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December 2006
Smashed ancient statues give clues for solving riddle of Greek ...
Canoe.ca - Canada
... the Cycladic culture worshipped the Greek gods of Mount Olympus, who first appeared in the 2nd millennium BC, and their beliefs are shrouded in mystery as no
Live giant squid caught on videotape
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... They have long been wrapped in mystery and embellished in the folklore of sea monsters, appearing in ancient Greek myths and attacking the submarine in Jules
Different perspective on some hidden art
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
... Some said that the paintings at Altamira were fakes, too good to be ancient. ... Each new discovery only increases the mystery: Why only here, in this little ...
A Surprising and Entertaining Novel of the UFO Phenomenon -- Told ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... if UFOs were really real--and there wasn't some alien behind the mystery, but God himself. The UFO phenomenon is nothing new. There are ancient cave paintings ...
Who speaks for the Earth?
Hindu - Chennai,India
... happens? What do we want to say to an alien civilization? What should we do if we find alien technology in our solar system? Michaud ...
100 sharks swarm beach in Florida
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- About 100 sharks were spotted Tuesday close to shore along the St. Lucie County coast, authorities said.
A plague of swans
Independent - London,England,UK
A series of mild winters and strict conservation laws mean their numbers are rising as never before. But the huge flocks are stripping ...
Swarm of bees takes over sofa
The Nation Newspaper - Bridgetown,St. Michael,Barbados
That's how hairdresser Roz Toy said she felt when she discovered that thousands of bees "with nasty black tails" had taken up residence in her patio sofa at ...
Cause of sinkhole hidden beneath Portland street
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... the Florida Keys, Rooney said he did not know the specifics of Portland's situation but that aging pipes can eventually leak and wash away underground soils. ...
Rare Velvet Underground Record Sells on eBay By Ty Velvet UndergroundThe rare Velvet Underground acetate has sold on eBay for far less than the first auction, but that was revealed to be a prank anyway. The rare version of “The Velvet Underground and Nico” sold on eBay Thursday for ...
UNDERGROUND FIRES SURFACE
By Ron Ballew
Uncontrolled fires burning in underground and surface coal deposits in numerous countries, including China, India, and Indonesia, are emitting large amounts of greenhouse gases and other pollutants into the atmosphere. ...
Bees swarm Fort Lauderdale home
Miami Herald - FL,USA
By DIANA MOSKOVITZ. Firefighters were battling a swarm of perhaps a thousand bees in one Fort Lauderdale home this afternoon.
Sky stone: treasured for all time
Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
... These trunks were sitting in the basement for 50 years in Albuquerque, and they were in a root cellar in Cerrillos for 30 or 40 years
Church goes from digging dirt to digging into history
Virginian Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
... An archeological survey was conducted on the Glasgow Street site with the hopes of finding signs of a tunnel or other evidence of the Underground Railroad. ...
Mapmaker helped unlock mystery of cemetery
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA... In mid November, the mystery nearly derailed the school district's property negotiations. ... Enter county mapmaker E. Dumas, a trail of ancient Mosquito Control
Was One Of The Magi, A King From Lanka?
Asian Tribune - Bangkok,Thailand
... The exact date of Jesus’ birth is a mystery. ... to some researchers, is from the Old Persian word "Magu," which designates a member of an ancient near-eastern ...
Unwrapping the Science of Santa's Mystical Journey
Forbes - NY,USA
... year-old Amelia offered a simpler solution: "Maybe he has a secret shortcut ... He believes that Santa -- whom experts say moved to his underground complex at the ...
Tumbleweed drifts plague Pueblo West homes
Pueblo Chieftain - Pueblo,CO,USA
By JAMES AMOS. Pueblo West is awash in drifts from Wednesday's blizzard - but it isn't snow that's covering cars and houses. It's tumbleweeds.
Butte explores toxicity as tourist attraction
Baltimore Sun - United States
By Michael Martinez. BUTTE, Mont. // This was once "the Richest Hill on Earth." Home to vast mineral wealth, Butte was a storied mining town, providing one ...
World's smallest life form discovered
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... bear on estimates of the pervasiveness of exotic microbial life, which some experts suspect forms a hidden biosphere extending miles underground whose total ...
NASA Supports UCR Research on Improved Solar Cells for Spacecraft
UC Riverside - Riverside,CA,USA
... International Space Station. Improved solar cell technology could increase Space Station performance. Image credit: NASA. RIVERSIDE, Calif
Woman wants FedEx to buy dog
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Columbus,GA,US... Wednesday. Secret, one of the family's three dogs, was wearing a $200 collar that worked with an underground fencing system, she said. .
Savvy squirrels outwit trees
MSNBC - USA
... on the seeds hidden in spruce-tree cones. Before the seeds are ripe, the furry mammals clip the cones from tree limbs and bury them in one spot underground. ...
Elephants swarm town in Assam
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
A herd of about 70 elephants swarmed a town in central Assam in search of food. A curfew was clamped in Hajoi town and power supply ...
Pictures from the dawn of time reveal a universe in the throes of ...
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... What the ancient objects are remains a mystery. One possibility is they are stars, the first to light up after the dawn of time. ...
Newport residents upset over swarm of vultures
WTVF - Nashville,TN,USA
NEWPORT, Tenn. Newport residents will take a petition to a city council meeting tonight to protest their pesky neighbors. Over 500 ...
Cat Scratch Plague
Plenty Magazine - New York City,NY,USA
... reports that over the past year, mountain lions have been dying from the same disease that killed millions of people during the Middle Ages: bubonic plague.
Comet dust has mix of material from solar system's ancient birth
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
... particles that flow through the solar system thought to be from ancient stars that ... the inner solar system could have ended up in comets is still a mystery. ...
Dead sperm whale's teeth missing
BBC News - UK
... Meanwhile, the mystery over the animal's missing jawbone has been solved. ... because of its size the whale carcass was protected under an ancient law classing it ...
Search begins for historic tunnel
Grenada Daily Star - Grenada,MS,USA
... was built in conjunction with the college. Another theory is that the tunnel served as a type of Underground Railroad for slaves.
Geological mysteries revealed
Redlands Daily Facts - Redlands,CA,USA
... home message is: "Science is not some big mystery, it's just a ... in understanding and interpreting the unparalleled geologic processes, ancient environments and ...
Abandoned mobile homes plague North Carolina
The Independent Weekly - Durham,NC,USA
BY LISA SORG. The abandoned trailers on Lots 166 and 167 at Stony Brook North Mobile Home Park in Raleigh sit as still as empty locust shells.
Mountain lions die of plague
TVNZ - New Zealand
Two mountain lions have died of bubonic plague in northwest Wyoming, posing a risk of possible infection to humans, a local scientist said on Friday. ...
FLATS HIT BY PLAGUE OF RATS
Grantham Journal - Grantham,England,UK
A man claiming to have a knife stole £700 from Nelson's Butchers in Westgate, Grantham, last Thu... The funeral of Royal Marine ...
Florida home invaded by 'big buzz'
WHDH-TV - Boston,MA,USA
A couple living in an apartment complex along the 800 block of Second Avenue left a little "stung" after a swarm of bees invaded their home. ...
Mum slams health threat over rat 'plague'
East London Advertiser - London,England,UK
AN EXPECTANT mum has put her foot down and is refusing to 'share' her flat with her unborn baby and the rats that have plagued her - for three years. ...
Student spots UFO over Swindon
Swindon Advertiser - Swindon,Wiltshire,UK
... On two occasions on Monday night the 17-year-old spotted strange lights in the skies over Swindon. It was at 8.55pm when he made his first sighting.
Record Solar Outburst Bombarded Earth
All Headline News - USA
... A solar outburst, with a record amount of radio noise, bombarded Earth on December 6, 2006, solar physicist at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Dale Gary
International deals to mold lunar base use
Huntsville Times - Huntsville,AL,USA
... Working through nations' problems with the ever-changing International Space Station has been a very complex and sometimes arduous process, said McDaniel, who ...
Oregon Coast Freaky Fish, Celebrities, Ghost Trees and An ...
Beach Connection - Manzanita,OR,USA
... Lincoln County Historical Museum in Lincoln City, some strange and possibly ... that around 2,000 years ago a massive, cataclysmic earthquake abruptly dropped this
Tunisia shares 'Star Wars' set
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA
... the troglodyte place, we stayed at the troglodyte hotel, Sidi Driss, which was used as the actual house of Uncle Owen and Aunt B, the underground home of Luke
In Paris, a happy ending for a mystery of Afghan cultural heritage
International Herald Tribune - France
PARIS: The mystery baffled archaeologists for more than two decades ... pieces of gold — jewel-encrusted crowns, daggers and baubles from an ancient burial mound ...
Ancient bee fossil found embedded in amber
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... To The Evolution Of Flowers (April 5, 2001) -- "An abominable mystery" is how ... Beyond Jurassic Park -- Real Science With Ancient DNA (November 17, 1998) -- Bees .
Solving the mystery on the mountain plateau
På Høyden - Bergen,Hordaland,Norway
... years ago, when his suspicions were aroused by two men who came to him with a sack full of ancient bones which ... But why they took the ribs is still a mystery.
Oh Tannenbaum, Oh Tannenbaum!
ChristianityToday.com - Carol Stream,IL,USA
... and ancient inhabitants of northern Europe cut evergreen trees—ancient symbols of ... century appearance of Christmas trees links them to medieval mystery plays.
New Technology Leads Way To Ancient Battle Site
WTVF - Nashville,TN,USA
... York," MTSU Dean John McDaniel said. Exactly where York made history has been a mystery until now. Experts from Middle Tennessee led ...
You Can Surf in Cleveland, Before the Lake Freezes
New York Times - United States
... They keep their best surf spots secret. They consider themselves part of an underground society. And they hope to keep it that way. ...
Outlines of a mystery
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... Another mystery. But the city is generous with theories. ... The word Nasca means "hard place to live," but its ancient residents found ways to survive. ...
’Vatican mystery solved? St. Pauls tomb found
Calgary Sun - Canada
... Two ancient churches that once stood at the site of the current basilica were successively built over the spot where tradition said the saint had been buried. ...
Bargain bin LP bids zoom past $150G
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... Hill told the paper he plunked down 75 cents for the hidden gem on a ... of nine songs from the band's March 1967 debut album, "The Velvet Underground and Nico.".
Copper oozing in Sipalay City road
Sun.Star - Philippines
... in case of earth movement, these kind of minerals form a deposit underground.". ... time promote their beautiful beaches and some of its hidden paradise, Montilla
Woman dies after being attacked by bees
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa A 45-year-old woman died after being attacked by a swarm of bees at her home near Sodwana in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Monday, police said.
The secret of Gungywamp
WTNH - New Haven,CT,USA... "These rocks are quite big so it took a lot of manpower to actually construct these.". Many believe these were used as root cellars
One man's life: Fall takes life of Tree House Dave
Valley News Network - Temecula,CA,USA
Better known as Tree House Dave, he lived on the fringe of homelessness in a work in progress: a tree house he was building on the grounds of a Lake Elsinore ...
The Truth About the Peace Symbol
John Birch Society - Appleton,WI,USA
... was being created, Austin "was reading a book on the runes, the ancient signs of ... The real mystery of the peace symbol is why a group of peace activists in the
December 13, 2006
’Latest Findings Reject Urartu Kings Direct Presence in Iran
Cultural Heritage News - Tehran,Tehran,Iran
... said Shahidi adding that more archeological studies are needed to unlock this mystery. ... been excavated in the past years and the remaining 21 ancient sites were ...
Great Wall of China The first major wall was built during the ...
By Albercik The walls that were linked together at this time consisted of rammed earth with watch towers built at regular intervals. It was located much further north than the current Great Wall with its eastern end at modern day North Korea.
The Place to Listen
Alaska Magazine - AK,USA... of a recent article announcing that scientists had finally solved the mystery of a ... to notice how it juxtaposes work by contemporary and ancient artists rather ...
Dr. John Demartini, THE SECRET, and Transforming the World-Part I
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
... The principles upon which it is based can be traced to the ancient mystery schools of the Egyptian and Mayan civilizations.
Concrete Blocks Used in Great Pyramids Construction
Newswise (press release) - USA Newswise — In partially solving a mystery that has baffled archeologists for centuries, a ... The ancient builders cast the blocks of the outer and inner casings ...
EBay bids skyrocket for rare Velvet Underground recording
CBC British Columbia - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada Montrealer Warren Hill's discovery of an early Velvet Underground recording could deliver an enormous return on the music lover's initial 75-cent investment. ...
The mystery of the ancient Mayans
Lumino Magazine - Chicago,IL,USA
On Christmas Eve 2012, the sky is divided by the sun and all dry land begins to rise. The oceans respond to the tectonic shifts ...
The secrets of the space computer that used technology a thousand ...
ic Wales - United Kingdom A WELSH scientist has helped crack an ancient mystery which has transformed the way historians think about the ancient world.
2-decade effort has kept ferret alive
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
... Loss of habitat and waves of flea-borne sylvatic plague have wiped out prairie dogs across the West, and ferrets remain highly susceptible to canine distemper
Insignia of Emperor Maxentius unearthed
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... the house of Rome's first emperor, Augustus. Experts said that much has yet to be uncovered, hidden in underground passageways
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