http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mysterious/ en-us Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:07:31 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003005/posts Earth gives off a relentless hum of countless notes completely imperceptible to the human ear, like a giant, exceptionally quiet symphony, but the origin of this sound remains a mystery. Now unexpected powerful tunes have been discovered in this hum. These new findings could shed light on the source of this enigma. The planet emanates a constant rumble far below the limits of human hearing, even when the ground isn't shaking from an earthquake. (It does not cause the ringing in the ear linked with tinnitus.) This sound, first discovered a decade ago, is one that only scientific instruments -... LiveScience.com on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003005/posts#comment Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:07:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967873/posts SCOTTISH MASONS' MYSTERIOUS SIGNATURES IN STONE TO BE RECORDED By 24 Hour Museum Staff 08/02/2008 Courtesy Historic Scotland Mysterious symbols carved into Scotland’s medieval churches, castles and bridges are to be studied and recorded in a new scheme supported by Historic Scotland. Masons’ marks are enigmatic signatures cut into stone wherever they worked, and hold clues as to dates of construction as well as the craftsmen who worked on the structure. However, little is known about the identities and life stories of these men who played such an important role in creating the country’s most cherished buildings from the Middle... 24 Hour Museum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967873/posts#comment Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:38:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805837/posts Mysterious MigrationsOur prehistoric ancestors journeyed out of Africa on contested roads Bruce Bower It was the most momentous immigration ever, a population realignment that marked a startling departure for our species, Homo sapiens. After emerging in eastern Africa close to 200,000 years ago, anatomically modern people stayed on one continent for roughly 140,000 years before spreading out in force around the world. Then, from 40,000 to 35,000 years ago, our forerunners advanced into areas stretching from what is now France to southeastern Asia and Australia. DIGGING THE PAST. Workers excavate deep into a site near the Russian village of Kostenki,... Science News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805837/posts#comment Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:38:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1788074/posts University of Arizona Mon 19-Feb-2007, 17:00 ET The Mysterious Case of Columbus's Silver Ore Libraries What was thought to be the first evidence of successful prospecting for precious metals in the New World turns out to be something completely different. Silver-bearing ore found at the settlement founded by Christopher Columbus's second expedition was not mined in the Americas. Copyright 1998. James Quine, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida. Co-authors Kathleen Deagan and Jose M. Cruxent standing by the foundations of La Isabela's royal storehouse, where metallurgical activities took place. Newswise — Silver-bearing ore found at the settlement founded... Newswise http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1788074/posts#comment Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:35:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1783041/posts Khadijah Ghafur sat silently in hijab and correctional jumpsuit, facing a judge, a lengthy prison term and the complete collapse of her elaborate plans. With a boundless determination that opened eyes and pockets, Sister Khadijah had built a chain of state-funded charter schools that stretched from Sunnyvale to Southern California. Now they were closed, and the self-styled civil rights activist from Selma, Ala., was convicted of stealing tens of thousands of dollars of public money meant for kids. Superior Court Judge R.L. Putnam got right to the point. He sentenced her to 14 years. But even after Ghafur's monthlong trial,... Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1783041/posts#comment Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:27:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1762014/posts Tattoos - The Ancient and Mysterious History By Cate Lineberry Humans have marked their bodies with tattoos for thousands of years. These permanent designs—sometimes plain, sometimes elaborate, always personal—have served as amulets, status symbols, declarations of love, signs of religious beliefs, adornments and even forms of punishment. Joann Fletcher, research fellow in the department of archaeology at the University of York in Britain, describes the history of tattoos and their cultural significance to people around the world, from the famous " Iceman," a 5,200-year-old frozen mummy, to today’s Maori. What is the earliest evidence of tattoos? In terms of tattoos... Smothsonian Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1762014/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:20:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1706061/posts LAFAYETTE, La. - Two little girls, who apparently couldn't sleep, got out of the bed they shared less than a half-hour before a tractor-trailer plowed through their bedroom. Cori Morgan, 7, and her sister, Shadia, 3, had left their bedroom for the living room just before the 4:30 a.m. crash, said Cerrisa Moore, whose mother owns the house. AP, via MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1706061/posts#comment Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:50:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698446/posts Mayan ruins said center of mysterious civilization Fri Sep 8, 2006 11:43pm ET TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) - Experts are examining the ruins of a pre-Columbian culture in an area of Honduras where there had been no previous evidence of major indigenous civilization. The site, discovered earlier this year, consists of 14 mounds that form part of what are believed to be ceremonial grounds, the Honduran Institute of Anthropology said. "They are part of a very important site, a governing center of a pre-Columbian civilization," Oscar Neils, the institute's head of research, told Reuters. "We had no idea that there was... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698446/posts#comment Sat, 9 Sep 2006 17:42:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1613348/posts Hybrid comet-asteroid in mysterious break-up 09:30 11 April 2006 NewScientist.com news service Jeff HechtThe large, diffuse breakaway object is centred at the 2 o'clock position relative to the nucleus. The image is a negative, with the darkest areas representing the brightest objects. Something substantial has broken off an icy 50-kilometre object beyond the orbit of Saturn, leaving puzzled astronomers trying to figure out why. Comets have been seen breaking up before, but only after heating when passing close to the Sun or a gravitational disturbance following a close encounter with a planet. However, at 1.9 billion kilometres, this object is... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1613348/posts#comment Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:06:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590157/posts Mysterious Fish 'Party' Near N.C. Shore By The Associated Press posted: 27 February 2006 11:38 am ET JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP)—State and local wildlife experts are trying to figure out what led more than a thousand flounder, spot and pin fish to beach themselves at the Marine Corps' New River air base—and then swim away. They believe it may be related to a popular phenomenon known in coastal Alabama as "jubilee.''The fish surfaced in shallow water Friday morning. They were lethargic, but alive. "It's kind of strange,'' said Mike Sanderford, New River Riverkeeper. "It's a bunch of fish up here, but... Live Science http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590157/posts#comment Sun, 5 Mar 2006 01:02:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348204/posts Flying saucers and strange beings who have visited Earth aren't the typical topics reported by Peter Jennings, anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight." Jennings, whose new two-hour special tackles the subject of UFOs, admits he and his production team began the project with doubts and a dose of curiosity. "We have a lot of skeptics -- I am very skeptical -- but we seriously investigated something a lot of people are serious about," he said. "And when we come to the end, this is wonderfully interesting. "More than 80 million Americans believe intelligent beings from somewhere else have come here,"... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348204/posts#comment Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:14:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1346684/posts On Thursday,02/17/05,a postal courier delivered 4 boxes to the British Embassy in Moscow. The packages were addressed to the British Ambassador-no return address. When opened,the packages were found to contain medical syringes-filled with an unknown liquid - now being tested by the police lab. Theories,anyone ?? MosNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1346684/posts#comment Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:52:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1326866/posts The mysterious end of Essex man Archaeologists now believe two groups of early humans fought for dominance in ancient Britain - and the axe-wielders won Robin McKie, science editor Sunday January 23, 2005 The Observer Divisions in British culture may be deeper than we thought. Scientists have discovered startling evidence that suggests different species of early humans may have fought to settle within our shores almost half a million years ago. They have found that two different groups - one wielding hand-axes, the other using Stone Age Stanley knives to slash and kill - could have been rivals for control... The Guardian (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1326866/posts#comment Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:16:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1297751/posts Mystery surrounds costly spy programWASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress' new blueprint for U.S. intelligence spending includes a mysterious and expensive spy program that drew extraordinary criticism from leading Democrats, with one saying the highly classified project is a threat to national security.In an unusual rebuke, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, complained Wednesday that the spy project was "totally unjustified and very, very wasteful and dangerous to the national security." He called the program "stunningly expensive."Rockefeller and three other Democratic senators -- Richard Durbin, Carl Levin and Ron Wyden -- refused to sign the congressional compromise... netscape.cnn.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1297751/posts#comment Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:26:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1254719/posts Mysterious pottery shows true face of first Pacific settlers Staring out from an ancient piece of pottery, the mysterious face of a bearded man has given scientists a unique glimpse of what the first settlers of Fiji may have looked like. Researchers say the "extraordinary discovery" is a vital clue in mapping out how the South Pacific came to be inhabited some 3,000 years ago, suggesting the first direct link to islands some thousands of kilometres away. Thought to be the work of the Lapita people - a long-lost race which originated near modern-day Taiwan then migrated to Polynesia -... ABC Net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1254719/posts#comment Sat, 23 Oct 2004 21:48:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160134/posts Government and industry experts are reporting a mysterious, large-scale Internet attack against thousands of popular Web sites. The virus-like infection tries to implant hacker software onto the computers of all Web site visitors. Industry experts and the Homeland Security Department are studying the infection to determine how it spreads across Web sites and find adequate defenses against it. A government warning says even Web sites trusted by users may contain the potentially malicious code. The infection appears to target at least one recent version of Microsoft's Internet Information Server, which is popular among businesses and organizations. The United States Computer... The WGALchannel.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160134/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:12:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1121386/posts Curtain raised on mysterious ancient ethnic regime in NW China www.chinaview.cn 2004-04-20 14:48:08 YINCHUAN, April 20 (Xinhuanet) -- The mystery of the ancient ethnic Xixia regime that once reigned over part of northwest China will be revealed as some 100,000 pages of historical documents of the regime collected in Russia become accessible to Chinese experts for the first time. "We will get the complete copy of the Heishuicheng manuscripts collected in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies (IOS) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, all precious firsthand historical materials for the research on the history of... Xinhuanet/China View http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1121386/posts#comment Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:34:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075887/posts Dispute: A heralded linguistic deciphering of an extinct hieroglyphic script accomplished in the 1990s is under attack by two researchers. FOR LINGUISTS, it's like hitting a home run in the bottom of the ninth to win the World Series. Terrence Kaufman and John Justeson struck that blast in 1993 when they cracked one of the planet's few remaining undeciphered writing systems - a hieroglyphic script from the mysterious Isthmian civilization, which occupied southern Mexico 2,000 years ago. Baltimore Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075887/posts#comment Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:55:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/943648/posts Pluto, the most distant of the nine planets in our solar system, has piqued the curiosity of astronomers once again. It seems the planet's atmosphere is expanding as it travels away from the sun, rather than contracting as expected. The only planet yet to have been visited by spacecraft, Pluto is relatively poorly known. But when it is aligned with the stars just so, observations from Earth are possible. Analyses of data collected last year during one of these rare configurations revealed the surprising atmospheric findings, which were published today in the journal Nature. Because Pluto is currently journeying swiftly... Scientific American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/943648/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:13:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/904303/posts SAO PAULO, Brazil (CP) - Authorities in Brazil's northeastern state of Alagoas on Thursday ruled out SARS in the death of a Bulgarian seaman aboard a cargo vessel. Todor Andrev Petrov, 48, died Wednesday, hours after the Cypriot-flagged ship Mike M. left the port of Suape in neighbouring Pernambuco state en route to Argentina. After discovering Petrov had died, the captain headed to Maceio, 2,000 kilometres northeast of Sao Paulo. "Preliminary results of the tests . . . have ruled out the possibility of SARS as the cause of death," said Ronaldo Lima, spokesman for the Alagoas health department. Lima... Canada.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/904303/posts#comment Fri, 2 May 2003 05:30:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/879677/posts Mysterious Scribe Writes Baghdad Web Log Fri Mar 28, 5:58 PM ET By RACHEL KONRAD, Associated Press Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. - Every day, tens of thousands of people turn to the Web seeking updates from a mysterious scribe whose detailed accounts of life in besieged Baghdad have made him a cyberspace celebrity. Little is known for sure about Salam Pax, whose nom de plume means "peace" in Arabic and Latin. But his Web journal — ostensibly written from his Baghdad home — vividly criticizes the authoritarian rule of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and the U.S.-British war on... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/879677/posts#comment Sun, 30 Mar 2003 03:56:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/866365/posts <p>ATLANTA — Federal health officials said Sunday they are analyzing samples from a mysterious pneumonia-like illness that has afflicted more than 150 people in seven countries and caused nine deaths.</p> <p>They are also handing out information cards to travelers from countries where the disease has appeared, asking them to see a doctor if they experience symptoms such as high fever or respiratory problems.</p> FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/866365/posts#comment Mon, 17 Mar 2003 02:10:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/830342/posts Downfall of the Yarri, or Will the real Thylacoleo please stand up? Darren Naish In 1926 A. S. le Souef and Harry Burrell included the ‘Striped marsupial cat’ in their influential popular volume The Wild Animals of Australasia. Concerning a cryptid reported from Australia and usually termed the Queensland tiger, their decision was significant as few cryptids have been regarded so sympathetically by non-cryptozoologists. This near-acceptance reflected both the apparent quality and consistency of eyewitness accounts as well as the long-standing academic interest there had been in the creature. First brought to attention by European Australians in the 1870s,... Forteantimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/830342/posts#comment Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:37:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/716073/posts Mysterious giant human remains found in Fiji AFP [ SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2002 10:29:37 AM ] SUVA: Mysterious skeletal remains of what appears to be a 3,000-year-old giant have been unearthed on a South Pacific islands, but the bones' discovery has rattled local archaeologists who say poor treatment of the remains may have lost vital information. Little is known about the highly unusual find, which includes a skull bearing strange holes drilled into its cheekbones, with authorities keen to keep the controversial discovery under wraps. According to sources, the body, found at Lomaiviti, an island to the north of here,... Times Of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/716073/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jul 2002 20:19:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/709325/posts Rats blamed for mysterious cattle mutilations Reuters July 1, 2002, 5:04 PM EDT BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Recent mutilations of cattle and horses in the Argentine countryside were the work of rodents, scientists said on Monday, not ritualistic slayings by extraterrestrials or vampires as some farmers feared. Argentina's national food and animal health inspection service Senasa sent its own ``X-Files'' scientists to the remote plains to look into the deaths of farm animals found mutilated and drained of blood. Frightened farmers claimed to have seen bright lights and UFOs in the area where the deaths occurred. But Senasa officials said... South Florida Sun Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/709325/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jul 2002 02:10:07 GMT