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@ Bored with gardening? Try something more radical. http://www.reh42.com/
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# Tape: Call on JFK wasn't Oswald. WASHINGTON (AP) Hours after Pres. Kennedy
was assassinated, FBI agents reportedly listened to a tape of a phone call
that a man identifying himself as "Lee Oswald" had placed to the Soviet
Embassy in Mexico City. They made a startling discovery: The voice on the
tape was not Oswald's, govt records say. This controversial tape has been
a question mark in the assassination investigation since JFK was killed.
The assassination occurred 36 years ago Monday & only now have new details
about the tape come to light. CIA said years ago that the tapes on which
it recorded the call were erased. Documents released in recent years said
otherwise. Newly declassified documents offer more evidence that the tapes
survived. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562187471-529
# Also: Excerpts from JFK documents - but you don't think they're all real,
do you? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562187060-b4e
: How many layers of disinfo surround Oswald/Ruby/JFK? Who does Oswald dis-
tract us from? Who do THEY distract us from? Why release this (dis)info now?
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# 4,000-year-old palace found in Syria. DAMASCUS (AP) - Archaeologists have
discovered the ruins of a royal palace believed to be 4,000 years old near
Damascus. The palace contains a throne hall 70 ft by 132 ft with 6-ft high
adobe walls. In the very center of the hall, an unbroken jar with "amazing
decoration" was found stuck to the ground. Ancient demons haunt the area.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562168247-89f
# Orkney Farmer Finds Ancient Underground Pagan Temple. (Times) Armed with a
JCB digger, ropes & a shovel, Douglas Paterson set out to discover whether
stories that he had heard as a boy about a "spooky underground hoose" at
Tankerness on Orkney were true. With a rope round his waist and hanging
headfirst down a 2 ft-wide, 30 ft-deep muddy hole, Mr. Paterson excavated
two ancient stone staircases of 29 steps leading down through three sub-
terranean chambers. http://foxnews.com/scitech/111999/times_temple.sml
: What's your favorite ancient palace/temple/site? Do you still perform any
human sacrifices there? Do the channels of power HUM & THROB with the blood?
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# Evidence That Animals Have 'Souls'. Scientists have found the strongest
evidence yet that some animals may have "souls". They have located cells
responsible for self-consciousness in the human brain - and found similar
clusters in great apes. The cells, named "self-awareness neurons", appear
to integrate the work of various parts of the brain - and create a sense
of individuality. http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/Ecclesiastes3_19-20.htm
: Would you like to genetically-engineer mammals/reptiles/fish/birds so the
brains contain these neurons and thus have souls? Are souls evolutionarily
useful? Will soulful chickens take over the universe? Have they already??
# Physiological Abnormalities In Abductees Revealed:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/abductees.htm
# Teens' Biological Clocks Different - Classes Should Start Later:
http://www.sightings.com/health3/teenclasses_h.htm
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SkeptiBriefs - I hardly know what to say - it's your turn:
# Vesuvius Evac Drill Staged. SOMMA VESUVIANA, Italy (Reuters) Neapolitans
staged an orderly "Vesuvius drill" Sunday in a dress rehearsal of an
evacuation in the event of an eruption of the volcano that buried Pompeii
in 79 AD. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991122/08/odd-italy-vesuvius
@ Fireworks: http://markun.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp/japan/fireworks/index-e.html
@ The Differential Geometry of the Sphericon. The Sphericon really is a
(double) cone with a twist. It is formed by taking two right-angled cones,
joining them at the base, slicing the resulting solid by a plane through
the two cone points, and gluing the two resulting pieces back together
after having rotated one 90 degrees with respect to the other. It can be
made from cardboard: http://www.ams.org/new-in-math/cover/sphericon1.html
# Giant Floating Metropolis Planned. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) A huge
$8.5 billion luxury floating metropolis, the biggest boat in history, is
about to be built in the poverty-stricken Central American nation of
Honduras. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991122/08/odd-honduras-boat
@ Death For Satellites - What Are They Hiding Out There? Disturbing trends:
First, images are lost from the Hubbell Space Telescope in mysterious cir-
cumstances, followed within days by a rumour from no directly attributable
source that images from SOHO satellite, in particular C3 images of the Sun
are to be curtailed forthwith. At the same time, Solar images from a Japa-
nese satellite have also been suspended; so what are we to make of these
problems? http://www.sightings.com/politics5/hidesatellites_p.htm
# Phone-sex operator wins masturbation injury claim. The woman, 40, said she
developed carpal tunnel syndrome in both hands from masturbating as often
as 7 times daily doing hot-chat with callers. She'll get benefits for the
injuries. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991119/13/fl-life-phonesex
# OSHA RULES FOR KEYBOARDERS: http://cnn.com/US/9911/22/workplace.rules.ap
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Y2K'r'Us:
# Y2K - Eye on High to Espy Jeru Pilgrims. JERUSALEM (Reuters) Year 2000
pilgrims will be watched from on high as they walk thru ancient alleyways
of Jerusalem to visit holy sites in the walled Old City. Sees all, knows
all: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991122/08/odd-millennium-jerusalem
# Y2K - SEC says brokerages ready for Y2K - moneys tied down:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562152994-b45
# Y2K - Texas Telephones Are Y2K-Ready:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991119/16/tx-state-news-11
# Y2K - Most Americans Will Spend New Year's Eve At Home:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/home.htm
@ Pat Robertson's Millennium Shake Recipe. One of those self-explanatory
things. http://the700club.org/living/health/mcfarland/patshake.asp
@ Another millennial site <http://www.endnear.com/> - see the scenarios
<http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rhoward/frame.gif> people are proposing.
Why are they called "schematics" though? Some are wonderously wrong
<http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rhoward/schematics/scem1.html> already.
And see the Centre for Millennial Studies <http://www.mille.org/> and
their bibliography http://www.mille.org/bibliography/index.html soon.
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