So apparently the Mythbusters fired a cannon through a house yesterday. They did not do it deliberately but I think we can say that the cannons being dangerous is pretty much not a myth. There, the 6-inch projectile bounced in front of a home on quiet Cassata Place, ripped through the front door, raced up [...]
This sort of news story is just the sort that will have gang members out doing archaeological digs all over the place. Crashed Spitfire found in bog with working machine guns. ‘Yo homies, get me a trowel, shit just got real.’ The poor archaeologists out there armed only with their bull whips will have no [...]
Samdup Taso, the last Bongthing of Sikkim is dead and leaves the world without a shaman of Kanchenjunga for the first time since the 13th century. In America we regard it as a cultural tragedy when the hardware store that opened in the 1940s closes.
Saber toothed squirrel ancestor found. Happily no longer around to conspire against humanity and chew up our power lines. I can only shudder at the thought of what one of these monsters could do to a helpless bird feeder.
British lawyers say American Independence is illegal. Americans point out the Britons, Picts and Saxons have a similar complaint. Come talk to us after you have made that all better. Also, I think the Native Americans would like a place in this line as well, and I think they come in before you do.
An archaeological dig in Italy has turn up a ‘witch’ buried with seven nails driven through her jaw. The story places the burials at about 800 years old, so around 1200ad. Interesting the ‘witch’ was buried on consecrated ground, probably meaning she was from a high status family. I wonder if her family was even [...]