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May 2007
Venus causes a stir in Picton
Marlborough Express - Blenheim,New Zealand
Whatever their theory, Picton residents have been noticing strange lights in the sky in recent weeks, with people reporting spectacular, ...
Modern techniques seek some secrets from ancient Irish manuscript
International Herald Tribune - France
Unfortunately, the enduring mystery about whether the book was written on Iona, Kells or at another Colm Cille monastic site will likely endure.
North Oregon Coast Beach Reveals Ancient Ghost Forest Again
Beach Connection - Manzanita,OR,USA
Roger Hart is a geologist with the State of Oregon based in Newport, and is considered the foremost authority on these stumps of mystery. ...
Ranger-guided tour of Jones lake
Elizabethtown Bladen Journal - Elizabethtown,NC,USA
Other explanations include wind and tidal action when an ancient sea covered the area, or that the lakes were once spawning beds for giant fish that lived ...
Scientists ramp up theory on Great Pyramid
Reno Gazette Journal - Reno,NV,USA
... the Great Pyramid was constructed remain a mystery. The Great Pyramid of Giza, the sole surviving member of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, ...
Ancient temples of Angkor survive jungle of Cambodia
Inside Bay Area - Oakland,CA,USA
So for our first day of touring Angkor -- a vast and mysterious complex and home to about 100 temples -- we followed the crowd over Angkor Wat's moat before ...
Amateurs uncover secret tunnel
This is Local London - UK
Amateur archaeologists have uncovered an underground tunnel which was rumoured to exist on the site of one of Bexley's former great estates.
Buried secret uncovered
Defiance Crescent News - Defiance,OH,USA
After six years and countless hours of work, individuals may have only begun to scratch the surface of that secret -- the story of the Underground Railroad ...
Chinese explorers in North America?
Campbell River Mirror - Campbell River,British Columbia,Canada
Chinese living in ancient Cape Breton is an exciting concept and adds a whole new dimension to the appeal of the island. Next time I go, maybe I can make a
Gladiator relief discovered in ancient Ephesus
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
... one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, adds to the wealth of Ephesus. Scientific excavations gradually illuminated the mystery of the city. ...
Mystery of virgin shark birth solved
InTheNews.co.uk - London,UK
... offspring in the absence of males warrant genetic evaluation to determine how common asexual reproduction… is among these ancient fishes," they conclude.
Crickets Swarm Northern Nevada
KOLO - Reno,NV,USA
... grasshoppers that reach two inches in length or more as adults. They swarm in groups up to the thousands, eating everything in sight, including each other.
Cicadas Swarm Over Midwest
Discovery Channel - USA
Tara Burghart, AP. May 21, 2007 —Coming soon: Brood XIII. It sounds like a bad horror movie. But it's actually the name of the billions of cicadas expected
Yemen's Desert Locusts Control Centre Declares State of Emergency
BBSNews - Charlotte,NC,USA
For the image shown above in a larger size, please see: Just a small portion of a locust swarm can eat as much food in a day as 2500 people. ...
Plague found in cat from Hart Flat
Tehachapi News - Tehachapi,CA,USA
“Plague is still very much alive, although we may want to believe that it is an obsolete disease of the past,” says BA Jinadu, MD, MPH, Director of Public ...
Monkey dead from bubonic plague in Denver
Reuters - USA
DENVER (Reuters) - A Denver Zoo monkey has died of bubonic plague, apparently after eating a squirrel stricken with the disease, Colorado health and zoo ...
Hives at Flower Show? You must bee joking
This is London - London,England,UK
After the show the hives were to be taken to the roof garden of Fortnum & Mason in Piccadilly to make honey to sell in the shop. A spokeswoman for the show, ..
TURKMENISTAN: MAKING A BID FOR CRADLE-OF-CIVILIZATION STATUS
EurasiaNet - New York,NY,USA
Sarianidi claims that this society was so sophisticated that it should be considered the world’s fifth center of ancient civilization. ...
The man who saved Coke
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
The new World of Coca-Cola is scheduled to open Thursday beside the Georgia Aquarium, replacing the old World of Coke that opened in 1990 at Underground ...
Photo in the News: "Unusual" Tomb of Egyptian Courtier Found
National Geographic - Washington,DC,USA
Many of the objects feature "realistic touches and unusual details," Harco Williams, head of the Belgian team, said in a statement.
May 22The Search for Strange Underground Life Forms Around the World
Caves are home to a diverse array of creatures, many of which are highly adapted for the unique and harsh living conditions they encounter underground. Join evolutionary biologist Luis Espinasa at the Explorers Club as he discusses his ...
New Seven Wonders for world
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
With the Pyramids of Giza the only survivor of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, there is a world-wide move afoot to replace the others - now ...
FEATURE - Piles of rocks spark an American Indian mystery
Malaysia Star - Petaling Jaya,Malaysia
... that as evidence for a case to try to block Narragansett Improvement's housing project, arguing their land could also contain ancient Indian remains. ...
Buried treasure in Virginia?
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
Deep within the ancient lands of the Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown triangle, rests a treasure of historic proportions. ...
Great Wall of China overrun, damaged, disneyfied
Kazinform - Astana,Kazakhstan
A short distance away tourists have pulled grass from rammed-earth walls among the oldest and most endangered segments. And Christmas lights have been ...
Scientists ramp up for pyramid theory
USA Today - USA
The Great Pyramid of Giza, the sole surviving member of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, stands today as the most massive puzzle in the history of ...
Shrouded in mystery, ancient fossil finally identified as mammoth ...
Chicago Maroon - Chicago,IL,USA
By Zachary Binney. The fossil Prototaxites has mystified scientists for over a century. Renowned for its enormous size, the fossil is also known for its ...
Ancient Wooden Anchor Discovered
CCN Magazine - Folsom,CA,USA
As there is no record of any such event occurring during this period, the actual cause of port's destruction remains a mystery. ...
How goat skin DNA solved a mystery ofthe Dead Sea scrolls
Jerusalem Post - Jerusalem,Israel
Bar-Gal, who studies the genomes of ancient creatures that lived in Israel using molecular biology, morphology and DNA from bones, said mammoths roamed the ...
Mystery Solved: How Alexander the Great Defeated Tyre
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
A half-mile-long spit of sand once linked the ancient Lebanese island of Tyre to the mainland, according to a new study of the area's geological history.
Abandoning the Fort
PopMatters - Chicago,IL,USA
... an early proponent of the extraterrestrial theory, specifically suggesting that strange lights or object sighted in the skies might be alien spacecraft. ...
Nazi-era bunkers get a new lease on life
Expatica Germany - Germany
... a non-profit group founded 10 years ago, break a long held German taboo by erecting a shield pinpointing the notorious underground bunker site. ...
Human remains unearthed in Mtarfa catacombs
Malta Today - San Gwann,Malta
The development was suspended in 2005 after the discovery of underground structures, but the heritage superintendence stopped short of carrying out any ...
Fisherman Nabs Unusual Lake Erie Catch
First Coast News - Jacksonville,FL,USA
By WKYC-TV Cleveland. Sea wildlife experts are calling the creature an aquatic invader that could pose a threat to Lake Erie. ...
A tree house devoted to religion
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA A landscaper by trade, he worked during his off hours, cobbling together a 10000-square-foot tree house built entirely of scrap lumber and donated materials
Jellyfish swarm Waikiki
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
By Catherine E. Toth. In less than an hour, more than 20 box jellyfish were found yesterday on the shoreline at Hanauma Bay, prompting the city to close the ...
Bees Swarm Downtown Denver Parking Meter WCBS-TV New York - NY,USA
(CBS) DENVER People find all kinds of excuses as to why they don't feed the parking meter, but on Friday people who parked outside Denver's tallest building ...
Swarm of bees invades houses
Oxford Mail - Oxford,England,UK
Ted Mobley and neighbour Pete Washington, of Oxford Road, Kidlington, first noticed a giant swarm of bees in Mr Mobley's front garden last July. ...
The mystery of the
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
Most of those groups are familiar, but Melungeons -- dark-haired, tawny-skinned, blue-eyed residents of Appalachia -- remain a tantalizing mystery to
In Phoenix, see remnants of ancient civilizations, frontier history
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - Atlanta,GA,USA The mystery remains. Pueblo Grande Museum has a short video about the site and displays of pottery, baskets, tools and other items recovered or ...
Tunnel to re-open at mystery hill
BBC News - UK Parts of the ancient site are thought to be collapsing because of the tunnels dug by archaeologists over many centuries. After prising open the tunnel's ...
Ancient eruptions of carbon dioxide traced to oceans Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
One mystery about the burps remains: Where did they originate? The sediment sample from Baja was merely a trace left as the old water passed by on its way
The Mystery of the 2000 Year-Old Computer
Wired News - USA
But finally, researchers have unraveled the mystery of the "Antikythera Mechanism." It turns out that the ancient Greeks were more clever than we ever ...
Israeli archaeologists unearth King Herod's tomb Vision Insights and New Horizons - USA
JERUSALEM, May 8 (Reuters) - An ancient staircase used in a royal funeral procession led an Israeli archaeologist to solve a 2000-year-old mystery, ...
Volvo Puzzles the Greatest Mysteries of the Deep Autochannel (press release) - USA
The age-old culprit behind the mystery? Ghost pirates, of course. -- The Sirens' Song -- In ancient Greek lore, the Sirens lured sailors to their doom from
Underground wonder
Mount Shasta Herald - Mt. Shasta,CA,USA
A 190000 year old lava tube, the sheer size of this underground cavern is a surprise as you enter the system via a yawning entrance that appears out of a ...
'Great mystery' solved with discovery of Herod's tomb
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
A view from the top of the hilltop fortress and palace called Herodium, after King Herod, shows a cyclist (front L) nearby ancient ruins and a huge ...
Balkans Mystery Tour: The Mine of Alshar
World Press Review - USA
But a mine covered in a veil of mystery. Alshar, an ancient mine located in the southern Balkans, in Macedonia, is said to contain minerals that are found ...
Soudan: Anatomy of an underground laboratory
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
Bare light bulbs provide a minimum of light, and if you step off the cage and turn left, you'll find yourself in a pitch-dark, 10-foot by 10-foot tunnel
Historic dig drawing a crowd
Philadelphia Daily News - Philadelphia,PA,USA
"We think this deep part was a cold cellar, like a root cellar," Levin said, peering into a deep hole by the rear of the kitchen's basement. ...
Shoppers avoid swarm of bees
this is hampshire.net - Winchester,Hampshire,UK
A SWARM of bees caused problems for shoppers as the insects desperately sought out a new home for themselves and their queen on the roof of the framing shop ...
Squirrel Near Cherry Creek Reservoir Had Plague
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
A squirrel found dead in a residential area near the Cherry Reservoir was infected with plague, health officials said Monday. ...
In search of new home, bees swarm family's yard
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
A giant swarm of bees had taken to the tree to do what bees do. But when a beekeeper arrived to analyze the situation, the bees decided to move on,
Bee swarm removed from school grounds
Pueblo Chieftain - Pueblo,CO,USA
A swarm of honeybees looking for a new hive caused excitement at South Park Elementary School on Thursday afternoon - but they really weren'ta threat to ...
Musicians unlock mystery melody in Scottish chapel
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
Years of research led the Mitchells to an ancient musical system called cymatics, or Chladni patterns, which are formed by sound waves at specific pitches. ..
Mammoth mystery unfolding
Daily Record - Ellensburg,WA,USA
Additional bones from the mammoth were discovered, including a shoulder blade and vertebrae, along with bones from an ancient bison. ...
Pitt may unravel mummy mystery
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
For 17 years, the museum has displayed the mummy in its Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt. It was removed Monday but will be back on display next week. ...
Scientists found more icy-water underground on parts of Mars
Carib Journal - USA
The discovery draws a much more detailed picture of underground ice on Mars than was previously available. The new results appear in the May 3 issue of the ...
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