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Friday, December 26, 2014
The Inuit Were Right: Shipwreck Find Confirms 168-Year-Old Oral History
Parks Canada/Canadian Press
Sea floor scan image showing one of the missing ships from the Franklin expedition.
ICTMN Staff :
The discovery of a ship that had been missing since 1846 has at least partially solved one of Canada's favorite mysteries; what's more, its location confirms the veracity of Inuit accounts that never squared with the accepted version of what happened.
In 1845, two ships—HMS Erebus and HMS Terror—under the command of Sir John Franklin set sail from England. Franklin's expedition was headed for the Arctic waters above Canada, with the goal of completing the charting of the Northwest Passage. The expedition never returned. Both ships became icebound in 1846, and the crew set out on foot. All eventually died. Those were the basic details of the story, but there existed a controversial extra element: testimony of Inuit hunters, handed down orally, that the ships were seen off the northwest coast of King William Island. While one of the ships was crushed in ice and sank in deep water, the Inuit said, the other drifted southward, to shallower water. What's more, there were still sailors on board... Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/09/10/inuit-were-right-shipwreck-find-confirms-168-year-old-oral-history-156837
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Joe Cocker: Fire it Up Live (Cologne, 2013)
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www.cocker.com
The 10 best viral Internet animal moments in 2014 that were caught on camera
BY Joel Landau
The Daily News ranks
the 10 best videos featuring animals that occurred over the past year.
From hero cats to surfing dolphins to tiny canines in bear costumes
these animals sure left a lasting impressions...
Videos here
Friday, December 19, 2014
George Clooney: No one in Hollywood would sign my letter of support for Sony Pictures
by Allahpundit:
I’m glad he spoke up, not only because he’s right, not only because a little public shaming from an A-lister might get others to rethink, but because that tribute to Hollywood’s bravery that he gave a few years ago at the Oscars would have looked even more embarrassing in hindsight if he’d kept quiet about this.Nothing fancy about the logic of his petition: “We know that to give in to these criminals now will open the door for any group that would threaten freedom of expression, privacy and personal liberty. We hope these hackers are brought to justice but until they are, we will not stand in fear. We will stand together.” Literally no one wanted in...Continue reading, video, story continues in comments...
These Beautiful Old Books Are a Bibliophile’s Dream
Beyond the tales within their pages, old books have stories of their
own. The weathered and sometimes seriously battered books in Simon Brown’s ongoing series, “The Weight of Knowledge,” which is on view at Benrubi Gallery in New York City until Dec. 20, are prime examples.
The London-based photographer’s teenage son was struggling to study
for his GCSE exams a few years ago when Brown came up with an idea to
cheer him up. In his studio, Brown stacked a bunch of books from his own
collection on top of a school desk and snapped a picture.
“I called the photo “The Impossible Weight of Knowledge,” to allude
to how difficult learning can be,” Brown said. “My son’s a very
well-tempered person. He thought it was a good joke...Read more, photos...
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Act of kindness is warming hearts across Britain
LONDON: A remarkable act of kindness is warming hearts across Britain
after a homeless man offered a British student all his loose change
to ensure she gets home safe at night after she lost her bank card.
The student Dominique Harrison-Bentzen has now decided to show her gratitude to the homeless hero by raising thousands of pounds for the "homeless hero".
She has already raised £16,500 through her online fundraising page after the student's campaign went viral.
She said "After losing my bank card and having no money in the early hours, a homeless man approached me with his only change of three pounds and insisted I took it to pay for a taxi. I didn't take the money but I was touched by such a kind gesture from a man who faces ignorance every day".
The man has now been identified as Robbie who has been homeless for seven months in the town of Preston in northern England...Continue reading...
The student Dominique Harrison-Bentzen has now decided to show her gratitude to the homeless hero by raising thousands of pounds for the "homeless hero".
She has already raised £16,500 through her online fundraising page after the student's campaign went viral.
She said "After losing my bank card and having no money in the early hours, a homeless man approached me with his only change of three pounds and insisted I took it to pay for a taxi. I didn't take the money but I was touched by such a kind gesture from a man who faces ignorance every day".
The man has now been identified as Robbie who has been homeless for seven months in the town of Preston in northern England...Continue reading...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Deer Saved From Frozen Lake By B.C. Conservation Officers
Conservation officer Ken Owens suspects that coyotes or wolves chased the buck onto Duck Lake, northeast of Kelowna, on Friday morning.
"The lake was frozen with probably about two inches [thick] or less," he told The Huffington Post B.C. Owens and two other officers worked to rescue the deer, and their effort was captured in some amazing photos...Continue reading, photos...
Dog frozen to the ground in Saskatchewan gets prosthetic paws [video]
REGINA -- A dog that lost its back paws after they were frozen to the
ground in northern Saskatchewan is now running around on prosthetic
parts.
The border collie cross, named Hector, was a newborn stray when he got into trouble in the village of La Loche in January 2013. It's believed his hind feet and part of his tail were ripped away when his mother picked him up off the frigid ground.
Lisa Korol, an RCMP dispatcher in Regina, spotted the pooch on a rescue group's website and took him in. Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/dog-frozen-to-the-ground-in-saskatchewan-gets-prosthetic-paws-1.2149190#ixzz3MA1IF7rr
http://metro.co.uk/2014/12/17/dog-given-new-legs-after-losing-paws-when-they-froze-to-ground-4990308/
The border collie cross, named Hector, was a newborn stray when he got into trouble in the village of La Loche in January 2013. It's believed his hind feet and part of his tail were ripped away when his mother picked him up off the frigid ground.
Lisa Korol, an RCMP dispatcher in Regina, spotted the pooch on a rescue group's website and took him in. Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/dog-frozen-to-the-ground-in-saskatchewan-gets-prosthetic-paws-1.2149190#ixzz3MA1IF7rr
Monday, December 15, 2014
In The Face Of A Siege In Sydney, Australia Shows Us All How To Deal With A Terror Attack #I'llRideWithYou
Man Haron Monis is the suspected assailant behind the Sydney Lindt cafe siege.[photo]
Author: Kerry-Anne
At least one gunman has taken a cafe full of hostages in Sydney’s Central Business District today, and while for some this is an excuse to respond with hatred, a huge number of Australians are teaching us all a lesson in how to deal with terrorism.
As local workers and families dropped in for their morning coffee at around 9.45am local time, they found themselves suddenly in the middle of a terror attack. At the time of writing, as many as 30 hostages are being held by at least one gunman, at the Lindt Cafe in the heart of Sydney’s financial and business district, while five managed to flee through a fire exit earlier in the day...Continue reading...
At least one gunman has taken a cafe full of hostages in Sydney’s Central Business District today, and while for some this is an excuse to respond with hatred, a huge number of Australians are teaching us all a lesson in how to deal with terrorism.
As local workers and families dropped in for their morning coffee at around 9.45am local time, they found themselves suddenly in the middle of a terror attack. At the time of writing, as many as 30 hostages are being held by at least one gunman, at the Lindt Cafe in the heart of Sydney’s financial and business district, while five managed to flee through a fire exit earlier in the day...Continue reading...
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Ancient Cities Now Submerged by the Sea
Proof of Noah's flood. Ancient cities now submerged by the sea.
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Pope Francis says dogs can go to heaven - Update
(Photo: VINCENZO PINTO, AFP/Getty Images)
(NEWSER) — Pope Francis continues to show he's anything but traditional. During a recent public appearance, Francis comforted a boy whose dog had died, noting, "One day, we will see our animals again in the eternity of Christ. Paradise is open to all of God's creatures."
Theologians say Francis — who took his papal name from the patron saint of animals, St. Francis of Assisi — was only speaking conversationally.
But the remark is being seen by some as a reversal of conservative Catholic theology that states because they are soulless, animals can't go to heaven,The New York Times reports.
In 1990, Pope John Paul II said animals have souls, but his successor, Pope Benedict XVI, gave a 2008 sermon that seemed to say the opposite...Continue reading...
Related: "You Can't Keep a Good Dog Down" from "All Dogs Go to Heaven" by Don Bluth.
Pope Francis turns out not to have made pets in heaven comment Read here.
Friday, December 12, 2014
Oregon wildlife officials lukewarm on road-kill dining
[image] By MARK FREEMAN/Medford Mail Tribune:After almost a year of allowing its citizens to dine on big-game animals struck and killed by cars, Montana officials consider its meals-under-wheels program a success.
Whether Oregon follows suit as the 38th state to allow its citizens to feast on their bumper crop of road-killed deer and elk is a bandwagon that Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife leaders won't jump on or off.
"Our agency position has been ... whatever," says Ron Anglin, the ODFW's Wildlife Division administrator. "If that's what you want to do? Whatever.
"But be careful what you wish for," he says.
Most big-game animals struck and killed by vehicles aren't fit for human consumption, Anglin says. The kind of trauma that results in
the deer or elk's death often scrambles the innards to a point where precious little meat, if any, is salvageable.
Drivers allowed to salvage a black-tailed deer they hit likely would burn more calories processing the carcass then feeding on it, not to
mention those dragging home an animal they found after it had been lying on the side of the road for who knows how many hours.
But Oregon traditionally has been tolerant to alternative lifestyles, and going carrion could join that alt-ilk if the Oregon Legislature
gives its blessing when it convenes next month in Salem.
Anglin's open to the concept, but not with fork in hand...Continue reading...
Cree MP accused by Cree senator of acting like a 'white man'
By Jordan Press, Ottawa Citizen:
By Jordan Press, Ottawa Citizen
Senator Lillian Dyck at her home in Saskatoon.
Photograph by: Michelle Berg , Ottawa Citizen
A
First Nations transparency bill slated to pass the Senate Thursday has
attracted new controversy after a Senate Liberal accused the
Conservative MP behind the legislation of acting like a “white man.”
Both parliamentarians come from Saskatchewan and both are Cree. Conservative MP Rob Clarke is now calling on Senate Liberal Lillian Dyck to publicly apologize and withdraw her comments.
Dyck says she doesn’t consider her comments offensive.
- See more at: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/News/canada/Cree+accused+Cree+senator+acting+like+white/10460807/story.html#sthash.CHZ0o9Q6.dpuf
A First Nations transparency bill slated to pass the Senate Thursday has attracted new controversy after a Senate Liberal accused the Conservative MP behind the legislation of acting like a “white man.” Both parliamentarians come from Saskatchewan and both are Cree. Conservative MP Rob Clarke is now calling on Senate Liberal Lillian Dyck to publicly apologize and withdraw her comments.
Dyck says she doesn’t consider her comments offensive...Continue reading... Related: Change Bedford Road Redmen name >>Read here...
Both parliamentarians come from Saskatchewan and both are Cree. Conservative MP Rob Clarke is now calling on Senate Liberal Lillian Dyck to publicly apologize and withdraw her comments.
Dyck says she doesn’t consider her comments offensive.
- See more at: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/News/canada/Cree+accused+Cree+senator+acting+like+white/10460807/story.html#sthash.CHZ0o9Q6.dpuf
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Canada Bill Would Legalize Euthanasia of People With Disabilities
by Wesley J. Smith | Ottawa, Canada | LifeNews.com
Like I keep saying: Euthanasia/assisted suicide is not about terminal illness. It is ultimately about allowing anyone with more than a transitory desire to die to be killed–whether by a doctor, a lay suicide facilitator, or even, family and friends...Continue reading...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Chief Perry Bellegarde wins leadership of Assembly of First Nations
By By Mark Kennedy, For Postmedia News
Photograph by: Richard Marjan, The Starphoenix
, Postmedia News
Perry Bellegarde has been elected the new national chief of Assembly of First Nations
Photograph by: Richard Marjan, The Starphoenix
, Postmedia News
WINNIPEG – Saskatchewan Chief Perry Bellegarde has won the leadership of the Assembly of First Nations after just one ballot. Read here>>http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/saskatoon/Chief+Perry+Bellegarde+wins+leadership+Assembly+First/10457167/story.html
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Army Welcomes First Openly Transgendered Military Working Dogs
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Meet Tracker, a five-year-old, sixty-pound Belgian Malinois and a graduate of the Military Working Dog School at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. He’s also one of the Army’s first five openly transgendered military police dogs, assigned to the 42nd Military Police Brigade at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
“We took to each other pretty quickly,” said Spc. Jeffrey Grassley, a military policeman and dog handler partnered with Tracker. “I mean, it’s a little weird that they tell me to call him a ‘him,’ since he’s obviously a female dog, and there was that time last month when he was laid up for a few days after he gave birth to a litter of puppies, but we’ve really forged a close working friendship.”
Tracker, who was raised as a female dog under the name Regina, first identified as a male during the initial breeding and selection process the military uses to screen potential military working dogs.
“Looking back now, it was pretty obvious that she was — sorry, He — was a little different,” said Tech Sgt. Walter Flaherty, one of Tracker’s trainers. “He didn’t really say much, obviously, but you could just sort of tell.”... Read more: http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/12/army-military-working-dogs/#ixzz3LNpmJXo4
Monday, December 8, 2014
Nick Offerman's, 'My Tales of Whisky' Music Video
- The Daily Beast One of the most romantic—and, some would say, unrealistic—phenomena of American culture is the concept of “the one.” Many people believe there’s one person out there that they’re meant to be with and who will complete their life and with whom they will live happily ever after. For Nick Offerman, of Parks and Recreation, the one is a thing: whiskey. This music video is an ode to his one true love, complete with romantic rides on horseback.www.thedailybeast.com/
Do You Know the Laughing Kookaburra?
by Donna: If you live down under you do and they wake you rather early with their “laughing-like” call. I read they are nicknamed the “Bushman’s alarm clock.” Another interesting thing I learned was the birds mate for life, often using the same nest time after time. Both parents plus the adult female offspring help to egg-sit and raise chicks...Continue reading, photos... KooKaburra sound clips
Canadian Jihadist Threatens Terrorism in Canada
By Dalit Halevi:
ISIS terrorist in Raqqa, Syria
Reuters
A Muslim convert who left Canada last year to join the Islamic State (ISIS) resurfaced in a propaganda video on Sunday to threaten Canadians they will be “indiscriminately targeted” in retaliation for joining the international military coalition fighting the terror group.
According to the National Post, in a six-minute video, the man said the October killings of two Canadian Forces members in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, and Ottawa by men who had adopted Islamist extremist beliefs were a “direct response” to Canada’s role in Iraq.
“The more bombs you drop on our people, the more Muslims will realize and understand that today, waging jihad against the West and its allies around the world is beyond a shadow of the doubt a religious obligation binding upon every Muslim,” he said.
While he identified himself as Abu Anwar al-Canadi, three former friends said they recognized him as John Maguire, a former University of Ottawa student who converted to Islam and became radicalized before vanishing last year.
His family told the National Post the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had told his mother he was in Syria and had travelled there on a one-way ticket. Posting online under the name “Yahya” Maguire, he had called Canada “evil” and said that he wanted “the opportunity for martyrdom.”...Continue reading...
A Muslim convert who left Canada last year to join the Islamic State (ISIS) resurfaced in a propaganda video on Sunday to threaten Canadians they will be “indiscriminately targeted” in retaliation for joining the international military coalition fighting the terror group.
According to the National Post, in a six-minute video, the man said the October killings of two Canadian Forces members in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, and Ottawa by men who had adopted Islamist extremist beliefs were a “direct response” to Canada’s role in Iraq.
“The more bombs you drop on our people, the more Muslims will realize and understand that today, waging jihad against the West and its allies around the world is beyond a shadow of the doubt a religious obligation binding upon every Muslim,” he said.
While he identified himself as Abu Anwar al-Canadi, three former friends said they recognized him as John Maguire, a former University of Ottawa student who converted to Islam and became radicalized before vanishing last year.
His family told the National Post the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had told his mother he was in Syria and had travelled there on a one-way ticket. Posting online under the name “Yahya” Maguire, he had called Canada “evil” and said that he wanted “the opportunity for martyrdom.”...Continue reading...
New Horizons awakens from final hibernation
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has woken up from hibernation for the last time. Image Credit: NASA
December 7th, 2014
From a distance of 2.9 billion miles across the vastness of the solar system, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft confirmed Dec. 6 that it successfully awakened
from its 19th and final hibernation. At 9:28 p.m. EST (0230 GMT), after
waiting nearly four and a half hours for the signal to travel to
Earth, mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Lab (JHUAPL) in Laurel, MD announced they received confirmation
that New Horizons had successfully come out of hibernation for the final
time.The Planetary Society celebrated New Horizons’ emergence from hibernation with a live YouTube broadcast on Saturday night Dec. 6 at 9 PM EDT with host Matt Kaplan, mission Co-Investigator Bonnie Buratti, and Deep Space Network New Horizons liaison Felicia Sanders. Announcement of the signal confirming the wakeup was made toward the end of the program...Continue reading, video...
Jews Defy Islamists on the Temple Mount
By Ari Soffer:
Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount have been facing mounting attacks and harassment by Islamist activists in recent months, as Muslim groups attempt to cement their control over Judaism's holiest site.
But if a recent video taken by Islamist extremists is any indication (see below), Jewish activists remain as determined as ever - and are taking a decidedly defiant stance towards their antagonists.
Their self-proclaimed objective is to claim the entire holy site as part of the "Al Aqsa Mosque compound," after the mosque built on the ruins of two Jewish temples. They also claim to have been formed to prevent the Israeli government allowing Jews the right to pray on the Temple Mount, where they are currently banned from engaging in any act of worship in an attempt to stave off Islamist anger...Continue reading, video...
Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount have been facing mounting attacks and harassment by Islamist activists in recent months, as Muslim groups attempt to cement their control over Judaism's holiest site.
But if a recent video taken by Islamist extremists is any indication (see below), Jewish activists remain as determined as ever - and are taking a decidedly defiant stance towards their antagonists.
Although Muslim extremists often resort to violence in their
attempts to keep Jews from the site - including regular riots and the
recent shooting of Jewish Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick - the
Islamist campaign also takes the form of low-level harassment of Jewish
visitors by Islamist gangs.
Known as the "Mourabitoun" (an Arabic term for guards who protect
Muslim sites against heretics), the gangs are often comprised of
religious Muslim women who attempt to intimidate Jewish worshipers by
surrounding them while shrieking curses, shouting "Allahu Akbar" and
occasionally assaulting them.Their self-proclaimed objective is to claim the entire holy site as part of the "Al Aqsa Mosque compound," after the mosque built on the ruins of two Jewish temples. They also claim to have been formed to prevent the Israeli government allowing Jews the right to pray on the Temple Mount, where they are currently banned from engaging in any act of worship in an attempt to stave off Islamist anger...Continue reading, video...
First Nations chiefs set to pick new leader amid conflict with Harper
Perry Bellegarde, chief of the Little Black Bear First Nation in Saskatchewan, addresses the audience as native leaders from across Canada attend the Assembly of First Nations' 35th annual general meeting in Halifax on Thursday, July 17, 2014.
Photograph by: Andrew Vaughan , Ottawa Citizen
By Mark Kennedy, Ottawa Citizen: Canada’s First Nations chiefs gather in Winnipeg for three days this
week for a momentous meeting that could set the tone for how indigenous
leaders assert their demands to Prime Minister Stephen Harper in coming
months.
Several hundred chiefs from the country’s largest aboriginal group — the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) — will elect a new national chief.
Will that chief be a hard-edged rebel who adopts angry, perhaps even threatening, rhetoric to get the attention of Harper and the rest of the country?
Or will he appeal to the better nature of Canadians, and try to use logic to persuade Harper to accept aboriginal demands on issues such as First Nations education funding and control of schools, treaty rights, missing and murdered indigenous women, and shared natural resource development?
There’s a lot on the line — for the unity, peace and self-image of Canada, for the many thousands of aboriginals living in poverty, and for the future of the AFN, which has been accused of becoming irrelevant to the First Nations’ “grassroots”.
“Our young people are getting frustrated,” Saskatchewan Chief Perry Bellegarde, one of three leadership contenders, told the Citizen.
“They are tired of the poverty and the overcrowded housing and the systemic racism. They are tired of being held back.”
“The relationship in Canada between indigenous peoples and governments has got to change.”...Continue reading...
Several hundred chiefs from the country’s largest aboriginal group — the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) — will elect a new national chief.
Will that chief be a hard-edged rebel who adopts angry, perhaps even threatening, rhetoric to get the attention of Harper and the rest of the country?
Or will he appeal to the better nature of Canadians, and try to use logic to persuade Harper to accept aboriginal demands on issues such as First Nations education funding and control of schools, treaty rights, missing and murdered indigenous women, and shared natural resource development?
There’s a lot on the line — for the unity, peace and self-image of Canada, for the many thousands of aboriginals living in poverty, and for the future of the AFN, which has been accused of becoming irrelevant to the First Nations’ “grassroots”.
“Our young people are getting frustrated,” Saskatchewan Chief Perry Bellegarde, one of three leadership contenders, told the Citizen.
“They are tired of the poverty and the overcrowded housing and the systemic racism. They are tired of being held back.”
“The relationship in Canada between indigenous peoples and governments has got to change.”...Continue reading...
Saturday, December 6, 2014
The Best Landscape Photographer You've Never Heard Of
by Nino Batista
I adore a good landscape image. And it goes without saying that few things can take your breath away quite like an incredible image of mountains, valleys, spires, oceans, even castles and cities. After all, what is larger than life, or at least larger than us, can be far more awe inspiring than most portraits. However, the craft of landscape photography is hardly a matter of planning a vacation and bringing a tripod, which is about where my landscape "skills" end.
The good news is, the best landscape photography artists do far more than simply go on holiday with their trusty Manfrotto. In short, I am fully aware that they work harder for one image than I do for several magazine pictorials over several weeks. And because of this, the inspiring photography that they create is out there for us to behold. But the good news doesn't end there, as today I'm happy to showcase, quite simply, the greatest landscape photographer you've never heard of...Read More, Photos...
I adore a good landscape image. And it goes without saying that few things can take your breath away quite like an incredible image of mountains, valleys, spires, oceans, even castles and cities. After all, what is larger than life, or at least larger than us, can be far more awe inspiring than most portraits. However, the craft of landscape photography is hardly a matter of planning a vacation and bringing a tripod, which is about where my landscape "skills" end.
The good news is, the best landscape photography artists do far more than simply go on holiday with their trusty Manfrotto. In short, I am fully aware that they work harder for one image than I do for several magazine pictorials over several weeks. And because of this, the inspiring photography that they create is out there for us to behold. But the good news doesn't end there, as today I'm happy to showcase, quite simply, the greatest landscape photographer you've never heard of...Read More, Photos...
Friday, December 5, 2014
Mystery of Bulgaria's green cat finally explained
Did the Ancient Chinese Make Contact With Native Americans?
By Tara MacIsaac, Epoch Times
.Illustrations of a Chinese man and a Native American from the 18th or
19th century, artist unknown. Background: Mention of Fusang ("Fousang
des Chinois") on a 1792 French world map, in the area of modern British
Columbia. (Wikimedia Commons; edited by Epoch Times)
The universe is full of mysteries that challenge our current knowledge. In "Beyond Science" Epoch Times collects stories about these strange phenomena to stimulate the imagination and open up previously undreamed of possibilities. Are they true? You decide.
It is commonly held that Native Americans are descended from people who traveled across the what is known today as the Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska, some 10,000 years ago. At the time, water levels were low and a land bridge emerged, connecting the continents. It is also commonly held that from the time of this crossing until about 1000 A.D. when the Vikings arrived, no expeditions brought explorers or colonists from the Old World to the New.
Yet some say that puzzling artifacts, as well as the results of recent DNA studies performed on Native Americans, may suggest contact between ancient China and North America...Read More.
The universe is full of mysteries that challenge our current knowledge. In "Beyond Science" Epoch Times collects stories about these strange phenomena to stimulate the imagination and open up previously undreamed of possibilities. Are they true? You decide.
It is commonly held that Native Americans are descended from people who traveled across the what is known today as the Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska, some 10,000 years ago. At the time, water levels were low and a land bridge emerged, connecting the continents. It is also commonly held that from the time of this crossing until about 1000 A.D. when the Vikings arrived, no expeditions brought explorers or colonists from the Old World to the New.
Yet some say that puzzling artifacts, as well as the results of recent DNA studies performed on Native Americans, may suggest contact between ancient China and North America...Read More.
Chris the Cuckoo clocks up 60,000 miles - Extra Wildlife News
Wildlife Extra : Since being fitted with a satellite tag by the
British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) four years ago, Chris, a Cuckoo
named after naturalist and TV presenter Chris Packham, has travelled
over 60,000 miles – the equivalent of flying twice round the world. And
in his journeys he’s taken in 22 different countries!
The
UK’s Cuckoo population has dropped by 72 per cent in the last 25 years.
In order to find out what’s driving this decline, the BTO fitted an
original five Cuckoos with state of the art tags to enable them to
follow the birds as they made their way out of Britain to Africa for the
winter. The tags were believed to have a lifespan of two or three
years.
Of the first five, Chris is the only
Cuckoo still transmitting live data, far exceeding the expectations of
the scientists. He is currently in the Congo rainforest, having arrived
at his favoured winter spot on 25 October...Read More: http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/cuckoo-60,000-miles.html#cr
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