc=7FfCiyM2Ru1KBM:&spf=1538198592758
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one strike to go...K...Angels 8-5...'put a halo over this one'...pohono...
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