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19 hours ago · The air temperature had fallen to near freezing, and the ocean was completely calm. Colonel Archibald Gracie, one of the survivors of the disaster, later wrote that "the sea was like glass, so smooth that the stars were clearly reflected." It is now known that such exceptionally calm water is a sign of nearby pack ice.
19 hours ago · More mosquitoes gathered, spotting the white net with black dots. Lê Thanh Thảo quietly approached, shone a light on a female mosquito with an upturned abdomen and black-and-white scales on its wings and gently captured it in a test tube. Thảo explained that when the net trap is set up, various types of mosquitoes will enter.
19 hours ago · Glass beads from Igbo-Ukwu An Igbo man with facial scarifications, known as ichi, early 20th century Glass production: Igbo-Ukwu has one of the oldest glass productions in West Africa. The archeology of Igbo-Ukwu had over 600 prestige objects including complex cast copper-alloy sculptures and more than 165,000 glass and carnelian beads. [62]
