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| Monday, January 30 |
| · | Stonehenge Precursor Found? (0) |
| Thursday, January 12 |
| · | Buried at Stonehenge: boy with the amber necklace (0) |
| · | Pagan stone circle built at US Air Force training academy (0) |
| · | Roman cavalry helmet found in Iron Age shrine (0) |
| Thursday, December 29 |
| · | Mysterious Mass Sacrifice Found Near Ancient Peru Pyramid (0) |
| · | The Evolution of Angels (0) |
| Tuesday, December 13 |
| · | 'God particle' to be confirmed soon (0) |
| · | Bible Accounts Supported by Dead Sea Disaster Record? (0) |
| Friday, November 18 |
| · | Lost Fortresses of Sahara Revealed by Satellites (0) |
| Tuesday, November 08 |
| · | Conquistador Hernando de Soto was deep in the US (0) |
| Monday, October 24 |
| · | Breaking News: The World Didn’t End ! (0) |
| Thursday, October 06 |
| · | Cannibalism Confirmed Among Ancient Mexican Group (0) |
| Friday, September 23 |
| · | Prehistoric ceremonial complex in central Scotland (0) |
| Thursday, August 11 |
| · | Unseen files reveal UFO encounters (0) |
| · | Three-Cat Monolith Unearthed in Mexico (0) |
| Wednesday, July 20 |
| · | Exorcists meet in Poland, to tackle vampires (0) |
| Monday, July 11 |
| · | Tomb of the Otters Filled With Stone Age Human Bones (0) |
| Wednesday, July 06 |
| · | Unexploded Mortar bomb used as school bell (0) |
| Tuesday, June 07 |
| · | Scientist claims 'Bio Station Alpha' is cosmic ray glitch (0) |
| Sunday, May 22 |
| · | Lost Mayan City Revealed Under Centuries of Jungle Growth (0) |
| Tuesday, April 19 |
| · | Ancient bones found of Saints Chrysanthus and Daria (0) |
| Friday, April 15 |
| · | Asteroid with potential power of 15 atomic bombs. Heading this way (0) |
| · | Maya Mystery Solved by "Important" Volcanic Discovery (0) |
| Monday, April 11 |
| · | French Ban Muslim Women From Wearing Veils (0) |
| · | Mysterious light spotted during Japan earthquake (0) |
| Tuesday, March 29 |
| · | Can Shaolin Temple save Chinese football? (0) |
| · | First Day of Spring: Myths, Facts, and Equinox Science (0) |
| Thursday, March 24 |
| · | Official yeti probe planned after recent sightings (0) |
| · | Mona Lisa model was a male, say Italian researchers (0) |
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The skeleton of a young Christian noblewoman, who was laid to rest on a "burial bed" some 1,400 years ago, is giving archaeologists precious clues to the earliest days of the English church. Unearthed in 2011 in a village near Cambridge (map), the teenager wore the badge of her faith in the shape of an exquisite gold-and-garnet cross, found on her chest and just visible in the picture above. The ornate treasure marks the grave as one of the earliest known Christian burials in Anglo-Saxon England, researchers from the University of Cambridge announced last week. Christians previously lived and died in Britain under Roman rule. But the newfound grave dates to the mid-seventh century, when Anglo-Saxons—the Germanic peoples who founded the English nation and language—were starting to convert to Christianity...
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In what seems like a surreal subplot from a Dan Brown novel, a number of irreplaceable religious relics have disappeared from churches across the country, the Irish police and a senior cleric say. The cage at Christ Church that held the preserved heart of St. Laurence O'Toole is now empty. The latest in a series of such thefts involved the removal of the preserved heart of St. Laurence O’Toole, Dublin’s 12th-century patron saint, from the city’s historic Christ Church Cathedral. As there was no sign of forced entry to the cathedral itself, the dean of Christ Church, Dermot Dunne, initially believed the thief had probably hidden in the building when it closed on Friday evening, taken the artifact overnight and simply walked out the next morning. “Maybe someone stole it to order; it certainly seems plausible,” Dean Dunne said Monday in an interview at Christ Church. “Or maybe a religious fanatic wants the relic and paid somebody to steal it.” After scrutiny of closed-circuit television video, the police are now concentrating on two men who visited the cathedral on Saturday morning. The men, both of whom are believed to be foreign nationals after they had a discussion with the desk clerk at the entrance, studiously avoided looking at the camera and refused to remove the caps they were wearing. One of them was carrying a backpack, which, when they left shortly afterward, was being carried at knee-height. The police are now viewing video from public cameras nearby in an effort to identify the car they were driving...
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A Dorset man was unfairly dismissed from his job at a garden centre because of his anti-hunting beliefs, an employment tribunal has ruled. Joe Hashman, 43, from Shaftesbury, was fired from Orchard Park, Gillingham, after he was a witness in two hunting prosecutions, the hearing was told. One included a hare-coursing trial involving celebrity chef Clarissa Dickson-Wright in North Yorkshire. The hearing in Southampton returned a unanimous verdict of unfair dismissal. Mr Hashman has accepted an undisclosed financial settlement from his former employers, along with a public apology. He was allowed to take his claim to an employment tribunal after a judge earlier this year ruled that Mr Hashman's views on fox hunting and hare-coursing amounted to a "philosophical belief in the sanctity of animal life" and should be given the same legal treatment as religious beliefs. Mr Hashman told the hearing that the owners of Orchard Park had employed as a manager "hunt supporter" Andrew Prater, whom the gardener had seen during hunt protests...
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A 61-year-old man was forced to run for cover when the heavens opened and blue jelly-like balls began falling from the skies. Steve Hornsby told The Sun the sky turned a strange yellow colour before the slippery, transparent balls began raining down. He said: “There was… a short, sharp hail storm that lasted for about 20 seconds. “I had seen the hail come down and it looked like rock salt. But then I spotted something on the lawn and it looked like broken glass and I thought it must be the kids. “But then I put my foot on it and it disappeared and I thought it was strange.” Mr Hornsby believes the strange spheres may be some sort of pollution that was blown across the continent, but the Met Office says the substance is “not meterological”, the Daily Mail reported. A scientist at his local university in Dorset has suggested they may be eggs taken from the sea by a bird and dropped over Mr Hornsby’s house – but it seems unlikely as there are no embryos inside them. Other theories are the balls are sodium polyacrylate crystals used in floral displays or ammunition for a toy gun, the BBC reported. Mr Hornsby added: “They were almost impossible to pick up, they were very jelly-like. I had to get a spoon and flick them into a jam jar. They had an exterior shell with a soft inside. “It’s the most peculiar thing I have ever seen – there must be about 20 complete spheres. They don’t smell and they don’t float. I’ve been an aircraft engineer for many years and I’ve never seen anything like it”...
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Baraa Melhem sits near a heater as she poses for a photograph at her mother's house in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 24, 2012. The 21-year-old Palestinian woman has told authorities she was locked in a bathroom for the past decade by her father, who let her out only in the dead of night so she could clean their house. Palestinian police said on Monday they freed Melhem from the small bathroom of her father's home in the West Bank city of Qalqilya on Saturday after an anonymous tip. "People are monsters," Baraa Melhem said her father would tell her, according to a social worker dealing with the case. Her father, who holds Israeli citizenship, was arrested and handed over to Israeli authorities. He is due to appear in an Israeli court Wednesday, an Israeli police spokesman said. Melhem told Voice of Palestine radio that when she was 11, her father confined her to the toilet and did not allow her to go to school or see her mother, whom he had divorced. She was beaten with a baton and metal wires and given only one blanket to keep her warm, said the social worker, Hala Shreim. "The bathroom was only 1-1/2 meters big, it was like a cell," Shreim said. According to a statement issued by Palestinian police, the father, citing a "family dispute," admitted to locking up his daughter and feeding her mainly bread...
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