November 2006

Plague of crows invades city
China Daily - China
A massive number of crows have plagued residents in Chifeng, a city of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, since early this winter.

Bees creates a welcome buzz
China Daily - China
A family have lived with a swarm of bees for more than eight years in the village of Tantou in Lingui County, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Mystery Of Ancient Astronomical Calculator Unveiled
Playfuls.com - Targu Mures,Romania
by Mihai. An international team has unraveled the secrets of a 2,000-year-old computer which could transform the way we think about the ancient world. ...

The Mystery and Controversy of the Shroud of Turin to Be Examined ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
29 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mystery and Controversy of the Shroud of Turin will be the ... Throw in some fascinating ancient history, and we can make a strong case for .

Agriculture ministry attempts to curb brownhopper plague
Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam
HA NOI — Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will mobilise a force to stamp out ragged stunt disease in rice paddies, which has spread over the ...

Mystery of Tut deepens
Courier Mail - Australia
... a blow to the head about 3300 years ago and reopened the mystery of how ... from the Egyptian Government to perform similar scans on all of ancient Egypt's royal ...

A Layered Look Reveals Ancient Greek Texts
New York Times - United States
... This helps to fill in critical moments in ancient classical Greece ... The mystery of Archimedes’ treatise on combinatorics, the Stomachion, was solved in 2003 by

Snake venom: Poison may heal -- Study explores unusual stroke ...
Enterprise-Record - Chico,CA,USA
By STEVE BROWN - Staff Writer. Dr. Michael O'Brien, a neurologist who heads the stroke center at Enloe Medical Center, looks at an

Pumpkin-Throwing Vandals Plague Long Island
WCBS-TV New York - NY,USA
(CBS) MERRICK, Long Island Police on Long Island are searching for vandals who have thrown pumpkins at several cars, shattering windows and leaving many ...

Edinburgh Underground
By Sandy Stevenson(Sandy Stevenson)
Edinburgh Underground. People are fascinated by tales of fabled lost cities. ... An underground slum developed which existed for over 350 years. ... Edinburgh's population came to believe that the underground city, out of sight and out ...

Peru's hidden treasure
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... Like the mystical, mysterious Anasazi of the southwestern United States, the Chachapoyas ... Then, feeling oddly rushed, as if the promised tourist boom was about ...

IT helps solve mystery of ancient calculator
LinuxWorld.au - St Leonards,Australia
... next week promise to finally unravel much of the remaining mystery of a ... No artifact this complex has been recovered from the ancient world, though there are ...

Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind
The Nation. - New York,NY,USA
... Or burrowing underground like a Frank Herbert sandworm, in search of Shambhala, the earthly ... routes into Asia, believed by many to lead to the hidden city of ...

Ancient walls reveal its secrets
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
... This “ultimate mystery destination” draws around eight million visitors a year, spans around 720,000 square metres of space and took 14 years to build in ...

Mary's final home?
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... It is an ad for a brothel, which was apparently connected to the library by a secret, underground passageway. What looks like a

Aliens in town? No, I'm to blame
Spalding Guardian - Spalding,England,UK
A SPALDING man has owned up to setting off the strange lights in the night sky which prompted specul... READERS have voted in their

Strange surges, currents close Hanauma Bay
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
Hanauma Bay closed today after lifeguards reported strange currents and surges in the bay, apparently due to the earthquake in the Kuril Islands. ...

South China Sea Not In The Seismic Line
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
... The earthquake was a cause for worry to some people in the east coast ... According to the locals, the strange behaviour of the dolphins was yet another related

Miners feared trapped underground after accident in southern ...
International Herald Tribune - France
WARSAW, Poland: Twenty-three miners were feared trapped underground Tuesday after an ... city of Ruda Slaska after what may have been an explosion, Zbigniew Madej

Not your everyday deer
Goshen Chronicle - USA
... From the pictures you can see that it is a very unusual looking deer.”. Not so unusual, says Jay Westervelt, president Sugar Loaf Historical Society.

AMAZING GRACE, Some Thoughts On Travel
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
... Many lights on the island. Heavy ash cloud hovers low over this active volcano. I can taste the sulfur ash in the air. ... Everyone secretly hoped for an eruption. ...

Insect swarm attack leads to lawsuit
United Press International - USA
19 (UPI) -- An insect swarm attack on a small boy at a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in New York has led to a lawsuit against the popular children's restaurant

In my solitude
Louisiana Weekly - New Orleans,LA,USA
... I think often about the "Know Thyself" inscription on the walls of ancient Kemet's (Egypt) Mystery Schools and remind myself that to know thyself is to love

A Mountain's Name Shrouded in Mystery
Gilroy Dispatch (subscription) - Gilroy,CA,USA
... of mystery. Visitors and residents alike often mistakenly believe the large cone-shaped mountain on Morgan Hill's western city boundary is an ancient volcano.

—Tikal, Guatemala Exploring ancient history
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... As it turns out, descendents of the ancient Maya still live in this part of the world and ... Still, in some essential way, the Mayans' lives remain a mystery. ...

Latin Mass would restore mystery
Palm Beach Post - FL, United States
... The Catholic faith is, at its heart, a mystery. ... The Latin Mass enhanced mystery and created community for more than a thousand years and might again.

Archaeologists dig deep to revive 2,200 year-old ancient capital
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... "Judging by the height of the rammed earth and the size of the stones used to support the pillars, there must have been a marvelous construction here," says ...

Update by Sheldan Nidle for the Spiritual Hierarchy and the ...
By POA The Lemurian survivors who decided to remain on the surface and not move to new inner Earth homes were the subjects of the Atlantean experiments that produced present Earth humans. Thus, you are all descendants of Lemuria and carry ...

Bug is cousin of plague
Courier Mail - Australia
... A close cousin of the bacteria which caused the bubonic plague in the Middle Ages, it is capable of eating through fat layers to expose tendons, muscle and bone

Neanderthal Genome Sequencing Yields Surprising Results and Opens ...
YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA
The veil of mystery surrounding our extinct hominid cousins, the Neanderthals ... Studying ancient genomes from fossilized material by directly sequencing the DNA

Tut, Egypt's most famous Pharaoh
Kenya Times - Kenya
... In Tut’s tomb, a trotter, not a ritual object of ancient Egypt was found on which ... And now three thousand years later, the mystery of Tut remains unresolved.

Class finds tunnel: OUS class digs up historic Ironton Railway ...
Ironton Tribune - Ironton,OH,USA
... The underground tunnel presents some unique issues for the class since it is flooded with eight feet of water. Scuba divers will

Buried secret is 53-year-old gem
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
... how to keep a secret. As a teenager in 1953, the former Pittsburg resident, along with four friends, had quite a discovery, but kept it underground all these ...

Spooks Working Overtime
EURSOC - UK
... Their Secret Intelligence Service counterpart, MI6, is across the river, opposite the Tate ... office is known as 'K branch' and is located underground near the

First-class trip to the afterlife
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... A combination of familiarity and mystery, Campbell says. Most of us learnt something about the ancient Egyptians at school - enough for their culture to ...

Tribal park offers peek into ancient lives
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
... of artifacts from the ancient Puebloans. CORTEZ, Colo. - If you had to describe the Ute Mountain Tribal Park with one word, it would be this: mystery. ...

SoCal Bee Swarm Attacks Woman, Four Dogs
NBC 11.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
A woman was hospitalized Thursday after being stung on the face and neck while trying to get a swarm of aggressive bees away from her dogs outside a Lake ...

Persian Gulf Shipwreck Continues to Remain a Mystery
Payvand - Iran... last September no one was aware of the existence of an ancient ship sunken ... Initial studies by this company unveiled a mystery: A humongous ship and its cargo ...

Giant snails plague Barbadian farmers
radiojamaica.com - Jamaica
In Barbados, ravenous giant snails that emerge from the ground by night are thriving, destroying crops and prompting calls for the government to eliminate them ...

Ice-age genome project faces cold storage
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
Hendrik Poinar of the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre at McMaster University in Hamilton ... Cracking the woolly mammoth genome might help solve the mystery of what

What we can learn from the Arctic
Williams Lake Tribune - B.C., Canada
The ancient Greeks referred to what they imagined lay at the top of the ... in search of clues to his still inexplicable disappearance - a mystery than remains ...

Insomnia plague hits Berwick
Berwick News - Pakenham,Victoria,Australia
By Callan Date. A BERWICK psychologist is staggered at the high number of local residents attending her clinic with symptoms of insomnia.

Mosquito swarm has Livingston real buggy
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
By BOB ANDERSON. LIVINGSTON — People in Livingston Parish didn’t swat only at swarming mosquitoes Monday night — they also ...

Bee swarm exterminated
Wanganui Chronicle - Wanganui,New Zealand
... bees. The swarm of bees suddenly set up camp in a camellia tree on their front lawn, much to the distress of the couple. Although

The haunting of Station 12
Long Beach Press-Telegram - Long Beach,CA,USA... Other firefighters have seen strange lights, watched as the 18-ton fire engine rocked back and forth on its own and heard the rig's compartment doors open and

It's an Odd World!
Middle East Times - Cairo,Egypt
The gnomes were hidden in some underbrush with a banner that read "gnome mistreated ... as five could soon be working on their swing and practicing bunker shots at

ILLINOIS STYLE: Did a hairy monster stalk Tazewell County?
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA
... East Peoria. The witness said he and his party saw strange lights come in a vertical position and go down behind some trees. The ...

CMU, Intel see fantasy as the future
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... the creators of Claytronics. "It's not if, but when," Dr. Goldstein said of his futuristic technology. "I believe that, and most ...

Houstonist Flickr Photo of the Day - Bird Swarm
Houstonist - TX, USA
Here's a super-cool photo of the Alley Theatre and the Alley garage downtown — but there's something else going on. As the photographer .

Man builds home on Fore Shore
Trinidad News - Port of Spain,Trinidad and Tobago
A 53-year-old man has built a tree house, on the shoreline of the Audrey Jeffers Highway. The man who said he wished to remain anonymous

Abundant outdoor views offer feel of a tree house
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... they found to renovate was structurally unsound, says architect Manuel Aguirre, so they kept its footprint and started from scratch in creating a tree house. ...

’OVER THE HUMP TRAVELERS CHECK | CAMEL CARAVANS IN AUSTRALIA
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... is equipped with an “accelerator,” a length of rubber garden hose with ... few welcome amenities: a permanent outhouse with toilet paper, rainwater shower and ...

’Young Nicks will unearthed
Gisborne Herald - Gisborne,New Zealand
A FORMER Gisborne man believes he has unearthed a clue to the mystery of the ... He recalls, as a volunteer fireman, pushing an ancient fire cart up Gladstone Road ...

Residents transfixed by unexplained flying objects
Spalding Guardian - Spalding,England,UK
... UNEXPLAINED flying objects left Spalding residents searching the heavens for answers as residents in the Pennygate area were transfixed by orange lights.

’Whats the story with... amateur archaeology?
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Much of Scotland's past remains a mystery. ... a township that dates back 400 years." It is now registered with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical ...

Local News
Halifax Today - UK
THE mystery of the Hebden Bridge stone circle has been solved – by the man ... The themes range from local legends of ancient Viking settlements in the area, to ...

EXCLUSIVE Plague of rats infest stadium
Sunday People - UK
By Tom Latchem. And it's yet another embarrassment for the Football Association after years of wrangles with the builders, soaring ...

Road to ruins
Pueblo Chieftain - Pueblo,CO,USA
... mystery. The master builders of Chaco Canyon were once referred to by archaeologists as the Chaco Anasazi, the latter word derived from the Navajo for "ancient ...

ÄThe Bhoo-hoo la : 'The Crest Jewel' of medieval Sri Lankan ...
Asian Tribune - Bangkok,Thailand
... ten-minute walk along the canal to the right will take you to the site of the ancient anicut on ... The origin and history of this tunnel still remains a mystery. ...

Aliens, government breed genetic mutants in suspected underground ...
UNM Daily Lobo (subscription) - Albuquerque,NM,USA... that principle, it may be worth asking what was more likely: that Chapman found a half-cat, half-rabbit hybrid created in a top-secret underground labyrinth by ...

Iwo Jima: 'Flags' Movie Takes Area Man Back
Southern Pines Pilot - Southern Pines,NC,USA... The battle was out in the open, but the enemy was hidden. "I didn't see many Japanese," Goodwin said. "Not live ones. They were underground, you know.".

Underground passages reveal power struggle in ancient Han capital
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
Chinese archaeologists said underground passages in the ruins of an ancient Chinese capital near Xi'an might have been dug during complex power struggles in ...

Cathedral underground reserved for archbishops
INQ7.net - Philippines... The underground chamber in Manila Cathedral was built in 1958 to become the exclusive resting place of the city’s archbishops

Breathtaking Ancient Wonders
ABC News - USA... The seventh wonder, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, is wrapped in mystery. ... Since the list of ancient wonders was made thousands of years ago, there have been