February 2007

Digger reveals Tiga's aqua secrets
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
He said they also found handmade water basins to collect water drips 50 metres down in caves, as well as a hidden underground lake that early residents used ...

Huge Underground "Ocean" Found Beneath Asia
By kurtw@nationalgeographic.com(kurtw@nationalgeographic.com)
A giant blob of water the size of the Arctic Ocean has been discovered hundreds of miles beneath eastern Asia, scientists report.

Uganda: Bubonic Plague Strikes Masindi
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The plague that has infected 15 people and killed nine in Masindi is infant a modified strain of the Bubonic plague that killed an estimated 25 million ...

Ancient Cemetery May Solve Polynesian Mystery
newswire.co.nz - Havelock Nth,Hawkes Bay,New Zealand
Archaeologists digging in Vanuatu have unearthed an ancient cemetery containing the headless skeletons of what are believed to be the earliest known ...

Plague Kills Nine People in Masindi
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
A PLAGUE, an infectious killer disease, has broken out in Masindi district, the ministry of health has warned. So far, 15 cases have been reported and nine

Ancient DNA solves milk mystery
Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
When did ancient populations learn that drinking milk 'does a body good'? A team of scientists in Germany has tried to answer this question by studying

UFO in Maine? More Unusual Lights Fill Skies
National Ledger - Apache Junction,AZ,USA
According to the Morning Sentinel Callers from four southern Somerset County towns reported seeing strange lights in the sky Wednesday night.

Awesome Or Off-Putting: The Man Who Shot Two Aliens
hecklerspray - London,UK
Phil Schneider is a ex-government geologist who claims, among other things, to have encountered a colony of aliens underground.

Swarm of bees attacks Fort Pierce man
TCPalm - Jupiter,FL,USA
Solomon Rincon tapes up Cory Crusoe, both of the St. Lucie County Fire District, before the district begins the process of dousing a hive of suspected

Call for cull as crocs swarm up north
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
By Sonia Campbell. AUTHORITIES are under mounting pressure to limit crocodile populations in the north as they haunt beaches, boat ramps and swimming holes. ...

Professor Sees Swarm Smarts in Honeybees
Fordham University - NY,USA
But homeless honeybees choose a new nest with efficiency, or “swarm smarts,” according to Thomas D. Seeley, Ph.D., professor of neurobiology and behavior at ...

Hand Dug Corridors Discovered in Nooshabad Underground City
Cultural Heritage News - Tehran,Tehran,Iran
During their third season of excavations, archeologists succeeded in discovering some more corridors in the underground city of Nooshabad, 13 meters below ...

Mysteries at The Caverns of Sonora
Del Rio Live! - Del Rio,TX,USA
The tour is led by an experienced caver who showcases all of the active, still-forming cave features, and the remarkable “Halo Lake,” an underground body of ...

Dr. Kestner: Tennessean discovers unusual cure for hiccups
Murfreesboro Post - Murfreesboro,TN,USA
Now, back to the story of the unusual discovery. Dr. Francis Fesmire is a specialist in emergency medicine and cardiology. He works with the University of ...

Nagging Hiccups Plague Sacramento Man
News10.net - Sacramento,CA,USA
A 77-year-old Sacramento man is hoping all the attention being given to a Florida girl's hiccups will help him with a cure. Herman Long said unlike Jennifer ...

New Testament Manuscripts: Discovery and Classification
American Thinker - Berkeley,AZ,USA
Since the Egyptians are known to have disposed of such copies by putting them in rubbish heaps, excavators looking for ancient Egyptian papyri would search ...

Scientists concluded starch on rocks matched nuts only eaten by chimps
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
In the West African rainforest, archaeologists have found ancient chimpanzee stone tools thousands of years older than the previous oldest finds in the same ...

First E.coli, now rats plague Yum Brands
Reuters - USA
David C. Novak became Chairman of the Board of Yum! Brands, Inc. on January 1, 2001, and Chief Executive Officer of Yum on January 1, 2000. He also.

Reopening an Ancient Egyptian case
International Herald Tribune - France
The mystery remains unexplained. Three animal-shaped ritual couches were there, the gilt wood heads of the bulls gleaming in the darkness

Remains found in cave hold ancient mystery
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
State police said that no ancient artifacts were found with the bones in the Green County cave, and that the few bones that were examined were returned to ...

Uncovering the secrets of Ypres
BBC News - UK
Geophysicist Malcolm Weale is a battlefield detective who specialises in uncovering history that has lain hidden for generations. ...

Trojan horses keep the secrets of the ancient city
Today's Zaman - Istanbul,Turkey
Emphasizing that Troy has a very mysterious history and that mystery emerges as excavations continue, Würtela said he got to know both the ancient city of ...

Esther - The Heroine Of Purim
Jewish Press - Brooklyn,NY,USA
There is a mystery surrounding the story, because the Book of Esther mentions no dates. Some scholars place it in the Second Temple period, but it is first

Ancient tree once shaded Gen. Washington
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
And in another history-mystery, diary passages about some family matters were scribed in code, Cavanaugh said. "No one ever cracked it, either," he added. ...

Magnetic Reconnection from Solar
IRISHDEV.com - Dublin,Ireland
In a paper published in the February 2007 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, scientists from the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (ATC) are ...

Study: Peruvian glacier might soon vanish
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... beds of ancient plants exposed for the first time in perhaps as much ... > full story. Ice Cores May Yield Clues To 5000-year-old Mystery (November 7,

Strange lights seen over southern Qld
ABC Online - Australia
Stargazers have been reporting a strange sighting in the skies over southern Queensland last night. Numerous residents on the Darling Downs have called the ...

Studies look at Antarctic mysteries
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
They might be caused by underground geothermal heat or by the heat-producing friction of the glaciers' motion. But Fricker and Bindschadler said the ...

Mystery plague that kills bees could cost US $8bn in lost crops
Times Online - UK
Hundreds of millions of honeybees have vanished in 22 US states, leaving keepers financially crippled and jeopardising £8 billion of crops that need the ...

Going underground for a piece of history
Auckland stuff.co.nz - Auckland,New Zealand
The entrance was found when John Earnshaw was looking for hidden planes in 1988. Mr Earnshaw says he doesn't want to get involved.

Fears of rat plague as Somerset comes down The Ashburton Guardian - Ashburton,New Zealand A plague of rats, pigeons and feral cats might soon be unleashed on Ashburton when the Somerset building comes tumbling down. ...

…Al Capone slept hereor did he?
Hotel interactive - Smithtown,NY,USA
He also had underground tunnels built. Later, underground workers found gold coins and jewelry with the initials AC. Capone decorated the room with ...

Archeologists out Brisbane's hidden past
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
A World War II bunker in Roma Street, a jail from the 1860s at Petrie Terrace and a convict farm at Eagle Farm are just three of the surprise finds of the ...

Editorial | An Ancient Village
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Why it moved her - why our ancient traces move a people of space stations, plasma TVs and iPods - well, that's no mystery.

Fossils: myths, mystery and magic
Belfast Telegraph - Belfast,UK
To ancient civilisations they were objects of fear and wonder. Now, the legends these strange, beautiful relics inspired are celebrated in a major ...

Historian's work unravels mystery of local mounds
Sauk Valley Newspapers - Dixon,IL,USA
Most noticeably, the Indian head silhouette is that of a 19th century plains Indian, which was quite different from the ancient people who thrived in the ...

Meteors probably didn't land in region
Springfield State Journal Register - Springfield,IL,USA
Sheriff's departments in Scott and Brown counties received several calls Sunday night from people who saw strange lights in the sky that appeared to descend ...

Carolina UFO Sightings Continue: Strange Lights Spotted Again
National Ledger - Apache Junction,AZ,USA
Now strange lights are back. WXII-12 is reporting that there have been strange reports about flying objects in the skies -- and some people think they're ...

More strange lights and craft over
UFODigest - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
by Steve Hammons. PHOENIX, ARIZONA - Calls poured in to police and TV stations last night after many residents of the metropolitan Phoenix region observed a ...

Does eating snakes really improve your sex drive?
Mainichi Daily News - Japan
Among creatures often named as sources of this mysterious sex power are mamushi, cobras, seals, habu snakes and sea serpents. These creatures are said to ...

’Mountain pine beetle continues to plague states forests
Montrose Daily Press - Montrose,CO,USA
MONTROSE — The mountain pine beetle continues to plague forests across much of northern and central part of the state, according to a report released by the ...

The Eighth Plague - West Africa's Locust Invasion
IRINnews.org - New York,NY,USA
Millions of hectares of crops and pasture were destroyed by giant swarms of insects (see A hundred million dollars to fight an age-old plague). ...

Archaeologists let looters do some of the work
USA Today - USA
Looting afflicts archaeological sites worldwide, from the wide-spread plundering of ancient Sumerian sites in Iraq, to pot-hunters in the American Southwest ...

Ancient bones await final resting place
Lansing State Journal - Lansing,MI,USA
It will remain a mystery in which century the original grave was dug or what tribe chose to place it 1000 feet from the Looking Glass River. .

A Visit at the Great Wall of China, Nov 2006
By Wolfgang Spanring-Forster(Wolfgang Spanring-Forster)
Stones from the mountains were used over mountain ranges, while rammed earth was used for construction in the plains. There are no surviving historical records indicating the exact length and course of the Qin Dynasty walls. ...

Ethiopia | Ready and raw
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
Take the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, an ancient Christian church founded in the early fourth century; add in the Queen of Sheba and the ruins of her

Hobbitry; living underground, part 4....
By ozarque(ozarque)
At 4:15 this morning I was joined in our underground house by two creatures busily gnawing and thumping and dragging things about in the attic above my head. ... In the early years of living in this underground house, the night shift ...

Ancient love may come alive
Record-Searchlight (subscription) - Redding,CA,USA
MYSTERY PAIR: A pair of human skeletons were found Monday outside Mantua, Italy. Archaeologists believe them to be a man and a woman, from the Neolithic

Lecture series exposes ancient Mayan civilization
Ranger (subscription) - Amarillo,TX,USA
The Mayans, a people full of intelligence, are known most for a mystery. Once a thriving nation, it was but a few years later that only abandoned cities ...

Fiberstars EFO Lights Winston Churchill Museum - London UK
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
London based designers DHA handled the lighting design within The Cabinet War Rooms, Churchill's once secret underground wartime headquarters. ...

Kitchener man hides from police in underground tunnel
570 News - Kitchener,Ontario,Canada
... there was fresh air in the bunker and electricity. To keep his location secret he went as far as to screw a dresser to the floor over the escape hole.

6 dead, 6 injured as group becomes trapped in underground tunnel ...
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
MADRID, Spain -- A group of scientists and nature lovers exploring tunnels in the Canary Islands became trapped underground and at least six of them died ...

From no frills to all the frills on St. John
Miami Herald - FL,USA
In the bathroom, a solar-heated, glass-topped shower drew rainwater from a plastic barrel on the roof. ''Pump yourself a warm, refreshing, no-cost shower! ...

Instrument Problems Plague Mars Orbiter
CBS 2 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
(AP) PASADENA, Calif. NASA is investigating technical problems with two instruments aboard the most powerful spacecraft ever flown to the Mars. ...

Ants plague University dorms
LSU The Reveille - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
by Phillip Trascher. Some unexpected visitors have arrived throughout dorms and are catching students' eyes. Ants are crawling in sinks and bathrooms,

The plague of bird flu will erupt out of Java, not Suffolk
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The prospect of a new plague unleashed in the shantytowns of Lagos, Kinshasa or Nairobi, in other words, is virtually apocalyptic; yet the avian flu ...

Captivating Cappodocia
Today's Zaman - Istanbul,Turkey
Elaborate underground cities were also created in the porous stone, each city reaching downwards to 10 levels and more below ground

DNA clue to presidential puzzle
BBC News - UK
DNA tests carried out on two British men have shed light on a mystery surrounding the ancestry of Thomas Jefferson, America's third president. ...

Ancient Semitic Snake Spells Deciphered in Egyptian Pyramid
National Geographic - Washington,DC,USA
The passages were first uncovered in the 19th century, but they have remained a mystery to scholars for generations. (Related: "Egyptian Dentists' Tombs ...

Predicting quakes is still just a dream
ParamusPost.com - Pampus,NJ,USA
Late in December, an earthquake rumbled beneath southern Taiwan, damaging undersea cables and temporarily disrupting communications throughout Asia. ...

Stumps Found on North Oregon Coast Believed to Be 80000 Years Old
Beach Connection - Manzanita,OR,USA
Possibly, the mechanism by which it was entombed was from a great earthquake which dropped the land several feet, sinking the forest into the marshes,

Kumar's unusual lobster stall
Fiji Times - Suva,Fiji
He said selling lobsters on the roadside was very unusual because many people ventured into selling cash crops. Adding that he preferred selling lobsters to ...

New piece of Castle's history falls into place
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
Edinburgh Castle is full of hidden treasures, and the latest investigations have shown we still have a lot more to find. "It illustrates just how much the ...

PUPILS walked out in protest after being bitten by a plague of ...
Mirror.co.uk - London,UK
More than 200 schoolchildren were sent home when thousands of the parasites were found jumping in the corridors and classrooms. But another 300 students,

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Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
The statues' eerie silhouettes loomed behind a cemetery whose sea of crosses seemed to mock Easter Island's ancient icons. I didn't go close at first, ...