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Two major strike and slip earthquakes struck off the coast of Sumatra in April (2012) - see www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/6015/record-breaking-earthquakes-push-new-bo... ... and they are thought to have

The Guardian at www.guardian.co.uk/news/2012/sep/23/weatherwatch-climate-ghengis-khan-mo... ... eager to publish anthing about warm weather the Guardian informs us that tree rings in the early 13th century Mongolia

Margaret Gelling says that the main Anglo Saxon settlement was not where the village of Cookham now sits, which is on fairly low ground, but

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/09/21/looking-into-solar-coronal-promine... ... is a fascinating post, scientists are eager to understand what causes coronal mass ejections as they are seen as a threat to

At http://cosmictusk.com/unfiltered-unsorted-surovell-holiday-et-al-in-pnas... ... George Howard decribes the nature of the resistance to the Younger Dryas boundary event hypothesis and what he witnessed at the AMQA

We all speak Egyptian, it seems, not the Arab variety introduced by a colonialist invaders around 1400 hundred years ago, but the real Egyptian language

At http://phys.org/print267377704.html ... the bankrupt EU is to payroll super economy China - and a picture shows them smiling, and no wonder. The great and

At http://phys.org/print267336872.html ... is an interesting snippet of information from a paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research (doi:10.1029/2012JF002366) and this is that red iron

It's getting fashionable to hypothesize about meteor, asteroid or comet impacts. At http://phys.org/print267255104.html ... a new study is claiming a cosmic body plunged into the

At http://phys.org/print267290115.html (and now at www.geneticarchaeology.com from today, the 21st Sept) ... new research is suggesting genetic mutation explains how early humans were able to

After watching Neil Oliver on BBC television on Tuesday night, 18th September, talk about the Vikings and their impact on Ireland, Britain, and Russia etc,

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120917085535.htm ... eight well preserved spears have been found in Germany, 300,000 years of age. These are purported to be the world's oldest weaponry.

At www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=did-the-reign-of-dinosaur-begi... ... the end of Cretaceous, or K/T boundary event, is associated with an asteroid smashing into Yucatan, killing off the dinosaurs, and now

At http://cosmictusk.com/surovell-comet-asteroid-impactyounger-dryas-edward... ... however, the paper, lead author astrophysicist Malcolm LeCompte, stops short of saying there is positive evidence of a cosmic impact. What they

EM Smith is catching up on the discovery that cattle herders and pastoralists in the green Sahara, prior to 4000BC, led to lactose tolerance -

At http://phys.org/print267179257.html ... and see also www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120918111320.htm ... and of course, http://cosmictusk.com/pnas-younger-drays-comet-paper-lecompte-s/ ... there is a new paper in PNAS that appears to exonerate the

A paper at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.5445v1.pdf ... appears to have used the swing between summer and winter to come up with the idead major changes were likely

The first one is www.electricuniverse.info/Introduction and the next is www.plasma-universe.com From Gary Gilligan we have two web sites on Isaac Newton's chronology of the ancient

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/09/-fireball-on-jupiter-so-large-and-... ... it was so bright and prominent that amateur astronomers spotted the flash and another filmed it (see also www.spaceweather.com). A video of

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-290&cid=release_2012-290 ... the NASA Opportunity rover, not to be confused with the Curiosity rover now being set loose on the surface of Mars, has