Meteor Fireball Explosion Causes Panic in Pakistan´s Mountainous North
A suspected meteor lit up the skies above Pakistan´s mountainous north late Wednesday, officials said, with panicked residents reporting a mysterious light whizzing past and the sound of multiple, powerful blasts. The incident occurred around 9PM, when citizens in the city of Gilgit and the surrounding Ghizer and Diamer districts saw the bright object racing through the night sky above … Continue reading
Is the Mona Lisa’s Expression Happy or Sad ?
One of the art world’s most hotly debated mysteries may have finally been solved after 500 years. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is perhaps the most famous painting of all time – it’s subtle smile and captivating pose delighting generations of art lovers for the better part of five centuries. Exactly what emotion the painting’s subject is expressing however has … Continue reading
The Tax Reform Donald Trump is Pushing Would Have Saved Him $31 Million in Taxes in 2005
US president Donald Trump earned nearly $153 million in 2005, according to a report by The Daily Beast and the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC. Trump and his wife Melania paid $38.4 million in tax on the income, a tax rate of some 25%, according to the tax return that MSNBC posted online (pdf). That’s about the tax bracket for … Continue reading
Discovery of 400,000 Yr-Old Half-Skull In Portugal Points to Mystery People
The discovery of a 400,000-year-old half skull in Portugal has offered tantalizing hints about a possible ancestor of the Neanderthals, researchers said Monday. The fossil was unearthed from the Aroeira cave site, and marks the oldest human cranium fossil ever found in Portugal, said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed US journal. But … Continue reading
Homes in a Del Dios California Evacuated After the Earth Beneath Them Shifts
Three homes in a Del Dios development near Lake Hodges were evacuated after the earth beneath them started moving. Behind security gates is a newer development called Cielo, which in Spanish means sky, appropriately named for its magnificent views from million-dollar mansions built on steep hilltops. But the earth beneath at least three of them is starting to shift. In … Continue reading
No Evidence Trump Tower Wiretapped – House Intel Committee
Although the Justice Department asked for more time to send congressional intelligence committees evidence that Trump Tower was wiretapped during the campaign, the leaders of the House committee said they never received any. “It deeply concerns me that the president would make such an accusation without basis,” Representative Adam Schiff (D-California), the ranking member, told reporters, calling it “irresponsible” of … Continue reading
Mystery Noises Heard in the Sewers Below Derby, England
Despite being a fact of daily life and lying just below our feet in cities all around the world, sewer systems are places in which most of us never step foot (lucky for our shoes). For this reason, sewer systems remain places of mystery and folklore. Throughout most technologically developed cultures, urban sewer legends and myths of strange subterranean sewer … Continue reading
Hollow Earth Coordinates Revealed in Secret Antarctic Map
In our quest to discover the secrets of Antarctica the Russian journalist Nikolai Subbotin analyzes the KGB documents from the released folder “Orion” on the activities of the Nazis in the Antarctic before and during the Second World War. The following is a translated excerpt compiled from various reports on this issue. This map shows us the main continent on … Continue reading
Radioactive Fukushima Wild Boars Have Taken Over Since People Evacuated
They descend on towns and villages, plundering crops and rampaging through homes. They occasionally attack humans. But perhaps most dangerous of all, the marauders carry with them highly radioactive material. Hundreds of toxic wild boars have been roaming across northern Japan, where the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant six years ago forced thousands of residents to desert their homes, … Continue reading