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July 2007
A minivan driver tells how he hit more than a bump in the road.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
What Nagarajan didn't know is that the bushes were camouflaging an old root cellar that was nearly 6 feet tall and angled. The cellar acted as a ramp, ...
Tomb raiders
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
They found an area of astonishingly hard ground - in fact part of a rammed earth wall made by the work gangs of the third century bc.
Another human civilization may live inside Earth's hollows
HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA
Since ancient times the exploration of the North was of immense interest to humans. It was an attraction for adventurers and researchers seeking mysterious ...
World's first prosthetic limb found on 3000-year-old Egyptian mummy
Daily Mail - UK
Last month, experts at the university used DNA to help identify a mystery mummy as Queen Hatshepsut - Ancient Egypt's most powerful female ruler.
Underground 'Snowy River' Alive Again
Discovery Channel - USA
July 27, 2007 -- The largest calcite cave formation of in the world has astonished researchers by coming alive with water, according to volunteer cavers who ...
Mysterious moneybags sparks benevolence fear
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
A MYSTERY is gripping Japan over anonymous cash gifts that turn up out of the blue. Residents of a Tokyo apartment building are baffled about a total of 1.8 ...
The man who played with dolls
Boston Globe - United States
What drove Morton Bartlett to create exquisitely realistic sculptures, dress them, and take pictures of them in evocatively staged scenes is a mystery. ...
Scouts Celebrate 100th Anniversary
- South Korea
When the estate changed hands some decades ago, a mystery owner presented the Scouts with their present wooded 11-acre site. "The aim at Whitley Beaumont is ...
Hezekiah's Tunnel: The jewel of underground Jerusalem
Jamaica Gleaner - Kingston,Jamaica
... return an object known as the Siloam Inscription that was removed from the wall of an underground tunnel in the city in 1880 and taken to Istanbul. ...
Chinese rice farmers battle a plague of rodents
Napa Valley Register - Napa,CA,USA
By MAUREEN FAN, Washington Post BINHU, China -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting ...
Bumblebees like untidy gardens
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
"Some species nest underground while others nest on the surface or above ground. If you've got different grass areas, flower beds, compost heaps and hedges,
Dozen People Attacked By Swarm Of Bees
KGTV, 10News.com - San Diego,CA,USA
One woman was hospitalized after a large swarm of bees attacked more than dozen people Friday on Mission Avenue in San Luis Valley. ...
A trip into the depths of Las Vegas
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
What I'm actually doing is walking through a storm drainage tunnel that stretches from just south of a nondescript parking lot here, under Interstate 15, ...
Archaeologists find key to Devon's Medieval past
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
... students have worked with local volunteers and school groups to reveal the structure of the building, which was completely hidden underground.
Wiltshire's own lost city of Atlantis: the mystery of Mannings Hill
Independent - London,England,UK
In the balmy months of summer, some have even claimed to have seen the very tip of an ancient church steeple pierce the surface of the lake. ...
Database wanted to study UFOs
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
He said he had always been interested in unidentified artefacts and ancient writings but was lured into the UFO phenomenon after his first unexplained ...
China officials deny flood rats on the menu
Reuters.uk - UK
He Huaxian, a disease control official in Hunan's plague-afflicted Yueyang county, denied a report in Information Times which said that trucks loaded with
Chinese Rice Farmers Battle A Plague of Munching Mice
Washington Post - United States
By Maureen Fan BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in ...
Sinkhole Opens Underground Mystery
New York Times - United States
Or as storied as a stop on the Underground Railroad? Does it stretch beyond the cluster of at least nine known rooms to connect to tunnels elsewhere? ...
Ancient lessons from a 'modern' wonder
Globe and Mail - Canada
One of the attractions of Petra and the Nabataean people is their enormous mystery, for they left no written records other than architectural and funerary
Jurassic park down under
NEWS.com.au - Australia
The new award-winning solar-powered building aims to prevent further damage, with rammed-earth walls insulating the interior from the worst extremes of the ...
Sci Fi channel
AfterEllen.com - USA
Buried under the sands of Iraq world famous archaeologist David Solomon has found a clue to the one of the ancient mysteries of the Old Testament. ...
Ancient coins discovered on beach
BBC News - UK
By Steven McKenzie Ancient coins have been found on a beach in the Western Isles giving new clues to the far reaching influence of the Roman Empire.
Amazon's monster mystery
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
"At the very least, what we have here is an ancient remembrance of a giant sloth, like those found in Chile recently, that humans have come into contact ...
Ancient Culture Prompts Worry for Arid Southwest NPR - USA
... Anasazi built more than 150 large buildings under these cliffs; but whether they were living quarters, temples, or something else entirely is a mystery. ...
A new museum confronts an old mystery at Masada Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
An inscription on the shekels in ancient Hebrew writing reads: "Shekel Yisrael" and "Jerusalem the Holy." Their date of issue, which relates to the year of ...
Swarms of bees plague the city
Peterborough Evening Telegraph - Peterborough,England,UK By Staff Copy WET weather is believed to be responsible for out of season swarms of bees which have been spotted in Peterborough. ...
Hole in ground probably isn'ta snake hole
MLive.com - MI,USA
Their complex tunnel system may reach 12 feet in length with a nesting chamber three feet underground. They also have food cache chambers where they store a ...
The New 7 Wonders of the World
Forbes - NY,USA The ancient city of Petra in southwestern Jordan, built on a terrace around the Wadi Musa or Valley of Moses, was the capital of the Arab kingdom of the ...
Black widows invade Romanian shore
Science Daily (press release) - USA
full story Ancient Sea Spider Fossils Discovered In Volcanic Ash (October 22, 2004) -- Volcanic ash that encased and preserved sea life in the Silurian age ...
Interesting Times: In our hands
Jerusalem Post - Israel
This week, however, I was introduced to an even deeper mystery: Why has even the disappearance of the Ark disappeared? As the charismatic co-founder of the
Voyage through the ancient ruins of Lamu
Kenya Times - Kenya ... ground we had anticipated to unravel the wonder and mystery of this Takwa we only heard of. We found the guide setting on the tour of the ancient ruined .
Young archaeologists dig up a mystery
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
Pupils from Sir John Leman High School in Beccles and Kirkley Community High School in Lowestoft uncovered the ancient skull during a Higher Education Field ...
Mystery building may house emperor's soul
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Beijing - Chinese archaeologists have discovered an ancient and mysterious subterranean building near the tomb of the nation's legendary first emperor,
The Weirdo Side of Summer on the Oregon Coast Beach Connection - Manzanita,OR,USA
They are, in fact, the remains of a forest that abruptly fell into the ocean due to an earthquake. Their decay was greatly slowed down because of their ...
SFist Photo: Harmless, Homeless Honey Bees
SFist - San Francisco,CA,USA
That buzzing sound from just above your head could be a swarm of bees, like the ones we saw from a sidewalk not too long ago in the Mission on 23rd near ...
Yemen battles worst locust swarm in 14 years
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA, July 1 (Reuters) - Locusts in Yemen have swept across 70000 hectares of desert and threaten to swarm into farmlands in the worst ...
China finds secret John the Baptist tomb chamber
The Spoof (satire) - UK
Beijing - (Ass Mess): Chinese archaeologists are cock-a-hoop at finding a mysterious underground chamber inside an ancient imperial tomb guarded by the ...
Britons beginning to accept Big Brotherish surveillance
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
By Paisley Dodds AP A security worker in an underground bunker examines a wall of monitors from cameras trained on spots in London. ...
Exhibit highlights forgotten time
Carlisle Sentinel - Carlisle,PA,USA
The German position will feature a ramp off the Heritage Trail to a narrow underground tunnel ending in a bunker used to protect soldiers during an attack. ...
Earth's heat keeping cities afloat, research finds Seattle Times - United States
They did it by estimating temperatures under the North American plate based on previous experiments that bounced seismic waves deep underground. ...
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