Everything old is new again.
- Newly discovered papyrus fragments, thought to be part of 3,000-year-old Turin Kinglist, could help reconstruct accurate list of Ancient Egyptian pharoahs.
- Roswell fireman confesses, it was a flying saucer!
- Account of a close encounter in Cameron, TX.
- Do you want to see a UFO? Now you can! Santa, if you read TDG, please add these to my Christmas list.
- The lost world beneath the Antarctic ice.
- Greenhouse gas threatens ocean food chain.
- 2005 drought, caused by warmer Atlantic waters, resulted in huge CO2 emissions from the Amazon rainforest.
- Ancestors of Victorian big game hunters are being asked to help save endangered animals on the Indian subcontinent
- Climate scientists warn that world is heading for resource wars.
- Not too bright? Blame your old man.
- Judges accepted $2.6million in bribes to send children to private detention center.
- ‘Nightclub for nerds’ makes science cool in New York.
- An entire English village, complete with two blacksmiths, a shop and a cricket club, has been put up for sale for a cool £22.5 million.
- Painting of William Shakespeare thought to be only surviving portrait done in his lifetime.
- A cure for scurvy was discovered by a woman more than 40 years before physician James Lind realised vitamin C could cure the condition.
- Mediaeval ‘vampire’ skull found near Venice.
- Spanish historian claims Christopher Columbus was actually a Scotsman named Pedro Scotto.
- Burials excavated at the earliest European settlement in the New World, established by Christopher Columbus in 1493, have surprised archaeologists by including women and children. It had been thought from documentary evidence that the settlers had all been men.
- Musical instruments of ancient Greece brought back by scientists.
- Works by Renoir and Pissarro among lost masterpieces recovered 22 years after being stolen from Maastricht gallery
- How the US forgot how to make secret component of Trident missiles.
- Defectors expose plans of Germany’s ‘real’ Nazis.
- Scumdog millionaires: There’s just no hell hot enough for some people.
- Scientist seeks origin of genius by examining the lives of more than 100 eminent 20th-century scientists, historians and explorers.
Thanks to Rico and RPJ.
Quote of the Day:
When you let people do whatever they want, you get Woodstock. When you let governments do whatever they want, you get Auschwitz.
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