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December 2007
’Foster plans worlds biggest building
Times Online - UK
Reaching almost 1500ft into the sky and housing up to 30000 residents, the Crystal Island will contain more floor space than any other structure on Earth. ...
Indian burial ground reveals secrets
Connecticut Post - Bridgeport,CT,USA
MILFORD — The remains of about 150 Paugussett Indians were located and mapped more than 60 years ago at the Gulf Pond site where a new subdivision is
Archaeologists surprised by ancient find at unlikely spot
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
"It's a bit of a mystery how these people worked little pebble cores into tools," he said. "It's something we need to spend more time on. ...
IN THE NEWS / Gondwana mystery lures geologist back to Antarctica
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
... of the 50th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, the latest in a series aiming to uncover the mysteries of the ancient Gondwana supercontinent. ...
Mystery of Atlantis Solved
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
He reports on the recent discoveries of a lost city off Cuba, and its importance to the Atlantis legend. And when all of this interest in Atlantis in the ...
China's New Bestseller: The Bible
TIME - USA
"What they are afraid of [is people] getting together and meeting in secret and not registering [with the government]. It doesn't bother them that people
Frog drought survivor found near Brewarrina
ABC Online - Australia
A senior ranger with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Daniel Trudgen, says the frog spends up to a year underground, before surfacing during the ...
Historic graffiti mural discovered in Manhattan building
International Herald Tribune - France
AP NEW YORK: It was the stuff of urban legend — rumors that a historic Manhattan building had important graffiti hidden in its walls. ...
Loch Ness mystery may never die, expert says
MSNBC - USA
Shine agreed, saying, "It's the landscape itself, these high mountains, these ancient mountains, these ancient forests – they're all there. ...
John Switzer commentary: Earthworks shrouded in a little less mystery
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
One of his major finds happened while he was surveying at Fort Ancient in Warren County for the Ohio Historical Society. He found evidence of what is now
Ancient secrets emerge from grave
BBC News - UK
It was known the remains were of powerful churchmen of the Middle Ages, but their identities were a mystery. But Historic Scotland research has shown when ...
Survivor recalls plunge from SIlver Bridge into the river
Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston,WV,USA
People have also pointed at the Mothman, the mysterious winged-creature supposedly spotted several times in the Point Pleasant area, as a reason for the ...
Martian Building Blocks
Astrobiology Magazine - USA
... meteorite [ALH84001], found at Allen Hills, Antarctica. These shapes have previously generated controversy around ancient fossilized microbial life.
Transport yourself to London's past...and future
Hendon & Finchley Times - London,England,UK
You can even tunnel under the Thames, and see what it was like to shelter underground during the war. In the Metro-land Gallery, you can relax in a
Forgotten for more than a century, olive oil back on top
AFP -
"When I was starting out, olive oil had a terrible reputation, people said it was greasy, that it made you fat," remembers the 57-year-old Gonfond, ...
Can plants think? This slime solved a maze
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Thus, said the researchers, it had "maximize(d) its foraging efficiency, and therefore its chances of survival." It shouldn't come as a surprise that there ...
~NASA awards $9.3 million to Dartmouth researcher for radiation ...
Dartmouth News - Hanover,NH,USA
The instruments carried by the balloons will provide answers to how and where the Van Allen Belts, discovered in 1958, periodically release electrons into ...
Temples in the mist
Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA
But for my park entry fee, no ruins can match Tikal's. Some ancient sites — the Pyramids, the Colosseum — feel monumental. Others — Ephesus, Petra — feel ...
In Tikal, Temples in the Mist
New York Times - United States
But for my park entry fee, no ruins can match Tikal's. Some ancient sites — the Pyramids, the Colosseum — feel monumental. Others — Ephesus, Petra — feel ...
The mother of all civilisations
Times of India - India
The ruins were so magnificent and sprawling that some people believed that the aliens from a faraway galaxy had built the huge pyramids that stood in the
Travel Trends - Boutique Hotels in Turkey
By nona67591(nona67591)
You can choose to stay in a cave house from the 6th century or stay in a village and live the life of people who live in small villages. You can stay in a historical mansion and listen to the stories of the mansion from the owner. ...
China Arrests 270 Underground Protestant Pastors
Christian Post - USA
According to CAA, there is a campaign to "normalize" underground Protestant churches by giving them two options: either join the Three Self-Patriotic ...
Ice Mystery
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA
The point isn't lost on researchers studying ancient microbes under the surface of the Antarctic ice shelf. A team from the University of Delaware and the
Hittites 'used germ warfare 3500 years ago'
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
In 1325 BC, when the Hittites sacked the Phoenician city of Symra, on the borders of Lebanon and Syria, a mysterious plague was recorded.
Watch butterflies swarm to central Mexico
HeraldNet - Everett,WA,USA
In delicate swarms, the butterflies head south from the US and Canada to Mexico, where they drip from pine trees and coat mountainsides from November to ...
Bee keeper one of the swarm
Northland Independent Community - Northland,New Zealand
That's why the Rodney District Council gives his numbers (09 473 3099 or 0274 365 678) to anyone troubled by an invading swarm. He's always ready to take
Jewish community celebrates Hanukkah
Cape Breton Post - Cape Breton,Nova Scotia,Canada
This small batch of olive oil was only supposed to last one day, instead it lasted eight. Jews now gather each December to commemorate the rededication of ...
Health benefits of honey
Sun.Star - Philippines
Instructs 'The Folk Remedy Encyclopedia: Olive Oil, Vinegar, Honey and 1001 Other Home Remedies': "When using honey it may help to heat it up before putting
Descend into a dark, damp realm
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
Bruce Elder goes underground and explores three accessible caves in the limestone valleys near Sydney. To give a variation on Gertrude Stein,
NOAA Releases Report on the State of Deep Coral Ecosystems in the US
NOAA - Washington,DC,USA
In Hawaii, precious corals provide foraging habitat for endangered monk seals. "In most areas, additional mapping and research is needed, "Hogarth added. ...
Ancient Beehives in the Land of Honey
By Cat(Cat)
Back in the summer of 2007 archaeologists digging amongst ruins in the city of Rehov (Northern Israel) have discovered evidence of a 3000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient honeycombs, beeswax and what they ...
Roman ruins cast new light on a trip to doctor
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Anthea Gerrie in Rimini An ancient doctor's surgery unearthed by Italian archaeologists has cast new light on what a trip to the doctor would have been
The Ruins of Empire
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
Indeed, one of the ruins is supposedly the very spot where Caeser was assassinated. This is not a suggestion! Now tourists get amused by looking at ancient
Returning to an adopted homeland
Boston Globe - United States
With a panoramic view of the Jezreel Valley, this archeological mound, created from the ruins of 20 civilizations, presided over a strategic caravan ...
Lasers of the Hidden Temple: Cosmos CAT Scan Digs for Ruins
Popular Mechanics - New York,NY,USA
In Schwitters's cosmic plan, multiple underground detectors would be buried at strategic locations around, say, a hillside, where they would measure the ...
Photo Release -- Northrop Grumman Starts Integration and Test On ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
3, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- A satellite that will impact the Moon in 2009 in a search for water has started to come together in a manufacturing high bay at ...
U of A takes lead in space weather station
Edmonton Journal - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
The mission is destined for the Van Allen Radiation Belt, a little-studied region that lies between 6000 and 30000 kilometres above the Earth's surface, ...
Rare Maya "Death Vase" Discovered
National Geographic - Washington,DC,USA
The vase is the first of its kind to be found in modern times, and its contents are opening a window onto ancient rituals of ancestor worship that included ...
Scientists Get Rare Look at Dinosaur Soft Tissue
Washington Post - United States
The 25-foot-long hadrosaur found by Tyler Lyson in an ancient river flood plain in the dinosaur-rich Hell Creek Formation is apparently the most complete
Ancient Greenland mystery has a simple answer, it seems
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
Did the Norse colonists starve? Were they wiped out by the Inuit – or did they intermarry? No. Things got colder and they left.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL INVESTIGATES MYSTERY OF ANCIENT FAIR ...
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
The mummies remained in a regional museum, all but hidden for a decade, until Victor Mair, an expert on ancient Chinese texts, chanced upon them and .
Into the Heart of India's Underground Bone Trade
NPR - USA
Young Brothers, pictured here, has excelled at the underground bones trade. "They took the bodies from the river, from the graveyard and from the hospital," ...
éSecret restorers of the Panthon clock cleared of lawbreaking
The Edinburgh Journal - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
With about 150 members, it was unknown to the authorities until 2004, when an underground cinema under the Seine was discovered. ...
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