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August 2007
Underground eats
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
BY MARGARET LITTMAN Dining underground doesn't exactly have a romantic connotation. It sounds as if you're being served a plate of grubs or, at best, ...
Stalactite Cave - An underground wonder
Ynetnews - Israel
On a hot summer day, one may escape to the Stalactite Cave at the Avshalom Reserve east of Beit Shemesh, where with just a bit of imagination
Home Builder Searching For Underground Bombs
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA
The machines are used to detect unexploded bombs that could be underground. Lennar Homes said it was caught off guard by the news that the subdivision sits ...
Ancient murder mystery takes new turn
MSNBC - USA
South Tyrol Museum Of Archaeology / AP By Nicole Winfield ROME - Researchers studying Iceman, the 5000-year-old mummy found frozen in the Italian Alps,
Busy bee solves orchid mystery
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
THE discovery of a 20-million-year-old bee with pollen from an orchid stuck to its back suggests these exquisite flowers are more ancient than thought and
Montreal's unknown underground
The Suburban - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Many underground discoveries are still to be unearthed at the Youville site. The City of Montreal plans on spending $200000 on archaeological digs outside ...
Pseudoarchaeology says Vikings came to Australia
ABC Science Online - Australia
Gojak says many people who stumble across stone artefacts or engravings that remind them of ancient civilisations think they are evidence of arrivals in ...
NZ cave man keen to get back underground
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
A New Zealand caver who spent almost three days stuck below ground after being knocked out by falling rocks will return to the activity he loves as soon as ...
BBC Worldwide Takes on Underground Ernie
World Screen News - New York,NY,USA
Underground Ernie will be launched on the international market at MIPCOM. The series debuted in the UK on CBeebies in June 2006, and is currently in its ...
Ancient microbes repair DNA
Scientist - UK
... for tens to hundreds of millions of years, but how these ancient bacteria remained alive for so long under extreme conditions has remained a mystery.
What's In Your Bag, Part 2
The biggest, Derinkuyu, wasn't discovered until 1965, when a resident cleaning the back wall of his cave house broke through a wall and discovered behind it a room that he'd never seen, which led to still another, and another. ...
LN: Czech archaeologists to explore old vault by radar
Prague Daily Monitor - Prague,Czech Republic
The experts will first map the monastery underground by a special radar system that will provide a precise computer model of the premises
Ancient ice sheet mystery
AlaskaReport - Juneau,AK,USA
One recent interpretation argued that extensive ice covered both hemispheres about 41 million years ago - despite other evidence that an ancient greenhouse ...
Nampa Image: Is it a hoax or discovery?
Idaho Press-Tribune - Nampa,ID,USA
... Nampa Image came from an ancient and undiscovered culture. How long man had lived in North America was a mystery back then, as it is to an extent today. ...
Hidden treasures: Wisconsin is dotted by underground marvels
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA
Other progress to that effect goes on here, but it occurs underground. Members of the Wisconsin Speleological Society (whose members explore and study ...
New Zealand rescue team heads deep underground to aid injured cave ...
International Herald Tribune - France
AP WELLINGTON, New Zealand: A rescue team headed deep underground Sunday to aid a cave climber with a broken leg who was trapped after a rock slide in New
Inside The Emperor's Underground Palace (China)
By The Times (UK)
From The Times (UK)August 22, 2007 Inside the Emperor's underground palace Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent It covers an area the size of Cambridge but so far only a tiny proportion of the site of the First Emperor of China's ...
Set in stone but will the pyramid mystery ever be solved?
Fortnightly Tenerife News - Tenerife,Spain
Are these dark stone steps a symbol of ancient times, similar to those found in Mexico, or just a pile of farmers' rubble? It'sa question which may never be ...
Underground experiment sheds light on sun
MSNBC - USA
Michael Dinneen / AP By Andrea Thompson A giant underground experiment has given researchers their first glimpse into the heart of the sun and the subatomic ...
CU team finds key evidence of Mayan crop
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
It's more proof that the lives of some ancient Central American farmers weren't the hand-to- mouth existences once thought, Sheets said. ...
Shocking tales of the underground
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
UCLA has blocked off areas of its 6-mile tunnel system. Columbia University is securing its tunnel entry points with new doors, locks and card readers. ...
Timbuktu, a mythic city born of mud and sand
Seattle Times - United States
The fabled glories of this mysterious and mythical desert settlement have been fading since 1591, when Moroccans attacked, bringing the beginning of the end ...
Illuminating a dark period of history
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
BETWEEN the collapse of the Mycenaean civilisation and the epics of Homer lay centuries of mystery known as the Greek Dark Ages. ...
From florist to national hero
Voices Newspaper - Didim,Aydin,Turkey
A frightened Esposito finally directed investigators to the soundproof bunker. An independent contractor, Esposito quietly built the chamber 18 months ago
Family shares bunker tales
Pacific Daily News - Hagåtña,GU,USA
The ditch, they were told, could possibly be the underground bunker their family hid in more than 60 years ago from Japanese soldiers. ...
Archaeologists shine light on war artifacts
Asahi Shimbun - Tokyo,Japan
It will cover war remains in Okinawa Prefecture, such as the military hospital in Haebaru, and an underground bunker built in Nagano's Matsushiro district ...
Underground hospitals that saved the lives of soldiers
Irish Medical Times - Dublin,Ireland
Last year there were reports of a large bunker complex including hospital block being discovered in Normandy. This is currently being examined by historians ...
A Minnesota Mystery: The Kensington Runestone
WCCO - Minneapolis,MN,USA
They traced the dotted 'R' to rune covered graves inside ancient churches on the island of Gotland off the coast of Sweden. What they found on the grave ...
Derinkuyu, or: the allure of the underground city
By Geoff Manaugh(Geoff Manaugh)
These questions lead Weisman at one point to discuss the underground cities of Cappadocia, Turkey, which, he says, will outlast nearly everything else humans have constructed here on Earth. [Images: Derinkuyu, the great underground city ...
Moscow Underground Tunnels (HDR)
By kolobkov
Here are some new HDR processed pictures with some 3D graphics elements of the underground Moscow tunnels by the photographer Alex Klochkov. It is necessary to notice, that these places are extremely dangerous, so don't even try to go
Ancient Chinese Yin-Yang Fish Bowl Remains a Mystery
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
Modern science can only lament its insignificance before the miracles created by ancient Chinese technology and treat it as an unsolved mystery. ...
Mysterious Fuxian Lake's secrets told
China Daily - China
To unveil the mystery, a Chinese submarine archaeology team stationed in Fuxian Lake also became involved. Members had discovered lots of blocks scattered ...
So what on Earth's the big attraction?
Guardian Unlimited - UK
It seems the allure of mysterious ancient constructions or feats of elegant engineering are easily diminished by the inconvenience of traffic,
UWO tests mystery of mummies
London Free Press - Canada
... Covered in protective gauze and wrapped in layers of ancient bandages, the lives of three mummies that arrived yesterday at UWO are shrouded in mystery. ...
Photographs by Robert Clark
National Geographic - Washington,DC,USA
And that was only the beginning of the mystery. Spotted in the industrial-size sieve of a peat processing plant, he was naked, his head wrenched sharply to ...
Amber: tears of Heliades that bring health
RussiaToday - Russia
But its origin had been a mystery. People used to make plenty of other suggestions in an attempt to explain the stunning beauty of amber. ...
Blame the bombs
Buckinhamshire Free Press - High Wycombe,England,UK
A scientist (I believe my memory is right) named Van Allen discovered an electrical magnetic field surrounding the Earth, now named Van Allen. ...
Largest ever swarm of supergiant stars in Milky Way discovered
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
London : Astronomers have found the largest known swarm of red supergiant stars near the central bulge of the Milky Way galaxy. Scientists say this offers a ...
Bees swarm after Texas flooding
News 8 Austin - Austin,TX,USA
Pierce has also seen more swarm calls than ever in her bee-keeping career. She's responded to more than 30 calls to remove them from homes, businesses and ...
The meaning of dreams
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
This discovery seemed to confirm the ancient Indian philosophy that there are three modes of existence - sleep, dreams and wakefulness, and the finding ...
Dusty star sheds light on stellar brightness
MSNBC - USA
(1 AU is the distance from the Earth to the sun). It is the closest dusty puff ever detected around a so-called R Coronae Borealis (R Cr B) star.
Diggers recover thousands of artifacts from Kouts site
Munster Times - Munster,IN,USA
Could it be the underground structure could have been some sort of underground storage, such as a root cellar? Just a thought. " >> Post a comment Thank you ...
Bronze Age brew proves a vintage ale
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
After four years of research, which has seen them travel from Belgium to Bavaria to investigate ancient beer-making methods, the team has concluded that ...
Reports: Injured cave explorer rescued after 4 days underground in ...
International Herald Tribune - France
... out alive Sunday from a mountain grotto in northwestern Italy, four days after he broke his ankle and became trapped underground, news reports said. ...
Pride of the Nile
Advertiser Adelaide - Adelaide,South Australia,Australia
The Nile, meaning "river valley" in ancient Egyptian, has been the lifeline for this country's people for centuries. It was by these banks that one of the ...
Astonishing tale of a saintly princess
Dereham Times - Dereham,Norfolk,UK
It is an ancient mystery that to this day is still leaving historians and relic-hunters scratching their heads in sheer bewilderment. ...
Return of the plague
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
AN URGENT independent review of biosecurity measures at an animal research laboratory close to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease at a farm in Surrey,
Plague of mice spreading, say pest controllers
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Householders are facing a plague of mice this summer, heightening the risk of disease, pest controllers warned yesterday. Warmer winters, the prevalence of ...
Bucks Co. Woman Attacked By Swarm Of Bees
CBS 3 - Philadelphia,PA,USA
A woman was attacked by a swarm of bees Friday afternoon on the property of her Springfield Township, Bucks County home. It quickly turned serious, ...
Swarm of starving vultures 'ate cow alive'
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
By Adam Sage WHEN a French pensioner died of a brain haemorrhage during a walk in the Pyrenees this summer, vultures started circling low over the body. ...
Mysterious object is a return visitor to Liverpool
Southport Visiter - Southport,Lancashire,UK
Had something its size taken off at high speed, a sonic bang would have rocked Merseyside, but no such boom was reported. Lee's account is just one of many ...
Venus mystery has town buzzing
Montgomery Advertiser - Montgomery,AL,USA
The original Venus, originally known as the Aphrodite of Milos, is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture. ...
Unearthing a mystery
Fairborn Daily Herald - OH,USA
OREGONIA, Ohio Ð When officials at Fort Ancient needed to reclaim eroded areas within the park, they had no idea what mystery they were about discover. ...
Palawan Underground River Entrance
By Eugene(Eugene)
Paul's Underground River lies under the St. Paul Mountain Range in the area and goes directly to St. Paul Bay in the South China Sea. It winds through numerous limestone caverns The whole underground river has been designated as the ...
Looking for Clues of Underground Tunnels in Fresno's Historical ...
ABC30.com - Fresno,CA,USA
The GPR data from this test run will create a 3D map that will suggest where other test digging for tunnels and other underground historical treasure. ...
Across Kansas: Famous costumes at salt museum
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Costumes once worn by Batman and other movie heroes are being featured in a new exhibit at the Kansas Underground Salt Museum. The attraction shares its ...
Hitler's Unearthed Music Collection Yields Surprising Finds
Deutsche Welle - Germany
The headquarters of the Nazi party were located near the secret underground bunker where Hitler committed suicide at the end of World War II
Couple find secret bunker in back garden
The Argus.co.uk - Brighton,UK
After hours of digging the couple uncovered a set of stairs leading into a small underground bunker. The brick-built structure, which has white plastered ...
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