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Dinosaur mass grave discovered in Switzerland Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
An amateur paleontologist in Switzerland may have unearthed Europe's largest dinosaur mass grave after he dug up the remains of two Plateosaurus.
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'Millionaire's Tax' Could Fund NYC Mass Transit Posted: 2 years ago by deEPCHill
Under the plan, people who earn over $1 million in New York state will pay an income tax surcharge of about 3/4 of 1 percent for five years. In all, it would raise over $5 billion for mass transit.
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11 Weirdest Real-Life Cases of Mass Hysteria Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
If you’re an avid movie watcher, you’ve probably come across some pretty weird urban legends and myths. What’s amazing is that oftentimes real-life occurrences of mass hysteria, spurred on by mass psychogenic illness or collective obsessional behavior are much more bizarre and scary than fictional myths.
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Coronal Mass Ejections And A 3-D View Of A Solar Storm Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
Twin NASA spacecraft have provided scientists with a view of the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of powerful explosions from the sun known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. This new capability will dramatically enhance scientists' ability to predict if and how these solar tsunamis could affect Earth.
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Priest Drops Silent Bombshell During Mass Posted: 4 months ago by Doggylives
No, not like that!
As his congregation of deaf Roman Catholics prepared to head home after Mass, the priest indicated that he had something to tell.
Then, using sign language, Father Peter McDonough dropped his bombshell
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Military sonar blamed for mass dolphin strandings Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
Mass strandings of dolphins and whales could be caused because the animals are rendered temporarily deaf by military sonar, experiments have shown.
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Pope considers return to Latin mass Posted: 3 years ago by kxmk
Latin mass says, "Bring it on!"
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Mass graves uncovered in Colombia Posted: 3 years ago by KingKoopa
Colombian authorities have uncovered the mass graves of more than 100 people believed to have been killed during the country's long-running civil conflict.
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Saddam trial told of mass grave find Posted: 3 years ago by teaya21
A US forensics expert took the stand in Saddam Hussein's trial for genocide against ethnic Kurds to tell in grim detail how he unearthed the remains of 27 people from a mass grave in northern Iraq.
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Mass extinctions caused by global warming? Posted: 3 years ago by Fanatic
An asteroid impact may have caused one mass extinction in the past, but this article argues that relatively sudden releases of hydrogen sulfide gas from the world's oceans may have caused others. H2S is thought to be released as a consequence of high levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. Guess what's happening now?
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Bosnian in legal debate over cow falling in mass grave Posted: 2 years ago by kxmk
Got milk?
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Scientists Announce Mass Participation Experiment To Cheer-up The UK Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
“Obviously, we are in the midst of a recession and it is vital that people keep their spirits high. This study will help identify the most effective way of putting a smile on people’s faces.”
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Priest uncovering beginnings of Final Solution Posted: 10 months ago by 2manyusernames
When we think of the Holocaust we have horrible scenes of concentration camps burned in our psyche. Less known is the early days of the Nazi's "Final Solution" where the entire Jewish population of towns would be shot and killed and buried in unmarked mass graves.
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Pope says, "Latin mass fo-shizzle!" Posted: 2 years ago by kxmk
A follow up to this.
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Saddam Faked Having WMD To Prevent Iran From Invading Iraq Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Saddam Hussein initially didn't think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen.
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The Milky Way Is Weighed Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Previous estimates had ranged from 750 billion solar masses to up to 2 trillion. Lately, researchers have been leaning toward the higher figure. But now astronomers have used a more refined method to conclude that our galaxy's mass is slightly less than 1 trillion solar masses.
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Top 10 reasons BMI is bogus Posted: 5 months ago by lynxears
Americans keep putting on the pounds — at least according to a report released this week from the Trust for America's Health. The study found that nearly two-thirds of states now have adult obesity rates above 25 percent.
But you may want to take those findings — and your next meal — with a grain of salt, because they're based on a calculation called the body mass index, or BMI.
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STEREO spies first major activity of solar cycle 24 Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
NASA′s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft has spotted the first major activity of the new solar cycle. On May 5 STEREO-B observed a Type II radio burst and a bright, fast coronal mass ejection (CME) emanating from the far side of the sun. The activity originated in a solar active region that rotated into view from Earth on May 8.
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They had sex WHERE? Posted: 1 year ago by bevissimo
ROME - An Italian couple who were caught having sex in a church confessional box while morning Mass was being said have repented and made peace with the local bishop.
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World Body Mass Index Posted: 3 years ago by BrownTrout
...percentages of "fat people" by national populations. Guess who's #1?
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