June 2007

The library that vanished
Hindu - Chennai,India
There are, however, only a handful of good books on this ancient library (because so much about it remains speculation and mystery) and none is more ...

Wisconsin family has "beary" unusual encounter
KARE - Minneapolis,MN,USA
It's not unusual for residents of rural Wisconsin and Minnesota to see black bears. But it is rare that residents find themselves adopted by them.

Unusual sighting intrigues officials, experts
Springfield State Journal Register - Springfield,IL,USA
City employees who work at the lake have been asked to document any unusual snakes. "If it'sa large snake that we can find, we'd definitely like to get it ...

Spain hit by plague of blood-sucking black flies
Guardian Unlimited - UK
A plague of black flies has prompted authorities in north-eastern Spain to issue warnings on TV and fliers advising people to cover up and avoid riverside ...

Fairies and flowers
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
She knows that fairies like people who work in the garden. She has made her garden fairy friendly, adding seashells so they can collect rainwater,

Insects swarm fields
Joplin Globe - Joplin,MO,USA
By Mike Surbrugg LAMAR, Mo. -- Many insects recently splattering across windshields at night were army worm moths, said Wayne Bailey, University of Missouri ...

Holy Grail 'buried under Rome church'
The West Australian - Perth,Western Australia,Australia
... of ancient funeral rites. According to Mr Barbagallo, who heads an association called Arte e Mistero (Art and Mystery) this funnel is the Holy Grail. ...

Forgotten Indiana Jones was man of many mysteries
Villages Daily Sun - The Villages,FL,USA
The following facts are irrefutable: Banks excavated Bismya (the ancient city of Adab) during an expedition sponsored by the University of Chicago in ...

Ancient CSI at UHH
New Haven Register (subscription) - New Haven,CT,USA
The mystery remained unanswered until workers building a highway uncovered the grave site in Parachuco, said Albert B. Harper, executive director of the

The mystery of Egypt's greatest queen solved
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The centuries-old search for the mummy of Hatshepsut, the most famous queen to rule ancient Egypt, could end today in a Cairo museum.

Moving a hive of wild bees while saving the swarm
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
I have always liked honeybees and even taught my children how to pet them. (It's no big trick: They are too busy collecting nectar to worry about a gentle ...

Shops are buzzing!
Dorset Echo - England,UK
The swarm which arrived at around 1.30pm, took up residence on the post for the afternoon and soon attracted a small crowd of onlookers. ...

Backyard bomb shelters now curiosities
Las Cruces Sun-News - Las Cruces,NM,USA
The shelter is cinder block and concrete about 15 to 20 feet underground with a main room and a bathroom. ALBUQUERQUE -- Fay Barz wasn't really looking for a ...

The Amazon: From A To Z
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
The most mysterious of the tributaries, flowing for 1300 miles through the territories of many Indian tribes. The British explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett

Scholars Race to Recover a Lost Kingdom
New York Times - United States
Overshadowed by Egypt, to the north, it was a place of uncharted breadth and depth far up the Nile, a mystery verging on myth. One thing the Egyptians did ...

Mysterious medieval maze restored
24dash.com - Hereford,Herefordshire,UK
Experts say the origins of the maze are shrouded in mystery but may combine elements of Greek myth, medieval penitence and innocent fun and games.

Unusual cats no one wanted may become lifesaver
Seattle Times - United States
By Patrice Stewart DECATUR, Ala. -- Mitchell Morris needs a new boat motor and a new heart. Now he's counting on his 13 cats to help him get them. ...

Sand Patch Tunnel stone serves as bedrock for historical tavern
Daily American Online (subscription) - Somerset,PA,USA
Pleasants, of Pottsville, was best known for organizing the building of an underground tunnel near Petersburg, Va., during the Civil War. ...

'Miss Belvedere' unveiled Half century spent underground not kind ...
Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise - Bartlesville,OK,USA
By Justin Juozapavicus AP Writer TULSA (AP) -- A concrete vault encasing a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere buried a half-century ago may have been built to withstand ...

House renovation reveals life of WWII sailor
NavyTimes.com - Springfield,VA,USA
While taking out the trash on a recent morning, the Hofeldts found more evidence about the mystery man -- an inscription in the curb they somehow missed ...

A Half-Century Underground in Tulsa
NPR - USA
This 1957 Plymouth Fury has the same body as the Belvedere but comes with a fancier trim. Jerry Gallery of Waterloo, Iowa, poses with his perfectly restored ...

1870s saloon found underground in Corsicana
KVUE (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
He also says there have been rumors that there are other underground rooms just like this one, and that there are tunnels that connect the rooms,

Five Reasons to Wear Sunglasses
FOX News - USA
The sun's brightness and glare interferes with comfortable vision and the ability to see clearly by causing people to squint and the eyes to water. 4. ...

Walking the Inca Trail
iAfrica.com - Cape Town,South Africa
For years, the morning mists settled on this ancient site keeping the complex beneath shrouded in mystery. Covered in forests and overgrown with dense ...

Mystery solved: Mars had large oceans
MSNBC - USA
... northern hemisphere were thought to be the best evidence, but experts argued that they were too "hilly" to describe the smooth edges of ancient oceans. ...

A tribute to the underground
Wollondilly Advertiser - Sydney,NSW,Australia
In fact, at the risk of over-using the same metaphor, I wouldn't work underground for all the tea in China. Last Thursday I was given a tour of the Appin ...

San Diego museum culls worldwide collections for Dead Sea Scrolls ...
The Jewish Journal of greater L.A - Los Angeles,CA,USA
On June 29, the San Diego Natural History Museum will open the exhibition "Dead Sea Scrolls," the largest, most comprehensive show ever of these ancient

Mound Of Mystery
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA
Yet, as Scott Fais shows us, one ancient civilization who disappeared long ago, actually left a lot behind some buried beach treasure of another kind at the ...

Gas-free getaways: Angel Island
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... an embarkation site for troops headed for the Pacific during World War II, a Nike missile silo and, from 1910 to 1940, an entry station for immigrants.

Swarm of bees attacks two landscape workers at Miramar plant
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
By Macollvie Jean-Francois MIRAMAR -- A swarm of bees attacked two workers on the grounds of a large office building, stinging one man 20 times, ...

Alien caterpillars found on Oahu
Science Daily (press release) - USA
full article Great Chilean Earthquake -- The Great Chilean Earthquake or Valdivia Earthquake (Terremoto de Valdivia in Spanish) of May 22, ...

Unsolved mystery of Bronze Age standing stones Weston & Somerset Mercury - eston-super-Mare,Somerset,UK
Many theories have been put forward about the use to which this massive handiwork of ancient times was put. Conclusions strongly urged is that they were ...

Sri Lanka: Mysterious noise causes panic in several areas Siber News Media - New York,NY,USA The army last night ruled out the possibility of the noise being a sonic boom from a jet aircraft. The Media Centre for National Security said the police ...

George Washington's secret slave passage found Xinhua - China
The underground passageway is just steps from the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. "As you enter the heaven of liberty, you literally have to cross the ...

What's the exact age of ancient Dwarka?
Zee News - Noida,India
In a major breakthrough, archaeologists have excavated from the ruins of Dwarka a wooden block that promises to solve the mystery about the exact age of the ...

Were Ancient Americans Wiped out by Meteor Strike? Bits of News - USA
The origins of this Clovis culture, and the first human inhabitant in America, is something of a mystery in its own right. There are no corresponding finds ...

Dispatches from Turkey and Jordan: How soil affects civilizations
Penn State Live - PA,USA
As we walked over the ancient quarried stones and joined with the wide-eyed tourists from around the globe, it was impossible not to be impressed by the ...

Forestville/Mystery Cave: A family pleaser with horses, caves and ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Climb Zumbro Hill to see the ethereal cemetery in an ancient grove. One-hour cave tours are a fun diversion for kids and adults; adventurous spelunkers can ...

The link between the ancient Yemeni kingdom and the ancient ... Yemen Times - Sana'a,Yemen As any journey, theirs would be ruled by the twin houses of mystery and discovery. Their wrists experienced in turn the caresses of silk, the abuses of wool ...

Heat Brings In Swarm Of Problems
KFOXtv.com - El Paso,TX,USA
The heat is bringing plenty of sun to the "Sun City," but it also brings out the bees. One man said bees have completely taken over one of the trees outside ...

Chicken 'takeaway' links Polynesians to America
ABC Science Online - Australia
"Basically most of the work that we do in our labs is using genetic evidence to track the movement of ancient Pacific peoples, Polynesian ancestors and ...

'Kitchen science' reveals dinosaurs died in agony Scripps News - Washington,DC,USA
A dinosaur mystery that puzzled paleontologists for nearly a century has been solved by a pound of beef tendons from a butcher, a collection of dead hawks ...

Kyoto tomb may be that of ancient army general
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
An ancient tomb in Kyoto built for an unidentified dignitary may be that of Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, an army general who subjugated tribes in northern Japan ...

Firefighter battles bee swarm for dog rescue
The Valley Chronicle - Hemet and San Jacinto,CA,USA Whether or not there were orange trees nearby, Cross came across the swarm of bees when he drove his ladder fire truck into the Big 5 parking lot about two ...

Bees swarm Idaho shopping mall
KTVB - Boise,ID,USA ... right above our door and just hung there." Entomologists say a swarm may contain from 1500 to 30000 bees, and often occurs due to overcrowding in a hive.

Corpus Christi child suffers bee attack
KRIS-TV - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
CORPUS CHRISTI - A local child is recovering after a swarm of bees stung her Sunday. The attack happened just before noon in the back yard of a south side ...

Ancient carvings mystery solved
BBC News - UK The origins of intricate carvings which line the walled garden of a Scottish castle have finally been discovered, solving centuries of mystery. ...

Road reopening halted by badgers
BBC News - UK Works were forced to stop when the animals' underground home was discovered. Dumfries and Galloway Council said it has had to work with Scottish Natural

The flight of the honey bee
Wanted in Rome - Italy ... of honey from a wild bees' nest) and honey bees have been "domesticated" for thousands of years, as many ancient Egyptian illustrations confirm. ...

Underground zines find home at Linebaugh
Murfreesboro Post - Murfreesboro,TN,USA
The supervisor of the MGL Library at Patterson Park Community Center started a collection of these underground publications at Linebaugh Public Library at

Museum anthropologist's latest honor is a hibiscus Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA He discovered the preserved remnants of an ancient deep-sea voyaging canoe in 1977. Author Rick Carroll wrote a nonfiction mystery about Sinoto and the

Phoenix rises from its past
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA
When a dam was being constructed in 1970 just north of Phoenix, engineers found several basalt rocks with ancient carvings on them. ...

Diver's mystery rock find puzzles experts
Northumberland Gazette - UK
Dr Burville said: "It immediately struck me that this was a find that was extremely old and given the isolated position it may be indicative of an ancient ...

Archaeologists dig out ancient port
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
A two thousand year old sea port, its culture and its people all shrouded in a mystery waiting to be unveiled by the slow and painstaking efforts of the ...

The Dirty Water Underground
Free Internet Press - New York,NY,USA
The resulting system, a more robustly engineered constructed wetland, funnels shower and laundry water underground, through a deep bed of gravel contained ...

Military Vet Found Living In Underground Bunker
WMUR - Manchester,NH,USA
... said he had an interesting discovery while looking into a fire in the city -- a homeless man he found living in a well-equipped underground bunker. ...

Where ancient gods and royalty walked
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
It's a scholarly mystery." On Saturday, as head of half the ROM's collections, Grzymski will be circulating among fellow dignitaries helping to open the ...

Reflecting the past: Rangers, archeologists test out ancient ...
Farmington Daily Times - Farmington,NM,USA Park rangers and archeologists at 23 Anasazi ruins scattered over 86 miles tested the theory that the ancient people passed messages between population ...

New York state man found living in underground bunker
International Herald Tribune - France
... military veteran, slept on a foam bed, used car batteries to light his home and cooked food in a hot pot in the bunker 6 feet (1.8 meters) underground.

Get lost in Lima
MSNBC - USA
This storied mountaintop site, the famed "lost city of the Incas," is all majesty and mystery and is rightly at the center of Peru's tourism industry

Mushrooms: A new resource for the Blackfeet Tribe
Glacier Reporter - USA
Knowing morel mushrooms can grow in abundance after a fire, the discussion became a full blown effort to inform the Blackfeet people of the benefits that ...

Recipes: Morels and Sunchokes in Brown Butter with Toasted Hazelnuts
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
1 / 3 c. morel mushrooms (if large, cut in half horizontally), rinsed in salt water. * 1 / 3 lb. sunchokes, peeled and sliced into 1-in. sticks (about 1 1 ...

Forest gumption
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Forager Jonas Lindberg was out one recent day looking for morel mushrooms. It was too dry, and he found only ramps, a form of wild onions.

'The Zen of Fish' and 'The Sushi Economy'
calendarlive.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Nine hundred years later, a doctor at the shogun's court tried adding rice vinegar, a relatively recent creation, to trays of cooked rice and slabs of raw ...

Vietnam veteran writes memoir
Nevada Appeal - Carson City,NV,USA
"We quickly dove through the hatch of an underground bunker just as the last round exploded exactly where we had been standing," he wrote. ...