Adventures of an Imperfect Man In Search of a Handmade Life
TM sold out its share for the first time in 1955 to a businessman named, Ernst Kronreif and result he bought the major part of the company. As as result, the consortium was renamed to Kronreif & Trunkenpolz Mattighofen. In 1957, KTM launched its very first moped, the Mecky. Followed by Ponny in 1960 and Ponny II in 1962. Meanwhile, KTM also molded bikes for racing. Unfortunately, the major stake holder, Kronreif died in 1960 and so the founder of KTM, Trunkenploz in 1962.
A couple of months ago, Yevgeny Salinder, an 11 year old Russian boy, discovered a 30,000 year old mammoth thawing from the permafrost in the arctic Krasnoyarsk region. I have been hoping to hear more about this remarkable find but, of course, these things take time.
There is already some important information coming out about this find, including the discovery of large fat storage in the form of a hump on the mammoth’s back, confirming images from the Pleistocene depicting the humped back. Previously the hump in the art work was attributed to large thoracic spines but now it seems to be more camel-like soft tissue. Intact organs should tell us more about the animal and it’s environment than we have known. As the Arctic ice recedes, it seems we will find more and more of these specimens being exposed.
Links to this story can be found here:
http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/04-10-2012/122353-mammoth_remains_found-0/
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