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A Victorian couple endured a health nightmare after tiny worms with teeth began eating through their bodies.
It is the first time humans have been infected by the parasite in Australia.
It is believed the couple became ill after eating a fish they caught on a WA camping holiday.
Alfred hospital infectious disease physician Andrew Fuller said that Read the rest of this entry »
A notched rectangle and Z-rod and a triple-disk cauldron (without the usual cross bar) decorate the back of an eighth-century cross slab in the churchyard at Aberlemno. A battle scene is below the symbols. The hole penetrating the stone is a modern addition, reason unknown.
Picture this: The year is a.d. 610. You are a farmer in Scotland, walking along a path as you search for your lost cow. Suddenly you come upon a large rock standing on end alongside the path. It has three images carved on it. The top picture is a fish, below that is something that looks like a tuning fork lying on its side, and at the bottom is a hand mirror and a double-sided comb. You know what message these three carvings convey.
Now, imagine this: The year is 2004. You are a tourist vacationing in Scotland. As you drive through the northeastern part of the country, you see a tall stone standing upright along the roadside. It has three figures carved on it. The top image is two connected discs with a backwards Z bisecting it, below that is a snake also bisected with a Z, and at the bottom is a hand mirror. You have no idea what these symbols mean.
You decide to search out other similar stones, to try to discern a pattern. But you would need months to see them all, as Scotland has more than 250 of these things, known as Pictish symbol stones. Read the rest of this entry »
The original graphic that appeared with the September 1949 article on tree rings.
In a busy laboratory overlooking the limitless Arizona desert, a kindly looking, bespectacled old gentleman pores over a batch of charts crisscrossed with a maze of whirligigs serve only to confound the layman. Andrew Ellicott Douglass, Doctor of Sciences, and director of the Stewart Observatory, a unit of the University of Arizona at Tucson, is pursuing his favorite hobby of tree-ring research. As the world’s leading authority on the subject, Doctor Douglass is eminently Read the rest of this entry »
An ariel view of a mound site.
Our schools are very deficient in educating their students about the human prehistory of North America. For example, most Americans are unaware that their predecessors here created an art form on a colossal scale unmatched anywhere else in the world. More than 10,000 earth sculptures once spread from eastern Minnesota, throughout Wisconsin, down to northern Illinois, across Indiana, and into Ohio.
The majority of these effigy mounds were concentrated in Wisconsin. Sometimes over a thousand feet long, they were superbly molded images of birds, dogs, snakes, bears, panthers, buffalo, men, fish, and turtles, referred to by archaeologists as “biomorphs.” Others, known as “geoglyphs,” were abstract shapes, linear embankments, ridge-topped mounds, and conical pyramids. Still others were crafted into designs clearly representing beasts which the pre-Columbian Read the rest of this entry »
January 1954- Vol. 7, No. 1
SEVERAL prospectors, one day in the summer of 1877, were exploring a series of barren hills at the head of Spring Valley near Eureka, Nev. One of the men noticed a strange object protruding from a high ledge of rock nearby. He investigated and was amazed to find embedded about halfway in the smooth surface of the quartzite what appeared to be the leg-bone of a human being, broken off just above the knee. With the aid of his companions he dislodged the portion of rock that enclosed the bone. Carefully, with their mining tools, they removed the upper part of the encasement.
The rock was as hard as flint and the bones were solidly set in it. The quartzite was a dark red in color while the bones were almost black. When the last of the rocky covering had been removed, the leg-bone and those of the attached foot stood out perfectly, complete with all the toes, part of the femur, the patella or knee joint, tarsus metatarsus, and phalanges, the joint of each bone Read the rest of this entry »
Close-up view of the front of the Flemingville Stone.
I discovered the stone in the early autumn of 1995, in the cemetery behind the United Methodist Church in Flemingville, New York, while making a study of local history and antiquities. Strangely, just before this, the story of Joseph Smith’s youthful stone-gazing activities along the Susquehanna in the 1820s and his discovery in Palmyra, New York, of the supposed hieroglyphic plates of the Book of Mormon (1830), had been on my mind.
As Whitney R. Cross observes in his book The Burned-Over District, “Across the rolling hills of western New York and along the line of DeWitt Clinton’s famed canal, there stretched in the second quarter of the nineteenth century a ‘psychic highway.’” Weird visionary sects; the 1869 discovery of the supposedly fossilized stone man known as the “Cardiff Giant” in Onondaga County; the hundreds of unexplained stone cairns that dot the local hills; Read the rest of this entry »
An illustration depicting a scene similar to Mayan predictions.
Although the Mayan calendar’s termination due to occur on the morning of December 21, 2012, is receiving increasing attention as the world approaches this controversial Winter Solstice, less well known is a Native American tradition regarding that same date. Read the rest of this entry »
The authentic runestone found in Minnesota verifying the presence of Vikings in North America several hundred years before Columbus.
Scientists announced on December 10 that a controversial stone inscription has been authenticated as incontrovertible proof that 14th-century Europeans reached North America 130 years prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus.
“This is it,” declared Richard Nielsen, a Texas oil-industry engineer from Houston, during a press conference at the Kensington Community Center in Minnesota, “the smoking gun that proves it’s medieval.” Read the rest of this entry »
Pictured here is the water crystal produced by "thank you" in Japanese.
To the astonishment of university-trained skeptics, experiments in Japan have revealed the mystical properties of water. Beginning in the last decade of the 20th century, scientific investigations conducted under controlled conditions in a laboratory setting compared favorably with informal testing carried out by everyday people at home to demonstrate water’s hitherto unsuspected sensitivity to human thought.
Dr. Masaru Emoto is the discoverer of this amazing water phenomena.
Dr. Emoto
The first investigator to suspect this subtle relationship was Masaru Emoto, born in Yokohama, Japan, in 1943. Two years before he was certified as a Doctor of Alternative Medicine by the Open International University in 1992, he established his own research offices specifically to investigate the potential healing qualities of water. His IHM General Institute is a small, professionally staffed facility featuring state-of-the-art instruments, including an American-made magnetic resonance analyzer that accurately measures complimentary magnetic fields between two or more objects and aids in establishing a harmonic balance of energy as a basis for healing. Read the rest of this entry »
April 1953 - Vol 6, No 4
What does the name “Greenland” suggest to you? A huge island somewhere up near the North Pole covered with eternal ice and snow, the home of a few Eskimos who hunt seals and live on blubber? I think that this is the usual picture which the name conjures up in our minds, for many of us gained our impressions of the country from the well-known hymn which begins “From Greenland’s icy mountains, from India’s coral strand.” Many probably will be surprised to learn, therefore, that far from being an almost uninhabited icy desert, as long as a thousand years ago Greenland was a flourishing country, a self-governing republic, with a population of several thousand people who made their living by farming and hunting and trading with Europe and America. But so it was! Read the rest of this entry »
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