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September 2007

Crickets Swarm: A Plague? No, a Feast
ABC News - USA
(Heng Sinith/AP Photo) By ERIKA KINETZ In another place, the great, if harmless, clouds of insects might have been a plague. In Cambodia, they are dinner. ...

Attacked by Bees? Don't Jump in Pool
KTAR.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
by KTAR Newsroom The man who was attacked by a swarm of bees outside his apartment last Friday is recovering and expected to be released from the hospital

NASA Orbiter Finds Possible Entrances to Underground Caves on Mars
Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA
... are still entrances to the Martian underground. Somewhere on Mars there maybe caves that are a protective place for past or current life, or a shelter ...

'Gene' Savoy, 80; Uncovered Ancient Ruins
Washington Post - United States
Mr. Savoy also took to the sea to test his theories that the Incas, Aztecs and other ancient civilizations had contact with each other. From 1977 to 1982, ...

Ancient canyon closed to ATVs
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Sandberg said the ancient remnants are mostly ruins that include habitations, storage pits and refuse dump areas. Some of the habitations are high on the ...

German athletes fed steroids and Supertramp
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The East German government camouflaged it so that it would be undetectable from the outside, a move designed to keep it hidden even from the occupying ...

Storm Warnings
Gotham Gazette - New York,NY,USA
"Roughly every 70 years the New York region gets a monster hurricane," Bill Evans, WABC-TV senior meteorologist and co-author of the new novel Category 7 ...

Millions forced to flee coast as monster storm hits China
Times Colonist - Victoria,British Columbia,Canada
The storm, billed by state media as potentially the worst to strike in a decade, was weakening after landfall but was still expected to rake the region with ...

On This Day in History: September 21 The Killer Storm of 1938
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
Only six buildings out of 150 in Westhampton were still standing after the monster passed. The vortex of the storm swept up Connecticut, slashing into New ...

Puzzlers are reeled into solving the 'World's Greatest Puzzle ...
FinanceVisor.com (press release) - CA,USA
Challenge yourself to the ancient mystery of THE RUNES Puzzle today! Solve other challenging online puzzles by visiting the Smart-Kit website. .

Ancient fashion explains snail mystery
MSNBC - USA
And it's all about fashion among ancient Polynesians. The white shells, thought to be most prized for jewelry, were spread more broadly by the natives. ...

Single toe bone to major dino display
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
It was the beginning of a long mystery that we're still figuring out." The shape of the bone appeared to be that of a terrestrial animal from about 93 ...

Grandfather bites into Mars and finds gold tooth
The Argus.co.uk - Brighton,UK
By Richard Gurner Grandfather Terence Fitzgerald bit into a Mars - and chomped on a gold tooth hidden inside. Mr Fitzgerald, 62, was tucking into a Mars Duo ...

Secret Passage
Riverfront Times - St-Louis,MO,USA
Another theory is that the secret opening was actually underground. Mark Sarich, a Benton Park resident and amateur historian, says that tunnels once ...

A swarm of 'ghosts' raises alarm in bay
Baltimore Sun - United States
Tyler Zinck pulls a fish from a ghost pot recovered from the Chesapeake Bay by his father, Skip Zinck. A government survey estimates that 42000 derelict ...

Massive swarm of bees kills disabled man
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
By ZACK QUAINTANCE, The Monitor "They were on him head to toe," said Elias Saldivar, the Alton fire chief. His firefighters pulled the man away, ...

Swarm of bees attacks Victoria man, 81
Victoria Advocate - Victoria,TX,USA
Hanselman told Tschirhart, 79, that he ran to his truck and was trapped inside it for 45 minutes while he waited for the swarm to leave. ...

Green Burial: When Dust Really Returns to Dust By ilker Families mix the ashes of their dead with concrete to form a waist-high honeycombed dome called a memorial reef ball. After curing, the reef ball is loaded onto a boat and dropped onto an established artificial reef site in the ocean, ...

Martian Life? Small Percentage Of Martian Soil Samples Could Have ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Dr Houtkooper said, "The GEx experiment measured unexplained rises in oxygen and carbon dioxide levels when incubating samples

Are these Crystal Skulls in Indi VI?
By Dr. Disney
Human size skulls made from a variety of quartz crystals have been found near or within ancient ruins for over the last 100 years. No one is quite sure how the crystal skulls found their way to these sites and who made them, ..

Vietnam to restore Hanoi ancient citadel ruins
AFP -
HANOI (AFP) -- Vietnam plans to restore the ruins of an ancient imperial city in central Hanoi dating back to the seventh century with help from Japan and ...

Gadhafi's son unveils conservation plan to attract tourists to Libya
International Herald Tribune - France
AP CYRENE, Libya: The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi unveiled an ambitious plan on Monday to protect ancient Greek ruins, conserve the country's

PLAGUE OF DADDY LONG-LEGS
Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Crane flies, which normally appear in late September, have already been annoying people for weeks. Experts expect a bumper season if, as predicted,

Bee swarm finds unlikely home
Rosenberg Herald Coaster - Rosenberg,TX,USA
By Barbara Swarm A large swarm of bees set up shop Tuesday morning on a palm tree outside Rosenberg's T-Mobile store, located at the Southwest Freeway and ...

Eastport: Swarms of bees reported near cemetery
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
Around 10 am Saturday, an unidentified caller notified the Washington County Regional Communication Center in Machias that he had spotted a swarm of bees ...

Flying ants swarm our region
Newsdurhamregion.com - Durham,Canada
Due to the wonders of technology, Heather sent along a photo she'd taken from her car on the Markham Bypass, of insects swarming at the top of a tree like a ...

Sucking up a swarm of trouble | Tom Lavis
The Tribune-Democrat - Johnstown,PA,USA
We started sucking the swarm off the limb and into the 16-gallon container. Let's just say the bees grew agitated. Apparently they have an aversion to loud ...

On the horizon: news from the frontiers of science
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
Astronomers solve asteroid mystery, the origins of orchids, and why pigs should get credit for Europe's first farms. By Peter N. Spotts Imagine ...

A few simple steps for the beginning backyard stargazer
Casa Grande Valley Newspapers - Casa Grande,AZ,USA
Set your own pace, and revel in the beauty and mystery of our amazing universe! Before we get started on meteor showers, we will take a minute to explain ...

German hotel in trouble over Nazi-era bunker
Reuters.uk - UK
"There should be no hushing up, but most importantly, no hidden or open glorification of the Nazi regime," Bavarian Finance Minister Kurt Faltlhauser said ...

20000 Bees Swarm Outside Denver Home
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
(CBS4) DENVER A family that lives in Denver's Baker Neighborhood found a swarm of 20000 bees outside their house Sunday morning after returning from church.

Bee Swarm Attacks Daly City Teacher, Students
NBC 11.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
A Daly City teacher was stung so many times by a swarm of bees Thursday he had to be hospitalized, police said. The stinging occurred during recess at ...

Lots of buzz surrounding this company
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
We see it with crickets, with ants, with all kinds of animals, and now a Toronto-based company called Regen Energy is applying the concept of swarm logic to

Spent A Month In The Artic
abc7news.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Black looks more than 6 feet underground, using ground penetrating radar. And Red uses a very sophisticated laser, with 5mm resolution at more than 1000 ...

Native plants' trace elements indicate mineral wealth
Sunday Times.au - Perth,WA,Australia
... develop "phyto-exploration'' techniques that use vegetation to detect underground mineral deposits. Research by the CSIRO and the Co-operative Research ...

Mass Plague Graves Found on Venice "Quarantine" Isle
National Geographic - Washington,DC,USA
Ancient mass graves containing more than 1500 victims of the bubonic plague have been discovered on a small island in Italy's Venetian Lagoon. ...

Underground passage found, possibly supplied water to ancient ...
The Canadian Press - ATHENS, Greece
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Archaeologists excavating a sprawling prehistoric fortress in southern Greece have discovered a secret underground passage thought to