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		<title>Arsenic-based perspectives on &#8220;alien life&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a 24-hour-long media hype, the official anonuncement came at NASA press conference. No, it&#8217;s not about &#8220;alien life&#8221; evidences recently found. At least, *not yet*. But the results of a recent research are really stunning: Life may exist elsewhere in the universe, under the circumstances we couldn&#8217;t even dream of. &#8220;Arsenic, in place of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=omega.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7652&amp;post=396&amp;subd=omega&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did volcanoes kill off the Neanderthals?</title>
		<link>http://omega.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/did-volcanoes-kill-off-the-neanderthals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This appears to be a very interesting new theory that comes with a bold (and controversial) study: 40,000 years ago the volcanoes in Europe blew the final whistle for our close relatives, the Neanderthals. The picture provided by the researchers seem consistent with the chronology, though some scholars remain unconvinced. Other theories suggest that modern [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=omega.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7652&amp;post=392&amp;subd=omega&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Ancient Amazonian Civilization?</title>
		<link>http://omega.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/an-ancient-amazonian-civilization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>invictus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon Rainforest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rain forest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zahra Hirji of Discovery News, presents a brief analysis on the hot subject which has been discussed for some time. Is the &#8220;ancient civilization in Amazonian forests&#8221; story, an &#8220;incredible cover-up of Mother Nature&#8221; as Hirji herself stated on the title of the article, or rather an exaggerated speculation that grew in some archaeologists&#8217; minds? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=omega.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7652&amp;post=389&amp;subd=omega&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Theory on Nazca Lines</title>
		<link>http://omega.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/new-theory-on-nazca-lines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>invictus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mystery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nazca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nazca Lines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peru]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[American researcher David Johnson, comes up with a new and intriguing explanation on one of the most enigmatic sites in world. The mysterious lines, figures and signs on Nazca Plain have been researched and examined for decades since last century and there are almost a dozen theories about their &#8220;purpose&#8221; and function. Among them were, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=omega.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7652&amp;post=385&amp;subd=omega&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mithra: The Bull-Slayer Sun God</title>
		<link>http://omega.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/mithra-the-bull-slayer-sun-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>invictus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constantine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mithra]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sol invictus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the Roman Emperor Constantine had not taken that critical decision in the first half of the 4th century, the picture of the world we live in would have been probably very different than today. As some historians speculate, we would have seen &#8220;Mithraeums&#8221; instead of churches (and probably mosques) throughout the western world (and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=omega.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7652&amp;post=371&amp;subd=omega&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nebra Disk: Did the Sun-Cults fall out of grace after the catastrophe?</title>
		<link>http://omega.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/nebra-disk-did-the-sun-cults-fall-out-of-grace-after-the-catastrophe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>invictus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Minoan eruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bronze Age relic known as &#8220;The Nebra Disk&#8221; was one of the most significant archaeological discoveries just before the end of millenium, in 1999. Believed to be made around 17th century BCE, the disk is thought to be designed as a kind of &#8220;astronomical clock&#8221; by the priests of a Bronze Age central European [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=omega.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7652&amp;post=367&amp;subd=omega&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Mother of All Humans&#8221; lived 200,000 years ago</title>
		<link>http://omega.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/mother-of-all-humans-lived-200000-years-ago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[genome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mitochondria, the fundamental part of a cell which supplies the most of the chemical energy by generating ATP, also gives extremely valuable clues about the human genome. Since it is inherited maternally, all human beings on the earth could be traced back to an individual female lived in Africa who is called &#8220;Mitochondrial Eve&#8221; and  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=omega.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7652&amp;post=364&amp;subd=omega&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WTC Ship puzzling archaeologists</title>
		<link>http://omega.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/wtc-ship-puzzling-archaeologists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>invictus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is quite a mystery. An ancient (probably from the mid-1700&#8242;s) ship&#8217;s remains found buried 20 to 30 feet below street level at WTC site &#8211; probably undisturbed for more than two centuries. Build date is uncertain and the ship design is unfamiliar. A large team of archaeologists is working on the remains at Maryland [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=omega.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7652&amp;post=356&amp;subd=omega&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient &#8220;Pictish Language&#8221; mystery deepens</title>
		<link>http://omega.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/ancient-pictish-language-mystery-deepens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still controversial, but definitely interesting and thought provoking: Do the carvings on the 1,500 years old &#8220;Pictish Stones&#8221; found in Scotland, present &#8220;written words&#8221; of an ancient language, rather than being &#8220;just pictures&#8221;? Professor Rob Lee from Exeter University thinks so, while French linguist Arnaud Fournet does not agree. Amplify’d from www.archaeologydaily.com A linguistic mystery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=omega.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7652&amp;post=351&amp;subd=omega&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Robot that could solve the Great Pyramid&#8217;s mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been more than 18 years since German engineer Rudolph Gantenbrink discovered the &#8220;secret door&#8221; in the southern shaft of the so-called &#8220;Queen&#8217;s Chamber&#8220;, using his remote controlled robot named &#8220;Upuaut&#8221; (Meaning &#8220;The Opener&#8221; in Ancient Egyptian.) It took Supreme Council of Antiquities ten years to examine what lied behind that door. During this long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=omega.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7652&amp;post=348&amp;subd=omega&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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