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September 2006
Regional copper fueled the European Bronze Age?
Daily Mining Gazette - Houghton,MI,USA
... historian Fred Rydholm will present his theories of ancient copper civilization ... of “Superior Heartland: a Backwoods History,” and the mystery “Cave of
Hurricane Season Brings Fire Ant Trouble
Pest Control - Cleveland,OH,USA
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC — When wet weather from an active hurricane season ... Following 2005’s record-breaking 28 named storms, homeowners are more aware ...
Mystery lights spotted over Greenham
Newbury Weekly News Group - Newbury,England,UK
... before disappearing at great speed. He said: “We noticed strange lights in the sky. It was unbelievable. There were 10 lights
Dogs die after swarm of bees attack them
Citizen - Johannesburg,pretoria,South Africa
By Tanya Waterworth. RICHARDS BAY – Three dogs have died after being attacked by a swarm of bees at a Richards Bay home. Kim Koorsen
Hoping for a big blast, he almost loses face
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia... The idea is to create a loud explosion by digging a hole in the ground and ... here after he burned his face and hand during the making of his underground explosive ...
Squirrel attacks plague Mtn. View park
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA By Renee Koury. In the past three months, aggressive rodents have jumped into a child's stroller and bitten at least three people.
Insects plague late-planted soybeans in Arkansas
Delta Farm Press - Bellevue,NE,USA By Lamar James. Extremely high numbers of stink bugs are being found in late-planted soybeans in southeast Arkansas, said Gus Lorenz ...
Bee swarm linked to neighbor
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA... on the street," said Sgt. Mike McHenry, who donned protective gear and followed the swarm Sunday. "The swarms were everywhere on ...
Archaeologist claims Jerusalem treasure mystery solved
CathNews - Australia... After a decade of research into previously untapped ancient texts and archaeological sources, Dr Kingsley has reconstructed the treasure's route for the first ...
Locust plague encircles Mexico's Cancun resort
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK... Towns have formed pesticide-armed brigades and are winning the war against the 3-week-old plague that has left tourist areas unharmed, authorities said. ...
Bee swarm stings Orange County man, two granchildren
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA LAKE FOREST, Calif. - A swarm of bees attacked a man and his two grandchildren on a nature hike near their home, stinging them dozens of times. .
Jackson keen on Hobbits
Virgin.net - London,Westminister,UK
Peter Jackson has revealed that he is keen on the idea of helming MGM's planned live-action adaptation of JRR Tolkien's fantasy novel 'The Hobbit'. ...
Would-be hobbits throng to London's West End
Globe and Mail - Canada London -- More than 1,000 Hobbit hopefuls lined up outside a London theatre yesterday, seeking a part in the stage show The Lord of the Rings. ...
MYSTERIOUS MOUNDS GREETED PIONEERS
Niagarafallsreporter.com - Niagara Falls,NY,USA... a century and a half ago, pondered over this supposed ancient race, and we are but little closer to positive proof today. Turner wrote, "The mystery of this pre ...
NATURE IN SHORT / Yonaguni Monumentnatural wonder, or man-made ..
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
... Japan's world-class ancient mystery, however, lies way to the south. Just off the shore of tiny Yonagunijima island in the southernmost ...
HomeMaking: Yellow jackets are burr in the saddle
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... jackets, who were back the next morning with a vengeance, but it gave me a sense of satisfaction every time I heard the "wooosh" of an underground explosion. ...
Check in to this unusual motel and watch the drive-in movie from ...
Montreal Gazette (subscription) - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
The Fairlee Motel & Drive-In Theater combines two parts of roadside America. Drive in, and you have your classic outdoor experience. ...
Sleep Disorders Demystified
GNIF Brain Blogger - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Scientists are relating this to another condition known as SUNDS (Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome), which is in turn almost identical to another
Ultimate Tours unlocks the mystery to the last Inca refuge
Easier - Chester,UK
... begins in Cusco. Could it be that you are about to unlock the ancient mystery and find the lost city of gold? Choquequirao in the
Out of America: Behind the bronze doors of the masons' HQ
Independent - London,England,UK
... in what is now Turkey, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world ... In Europe at least, Freemasonry is a mystery of secret rites and occult power, the stuff of ...
Women arrested after unusual street scam
WCAX - Burlington,VT,USA
The unusual sting occurred in Syracuse yesterday when a male undercover police officer was flagged down by a woman on a street. ...
`Super rats' plague British streets
Taipei Times - Taiwan
RAT ATTACK: Reports are coming in of giant rats that are immune to poison and have lost their fear of man. Is a new breed evolving ...
Aliens made them famous
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
... route. They were unsuccessful, but they did meet many people in the region who had seen strange lights and flying objects. "Actually ...
Skunk from Fairgrounds tests weak positive for plague
Lassen County News - Lassen,CA,USA
Sept. 19, 2006 — A skunk removed from the Lassen County Fairgrounds in July tested a weak positive for bubonic plague. By Shayla Ashmore.
Fainting spells continue to plague students in Kaski
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
LEKHNATH, Sept 19 - The fainting spells has continued to plague the students of the Laxmi Secondary School in Lekhanath Municipality in Kaski district. ...
Daddy-longlegs plague hits UK
The Sun - UK
By PETE BELL. The combination over recent weeks of hot sunshine and heavy rain is thought to be behind the current "epidemic" of
Colorado advances ferret program
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
... Many large prairie dog towns have sylvatic plague, a flea-borne disease introduced from Asia around 1900 that kills ferrets. The ...
Rat plague blights Bartholomew Street
Newbury Weekly News Group - Newbury,England,UK
By Helen White, Reporter. Retailers claim rubbish from fast food outlets has caused the rising number of rodents in the area. West
China launches plague outbreak exercise along Qinghai-Tibet ...
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
China has launched a plague outbreak exercise along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway to test the country's ability to respond to such disasters. ...
The Web as a Swarm
NPR - USA
Swarm is a graphical map of hundreds of Web sites, all connecting to each other. ... As sites become more popular, they move towards the center of the swarm. ...
Another bee attack injures workers
Victoria Advocate - Victoria,TX,USA
A man was in critical condition at a hospital Wednesday afternoon after being stung about 500 times by a swarm of bees while working in the area of Fox and ...
Wildlife center saves unusual animal
Statesman Journal - Salem,Oregon,USA
... Staff wondered if he was a cross between a deer and a goat because of his unusual coloring, called “piebald” — white fur with patches of brown and black ...
Vatican opens archive
BBC News - UK
... called "secret archive" which contains some two million documents dating back up to a thousand years. They are kept for safety mainly in underground fireproof ...
Local fisherman caught off-guard by unusual species
Fish Update - Edinburgh,UK
... the triple fin fish was handed into the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, where conservator Julian carter commented that “unusual species were moving into
Gulf of Mexico Swordfish Record Shattered
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... town that the Sea Reaper III was on its way in with a record breaking swordfish. ... pounds (photos can be viewed at www.OrangeBeach.ws under the News-Weather link ...
A wolf in sheep's clothing: Plague bacteria reveal one of their ...
Biology News Net (press release) - QC,Canada
The bacterium that causes the plague belongs to a virulent family of bacteria called Yersinia, a group that also includes a pathogen responsible for food ...
UNUSUAL TALES: Strange Coffee Brewing in Ohio
Soonews.ca - Sault Ste. Marie,Ontario,Canada
In Akron, Ohio, having your morning coffee at work has taken a whole new meaning. A disgruntled postal worker decided to add a little
Majority of bees in local area Africanized
Portales News-Tribune - Portales,NM,USA
... Hightower said because Africanized bees are apt to swarm (divide and leave the hive) as often as every two months, the numbers of new colonies could be ...
Hot summer to blame for daddy-longlegs plague
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The combination of hot summer weather with some rain over recent weeks could be behind a surge of daddy-longlegs in homes, building on the harmless insects
Killer Bees Precautions
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA
... The Killer Bees are highly aggressive and can swarm in the thousands and fly more than three football fields in length to attack.
Deep in Siberia, a crumbling city holds a horde of diamonds
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
... In a chamber some 700 meters underground, chief engineer Alexander Vasilyevich gives orders to his men, his ... "By Russian law, that's a state secret," he says.
Wanted: Hairy actors to play LOTR hobbits
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Producers of The Lord of the Rings said Tuesday they were seeking 20 performers to play diminutive Hobbits in the stage musical adaptation of JRR Tolkien's ...
Leonardo Da Vinci: Experience, Experiment And Design
This is London - London,England,UK
... the essence of genius, Pater as possessed by genius, mystery, enigma, swarming ... LEONARDO'S notebooks reveal scant interest in the ancient Roman architecture for ...
Unusual stone burial mound found in Nagano
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
A hexagonal stone burial mound has been discovered at an archaeological site near other burial mounds in Chikuma, Nagano Prefecture, according to the Chikuma ...
Egyptologist: Bosnia 'Pyramid' Sites Worth Investigating
FOX News - USA
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — An Egyptologist who investigated two hills in central Bosnia believed by some to be ancient pyramids on Wednesday recommended
‘Seeking the perfect swarm' of shad
Joongang Ilbo - Seoul,South Korea
... He was looking for the biggest swarm. "Now!" he yelled, and the crew let go of the net all at once. ... He was determined to find the next swarm. ...
Strange array of creatures lies under Alabama
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
... He and colleague Alex Huryn believe their research will raise even more ... to study until they can expand their work to the entire underground freshwater ecosystem
Huge wonderland found under Jenolan Caves
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
DISCOVERING a hidden tunnel that leads to a massive previously unknown cavern ... rare red-coloured stalactites and stalagmites paint a vivid underground portrait. ...
Archaeolgists find carvings made by pre-Aztec civilisation
Independent - London,England,UK
... meaning of what is written on the Cascajal block remains a mystery, and the ... would require the Mexican equivalent of a Rosetta Stone - an ancient stone tablet ...
Unusual 'alien' rock found in NZ
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa Wellington - A small piece of unusual rock found in a New Zealand paddock was sent for analysis on Wednesday as speculation mounted it was a chunk of a meteor ...
Expedition To Probe Sunken Airship
KSBW Channel.com - Salinas,CA,USA
... The Macon went down in 1935 and is now an underground time capsule of a ... Chris Grech is a researcher at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, who is ...
The sinking ark
Cosmos - Sydney,Australia
... The lizard-like tuatara, a creature so ancient it pre-dated the dinosaurs ... How these things arrived is a mystery, but if islands like Lord Howe, Norfolk and the
Sea life abounds on islands near PERU
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
... away? Or is it an ancient religious symbol, like the cross is for Christians? For now (and maybe forever), it remains a mystery.
Now 100 days to end of world
Capital FM - Nairobi,Kenya
... their homes. Sang said they would only go into their underground bunkers once the nuclear war strikes within the next three months.
The Last of the Neandertals?
Science Now - Washington,DC,USA
... That former mystery may be closer to being solved thanks to radiocarbon dating ... several thousand years older, the precise calibration of such ancient dates is ...
Kenya cult enters bunkers though doomsday uneventful
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
... masks, gloves and long overcoats -- have built a network of underground hideouts in ... sect in Kenya, told journalists while packing sacks of flour into a bunker. ...
Unusual Object Found In Meteor Path
newswire.co.nz - Havelock Nth,Hawkes Bay,New Zealand
The police say an unusual object has been found on a farm in Canterbury near where a meteor streaked through the sky yesterday.
Bee swarm traps shoppers
ic Coventry - Coventry,UK
By Andrew Heath. THIS was the incredible scene as a swarm of bees descended on a town centre shop. Customers had to be evacuated ...
Unexplained 9.8 billion yuan deposit shocks woman
China Daily - China
A woman surnamed Huang got a big surprise on Monday when she went to a Guangzhou branch of the Bank of Communication and found there was 1.19 billion yuan
Rats plague London
Regina Leader-Post - Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada
LONDON -- In 1665, the black rat spread the Bubonic Plague and death through the streets of London. Three and a half centuries later ...
New 'dummy eggs' will help curb Gloucester's 'plague of seagulls'
24dash.com - Hereford,Herefordshire,UK
A new scheme to curb the number of gulls will be rolled out across Gloucester after a trial using fake eggs was hailed a success. ...
Man Travels Thousands of Miles Looking for 'Lost Kingdom'
EastDay.com - Shanghai,China
... To decipher the mystery, Chen suggested that the easiest way is to compare DNA samples in the remains of ancient Tanguts and those in the modern Sherpas.
A sakada statue that she will dedicate on Saturday has arrived ...
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
... in Corregidor, the last stronghold in the Philippines, where President Manuel Quezon and General Douglas MacArthur led the fight against the Japanese invasion ...
Exterminators possibly searching for more than vermin
Mount Vernon News - Mount Vernon,OH,USA
... sort of elaborate hoax. First of all, rats don’t tunnel around and underground. Also, explosives are not used for rodent control. ...
Rodenator blasts furry creatures of ground
Core77.com - New York,NY,USA
... system then ignites the mixture, creating an underground shockwave or concussion that instantly eliminates the rodent and collapses the tunnel system of most ...
Bronze Age pyramid found in Ukraine
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... god. The "pyramid" is in fact a complex of temples and sacrificial altars topping a sculpted hillside with steps on its sides. Viktor ...
UK Hobbits Confirmed at Lord of the Rings Launch
Whatsonstage.com - London,UK
James Loye (pictured) and Peter Howe will recreate their starring roles as Frodo and Samwise Gamgee when the stage adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s trilogy The
Swarm Of Yellow Jackets Attacks Children Playing At School
KOIN.com - Portland,OR,USA
BORING, Ore. - A swarm of yellow jackets attacked students playing outside during recess Friday at Naas Elementary School in Boring. ...
Sinking feeling
Calgary Sun - Canada... concern among residents and public officials that condo construction at Yonge and Eglinton may have displaced naturally occurring underground water, called
Bee Stings Plague Montana Wildfire Fighters
FOX News - USA
HELENA, Mont. — Firefighters battling a wildfire that has blackened nearly 290 square miles and burned 26 homes faced a new challenge ...
Unusual treasure dazzles onlookers
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
By SAMUEL R. IRWIN. Finding a diamond on a Louisiana barrier island beach would be a noteworthy event in anyone’s life. Cuban-born .
’Earths crust and poles wander, drift and shift: Dangerous days ...
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA... Ancient maps have been found that show details of the coastline and geography of Antarctica. The mystery in these maps is that the coastline and geographic ...
Rat plague devastates crops in Paduca
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
A rat plague has made an estimated 322 poor families (or 2,254 people) highly food insecure in 16 communities in Patuca zone. These ...
Montauk Babies (The Many Lives of Al Leedskalnin)
UFODigest - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... Experiments that may or may not have happened well over fifty years ago in a secret underground base in Montauk, Long Island, NY. ...
MIT team describes unique desert cloud forest
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
... it's possible the trees will lose the ability to pull water from the mist and recharge underground reservoirs. A report on their research was published in a ...
While extraterrestrial life may exist, "The Secret NASA ...
Newstarget.com - Taichung,Taiwan
This is a review of a video called "The Secret NASA Transmissions: The Smoking Gun." The video is called the most popular underground tape among astronauts ...
Unusual catch for Garnish fishermen
Southern Gazette - Marystown,Newfoundland,Canada
BY CARL ROSE. Garnish Capt. Terrence Legge and his crew got more than they bargained for Aug. 25 when took back their whelk pots. ...
Experts: Death Of 'Crocodile Hunter' Unusual
WNBC - New York,NY,USA... "This is so unusual," said Steve Blair of the Aquarium of the Pacific. "It would have to be a large ray (that would) hit you in the exactly wrong spot.".
Construction Workers Uncover Roman Village in Bonn
Deutsche Welle - Germany
... Some 300 boxes have already been filled with artifacts discovered in the ancient apartments, hidden for so many years underground. ...
Bees kill 22 dogs in attack
News24 - South Africa
Durban - A total of 22 dogs, among them 12 puppies, have died after a swarm of angry bees attacked people and animals at the Society for the Prevention of ...
Fiery furnace? Temple of Apollo had secret death chamber
USA Today - USA
Throw in a secret tunnel to the death chamber, and you've got a churchgoing ... sat atop a monumental staircase and "near it there is an underground cavity called ...
£A 200 student film that made the cut
The Sunday Times - UK
... never ended. Hidden in his bunker deep within enemy territory, he transmits coded messages, “frogspawn . . . teapot . . . dandruff
Solo transatlantic rower nears home
Yachting Monthly - UK
A solo transatlantic rower has land in his sights after a record-breaking bid lasting more ... 41, I have been within 300 miles of land but the weather has been ...
Investigators ponder occurrence of crop circles here
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
It was early August, around the time that tips of strange lights in the sky came in. Field investigators from the Colorado-based ...
Private Beekeeper Removes North Center Swarm
CBS2 Chicago - Chicago,IL,USA
(CBS) CHICAGO A swarm of bees that congregated on a sidewalk in the North Center neighborhood have been removed by a private beekeeper. ...
Swarm of bees attack school kids
Connecticut Post - Bridgeport,CT,USA
BRIDGEPORT _ A swarm of yellow jackets attacked 22 children returning to class after a fire drill Friday, sending at least two to the hospital. ...
Seeking the secrets of Stonehenge
This is Wiltshire.co.uk - Swindon,England,UK
Archaeologists have been digging ancient sites around Stonehenge to find clues about when they ... the truth will always remain something of a mystery because the ...
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