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Alien abductions and underground bases
2007-11-24 21:05:00
Depiction of an alien abductionPicture courtesy of 3quarksdaily.blogs.comAlien abduction...It's been talked about in hushed and reverent tones for eons, but not until recently has the phenomena been brought forth into the public eye...It's not something anyone has to hide, or even be ashamed of anymore...Today it is almost 'popular' to claim you've been abducted by little gray men...Trouble is, some of them aren't so little and they don't always come in shades of gray...There are some new faces on the alien abduction scene, and according to the latest Roper Poll, ninety-three percent of people around the world believe we have been, and continue to be visited by beings from other worlds...Typical 'grey' aliens seen by many abducteesPicture courtesy of www.seeufos.comThe new trend is for abductees to be visited by and taken aboard spacecraft by beings who more closely resemble giant humanoid reptilians than little gray men with huge heads and slanted, black, almond shaped eye...
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For You
2007-11-23 02:01:00
Sometimes the lyrics to songs say things better than we can say them ourselves...This is one song that pretty much sums up how I feel about you...Listen carefully like you always do, and you'll know what I'm trying to say...Especially on days like today when dark thoughts still plague my mind and nothing seems right in Nick's world, I know without doubt that you're out there...I know without doubt that you're still thinking about me and wondering how I'm doing...Well I'm doing ok, but I wish you were here too my friend...I wish you hadn't had to go so soon and leave the rest of us to miss you like crazy...But heaven needed another angel on staff so like always, you volunteered...I often talk to you but I don't really know if you can hear me, or if my voice reaches you amongst the billion or so other voices who are calling for you to come and help them...You were the best person I ever knew...Kind, loving, giving to a fault, thoughtful, considerate, loyal, steadfast and trus...
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Giving Thanks
2007-11-22 20:16:00
Picture courtesy of jupiterimages.comThanksgiving, a traditional American holiday, but what do I personally have to be thankful for? Well, that's a pretty long list...So I'll just list the top ten:Being alive...Never thought I'd make it this farThe love of my life...Never thought she'd stick with me this longMy music...It's part of who and what I am as a human beingMy animals...With whom I prefer spending more time with than peopleMy career...It pays the bills and puts food on the tableMy friends...Few and far between, but treasured each and every one of themMy sanity...And that's still highly questionableMy imagination...A tad off I know, but hey, it's still mine and I own itMy idiosyncrasies...Yeah I have quite a few, but my friends still put up with themMy differentness...I'm glad I'm unique and I don't care who knows itI can think of a hundred or more things I have to be thankful for, but most of you probably don't want to hear them all...So here's a list of ten thin...
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Shangri-La and Shambhala
2007-11-21 22:57:00
Mythological Shangri-la from the 2004 movie 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow'Picture courtesy of wikipedia.com and Paramount Pictures (click picture once to enlarge)No record exists of people ever having seen the 100 foot-high waterfall and lush subtropical garden in the Tibetan Himalayas until now...Shangri-la...it conjures up visions of a wonderful yet mysterious place shrouded in clouds somewhere in a remote valley high in the Himalayas...It is also known as 'Shambhala' a mystical city in Tibetan Buddhist, but does this legendary paradise actually exist? Or is is merely a legend brought about by a 1933 book by British author James Hilton entitled 'Lost Horizon'...1933 book by Hilton - Lost Horizon Picture courtesy of harperacademic.com (click picture once to enlarge)Director Frank Capra turned the book into a highly successful movie in 1937, and although it is now considered to be a timeless classic, it is very different from Hilton's original book...In Hilton's acc...
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Joy Of Flying
2007-11-21 22:21:00
Photo courtesy of megginson.comHaving a private pilots license can be a really fun thing...I know, I have one...But it takes a lot of hard work, determination, dedication and rigorous training to achieve the skill even to fly solo, let alone qualifying to carry real life, live passengers...The only problem is, once you've achieved the necessary skills to carry passengers, that, is where the REAL fun starts...You see, it's always the same, at least for me...Once I've finally agreed (always begrudgingly of course) to fly someone somewhere, and I've finally gotten everyone on board with all of their varied and sundry accoutrement's, I'm blithely taxing down the runway waiting for take off, when suddenly everybody on BOARD my aircraft decides that he or she is the PILOT and knows how to fly the damned thing better than I do!...Everybody has seen the movie 'Top Gun' right? Well, ya see, those were military F-14 Tomcats, (which, btw the United States Navy no longer uses, they've ...
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Crop Circles
2007-11-21 02:25:00
Crop circle with Penrose triangle in Waden Hill, Averbury (Wiltshire)Picture courtesy of im-possible.infoWhat are they? These are sometimes simple, sometimes elaborate circles made in crops all over the world...There have been many theories, conjectures and arguments over what they really are and who or what is actually making them...Crop circles are geometrical formations of flattened crops found in England and elsewhere around the globe...They have been found in wheat, barley, canola, rye, corn, linseed and soy...The earliest recorded image claimed to be a crop circle is depicted in a 17th century woodcut called the Mowing-Devil...The image depicts a strange creature (the Devil with a scythe) mowing (cutting) a circular design in a field of corn...The pamphlet the image appeared in states that the farmer, disgusted at the wage his mower was demanding for his work, insisted that he would rather have "the devil himself" perform the task...The Mowing Devil Picture courtesy of ourworl...
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You Move Me
2007-11-21 00:10:00
Picture courtesy of aprilarevalo?The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.?Ryan Gosling from 'The Notebook'You Move MeYou move me...To places I've never been to....To places I've always wanted to see...To things I've always wanted to hear...You move me...To times I've never been in...To dimensions I've only imagined...To a love I never knew even existed...You move me...To a place far away from myself....To places where dreams really do come true...To depths I was afraid to explore...You move me...To a time far beyond this one...To a place where my heart is protected...To a realm where the impossible, is always possible...You move me...To emotions I'd long since forgotten...To feelings I'd long since withheld...To sensations I thought only existed in dreams...You move me...Out of myself and beyond...To be better than who I am...To love you beyond time and space...You move me...To a realm that exists only in my dreams...To heights I was afra...
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Aftermath: The Elven Realm
2007-11-19 15:40:00
Picture courtesy of James Wolf and DeviantArtAndrewIt was an elven city nestled amongst the trees beside a clear brookBut the likes of such I had never seen before. Such beauty and peaceHere and tranquility, as if it had been carved from Mother NatureHerself and quite possibly it had been. Such a remarkable place...!I followed Marek and the elven guards along a stone path lit by Torches placed carefully beside the brook towards a great domed Structure that towered high above the trees with other dwellingsBeneath it. I did not even dare to speak as we drew closer to it...And Marek did not offer words nor explanation for such a place toHave remained so hidden and secretive for all these many eons, forIt was obvious even to my untrained eye that these structures wereNot made for mere mortal occupants, but for magical beings instead...I worried briefly about Archer and what mischief he might be into butMarek only turned his head to look at me and smile. 'You should notConcern yourself ...
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Journey Interrupted
2007-11-19 11:16:00
Memory Lanepicture courtesy of memoryslane.com'The only difference between a really smart person and a really wise person, is that a smart person knows what to say, and a wise person knows whether or not to say it...'Unknown authorI found this little gem tacked up on a bulletin board at the university I attended...I noticed it the second day of formal classes...Just hanging there, minding it's own business...But the words hit me like a lightening bolt...Not only because they were clear and concise, but because of the shear magnitude of the truth they carried...It was awe inspiring to me at the time, so I hurriedly jotted them down on a scrap of paper and shoved it into my backpack...I was cleaning out the files in my home office the other day, (you know, that typical, 'I have so much collective junk I've gathered over the years that I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do with it all!, type of Spring cleaning mode?), and found an old notebook from college among the other stac...
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Your Name
2007-11-16 20:50:00
Name by the Goo Goo DollsAnd even though the moment passed me by I still can't turn away 'Cause all the dreams you never thought you'd lose Got tossed along the way And letters that you never meant to send Get lost or thrown awayAnd now we're grown up orphans That never knew their names We don't belong to no one That's a shameBut if you could hide beside me Maybe for a while And I won't tell no one your name And I won't tell em' your nameAnd scars are souvenirs you never loseThe past is never far Did you lose yourself somewhere out thereDid you get to be a star And don't it make you sad to know that lifeIs more than who we areWe grew up way too fast And now there's nothing to believeReruns all become our history A tired song keeps playing on a tired radioAnd I won't tell no one your name And I won't tell em' your name I won't tell em' your name Mmm, mmm, mmm,I won't tell em' your name? Ow!I think about you all the time But I don't need the same It's lonely where ...
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Blog Interlude - Six Feet
2007-11-11 02:56:00
Creed Six Feet From The EdgePlease come nowI think I'm fallingHolding on to all I think is safeIt seems I've found the road to nowhereAnd I'm trying to escapeI yelled back when I heard thunderBut I'm down to one last breathAnd with it let me sayLet me say...CHORUSHold me nowI'm six feet from the edge And I'm thinkingMaybe six feet ain't so far downI'm looking downNow that it's overReflecting on all of my mistakesI thought I found the road to somewhereSomewhere in His graceI cried outHeaven save meBut I'm down to one last breathAnd with it let me sayLet me say...Hold me nowI'm six feet from the edgeAnd I'm thinkinMaybe six feet ain't so far down(repeat chorus)I'm so far downSad eyes follow meBut I still believe there's something left for meSo please come stay with meCause I still believe there's something left for you and meFor you and meFor you and meHold me nowI'm six feet from the edge And I'm thinkingHold me now I'm six feet from the edge And I'm thinkingMaybe...
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Aftermath: The Elven King
2007-11-06 15:55:00
Picture courtesy of deviantart.comWe seemed to travel for miles, Archer silent and foreboding, hisGreen eyes always scanning the woods around him. When I did askHim a question he gave only a short, curt answer and nothing more.I tried explaining my presence here but he seemed disinterested...The further we travelled into the woods the more isolated and aloneI felt, and the fear inside me began to take it's toll. I needed toBe free of him, free of this place. So many things plagued my mindAnd yet, my companion remained silent and aloof. Not seeming to care...We stopped only briefly to water his mare but did not dismount. HeSaid it would be better from this point on to stay mounted. When IInquired as to why, his reply was simply, 'For your own good.' andThen he returned abruptly to his silent vigil. My nerves grew edgy.When I could take no more of his irritating silence I said, 'Would youBe kind enough to tell me how far we must travel to meet this king ofYours? I have important i...
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Aftermath: Andrew's Flight
2007-11-05 16:40:00
Picture courtesy of deviantart.comAndrewThe look within his eyes told me all I needed to know he wouldChase me down and kill me then take his Watchmen to the farm. IMust keep him busy chasing me as long as I could for there was noWay to warn my parents of the danger that would be upon them now...Gathering my reins I felt my charger tense beneath as he preparedHimself as to flee at any time. A good horse was he and smarterThan most, he would let me guide him in any way I felt was best.Seconds ticked by as I waited for the king to make his move...'If you're going to run, 'said he, 'I suggest you do it now and spareMe the effort of trying to find you after dark.' I smiled at him, myAnger welling up like fire in my veins. 'Would be a novelty sire,' saidI, 'since you prefer to dictate death from the comfort of your throne.'With a sudden shout of rage he lept forth so I wheeled my charger roundTo head into the woods. It was my only chance to find a place in whichTo hide. They wer...
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Aftermath: The King
2007-11-04 05:32:00
Picture courtesy of devianart.comAndrew'But as much as I would delight in slaying dragons for you Gwyn, I doThink I should be getting back.' I explained, 'no sense in tempting fateA second time.' I bent to gather up her blanket, yet she took my hand inIn hers. 'Do you have to leave so soon Andrew? Can you not stay a while.?I so wanted to stay wanted to steep myself in her beauty and warmth butWe did have forever. Time could be a friend, but an enemy as well. RightNow it just might prove to be an enemy. Enough time had passed forSomeone at Castle Weir to become anxious and send someone after her...One, perhaps two I could defend against, but five or six? With only aSword for protection? I was not likely to survive that kind of assault.Without armor I was perhaps quicker, but these would be skilled men muchMore skilled than I and older, I would not stand very much of a chance...'I must go Gwyn, the hour grows late,' I said, 'and if I am caught here,You know the consequences.'...
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Warp Drive
2007-10-30 21:17:00
Star Fleet EmblemPicture courtesy of wikipedia.comIs Star Trek really a science show, or just a lot of "gee, whiz" nonsensical sci-fi? Could people really DO the fantastic things they do on the original Star Trek and Next Generation programs, or is it all just hi-tech fantasy for people who can't face reality? Will the real world come to resemble the world of unlimited power for people to travel about the galaxy in luxurious, gigantic ships, and meet exotic alien beings as equals?Original Star Trek CastPhoto courtesy of store.startrek.com (click photo to enlarge)Personally I'd like to think so, but the reality of it is much too far away into the future...Although government agencies such as NASA, The Jet Propulsion Lab, and The Ames Research Institute are working on the problem, no one has come up with a useable working model, yet...I say yet, because some folks think it's only a matter of time before we do...Warp drive effectGraphic courtesy of daviddarling.info (click graphic t...
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Time Travel
2007-10-22 05:21:00
60's series The Time TunnelPhoto courtesy of uncleodiescollectibles.com (click photo to enlarge)"...there is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space, except that our consciousness moves along it."H.G. WellsThe great British novelist H.G. Wells (1886 - 1946)Photo courtesy of wikipedia.com (click photo to enlarge)There may be no other concept that captures the imagination more than the idea of time travel -- the ability to travel to any point in the past or future...What could be cooler? You could jump into your time machine to go back and see major events in history and talk to the people who were there! Who would you travel back to see? H.G. Wells? Julius Caesar? Leonardo da Vinci? Elvis? You could go back and meet yourself at an earlier age, go forward and see how you look in the future...It's these possibilities that have made time travel the subject of so many science fiction books and movies...Even the great French fiction writer Jules Verne describ...
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Camelot
2007-10-16 16:10:00
The Legendary Kingdom Of Camelot Picture courtesy of mdbmall.com (click picture once to enlarge)...the rain may never fall till after sundown. At eight AM the fog must disappear. In short there's simply not, a more congenial spot, for a happily-ever-aftering, than here in Camelot... -Camelot, Alan Jay Lerner-Fredrick Loewe- King Arthur, Lady Guinevere, The Holy Grail, Sir Lancelot, Avalon, Excalibur, The Great wizard Merlin, and the Knights of The Round Table...That's what you think about when your hear the name 'Camelot'...You think of magic, mystery, chivalry, war, honor, loyalty, lust, greed and deceit, but most of all, you think about love, and how an entire kingdom fell under it's magical spell...Most of us are familiar with the story and the legend that accompanies Camelot, but was it an actual place? Did the legendary King Arthur really exist? Or was he merely the product of imagination, myth and legend? In this post we'll start at the very beginning, with King Arthur hi...

Pixies and Sprites
2007-10-13 17:04:00
A male spritePicture courtesy of i147.photobucket.com (click on picture to enlarge)Whenever you think about fairies, the name 'Tinkerbell' just naturally springs to mind, and even though this amusing little pint sized character has been entertaining children and adults alike for over fifty-four years, we don't really know that much about Tinkerbell herself, or even where she comes from...What we do know, however, is that she has always been annoying, jealous, spiteful, and definitely more than a little flighty...She is technically known as a 'pixie', mythical beings of folklore who aren't good enough to go on to Heaven, but not bad enough to be cast down into Hell...But this is where the confusing part actually begins...Tinkerbell from Peter PanPicture courtesy of paint-the-sky.org (click on picture to enlarge)Tinkerbell not only glowed brightest for 'Peter Pan', she could also sprinkle you with 'pixie dust' and enable you to fly...But you see, 'pixies' aren't fairies, ...
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Pet Psychics
2007-10-11 11:59:00
Pet collageCollage courtesy of istockphotos.comWhen Rae Ramsey sensed that her cat, Puffkin, wasn't feeling well, she immediately took the 12-year-old Himalayan to the vet...The doctor said the animal would have to stay over night, and Ramsey headed home...The next day the hospital called to say that Puffkin wasn't doing well at all and gave Ramsey the option of putting her down or doing exploratory surgery...Ramsey's eyes welled up with tears as she told the hospital she would call back...Before making such a momentous decision, Ramsey had to check with someone...She had to consult Puffkin himself...Ramsey is a professional animal communicator and knows how to talk to animals telepathically, by psychic email...And when she contacted the sick cat and asked what she would like her to do, Puffkin replied telepathically that she would like to die at home...On the way back to her apartment, Ramsey told Puffkin that she had fixed up a private resting place with some pillows for her be...
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The Nephilim
2007-10-09 21:44:00
Ancient depiction of the Nephilim Picture courtesy of about.comGenesis 6:4, King James Version... There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.The Nephilim were a race of giants that were produced by the sexual union of the sons of God (presumably fallen angels) and the daughters of men. Translated from the Hebrew texts, "Nephilim" means "fallen ones". They were renowned for their strength, prowess, and a great capacity for sinfulness. Excerpt text courtesy of about.comBut who were these beings really? These "fallen ones"? Were they just a Biblical myth? Or did a race of hybrid giants actually exist on Earth before the Great Flood? Some recent, controversial claims of gigantic skeletal remains being unearthed around the world, suggest that the biblical tales of the Nephilim may have been based on actual fact...Contro...
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Admiral Byrd's Hollow Earth
2007-10-06 20:01:00
Planet Earth Photo courtesy of nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov (click photo once to enlarge)In March of 1947, United States Navy Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd claimed to have made the discovery of a lifetime while on a routine exploratory flight over the North Pole...Ever since that time, hundreds and thousands of people have been struggling desperately to re-discover this mythical realm once again...It has been referred to by many different names...Hollow Earth, Middle Earth, Agartha, Shambhala, etc...But the premise is still the same...It contends that Earth is actually not solid, but instead, hollow, with an entrance at either pole...It also contends that a highly advanced race of human beings resides deep beneath the crust in a utopian society near the central core of our planet...Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, USN 1888-1957Photo courtesy of medalofhonor.comBut the same theory was widely popular long before Byrd's claims of actually finding an entrance in 1947...One such theory was offere...

Vampires In Myth And Legend
2007-09-27 09:49:00
Vampire lovers Akasha and Lestat from the 2002 motion picture Queen Of The DamnedPhoto courtesy of thevampirelestat.net and Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., (click photo once to enlarge)They have shadowed mankind since the beginning of time...Vampires , those elusive, darkly erotic yet dangerously perverse blood sucking creatures who stalk their victims by night and shun the light of day...But what do we really know about vampires? Are they real? Do they exist? And where did the legend actually begin? Well vampires are not new to human history, though few people know how far back the myth really goes...The Vampire by Philip Burne-Jones 1897Picture courtesy of wikipedia.com (click picture once to enlarge)In ancient Sumerian culture around 3000 BC, they were known as the 'Akhkharu', but were always females, and considered to be demons...Sucking the blood of living hosts, these female vampires followed the familiar pattern of their more modern cousins, yet only attacked new born infa...
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Hitler's Ufos...The Vril and the Haunebu
2007-09-24 01:41:00
Adolf Hitler 1889-1945 Picture courtesy of nsdapao.com (click picture once to enlarge)"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it..." Adolf Hitler 1937He remains today as the most recognizable, most hated, and most prolific mass murdering genocidal killers the world has ever known...His name, was Adolf Hitler...Born on April 20th, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, Austria, he was the fourth child of six, whose Father, Alois Hitler, who was a customs official, and Mother, Klara Polzl, were first cousins...His first name, Adolf, means "noble wolf" in The Old High German, and during his formative years in the 1920's, Hitler insisted on being called 'Wolf' or 'Herr Wolf' by his peers, right up until the fall of the Third Reich in 1945...Hitler at age seven Photo courtesy of nodak.edu (click photo once to enlarge)But from these modest, humble beginnings on a small farm in Austria near the border of Germany, Adolf Hitler would grow into the most fear...
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Skinwalkers, Shapeshifters and Werefolk...
2007-09-21 19:39:00
Shapeshifter by Ingrid Houwers 2004Drawing courtesy of deviantart.com At first glance you may think this drawing represents a Native American Skin walker, but in reality, it is a modern day interpretation of a Druid shape shifter...Shape shifting is not a new concept, the transformation from human being into animal form pre-dates even the most ancient culture, and is still a common myth in many societies today...Almost every culture around the world harbors myths and legends surrounding "transmogrification", or human to animal metamorphosis...City of the Fox by Japanese artist Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (1886)Picture courtesy of onmarkproductions.com (click picture once to enlarge)In Japan during the mid 1700's, paintings of the "Fox Woman' were done by artist Kuniyoshi Ichiyusai...This magical shape-shifting woman could change her shape to that of a fox spirit or 'kitsune' at will to do both good and evil...The Fox woman is the messenger of the deity Inari, who not only protects the r...
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Noah's Ark: A Timeless Quest
2007-09-20 12:33:00
Artists conception of the legendary Noah's ArkDigital art by Wojciech (Voytek) Nowakowski,voytek-art.com (click once on image to enlarge)For thousands of years men have been searching for it, combing mountains and deserts, sailing across the world's oceans and trekking through the wilderness, but to no avail...The remains of their passionate hunt still continues to escape them...Noah's Ark, allegedly built sometime between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, is the immense wooden vessel from the biblical Genesis flood...Where is it? Where did it eventually come to rest, and why hasn't even a single plank ever been found after all this time? According to the Bible, the Ark came to rest on the "mountains of rrt", but no one knows for certain exactly where 'rtt' is...Geographical limits of the Kingdom of Uraratu (Ararat)Map courtesy of noahsarksearch.com (click map once to enlarge)Over time, however, theologians and scholars have translated 'rtt' into "Urartu" and finally to the more w...
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Hobbits In Indonesia
2007-09-17 21:07:00
Flora The HobbitPicture courtesy of corante.com and National Geographic**CLICK ON PICTURES ONCE TO ENLARGE TO FULL SIZE FOR BETTER VIEWING**'The Great Debate', as it is called, may finally be over...Sometime back in early October of 2002 in Liang Bua cave on Flores Island, (which lies midway between Asia and Australia), a team of Australian and Indonesia n researchers unearthed the grapefruit-sized skull of a tiny human being...They concluded that the skull belonged to a female child, who they dubbed 'homo floresiensis', (after the island on which she was found)...Dr. Mike Moorwood and dig team member at cave in 2004Picture courtesy of donsmaps.com Initially all the team members agreed that she was indeed a young juvenile, but after further, more in-depth excavation was done however, and a more complete skeleton was unearthed, 'Flora', as she was then nicknamed, clearly proved to everyone that they had all been mistaken...She was not a child at all, but a fully mature adult who...

New Blog...
2007-09-17 04:25:00
Ok, so this isn't really a new blog, I just moved it from somewhere else! But basically this is where all the strange and bizarre stuff will hang out...My other blog, Personal Paranoia, will have only personal stuff (daily posts about my crazy life) posted on it...So I promise, you may agree, disagree, or just be plain surprised with the content, but you will never be bored here...Although I will try and post about three times a week, don't hold me to that yet until I get back into the swing of things...Had a very bad experience blogging elsewhere, so we'll see how it goes ok? In the meantime, I'll put up a new post tomorrow for you to see what it's all about...Take care and be well,Nick
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