Fray Diego de Landa wrote of how Maya books, or codices, of “ancient matters and sciences” had been burned because they contained “superstition”. A more four codices survived, only one of which, the Grolier Codex, has remained in the Americas. Link
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Britain is still reeling from the heaviest snow for 20 years with more travel problems and the closure of thousands of schools. Follow live coverage of the disruption as the snow heads north and the south...
created by Sanjay Jha | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 188 views | 7 recommendations | 1 comment
Stephen J. Cannell's next Shane Scully mystery novel On The Grind is due to come out January 2009, but he has an On The Grind web site up now. It has videos, character profiles, a contest and some free excerpts...
When the world's most powerful subatomic particlecollider begins gathering data this summer, it will be a majormilestone for a number of University of Washington scientists. The UW, led by professors Henry Lubatti inphysics and Colin Daly in...
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Certainly a dig with the world watching for clues of one of the 7 wonders of the World to unravel. "LONDON - Some of England's most sacred soil is being disturbed for the first time in more than four...
created by Barry ORegan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 433 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
"Immersive Experience Will Draw Adventure-seekers of All Ages into a Surreal Dimension of Alternative Reality
Empire Interactive today announced that MYST, the popular adventure-based video game, will immerse North American fans in a new experience created specially for the...
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"Speculation raged about what caused the crater, found in the Peruvian town of Carancas, near the Bolivian border, with a hydrothermal explosion of gas and even a downed spy satellite offered up as culprits. It...
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"Forty years after the murder of Brighton schoolboy Keith Lyon on the Sussex downs, police said yesterday they finally have the DNA which could lead them to his killer.
The officer leading the hunt for those responsible for the death of the musically precocious 12-year-old...
Unfortunately, it has been over two years since Natalee Holloway vanished after last being seen with Joran van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers in Aruba during her high school graduation trip. Within the past 24...
created by Michelle Says So | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 27732 views | 7 recommendations | 54 comments
"Here is an item that is really troubling, in that, we here on Earth do not know what may get to our human population first - famine (lack of food) or disease (animal flu crossover).
The bee populations...
created by Edmund Jenks | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 675 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Following up earlier posts, here is a new development in the honeybee die-off mystery. Scientists are positing that honeybees are refusing to return to hives when a mobile phone is nearby, leading to the mass abandonments that characterize Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD),...
"#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
Sources:
Buzzflash.com, July 18, 2005
Title: “Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story”
Author: Elliot D....
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"Even before Alexander the Great, Macedonia evoked power from which to steer clear. When the ancient Greeks held their
Olympic Games they forbade the participation of the mountainous neighbor to the north because the hunter-warriors there were too strong, too fast, too good...
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