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SETI Contest Elicits Disturbing Results
3/14/10
-Information and Theories
Last month we brought you a story about a contest designed to lend 50,000 people the voice to send transmissions and possibly make contact with an alien race to mark the 50th anniversary since the SETI program began. But what exactly did the human race find important to say as a potential first impression between mankind and an alien intelligence? Some of the responses the contest got may shock you
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Russia's New Flying Saucer Technology
3/14/10
-Technology Articles
Somehow escaping the attention of the mainstream, Russia has begun building production facilities under an aerial research and development company in the hopes of harboring a new age of incredibly powerful, fast, energy efficient, and stable vehicles. Current projections of what the vehicles will be capable of are staggering, but even more incredible is the similarities these vehicles share with commonly reported unidentified flying objects. And many analysts are saying this is no mere coincidence.
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Purple Snow Falls in Russia
3/14/10
-Unexplainable Weather
The strange trend of perplexing precipitation continues this week as Russia is blanketed in a purple haze of cyclamen snow. The source of the snow is still being speculated on, but the answer as to what it really is has shocked scientists as samples after the first snow drifts are being analyzed. Of course strange colored snow has hit Russia before, but never in the way this most recent fall has.
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Ancient Egyptian Steles
3/12/10
-Ancient Civilizations
Pyramids and tombs weren’t the only artifacts left behind by the ancient Egyptians that played a role in unlocking the beauty of their culture and practices. There were also ancient steles that shed light on some of the funerary customs, languages, and art of the culture. In this article, you will learn a bit about the infamous Rosetta Stone and other monuments, such as the Stele of Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu.
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Background on Holy Thursday
3/12/10
-Religion Articles
For Christians, there are a handful of religious observances that decorate our calendars. Not everyone is aware of the significance of such holy days. In this article, you will learn about the meaning of Holy Thursday, which will be celebrated in April of 2001.
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A Brief Exploration of the Kurgan Stelae
3/11/10
-Ancient Civilizations
Throughout the Ukraine and Russia, stelae (also known as balbals) showcased images cut out of stone that were positioned on top of or around kurgan cemeteries. Often described as 'obelisks,' their arrangements of double lines were distinct for the culture. The kurgan obelisks were most likely a part of memorials and funeral sanctuaries linked to Central Asia and Eastern Europe. The use of these structures also survived throughout the Middle Ages.
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Historic Steles – Outside Funerary Purposes
3/11/10
-Ancient Civilizations
Ancient steles are often associated with funerals and commemorating the dead, but they also served other purposes, including citing laws for all to see and drawing attention to great battles. In this article, you will encounter steles linked to the ancient culture of Akkadian Empire led by a Mesopotamian king and of ancient Babylon.
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Ancient Steles: Korean and Greek
3/10/10
-Ancient Civilizations
Ancient steles gave royal family members a chance to commemorate their loved ones, especially when they were a successful ruler and leader. In this article, you will encounter steles dating back to Korean and Greek history with one highlighting the achievements of a patriarch.
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Ancient Steles: Africa and China
3/9/10
-Ancient Civilizations
A great deal of what we learn about ancient cultures comes from the artworks and other forms of expression left behind. During a funeral, a stele was often erected to serve as commemoration. Constructed out of wood or stone, the names and titles of the deceased were typically placed onto the material. In this article, you will encounter a collection of steles hailing from around the world.
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Fisherman Claims Sea Monster in Nets
3/9/10
-Simply Unexplainable
A fisherman with nearly 60 years of experience says he has captured something unlike anything he had ever seen before in his nets. John Marsh, who has been trawling the Lower Lance Cove in Trinity bay since the early 1950's says he and his nephew caught a creature last summer that simply can't be identified, and he's coming forward to see if anyone has ever seen anything like it.
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Rocket Could Reach Mars in 40 Days
3/9/10
-NASA Articles
With NASA's funding cut incredibly short it seems future manned missions to mars have been put on indefinite hold. Not so, says one company which claims to have independently developed a rocket that could propel a human crew to the Red Planet in less than 40 days. The company, founded by former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz is one of several that are attempting to close the gap between the budget cuts NASA has been suffering and the private sector. And it says it has the technology to do it.
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New Method of Electrical Generation Discovered
3/9/10
-Technology Articles
A new method of creating electrical energy has been developed by scientists studying nano-technology at MIT through the use of a previously undiscovered phenomena wherein microscopic wires can be used in certain formations to produce electricity at a scale that may lead to a breakthrough in future ultra-small electronic devices.
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Authorities Report Chupacabra Capture
3/9/10
-Simply Unexplainable
The Chupacabra is a legendary creature that has been blamed for the death of thousands of cattle and other livestock throughout the western hemisphere, thought to be a mysterious creature with seemingly supernatural ability to not be apprehended despite its almost commonplace wholesale slaughter of animals. And after a particularly long string of sightings last week, one Dewitt County police officer has captured footage of a creature fitting its description, alive and in custody.
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Cosmic Dust Discovered Aboard Spacecraft
3/9/10
-NASA Articles
It may not sound like much, but the discovery of interstellar dust aboard the Stardust spacecraft means the 2.9 billion mile journey undertaken by the craft in a mission to collect dust that may tell us about the formation of the solar system and give us a firmer grasp of what conditions were like at the creation of the universe itself. And now that scientists have conclusively found these dust particles within the trapping mechanism of one of these craft, it will provide insight into what these conditions were like.
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Could There be Alien Life in Mono Lake?
3/9/10
-Information and Theories
When taking in the beauty of Mono Lake, just outside of Yosemite National Park in California, know that among the mysterious tufa formations and still waters there may be a secret hiding. Geobiologists have declared that mysterious life forms within the lake may in fact be indicative of extraterrestrial life elsewhere in the universe.
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Interesting Archeology Headlines of March 2010
3/8/10
-Information and Theories
Interest has tuned towards a settlement that has a history tracing back 150,000 years. Posing many challenges for archeologists and researchers, artifacts and details associated with the 3rd century BC are found at a site in an Iraqi town. This article will also touch upon the archeological significance of Vero Beach, Florida.
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Store Hires Medium to Solve Ghost Mystery
3/8/10
-Ghost And Paranormal
A ghost captured on closed circuit security television outside a small store called "Simply Food & Drinks" in Botcherby England, has drafted a medium to hopefully communicate with the deceased entity and tell it to stop interfering with business and find peace. The entity has allegedly appeared to several different visiting news agencies, which claim to have caught the phantom on camera.
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Could Phobos' Moon be Hollow?
3/8/10
-Space and Astrology
It's been speculated for some time that the Martian moon of Phobos may be exhibiting the unusual orbital pattern that it does because it is actually hollow. Or rather than completely shelled like an egg with a hollow center, it may rather be largely porous rock with massive caverns reaching all the way into its core. If this were the case, there are several possible applications and advantages to exploring a moon or planetoid that has caverns reaching to the center.
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Two Ghosts in a Bottle Sold
3/8/10
-Ghost And Paranormal
These days you can get anything online, so it seems. And one auction site based in New Zealand now has a seller that has put up two "Ghosts in a bottle" which have been posted online and will be sold to the highest bidder. The posting has brought quite a bit of attention from potential buyers both locally and internationally, but many are telling those purchasing the ghosts to prepare for disappointment.
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Big Cat Sightings Gain Credibility in UK
3/8/10
-Simply Unexplainable
Throughout the world, sightings of big cats, particularly panthers have been sighted in unusual places where these species don't normally inhabit. Sometimes they're even spotted by several people in an urban environment and never seen again in that area. This has been going on for decades with no reasonable explanation. But now the head of a government organization designed to look over such cases in England has come forward saying he conclusively believes there's something to it.
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The Fallen Hosts
3/8/10
-Information and Theories
With several movies about the final battle between the divine and the diabolical coming out in the near future, it's time to take a look at the specifics of who the fallen angels were, when the conflict happened, and some popular misconceptions about the official story on these beings who rebelled against the one that made them.
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What Were the Foo Fighters?
3/8/10
-UFO and Alien Section
During World War II, as bombers from Britain began their attack runs one warm August morning in 1944, several of the pilots noted strange formations just ahead of their squadron. The objects were pale blue seemingly solid spheres of light that ran ahead and would perform sometimes strange or complex aerial patterns similar to those of a standard attack pattern of an enemy fighter wing. But to the amazement of those onboard, the fighters were able to perform maneuvers far in excess of anything they had witnessed before.
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Spanish Castles of Medieval Times
3/7/10
-Information and Theories
When visitors plan a trip to Spain, one of the most interesting features of the country is the impressive architecture. A great deal of exceptional examples date back to medieval times, where the location of the country played an important role. Since Spain was divided from the rest of Western Europe with the Pyrenees Mountains serving as a backdrop, the architectural techniques differed from other regions. The Moorish history of the country also affected the buildings that came out of the Middle Ages.
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Interesting Headlines of March 2010
3/7/10
-Other Exciting News
Thousands of ships have taken to the seas in history, but not all of them were able to make it home. Many became shipwrecked, plunging a wealth of "buried treasure" and past facts under the seas and oceans. In this article, you will learn where a multitude of sunken ships have now resurfaced after a gas company attempted to build an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany.
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Ancient Celtic Symbolism – Animals II
3/6/10
-Ancient Civilizations
According to the Celts, the deer is the oldest animal in existence and it had its own place in Celtic mythology and symbolism. In this article, you will learn some of the associations with the deer and other animals, including hounds and birds.
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Ancient Celtic Symbolism – Animals I
3/6/10
-Ancient Civilizations
Animals played an important role in the ancient Celtic belief system, especially snakes and serpents, which was used in many different areas of the culture. In this article, you will encounter other animals used as symbolize amongst ancient Celt.
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Could Thawing Ice Cause Greenhouse Apocalypse?
3/6/10
-Information and Theories
The areas north of Siberia have been long known to hold massive methane reserves as well as other powerful greenhouse gases. And despite an incredibly harsh winter in Europe, a new report has come out dictating that a massive shelf surely melted and is releasing these greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, possibly contributing to the problem of global warming.
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The Incredible HeLa Cells
3/6/10
-Information and Theories
is a type of cell used in research of human origin that proliferates, thrives in pitri dishes by itself, escapes notoriously, and infects other cells without distinction. These cells are commonly used in conjunction with much research due to their resilient nature, and the fact that they do not require a human body, but are indeed independently human flesh. They span the globe and have been mass produced since their discovery in 1954 in "cell factories." And the most incredible part? They all come from one woman who died shortly after they were taken from her.
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Strange 'Eerie Lights' Spotted Just before Earthquake
3/5/10
-Simply Unexplainable
The magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile, according to several witnesses on the ground, was preceded by a mysterious light in the sky in much the same way that two other earthquakes had witnesses come forward. The Haiti earthquake within the past month, and the Earthquake in Sichuan China in 2008 both reported mysterious "eerie lights" above the sky, one of which was videotaped and broadcast on national news.
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Earthquake in Chile to Result in Shorter Days
3/4/10
-Information and Theories
The quake in Chile that has been in the news not only shifted a great deal of land on Earth's surface, but additionally likely shifted the axis of the Earth causing it to spin faster and subsequently decrease the length of the average day. While the change isn't so extreme that it will be recognizable for the average Earth inhabitant, it will have far reaching effects long term and certainly calls into question possible geological catastrophes and their effects on calendars.
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Imagine Your Hand as a Touch Screen Computer
3/4/10
-Technology Articles
Imagine a world where your computer is not only at your fingertips, but directly controlled and interfaced on them. As technology got smaller, unfortunately screen size also suffered, but a new projection technology recently developed hopes to turn the viewing area on computers and personal devices such as cell phones into the user's own glowing skin. The technology was offered as a solution to problems many computer and personal device users have of small screens on smaller devices.
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New Bill Could Illegalize Alternative Medicines
3/4/10
-Information and Theories
The goal of healers everywhere has always been to ensure the well-being and relative comfort of the afflicted. Since Asclepius' legend of snakes coiled around the scepter and even before in the Ayurvedic traditions of healers, healers have used natural plants as medicine to console the afflicted. Natural remedies and medicines are an integral part of not only health concerns, but of many long standing and ancient traditions of spirituality and culture. But a new bill could heavily regulate alternative medicines in a big way.
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Archeology News: Green Hieroglyphics & Ancient Coins
3/4/10
-Other Exciting News
If you ever located ancient artifacts, what would you do? Would you hoard them under your bed for safekeeping, head to the nearest pawn shop or do what the man in this article did? This news flash and another interesting archeology headline that posted during the first week of March 2010 is discussed.
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Haunted Castles in Scotland
3/4/10
-Ghost And Paranormal
A trip to Aberdeenshire will bring you closer to Crathes Castle, which offers the allure of fairytale structures with turrets on a colossal medieval tower that dates back to the 1500s. Inside, many features of the castle have survived the years the test of time. From heraldic shields to a ceiling made out of oak, the castle has many impressive attractions, including a grand Elizabethan fireplace.
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Haunted Medieval Castles in Scotland
3/2/10
-Ghost And Paranormal
Following the Norman Invasion that took place in the 12th century, castles became a commonplace fixture throughout Scotland. To this day, the medieval castle architecture of the country is something to be admired. Typical features of Scottish castles include sweeping towers made out of stone and massive walls. In this article, you will learn about two medieval castles in Scotland with a haunted past.
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French Phone Booth Confession Box
3/2/10
-Information and Theories
The controversial French Roman Catholic pay telephone hanging on the wall is currently under fire from bishops in the church who say it is misleading and not a replacement for true confessions. The pay phone charges .34 euros per minute of service, offering advice and "listening" to confessions with an automated voice. Is this the next step in religious practice, cutting out the middle man or priest and instead harboring in a whole new generation of automated objects set up to fulfill the religious needs at a time when technology is fusing with all other aspects of life?
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Much More Water On Moon Than We Thought
3/2/10
-NASA Articles
When NASA first detected faint signs of water late last year, it seemed like there may be faint traces of water that wouldn't ultimately be of much use to explorers visiting. What the Chandrayaan-1 space probe launched by India found was that there appeared to be far more than scientists had estimated. And now that has been confirmed by an extensive analysis of data that indicates there is likely enough water on the moon to make it incredibly useful to future explorers, and possibly colonists.
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Fish Rain From Sky in Australia
3/2/10
-Simply Unexplainable
From the sky in Lajamanu, Australia, thousands of fish fell from the sky during a freak rainstorm in what appeared to be nothing less than a sign of the apocalypse to some witnesses. Residents were at least a little perplexed, some even voicing concern over the strange fish, some of which remained alive even after falling to the ground or into barrels or other water containing vessels. And it isn't the first time this week in Lajamanu.
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The Haunted Tales of Edinburgh Castle
2/28/10
-Ghost And Paranormal
One of the strongest and most significant of castles in Scotland is Edinburgh Castle, which is situated on an impressive rocky foundation – thick in the historic heartbeat of the country. The kings and queens of Scotland have long called Edinburgh Castle their home. The castle situated in Midlothian has seen its fair share of inhabitants since the 9th century. Over time, the castle has undergone a wealth of upgrades that add to the overall allure of the original construction.
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End of the World Prophecies and Predictions (1843 to 1919)
2/28/10
-Religion Articles
End of year prophecies have involved a wide range of religious affiliations. In this article, you will encounter the failed prophecy of William Miller, who founded the Millerite movement. The woman behind the Seven Day Adventists movement also made a prediction that momentarily hurt the momentum of believers.
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End of the World Prophecies and Predictions (1669 to 1832)
2/28/10
-Religion Articles
The end of the world for the Old Believers in Russia was slated for 1669. As a result, between 1669 and 1690, a panicked 20,000 people burned themselves to death in an effort to protect themselves from the Antichrist. In this article, you will also encounter the predictions of a British theologian and Christian prophetess who incorrectly named the Antichrist.
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End of the World Prophecies and Predictions (1005 to 1533)
2/28/10
-Religion Articles
When it comes to end of the world prophecies, the death and resurrection of Jesus often plays an important role in the date. In one instance, a fear of witches added to the devastation of one of the most notorious diseases to sweep Europe. In this article, you will learn predictions centered on the 1000th anniversary Jesus' death and other interesting prophecies.
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End of the World Prophecies and Predictions (30 to 300)
2/28/10
-Religion Articles
Many prophecies and predictions have taken place about the end of the world. Ever since ancient days, a great deal of beliefs has originated by reading the Good Book. In this article, you will learn some of the predictions made over the years, as well as accompanying scriptures that pinpoint the religious significance of such claims.
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End of the World Beliefs: Christians
2/28/10
-Religion Articles
When Christians and other religious figures predict the end of the world, the prophecies usually tie into other popular beliefs and intense events. In this article, you will learn some of the primary themes, (which are mainly religious) which are associated with predictions that have and still involve the end of the world.
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Common End of the World Predictions
2/28/10
-Information and Theories
For centuries upon centuries, people have been making end of the world predictions – some of which are pinpointed to a precise year, month, and in some cases – the exact day. From a violent and sudden end eliminating all life on earth to the second coming of Christ, the many different theories and predictions vary from culture to religion. In this article, we will explore some of the end of the world predictions made throughout time.
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Mysterious Creature Spotted in Maine Forests
2/28/10
-Simply Unexplainable
It seems that another sighting of a Sasquatch-like creature is making its rounds on the internet. This time, the sighting takes the form of a strange, hunched, simian creature sitting in a tree in the forests of Maine. It has been dubbed the Maine Tree Creature.
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St. Patrick's Day Around the World
2/27/10
-Information and Theories
Celebrating the patron saint of the Irish isn’t restricted just to Ireland and the United States. There are plenty of locations around the world that observe St. Patrick's Day. Not wearing green on the special day may even land you a punch in one country. In this article, you will learn a variety of holiday observances that include wearing green, marching in parades, and sampling Irish foods and drinks.
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Prayers for the Dead
2/27/10
-Religion Articles
Depending on your religious affiliation, when someone dies – a prayer is said in his or her honor and in many cases, for their soul. In this article, you will encounter one of the most commonly recited of Catholic prayers, as well as examples of popular prayers for the dead.
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St. Patrick's Day Symbols: The Leprechaun
2/27/10
-Information and Theories
Yes, the leprechaun of Celtic folklore is the same creature depicted on the front of the breakfast cereal, Lucky Charms. Originally, the Irish called this "small-bodied fellow" a "lobaircin" or "luchorpan" when mentioned in folklore, but the symbol has become much more than something associated with the religious celebration of St. Patrick's Day. This article explores the background, meaning, and history of the leprechaun.
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