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  • U.N. to Celebrate ‘World Toilet Day’

    07/25/2013 8:27:28 PM PDT · by MeshugeMikey · 51 replies
    Weekly Standard ^ | 7 25 2013 | DANIEL HALPER
    U.N. to Celebrate ‘World Toilet Day’ The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to mark "World Toilet Day." The day will be celebrated November 19.
  • Trip proposed to centre of Earth via Arctic hole

    05/31/2007 9:29:24 AM PDT · by Renfield · 110 replies · 3,775+ views
    Can West News Service ^ | 5-30-07 | Richard Foot
    HOLLOW PLANET THEORY; U.S. scientist, believers to sail on icebreaker Richard Foot, CanWest News Service Published: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 A U.S. scientist and a small band of believers are planning a journey to the Canadian Arctic for what they call "the greatest geological expedition in history." Are they searching for Arctic oil reserves? Documenting evidence of climate change? Not quite. They're looking for a fog-shrouded hole in the Arctic Ocean that leads -- they say -- to the centre of the Earth, where an unknown civilization is lurking inside the hollow core of the planet. This time next year,...
  • A rare treat from nature: Perfect snow doughnuts

    03/18/2007 5:57:33 AM PDT · by Renfield · 19 replies · 2,314+ views
    The Seattle Times ^ | 3-17-07 | Susan Gilmore
    "This is no joke. We did not build it," said Mike Stanford, an avalanche-control expert with the state Department of Transportation (WSDOT). "They are a natural occurrence in nature." Stanford found frozen doughnuts of snow on the top of Washington Pass in the North Cascades this week when he was doing avalanche-control work. At first he couldn't believe his eyes: Perfectly shaped doughnuts had rolled down the mountainside and frozen in place......
  • A NEW WORLD--IF WE CAN TAKE IT

    08/10/2005 4:20:54 PM PDT · by Quix · 44 replies · 2,506+ views
    WHITLEY STRIEBER'S JOURNAL UNKNOWN COUNTRY ^ | 7 AUG 2005 | WHITLEY STRIEBER
    A New World--If We Can Take It 07-Aug-2005 I have gotten in two books and interviewed the authors for upcoming Dreamlands that have, frankly, blown my mind. In all the years I’ve been doing this journal, I don’t think that I’ve ever written, specifically about books. But these two have changed the way I think about the world in such deep ways that I feel a need to write about them, in order to explore what they mean to our understanding of who we are and what is going on here. One of the books, Sinister Forces, contains some information...