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January 2007
Roman treasure discovered
UKTV - London,UK
These latest findings follow on from the recent discovery by archaeologists of a grotto on the Palatine Hill thought to be the cave revered by ancient ...
Giants in the Americas - Death Valley, California - Cavern Temple ...
UFODigest - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Yet, the Smithsonian, archaeologists and other scientists are silent as to the discoveries and have hidden all evidence that is contrary to Darwinian theory ...
Jeepers creepers
Health24.com - Cape Town,South Africa
Get out of the way – even if the swarm is coming in your direction, it doesn’t always mean they’re after you; get under cover fast – indoors is best, ...
Adventures in Kentucky: Hidden River Cave with BS Troop 510
WBKO - Bowling Green,KY,USA
In this adventure we head underground and follow Brandon as he tags along with Boy Scout Troop 510 on a trip to Hidden River Cave.
Saroyan is Your Voice
Armenian Weekly - Watertown,MA,USA
... it was a Frenchman, Jean-François Champollion, who unlocked the mystery of the hieroglyphs to give us the history and wisdom of the ancient Egyptians. ...
With faith, prayers can be answered in unusual ways
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
by Bob Terrell. What is faith? Once upon a time there lived in Asheville a man named Wilbur Scramburger, who had a wife named Dandelion.
Unusual bird sightings reported around lakes, region
Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA
Winter viewings of blue herons are fairly unusual, since most of the birds fly south in winter, according to Julie Hart, a conservation biologist at the ...
Unusual Trips And Tours
Forbes - NY,USA
Then maybe you're ready to sleep underwater or in a hotel made of ice, visit North Korea or outer space, or embark on any one of the other unusual travel ...
Must dig deeply to seek life on Mars, new report says
Spaceflight Now - Orlando,FL,USA
They tested three surface soil scenarios and calculated particle energies and radiation doses both on the surface and at various depths underground, ...
Rats 'the size of cats' plague Port Elizabeth
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa
Parts of Port Elizabeth are being plagued by an unprecedented increase in the city's rat population, the Herald Online reported on Monday. ...
Luoyang shovel
By Alan Baumler
It is particularly handy for finding the rammed earth walls that mean you have found a settlement of some sort. The thing I find interesting about it is that the shovel was originally invented by grave-robbers ie bad people who wanted ...
Mathematics in Ancient Egypt
Al-Ahram Weekly - Cairo,Egypt
Whether these shafts were intended for ventilation or to serve a religious purpose is a mystery. The alignment of the shafts was difficult to attain,
Bedbugs Plague Salt Lake City Station
Firehouse.com (subscription) - USA
AP. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Firefighters have been forced to abandon a busy station because it's infested with bedbugs. The pests were first discovered in ...
Underground monster fossil found in Australia
The Press West Coast - West Coast,New Zealand
... the team has now set its sights on a deep pile of sediment in one of them, where animals remains more than 800000 years old could lie hidden. ...
Hospital staff fought off wasps while treating elderly woman
TV3 News - Auckland,New Zealand
Hospital staff at Wairarapa Hospital had to fend off angry wasps after an elderly woman was attacked by a swarm of them in her garden on Wednesday. ...
Underneath Valletta
Malta Independent Online - Malta
Singularly, for a garden-less Valletta, the Archbishop’s Palace has a wonderful garden behind it. It is surrounded by a high wall and, under the wall, ...
Ancient Roman marble reliefs recovered
Bradenton Herald - Bradenton,FL,USA
The identity of the tomb's owner is likely to remain a mystery at least until the burial site is found, Moretti said. The reliefs may indicate he was an ...
Plague of flies drives garage boss to move house
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
A GARAGE boss is set to move house to escape from swarms of insects he claims are coming from a Lothians sewage works. Ewan Montgomery, 45, said he could no ...
Report confirms Africanized bees in SWFL
Naples Daily News - Naples,FL,USA
On Jan 9, a Cape Coral man attempting to remove a 50000-bee hive was attacked by a swarm of the insects. The man has since been released from intensive care ...
Missing link found in ancient embryos
MSNBC - USA
... from modern day animals are remarkably similar, but the developmental journey from egg to adult for ancient organisms is still shrouded in mystery. ...
Team traces mystery of oldest city
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
CHICAGO - Archeologists tend to uncover puzzling questions along with ancient artifacts, and so it was when a team from the University of Chicago discovered ...
Black-water rafting trip takes traveler through underground ...
Daily Aztec - San Diego,CA,USA
Below the surface lies a whole new world with underground rivers, glowworm-filled caverns and spectacular waterfalls. The Black Water Rafting Company, ...
'57 Plymouth to come out of underground parking
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
AP. TULSA, Okla. — Organizers of a coming-out party for a brand new 1957 Plymouth Belvedere could use some help. The car, buried under the lawn of the Tulsa .
’’One mans trash is another mans $25000 treasure
Daily Cardinal - Madison,WI,USA
What they heard when they played the record was, in fact, the Velvet Underground, but it was unlike any VU recording they’d ever heard, and after some
Weather to blame for bee swarms
The Southland Times - Southland,New Zealand
ALL ABUZZ: NZ Post officer Marion MacNamara was surprised to see a swarm of bees on a branch in John St yesterday. The bees were seen flying in a swarm and ...
Book explores Charleston quake of 1886
Aiken Standard (subscription) - Aiken,SC,USA
As Robert Cote vividly described the evening of the massive earthquake in 1886, the room was filled with silence as he held the crowd's undivided attention.
X-ray unlocks mysteries of ancient gears
Engineer Live - London,London,UK
The challenge has been tremendous, for more than a hundred years the device has been a profound mystery, the subject of intense research and speculation.
Unusual birds seen in warm winter
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA
Those unusual sightings have included a painted bunting in the Philadelphia area and a rusty blackbird in southwestern Pennsylvania
Comoros plans for volcano refugees
NEWS.com.au - Australia
In 1903, 17 people died when noxious fumes seeped from cracks in the mountain, and the last big eruption was in April 2005 when thousands fled in fear of ...
When a killer cloud hit Britain
BBC News - UK
A little over 200 years ago, the eruption of a volcano in Iceland sent a huge toxic cloud across Western Europe. It was the greatest natural disaster to hit ...
Da Vinci mystery solved as experts discover burial place of Mona Lisa
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
Art investigator Giuseppe Pallanti made the discovery after poring over hundreds of ancient manuscripts. Da Vinci experts now hope to locate her coffin so ...
Squirrel Attacks Plague Mountain View Park
CBS 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
(CBS 5) MOUNTAIN VIEW Parents at Cuesta Park in Mountain View keep an eye not only on their kids, but on the squirrels. "There was a squirrel, ...
‘Ancient mystery solved? Taft man says Murphy Mover' explains pyramids
Midway Driller - Taft,CA,USA
By Doug Keeler Midway Driller Editor. A retired navy man's musings on riding a backyard swing as a young boy gave him the idea for an invention that he says
Zimbabwe: Myth And Mystery of Great Zimbabwe
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
AT the ancient complex, 27km south of Masvingo City, eagles majestically soar over the northern granite outcrops forcing skunks and lizards to dart in and ...
BIRD FLU LIKE 1918 PLAGUE
Mirror.co.uk - London,UK
By Mike Swain, Science Editor. A GLOBAL virus that killed 50 million people at the end of Word War One followed a similar pattern to modern-day bird flu, ...
Poison gas cloud that killed 30000 Britons (and it could happen again)
Independent - London,England,UK
... senior lecturer at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, who has been studying the impact on Britain of the eruption of Iceland's Laki volcano in 1783. ...
Snake behaviour may predict quake
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
... by the Nepal Engineering College between 25-26 December 2006 regarding strange behaviour displayed by snakes prior to the earthquake was overlooked."
’Deep DNA Memory Theories: Can We Remember our Ancestors Lives?
National Ledger - Apache Junction,AZ,USA
Theories that suggest that we can tap into the deep nature of DNA to uncover ancient memories are not new. In the 1960s, some psychological researchers ...
Alien Gods and Magic In Ireland
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
What kind of secret, ancient wisdom, were the Druids trying to conceal and from whom did they gain their magical powers? According to Julius Caesar, ...
Satellite swarm to study aurora's triggers
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
A fleet of satellites called THEMIS will launch in February to determine what triggers magnetic 'substorms' on Earth that cause auroras and may unleash ...
The spirits live on
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
Valles Caldera — This vast crater tempts visitors with its fiery origins, tribal mystery and brilliant but rugged majesty. ...
Cape man trying kill swarm of bees burns house
The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA
Frank Pigott Jr., 38, knew he had a swarm of bees, several thousand, living between the drywall and vinyl siding on the outside of his home in northwest ...
Bees storm India-WI ODI venue
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
11 A swarm of bees invaded Barabati Stadium this afternoon, disrupting the Ranji Trophy match between hosts Orissa and Assam for a few minutes. ...
Column: Exactly what is a locust?
Niles Daily Star - Niles,MI,USA
When their hind legs get bumped by other locusts several times a minute for a period of four hours it triggers them to swarm together en masse and hit the
Homer's Ancient Ithaca May Not Be Ithaki
Playfuls.com - Targu Mures,Romania
"Unlike many historical speculations, our answer to the age-old mystery of Ithaca's location makes a prediction that can be tested by geological techniques ...
Mystery of world's biggest, yuckiest flower solved
Reuters - USA
And now scientists have used genetic analysis to solve the long-standing mystery of the lineage of the rafflesia flower, known for its blood-red bloom ...
Arizona's Sedona is a Place of Beauty, Peace and Mystery
National Ledger - Apache Junction,AZ,USA
Is there any truth to tales of strange lights, UFOs, Indian spirits, secret underground military bases and unusual phenomena of various kinds in the Sedona ...
Frozen in time: The Antarctic's hidden treasures
Independent - London,England,UK
But British scientists discovered last year that some of the underground lakes of Antarctica are connected by a network of rivers that may be in contact ...
Discovering coastal fossils, minerals and strange stumps
Newport News Times - Newport,OR,USA
Other concretions are small, gray, round rocks, which DiTorrice said filter up from the deeper underground. These he calls "Cracker Jack" rocks, because, ...
Sleuths close in on Odysseus home
CNN - USA
... Greece -- pinpointing the ancient island of Ithaca, home of Homer's legendary hero Odysseus. "We are one step closer to solving the age-old mystery," ...
Unearthing the mystery of the priestly city of Nob
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
During the last 100 years, however, none of these biblical references helped researchers locate remains of the ancient settlement. ...
Rats Cleared From Hussein's Bunker
Military.com - USA
American soldiers walking through a dimly lit, underground command bunker once used by a brutal dictator, now filled with hundreds of rats.
Summary: 2 unusual and simultaneous incidents; NY and Tex.
Police News - San Francisco,CA,USA
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Police shut down 10 blocks of businesses in the heart of downtown early Monday after dozens of birds were found dead in the streets, ...
Mysterious Structures Reappear on Central Oregon Coast Beach
Beach Connection - Manzanita,OR,USA
The theory is that the infamous earthquake of 1700, which originated in Japan, created a frightening tsunami which hit Oregon’s coastline shortly thereafter ...
Unusual odor covers midtown Manhattan
WTNH - New Haven,CT,USA
(New York-AP/WTNH) _ An unusual odor has covered mid-Manhattan this morning, prompting hundreds of calls to police and fire officials, and there are ...
Seven or Eight Dwarf Galaxies Discovered Orbiting the Milky Way
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
An international team of scientists has discovered seven -- and perhaps eight -- dwarf galaxies orbiting Earth's home galaxy, the Milky Way. ...
Fortnightly rubbish collection creating a plague of rats
Indymedia UK - UK
In a recent report, the National Pest Technicians Association has warned of a plague of rats sweeping the country. The cause of this plague is councils ...
Theory for mass deaths roils Mexico
Meadow Free Press - Meadow,ID,USA
But another Mexican expert in the field insists the rodents mentioned in texts from the era probably came from Europe or Asia carrying the bubonic plague,
CO2 Emissions to find home underground and save the planet
Japan's Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth thinks they have come up with another way to destroy, er, save the earth from global warming. Instead of allowing CO2 emissions into the air, or just pumping the ..
“”China Developing an Underground Clairvoyance
中?国?地?狘?环?境?信?息?网? - China
Technicians from Harbin Engineering University recently developed a portable multi-beam eco sounder after a 3-year-research. ...
Travel and Adventure: Sky-high in Acoma Country
Bend Weekly - Bend,OR,USA
One scenic and living remnant of those ancient American Indian groups now includes a new culture stop an hour's drive west of Albuquerque.
Where's mystery in the river Nile?
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
"Mystery of the Nile" is filled with sweeping visual grandeur and awe for ancient African history. But the only mystery about it is why it got that title. ..
Shards of an ancient ritual
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... who first appeared in the second millennium BC, and their beliefs are shrouded in mystery as no sanctuaries dating to before 2000BC have been excavated.
When in Rome, run
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
... the imposing court house, Palazzo di Giustizia, and the Castel Sant Angelo, a riverside castle connected to the Vatican via secret underground tunnels.
Mastodon tooth find thrills Mich. family
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Researchers Give Name To Ancient Mystery Creature (October 23, 2006) -- For the first time, researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada,
Untangling the Mystery of the Inca
Wired News - USA
The ancient Andean empire built great cities but left no written records – except perhaps in mysterious knotted strings called khipu. ...
Reopening the mystery of dirty Aphrodite, icon of trouble
The Standard - Hong Kong
Liberated from shipping crates, the ancient statue drew a crowd of employees when it arrived in December 1987 at J Paul Getty Museum antiquities ...
Plague of rats is blamed on mania for recycling
This is London - London,England,UK
Recycling 'mania' has caused a plague of vermin infestations across the country, according to a damning independent report. .
Hundreds of mammals die of plague in Takhar Online - International News Network - Islamabad,Pakistan
TALOQAN: Hundreds of mammals have died of a plague in northern Takhar province and many more are still suffering the diseases. ...
Rats, flies plague Royal Roads dorm
Vancouver Sun (subscription) - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Marc Pandi Bapaga, president of the Royal Roads Student Association, shows the hotplate shared by up to 30 students. Students at Royal Roads University say
Locusts Swarm Yucatan Peninsula
Christian Broadcasting Network - Virginia Beach,VA,USA
Officials believe the swarm is headed to the states of Campeche and Tabasco. Last year, hundreds of acres of corn were damaged by a similar plague of ...
Rescuers Swarm To Carr Canyon To Save Teens Stranded On Falls
FireFighting News.com - USA
Arizona - Two teen-age brothers who became stranded on the face of Carr Canyon falls, south of Sierra Vista, had to be rescued Saturday evening, ...
Liquid Lakes On Saturn's Titan
Science Daily (press release) - USA
First Close Encounter Of Saturn's Hazy Moon Titan (October 26, 2004) -- Long hidden behind a thick veil of haze, Titan, the only known moon with an ...
Return of sailing ships forecast as travel goes back to future
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
... using giant parachute-type sails containing compressed air chambers, while deliveries of goods such as foodstuffs could be made through underground routes to
Art Mystery: Columbia Professor Investigates Possible Michelangelo ...
Resident Publications - New York,NY,USA
... Shortly after the “Laocoon” in question was discovered in 1506 in an ancient underground room in a Roman vineyard, it was purchased by Pope Julius II and ...
Ancient Messages, Hidden in a Dusty Bottle From Long Ago
New York Times - United States
... Both of these ancient vintages had spent their long lives in the bowels of the chateau ... What happens after a few decades along the aging trail is a mystery. ...
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