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In 1251 lightning is said to have destroyed the bedchamber of the queen at Windsor and shook the whole house. In the nearby Windsor Forest

The boundary event is the same as in yesterday's post, the transition from the Palaeocene to the Eocene, but the date is slightly different -

At http://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/6thearly-8th-century-yok... ... is about Late Kofun burial catacombs of the 6th to 8th centuries AD, some of which have lovely murals. They are thought

At http://phys.org/print300440386.html ... this story has the title, 'first ever evidence of a comet striking the Earth' - and the event is dated 28 million

At http://westerndigs.org/prehistoric-meteorite-shrines-in-arizona-may-be-l... ... No surprise that people were watching the sky in Arizona as they were elsewhere in the world - and built structures to

At http://phys.org/print299786071.html ... a new study by climate scientists at the University of Berne in Switzerland has been looking at the Little Ice Age. In

At  www.thelocal.se/50604/20131004/ ... archaeologists in northern Sweden have come across the remains of farm dating from around 1100 BC, in a completely unexpected location. Is

At http://phys.org/print300352509.html ... a core sample from New Jersey geology, in a region once beneath the sea (55 million years ago) has clay bands around

This story is at several places with a different emphasis at some of them. At http://phys.org/print300385973.html ... there was an abrupt climate shift in the

At http://phys.org/print300354398.html ... a paper in Nature Physics shows for the first time, in academic literature, a direct link between solar storms, shock waves and

At http://climateaudit.org/2013/10/08/fixing-the-facts-2/ ... Steve McIntyre illustrates how the climate scientists assembling the IPCC report go out of their way to revise items they see as

At http://phys.org/print300257242.html ... it is being suggested by astronomer Ignacius Ferrin that Comet ISON is beginning to disintegrate - and it has only in the

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/07/climate-change-is-dominated-by-the... .... is a simply put post that explains in easy terms for the layman why increasing levels of co2 are not actually causing

This story is at http://phys.org/print299837731.html ... this has been found on Ngaanyat jarra tribal territory by the Geological Survey of Western Australia and comprises 450

At http://phys.org/print299829375.html ... a site on the River Grande in New Mexico, now a dry and arid spot but one a lush wetland, in the

At http://phys.org/print299948694.html ... astronomers have detected cold streams of primordial hydrogen, vestigial matter left over from the Big Bang. It was spied fueling a distant

A guest post at Anthony's site - CAGW and the money involved - go to http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/05/crash-boom-bang/ which is supposed to tell us all how it

Frank Daivs, who contributed a lot of words and computer jiggling to the Tall Bloke's Talk Shop debate on the February Chelyabinsk meteor (over Russia)

At http://phys.org/print299425748.html ... news that a long 900 year temperature record for the eastern Mediterranean has been built, based on tree rings. It exhibits evidence

The BBC News over the weekend had one of those hushed thrall like monologues on the subject of supervolcanoes on Mars - in response to