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Cute lizards! "Scientists discover lizards on verge of leap from egg-laying to live births"

Posted by kluciole at 9/6/2010 10:20 PM | Add Comment

10,000-year-old boy's bones found in an underwater Mexican cave 'could rewrite the history of the Americas'

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2010 5:57 PM | Add Comment

My mom loved everything to do with the Titanic long before a movie came out. New article made me think of her: "Titanic expedition shows off some crisp new images"

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2010 5:52 PM | Add Comment

Found underneath the A1, the home of Rome's legendary lost Ninth Legion

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2010 5:22 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Experts finally solve puzzle of Roman ruins at Lullingstone

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2010 9:47 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

It's official, men and women ARE from the same planet

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2010 7:12 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Author Jonathan Schneer traces lead-up to "The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict"

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2010 11:48 AM | Add Comment

Scarlett's dresses in bad shape, need repairs

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2010 11:30 AM | Add Comment

TIME article: "Argentina Belatedly Celebrates a Journalist Hero"

Posted by kluciole at 8/1/2010 5:18 AM | Add Comment

Rare 3D film shows Warsaw devastated after WWII

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2010 3:04 AM | Add Comment

Painting at center of Caravaggio mystery unveiled; the "Martyrdom of St. Lawrence" will now be subjected to tests

Posted by kluciole at 7/28/2010 12:43 AM | Add Comment

Incredible images of the new Hoover Dam Bridge: when finished it will rise 890 feet above the Colorado River; its total length will be 1,900 feet

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2010 1:47 AM | Add Comment

NY Times article -- "Inside the Fog of War: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan"

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2010 1:20 AM | Add Comment

Gadget makers forced to look at links to Congo war

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2010 5:42 AM | Add Comment

La Mujer de las Palmas: reconstruction of 10,000-year-old skeleton found in Tulum, Mexico shows ancient population more diverse than thought

Posted by kluciole at 7/24/2010 4:44 AM | Add Comment

Sister monument to Stonehenge may have been found

Posted by kluciole at 7/22/2010 7:35 PM | Add Comment

Computers to translate world's 'lost' languages after program deciphers ancient Ugaritic text

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 8:33 PM | Add Comment

Lost Kafka writings resurface; court orders them to be removed from private possession

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 7:50 PM | Add Comment

Former inmates of Auschwitz, a Catholic Pole recalls daring escape to save his Jewish girlfriend

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 4:28 AM | Add Comment

Tiny shard bears oldest script found in Jerusalem (14th century BCE)

Posted by kluciole at 7/14/2010 11:16 AM | Add Comment

Archaeologists unearth 4,300-year-old Egyptian tomb of father and son at the Saqqara necropolis

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2010 12:22 AM | Add Comment

Two articles: "Iran to review woman's stoning verdict" and "How can a nation that could soon be a nuclear power still legally stone women to death for adultery?"

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2010 12:06 AM | Add Comment

UK treasure hunter finds 52,000 Roman coins. Circa 286 CE, they were buried in a jar and weighed 350 pounds

Posted by kluciole at 7/8/2010 9:26 AM | Add Comment

Early humans ventured farther north than thought

Posted by kluciole at 7/7/2010 3:53 PM | Add Comment

Earliest illustrated Christian bible discovered at Ethiopian monastery

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 5:39 PM | Add Comment

Our current North Star is Polaris. During much of the time of the ancient Egyptians, it was Thuban (info and photos here)

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 1:19 AM | Add Comment

Giant predatory whale named for 'Moby-Dick' author

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2010 5:11 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Fireworks light the sky at Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome

Posted by kluciole at 7/3/2010 6:17 PM | Add Comment

Explorer David Livingstone's letter deciphered at last, "nearly 140 years after he wrote of his despair at ever leaving Africa alive"

Posted by kluciole at 7/3/2010 6:03 PM | Add Comment

Thousands of French Nazi collaborators revealed as official reports are published online

Posted by kluciole at 6/29/2010 2:44 PM | Add Comment

Greece lightning: Ancient Parthenon lit from above as storm breaks over Athens

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 3:21 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Guadarrama" by Antonio Machado

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 3:16 PM | Add Comment

Dinosaurs developed elaborate crests and sails 'to attract the best mates'

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 3:07 PM | Add Comment

Behind Kagan hearing: A fight over 'activist judges'

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 2:56 PM | Add Comment

Movies that scare for life: viewers left with fears for years

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 4:01 PM | Add Comment

Documents show vast cleanup of Plum Island, New York "since 2000 to remove vast amounts of waste and contaminants at site of top-secret Army germ warfare research"

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 3:56 PM | Add Comment

Romans killed dozens of unwanted babies at English 'brothel'

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2010 7:07 PM | Add Comment

Stalin statue removed in Georgian home town

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2010 6:54 PM | Add Comment

Oglala Lakota code talker Clarence Wolf Guts laid to rest

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2010 6:27 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Has My Heart Gone To Sleep?" by Antonio Machado

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2010 5:35 PM | Add Comment

WWII nurse in iconic Times Square kissing photo dies; Edith Shain was 91

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2010 5:16 PM | Add Comment

4th century icons of Peter and Paul found in Rome

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 6:58 PM | Add Comment

Only known photographs of French Resistance fighters facing Nazi firing squad shown for first time

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:18 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" by William Wordsworth

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Next stop France for oldest baby mammoth

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:08 AM | Add Comment

VA quietly giving benefits to Marines exposed to toxic water on Camp Lejeune

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2010 12:52 PM | Add Comment

HBO works to get film on Iranian dissident Neda Agha Soltan seen by as many people as possible within Iran as anniversary of her death approaches

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2010 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Amelia Earhart's Watch Reaches Space Station 82 Years After Historic Flight

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2010 1:21 AM | Add Comment

Library of Congress places Bob Hope's joke file (85,000 pages) on public view

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 9:24 AM | Add Comment

Modigliani sculpture sets artist record in Paris

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2010 5:34 PM | Add Comment

Bloody Sunday report blames British soldiers fully; Cameron offers apology

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2010 3:00 PM | Add Comment

Historic Polaroid collection going to NYC auction

Posted by kluciole at 6/12/2010 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Show unveils Andy Warhol's Catholic, abstract side

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2010 9:20 AM | Add Comment

"Mysterious Mountains Hidden Beneath Antarctic Ice Revealed." The Gamburtsev Mountains are "vaster than the Alps"

Posted by kluciole at 6/10/2010 5:59 PM | Add Comment

Rare photo of slave children found in NC attic

Posted by kluciole at 6/10/2010 5:49 PM | Add Comment

75 long-lost silent movies being returned to US, including only known copy of drama by director John Ford and a period drama starring 1920s screen icon Clara Bow

Posted by kluciole at 6/8/2010 3:10 PM | Add Comment

London art auctions target Russian middle class

Posted by kluciole at 6/7/2010 7:49 AM | Add Comment

Review: Book celebrates 50 years of `Mockingbird'

Posted by kluciole at 6/7/2010 7:46 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Sotheby's technicians pose with pair of Nicholas I Imperial Porcelain Vases, created in 1841

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2010 8:45 PM | Add Comment

A little piece of home: Blue Ridge Parkway celebrates 75th anniversary

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2010 8:42 PM | Add Comment

Drug boosts survival in major melanoma (skin cancer) study

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2010 8:27 PM | Add Comment

One of the cutest caterpillars ever! (Spicebush Swallowtail) "I've got my eye on you! The caterpillar that pretends to be a fearsome snake "

Posted by kluciole at 6/3/2010 4:17 PM | Add Comment

8 scientists share lucrative Kavli Prizes "for work that has helped humans explore distant corners of the universe and the tiniest particles on Earth"

Posted by kluciole at 6/3/2010 4:13 PM | Add Comment

Golden Girls star Rue McClanahan dies at 76

Posted by kluciole at 6/3/2010 3:49 PM | Add Comment

Sandstone arch at southern Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park collapses (I think it still looks like a dragon, but now one lying down with wings above it)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 9:07 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Stephen Hawking honored at NYC science, arts gala World Science Festival

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 9:03 PM | Add Comment

Egypt opens Gaza border -- for those already cleared (pre-cleared patients with medical emergencies and students with visas to study abroad)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:51 PM | Add Comment

The Code of Hammurabi (1795-1750 BCE)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 9:10 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Experts find Michelangelo code hidden in the Sistine Chapel (anatomical illustrations)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 9:02 AM | Add Comment

Blair: Gaza blockade counterproductive but hard to ease

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:56 AM | Add Comment

Artist Louise Bourgeois dies in NYC at 98; "her sculptures explored women's deepest feelings on birth, sexuality and death "

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2010 5:29 AM | Add Comment

Links to the Guardian's news coverage of Israel and the Gaza flotilla; the 600 passengers of the flotilla included a Nobel Peace Laureate

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:34 PM | Add Comment

Q&A: Aid and Israel's Gaza blockade

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:27 PM | Add Comment

Tomb of Ancient Egyptian mayor found near Cairo a century after it was lost

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2010 8:19 PM | Add Comment

Catch "Special Relationship" on HBO if you can; just watched it and enjoyed it. Much food for thought.

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2010 10:20 PM | Add Comment

Hawaii first in nation to ban possession, sale, trade or distribution of shark fins (plus article "A sad shark's tale: Shocking images show scale of fin trade")

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2010 5:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Idaho Tea Party win embarrasses GOP establishment

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2010 8:08 PM | Add Comment

Hubble catches planet being devoured by its star

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2010 11:45 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The Batavian Rebellion and Quintus Petillius Cerialis (between 69-70 CE. Cerialis was made Governor of Britannia from 71 to 74 CE)

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2010 11:27 PM | Add Comment

Park de Triomphe - the day French farmers turned the Champs-Elysees into a garden

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 5:25 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

57 ancient tombs with mummies unearthed in Lahoun, Egypt

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 5:13 PM | Add Comment

Vietnam, US still in conflict over Agent Orange

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 4:58 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "i carry your heart with me" by E. E. Cummings

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2010 1:46 PM | Add Comment

Blackfeet Elouise Cobell sees end to 14-year government fight: "Cobell's class-action lawsuit represents as many as 500,000 Indians who own property that the government holds in trust for them"

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2010 1:36 PM | Add Comment

"Charlotte and Emily" tells superb tale of Brontës

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 5:14 PM | Add Comment

NASA images reveal Gulf of Mexico oil spill entering powerful current that could carry it to Florida and beyond

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 5:03 PM | Add Comment

How Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's civil-rights views escaped media scrutiny

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 4:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Why We Exist: Matter Wins Battle Over Antimatter

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 10:05 PM | Add Comment

Cyprus: crews stumble on 2-millennia-old coffins in Protaras

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 4:12 PM | Add Comment

Blast from the past: a new type of exploding star

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 3:50 PM | Add Comment

Author Isabel Allende sets new book in Haiti

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2010 1:47 PM | Add Comment

The Lost Reading List: 13 Books That Helped Mold the Series

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2010 1:36 PM | Add Comment

Africa's Lake Tanganyika warming fast, and wildlife is dying

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2010 1:11 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Courage" by Anne Sexton

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2010 1:58 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The future of Mount St. Helens 30 years later

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2010 1:52 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: painting by Bartolome Esteban Murillo, entitled Saint Rufina, c. 1665 (among the millions of artworks Nazis Germany stole from Jewish families)

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:46 PM | Add Comment

Italians say they may have found artist Caravaggio's bones

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:35 PM | Add Comment

Photo: NASA image taken from telescope atop Mauna Kea, showing most distant, primitive cluster of galaxies ever found

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2010 7:07 AM | Add Comment

14th-century aqueduct found near Jerusalem's Old City

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2010 6:55 AM | Add Comment

Scientists stunned as grey whale sighted off Israel, thought to be the first time the giant mammal has been seen outside the Pacific in several hundred years

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2010 4:44 PM | Add Comment
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