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April 2008
Into Xanadu
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
By Neil Miller Two Tucson cave explorers — Gary Tenen and the late Randy Tufts — discovered majestic Kartchner Caverns southwest of Benson in 1974. ...
Banwell's once famous bone caves
Weston & Somerset Mercury - eston-super-Mare,England,UK
The bones included the remains of cave bear, cave lion, reindeer, wolf, hyaena, bison, mammoth and woolly rhinoceros. The ornamental cottage built by Bishop ...
Mysterious ocean currents discovered
United Press International - USA
SAN DIEGO, April 28 (UPI) -- US scientists say they've discovered striped patterns of currents in every ocean on the planet, although what causes them is a ...
Lodge Marks 130th Anniversary
Centralia Chronicle - Centralia,WA,USA
Secondly, he must believe in a supreme being, often referred to in Masonic lingo as the Grand Architect of the Universe, and generally he must be in good
Log Road Might Offer Path Back to 1680s
Washington Post - United States
"And certainly to find something that might be from as early as the city's charter in 1708 is pretty remarkable." The researchers have found about four feet ...
Kansas City up to date with new museums of art, WWI
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
The museum is in an underground complex below the Liberty Memorial, an obelisk atop a downtown hill that was dedicated by President Calvin Coolidge in 1921. ...
Apr 22 Cold War QRP: A Case of "Discone Fever"?
ARRL - Hartford,CT,USA
Below ground, one can traverse tunnels and various chambers including the command and control room. Huge steel springs suspend these compartments from the ...
City of David website wins global UN award
Israel 21C - Cupertino,CA,USA
Visitors can click on an interactive aerial map of the city to visit key sites and explore ancient hiding places and secret tunnels: The Gihon Spring and ...
Ancient ways
The South African Star - Johannesburg,South Africa
Some of the churches are connected by chiselled rock alleyways and others by secret underground tunnels. As you step inside the auspicious rock churches, ...
The Fairfield Gorget: The little white disk with a big, big history
Columbia Missourian - Columbia,MO,USA
Accelerated Mass Spectrometry, or AMS dating, is a newer, more accurate form of radiocarbon dating that requires less material from an artifact to discern a ...
Elegy for Britain's vanishing village way of life
Daily Mail - UK
A couple of years ago, I became mildly obsessed with the idea that rural England was vanishing. It started abruptly. I was standing in our village ...
Quincy man sinks his teeth into the quest to date a fossil
Quincy Herald Whig - Quincy,IL,USA
By EDWARD HUSAR LIMA, Ill. -- Thousands of years ago, the seed of a mystery was planted when a hulking, furry creature the size of a modern-day elephant ...
Bluestones could help answer Stonehenge mystery
CTV.ca - Canada
The ancient quarry, located in west Wales, was believed to be a healing site, Wainwright told CTV.ca in an interview from London, England. ...
Vanished: A pueblo mystery in Colorado
International Herald Tribune - France
By George Johnson Perched on a lonesome bluff above the dusty San Pedro River, about 30 miles east of Tucson, the ancient stone ruin archaeologists call the
The Island Garden
Jamestown Press - RI, USA
A proper organic gardener uses natural materials to sustain plants in his or her garden. Materials such as bone meal, blood meal, compost, animal manure, ...
This Arctic archipelago is where the bears are
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
At about 78 degrees north latitude, it is less than 620 miles from the North Pole. Polar bears are so elusive that British researcher Tony van Eyken, ...
Teenager reaches sub-zero North Pole
United Press International - USA
Camilla Hempleman-Adams said she was among 11 people who donned skis and traveled 80 miles in frigid temperatures to reach the North Pole. ...
’Awesome Or Off-Putting: Kinkaids Ancient Egyptian Grand Canyon Cave
hecklerspray - Los Angeles,USA
In it lay the remains of an underground civilisation long since dead. The article goes on to state that the Smithsonian - the museum-iest museum in all the
Guanziling: A hot spring town that keeps on giving
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
The first site you arrive at, the Water and Fire Cave (水?火?洞?), is perhaps Guanziling's most famous. The underground springs contain huge amounts of methane ...
What Lies Beneath DC
Washington Post - United States
nBaltimore's Fort McHenry, whose de-sign included underground features meant to prevent a catastrophic munitions explosion. nWest Virginia's Organ Cave, ...
5 Extraordinary Uses Of Caves
Environmental Graffiti - London,England,UK
The region is famous, for its unique geological and historical wonders, such as underground cities, cave temples and cave hotels. It is a haven for tourists
New cave find linked to ancient burial jars
Philippine Information Agency - Philippines
"I feel happy that we've found another valuable artifacts that would help us understand more our history as a people not only in the Philippines but
Palawan underground river in 7 new wonders search
Inquirer.net - Philippines
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY—The Puerto Princesa Underground River National Park, a cave complex set in a vast karst formation some two hours north of the city
Secret tunnel unearths new Jerusalem conflict
AFP -
"Nobody knows how long these tunnels are and how far they have excavated so far," Mizrachi says. "Nobody knows anything."
Uncertain future for ancient spa
BBC News - UK
"By development-led excavations we rescue the most precious artifacts." The Bakircay river basin project was originally planned in the 1960s, ...
Fishermen concerned over mysterious death of fish
The News - International - Pakistan
By By our correspondent Fishermen have expressed concern over the large-scale death of fish at the Karachi coast. They demanded of the concerned authorities ...
Mysterious sky fireball video explained by experts
TV3 News - Auckland,New Zealand
A bright shining light that streaked across the Canterbury sky at sunset earlier this week has now been identified by the experts. ...
’‘’Catalonias Champagne Country
New York Times - United States
Hopping on a Disneyesque mini-train, we rocketed through basements and underground warehouses until we careened back upstairs to taste the cava. ...
Past Catches Up With the Queen of Roads
New York Times - United States
The ruins of the Villa of the Quintili, seen from the Appian Way, the ancient Roman highway. By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO ROME — In ancient times the Appian Way, ...
Tourists raiding ancient Rome
Times Online - UK
Archeologists in Rome have warned that poor security is allowing souvenir-hunting tourists to strip the Eternal City’s ancient monuments bare. ..
Crews dig into past at former farm site
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
One artifact they recovered - the shower head - surprised Rogers because plumbing in a rural house was unheard of at that time, she said. ...
Ancient Gold Necklace Discovered in Peru
The Associated Press -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The earliest known gold jewelry made in the Americas has been discovered in southern Peru. The gold necklace, made nearly 4000 years ago, ...
Cat burglar strikes library
Baruch College The Ticker - NY,USA
Unbeknownst to students and faculty, the Newman Library has an underground climate-controlled bunker used to preserve the college's rare book collection.
Seahenge still stays a mystery
Lynn News - King's Lynn,UK
Another theory suggests the circle was an ancient calendar, as its alignment ties in with the rising sun on midsummer’s day shining directly through an ...
The lesser-spotted butterfly
Independent - London,England,UK
But essentially, the decline remains a mystery. It is all the more so in that, although more than 70 per cent of Britain's 55 resident butterfly species
Clay tablet holds clue to asteroid mystery
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent British scientists have deciphered a mysterious ancient clay tablet and believe they have solved a riddle over a giant ...
Dry shampoos do the dirty work for hair
Times Online - UK
They have a secret weapon, of course – dry shampoo. Well, perhaps, it’s not quite so secret any more. Boots reports a 45% rise in sales of dry shampoo in ...
Alien UFO Mission - Roswell
UFODigest - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... truck and covered during the night and taken to be hidden. The intact had been to Area 51 and later to White Sands to a secret underground facility. ...
Seeking UFOs, deep underground
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
It is Davenport's door, which opens into a tunnel leading below ground to what was once a nuclear missile complex here in the desert of eastern Washington. ...
A mysterious series of tunnels have been discovered underneath St ...
Petersfield Today - Petersfield,England,UK
The three tunnels, which are built with stone walls and have a 6ft brick vault ceiling, are big enough for people to crawl around in. ...
New Theory Explains Mercury's Mysterious Cliffs
Space.com - USA
By Dave Mosher Mercury's surface is not only peppered with impact craters, but also wrinkled with mysterious chains of cliffs. Scientists think the "lobate ...
The other Indians...
Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India
There was also the Spruce Tree house which contained 130 rooms and 8 kivas. We saw extensive smoke blackening of the roof of the dwellings and asked one of ...
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