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| · | Lost Fortresses of Sahara Revealed by Satellites (0) |
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| · | Prehistoric ceremonial complex in central Scotland (0) |
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| · | Can Shaolin Temple save Chinese football? (0) |
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| · | Official yeti probe planned after recent sightings (0) |
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| · | Real-life Dumbledore opens world's first wizard school (0) |
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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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Nine-year-old Bhintuna sat smiling in jewellery and a red and gold brocade bridal dress as she held a tray of offerings, waiting for her turn to take part in the ritual that would wed her to a god. The schoolgirl is just one of hundreds of Nepali girls set to take part in the rite that weds them to the god Vishnu over the coming month, a symbolic time of weddings according to tradition in this deeply religious, majority Hindu nation. "It is fun. I am happy to wear new clothes and be with so many friends," said Bhintuna. The ritual, which takes place before a girl reaches puberty, is one of three weddings that girls from the Newar community, which dominates the Kathmandu valley that houses the Nepali capital, undergo in their lives. In a later ceremony she will "wed" the sun by spending 12 nights in a darkened room at the age of 11 or 13, a rite that earns her additional protection. Her final wedding will be to her real, human husband, usually around the age of 25. The origins of the tradition are obscure but Rajendra Rajopadhyaya, the priest who conducted the ceremony, said it dated back at least several centuries. One tale has it that parents of a girl were afraid that a lewd entertainer in the court of the god Vishnu, known as the god of protection, would flee with her, so they married her off to Vishnu to keep her safe...
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On an island off Britain's northern tip, new discoveries suggest a huge Stone Age ritual complex is older than Stonehenge. But age is only the half of it. Researchers say the site may have in fact been the original model for Stonehenge and other later, better-known British complexes to the south. First discovered in 2002, the waterside site—called the Ness of Brodgar lies on Mainland, the largest of Scotland's Orkney Islands. According to recent radiocarbon dating of burned-wood remains, the Ness was first occupied around 3200 B.C. and went on to include up to a hundred buildings within a monumental walled enclosure. By contrast, the earliest earthworks at Stonehenge date to about 3000 B.C. And it would be roughly another 500 years before the first of the famous stones were set on Salisbury Plain. In addition, ritual gatherings at the Ness of Brodgar may have foreshadowed feasts Stonehenge and similar sites such as Avebury. "Orkney is one of the keys to understanding the development of Neolithic religion," said site director Nick Card of the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology...
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Stonehenge was attracting sightseeing families thousands of years ago, archaeologists believe after discovering the Bronze Age remains of a Mediterranean boy near the monument. The teenager is believed to have been part of a wealthy group that travelled 1,600 miles from southern Europe to Britain, taking in the stone circle along the way. His find is thought to be important because it is likely he was too young to travel on his own and was probably part of a large family group. He is the third ancient foreigner to be found near the World Heritage Site in the last few years but the other two were grown men thought to be tradesman or warriors. His discovery further suggests that the stone circle would have been a place of pilgrimage or sightseeing akin to a medieval cathedral as long as 4,000 years ago. "They may have come to Britain for different reasons but Stonehenge would have been well known across Europe – rather like a medieval cathedral," said Dr Andrew Fitzpatrick, part of Wessex Archaeology who made the find. "They may have come to trade but visited Stonehenge a long the way. It would have been an awesome sight. It would have been one of the greatest temples of its time." The boy – aged 14 or 15 – had travelled to Britain from Spain, Italy, Greece or France, crossing the English Channel in a primitive wooden boat or canoe around 1550BC. Unfortunately he died – probably from illness – and was buried in a primitive grave around two miles away still wearing what would have been an expensive amber necklace...
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