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January 2008
Photographer captures ancient identity of Maya people
Natick Bulletin and Tab - Framingham,MA,USA
Martin visited the Yucatan peninsula on his first trip, focusing mainly on photographing ruins. "Look Close, See Far" includes images of everything from
4000 years of history ... Rhodes
The Sun - London,UK
... and now lies submerged in the harbour. Well, with all Rhodes’s glorious food, one ancient mystery has been solved – we now know how the Colossus got so big.
‘’Mystery mound to be saved from the sea
Shetland News - Vidlin,Scotland,UK
Barbara Anderson, of Bressay Heritage Centre, said it was highly unusual to be allowed to tamper with an ancient monument in this way.
Did Giant Reptiles Share the Earth with Giant Humans?
Canadian National Newspaper - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Early in January, 1970, the London Express Service carried an item relating the discovery of a set of cave paintings which had been found in the Gorozamzi ...
City Battles Giant Blob
WMTW - Auburn,ME,USA
LEWISTON, Maine -- A large, mysterious blob has taken over a major sewer line in the city of Lewiston, leaving public works crews stumped as to how to budge ...
The mysterious boat
Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India
The mysterious boat could sail during the day, fly during the night and could disappear when ever we wanted it to. During the summer holidays my family with
Distinctive croc falls prey to mysterious disease
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
... the bodies of gharials, an extremely rare river crocodile which appears to have fallen victim to a mysterious disease that is puzzling the experts. ...
Tasmanian Devils Plagued with Mysterious Cancer
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
... the tumor cells didn't seem to originate within the tissue of individual animals but were passed, like mystery cancers, in devil-to-devil contact. ...
A mysterious woman on Mars in NASA's image
Newstrack India - Delhi,India
John Grey’s Women are from Venus while Men are from Mars seems to be contradicting with the new images of NASA which showed a woman sitting with her ...
Forget crop circles - now we've got a mysterious SHEEP circle
Daily Mail - UK
There were strange goings on at the farm today when a flock of sheep made their own version of a crop circle. About 100 of the woolly creatures formed an ...
Fight against apple moth to resume
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
Agriculture officials say fighting the pest is crucial to protecting the state's agricultural industry. Nearly 10400 light brown apple moths have been ...
Mysterious antimatter in Milky Way might originate from tiny black ...
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
... has suggested that tiny black holes at the centre of our galaxy could be a possible source of the mysterious antimatter present in the Milky Way. ...
NASA Captures Mysterious Sounds From the Solar System
Voice of America - USA
And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we hear some unusual sounds from space. Scientists created them by taking
Still stung: Beekeepers share angst in industry
Greater Milwaukee Today - WI, USA
By KATHERINE MICHALETS - GM Today Staff BIG BEND - The death of the majority of his bees in recent years has left Andy Hemken, Big Bend beekeeper and ...
Newly Designed Bee-Box Boosts Pollinators' Readiness
Agricultural Research - Beltsville,MD,USA
Bee experts with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Pollinating Insects Biology, Management and Systematics Research Unit in Logan, Utah,
What's at the bottom of mysterious Alberta hole?
Globe and Mail - Canada
EDMONTON — Maybe it's a meteorite and maybe it isn't, but it's unlikely the source of a mysterious hole at an Alberta golf course will be discovered any
Alta golf course neighbours dive into mystery hole, come up with balls
The Canadian Press -
Aaron Soos and Derek Zienowicz used a chainsaw to cut through the ice that had refrozen over the pond since last week's mysterious event, which many in the ...
Evolution of the sexes, fungus-style
Australian Life Scientist - Sydney,NSW,Australia
Some of the earliest evolved forms of fungus contain clues to how the sexes evolved in higher animals, including that distant cousin of fungus, the human. ...
‘’Farmer discovers ancient elixir of life in Chinese mountains
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
New Delhi, Jan 17 (ANI): A Chinese farmer recently came across a giant glossy ganoderma, a rare type of fungus used in traditional Chinese medicine, ...
Ruins discovered in southern Peru might be of ancient "lost city"
DailyIndia.com - Jacksonville,FL,USA
Washington, Jan 17: Archaeologists have discovered ruins in southern Peru that could be the ancient "lost city" of Paititi.
’Khonas tongue
Hindu - Chennai,India
The ruins that bear her name lie about 40 km northeast of Kolkata, at a place called Berachampa near the town of Barasat. These ruins have not yet been ...
Mysterious radio taunts dog Navy ships
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Since at least 1982, US Navy ships plying the Persian Gulf have been taunted by mysterious radio transmissions that are alternately obscene, nonsensical, ...
Underground Volcano May Be Melting Antarctica's Ice
Voice of America - USA
By VOA News British scientists say an underground volcano that erupted more than 2000 years ago may be partly responsible for Antarctica's receding ice
Has the man behind 'Lost' found himself a monster hit?
Scotsman - United Kingdom
The first trailer consisted of shaky footage of young people at a party, brief scenes of panic outside, an explosion, what sounds like a roar and the head ...
Turok Son of Stone DVD
MoviesOnline - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Turok will face his greatest battle as he fights man-eating dinosaurs, merciless cave dwellers, and the darkness inside himself to take revenge on his sworn ...
Would-be astronaut has high hopes
Owen Sound Sun Times - Owen Sound,Ontario,Canada
His doctoral thesis involves development of sensors for use in remote greenhouses expected to form an essential part of the life support system for future ...
Into the wild
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
The sky darkens as a tropical shower threatens and we shelter in a cave. There are paintings on the walls and Gordon tells their story. ...
Green Notes
Builder Magazine - Washington,DC,USA
Its eco features include a green roof, two solar power systems (one generating electricity; the other, hot water), two rainwater collection systems ...
Ancient kiln sheds light on Cham architecture
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
Neighboring Quang Ngai Province also has a large number of Champa ruins. The Chau Sa Citadel, once a prosperous center of culture and commerce, ...
Apocalypse 2012? Some say ancient records foretell end of the world
Laconia Citizen - Laconia,NH,USA
The ancient Mayan civilization thrived between roughly 1800 BC and 1450 AD in Central and South America where the ruins remain of the cities they built, ...
The Parthenon reigns over a changing Athens
Seattle Times - United States
It may be 2500 years old, and partly in ruins, but it retains the power to strike awe into its viewers. It's a very simple structure on first glance: eight ...
Indoor waterpark is a taste of summer in winter
Buffalo News - NY, United States
At Fort Mackenzie (a giant tree house) we soon discovered that all bets are off when it comes to the “kid-adult” pecking order. Pay attention, unless you ...
5 trends that will change how you travel
MSNBC - USA
During the Mediterranean Olive Scrub Massage — an exfoliation with crushed olive seeds and an olive-oil massage — guests are given time in the room’s ...
Africanized Honeybees Found in Louisiana
The Associated Press -
The US Department of Agriculture laboratory in Tucson, Ariz., confirmed that bees trapped in Tioga were hybrids of European and African species, ...
Baumgartner's Kartchner Caverns Tour
KPVI-TV - Pocatello,ID,USA
It wasn't until 1988 that the cave's existence became public knowledge. The cavers kept it a secret 14 years before it was approved as an Arizona State Park ...
Awesome Or Off-Putting: Mexican Roswell
hecklerspray - Los Angeles,USA
In August of 1974, the USA military was tracking a mysterious object over Mexico; then suddenly it disappeared from radar near Coyame. ...
Digging the Bible
Slate - USA
I had been scraping the floor of this Israeli cave when I spotted its sharp edge. I fished the piece out of the dirt and pushed on it, as instructed, ...
It's getting easier to retrace Paul's steps as mass-market tours ...
Ventura County Star - Camarillo,CA,USA
The main attraction on the Greek island of Patmos is the Cave of the Apocalypse, where it is believed John received and wrote the Book of Revelation. ...
Message in a 2400-year-old bottle
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
These amphoras were the cargo containers of the ancient world, used for shipping all kinds of things, from wine to olive oil. ...
Batman Bat Cave Home Theater, Pictures
2SNAPS.TV - San Francisco,CA,USA
A retired naturalist who particularly loves bats had a batcave home theater installed in his cellar. DC Audio Video Systems in New Hampshire was responsible
Bush Unveils Top-Secret Government Renewable Geothermal Energy Source
Unconfirmed Sources (satire) - USA
Bush yesterday toured the deep underground facility with its primary administrator Stan Redman. Mr. Redman, an entrepreneur and a deeply religious
’Travellers Tales
The Times - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
Drivers stop to look, some stop to ask what on earth ... That is more or less how I got to see it over a year ago when Manie showed me around the building ...
French president tours Jordan's Petra with girlfriend Carla Bruni
International Herald Tribune - France
AP PETRA, Jordan: French President Nicolas Sarkozy toured the ancient Jordanian ruins of Petra Saturday, hand-in-hand with his new girlfriend, ...
Graveyard at centre of road plan 'still contains 3000 bodies'
Lancashire Evening Telegraph - UK
But it has now emerged that there are hundreds of underground gravestones that were hidden from view 50 years ago. The council has now admitted that there ...
Into the dark
San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
Caves always have an aura of mystery about them. They are portals to a little- seen underground world. This is especially true of sea caves — grottos carved ...
The Grind: Contractor keeps popular trail in shape
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
... who's been building trails for about 15 years, and started his own trail-building company, Rare Earth Recreational Development, three years ago.
Dust may have life building blocks
The Press Association -
The disc appears to contain large complex organic molecules of the type believed to have given birth to life on Earth. It is the first time evidence of ...
Denton typed top secrets before 1944 Normandy invasion
The Times-Herald - Newnan,GA,USA
She was housed in the third level of an underground bomb shelter. British military personnel occupied the second level. The first level, closest to the ...
House Church run by Salem Voice Ministries demolished by Muslim ...
ChristianNewsToday.com - USA
By Michael Ireland MALABAR, INDIA (ANS) -- An underground house church of Salem Voice Ministries was demolished by Muslim extremists at Sunnam Potty in
50 years ago, fire-ant fight came to Southeast Texas
Beaumont Enterprise - Beaumont,TX,USA
... store-bought granules and agriculture officials developing biological weapons - continues. Like the Africanized bees, fire ants came from South America.
The Secrets of Oak Island
Skeptical Inquirer - USA
Ever afterward known as the "Cave-in Pit," it was located just over a hundred yards east of the Money Pit and directly above the "flood tunnel" (O'Connor
Where Peru's wild things are
The Observer - UK
From virgin rainforest to Andean peaks and Inca ruins, Peru has an incredible natural and cultural heritage. Jane Dunford discovers how one local ...
Italy: Remains of ancient luxury villas open
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
ROME ---- The restored ruins of two opulent Roman villas and private thermal baths have opened to the public in Rome, equipped with a 3-D reconstruction ...
Isle stop for ages
Boston Globe - United States
The temple culture died out suddenly around 2500 BC, leaving little trace except for the 23 massive ruins and carved figurines and pottery shards that have ...
History. Ancient Greenland mystery has simple answer
St. John's Telegram - St. John's,Newfoundland and Labrador,Canada
A shipload of visitors arrived in the fjord overnight, so Ingibjorg Gisladottir dressed like a Viking and headed out to work in the ruins scattered along ...
Pyramid Discovery in Mexico City Could Mean City is Older
ShortNews.com - Regensburg,Germany
... that the ancient settlement is at least 100 years older than was previously believed. The 36-feet-high ruins were discovered in the Tlatelolco area
Two potholders drown in 'flash flood' cave usually used by ...
This is London - London,England,UK
The 33-year-old man and 28-year-old woman drowned when the underground cave system suddenly flooded. Emergency services were alerted by the man's wife when
Sunday Drive: Waitomo
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
The Legendary Black Water Rafting Co. has been guiding people through magical Ruakuri Cave since 1987, either floating along the underground stream lit only
Hocking Hills is year-round getaway with waterfalls, gorges, caves ...
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
Hocking Hills State Park features five distinct areas: Ash Cave, Old Man's Cave, Cedar Falls, Rock House and Cantwell Cliffs. Nearby is Conkle's Hollow ...
Red palm mites found in Palm Beach Gardens
Palm Beach Daily News - Palm Beach,FL,USA
By MARGIE KACOHA, Daily News Staff Writer Fire ants, killer bees, errant alligators and crushing pythons are just a few in a long list of disturbing ...
bee boy' attracts tens of thousands bees
China Daily - China
KUALA LUMPUR -- Ee Qing Hai is not called the "bee boy" for nothing. He can attract 80000 bees and bear them for two hours. This is known to the Malaysian ...
Willis woman believes hive contains 'killer' bees
Conroe Courier - Conroe,TX,USA
The Africanized honey bees were discovered in Montgomery County in 2002, according to the US Department of Agriculture. "We've reached the point where
Handshake incident could prove costly
MLive.com - MI,USA
Ridgeway said it was olive oil, but the three officials said it made them ill within 24 hours after the encounters, News records show. ..
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