King Tutankhamun’s dagger of space origin, research suggests Scientists say dagger found in ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun’s tomb was made with iron from a meteorite. Whether you have ever turned your mind to the theory that the Great Pyramids in Giza were built by aliens, a new discovery might make just a believer out of you. Last year, researchers discovered that […]
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FIRST SOLID EVIDENCE OF SOMEONE BEING KILLED BY A METEORITE DISCOVERED BY SCIENTISTS A man was hit and killed by a meteorite in Iraq in the early 19th century. Records of the event provide scientists with what is likely to be the earliest record of the death caused by being struck by a meteorite — and the only such death uncovered […]
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Harry Volkman – the first weatherman to broadcast a tornado He has reported for almost every newscast in the city for over forty-five years as a Chicago television meteorologist. He was a top meteorologist in Oklahoma for ten years before that. Harry Volkman wrote some of the many stories in a new autobiography about his life and career, The new […]
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During World War II Japan “bombed” China with fleas infected with Bubonic plague The story of World War II has been heard so many times that it can be easily to forget that the general public often does not know some of the most obscure horrors of war. For example, few know that in the final year of the war, Japan developed […]
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Greek Farmer Accidentally Discovers 3,400-Year-Old Minoan Tomb Hidden Under Olive Grove Two Minoan people were laid to rest sometime between 1400 and 1200 B.C. in an underground enclosure built from the soft limestone native to southeast Crete. Both of them were buried within larnakes — intricately embossed clay coffins popular in the Minoan bronze-age society — and were surrounded by colorful […]
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No Jail Sentence for Woman Who Falsely Claimed Rape by Three Unidentified Black Men On March 8, 2017, Breana Harmon Talbott entered a church in Denison, Texas, bloodily and half-naked. Then she told the church officials that three Black people had just kidnapped her and raped her. News quickly provoked outrage, much of it racially motivated, from some publishers and […]
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Kaziranga: The park that shoots people to protect rhinos With rhino horns on the illegal black market growing in cost, the rhino numbers are dropping across Africa and Southeast Asia. Rhinos in North-eastern India is, however, thriving in Kaziranga. A new BBC feature investigation found that this is an aggressive policy that can be as effective as it is bloody, […]
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Woman swallowed whole by a 23-foot python in Indonesia They didn’t know why she was disappeared — then they found her body inside an enormous snake. The Jakarta Post reported that, a 54-year-old indonesian woman, who had been swallowed whole by a 23-foot python, was found dead on Sulawesi Island. The night before Wa Tiba left her village, Persiapan Lawela, about […]
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Kneeling Decapitated Skeleton was Ancient Chinese Sacrifice Victim In Central China, archeologists have uncovered a decapitated skeleton still resting in its final kneeling position. Similar rituals have been referred to in ancient Chinese scripts, but this finding is further proof of this particular sacrificial rite. Xinhua, the largest state-owned news agency, reports that it was discovered at the site of […]
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The 1829 “Serpent” Shipwreck Mystery on the Great Lakes Finally Solved A ship which sank in Lake Erie nearly 200 years ago was finally identified. The shipwreck hunters in Cleveland have examined the ship’s remains and believe that it is the doomed vessel, known as the “Lake Serpent.” Expert wreckage analysis showed that it is the oldest wreck in the entire lake. In 1829, the Serpent sank and the three sailors on board died […]
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