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  • Clay May Have Been Birthplace of Life On Earth, New Study Suggests

    11/06/2013 5:20:28 AM PST · by onedoug · 20 replies
    Science Daily ^ | 5 NOV 2013 | Cornell University group
    Clay, a seemingly infertile blend of minerals, might have been the birthplace of life on Earth. Or at least of the complex biochemicals that make life possible, Cornell University biological engineers report in the Nov. 7 online issue of the journal Scientific Reports, published by Nature Publishing.
  • Cardinal Newman Exhumation Fails to Produce Body

    10/12/2008 8:42:41 AM PDT · by Alex Murphy · 19 replies · 944+ views
    Catholic Online ^ | 10/10/2008 | Simon Caldwell
    LONDON (The Catholic Herald) - Plans to rebury Cardinal John Henry Newman have been thrown into disarray after it was discovered that his body has disintegrated in its grave. Undertakers attempted to exhume the body of the Victorian cardinal on Thursday last week in preparation for his likely beatification later in the year.Officials were hoping to transfer his remains from a small rural cemetery in Rednal, Worcestershire, to a marble sarcophagus in the Birmingham Oratory, Edgbaston, where he could be better venerated by pilgrims. Plans had been announced for the cardinal to lie in state for three days in the...
  • Mother sets fire to her daughter's gloating rapist

    06/25/2005 5:15:44 PM PDT · by aculeus · 235 replies · 6,134+ views
    The Sunday Telegraph (UK) ^ | June 26, 2005 | By Peter Upton in Alicante
    A Spanish mother has taken revenge on the man who raped her 13-year-old daughter at knifepoint by dousing him in petrol and setting him alight. He died of his injuries in hospital on Friday. Antonio Cosme Velasco Soriano, 69, had been sent to jail for nine years in 1998, but was let out on a three-day pass and returned to his home town of Benejúzar, 30 miles south of Alicante, on the Costa Blanca. While there, he passed his victim's mother in the street and allegedly taunted her about the attack. He is said to have called out "How's your...