August 2006

Beached tuna find 'very unusual'
BBC News - UK... waters in open oceans. Weighing 83.5lb (38kg) and measuring 1.34m in length they said it was a "very unusual find.". The tuna, which ...

Unusual creature from the deep
Camden Haven Courier - Laurieton,New South Wales,Australia
by Michael Thompson. You will certainly not find it in your local fish co-op and its strange almost prehistoric appearance makes ...

More people concerned about busy bees
Santa Maria Times - Santa Maria,CA,USA
... I've been out on five swarm calls this year.”. ... Tingos offered some advice, however: If you have a bee swarm, wait 24 to 36 hours.

’Cicadas summer song hits high-volume pitch
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA... research on the critters, Greenfield said there are other factors besides brood size that can affect cicadas. For one, he said, bacteria or other underground

Organic dairy farmers aim to milk this unusual idea for all it's ...
ic Wales - United Kingdom
IT isn't all that often that you hear of farmers welcoming people on to their land with open arms, unless they are being paid to do so. ...

Exploring mysterious Pyramid Lake and its odd tufas Nevada Appeal - Carson City,NV,USA... according to our estimate, six hundred feet above the water; and, from the point we viewed it, presented a pretty exact outline of the great pyramid of Cheops ...

Ye gods! Ancient volcano could have blasted Atlantis myth
USA Today - USA... underworld. As a new marine geology survey of an ancient volcano in the Aegean Sea reveals, they may have been justifiably cowed.

A meeting of civilisations: The mystery of China's celtic mummies
Independent - London,England,UK
... The wooden combs they used to fan their tresses are familiar to students of ancient Celtic art. ... The modern and ancient DNA tell the same story," he says.

Harvest Festival Seeks the Most Unusual Vegetable
YourHub.com - Denver,CO,USA
Do you have an unusual vegetable? A tomato shaped like a rubber ducky? ... Bring your unusual vegetable to the Arvada Harvest Festival's Garden Harvest Contest. .

Who owns the past?
Seattle Times - United States... bones and artifacts are enough to provide significant clues about a mystery of the ... the coalition of tribes that claimed Kennewick Man, or the "Ancient One," as ...

The Stargate of the Alien Gods
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA... It is believed Viracocha taught his ancient secrets here at one of the great mystery schools, a temple of the ancient masters. When ...

13 plague cases reported in 4 states in US, highest in 12 years
Hindu - Chennai,India
Atlanta, Aug 27. (AP): Thirteen cases of plague, including two deaths ... On an average, about seven people a year are diagnosed with plague, CDC officials said.

Of magical caves
Hindu - Chennai,India
... tours including the tough one that gives you the full-length underground river adventure ... were waylaid by a group of probationary teachers on a research project. ...

Tiny beetles tear through American West
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... The tremendous swarm of mountain pine beetles -- which are about the size of a grain of rice -- is said to come into cycle about every 20 years. ...

Unusual break aids Woods at Bridgestone
CBC News - Canada
Tiger Woods used a bizarre turn of events Friday to take the lead at the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio. Tiger Woods smiles

Unusual number of tropical fish seen in Rhode Island waters
WHBF - Rock Island,IL,USA
Now, divers and fishermen say they are spotting an unusually large number of tropical fish in Rhode Island waters. Like the Portuguese ...

Unusual white, brown magpie makes South Peace appearance
Alberta Daily Herald Tribune (subscription) - Grande Prairie,Alberta,Canada
By DEREK LOGAN. A very rare partial albino magpie was found over the weekend on a farm north of Valhalla Centre. Joyce Viken spotted ...

The Mystery of Ever-Burning Lamps
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA... noticed a burning lamp hanging from the ceiling, lighting up the underground chamber. ... Who knows how many more lamps are still burning hidden in ancient vaults ...

It's Unusual - Sea Water Turns Sweet on Mahim Shores
Daijiworld.com - Mangalore,India
Mumbai, Aug 19: The city of Mumbai has been hitting news headline continuously in the last few months for some unusual happenings

Unusual apple part of harvest
Ironwood Daily Globe - Ironwood,MI,USA The orchard harvest at Leo Saari's town of Oma farm included this unusual apple growing out of another apple. "It looks like a bird

Wreck's discovery revives unusual survival tale
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA The ocean has revealed a secret 120 years old on the most remote island in the Hawaiian chain. In July, state workers happened upon ...

August 2006

STUNG TO DEATH BY A SWARM OF WASPS
Mirror.co.uk - London,UK By Emily Nash. A PENSIONER was stung to death by thousands of wasps which attacked him when he disturbed a nest in his garden. Ronald ...

Turtles released to combat jellyfish plague
Think Spain - Spain... the main food of this particular sea turtle is jellyfish and it is hoped that nature will combat nature in an effort to diminish the current plague around the

Real Life Snakes on a Plane
6abc.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... not allow open trade so the wildlife products must move through underground crime networks ... being used as a cover for drug smuggling drugs are hidden in false ...

Scribbles in the stonework of Rosslyn
Scotsman - United Kingdom... latest mystery - involving a carving scratched on the wall of the crypt - doesn't involve the Knights Templar, the bloodline of Christ or any ancient secret

Rural biblical plague disturbs Snakes On A Plane
Ekklesia - UK Instead Samuel L. Jackson and his co-stars took a back seat to another soaraway tabloid hit… the story of an alleged “biblical plague” in picturesque ...

Where have all the bees gone?
Macleans - Toronto,ON,Canada
... Tokyo law requires all buildings of more than 1,000 sq. m of floor space to have at least 20 per cent green roof to counter the heat

Snakes swarm Wilson apartment complex
News 14 Carolina - Raleigh,NC,USA
WILSON, NC -- People living in a Wilson apartment complex are terrified to walk outdoors. They said snakes have infested the overgrown ...

AOL to dig up garden in hunt for spammer's gold
Independent - London,England,UK
One of America's most notorious "spammers" - the underground entrepreneurs responsible for ... legal process simply aimed at responsibly recovering hidden assets.".

IN the name of the Lord, that's an unusual reptile.
Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
The 4ft alligator has the word God emblazoned in his natural white markings on his right side. Owner Michael Wilk, 25, who adopted ...

Rattlesnakes not unusual during monsoon
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... And in the Sonoran Desert, it’s not unusual for a healthy, 4-foot western diamondback to slither into your backyard looking for a tasty rodent to eat

Celestial sight remains a puzzle
London Free Press - Canada
... One of them confirms the boys' tale, but doesn't want his name in the newspaper. Paula Hounam, however, isn't afraid to admit seeing something unusual

A plague of flies descends to make village life hell
Times Online - UK
By Simon de Bruxelles. ENVIRONMENTAL health officers are baffled by a plague of flies which is making life a misery for the residents of two Wiltshire villages. ...

Giving 'tree house' a new meaning
Globe and Mail - Canada
An elm tree lives at the house that I only inhabit. You see him from the street and the garden and even through the skylights. We ...

Bee Attack Stings DHPS
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
A SWARM of bees attacked hundreds of children and parents at the Deutsche Hoehere Privatschule (DHPS) in Windhoek at lunchtime yesterday. ...

My first swarm, by a bee newbie
Seattle Times - United States
... My veiled helmet was askew, affording only a partial view of my swarm as it exploded into a cloud of 15,000 bees when its branch hit the ground. ...

Plague of locusts expected this autumn
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
JINAN: The coastal parts of Bohai Bay, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and Hainan Island are bracing themselves for a severe plague of locusts ..

Plague of rats
Greenock Telegraph - Greenock,Scotland,UK MAJOR construction work on former shipyard sites could be to blame for a plague of rats in the east end of Greenock. Fly tippers

Villages hit by fly plague
The Sun - UK
By TOM WELLS. Huge swarms of common house flies have turned the sky black and infested homes and businesses. Miserable people living ...

Drive up the wall with Zero Gravity super car
Buckinhamshire Free Press - High Wycombe,England,UK
Finally a vehicle that will amaze even Spider Man For the first-time ever, a remote controlled vehicle that defies the laws of gravity! ...

Who would suspect Braes hold such a sinister secret?
Paisley Daily Express - Renfrewshire,Scotland,UK... Their bodies were buried in underground chambers, cremated or laid on wooden platforms or placed in trees to be torn to bits by cult birds such as ravens. ...

Squirrels near Palomar Observatory test positive for plague
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
SAN DIEGO – Two ground squirrels captured at the Cedar Grove Campground near the Palomar Observatory tested positive for plague, county health officials

Family's underground crypt falls victim to seeping water
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA
BY MARY KLAUS. With the energy of a woman half her age, Helen Pinkerman climbed down a ladder into her family's underground crypt in Shoop's Cemetery. ...

Display captures Range Creek secrets
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA... ring on the floor as a replica of a structure the ancient inhabitants used ... thin straight sticks with bindings that their discoverers once called "mystery sticks ...

Window shopping future
The Sun - UKFashion king Ralph Lauren has installed this futuristic technology which lets customers buy clothes just by tapping on the window — even when the shop is SHUT ...

UNUSUAL TALES: Council Buys $600,000 Fire Truck, Then Forgets
Soonews.ca - Sault Ste. Marie,Ontario,Canada In Pottstown, Pennsylvania, tax and spending policies have become so natural that Council is beginning to forget some of its own expenditures....

Romancing the Stone
Quincy Herald Whig - Quincy,IL,USA... He sees it as a possible key to a mystery that, if proven true ... Sarah Wisseman, director of the Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials at ...

Volcano Rumblings Being Converted To Music To Predict Eruption
All Headline News - USA... of Catania. There is no definitive way to predict a volcano's eruption and scientists use a combination of methods. This week, the ...

EAST BAY The 'Grandfather' of Oakland's redwoods
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
All those ancient redwoods are long gone -- but one ... The existence and exact location of the old-growth redwood is a mystery even to many longtime Oakland hikers ...

Study: Trilobites Were Tunnel-Diggers
Discovery Channel - USA... Finding trilobites inside tunnel remains in Sweden's 465-million-year-old Holen Limestone is ... As for what the trilobites were doing underground, no one is quite ...

Museum investigates mysterious tunnel
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA... "In the woman's obit, it tells the story of the underground railroad. ... that several empty bottles of Jumping Jack apple-flavored wine were found hidden in the

Honeybees Swarm Henderson Family's Home
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA
VANCE COUNTY, NC -- Honeybees have found a home where they aren't welcome. In the backyard of Marie and Wallace Jones on Arch Street

Milano rock wall a mystery
Temple Daily Telegram - Temple,TX,USA... The article also refers to the discovery of ruins from an ancient fortress and temple, as well as idols, such as an image of an owl that was intact.

Jellyfish plague blamed on climate change
Independent - London,England,UK
By Stephen Castle in Brussels. A plague of jellyfish along Europe's beaches has become the latest environmental hazard to be blamed on global warming.

Virtual underground pond haunts World Wide Web
Inside Bay Area - Oakland,CA,USA
... The pond simply doesn't exist — not even underground, says developer Charles McKeag, whose company, Santa Clara-based Citation Homes, is preparing to tear

Discover the mystery of Matera
Lincoln Journal Star - Lincoln,NE,USA... of a deep ravine, this is modern Matera, a bustling upper town that overlooks the neighborhoods of Sasso Caveoso and Sasso Barisano, the ancient sassi, which ...

Passing is another loss to war history
Fayetteville Online - Fayetteville NC,USA... US Army Regulars and 60,000 Filipino soldiers, surrendered to the Japanese in April ... He was captured on Corregidor, where he was a staff officer in MacArthur .

New Study Helps Predict Location of Australia's Diamonds
Diamonds.net - New York,NY,USA
... "The most interesting part is what the work tells us about processes deep underground," O'Neill said. "The Earth has a whole secret life happening down there ...

Boo-Coo Trains on display in Starlight Plaza
Dundee's Independent - Dundee,MI,USA... levels of underground shafts on view underneath the surface. Another multi-level display features a tall waterfall, with a train going through a tunnel. ...

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT ANTIQUITIES
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs - Jerusalem,Israel... The hidden agenda of the Islamic movement is to elevate the sanctity of Jerusalem ... All of the underground spaces of the Temple Mount are ancient, some possibly ...

Archaeologists in Israel find ancient tunnels from Jewish revolt ...
Jewsweek - USA... However, the recent discovery of these underground chambers at the Israeli Arab village of Kfar ... There are three pits under this house and one tunnel leading to

Meteorite mystery vexes NASA scientists
CNN - USA... were known to science. But ALH84001 also turned out to be much more ancient than the other known Martian meteorites. At 4.5 billion ...

EAA urges BiH to halt "absurd project" on alleged pyramid
Makfax - Skopije,Macedonia
... found" to support the claim the site would be an archaeological site, Professor Harding said while commenting the controversial dig that sparked pyramid mania

Mausoleum of China's first emperor's grandmother comes to light
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... And more than 20,000 cubic meters of earth have been removed from the rammed earth in paths leading to the tombs and weathered earth from coffin chambers after

A slow death by progress
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada... For me, the greatest mystery of what we call the "ancient world" is how recent it really is. No city or monument is much more than 5,000 years old. ..

For the mermaids, it's where the show springs eternal
Miami Herald - FL,USA... that you can see a mermaid blow you a kiss from the small underground theater where ... drop down a 16-foot tube followed by a dimly-lit swim along a hidden 72-foot ..

Ancient brick kilns could demystify past
Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam
LAM DONG — The discovery of some ancient brick kilns in the Central Highlands may help crack a mystery that has puzzled Vietnamese archaeologists for long ...

Dark Sky is a bright idea
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Several years ago, as Los Angeles experienced a prolonged blackout, the police allegedly received many reports about "strange lights" in the night sky. .

Meteorite buzz keeps city awake
Times of India - India
RAJKOT: Was it raining 'meteorite fragments' again on Wednesday night and that too in one particular locality? When excited residents ...

Moon's abnormal bulge due to past oval orbit
Discovery Reports Canada - Toronto,Ontario,Canada An odd bulge on the moon's surface has been a mystery to astronomers ... to study this orbital past, MIT scientists extrapolated backwards from ancient records of ...

This centennial is a cliff hanger
USA Today - USA
... It's a mystery that has ... says the 27-year-old park ranger, gazing across the towering ruins of Oak Tree House, one of the hundreds of ancient dwellings built ...

Another Egyptian mystery
MSNBC - USA
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into Egypt's Valley of the Kings, another ancient puzzle has popped up on the radar screen - literally.

Plague of houseflies descends on villages
This is Wiltshire.co.uk - Swindon,England,UK Health officers are baffled over the cause of a fly plague in villages around Marlborough. Millions of the insects have descended

SUV crash stirs up swarm of furious bees
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
OSSIAN, Indiana — A teenage driver crashed into a hollow tree and stirred up tens of thousands of angry honey bees, creating a swarm that sent her and nine ..

Saltwater species in unusual places
Mobile Register - Mobile,AL,USA
Afternoon thunderstorms haven't stopped the migration of saltwater to the north, which means there are saltwater species in places where they haven't been in ...

Unearthing ET?
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... received funding from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency to study how life might exist on other planets, but she believes the secret may be found underground. ...

SWARM SONG - Termite trouble: School sets sights on pests
The Patriot Ledger - Quincy,MA,USA By RICK COLLINS. BRAINTREE - The town’s 34-year-old high school, made largely of concrete and metal, has a termite problem. Because ...

A berry unusual crop of quads
Stockport Express - UK
... So impressed were its members they asked the Stockport Express for a copy of our photograph of it. Frank said: “Twins are not unusual and triplets are great. ...

Aussies to improve Stonehenge
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... million ($61 million) building, by Denton Corker Marshall, is hidden within the ... the east with people transported in shuttles through an underground tunnel then ...