Video: Entrance to a 'Hidden Fortress' on Dover's Western Heights

The 'North Entrance' on Dover's Western Heights consists of a blocked-off road tunnel and the skeletal remains of two single-lane bridges. Hardly the stuff, one might think, to be worth risking life and limb for...

One-Room School Offers Valuable Lessons

Few can argue about the need to improve the nation’s public education system. Unfortunately, those in charge of making those improvements -- notably, President Barack Obama and members of the...

The Godiva Syndrome - psychic sump discovered

The phrase 'sent to Coventry' describes the action taken against someone when a group decides to shun and not talk to an individual that was part of their cultural group. Psychic researchers have now described a...

Sarah Palin hopes God will 'show her the door' to the White House

"Barack Obama hasn't even been inaugurated as president and Sarah Palin is already weighing up her chances of running against him in four years time.In what Fox News is billing as Palin's first post-election...

A Geography of Cancer

A long article that gives us a 'geography of cancer' - that one word 'cancer' is used to describe many different diseases with similarities in that they all include abnormal growth of cells. Here we get a run...

Geography of Women - [Funny]

Between the ages of 35 -40 a woman is like France. She is half destroyed after the war but still desirable........click to read more.

Hey McCain, where is Spain?

In an interview with Radio Caracol Miami, presidential candidate John McCain referred to his policy on U.S. relations with the "Latin American region" when asked what he would do to strengthen diplomatic ties with...

Google maps 'demolish British history'

Internet maps such as those made by Google ae demolishing British history by effectively not including historic monuments, battlefields etc on them according to super map maker Mary Spence. Traditional cartography...

Breast-Formation Clouds Appear in Hertfordshire,UK

Clouds in the scientific formation Mammatus - Latin for "boob-like"- have appeared in St. Albans, Herts.  St. Albans is a popular site for pilgrims...although not for the clouds (until now...) ...

Muslim Headscarves Test the Limits of German Tolerance

"For years, Germany's legal experts have been arguing about whether Muslim public officials have the right to wear headscarves. The issue raises difficult questions about religious tolerance and constitutional...

The geography of power - how communication has become a global currency and w...

A fascinating article appeared in a recent edition of Newsweek called Emotional Connections. The article describes an installation at the New York Museum of Modern Art called New York Talk Exchange. Here,...

Reuters: Ooops, I did it again!

Reuters demonstrates its knowledge of geography:""

Canada : Global warming may reduce cod stocks to Arctic

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Though Global warming may contribute to declining Cod Stocks, Over fishing from other countries who enter Canadian waters while Canadian fisherman watch...

On the Map this Morning...Camposampiero, Novi Iskur, Walsden, IJsselstein...R...

Ever since I began to look at where my readers come from, I have seen names of cities I did not know of. To illustrate my point, this morning Camposanpiero (near Padua, Italy) topped the list followed by Novi Iskur (or Novi Iskar, Bulgaria). At number 4, I found Walsden(West...

ARCTIC HEATWAVE STUNS RESEARCHERS: Climate Change Forecasts Being Revised

"THE ARCTIC Unprecedented warm temperatures in the High Arctic this past summer were so extreme that researchers with a Queen’s University-led climate change project have begun revising their forecasts."

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