Thursday, 30. November 2006
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A Child’s Strange Visions by Philippine Daily Inquirer.
“I want to consult you about my 10-year-old daughter. About two years ago, she told me she can see ghosts in our house. She had just come home from school and while resting on a couch, she saw a small girl playing in our kitchen.
“In her school she can see white ladies and small kids in uniform in the classroom, lavatories and corridors. And they are all faceless! More than a year ago, she saw an old wrinkled hand sticking out from under her bed.

Hawking: Man must leave planet Earth by The Telegraph.
"The long-term survival of the human race is at risk as long as it is confined to a single planet," he said. "Sooner or later, disasters such as an asteroid collision or nuclear war could wipe us all out. But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe."

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Pharaoh's Curse or Coincidence?
by Sun-Times.
Scientists who recently conducted a high-tech examination of King Tut's mummy insist they don't believe in the "Curse of the Pharaohs." Still, some awfully strange things happened when the team X-rayed the boy king's body with a medical CT scanning machine.


Ancient Moon 'computer' revisited by BBC News.
The Antikythera Mechanism, discovered more than 100 years ago in a Roman shipwreck, was used by ancient Greeks to display astronomical cycles. Using advanced imaging techniques, an Anglo-Greek team probed the remaining fragments of the complex geared device. The elaborate arrangement of bronze gears may also have displayed planetary information.

Also:
Unique Marvel of Ancient Greek Technology Gives Up New Secrets
by Scientific American.

And Nature is offering a long article: In search of lost time.

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Out of this World Solution to a Scottish Standing Stone by The Scotsman.
Many would say that it is a typical example of a Scottish standing stone. Yet one man claims that this is no ordinary stone, that instead it holds the secret of our missing pre-history. That it shows the birth of Jupiter from Saturn and more explosively, that it proves that someone was around to witness this planetary catastrophe and that this someone may not be human.


Teams Explore Roots of Angkor Civilization by Newswise. WITH VIDEO.
Five seasons of excavations at Ban Non Wat, in Northeast Thailand, have unearthed 470 human burials covering a time span of more than 2,000 years. Earthwatch-supported research at this great moated site, led by anthropologist Dr. Charles Higham of University of Otago (New Zealand), gives clues to the roots of the famous Angkor civilization.

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