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This is the title of an article at http://popular-archaeology.com/issue-printer/april-2011 .... looking for the Biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities of the Plain that

The New York Times (see www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/science/26qna.html?_r=1=science 'As the World Turns' asks, do shifts of the earth's axis produced by earthquakes alter world weather? - presumably

At www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2011/04/did-peking-man-wield-spear-new-re... there is a posting on Peking Man, dated by a new methodology some 700,000 years ago and known from the cave system at

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110428143155.htm ... biologists have found that electrical oscillations in the brain are more important than they imagined as they play a role in organising

Recent DNA tests on the mummies of Tutankhamon and his close relatives came up with the odd, if not  too likely finding that they had

Over at http://wattsupwiththat.com on April 29th we learn that some AGW doomsayers have said the devastating Alabama tornadoes are a result of 'C02 pollution' rather

At www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/ April 25th (Physics blog) 'How Bacteria could generate radio waves' (or go to www.technologyreview.com and click on blogs along the top menu, then

This story was big on the blogosphere a year or so ago but it seems a Telegraph 'investigative' journalist has caught up with reality and

Oil leaks into the oceans all the time - naturally. Pierre Gosselin at http://notrickszone.com a German blog, asks 'Where is the Oil? Deepwater Horizon one

At www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/04/2011/fin-cop-hillfort-unearth... is the archaeological story of the excavations 9and you can actually read the excavation reports at www.archaeologicalresearchservices.com ). The discovery of 9 bodies,

Tsunami is a Japanese word and they have been a feature of Japan's history for as long as it can be gleaned. Previous inhabitants left

The idea of the geoid readjusting itself as a result of changes in the axis of rotation may not be acceptable to academic geology but

The environmentalists extravaganza over the so-called ozone hole in the 1970s and 1980s led to the banning of an efficient refrigerant that was replaced by

At www.gks.uk.com/Apophis-Apep-Serpent/ it is suggested the jet streams were anciently more visible and they were likened to encircling serpents in the sky. This idea is

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ on April 20th, NASA is releasing the first images and sounds of an electrical connection between Saturn and one of its moons, Enceladus

BBC News April 19th was full of it - our Iron Age ancestors were really bloodthirsty brutes and a finger was pointed at the discovery

At www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2011/04/rising-above-acropolis-constellat... some computer retrocalculation software of the sky at night has shown that the constellation Draco, the dragon, would have been above the acropolis

NASA is saying solar cycle 24 is finally on (see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/15/watched-solar-cmes-never-boil/ ). In 2008 sun spots disappeared and flares subsided and there was lots of

Some people say that C02 does not cause warming - recent rising temperatures are due to natural factors such as solar cycles. Others think there

This sounds like the sort of thing advocated by Steve Mitchell in the pages of SIS but the story is at www.physorg.com/print221727791.html and derives from