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Appreciate Dated Research Ungrateful Years You

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When you sling a saddle atop a llama's back, just after he's rolled in the dirt to scratch the unscratchable tickle of having lugged an ungrateful hiker's 90 pounds of impedimenta another eight miles along the trail, you're struck by how matted, coarse, and snarly the wool seems. But that's why it makes for versatile outdoor wear. David Roberts

You Ungrateful Back Outdoor Wear Seems Struck Having Dirt Pounds He Saddle Along Tickle Another Makes How Versatile Trail Scratch Just Eight After Wool Miles Coarse Why

I knew that alpaca wool, with its cashmere-soft weave, had been transformed into cuddly knick-knacks ranging from pillows to teddy bears. But through selective breeding over the past 6,000 years, alpacas have so diverged from their llama cousins as to become quite different animals. David Roberts

As scientific research demonstrates, llama wool's very coarseness and its range of fibers from fine to thick mean that it can be woven into clothing that's superior to down, fleece, sheep wool, and alpaca wool in criteria ranging from warmth to water resistance to usable life. David Roberts

I went to the Grand Canyon with my family when I was about 8 years old, and I had a very blah experience. I think the scale of it is too huge - you don't appreciate it. David Roberts

Family You Experience Old Think Too Scale About Blah Had Years Huge Very Grand Grand Canyon Canyon Appreciate

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived. David Roberts

Church Rich Books Hundreds Astronomical Only Mythological Catholic Known Survived Diego Burning Information Spanish Century Conquest Four

The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Long Count date of 8.12.14.13.15, which translates to A.D. 292. David Roberts

Long Monument Date Dated Count Discovered Which Earliest

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