January 2006

More freaking hobbits?
Cinematical - Santa Monica,CA,USA
For those of you who just can't get enough of the little guys, hope is apparently not lost for a movie of JRR Tolkien's prequel to his The Lord of the Rings ...

World status for Hobbiton motel Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
... include a 1950s Bristol freighter aircraft converted into two units in the cockpit and tail, a Fiat railcar, and the recent addition of a subterranean Hobbiton ...

Craft returning to Earth with specks from space Stardust's 7-year ...
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... galaxy. Aerogel is an extremely lightweight, translucent material that resembles a solidified block of smoke, hence its nickname. ...

CNN - What were those lights in the Phoenix sky? - June 19, 1997
They first saw the lights while looking north from their Phoenix home. ...Global UFO Network · ParaScope: Something Strange Is Happening (See UFO section) ...

Mysterious Smell in Perryville
KFVS - Cape Girardeau,MO,USA
PERYVILLE, MO --A mysterious smell has some folks in Perryville worried. Residents say the chemical-like odor appears to be coming from a factory in the area. ...

Mysterious Liquid Falls From Sky In Virginia
NBC 4.com - Washington,DC,USA
The farmers say after the mysterious liquid incident they called police, the state health department, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Federal ...

Documents may shed new light on buried artifacts
KHON2 - Honolulu,HI,USA
Two documents written in the early 1900s may shed light on the current dispute over a collection of burial objects hidden in a Big Island cave.

Stardust to reveal solar system secrets
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... UPI) -- The end of the seven-year Stardust space mission means the beginning of scientists` efforts to unlock the secrets of the origin of the solar system. ...

Louisville Cat Tests Positive For Plague, Dies
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
(AP) LOUISVILLE, Colo. A case of plague in a cat has Boulder County health officials sounding a warning. The domestic cat in Louisville

Artifacts Unearthed in Downtown Wilmington
WECT - Wilmington,NC,USA
... The landowner is building his own house on top of the archaeological site, so artifacts like a buried fireplace won't be lost forever. ...

Hundred of Artifacts Found in Temple Mount Rubble
Arutz Sheva - Israel
(IsraelNN.com) Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of coins and artifacts in Temple Mount rubble removed by Arabs who are building a huge underground mosque ...

Ayau to appear in court over artifacts
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
... Ezra sentenced Ayau to prison after he violated a court order by refusing to give the specific location of 83 native Hawaiian artifacts that he and other ...

Haunted Places in Florida
juiceenewsdaily - Jasper,AL,USA
... Brooksville - The Brooksville Heritage Museum - People have seen and heard things unexplained things in that mansion that is now a museum. ...

Flores man special - news@nature.com
These astonishing little people, nicknamed 'hobbits', made tools, ... Could
the 'hobbits' have inspired the mythical tales often told by Flores natives? ...

A NAZI PIECE OF HISTORY
Mirror.co.uk - UK
... found myself at the mouth of the bunker.". The network of shelters and gun positions sprawls over 20 acres. Gary believes it could be the hidden battery that ...

Architect plans living tree house
ABC Science Online - Australia
Growing a home from living trees instead of building a home from felled timber is the goal of an architect from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...

Man lives in tree after domestic spat
BBC News - UK
... "Since I left home I have hardly had any cooked food," he told the BBC News website from his tree-house 7 .6m (25 feet) above the ground. ...

Hidden for 60 years: the Nazi beach bunker found by Briton
Guardian Unlimited - UK
A secret underground military complex abandoned by the Nazis as allied forces stormed Normandy after D-day has been found by an English amateur historian. ..

Untouched Nazi bunker found in France
United Press International - USA
... he felt concrete under his feet and discovered the bunker in 2002. He bought the properties from local farmers and discovered an underground network that spans ...

Artifacts case tests isle tradition
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
... judge is offering Hawaiian groups and the state's largest museum an unusual alternative to settle their dispute over a cache of priceless artifacts: using an ...

Diners hit out as plague of flies hits Pizza Hut
Glasgow Evening Times - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
One section of Pizza Hut in the city centre was closed to customers and council pest control officers had to be called in. Staff ...

Teeth help solve mystery of plague that ruined Athens Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia LONDON: The cause of the plague of Athens in 430BC, which devastated the city and killed up to one-third of the population, including its leader, Pericles, was ...

The Myths & Legends of Holy Cross College of the Holy Cross - Worcester,MA,USA... There are many versions of the legend, which variously takes place in the Fenwick clock tower, in secret underground passages beneath campus or in the famed ...

Wire thieves go underground INQ7.net - Philippines... A 650-meter stretch of underground electric wires used for lampposts installed along the length of Susana Heights in Barangay Tunasan was lost to the syndicate ...

Cave crickets can rapidly become problematic Gwinnett Daily Post - Griffin,GA,USA
... Now, I only see the occasional cave cricket. I still wear my under-the-house garb when I do my crawl space inspection, though. No sense in taking any chances. ...

Divers explore bottom of spring Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
... are the first divers to explore the bottom of Little Salt Spring, a sinkhole in North Port that contains wooden stakes, stone tools and other artifacts used by .

Native Hawaiian Leader Released For Artifacts Mediation Hawaii Channel.com - Honolulu,HI,USA
... weeks of jail time, a federal judge released Native Hawaiian leader Edward Ayau on Tuesday after an agreement was reached over mediation about buried artifacts ...

Park caves yield 27 new animal species
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA ... For instance, a relative of the pill bug found in one cave is so translucent that its internal organs are clearly visible, particularly its long, bright yellow ...

HOBBITS, RELATIVES, FRIENDS BID BARBERS GOOD BYE Philippine Headline News - Manila,Philippines
... the hundreds who paid their final respects to former senator Robert Barbers as his remains were laid to rest yesterday were a number of "hobbits" whose lives ...

Google Introduces Google Middle Earth
addict3d.org - USA
... them all. With Google Middle Earth, you can measure the real distances from Hobbiton to Rohan, or from Osgiliath to Rivendell. And ...

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