http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/found/ en-us Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:44:29 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034079/posts Oldest wheat found in Çatalhöyük The oldest known wheat was grown in Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, experts have found. A series of DNA analyses conducted on ancient wheat samples have led scientists to conclude that the oldest known wheat was grown in Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic settlement in southern Anatolia. Professor Mahinur Akkaya from the Middle East Technical University's (ODTÃœ) department of chemistry says the world's oldest wheat found so far comes from Çatalhöyük, this according to a series of DNA analyses made on 8,500-year-old wheat samples. "Our discovery is of great importance as it gives us significant... Today's Zaman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034079/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:44:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2022568/posts An armored fish was about to become a mom some 380 million years ago. Though the primitive fish perished, its fossilized remains remarkably reveal an embryo and umbilical cord inside the soon-to-be mother's body. The discovery marks the oldest evidence of an animal giving live birth, pushing the known record of such reproduction back by some 200 million years. It also supports the idea that internal fertilization in vertebrates (animals with backbones) originated in a group of primitive fish. "When I first saw the embryo inside the mother fish, my jaw dropped," said researcher John Long, a paleontologist at Museum... LiveScience.com on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2022568/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 19:11:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020725/posts Ancient poem found on wood strip The Yomiuri Shimbun NARA--A wooden strip unearthed in fiscal 1997 from remains of the eighth-century Shigarakinomiya palace in Koka, Shiga Prefecture, was found to be inscribed with a pair of waka poems, one of which is included in "Manyoshu" (The Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves), Japan's oldest existing collection of poems, a board of education announced Thursday. It is the first time that a wooden strip inscribed with a poem from the collection has been found. On one side of the strip is a poem about Mt. Asaka, in present-day Fukushima Prefecture, while the... Yomiuri http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020725/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 15:46:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018867/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have found some matter that had been missing in deep space and say it is strung along web-like filaments that form the backbone of the universe. The ethereal strands of hydrogen and oxygen atoms could account for up to half the matter that scientists knew must be there but simply could not see, the researchers reported on Tuesday. Scientists have long known there is far more matter in the universe than can be accounted for by visible galaxies and stars. Not only is there invisible baryonic matter -- the protons and neutrons that make up atoms... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018867/posts#comment Tue, 20 May 2008 22:17:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2015060/posts Astronomers have found a piece of the universe's puzzle that's been missing for awhile: a type of extremely hot, dense matter that is all but invisible to us. Engaging in something like cosmic accounting, astronomers have tried to balance the scant amount of matter that has been directly observed with the vast amount that remains unobserved directly. The latter constitutes about 90 percent of the universe's matter. Galaxies, the stars within them, the planet we live on and the chairs we sit on are made up of normal matter — the protons, electrons and neutrons that are collectively called baryons.... Space.com on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2015060/posts#comment Tue, 13 May 2008 02:05:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007520/posts Megalithic period pottery found T.S. Subramanian Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department leads excavation Significant finds: Pottery with graffiti marks found at Sembiyankandiyur village in Nagapattinam district. CHENNAI: Pottery items including bowls, dishes and urns, from the Megalithic period, have been excavated at Sembiyankandiyur near Kuthalam in Mayiladuthurai taluk of Nagapattinam district by the Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department. An important finding: eight urns aligned in a particular manner, three of them with human bones inside. These might be of members of one family, according to department officials. The pottery included black-and-red ware, black ware and red ware. The site yielded a rich... Hindu.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007520/posts#comment Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:21:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991604/posts SEATTLE - The FBI says it's analyzing a torn, tangled parachute found by children in Washington state to see whether it was used by plane hijacker D.B. Cooper. Officials said Tuesday that children playing outside their home near Amboy, in southwest Washington, found the chute sticking up from the ground this month. FBI agent Larry Carr says they pulled on the fabric as much as they could, then cut the ropes. They had seen recent media coverage of the Cooper case and urged their father to call the FBI. Cooper hijacked a plane from Portland, Ore., to Seattle in 1971,... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991604/posts#comment Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:39:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1958028/posts PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - The last time cat-owner Kelly Levy saw her tiger-striped feline was before she took her husband to the airport. The 24-year-old came back to her house late Friday to find the bottom step, where Gracie Mae would usually be waiting, empty. Levy tore the house apart looking for the 10-month-old tabby who had been spayed just days before. She and her dad took out bathroom tiles and part of a cabinet to check a crawl space and papered the neighborhood with "lost cat" signs. Then she got a phone call. "Hi, you're not going to... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1958028/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:30:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956823/posts Scientists learn how we find our way By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 20/01/2008 Scientists have discovered why some people get lost more often than others when trying to pick a way through city streets. Researchers have found that two key parts of the brain work together to help humans plan and follow routes in a familiar city. A part of the brain called the hippocampus stores memories about key locations and landmarks while other brain cells - grid cells - provide our internal sense of space and distance, rather like a GPS system. The two parts... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956823/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:51:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928128/posts FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU — U.S. troops uncovered and destroyed a weapons cache containing seven pressure plates Nov. 16 and 17 in the area of Mahdiryia. The plates are used to detonate a form of improvised explosive device (IED) that is specifically targeted against Coalition and Iraqi troops on foot patrol. The cache find was the first indication of these “dismounted” IEDs being used in the area of Mahdiryia. They are already heavily used by al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) the communities of Hawr Rajab and Arab Jabour to the north. Soldiers from Battery B, 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery (FA)... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928128/posts#comment Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:32:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847181/posts June 7, 2007 — The two heaviest stars ever have been discovered in the southern Milky Way galaxy. The double super heavyweights are actually in orbit around each other, and both break the record — 83 times the sun’s mass — for the most massive stars found to date. The heavier of the two weighs in at a whopping 114 "solar masses," while its little brother is 84 solar masses. The discovery was presented June 7 at the meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. The two big bruiser stars, which... Discovery News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847181/posts#comment Fri, 8 Jun 2007 19:35:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845998/posts BLOOMFIELD, Conn. - A 15-year-old girl missing for nearly a year was found Wednesday locked in a small hidden room under the staircase of a West Hartford home, and two people who live there were arrested, police said. Bloomfield police said they found the girl alive in a room blocked from view by a cabinet. They had gone to the home with West Hartford police to serve search warrants for DNA and other evidence. Adam Gault, 41, was charged with second-degree unlawful restraint, second-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree custodial interference, interfering with an officer, risk of injury to a minor and... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845998/posts#comment Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:37:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1837097/posts They beamed him up and now, after a three-week search, they have found the rocket that had carried ashes of Star Trek actor James Doohan briefly into space. The remains of Doohan, whose Star Trek character Scotty inspired the television catch phrase "Beam me up, Scotty," were blasted off to the edge of space from New Mexico on April 29, two years after his death at the age of 85. The payload also included ashes of astronaut Gordon Cooper, who first went into space in 1963, and another 200 people. But the UP Aerospace Spaceloft XL rocket carrying the capsules... bc.net.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1837097/posts#comment Mon, 21 May 2007 13:32:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1830179/posts THE tomb of the biblical King Herod the Great has been found, archeologists say. The final resting place of King Herod, who ruled Judea for the Roman empire from about 37BC, was found at the ruins of a magnificent palace he built near Jerusalem. King Herod was known for his role in the massacre of the innocents as described in the Gospel of Matthew, where he ordered the deaths of young males in Bethlehem to stop a new king of the Jews, whose birth had been prophesied by the three wise men. Herod was also known for expanding the second... new.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1830179/posts#comment Tue, 8 May 2007 15:30:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826235/posts WASHINGTON, April 30, 2007 – Coalition forces nabbed about 94 suspects and discovered several weapons caches during raids across Iraq in the past three days. Coalition forces detained 11 suspected al Qaeda in Iraq members today, nabbing 10 suspects in Samarra and another in Baghdad. Intelligence reports indicate the suspect detained in the Iraqi capital was part of a local operation to acquire bomb-making materials, military officials said. “Almost every day, … al Qaeda in Iraq uses explosives to kill and maim innocent Iraqis and the security forces striving to protect them,” said Army Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826235/posts#comment Tue, 1 May 2007 00:16:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793087/posts A Burlington girl missing more than a year has been found in northern Mississippi in a run-down mobile home with her mother, who is accused of kidnapping the child and forcing her to use a fake name, authorities said. Trashanda Waytes, 9, disappeared in November 2005, one month after a judge awarded her father custody of the child. Authorities said they used a tip to track the girl to Byhalia, Miss., on Tuesday night, and her father was traveling Wednesday to Mississippi to bring his daughter home. Ron Waytes may be in for quite a shock when the two are... FoxNews/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793087/posts#comment Thu, 1 Mar 2007 04:13:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1782275/posts WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2007 – Coalition forces killed nine terrorists, detained 12 others, and discovered a large weapons cache in operations around Iraq over the past three days. Coalition forces conducted an air strike in the Arab Jabour area yesterday targeting al Qaeda in Iraq terrorists and foreign fighter facilitators. Coalition aircraft killed eight terrorists when they dropped precision bombs on their facility. In Baqubah yesterday, Iraqi and coalition forces encountered unidentified enemy fighters while responding to an improvised explosive device attack. Combined forces received heavy small-arms and rocket-propelled-grenade fire from enemy fighters in several buildings around the area.... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1782275/posts#comment Fri, 9 Feb 2007 23:56:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767772/posts Camper Lost in New Mexico Rescued Two Weeks After Search for Her Was Called Off January 14, 2007 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A camper who became stranded nearly five weeks ago in a national forest because she could not cross a swollen river was rescued Sunday, more than two weeks after the search for her was called off. A New Mexico National Guard crew waded across the icy Gila River to rescue a dehydrated and weak Carolyn Dorn of South Carolina, who entered the Gila National Forest alone on Dec. 6 for a two-week camping trip. Two brothers found her Friday... FOX/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767772/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:32:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757418/posts Disturbing new evidence reveals a threat to our homeland security is worse than originally thought. The News Four WOAI Trouble Shooters first uncovered records last May showing 1400 airport security badges and uniforms are missing from airports here and across the country. Now, new information obtained by Trouble Shooter Brian Collister shows a dramatic increase in the total number. But that's not all the Trouble Shooters found. A WOAI viewer contacted the Trouble Shooters because he found a TSA screener's jacket for sale at a local thrift store. Security experts fear TSA uniforms could help terrorists pull off an attack.... WOAI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757418/posts#comment Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:14:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756508/posts At least three tubes that are used to launch military-grade missiles were found Tuesday at a moving company on Interstate 65 Service Road West in Mobile, authorities said. No missiles were found, police said, and no one was injured. Members of the Mobile Police Department's bomb squad were called to Paulk's Moving at 2051 I-65 Service Road West on Tuesday afternoon after employees found a "suspicious package," police spokesman Officer Eric Gallichant said. At least three tubes used to launch missiles were uncovered in a shipping container at the business, Gallichant said. Authorities were still trying to determine who shipped... Press-Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756508/posts#comment Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:27:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1756152/posts This is a link to an audio file of Mike DeLong-a 3 star U.S. General saying that there were definitely WMD in Iraq in 2003. Listen-hit play on the player on the linked page. eyeonbooks.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1756152/posts#comment Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:14:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748286/posts After searches in Oregon's Curry and Douglas counties, new information on missing CNET senior editor James Kim and family is narrowing the search back to the Bear Camp area in Josephine County, according to reports Monday. A cell phone tower received a signal from one of the family's cell phones last Saturday near Glendale, but officials say the signal is only an indicator the family could have been within 26 miles of Glendale late Saturday night, say local news reports. Glendale is located off Interstate 5, south of Roseburg, where the Kims were confirmed to have stopped at a Denny's... CNET http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748286/posts#comment Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:52:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1731934/posts FORT HUACHUCA — A hiker on Friday found the bodies of an elderly couple on Fort Huachuca, according to the post's Public Affairs Office. The couple were not associated with the military. The bodies were located in a remote area of Huachuca Canyon near a vehicle at approximately 1 p.m., post officials said Friday evening. There is no appearance of foul play, and the incident is under investigation by the FBI and CID. Sierra Vista Herald, Sierra Vista Arizona http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1731934/posts#comment Sat, 4 Nov 2006 02:05:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1720562/posts GREENSBURG, Kan. - Scientists located a rare meteorite in a Kansas wheat field thanks to new ground-penetrating radar technology that someday might be used on Mars. The dig Monday was likely the most documented excavation yet of a meteorite find, with researchers painstakingly using brushes and hand tools to preserve evidence of the impact trail and to date the event of the meteorite strike. Soil samples also were bagged and tagged and organic material preserved for dating purposes. Even before they had the meteorite out of the ground, the scientific experts at the site were able to debunk prevailing wisdom... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1720562/posts#comment Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:28:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719147/posts The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will soon be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. He is 1st Lt. James L. Hull, U.S. Air Force, of Lubbock, Texas. He will be buried Nov. 13 at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. On Feb. 19, 1971, Hull and a fellow crew member were flying a mission near the Laos/Vietnam border when their O-2A Skymaster crashed. Both men died, but Hull’s body was buried in the wreckage... Defense News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719147/posts#comment Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:10:31 GMT