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Also known as "Old Ones", Elder Things are the first alien species ever to come to Earth, which they colonized in the early Cambrian. Barrel-shaped beings with vegetal as well as animal characteristics, they built huge cities both underwater and on dry land. They may be responsible for the apparition of the first life-forms indigenous to Earth, including (although sources differ in this regard), Ubbo-Sathla. They bio-engieneered the dreaded Shoggoth as their all-purpose slave race, but the latter eventually rebelled, an event that hastened the decadence and ultimate collapse of their civilization. They are known to have warred against the Star-spawn of Cthulhu, the Great Race of Yith, and the Mi-goThe Mi-Go are fictional characters of the Cthulhu Mythos, a race of alien beings created by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The Mi-Go (or Fungi from Yuggoth resemble human-sized crustaceans with wings that allow them to fly through the vast reaches of outer sp, but it was the gradual cooling of the planet during the last Ice ageFor the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie . For the band, see Ice Age (band . An ice age is a period of long-term downturn in the temperature of Earth's climate, resulting in an expansion of the polar ice caps and mountain glaciers (" glaciation"). Glaci that spelled their doom when their last surface city, located on a high plateau in the Antarctic, was frozen in ice. The ruins of this city were discovered in 19311931 is the common year starting on Thursday. see link for calendar) Events January January 4 Female aviator Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa January 6 Thomas Edison submits his last patent application. January 22 Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the by two members of the Miskatonic UniversityMiskatonic University is a fictional seat of learning located in the equally fictional Arkham, Massachusetts. Miskatonic was introduced in the stories of H. Lovecraft and continues to figure prominently in Cthulhu Mythos stories written since his death.'s Antarctic expedition, as related in Lovecraft's novella " At the Mountains of MadnessAt the Mountains of Madness is a novella-length story by horror writer H. Lovecraft that is considered by Lovecraft scholar S. Joshi to represent the decisive "demythology" of the Cthulhu Mythos. The story was originally serialized in Astounding Stories d". Additional references to the Elder Things also appear in Lovecraft's short stories "The Dreams in the Witch-House" and "The Shadow out of Time".