The Unforgotten

[Johnnycomelately]

Post #1. As the title states, this thread is intended to bring to light past practices which have slipped out of general use, yet which are still able to boost our current quality of life.

Just testing the waters to start, drip-a-drop.

Food That Time Forgot: “Coffee Eggs”

Townsends

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August 24, 2025

Edit: no description, just marketing. Recommend the YT comments, lots of coffee+egg lore, including about present day practices in old world countries.


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[Johnnycomelately]

Apparently a new “lineage” of humans has been discovered. Dunno if that means comparable to Denisovans or Neanderthals, or is a more minor variation. Whatever, seems like signifigant unforgetting of some forgotten people.

Please note the text description of the one skull found, as “elongated”. I will bold it.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/dna-sequencing-of-ancient-remains-by-colombian-scientists-reveals-unknown-human-lineage/

DNA sequencing of ancient remains by Colombian scientists reveals unknown human lineage

By Reuters
Published: August 25, 2025 at 8:15AM EDT


Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient remains excavated at archeological sites near the country’s capital Bogota.

The group, called the Checua after the area in Nemocon municipality where their remains were excavated in 1992, are about 6,000 years old and have never had their genome fully sequenced before.

“When we started to compare with other individuals from other parts of the Americas, we found that the individuals from the Pre-ceramic Period found here in the Cundiboyacense plateau have a lineage that hasn’t been reported,” said Dr. Andrea Casas, a researcher at the National University’s Genetics Institute. “It’s a new lineage.”


The Checua discovery includes partial remains from some 30 people and one mostly intact skull.

Sequences from six people from the group were complete enough to be added to the project, which includes other remains excavated at various projects between 1987 and 2003.

The other remains, unlike the Checua, shared genetic commonalities with remains found in Panama, Casas said, indicating they are part of groups which migrated through Central America and Colombia as human populations spread south from the Bering Strait 20,000 years ago.

So where did the Checua come from, and what happened to them?


The scientists are not sure, but it is possible the group represents an isolated, nomadic hunter-gatherer community, Casas said.

The group could have died out because of climate conditions, disease or lack of food, she added. They have no known descendants.

The Checua skull is notably more elongated than the skulls of the other populations found in the plateau around Bogota, said Dr. Jose Vicente Rodriguez, a professor of physical anthropology at the university, as he delicately handled the cranium.

Unlike later skulls, whose teeth show evidence of cavities, the Checua skull shows evidence of abscesses on the front upper part of its jaw, indicating its long-departed owner may have lost teeth to infection.

The diets of early populations were likely influenced by volcanic eruptions, which would have damaged above-ground food sources and encouraged people to eat root vegetables like potatoes and tubers, he said.

The project is continuing.

“We work with the remains that are available,” Casas said. “Perhaps in a few years we’ll find other remains and they will shed some light on this lineage.”

Reporting by Julia Symmes Cobb, Editing by William Maclean

[Johnnycomelately]

Here’s a wild one. Kind of bends the meaning of unforgetting.

Priceless Painting Stolen by Nazis Discovered in Background of Real Estate Photo

AUG 27, 2025


The 18th century painting Portrait of a Lady (Contessa Colleoni) by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi by Italian painter Giuseppe Ghislandi was taken by the Nazis from Dutch-Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker in 1940. The Old Master painting was never recovered, even as other missing pieces from Goudstikker’s collection were later traced and returned to his heir.

However, the stolen painting has now reportedly been discovered in a photo for a real estate listing for a property in Buenos Aires, Argentina — with the artwork hanging above a sofa in the living room of the coastal home.


The discovery is the result of nearly ten years of work by Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (AD) investigative journalists Cyril Rosman, Paul Post and Peter Schouten.

Portrait of a Lady was among 1,100 pieces taken from Goudstikker after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands. It appears in a database of missing art and is officially recorded by the Dutch culture ministry as “unreturned” since the Second World War.

AD reporters had long connected the painting to Friedrich Kadgien, a former SS officer who fled to Switzerland in 1945 before settling in Argentina with his family. For years, the newspaper tried unsuccessfully to reach his daughters, who still owned his home, until a reporter found the property listed for sale.



Here is the link for that:

https://petapixel.com/2025/08/27/priceless-painting-stolen-by-nazis-discovered-in-background-of-real-estate-photo/


As far as this story being about the uning (unning?) of a forgotten thing, in this case the harboring of Nazis by Argentina from the end of WWII to the present day, conversely it is an example of how memories are often preserved and reintroduced. Hence a sense of justice.


Here is the BBC version, which adds the name of the person depicted in the painting.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn84mld1gr9o


For more than 80 years, the location of late-baroque Italian portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi's painting of the Contessa Colleoni had been unknown until now.

I have long quit trying to post pics, but the portrait of the Contessa is included in both the linked stories. And to me, that Lady is a MAN!.

If I were to don my conspiratorial cap, I might think that the media is burying the lede here. Which is that either trannys were common in past high culture, or that women could be super ugly back then but everybody rolled with it.

Let’s see how this story evolves, which we know it will, once the AI sniffers catch the scent.

[RunningDeer]

I have long quit trying to post pics, but the portrait of the Contessa is included in both the linked stories. And to me, that Lady is a MAN!.

If I were to don my conspiratorial cap, I might think that the media is burying the lede here. Which is that either trannys were common in past high culture, or that women could be super ugly back then but everybody rolled with it.

Let’s see how this story evolves, which we know it will, once the AI sniffers catch the scent.
There you go, Johnny. https://i.imgur.com/hDzamRz.gif

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/df9a/live/8b63ce60-8358-11f0-825f-ef3af8edf016.jpg.webp

[Johnnycomelately]

There you go, Johnny. https://i.imgur.com/hDzamRz.gif


Haha, thanks Paula. See what I mean? Imagine all the copycats from that, then imagine all of the fathers trying to keep their daughters looking nice so they can be married off.