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Solved: 3,000-year-old murder

2012-12-18T23:02:00.001-08:00

Paris: An assassin slit the throat of Egypt’s last great pharaoh at the climax of a bitter succession battle, scientists said on Monday in a report on a 3,000-year-old royal murder.

Forensic technology suggests Ramses III, a king revered as a god, met his death at the hand of a killer, or killers, sent by his conniving wife and ambitious son, they said.

And a cadaver known as the “Screaming Mummy” could be that of the son himself, possibly forced to commit suicide after the plot, they added.

Computed tomography (CT) imaging of the mummy of Ramses III shows that the pharaoh’s windpipe and major arteries were slashed, inflicting a wound 70 millimetres (2.75 inches) wide and reaching almost to the spine, the investigators said.

The cut severed all the soft tissue on the front of the neck.

“I have almost no doubt about the fact that Ramses III was killed by this cut in his throat,” palaeopathologist Albert Zink of the EURAC Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Italy said.

“The cut is so very deep and quite large, it really goes down almost down to the bone (spine) — it must have been a lethal injury.” Ramses III, who ruled from about 1188 to 1155 BC, is described in ancient documents as the “Great God” and a military leader who defended Egypt, then the richest prize in the Medi-terranean, from repeated invasion. He was about 65 when he died, but the cause of his death is still unclear.

What will happen in 2012

2012-05-23T02:45:00.000-07:00

What will happen in 2012... will the world come to an end? Will December 21, 2012 mark doomsday for humans as a species, the whole planet, perhaps the whole universe? What's going to happen and should we prepare for it?

Let me spare you the wait. The real truth behind 2012 is that it's a hoax. Whether you are caught up in the Mayan prophecy, planetary alignment, super volcanoes, or polar shifts, all these theories emerged only after 2012 was targeted as yet another doomsday date.

You may recall a few other doomsday hoaxes in your lifetime: 1982 (planetary alignment, poisoning by the passing of Halley's Comet, and the rapture), 1988 (another rapture), 1997 (aliens in the wake of Hale-Bopp), 2000 (the Millennium Bug), 2003 (Planet X), 2011 (ooh another rapture).

Many people are wired to respond to doomsday propaganda, and it's only through critical thinking that you'll find the truth about December 2012.

I'm not going to tell you what to believe; only to think lucidly on the subject and make your own conclusions. To kick start this process, here are some fundamental truths about the claims behind the 2012 hoax.

What Will Happen in 2012?

Hoax #1 - The Discovery of Planet X (Nibiru)

The reason so many people are asking "what will happen in 2012?" goes back to 1976 when Zecharia Stichin published the12th planet. In this book, he said the Sumerians had identified a twelfth body called Nibiru with a 3600-year orbit.

This claim totally contradicts what real experts on the Sumerian civilization have found. The Sumerians, while a mighty race, knew very little of astronomy and most certainly didn't even know about the existence of Uranus, Neptune or Pluto. So the idea of them discovering a twelfth body in the solar system is well off; this was just another wildly inaccurate claim spun by Stichin.

Nonetheless, this is all it took for the great hoax to begin. A self-declared psychic named Nancy Leider (who claims to speak with aliens) announced on her website that Nibiru, also known as Planet X, is on a collision course with Earth. The catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was pushed back to December 2012.

So what does NASA have to say about this erroneous planet?

In 1984, when news of a potential tenth planet hit the news headlines, the term Planet X became a popular way of describing the unidentified mass spotted via infrared survey. However, after closer inspection, the mystery object was identified as a distant galaxy.

Unfortunately this has not stopped doomsday fans from drawing lines between Stichin's ill-founded claims, the woman who believes she speaks to aliens, and NASA's misidentification of a galaxy far, far away.

What Will Happen in 2012?

Hoax 2 - The End of The Mayan Calendar

With Planet X and 2012 in the public eye, it wasn't long before conspiracy theorists realized the year coincided with the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar. Surely this was real proof that the world will end in 2012! Erm... no.

Calendars keep track of the passage of time; they don't predict the future.

Though the Mayans were very advanced and made solid astronomical observations, there was never any doomsday prophecy made. This has been confirmed by genuine Mayan scholars. The Mayan calendar (like all calendars) had to end somewhere. Not only does it end, but it begins again in a new cycle, just as your calendar ends on December 31 and begins again on January 1.

No matter what New Age loons doggedly spout about the Mayan prophecy, ask yourself: how do they know what will happen in 2012? Where did their information come from? It certainly wasn't the Mayans, who, as we have established, made no such claims about the end of the world.

The Mayan prophecy is just another hoax propagated by the internet, TV documentaries, and even blockbuster movies (see below). People love to jump on the bandwagon even when their knowledge is suspect.

What Will Happen in 2012?

Hoax #3 - Planetary Alignment

For some reason, a lot of people think that all the planets will fall into perfect alignment on December 21, 2012. Could this spell the end for mankind?

According to NASA, there are no planetary alignments in the next few decades. Earth will certainly not cross the galactic plane in 2012 - and even when any alignments do occur, their effects on Earth would be negligible.

The truth is, every year in December, the Earth and the sun do align with the approximate center of the Milky Way Galaxy but that has never created any effects here on Earth before and neither will it in December 2012. Nuff said.

What Will Happen in 2012?

Hoax #4 - Polar Shift

Planet Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field which undergoes a reversal (north switching magnetic poles with south) on average every 400,000 years. Judging by the current level of movement, we can predict the next reversal will be within the next 1,000-3,000 years. But definitely not within the timeframe of 2012.

Even if a reversal were to occur, it will likely not cause us harm. If polar shifts were deadly, it would show up in the fossil record as numerous mass extinctions since the beginning of life on Earth... which it hasn't.

What Will Happen in 2012?

Hoax #5 - Solar Storms

Perhaps the most credible theory of all is solar storms. And yet it still doesn't spell the end of life as we know it.

The sun has regular peaks and troughs of activity, with peaks occurring about every 11 years. In the past, solar flares occurring during the peak period have caused some disruption of satellite communications, but these days engineers are building electronics that are protected from most solar storms.

There is no denying the next peak in solar activity will occur in 2012-2014, but it is expected to be an average cycle. In any case, we are well prepared for solar flares and these should be no different from any other period in history.

Religion's Role in Doomsday Hoaxes

If all the 2012 doomsday theories can be so easily discredited, then why on Earth are we so whipped up into a frenzy over it?

This is down to human instinct; to be constantly on the lookout for threats to our survival, and to wonder about where our future is leading.

Some religious leaders exploit this trait to create fear and develop a devout following. People who are depressed and lost in the world are especially vulnerable to this kind of propaganda; they find comfort in the thought of the rapture ending their Earthly pain and taking them to "a better place".

Unfortunately, people become believers in 2012 for lack of critical thinking. They jump on the bandwagon and feel safer - special, even - to be one of the ones who saw it coming. Of course, their doomsday project will fall flat one day, but until then, believers will pour a whole lot of energy into this egregious hoax.

The Media's Role in Doomsday Hoaxes

What if you're not religious but still feel an emotional tug every time someone mentions December 21, 2012? Then you are a victim of the sensationalist media.

For the same human instinct described above, you thrive on the idea of knowing your future - however apocalyptic it may be. If your life isn't quite happy enough in it's current form, you are excited by the idea of society's collapse and a fresh start for all those who survive. This kind of existence is glorified by post-apocalyptic movies like Waterworld, Resident Evil, Zombieland and others.

Meanwhile, Hollywood latches onto pseudo-science to create end-of-the-world scenarios in an attempt to create action-packed movie plots. Which of these Hollywood movies have contributed to your fear of 2012: Knowing, 2012, The Core, Armageddon, Deep Impact, The Day After Tomorrow? Are you willing or unwilling to separate fact from fiction?

So, Really... What Will Happen in 2012?

The 2012 phenomenon is a hoax. Anyone who spreads fear about 2012 back their claims with drivel that makes no scientific sense. And, if you hadn't noticed, science is the best tool we have. It's how we created space rockets, computers and cars.

Some go as far as to suggest that ALL of the above theories will take place. In a single day, just before tea time, Earth will be bombarded by polar shifts, sun storms, planetary collision, volcanoes, earthquakes, floods and more. Right.

Take a few minutes to look at the scientific evidence behind the 2012 claims and you will find a complete lack of it. People love to make stuff up; to sound important, to feel in control, or just to make some money. You have probably propagated the hoax yourself, just by talking about it.

There will always be natural and man-made threats to your survival and you should be reasonably prepared for these. Fortunately, the fact that you are reading this article suggests you live in a relatively stable environment with food, clean water and a roof over your head. You are already thriving in a way that billions of people in the world don't.

So the next time someone asks what will happen in 2012 and makes that "ooo-eerrr" noise, stop them in their tracks - and encourage some critical thinking for a change...

See you in 2013 ;)

DO U KNOW HOW MUMMIES ARE MADE???????????????

2011-12-20T08:27:00.000-08:00

The word mummy derived from an early spectators who presumed that mummies were covered with bitumen, which meant in Persian moumia and therefore took the modern name mummy. no matter it is been preserved naturally or deliberately, all mummies must survive along the duration of time. Gaining most of its fame from Egypt, mummies also exist in many other ancient cultures and countries. Countries such as China revealed the Cherchen mummies, which were preserved almost perfectly. Another place, such as South America, revealed three children from the Incas who were relics of a sacrificial ritual and were found frozen atop Argentina’s Mount Llullaillaco, which is about 22,000 feet high. Although mummification existed in other cultures, eternal life was the main focus of all Ancient Egyptians, which meant preserving the body ever and forever.

MUMMIFICATION-
HOW ARE THEY MADE??????
The first attempt to preserve the dead is recorded as early as 3000 BC. After the death of an Egyptian, the embalmers where called by family members and the body was taken to the ibu, “the tent of purification.” the body would go through a process that lasted seventy days, no longer. Once brought to the ibu, the carcass was cleaned with water containing the purifying agent natron. This process represented the rebirth of the deceased.

After being washed and cleansed, the carcass was taken to the wabet, the “palace of embalming.”According to Herodotus, a large incision was made on the left side of the abdomen. This incision, which was cut with a flint knife, was used for removing vital organs such as the intestines, liver, lungs and stomach.

After the body had been cleansed and the organs removed, the body is dried. For this large amounts of natron salt packed around the body until the 70th day, when the body was desiccated. After being dried in the bed of natron salt, the body is then washed and all traces of the salt removed.
The cadaver is then taken to per nefer, “the house of beauty,” where it is stuffed and shaped back to its normal size. Many perfumes and oils were rubbed on the body and the open wounds were filled and covered with wax. Over the wax a metal plate decorated with symbols of protection sealed the wounds. After the anointing was completed, molten resin was added to cover the body. Both men and women would be colored with ochre. The men would be colored red and the women yellow.
Colored and stuffed, it’s was then ready to be wrapped. The wrapping process lasted fifteen to thirteen days. Special fine cloth with spells AND CODES written upon them were used. Most of the time, sheets of linen were used as the main wrapping material. This process was done until the body was protected from head to foot in linen. After being covered, the body was covered with a death mask made of papyrus or linen and reinforced with plaster. Royal mummies, such as Tutankhamun’s, were made of gold and held precious and semiprecious stones that were inlaid. The mummy was then packaged and ready for the afterlife and was placed into its coffins and laid to rest in its tomb.

APPLES RAIN IN SKY!!!!!!!!!

2011-12-16T04:39:00.000-08:00

ITS STRANGE TO HEAR BUT ITS TRUE THAT APPLES HAVE RAINED IN THE STREET OF Coundon, Coventry on monday night on december 15th 2010

..........After a series of storm warnings, drivers in the evening rush hour were prepared for almost anything.

Except, that is, for it to start raining apples..........its started raining in the junction of the street and apples started falling the cars and peole on street.

One motorist, who was travelling with her husband, said: ‘The apples fell out of nowhere. They were small and green and hit the bonnet hard. Everyone had to stop their cars suddenly.’
the apples were green and small and hit the bonnet hard.

scientists have told that this might have as when a tornado might have taken away the apples from a place they are grown or the tree and they might fallen 4m the sky in this form.........

Shop staff refuse to sell whisky to great-grandmother, 92, because she couldn't prove she was over 18

2011-11-03T09:30:00.000-07:00

A great-grandmother blasted shop staff today after they refused to sell her alcohol at the age of 92, because she had no ID to prove she was over 18 as she couldnt prove herself that she is above 18 years old.her name is Diane Taylor
she was stunned to be asked for proof of age when she asked for a bottle of whisky from her local One Stop Shop in Harlow, Essex as she couldnot provide her driving license as well as passport.hence she was refused to sell her alcohol.
the great-grandmother-of-three produced her over-60s bus pass, an OAP card and even her pacemaker certificate, but was still turned away because she could not provide a passport or driving license
She said: "I asked the girl behind the counter to repeat herself three times, I just couldn't believe what I was hearing, I thought it was a joke.

she said "I can understand shops being strict with all the youngsters buying booze but surely there's a difference between a 92-year-old and someone of 18.

"I ended up storming out in indignation. It is just ridiculous to ask someone of my age to prove they are an adult, I find it offensive.

she said "I have never been asked for ID before in my life but then I turned 18 in 1937."

Diane was on her my home from a check-up with her doctor when she went to buy a bottle of whisky for her son from the One Stop Shop in Harlow

SLUMDOG MILLINIORE MOVIE BECOMES TRUE

2011-10-29T09:12:00.000-07:00

Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC 5) has given Rs five crore, its biggest prize so far. The boy from Bihar has still to come out of shock following this huge reward, says S Ahmed ofNVONews.Com

Patna/ Motihari: First the news. A computer operator Sushil Kumar working earning Rupees Six Thousand per month from MNREGA office near Motihari and who couldnt even spend his day in entertainment have now become a crorepathi, he used to teach tutors in the part time to spend money. Bihar has won the biggest ever television show’s prize money of Rupees Five Crore. The world would be watching the show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ or KBC 5 on the 2nd of November hosted by the Superstar Amitabh Bachchan.

Though everybody is talking about the determination of Sushil but he was a very poor student and could not pass his matriculation exams in his first attempt. Aged 27-year and having a postgraduate degree in psychology Sushil needed to answer correctly thirteen questions in all. Thirteen questions with a few help lines like phone a friend, audience, expert and fifty-fifty it is really not such a big deal. Getting a call for the show is all important which is purely dependent on your luck and the number of sms and phone calls. This show leaves innumerable people agitated as they never get a call even after so many attempts.

The world knew it days before the show’s scheduled telecast though the show was originally recorded on the 25th of October. The world knew it early because the tv channel telecasting it, the Sony Entertainment Telvision’ has great stake in it though it did not want the Jackpot question to be disclosed which is related to Andaman and Nikobar islands.

If the media glitz is put aside public in general ask questions the usefulness of such programmes. Yes, for entertainment it is good. The host is unparallel. The script is tremendous. But no one is sure about participating in it as it takes innumerable sms and phone calls as only a handful is invited.

Amitabh Bachchan and Five Crore Rupees is such a big thing that anybody would pause a while before making any comments but the fact remains that such shows are not as simple as Sushil Kumar is. Harshwardhan Navathe of Mumbai was the first participant to return home as a crorepati.

Interestingly when the show was added a Rupees Five Crore Jackpot question, Rahat Taslim of Giridih, Jharkhand quit after winning Rupees One crore in 2010. This show also reminds the much talked about film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.

Mr. Amitabh says that if a person is determined to achieve something he could easily do that as Sushil Kumar coming from a very humble background has done it. But the question that Amitabh does not answer is that why only a few have achieved that? In a country of over a billion people KBC could not produce more than a few winners of Rupees One crore or more? Why so many people are not able to get even a chance to get to the initial level?

For many Five Crore Rupees is not an inspiration, it is just Five Crore Daydreams.

Reportedly this show is being watched by around five million people but only a few have won Rupees One Crore or more. Interestingly the celebrity participants like Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan and Joh Abrahm etc. always return big winning amount while common participant very rarely go above a lakh. But more than the prize money it is the prime time advertisement and sms charges which contribute to the immense profit of the tv channel telecasting it.

Based on the UK game show ‘Who Wants to be A Millionaire’ the KBC show was first aired in the year 2000 hosted by Amitabh Bacchan. Apart from providing entertainment to the viewers and big money to the participants, it boosted the TRP of Stat Television then. In 2001 there were KBC Junior and KBC Jodi but those could not be very popular.

After four years the show had its second edition as KBC Dwitiya doubling the prize money to Rupees two crore

As Amitabh Bachchan fell ill, Star Television hired the Badshah of Bollywood Mr. Shahrukh Khan as the host of KBC3 while the prize money remained Rupees Two Crore. This show was not considered as big hit as it was during when Amibath Bachchan was the host. The sponsors Air Tel, Unit Trust of India and ITC ltd. were reported not to be very keen on continuing this show. So, the show ended in just three months.

It again started as KBC 4 with its original host Mr. Amitabh Bachchan in 2010 but the prize money was added with a jackpot of Rupees Five crore.

NAZCA LINES

2011-10-26T06:04:00.000-07:00

THESE ARE THE LINES used as observatories of astronomical cycles well known as NAZCA LINES.they were used by farmers to know and control the meteorigical agrian cycles,aside 4m their possible relifious significance
they are traced on san jose and sococ desert plains,betweeen the 419 and 465 km of south pan american highway with an extension of 450 square kms near the nazca city

these lines form drawings of several kms in length and approximately 0.4 to 1.1 km in width,with animal,geometric and trapezoid forms.some can be seen only from the altitude such that they can only be seen from airplane.The figures of the spider, the monkey, the dog, the small lizard, the hummingbird, the condor, and the astronaut, among others, stand out.these lines were investigated scientifically 4r time by prof german paul kosak along with an archeologist

actually these are actualy seen accidentally from a airpalne.

many of them dont know where these lines have come from.these lines are believed to be drawn by an extra skilled and technologised conditions but in investigation it have been told that these lines have backed in times of BCs.
SO QUESTION IS HOW ARE THESE LINES DRAWN IN SUCH CONDITIONS WHERE THERE I SKNOW TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE.SOME BELIEVE THAT THESE ARE THE LINES DRAWN BY SOME ALLIENS SUCH THAT THEY CAN HAVE A PLACE WHERE THEY HAVE ONCE VISTED.ANY OF US DONT KNOW THE FACT ...............!!!!!!!!

debate over burial continues as No post-mortem for Gaddafi

2011-10-22T12:30:00.000-07:00

Military commanders in Misurata rebuffed demands for a post-mortem on the body of Col Muammar Gaddafi on Saturday as reports said that tribal relatives said the corpse should be handed over for ritual burial.

Misurata fighters who captured Gaddafi refuse to accept any blame for the dictator's death and have rejected international demands for a medical report into the cause of death.

"There will be no post-mortem today, nor any day," Misurata military council spokesman Fathi al-Bashaagha said. "No one is going to open up his body."

The statement came amid prolonged confusion over how rebel officials intended to deal with the corpse.

Al-Rai television, a Syria-based outfit that has functioned as the mouthpiece of Col Gaddafi's loyalists, said relatives wanted the body to be handed over.

"We call on the UN, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and Amnesty International to force the [National] Transitional Council to hand over the martyrs' bodies to our tribe in Sirte and to allow them to perform their burial ceremony in accordance with Islamic customs and rules," the purported family declaration said.

The Misurata commanders also told foot soldiers to hold to the official line that one of Gaddafi's own retinue fired the fatal shot.

An order said that the rank and file should maintain the official version that "no one" from the city killed Gaddafi.
source:telegraph

Imran Abushallah, 32, a one-eyed man who was in the militia unit that stormed the drain, yesterday denied that anyone had pulled a trigger while Col Gaddafi was captured.

"Gaddafi already had a wound in his side. He was very confused," he said. "When I put my hand on his shoulder he was very surprised."

Fighters at a farm on the outskirts of the city of Misurata that serves as headquarters of the al-Ghiran brigade base were showing off Gaddafi's boots, gold-plated gun and beige scarf.

Souvenir photographs are taken standing in front of the pickup with dried blood stains still visible on the bonnet.

Gaddafi's satellite phone - a Thuraya - has also been on display.

"The last phone call received on his Thuraya came from Syria. It was a lady on the phone," according to a brigade member.

Meanwhile, while at the World Economic Forum in Jordan, Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said he expected to step down from his position today.

It is a move that he had planned to make once his government took full control of the country.

Asked to say when he expected to stand down, Prime Minister Jibril told Reuters: "Today, today."

He also said that Libyans should be allowed to vote within months. "The first election should take place within a period of eight months, maximum, to constitute a national congress of Libya, some sort of parliament," he said.

"This national congress would have two tasks - draft a constitution, on which we would have a referendum, and the second to form an interim government to last until the first presidential elections are held."

Libya's National Transitional Council has said it plans to declare the full "liberation" of Libya on Sunday.

DO MERMAIDS EXISTS?????????

2011-10-21T21:24:00.000-07:00

Mermaid Mummies Prove Mermaids' Existence?

Mermaids are one of the creatures that have been immortalized in people's minds and have fascinated the young and adults alike. The word mermaid came from the Middle English mere in the obsolete sense 'sea' + maid(en). It is a legendary aquatic creature with the head and torso of human female and the tail of a fish. Tales about their existence appeared as early as 1000 BCE in Assyria. One of the popular legend is that Alexander the Great's sister, Thessalonike, turned into a mermaid after her death and lived in the Aegean, asking sailors one question " Is Alexander the king alive". The correct answer would be "He lives and still rules", any other answer would spur her into a rage where she transforms into a Gorgon and harbor doom upon the ship and every sailor onboard.

Even in popular culture, mermaids are depicted regularly in literature and film, likely due to the influence of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale, The Little Mermaid. But are these creatures just a figment of humans' imagination or are they real?

Here is a photo of a mermaid mummy at Zuiryuji Temple in Osaka, which was bestowed to the temple as an offering from a Sakai-area trader in 1682:

This 30-cm-long mummy of a mermaid that can be found at Myouchi Temple in the city of Kashiwazaki in Niigata prefecture:

Another mummified mummy is preserved at Karukayado Temple outside the city of Hashimoto in Wakayama prefecture. "The 50-cm long mummy has fang-like teeth that protrude from its wide open mouth and both of its hands are raised to its cheeks, like the previous mermaid. Its lower body is covered in scales, and there appear to be the vestiges of fins on its chest, as well as a pair of nipple-like protuberances."

This last photo shows the mummy of a mermaid from the Shinto sect headquartered in the city of Fujinomiya near the base of Mt. Fuji. It was 170 cm in height and is the oldest and largest mermaid mummy, with 1,400 years for its age. The mummy has webbed hands with sharp claws and a 20-cm long tail.

The world's population will reach seven billion on October 31 2011, says the UN

2011-10-21T20:36:00.001-07:00

The world's population is set to reach seven billion, with the United Nations Population Fund predicting that the milestone will be hit on October 31, 2011.

Above, already the second most populous country, with 1.2 billion people, India is expected to overtake China around 2030 when its population soars to an estimated 1.6 billion.

Hyderabad Kundanbhag

2011-10-20T01:31:00.000-07:00

Kundanbhag is a nice posh area in Hyderabad. In a bunglow a family reside consisting of Mother & 2 daughters. Father left the family coz he knew all of them were MAD. They used 2 go to the garbage bin in their santro car daily which is just 2mins walk from there house to throw it. St.Francis degree college is located close by 2 this house. Hostels, temples all around. Bushes have grown longer then the doors. daily night all the members used to walk around the house with candles in hand & blood bottles. they used to spill blood drop by drop & used to walk take rounds of the house inside the compound. No1 works in the family. No1 earns. No newspapers. No cable connection. Only electricity they paid some 2--3years bill in advance. This is what people saw & concluded.
1 day a robber wanted 2 try his hand in that house. when he stepped in the house through the window he saw the dead bodies of the family laid on the bed. He got scared & informed the police. After investigations & medical checkups what was revealed took a shit out of the people around, the police & the entire city. THEY WERE DEAD 6MONTHS BEFORE. then who used 2 drive the car??? who used 2 walk around the house??? whose blood was it???
the house which was beautifully constructed from outside..was unpainted inside.it was totally brick. the hostel gals, the college gals there, the neighbors everybody SHELL SHOCKED!!
No1 knows the truth. 2day no1 dares to go to that place at nite. No1 is renovating the house. No1 is demolishing it either.
Its such a shock & was the talk of the town for quite some time in 2003. ONE OF THE HAUNTED HOUSES OF HYDERABAD

Any hyderabadi is here..who know bout this??

Babies understand fairness by 15 months

2011-10-19T06:22:00.000-07:00

Babies as young as 15 months can recognise when someone is being treated unfairly and respond by being generous towards them, scientists have found.

Babies as young as 15 months can recognise when someone is being treated unfairly Photo: Alamy

As well as being able to tell whether people are being treated even handedly, babies just over a year old are capable of basic altruism, or trying to help others even at their own expense.

Being able to sense that a situation is unequal made babies more willing to share their favourite toys, a new study found, suggesting that fairness and altruism are linked.

Previous research had shown that two-year-olds could help others and that at about six or seven children have a sense of fairness, but a new experiment indicated that the traits may develop even earlier.

Researchers tested 47 babies by showing each a video in which a researcher unevenly distributed food between two people, followed by a similar film in which the food was shared equally.

Babies pay greater attention when something surprises them and the scientists found that overall they spent more time looking at the screen if one recipient had been given more food than the other.

Jessica Sommerville, of the University of Washington in the US, who led the study, said: "Our findings show that these norms of fairness and altruism are more rapidly acquired than we thought.

"The infants expected an equal and fair distribution of food, and they were surprised to see one person given more crackers or milk than the other."

In a second experiment, where the babies were given two toys and a researcher indicated they would like to have one, two thirds of the infants offered to share.

Some 92 per cent of those who offered up their preferred toy, named "altruistic sharers", had also spent more time looking at the unfair distribution of food during the earlier video.

In contrast 86 per cent of those shared their least preferred toy – dubbed "selfish sharers" – had been more surprised and paid more attention when food was divided fairly.

Writing in the PLoS ONE journal, the researchers said this showed the altruistic sharers had been sensitive to the unfairness of the food video, while the selfish sharers showed almost the opposite effect.

Premier League team reads players' DNA

2011-10-19T06:07:00.000-07:00

Footballers at a Premier League team have had their DNA analysed so that their manager can discover how injury-prone they are, according to reports.

Arsenal's Bacary Sagna lays on the floor after picking up an injury during the Barclays Premier League match at White Hart Lane Photo: PA

Using swabs taken from the players' mouths last year, scientists built up a profile of 100 genes which play a key role in athletic performance and the likelihood of suffering injuries.

Officials at the club requested the tests after a breakthrough by British researchers shed new light on genetic variations which influence the chance of rupturing tendons.

Genetic profiles could help managers reduce their players' chance of getting injured, for example through better-informed training schedules and squad selection.

But there are fears the information could also be used to identify and freeze out the most injury-prone players, it was reported.

Marios Kambouris, the Yale University geneticist who conducted the tests, said he was told neither the identity of the players nor the club.

He told he have no idea which players they were but there were good genes in there, things which would positively affect their performance, such as their ability to have better aerobic respiration, which would give them more stamina on the pitch."

DNA from the swabs was applied to a testing device called a biochip, which contained all the mutant genes the researchers were hoping to identify.

Genes from the players carrying the same variations joined themselves to those already on the chip, and by scanning them with a laser beam the scientists were able to read their genetic code and calculate how injury-prone they were.

Did Hitler escape to Argentina ?

2011-10-19T05:33:00.000-07:00

Hitler didn’t kill himself in Berlin, claims book

A new book has claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did not kill himself in Berlin in 1945 but ended his days in Argentina. British journalist Gerrard Williams said he and co-author Simon Dunstan found an ôoverwhelming amount of evidenceö to suggest Hitler died an old man in South america

Many historians say that the Nazi leader died in his Berlin bunker in 1945 - but Williams claims their research, looking at newly de-classified documents and forensic tests, challenges this.

“We didn’t want to re-write history, but the evidence we’ve discovered about the escape of Adolf Hitler is just too overwhelming to ignore,” Williams told Sky News.

“There is no forensic evidence for his, or Eva Braun’s deaths, and the stories from the eyewitnesses to their continued survival in Argentina are compelling,” he claimed

The book titled ‘Grey Wolf: The Escape Of Adolf Hitler’ claims the Fuhrer and his mistress Eva Braun were secretly flown out of Germany in April 1945 and taken to fascist-controlled Argentina.

It is alleged Hitler lived in the country for 17 years, initially raising his two daughters, until his death in 1962.The book also accuses US intelligence of being complicit in the scam in return for access to Nazi war technology.

“Stalin, Eisenhower and Hoover of the FBI all knew there was no proof of him dying in the bunker,” Williams told the paper.

He added that the book’s new findings prove the ‘Hitler’ skull fragments held by the Russians are actually that of a young woman.

Alien fossil discovered in Egyptian tomb

2011-10-18T07:25:00.001-07:00

EGYPT – The mummified body of a supposed alien was found in an ancient pyramid. The creature, measuring around 1.5 and 1.6 meters was discovered during exploration of the monument, dating from Dynasty Senusret II (1897 BC - 1878 BC). The corpse was buried with great care along with several strange objects. The archaeological museum was unable to identify the parts.

According to Egyptian sources, the alien mummy was discovered by Dr. Viktor Lubek, tchecolosvaco, a retired professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The archaeologist has identified a hidden chamber while exploring the pyramid containing the remains of the queen. At the site, have also been found mixtures of gold and clay, and remaining a sort of clothing covering the body of the creature. The news was published on the website "paranormales.org". The objects in the tomb are made of a synthetic material, very durable and unknown by scientists.

The Place Locals In Uzbekistan Call The Door To Hel

2011-10-18T02:17:00.000-07:00

There is place in Uzbekistan that is known by locals as "The Door to Hell". It is located outside of small town of Darvaz. It is literally a massive pit that has been burning night and day for the past 35 years. So where did it come from? Well, 35 years ago, a team of geologists was drilling for gas. During the course of their drilling, the team discovered an absolutely gigantic underground cavern that was filled with gas. The team of geologists reportedly decided to ignite the entrance so that no poisonous gas could escape from the hole. Since then, the hole has burned for 35 years straight without stopping. The truth is that nobody really knows how many tons of gas have been burned over the course of 35 years or how much gas is left to be burned. It just keeps burning and burning and burning and burning.

The reality is that this hole is really creepy and it is easy to see why it is called the door to hell. Just check out this video....

Purple Snow In Russia

2011-10-18T02:11:00.000-07:00

Some lucky people living in southern Russia got to experience something very unusual the other day - purple snow. Yes, you read that correctly. Purple snow. Russian scientists who have analyzed it believe that the unusual colored snow is the result a massive dust cyclone from Africa entering the upper atmosphere and then mixing with snow clouds over Russia. Or something like that. In any event, the scientists say that the snow is perfectly safe but they do not recommend eating the purple snow. Do people in Russia regularly do that? Perhaps with all of the purple snow some Russians might get confused and think that it is raining ice cream. In any event, this is truly one of the most unusual weather events that we have seen in the world lately. Russian scientists may think that they know what caused the purple snow, but as for us, we still plan to label it as one of the world's great unexplained mysteries.

Why Won't The Governments Of The World Disclose What They Know About UFOs? Why Won't The Governments Of The World Disclose What They Know About UFOs?

2011-10-18T02:01:00.000-07:00

One of the greatest unexplained mysteries of the world is why the major governments around the globe just will not come out and openly disclose what they know about UFOs. For decades it has seemed as though governments all around the world have been desperate to keep a lid on this thing, although a vast array of public officials have made comments on their own. So how much longer can this charade last? How many thousands of UFO sightings are needed before people admit that there issomething going on out there. Why all the fear and secrecy? Many UFO enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting the day when "official disclosure" will come. As if the governments of the world announcing that UFOs are real and that they have been in contact with aliens will somehow validate what they have believed all this time. But "official disclosure" will not make UFOs any more real. They clearly do exist. They clearly are out there. But for some people they will not be completely real until they get that "official disclosure" from government.

Posted below is a trailer for an extraordinary new documentary film entitled"The Day Before Disclosure". This documentary explores the evidence for UFOs and examines why the governments of the world have been holding back on these issues....

there are also some troubling questions for those who are UFO enthusiasts. After all, if the "aliens" that are operating these UFOs have good intentions, then why not openly make themselves known?

Why do they have to sneak around so much?

Why not make open contact with us?

Why abduct people and perform experiments on them?

Could it be that these "aliens" are not who they really say that they are?

Could it be that these "aliens" are actually a threat?

Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts....

Alien fireball’ blamed for wrecking Argentine town

2011-10-17T11:50:00.001-07:00

'Fireball' hits Argentinean town. (Video from YouTube, Uploaded by luckymauro on 26 Sep 2011)

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Local people are blaming a ‘fireball’ for causing mayhem on the edge of Buenos Aires, wrecking several buildings, killing a woman and injuring many others. The cause of the powerful blast has not been identified and remains enveloped in mystery.

An explosion in Monte Grande, a small town on the outskirts of Argentina's capital, has ruined two homes, a business and several cars, killed a woman and injured nine people on Monday.

The consequences of the “blast” would have been even graver had it occurred later on during the busiest period of the day, said local official Fernando Gray, according to El Dia newspaper.

Eyewitnesses claim to have seen a ball of fire fall from the sky around the time of the explosion. Evidence came in the form of a film on YouTube, uploaded by a user named luckymauro on Monday, which showed a bright fire-like trace in the sky which has no match to possible gas explosions on the ground.

The “impressive phenomenon”, as the author of the uploaded film calls it, was seen from points as distant as the Chilean city of Temuco and Mar del Plata on the Atlantic Ocean.

“We began to detect a smell like gunpowder,” recalled one person in the area as reported by C5N news channel.

“There is no explanation for what happened,” claimed another witness, Cayetano, according to Radio 10. “A neighbor ran because he saw a blue fireball falling,” the local added.

An operation has been launched to test the area for radioactivity and unknown materials. Provincial justice and security minister Ricardo Casal said experts were “evaluating all theories, from an explosion to something strange that came from the sky,” Associated Press news agency reported.

Though no evidence of a crater has been found, speculation is growing that the blast may have been caused by falling debris from the NASA satellite that was due to crash to Earth last weekend.

Local authorities in Monte Grande requested a confirmation from the national Air Force about any possible phenomena of magnetic or other nature being registered in the area.

However NASA in its turn said its satellite – which fell to Earth sometime on Saturday – landed well clear of South America.

Government officials tend to believe the cause of the blast was far more prosaic than the rumored fireball from the sky. More likely, they say, is that its source was simply a poorly-connected domestic gas canister.

The real cause of the blast in the Argentinean town has yet to be determined. Meanwhile, the author of the video showing the mysterious sky object changed his story under questioning and is now charged with providing false testimony.

The woman with 20 personalities in one body

2011-10-17T11:45:00.000-07:00

The woman with 20 personalities in one body: An anorexic teen and a boy who writes in Latin. They all take over Kim's mind in a case that's baffled experts

The entire class fell silent as the teacher, Mrs Baldwin, marched across the room. ‘Kim Noble, stand up!’ she barked, grabbing the bewildered five-year-old’s arm. ‘What did you do that for?’

Split personalities: Kim Noble has Dissociative Identity Disorder which means she switches from one character to another without warning

The little girl looked down at her blouse and skirt. They were covered in splodges of black paint.

‘Of course, the teacher was exasperated when I denied doing it,’ recalls Kim, now 51 and with a daughter of her own, ‘because she’d seen me smear it over myself. But as far as I was concerned, it was somebody else who’d done it.’

What Kim couldn’t have known then was that she was suffering from a rare condition called Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) — more commonly known as ‘split personality disorder’ — and that over the next four decades, her mind would regularly switch from one character to another without warning.

The most consistent of Kim’s personalities is called Patricia, and she is the narrator of an intriguing new book called All Of Me, which attempts to piece together Kim’s extraordinary, chaotic life.

In fact, Kim Noble no longer really exists. She explains: ‘To most of the outside world I am Kim Noble, and I’ll answer to that name. But the truth is her mind shattered into fragments before she could even talk, leaving numerous alter egos to take over.’

Today, there are more than 20 alter egos who can appear at any given moment. Alongside the sensible, no-nonsense Patricia, there’s Abi, who’s single and desperately looking for love, Bonny, a mother with a young daughter, and Salome, a devout Roman Catholic. There’s a little boy called Diabalus who only writes in Latin, and a depressed twenty-something called Ken.

Truly, this is a story that stretches credulity to its limit. But Kim’s extraordinary case has been studied closely by therapists and doctors, who are convinced she is not a fantasist and is genuinely in the grip of forces beyond her conscious control.

'Normal for me is driving to the shops and returning home with my boot full of groceries I didn’t want... It's opening my wardrobe and discovering clothes I hadn't bought, or taking delivery of pizzas I didn’t order.'

An alter ego called Patricia has been her dominant personality now for more than six years. Patricia runs the household, takes primary care of daughter Aimee, now 14, and does her best to make sure mother and daughter live a normal family life.

But even on a good day, two or three other personas will take over completely and do whatever they want while in control of Kim’s body.

When a switch happens, it’s literally as though someone else slides into Kim’s skin. Her face twitches as the eloquent, rational Patricia gives way to mischievous Judy, a self-conscious 15-year-old who often appears at mealtimes. Judy is always bemused by the frumpy clothes she is wearing and immediately wants to get changed.

‘Sometimes, I can end up wearing five different outfits in one morning,’ explains Patricia.

‘Normal for me is driving to the shops and returning home with my boot full of groceries I didn’t want,’ she writes. ‘It’s opening my wardrobe and discovering clothes I hadn’t bought, or taking delivery of pizzas I didn’t order.

‘Coming back after a personality switch is like waking up from a nap. It takes a few seconds of blinking and looking around to get my bearings, to work out who I’m with, where I am, and what I’m in the middle of doing,’ she says.

‘I could disappear from my sofa and wake up at a pub, or a supermarket, or even driving a car without a clue where I’m heading.’

Adoring: Kim Noble with her daughter Aimee, whom she claims she has no memory of giving birth too. Aimee even has her own favourites for her mother's different personalities

Usually, in those suffering from DID, the dominant personalities have some awareness of the other characters: maybe they hear voices or they can see what is going in even when they’re not in control.

But with Kim’s condition, there is no ‘seepage’ between the personalities. They operate independently of each other — sharing the same body but none of the same experiences.

Hence the incident with the paint at school. Patricia believes that another more mischievous character threw the paint, and she was left to pick up the pieces with no knowledge of what had gone on just seconds before.

Most experts agree that DID is triggered by severe trauma, and it seems as though Kim’s mind constantly compartmentalises itself to cope with painful life experiences.

Some of the characters seemed to be inextricably linked to episodes in Kim’s life — even though she has no memory of them. Take Dawn, who is looking for her baby — an echo, surely, of the traumatic moment in Kim’s life when her baby was taken away at birth by social services because of her history of mental health problems.

Most experts agree that DID is triggered by severe trauma, and it seems as though Kim’s mind constantly compartmentalises itself to cope with painful life experiences.

Others are arrested in time. Like the teenage Judy, who has an eating disorder — just as Noble did when she was a young woman.

But it is Ria, a 12-year-old girl, who probably holds the key to what triggered this bizarre disorder in the first place. Ria continually paints disturbing pictures showing children being bullied and abused.

Kim, who has no recollection of any abuse, may never know the truth. It may be just too painful for her to comprehend. But it seems certain that she suffered great trauma in very early childhood.

Kim undergoes intense therapy sessions in order to face up to what has happened in her life, and to reintegrate the personalities so that she can finally live as one person.

But for now, it is Kim’s rational self, Patricia, who is running the show, and she copes by viewing the other personalities as permanent house guests. She leaves notes for them, and several have email accounts so she can contact them that way.

She has even managed to draw some positives from her disorder, for today she is a successful artist, exhibiting the (very different) works produced by a number of her alter egos.

Her daughter Aimee, meanwhile, in the way of children, has grown up to regard her mother’s various personalities as entirely normal. So much so, she even has her favourites.

Aimee was taken into care for six months when she was a baby, but the psychotherapists treating Kim helped her to appeal against this decision on the grounds that none of the personalities was a threat to the child. Since then, Kim has been able to raise her daughter with the support of therapists and social workers.

Painting her thoughts: Kim has drawn some positives from her disorder and is now a successful artist, exhibiting the works produced by a number of her alter egos

When Kim was a child growing up in Croydon, South London, life was confusing and frightening as she was constantly switching between different personalities. Her parents James and Dorothy Noble, who worked in the computer industry, seemed to have largely ignored her bizarre behaviour, putting it down to naughtiness.

But when Kim hit puberty, other far more disturbed alter egos starting making regular appearances — such as Rebecca, who was suicidal, Sonia, who was anorexic, and Judy the bulimic teenager who binged on shredded paper.

Kim was first referred to a psychiatrist at 14, and spent much of her late teens in various homes for ‘troubled’ teenagers until she was mistakenly diagnosed with schizophrenia in her early 20s.

'Aimee is not just my number one priority. All the personalities love her - which is why Christmas and birthdays are such fun. It’s not unusual for Aimee to get presents from a dozen of us.'

Kim was sectioned, put on strong antipsychotic drugs and told she was likely to remain in a mental hospital for at least the next six years.

But she instinctively knew it wasn’t the right diagnosis — and, sure enough, her mind came to the rescue by allowing another alter ego, a bolshie young woman called Hayley, to become dominant. Hayley appealed against the ward of court order and won.

Once out of hospital, Kim’s problems were far from over, however. For the next few years, three dominant characters were competing for control of her body — Hayley, the feisty one, Bonny, the maternal one, and Patricia, the sensible one — and depending on which alter ego was in control, Kim found herself living in totally different parts of London.

This part of her life sounds almost too far-fetched to be true. But Noble claims she has since found letters addressed to Hayley and Bonny, and that at one point she was dividing her life between three different homes.

It sounds implausible, and even Noble cannot convincingly explain the logistics; but then we are not talking about an ordinary life.

Some may struggle to believe that Kim’s personalities have no awareness of one another, but Graeme Galton, a consultant psychotherapist at the Clinic for Dissociative Studies in London, says it is perfectly possible.

He has never treated Kim but has encountered patients with her condition. He says: ‘Dissociative identity disorder is a complex post-traumatic stress disorder. The purpose, psychologically, is to protect the mind when a traumatic event has taken place.

‘To do this, the mind splits off the memory of the trauma into a separate identity. That means that, in its most original and true form, there is an amnesiac (memory) barrier between different personality states, although some people can develop flashbacks or nightmares.

‘People may just have two or three personalities, but I work with some individuals who have an enormous number. Sometimes people who have experienced multiple trauma, especially as children, have separate identities for every traumatic incident.’

Noble’s personal life became even more complicated when she fell pregnant. She believes the father was Patricia’s on-off boyfriend — but insists she has no memory of the pregnancy, or the birth in 1997.

'Trying to tell this story when, for a lot of my life, I was only around for a fraction of a day at a time, has been hard.'

Again, it seems that her inbuilt defence mechanism kicked in — this time in order to protect her from the pain of her child being removed from her care within hours of the birth. This traumatic event is remembered by only one personality, a troubled woman called Dawn.

Another personality, Bonny, then took over, and Bonny considered herself to be Aimee’s mother when the child was small. Kim was only able to piece all this together years later, with the help of therapists, when she was finally diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder in the mid 1990s.

‘From the moment I (Patricia) became the dominant personality, I promised I would discover as much as possible about the life — or lives — of Kim Noble. After so much confusion, I needed to have the facts, however unpalatable.

‘But trying to tell this story when, for a lot of my life, I was only around for a fraction of a day at a time, has been hard.’ She began to put together the pieces of the puzzle with the help of trauma therapist Dr Evelyn Laine.

‘It was Dr Laine who told me about a woman called Hayley and another called Bonny, two personalities that had previously been dominant and whom she’d met in therapy sessions.

‘I recognised both names instantly. I’d seen letters addressed to both at my house, and had wondered who they were. She also helped me to face up to another truth — that Aimee was my own daughter.’

Healing powers: Kim has Aimee to thank for her paintings, as the pair used to do it together. Now 13 of her alter egos paint

The little girl was returned to Kim Noble’s care at six months, and has, with close monitoring from social workers, remained with her since.

‘Aimee saw from a very early age all the different personalities coming out of Mama,’ says Kim. ‘She learnt, almost subliminally, to accept each and every one of them as a person in their own right.’

Confusing though it may be at times, Kim stresses that there are unexpected benefits too. ‘Aimee is not just my number one priority. All the personalities love her — which is why Christmas and birthdays are such fun. It’s not unusual for Aimee to get presents from a dozen of us.

‘They all shop for gifts themselves. I can’t complain, even when I see my money disappearing. After all, it’s Kim Noble’s name on the credit cards, not mine. They’ve as much right as anyone to spend it.’

It was thanks to Aimee that Kim discovered the healing powers of painting. What started as a fun thing to do with her daughter proved to be a powerful way for many of her personas to express themselves.

Thirteen of Kim’s alter egos now paint, and Kim often wakes up in the morning to discover a new work she has no recollection of creating.

‘By introducing painting into our lives, I’ve actively helped to steady the ship,’ she says.

‘According to Dr Laine, our lives have never been less chaotic. Painting seems to provide an alternative outlet for some of those with suicidal thoughts, and in other cases has just made the rest of us strong enough to resist.

‘And Dr Laine says Aimee couldn’t be in better hands. She was even voted Head Girl at her school.’

Kim, meanwhile, is winning plaudits for her art. ‘Our first exhibition at a gallery in Hampstead was such an emotional experience. Seeing all our paintings hanging side by side took my breath away.

‘I realised that part of every personality was up there. It was the nearest thing to integration we will get.’

T. REX TEENS PACKED ON THE POUNDS

2011-10-17T11:23:00.001-07:00

Johnny Cash might have said, life wasn't easy for a dinosaur named SUE. She grew up quick and she grew up mean, packing on nearly 4000 pounds a year as a teenager.

"We estimate they [Tyrannosaurs] grew as fast as 3,950 pounds per year (1790 kg) during the teenage period of growth, which is more than twice the previous estimate," said John R. Hutchinson of The Royal Veterinary College, London in a press release.

Modeling the teenage growth spurts of an ancient mega-predator was made possible by comparing computer models of smaller, younger Tyrannosaurs with those of full grown adults, including the tyrant lizard queen, SUE, the largest T. rex skeleton yet discovered.

The new models also found that the 42 foot-long SUE may have been much heavier than earlier estimates. She tipped the scales at approximately 9 tons, according to the computer model.

"We knew she was big but the 30 percent increase in her weight was unexpected," said co-author Peter Makovicky, curator of dinosaurs at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

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Hutchinson, Makovicky and a team of researchers used 3-D scans of five mounted T. rex skeletons to create computer models of the long dead predators. The computer models allowed them to estimate the weights of the dinosaurs in a range of health conditions, from dinos on diets to tubby Tyrannosaurs.

"These models range from the severely undernourished through the overly obese, but they are purposely chosen extremes that bound biologically realistic values" says study co-author Vivian Allen of the Royal Veterinary College.

"The real advantage to our method is that the models can be adjusted to accommodate the variation that is inherent in nature, so we don't have to pick an arbitrary result, but rather deal with more meaningful ranges of results," added co-author Karl T. Bates of the University of Liverpool.

Reconstructing the Cretaceous era killers using scans of mounted skeletons improved on earlier methods of estimating dino weights.

"Previous methods for calculating mass relied on scale models, which can magnify even minor errors, or on extrapolations from living animals with very different body plans from dinosaurs. We overcame such problems by using the actual skeletons as a starting point for our study," Makovicky said.

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The reconstruction of SUE's skeleton may have been a bit different than she was in life, but Makovicky doesn't think this threw off their calculations.

"SUE's vertebrae were compressed by 65 million years of fossilization, which forced a more barrel-chested reconstruction" says Makovicky.

"Nine tons is the minimum estimate we arrived at using a very skinny body form, so even if we made the chest smaller, adding a more realistic amount of flesh would make up for the weight," Makovicky said.

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T. rex packed on the pounds as a teenager, but that was about on par with other dinosaur growth rates.

"Our new growth rate value actually erases a deficit between the previous growth rate estimate and what is expected for a dinosaur of this size," said Makovicky.

Putting on all that weight slowed a T. rex down.

"The total limb musculature of an adult T. rex probably was relatively larger than that of a living elephant, rhinoceros, or giraffe, partly because of its giant tail and hip muscles. Yet the muscles of the lower leg were not as proportionately large as those of living birds, and those muscles seem to limit the speed at which living animals can run. Our study supports the relative consensus among scientists that peak speeds around 10-25 miles per hour (17-40 kph) were possible for big tyrannosaurs," said Hutchinson.

The research was published in the journal, PLoS ONE.

Swift white UFO, sphere or orb chases boat off coast of Sweden [video] Swift white UFO, sphere or orb chases boat off coast of Sweden [video] - National unexplained phenomena

2011-10-17T11:16:00.000-07:00

On Saturday, September 17, 2011, a swiftly moving white orb was spottted chasing a boat in the ocean off the coast of Sweden. It is unclear which specific body of water was the site of this amazing event. The North Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean are two possibilities. Giavedoni Eric is responsible for sharing amazing footage of the object in a video called "UFO? Submarine? Unusual object off the coast of Sweden" that he posted on UFOs & Aliens,Paranormal... EriGIA007's Channel.

Of course, the object isn't technically a UFO since there is no evidence the unidentified object was flying. Instead, the perfectly round bright white object was moving fluidly through the water and keeping pace with a small boat.

According to 52-year-old Giavedoni Eric of France: "The unusual white object itself, and quickly moving in the ocean off the coast of Sweden, filmed on video. Most of it resembles a large float or buoy attached to a rope and trailing behind the boat."

Loch Ness Monster

2011-10-17T05:46:00.001-07:00

The Loch Ness Monster is a prehistoric creature thought to inhabit the Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. As lake monsters go, Scotland has tales of a fair few, with Nessie gaining the most popularity of all on the back of anecdotal evidence.

Nessie first hit the headlines in 1933 when a story was published in the Inverness Courier. The report quoted a Londoner who had visited a few weeks earlier as seeing: "a most extraordinary form of animal... the nearest approach to a dragon or pre-historic animal that I have ever seen in my life."

After that, more sightings were reported and this unexplained phenomena hit international headlines. That same year, one motorcyclist claimed to nearly hit Nessie late one night as it lumbered across the road and slid back into the loch. Soon, apparent photos of the Loch Ness Monster were published.

In 1960, an aeronautical engineer filmed a hump crossing the water in Loch Ness in a powerful wake unlike that of a boat.

Years later, digital enhancement of the footage revealed what seemed to be the rear body, flippers, and two more humps of a plesiosaur-like body. The technician said: "Before I saw the film, I thought the Loch Ness Monster was a load of rubbish. Having done the enhancement, I'm not so sure."

There's no doubt that the story of Nessie has drawn huge tourist interest to the famed Loch Ness. But should it be considered one of the genuine unexplained mysteries of the world? While some people believe the monster is a living plesiosaur, New Scientistpoints out that such a creature could not physically lift its head up out of the water like the photos and anecdotes suggest.

The most compelling evidence of its non-existence is that the loch is a mere 10,000 years old - and was frozen solid for about 20,000 years before that. For a prehistoric monster claimed to be millions of years old, the numbers just don't add up.

The Belmez Faces

2011-10-17T05:35:00.001-07:00

In 1971, in the small Spanish village of Belmez, Maria Pereira claimed a human face spontaneously appeared on her cement kitchen floor. It wasn't long before she destroyed the floor and replaced it - and a new face promptly appeared.

More and more faces continued to appear on the floor of Maria Pereira's kitchen, attracting thousands of visitors every day. Some were male, some female, some large, and some small. In time, she discovered that the house, built around 1830, apparently stood above a graveyard used by the Romans, Spanish Muslims and then Medieval Christians.

But did Maria Pereira just paint the faces herself?

If so, she never benefited financially from all the attention. She lived a simple life in that same house and eventually died in 2004.

Paranormal fans who just love these unexplained mysteries suggest that the faces were manifested on the floor by telekinesis. This notion was based on the claim that the expressions on their faces used to change with the mood of Maria Pereira.

Of course, scientists have found it possible to analyze the molecular changes in the whitewash and prove that some fakery was involved. Many now believe that the paintings were actually created by Maria's son, Diego Pereira.