THEE STRANGER NEWS (2019-07-25)

A Liberated Zone on the FM, to enhance alternative culture and cognitive freedom! 
Convened by Dr.G., a Renegade Illuminati, convening Thee Temple [link], for knowledge, whimsy, and inspiration. Everything is true, nothing is forbidden!

Broadcast Thursdays at 89.5 FM KZCT in Vallejo, California, to a worldwide audience.

Introductory track: Covenant - Ritual Noise [youtube.com/watch?v=dnlGEQ1NUsk]


Science & Futurism

* "Quadcopter + fireworks = DIY drone strike?" (2019-07-17, rt.com/news/464344-drone-video-fireworks-brazil/) [archive.is/80jD3]
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* "Deathbed Revelations: Extraterrestrial Spacecrafts Powered by Mind. Sounds Crazy, But Tech is Real" (2019-07-13, ancient-origins.net/news-science-space/scientists-unveil-mind-powered-helicopter-00522) [archive.is/HBbEG]
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* "Elon Musk Wants to Put Implants Into People's Brains Next Year; "We hope to have this aspirationally in a human patient before the end of next year," Musk said; Elon has invested around US$100 million in Neuralink since its founding in 2016" (2019-07-18, telesurenglish.net/news/Elon-Musk-Implants-Brains-Neuralink-20190718-0021.html) [archive.is/dRK2u]
* " ‘Monkey controlled computer with his brain’: Musk reveals brain-reading Neuralink implant" (2019-07-17, rt.com/news/464373-elon-musk-unveils-neuralink-implant/) [archive.is/DuU0U]
* "Total Recall: Elon Musk's Neuralink Startup Livestreams Major Progress on Brain-Computer Interfaces; Speaking at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Mr Musk said that his startup, which he founded in 2017, aimed to fight the “existential threat” of artificial intelligence outpacing human intelligence" (2019-07-17, sputniknews.com/science/201907171076272808-total-recall-elon-musks-neuralink-startup-livestreams-major-progress-on-brain-computer-interfaces/) [archive.is/5tKJJ]
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* "New nanoparticles deliver gene editing tool with higher efficiency" (2019-07-17, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/17/c_138234427.htm) [archive.is/RCtZ0]
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* "Google's Engineering Director: Ordinary People May Make Use of Quantum Computers in 10 Years; Moscow is currently hosting an international conference on quantum technologies (ICQT) taking place from 15 to 19 July. The convention takes place twice a year and gathers together the leading specialists on quantum technology from all over the world" (2019-07-19, sputniknews.com/interviews/201907191076288633-googles-engineering-director-ordinary-people-may-make-use-of-quantum-computers-in-10-years/) [archive.is/9ahUp]
* "Aussie scientists improve on central building blocks of quantum computing" (2019-07-18, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/18/c_138237345.htm) [archive.is/oIy7F]

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Space News


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* "Observatory in Spain discovers Earth-like planets; More than 2,000 meters up a little-explored mountain range in the southern Spanish province of Almeria stands the largest telescope in mainland Europe" (2019-07-19, presstv.com/Detail/2019/07/19/601328/Spain-observatory-discover-Earth-like-planets) [archive.is/DY7uk]
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* "Researcher Reveals Strikingly Unusual Feature of ‘Alien Signals' ; Researchers have stumbled upon evidence pinpointing that FRBs, one of the least studied and most enigmatic phenomena in space, discovered only in 2007, do not necessarily (or perhaps not at all) originate from such cataclysmic events as the formation of neutron stars — the remnant cores of collapsed giant stars — or black holes merging together" (2019-07-17, sputniknews.com/science/201907171076276642-fast-radio-burst-riddle-researcher-reveals-strikingly-unusual-feature-of-alien-signals/) [archive.is/EaxHS]

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Ancient News

* "Modern Humans Interbred With At Least Five Archaic Human Groups" (2019-07-18, ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/archaic-human-0012313) [archive.is/oN0d4]
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* "The Azerbaijan Connection Challenging Euro-Centric Theories of Migration" (1995-04, by Dr. Thor Heyerdahl, via Azerbaijan International) [archive.is/vzyW4#selection-1661.0-1679.1]
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* "Neolithic 'mega site' discovered near Jerusalem al-Quds; A massive Neolithic settlement has been unearthed in Motza outside Jerusalem al-Quds as seen on Tuesday" (2019-07-16, presstv.com/Detail/2019/07/16/601114/Neolithic-Mega-Site-Jerusalem-alQuds) [archive.is/jymU3]
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* "The Relics of the Late Paleolithic Age Unearthed" (2019-07-16, rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?strPageID=SF01_02_01&newsID=2019-07-16-0010) [archive.is/aFLS5], from Korea.
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* "Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu Ancient City Testament to China's 5,000-Year Civilization; The rain on Tuesday did not stop visitors' passion to see the glamour of the newly opened Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu Ancient City in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province" (2019-07-19, sputniknews.com/asia/201907191076291703-archaeological-ruins-of-liangzhu-ancient-city-testament-to-chinas-5000-year-civilization-/) [archive.is/HGPBP]
* "Liangzhu Life: Museum showcases life 5,000 years ago in eastern China" video page (2019-07-19, news.cgtn.com/news/3345544e784d4464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/index.html) [archive.is/c9uFN]
* "Liangzhu & Ancient China: Palace Museum showcases Liangzhu jade culture" video page (2019-07-19, news.cgtn.com/news/3445544e784d4464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/index.html) [archive.is/Nwagr] [begin excerpt]: GAO MENGHE, CHIEF CURATOR 'LIANGZHU & ANCIENT CHINA' EXHIBIT "Chinese people used jade in three different stages. At the very beginning, people worshipped jade. Then, people used jade to show their social status or identity. And after the Han and Tang Dynasties, jade was present in ordinary households. So China's history of producing jade artifacts goes back as far as 8,000 years ago." [end excerpt]
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* "Secret Stash of Puerto Rican Figurines Could Be a Remnant of Unknown Civilisation; The statuettes are nothing like any stone art objects previously found in the Caribbean region, and the inscriptions on them do not bear resemblance to known writing systems" (2019-07-16, sputniknews.com/latam/201907161076260906-secret-stash-puerto-rican-figurines-unknown-civilisation/) [archive.is/vIk62]
* "Skeptics Washed Away As Lost Civilization Is Finally Identified By Puerto Rican Figures" (2019-07-16, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/puerto-rican-figures-0012307) [archive.is/FuApa]
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* "Bronze Age treasure found in dripstone cave in Hungary" (2019-07-16, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/16/c_138232072.htm) [archive.is/wWTeh]
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* "Church of the Apostles Found? Archaeologists Claim Byzantine-Era Church is Highly Significant" (2019-07-19, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/byzantine-church-0012318) [archive.is/MF9BD]
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* "1,200-year-old mosque discovered in southern Israel" (2019-07-18, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/18/c_138237590.htm) [archive.is/IoExd]
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* "Subterranean ‘Water Tank’ Is Actually the Oldest Christian Church in Russia, Say Nuclear Physicists" (2019-07-13, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/oldest-christian-church-0012286) [archive.is/J6rjV]
- image caption: Top view of the buried building at Naryn-Kala fortress, Derbent.

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* "Vikings Didn’t Just Pop into Canada for a Visit, They Stayed for Centuries" (2019-07-19, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/viking-outpost-0012319) [archive.is/o79dF]
* "Dispute Over Evidence Of Cannabis Use By Vikings In North America" (2019-07-16, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/vikings-north-america-0012308) [archive.is/lnh7D]
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* "Six Medieval Ships Unearthed in 'Archaeological Adventure' in Norwegian Capital; The finds are in fantastic condition, given that they are at least 500 years old, archaeologists say" (2019-07-16, sputniknews.com/environment/201907161076259764-six-medieval-ships-unearthed-in-archaeological-adventure-in-norwegian-capital-photos/) [archive.is/2W1FB]
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* "Amsterdam to Keep Priceless Scythian Gold From Crimea as Russia and Ukraine Continue Legal Battle; The Amsterdam Court of Appeal said on Tuesday that it had postponed a final verdict in the Russian-Ukrainian row over the collection of Scythian gold for six to nine months and tasked the sides with providing additional information within two months" (2019-07-16, sputniknews.com/society/201907161076260555-scythian-gold-crimea-russia-ukraine-legal-battle-amsterdam/) [archive.is/YaVt7]
- Samples of Scythian jewelry from its own depository and the State Hermitage Museum Gold Depository, and the latest finds of the Ufa archeological expedition

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* "Benin Readies for Return of Treasures Taken by France; A loan of US$22.5 million from the French Development Agency will fund the new museum and aims to make the 47 hectare UNESCO World Heritage Site more attractive for visitors" (2019-07-16, telesurenglish.net/news/Benin-Readies-for-Return-of-Treasures-Taken-by-France-20190716-0022.html) [archive.is/JMqDA]
- image caption: Benin government officials requested the repatriation of these, as a study by French historians pointed out that they were never intended for long-term loan.

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* "Tibetan Paper Making: Traditional handicraft dates back over a thousand years" video page (2019-07-18, news.cgtn.com/news/3555444e784d4464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/index.html) [archive.is/uOhU6]

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Miscellany & Errata

* "UFO Combing Around ISS in NASA Video ‘Checking on Humans’ Progress’, Alien Hunter Claims; The extraordinary object, which resembles a four-pronged alien spaceship, has a shape “unlike anything I have ever seen before”, prominent UFOlogist Scott C. Waring commented in his blog" (2019-07-09, sputniknews.com/science/201907091076197366-ufo-combing-around-iss-in-nasa-video-checking-on-humans-progress-alien-hunter-claims/) [archive.is/KXOIs]
- video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT3sumsYzis]
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* "Watch Suspected Alien Activity Over Rome; UFO conspiracy theories were unleashed as a clear daylight video showed a yellowish orb spiraling upward into the sky above the Italian capital" (2019-07-16, sputniknews.com/science/201907161076266161-watch-suspected-alien-activity-just-over-rome/) [archive.is/8Mxq8]
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* "Astronomy Enthusiast Spots Mysterious Orb Over Edinburgh, Raising UFO Suspicions; As if being the rumoured home of one of the world’s most famous mythical creatures, the Loch Ness monster, was not enough, Scotland might have become a meeting point for extra-terrestrial visitors, a report by a local media outlet suggests" (2019-07-17, sputniknews.com/europe/201907171076275868-astronomy-orb-edinburgh-ufo-suspicions/) [archive.is/FOERh]
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* "Ex-CIA Official & UFO Hunter Suggests Avoiding Alien Contact During ‘Storm Area 51’ Flash Mob; As over a million people have jumped on the bandwagon to “storm Area 51” – something that was announced in early July on a Facebook event page – warnings have been issued by the US Air Force that the enthusiasts could be shot for security reasons" (2019-07-17, sputniknews.com/society/201907171076276807-ex-cia-official--ufo-hunter-puts-off-from-contacting-aliens-during-storm-area-51-flash-mob/) [archive.is/7FM5E]
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* "No Evidence Aliens Have Visited Earth - Japanese Astronomers; Japanese astronomers actively searching for extraterrestrial life have not found any evidence that aliens have visited Earth, a professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Hitoshi Yamaoka, claimed" (2019-07-19, sputniknews.com/society/201907191076291438-no-evidence-that-aliens-visited-earth---japanese-astronomers/) [archive.is/QfTUi]

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Curiata

* "Loch Ness Monster 'Might Be REAL', New DNA Study Claims; Myths and legends of giant monsters lurking in the murky water of Loch Ness date back more than 15 centuries. A record number of 11 Nessie sightings were reported in 2017 alone" (2019-06-04, sputniknews.com/science/201906041075608736-loch-ness-monster-real-new-dna-research/) [archive.is/yc4Nu]
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* "Giant jellyfish size of human found by divers off English coast; Divers discovered a giant jellyfish swimming in waters off the coast of Falmouth at Cornwall, in England's southwest on Saturday" video page (2019-07-16, presstv.com/Detail/2019/07/16/601108/Jellyfish-Size-Of-Human-English-Coast) [archive.is/AQpeR]


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Thee Stranger News is broadcast courtesy of 89.5 FM-KZCT [OzcatRadio.com].
Tune-in online [is.gd/kJ1EUt], and, check in with The Mothership Connection! Broadcast Saturdays, 5 to 6pm, & Thursdays, 5:30 to 6pm, with alternative music and culture from across the Greater Bay Area!


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THEE STRANGER NEWS (2019-07-18)

A Liberated Zone on the FM, to enhance alternative culture and cognitive freedom! 
Convened by Dr.G., a Renegade Illuminati, convening Thee Temple [link], for knowledge, whimsy, and inspiration. Everything is true, nothing is forbidden!

Broadcast Thursdays at 89.5 FM KZCT in Vallejo, California, to a worldwide audience.

Introductory track: Covenant - Ritual Noise [youtube.com/watch?v=dnlGEQ1NUsk]


Science & Futurism

* " ‘The Green Goblin!’: Onlookers delighted as armed flyboard rider soars over Paris" (2019-07-14, rt.com/news/464158-flyboard-rifle-france-bastille/) [archive.is/3kC3U]
- image caption: Franky Zapata on a Flyboard in Paris on July 14, 2019

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* "Chinese toy-maker creates LIFE-SIZE & MOVING transformer from broken car" (2019-07-15, rt.com/news/464210-giant-transformer-china-lifesize/) [archive.is/PCiCX]


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Space News

* "Earth’s magnetic field, critical to all life, may be in danger from 'leaking core' " (2019-07-12, rt.com/news/463992-earth-core-leaking-magnetic-field/) [archive.is/U1v8W]
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* "U.S. astronomers discover asteroid with shortest year" (2019-07-08, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/09/c_138212186.htm) [archive.is/POPDH]
* "Astronomers spot kilometer-wide asteroid with record-short year" (2019-07-09, UPI newswire, via spacedaily.com/reports/Astronomers_spot_kilometer-wide_asteroid_with_record-short_year_999.html) [archive.is/YvInU]
* "Zwicky Transient Facility Spots Asteroid with Shortest Year" (2019-07-09, California Institute Of Technology, caltech.edu, via spacedaily.com/reports/Zwicky_Transient_Facility_Spots_Asteroid_with_Shortest_Year_999.html) [archive.is/7jYOx]
- The International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center listing for 2019 LF6 is here (minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K19/K19M45.html) [archive.is/JlcjU]
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* "Japanese probe makes final touchdown on distant asteroid to peek into solar system’s origins" (2019-07-11, rt.com/news/463884-japan-probe-hayabusa2-asteroid-touchdown/) [archive.is/SD7lf]
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* " ‘Unexpected’: Hubble discovers supermassive black hole ‘that shouldn't exist’, says NASA" (2019-07-12, rt.com/news/464000-black-hole-shouldnt-exist-einstein/) [archive.is/tSynO]
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* "Supercomputer shows 'Chameleon Theory' could change how we think about gravity; Supercomputer simulations of galaxies have shown that Einstein's theory of General Relativity might not be the only way to explain how gravity works or how galaxies form" (2019-07-08, Durham University, via sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190708131153.htm) [archive.is/rIFsE]

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Ancient News

* "Skull Provides Earliest Evidence of Homo Sapiens in Europe; The skull in question was found in the late 1970s during the excavation of the Apidima Cave in the southern Peloponnese region of Greece; Scientists announced they have found the most ancient sign of human presence in Europe" (2019-07-10, telesurenglish.net/news/Skull-Provide-Earliest-Evidence-of-Homo-sapiens-in-Europe-20190710-0024.html) [archive.is/rhnnc]
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* "Earliest bone engraving with ochre incisions discovered in China" (2019-07-09, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/09/c_138212291.htm) [archive.is/ewdmT]
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* "All set for the 'Big Jump' in Hasankeyf; On Sunday 14 July the announced "Big Jump" promoted by Keep Hasankeyf Alive will take place in the 12,000 years old site" (2019-07-12, anfenglishmobile.com/news/all-set-for-the-big-jump-in-hasankeyf-36206) [archive.is/RosOF]

* "Weekend for Hasankeyf; Three environmental movements called for action today and tomorrow in around 20 cities against the Ilısu Dam, which will leave Hasankeyf and the Tigris Valley inundated" (2019-07-13, anfenglishmobile.com/features/weekend-for-hasankeyf-36228) [archive.is/RQ5BT]
* "Play against destruction in Hasankeyf; Mehmet Ucar said his play aims to create awareness against the destruction in Hasankeyf and added: 'Hasankeyf is a common heritage for humanity. What they want to destroy is our memory, legacy and history' " (2019-07-13, anfenglishmobile.com/news/play-against-destruction-in-hasankeyf-36234) [archive.is/FtDhc]
* "Artist Zehra Doğan detained in Berlin during action for Hasankeyf; Artist and journalist Zehra Doğan and 3 French artists were detained while they were demonstrating for Hasankeyf at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin" (2019-07-13, anfenglishmobile.com/culture/artist-zehra-dogan-detained-in-berlin-during-action-for-hasankeyf-36238) [archive.is/tHC5d]
* "HDP prevented from reaching village of Ilisu; A HDP delegation was prevented from going to the village of Ilisu to make a press conference about the Ilisu Dam" (2019-07-13, anfenglishmobile.com/news/hdp-prevented-from-reaching-village-of-ilisu-36239) [archive.is/KPp8i]
* "Small Palace in Hasankeyf at risk of collapsing; The pressure created by heavy machinery in Hasankeyf has led to the risk of collapse of the so called 'Small Palace' " (2019-07-10, anfenglishmobile.com/culture/small-palace-in-hasankeyf-at-risk-of-collapsing-36164) [archive.is/ghe1A]
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* "Across China: "Go" museum traces history of traditional Chinese board game" (2019-07-09, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/09/c_138212293.htm) [archive.is/rkSzz]
- photoset [archive.is/JN5rw] [archive.is/KQKsd] [archive.is/LTpsU] [archive.is/YH4FA] [archive.is/MV4tB] [archive.is/czoSX] [archive.is/uBm86] [archive.is/iPmW7] [archive.is/63mK8]
- image caption: Photo taken on May 14, 2019 shows Go pieces and bowls displayed at the Go Museum in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province. Wang Tongling displays more than 30,000 exhibits related to Go (Weiqi), showcasing historical development of the Chinese board game in her private Go museum. Go is an abstract two-player strategy board game, in which players compete to surround more territory than their opponent. With a history of about 4,000 years, it was regarded as one of the most refined skills that an ancient Chinese intellectual could have.

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* "The ‘death whistle’ " (by Roberto Velázquez Cabrera, mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/music/death-whistle) [archive.is/zbIC1]
* "Listen to the terrifying sound of the Aztec DEATH WHISTLE: 'Screaming' from carved skull may have accompanied human sacrifices" (2014-12-02, dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2857363/Listen-terrifying-sound-Aztec-DEATH-WHISTLE-Screaming-carved-skull-accompanied-human-sacrifices.html) [archive.is/WJI0Z], synopsis: Skull-shaped whistles may have been used by Aztecs before they were killed in ceremonies to honour the god of wind, Ehecatl. Two whistles were found in the hands of a skeleton in front of the temple. Sound produce has been linked to screaming corpses and howling wind. Instruments may also have been used in battle, to intimidate rival tribes.
- (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/sciencetech/video-1141028/The-TERRIFYING-sound-Aztec-death-whistle.html)
- (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/embed/video/1140908.html)
* "Aztec Death Whistles Sound like Human Screams and May Have Been Used as Psychological Warfare" (2014-12-10, ancient-origins.net/news-mysterious-phenomena/aztec-death-whistles-sound-human-screams-020129) [archive.is/Vckb7]
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* "Ruins of Babylon: Ancient city added to UNESCO list brings Iraq tourism opportunity" video page (2019-07-14, news.cgtn.com/news/306b6a4d784d4464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/index.html) [archive.is/4fhPX]
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* "Burying A Thracian Tower-Tomb In A Huge Mound Didn’t Deter Ottoman Grave Robbers!" (2019-07-11, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/looting-tunnel-0012273) [archive.is/QQWfN]
- image caption: The tower where the looting tunnel was discovered. It is actually much bigger than this and more needs to be uncovered. / image attribution: Plovdiv Museum of Archaeology


* " 'An international committee should inspect the damage in Afrin' ; Afrin Historic Artifacts Directorate Co-president Hemid Nasir said the Turkish state has severely damaged historic sites and artifacts in Afrin and added: 'An international committee should be formed to inspect the damage in Afrin' " (2019-07-12, anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-northern-syria/an-international-committee-should-inspect-the-damage-in-afrin-36210) [archive.is/g1Nd1]
* "Turkish occupation sabotages and loots archaeological sites in Afrin" (2019-07-10, sana.sy/en/?p=169250) [archive.is/f1wUD], photo showing a looter [archive.is/YQIT9], photos showing looted artifacts

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* "Egypt opens ‘Bent Pyramid’ for 1st time in decades & displays newly-discovered mummies" (2019-07-14, rt.com/news/464151-egypt-bent-pyramid-open/) [archive.is/0cD1P]

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Miscellany & Errata

* "Waving flag, dodgy footprints & Stanley Kubrick: 50 years of moon landing conspiracy theories" (2019-07-15, rt.com/news/464223-moon-landings-conspiracy-theories/) [archive.is/62z9P]

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Curiata

* "The Truth Behind the Jackalope and Those Who Hunt the Elusive Warrior Rabbit" (2019-03-16, ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-americas/jackalope-0011623) [archive.is/4RyjN]

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Thee Stranger News is broadcast courtesy of 89.5 FM-KZCT [OzcatRadio.com].
Tune-in online [is.gd/kJ1EUt], and, check in with The Mothership Connection! Broadcast Saturdays, 5 to 6pm, & Thursdays, 5:30 to 6pm, with alternative music and culture from across the Greater Bay Area!


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THEE STRANGER NEWS (2019-07-11)

A Liberated Zone on the FM, to enhance alternative culture and cognitive freedom! 
Convened by Dr.G., a Renegade Illuminati, convening Thee Temple [link], for knowledge, whimsy, and inspiration. Everything is true, nothing is forbidden!

Broadcast Thursdays at 89.5 FM KZCT in Vallejo, California, to a worldwide audience.

Introductory track: Covenant - Ritual Noise [youtube.com/watch?v=dnlGEQ1NUsk]


Science & Futurism

* "Scientists create artificial muscle that functions like the real thing" (2019-06-26, rt.com/news/462721-artificial-muscles-polymer-glucose/) [archive.is/Gdead]
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* "Scientists develop chemcial computer, storing images with molecules" (2019-07-03, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/04/c_138196514.htm) [archive.is/ei9dN]
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* "Researchers use kirigami to spin terahertz rays" (2019-07-02, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/03/c_138193522.htm) [archive.is/ur6gA]
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* "Part-matter, part-light: Newly discovered ‘hybrid particles’ open doors to exciting new tech" (2019-07-05, rt.com/news/463479-polaritons-magic-dust-hybrid-particles/) [archive.is/aiQI3]

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Space News

* "ISS mold can survive 200 times more RADIATION than humans & contaminate other planets" (2019-07-02, rt.com/news/463213-space-mold-threats-study/) [archive.is/qyiRM]
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* "Scientists discover highest energy cosmic gamma rays in Tibet" (2019-07-03, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/03/c_138195767.htm) [archive.is/Ff2Ls]
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* "Four asteroids on COLLISION course with Earth" (2019-06-30, rt.com/news/463071-asteroids-collision-course-earth/) [archive.is/QGLIX]
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* "NASA's Curiosity rover detects largest amount ever of methane on Mars" (2019-06-24, xinhuanet.com/english/northamerica/2019-06/25/c_138172536.htm) [archive.is/kLCQ0]:
NASA's Curiosity rover has detected the largest amount of methane ever measured during its mission on Mars, according to a release of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Monday.
The finding from the rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) tunable laser spectrometer was about 21 parts per billion units by volume (ppbv). One ppbv means that if you take a volume of air on Mars, one billionth of the volume of air is methane, according to JPL.
The finding is exciting because microbial life is an important source of methane on Earth. However, methane can also be created through interactions between rocks and water, according to the mission team.
Curiosity does not have instruments that can definitively say what the source of the methane is, or even if it is coming from a local source within Gale Crater or elsewhere on the planet, said JPL.
"With our current measurements, we have no way of telling if the methane source is biology or geology, or even ancient or modern," said SAM Principal Investigator Paul Mahaffy of NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The mission team conducted a follow-on methane experiment this past weekend, which shows the methane levels have sharply decreased, with less than 1 part per billion units by volume detected. According to JPL, that is a value close to the background levels Curiosity sees all the time.
The new finding suggests the largest amount of methane detection last week was one of the transient methane plumes that have been observed in the past, according to JPL.
While scientists have observed the background levels rise and fall seasonally, they have not found a pattern in the occurrence of these transient plumes.
"The methane mystery continues," said Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity's project scientist at JPL. "We're more motivated than ever to keep measuring and put our brains together to figure out how methane behaves in the Martian atmosphere."

* "Mars’ Gale Crater" (2012, airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/4259640jpg) [archive.is/9RlG8]


* "Mars Curiosity rover finds evidence of ancient lakes in Gale crater" (2014-12-08, sciencemag.org/news/2014/12/mars-curiosity-rover-finds-evidence-ancient-lakes-gale-crater) [archive.is/fqzdi]
* "NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars" (2013-03-12, nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130312.html) [archive.is/YPbs2]
- image caption: This set of images compares rocks seen by NASA's Opportunity rover and Curiosity rover at two different parts of Mars. On the left is " Wopmay" rock, in Endurance Crater, Meridiani Planum, as studied by the Opportunity rover. On the right are the rocks of the "Sheepbed" unit in Yellowknife Bay, in Gale Crater, as seen by Curiosity.


* "Wet Paleoclimate of Mars Revealed by Ancient Lakes at Gale Crater" (2015-10-08, caltech.edu/about/news/wet-paleoclimate-mars-revealed-ancient-lakes-gale-crater-48249) [archive.is/sVYXY]
* "Standing On The Shore Of An Ancient Martian Lake Thinking About Microbes" (2017-07-09, astrobob.areavoices.com/2017/07/09/standing-on-the-shore-of-an-ancient-martian-lake-thinking-about-microbes/) [archive.is/nkEqR]
- image caption: Skeleton of an ancient lake — This evenly layered mudstone rock photographed by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover records sedimentation in a lake, where plumes of river sediment settled out of the water column and onto the lake floor. The view spans about 5 feet (1.5 meters) across in the foreground.

- image caption: This illustration show the possible extent of an ancient lake inside Gale Crater. Curiosity confirmed the existence of a lake there billions of years ago after examining mudstones in the crater’s Yellowknife Bay area. The lake’s extent was estimated by mapping ancient lake and stream deposits and assuming that water flowed from the crater rim into the basin (arrows). The water would have pooled in the trough created between the crater rim (left) and Mt. Sharp (center right). The area’s history likely included the coming and going of multiple lakes of different sizes as climate conditions evolved.


* "Fluidized-sediment pipes in Gale crater, Mars, and possible Earth analogs" (2017-01, Geology scientific Journal, Geological Society of America, via indiana.edu/~sepm04/PDF/Rubin-et-al-2017-Geology-sediment-pipes.pdf) [https://web.archive.org/web/20190628182237/http://www.indiana.edu/~sepm04/PDF/Rubin-et-al-2017-Geology-sediment-pipes.pdf]
- Figure 1. Map showing rover Curiosity’s traverse and locations discussed in this paper.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems.

- Figure 3. Cylindrical structures at Dingo Gap and Marias Pass, Mars. A: Index image showing
location of structures in B–F. B: Cylindrical structure. C: Close-up of wall of B, showing texture of rim. D: Deformational structure located 20 m west of Dingo Gap, likely a loose block rather than bedrock. E: Circular structure with internal layering, located 150 m west of Dingo Gap. F: Pair of cylindrical structures at Marias Pass. Diameters of the structures, indicated by white lines, are 7 cm and 36 cm. For image numbers, see Table 1. Images: NASA/
JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems.






* "Report 163: Mars Rover Moving Evidence" (2009-05-24, marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/163/moving-evidence.htm) [archive.is/PoIpl]
Left frame: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/n/1830/2N288828136EFFB000P0625R0M1.HTML
Right frame: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/n/1830/2N288828221EFFB000P0625L0M4.HTML

- (http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/n/1833/2N289093752EFFB074P1985L0M1.HTML) [archive.is/sjoif], fullsize image [archive.is/nP1a7]

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/n/1836/2N289363474EFFB0A1P1985R0M1.HTML

- (http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/n/1843/2N289976994EFFB0EOP0675L0M1.HTML) [archive.is/C2Jtx], fullsize photo [archive.is/mNmaq]




* "Moqui Marbles" (rocksandminerals.com/specimens/moqui.htm) [archive.is/aL9Qh] [begin excerpt]: One of the biggest mysteries is that all observed Martian blueberries are limited in size with maximum diameter of 6.2 mm. In contrast, terrestrial concretions are not size limited. In this article, researchers discuss significant differences between Martian blueberries and Earth concretion analogs. Puzzling observations from Mars Exploration Rovers Opportunity and Spirit suggest that the spherules may not be concretions but are cosmic spherules formed by ablation of meteorites.
The perfect spherical shape of spherules, their observed size limit, and all other physical properties are easily explained by a meteorite ablation model. Evidence that some of these spherules are only a few years old strongly constrains concretion and other growth mechanisms related to aqueous processes that require the existence of water on Mars in its recent history. The large number of hematite spherules in Meridiani Planum may be due to a big rare iron meteorite impact event in this region sometime in the past.
"The meteorite theory explains all of their properties," lead researcher Dr. Anupam Misra said of the spherules, per National Geographic (news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140224-mars-blueberries-water-meteorite-space-science). [end excerpt]
- image caption: Concretions appear like blueberries in a muffin. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University

* "Red rock and red planet diagenesis: Comparisons of Earth and Mars concretions" (2005-08, GSA Today, Geological Society of America, via rocksandminerals.com/moqui.pdf) [https://web.archive.org/web/20161207193204/http://www.rocksandminerals.com/moqui.pdf]

* "Geopic of the week: Sandstone pipe" (2015-02-19, arkansasgeological.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/geopic-of-the-week-sandstone-pipe/) [archive.is/0MKBk]

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* "Gigantic ‘potentially hazardous asteroid’ due to speed past Earth this week" (2019-06-26, rt.com/news/462725-asteroid-flyby-near-earth/) [archive.is/cTDYp]
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* "Settling the Galaxy (ACT's entry to GTOCX)" video page (2019-06-16, youtube.com/watch?v=nlnlORplDTI) [archive.is/wfYJS]
* "Humans conquer Milky Way star by star in VIDEO simulation of galactic colonization" (2019-06-27, rt.com/news/462838-galactic-conquest-simulation-video/) [archive.is/9CJHo]

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* " ‘The big breakthrough’: Extraterrestrial radio signal source finally pinpointed for 1st time" (2019-06-28, rt.com/news/462893-scientists-pinpoint-source-extraterrestrial-signal/) [archive.is/u6hAC]

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Ancient News

* "Actions for Hasankeyf multiply; Several actions have been organised as part of the campaign 'It's not too late to save Hasankeyf'" (2019-06-30, anfenglishmobile.com/culture/actions-for-hasankeyf-multiply-35954) [archive.is/DGnaG]
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* " ‘Russian Atlantis’ where women were revered unearthed in Siberia" (2019-06-25, rt.com/russia/462658-russian-atlantis-unearthed-siberia/) [archive.is/Fyzzk]
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* "3,400-year-old Bronze Age palace emerged due to droughts; According to the archaeologists it is one of the most important recent finds in the region" (2019-06-30, anfenglishmobile.com/culture/3-400-year-old-bronze-age-palace-emerged-due-to-draughts-35952) [archive.is/AIDpk]

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* "Ten Amazing and Mysterious Geoglyphs from the Ancient World" (2014-12-12, ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/ten-amazing-and-mysterious-geoglyphs-ancient-world-002443) [archive.is/bp2TH]
* "The unknown origins of the incredible Sajama Lines of Bolivia" (2014-11-15, ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/unknown-origins-incredible-sajama-lines-bolivia-002330) [archive.is/DRYt4]
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* "Astronomical relics of 5,000 yrs old discovered in central China" (2019-06-25, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-06/25/c_138172236.htm) [archive.fo/YDXpw], photo [archive.is/mIs4L]
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* "800-year-old tomb found in N. China" (2019-06-27, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-06/27/c_138178464.htm) [archive.is/DSpEk]
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* "Exhibition on ancient kingdom opens in Dunhuang" (2019-07-03, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/03/c_138195532.htm) [archive.is/KcodF]
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* "2,000-year-old bronze mirror with Confucius portrait exhibited in east China" (2019-07-03, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/03/c_138195503.htm) [archive.is/8M3Ck]
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* "Great Wall Preservation: Workers using traditional techniques to preserve famous landmark" video page (2019-07-06, news.cgtn.com/news/7867544f774d4464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/index.html) [archive.is/NHrG9]
* "Mules, tools and old bricks: rebuilding China's Great Wall" video page (2019-06-28, presstv.com/Detail/2019/06/28/599625/Rebuilding-China-Great-Wall) [archive.is/mt1TO]:
Nature, time, neglect and millions of footsteps have taken their toll on the Great Wall of China leaving much of it crumbling, but repairing it can be painstaking -- and controversial -- work. After public outcry when a 700-year-old section of the monument was 'fixed' by covering it with cement -- authorities insisted on more authentic restoration using traditional methods: so now laborers, aided by mules, use reclaimed stones and mortar.
- image caption: This picture taken on May 17, 2019 shows a worker removing roots at a restored part of the Great Wall in Xiangshuihu in Huairou District, on the outskirts of Beijing.

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* "745 antique books registered at Tibet's Norbulingka" (2019-07-03, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/03/c_138195659.htm) [archive.is/i3qsx]
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* "How the Dogon Preserved Their Unique Culture Along The Cliff of Bandiagara Mali" (2019-03-02, ancient-origins.net/ancient-places/cliff-bandiagara-0011566) [archive.is/c8jVn]
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* "Festival of the Sun: Cusco prepares for 75th anniversary of revived Incan tradition" video page (2019-06-26, news.cgtn.com/news/3049444e774d4464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/index.html) [archive.is/Mw2YB] [begin excerpt]:
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Inti Raymi celebrations in Cusco, Peru. Known as the Festival of the Sun, the celebration is believed to have been one of the most important rituals in the Inca Empire. Since its revival in 1944, it's become a yearly festival for tourists and locals alike. [end excerpt]
* "Inca New Year Celebration: Peru marks 75th anniversary of festival's revival" video page (2019-06-27, news.cgtn.com/news/336b444e774d4464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/index.html) [archive.is/X54kG]

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* "Desert Diver Discovers Submerged Treasure Beneath 2,300-Year-Old Kushite Pyramid" (2019-07-06, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/kushite-pyramid-0012249) [archive.is/Ech1p]
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* "The origins of the ancient Coptic Church of Egypt" (2014-12-18, ancient-origins.net/history/origins-ancient-coptic-church-egypt-002462) [archive.is/r990Z]
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* "Jesus a Palestinian? Linda Sarsour starts Twitter war over Christ’s nationality" (2019-07-08, rt.com/news/463676-linda-sarsour-jesus-palestinian/) [archive.is/j3y8E]

* "DNA testing on ancient bones shed light on Philistine people" (2019-07-03, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/04/c_138196573.htm) [archive.is/PvrvA] [begin excerpt]: According to Michal Feldman of the Department of archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, the discovery a few years ago that the inner ear bone could be useful DNA samples was critical to the research.
The process is complicated, which has been tweaked in the last decades with the help of new technologies. She was part of the research team examining the findings.
"We see this influx of European ancestry coming in to the region in the beginning of the Iron age and this is the same time when the Philistine culture appears in archeology. 200 years later, the same people that are still considered Philistines by their neighbors, or by ancient texts or by modern archeologists. They go back to genetically looking the same as Bronze age people that were living there before," Feldman explained.
This was one of the questions that Master and his team were looking to answer -- once they immigrated to the Levantine area, did they continue to be an exclusive group or did they assimilate with other residents of the area? The findings show that with time, the Philistines blended in with local residents.
"They very much mixed with the people around them, and so they were genetically not distinguishable from the people around them by the 9th century," Master explained. "They didn't stop being Philistines, but they had lost any distinctive genetic markers." [end excerpt]
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* "Horn-handle knife Jambiya symbolizes Yemeni tribes' peace" (2019-06-26, xinhuanet.com/english/2019-06/27/c_138176449.htm) [archive.is/krhow] [begin excerpt]:
Known locally as Jambiya, a T-shaped handle made from rhinoceros horns or other animals' bones and decorated with gold and other precious metals, the handle is fixed into a short and curved double-edged knife.
The Jambiya is tucked inside a sheath called Aseeb, which is made of wood and covered with brown or white leather or covered with green strings.
The sheath is fastened to an ornately embroidered belt. People wear it by strapping the belt around their waists with the Jambiya in front of their robes.
Traders and residents said that the best "handle of Jambiya" worth 1 million U.S. dollars.
According to the locals, the best kinds of Jambiya's handles are sold in few shops here in the centuries-old souk.
Abdullah al Azeri, the Jambiya seller, said that his family has been in the business for more than 1,100 years.
"Contrary to what many foreign people think, Jambiya is a symbol of peace," al Azeri said.
"It is used for solving the conflicts of Yemeni tribes through submitting their own Jambiya knives to chieftains for arbitration ... at this point, the fight stops and the process of solution begins," he added.
"Jambiya is a symbol of manhood, chivalry and the identity of the Yemeni man," al Azeri said as he was sitting in his shop in the old bazaar in the center of the ancient city.
"The best Jambiya's handle is made of the horn of the rhino," he said, adding that the trade of the horns of endangered rhinos was banned many years ago. [end excerpt]
- photoset [archive.is/7zv0Y] [archive.is/lqQel] [archive.is/K4aDH] [archive.is/nwafJ] [archive.is/rGOiv] [archive.is/wT7lY] [archive.is/ndrbn] [archive.is/jMI4W]
- image caption: Time-honored horn-handle knives are seen at a store in Sanaa, capital of Yemen, June 26, 2019. The Yemenis have not been affected by the Western stylish changes as they still proudly keep their ancestors' traditional dress, especially the wear of the horn-handle knife for nearly 3,000 years

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Tuğrul Tower in the city of Rey, Northern Iran 1860's


Tughrul tower Tuğrul Tower is a 12th-century monument with the 20 meters tall brick tower is the tomb of Seljuk ruler Tuğrul Beg who died in Rey in 1063 . . Location: City of #Tehran


Tower of Gonbad e Qabus, The Road to Oxiana, Iran 1930's
Taken from 'The Road to Oxiana' by Robert Byron, published in 1937.
Located in the Golestan Province, Gonbad Qābūs, Emam Khomeini Shomali, Iran, the cylindrical tower is said to reach 61 metres in height & can be seen from some 30 km away


Mil-i Sharq Radkan, Iran 1937 (Photo credit Robert Byron)
The Mil-i Sharq Radkan, or tower, is located near Radkan Village, in the Razavi Khorasan Province of Iran

The tower described by Byron:
“A massive cylindrical grave-tower with a conical roof, ninety feet high, and dating from the thirteenth century. The outside wall consists of columns two feet thick, which touch one another. Their brickwork, rusty red in colour, is arranged in tweed patterns, which give the building a sort of shine, as of a well-groomed horse. Unlike the Gumbad-i-Kabus, this tower has a staircase in the thickness of the wall.”

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Miscellany & Errata

* "Centuries-old physics problem that baffled Newton finally solved" (2019-07-04, rt.com/news/463382-student-solves-spherical-aberration-newton/) [archive.is/2isSr]
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* "Trump doesn’t believe in UFOs… but is open to the possibility" (2019-07-06, rt.com/usa/463526-trump-ufo-sightings-believer/) [archive.is/bhtSB]

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Curiata

* " ‘I’ve never seen it before’: Mexican city buried under 2m of ice in freak hailstorm" (2019-07-01, rt.com/news/463106-guadalajara-buried-freak-hailstorm/) [archive.is/c2s1L]

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* "Scientists left ‘speechless’ by young Arctic fox’s amazing journey from Norway to Canada" (2019-07-02, rt.com/news/463211-arctic-fox-intercontinental-journey/) [archive.is/aiVyF]
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* "Cockroach ‘superbugs’ evolve to resist pesticides in ONE GENERATION, study finds" (2019-07-03, rt.com/usa/463250-cockroaches-evolve-resistance-pesticides-study/) [archive.is/Id07n]
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* "Island created by deadly earthquake disappears into Indian Ocean" (2019-07-06, rt.com/news/463536-earthquake-island-disappears-ocean/) [archive.is/RBos3]
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* "Hailstones the size of tennis balls hit south-central France" (2019-07-07, rt.com/news/463598-france-thunder-storm-hail/) [archive.is/WXHiW]
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Professor James Ricalton & the Kashmir Giants, Delhi, India 1903



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