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The lure of gold in the 19th century (gold fever) seems to have affected the Russians as much as any other Europeans - and they

How a bit of practical knowledge can reshape archaeological views. At www.dispatch.com/news/20180422/teaming-up-to-tackle-mystery-of-hopewell-... ... archaeologists unearth all kinds of objects during excavations and some of them

   ... This image was taken by Harlan Thomas of Bowness of a concentric sun halo. This is Bowness in the US as he claims

There was an outbreak of auroral displays on Friday the 20th April - across the Canadian border and lighting up Illinois and Indiana (and many

  ... it has been a bad winter right across the northern hemisphere. In Japan they have walls of snow 56 feet high (and tourists

An article at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobi... ... the Silurian hypothesis has been aired this month - considering how geology erodes over millions of years would it be

Aty www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/fe-vel101317.php ... around 245BC Ptolemy III of Egypt had the Seleucid empire on the run but for some unknown reason decided to turn around

Another otherworldly theory - at https://phys.org/print443181994.html ... the diamond from the sky may have come from the 'lost planet' (but they are not talking about

Sea ice in the Arctic has surged since early March - see http://notrickszone.com/2018/04/17/arctic-freezageddon-sea-ice-volume-su... ... which is derived from a Japanese blogger but see the Danish

At www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-ancient-records-indicate-philistine... ... (July 2017) as reported by Ariel David. It is claimed that recent research may indicate the enigmatic Philistines may have been a

Various theories exist on why space telescopes capture images of gamma ray bursts, many of them literally flashes of light. In EU theory it is

At https://phys.org/print443093224.html ... not only were dinosaurs eliminated by a catastrophic event at the K/T boundary 66 million years ago but they evolved into a

An article in Nature Communications (April 2018) suggests that a Eurasian ice sheet did not extend into the Arctic Ocean during the Late Glacial Maximum.

At https://phys.org/print442742348.html ... the subject is viruses, the most abundant form of life on Earth. These are outliers in the search for life on other

At https://popular-archaeology.com/article/unusual-climate-during-roman-tim... .... University of Helsinki seem to be catching up with Mike Baillie and David Keys on the severity of the weather around 536,

Ismenia Patera means, in Latin, a 'flat bowl' - but the term was also used to describe a flat crater on Mars. Its origin has

Jovan sent in a raft of links - most of them dated. In case you missed them here is another opportunity. Ice on Mars is

At www.space.com/40196-black-hole-swarm-milky-way-heart.html ... a swarm of thousands of black holes MAY surround the giant black hole believed to be at the heart of our galaxy,

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, in the SE Pacific, has spawned various theories and one of these is that the inhabitants, prior to the arrival

Apparently, there are a lot of scientists out there that have reservations about the asteroid/ comet impact theory a the K/T boundary - see https://phys.org/print442051270.html