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This is one of those stories that I find fascinating, a man that has devoted a great deal of his spare time and holidays in

At www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Troy_at_Bergamo_by_John_Lascelles/ we have a post on John Lascelles whose book was reviewed by SIS a couple of years ago. Wikinfo was launched in 2003,

There is a lovely post at WattsUpWithThat today that I will write up tomorrow and add to this post - but looking at www.suite101.com/content/vast-solar-eruption-shocks-nasa-and-raises-doubts-on-sun-theory-a327330 John

At www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?ald=4097 ... is a news release of a reappraisal of the timescale of Polynesian migration across the eastern Pacific via a study of 1400

At hgttp://geology.com/nasa/great-bahamas-bank/ .... there is a NASA image of the Great Bahama Bank as seen from space. It stretches from near the N American land

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/ January 3rd ... we learn that freezing weather is also affecting the tropics - in this instance, the high mountain zones of the

At www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/12/2010/neanderthal-face-is-not-cold-adapted/ ... is based on a paper in the Journal of Human Evolution that contradicts the long held belief that the noses of Neanderthals

November 2010 November 4th ... Approaching Comet Hartley2 November 4th ... Mars - asteroid strike? ... gamma ray bubbles and a newly found neutrino November

The ESA and NASA mission SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) has found its 2000th comet (see www.physorg.com/print212806556.html). SOHO was designed to monitor the Sun and

At www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/12/2010/new-work-casts-doubt-on-out-of-africa-theory/ ... there is a report on the recent discovery of the remains of humans found at Qesem Cave near Rosh Ha'ayin in modern

At www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=13609 ... we learn that Tel Qudadi, a fortress on the mouth of the Yarkon River (now part of modern Tel Aviv) was not a fortified

At www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2010/arch10/101224candles.htm ... an interesting article by Rens van der Sluijs on illuminated christmas trees - and plasmoids.

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101221114807.htm ... a paper in the journal Palaeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology claims that woolly mammoths living north of the Arctic Circle in the Pleistocene

This story has been on BBC News and you can read about it at a variety of blogs, including www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222131119.htm which is a report on

The big news at http://cosmictusk.com this week is that a former critic of the YD boundary event has, out of nowhere, changed his mind -

At www.archnews.co.uk/world-archaeology/asia-archaeology/4403 and www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/12//2010/hundreds-of-jordanian-dolmens-saved/ ... dolmens going back to the 4th millennium BC in the Jordan Valley were in danger of being destroyed by mining operations

At www.physorg.com/print212152097.html ... a study of lake sediments from a dried up lake in northern Chad in the Sahara has shown evidence that the lake

At www.physorg.com/print212167881.html ... an asteroid with an orbit within, or crossing, the main asteroid belt, appears to be showing signs of revived life - leading

A post at www.dailygalaxy.com December 20th has the title, 'Epic Discovery Update: We are One of Many Universes', a story taken from a paper available

At www.physorg.com/print2120041103.html ... we have some nice pictures of snow in Australia - in December. It's supposed to be summer down under but some icy gusts