Monday, August 31, 2009

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Derweze (Turkmen language: The Gate, also known as Darvaza) is a Turkmenistan village of about 350 inhabitants, located in the middle of the Kara-Kum desert, about 260 km north from Ashgabat.

Locals have named the cavern The Door to Hell.

Read more about it on MFS,with videoclip.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

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The Great Blue Hole is a large underwater sinkhole off the coast of Belize.The hole is circular in shape, over 300 metres (984 ft) across and 125 metres (410 ft) deep.It was formed as a limestone cave system during the last glacial period when sea levels were much lower. As the ocean began to rise again, the caves flooded, and the roof collapsed.

Read more about it on MFS.

Friday, August 28, 2009

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Effective mosquito control starts at home.

Things You Should Know Before Travelling With Your Pet!

Have a great Weekend!

Thursday, August 27, 2009

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The island Socotra is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Horn of Africa some 190 nautical miles (220 mi; 350 km) south of the Arabian peninsula. It is so isolated that a third of its plant life is found nowhere else on the planet. It has been described as the most alien-looking place on Earth.

Read more about it on MFS.With videoclip.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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Easter island and the Moai statues. Easter Island , is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile annexed in 1888, Easter Island is widely famous for its monumental statues, called moai , created by the Rapanui people.

Read more about it on MFS.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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The Phaistos Disc is a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC). It is about 15 cm (5.9 in) in diameter and covered on both sides with a spiral of stamped symbols. Its purpose and meaning, and even its original geographical place of manufacture, remain disputed, making it one of the most famous mysteries of archaeology. Read more about it on MFS.

Monday, August 24, 2009

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Sirenomelia or Mermaid Syndrome is a very rare congenital deformity in which the legs are fused together, giving the appearance of a mermaid's tail.
This condition is found in approximately one out of every 100,000 live births (about as rare as conjoined twins) and is usually fatal within a day or two of birth because of complications associated with abnormal kidney and bladder development and function. It results from a failure of normal vascular supply from the lower aorta in utero. Read more about it on MFS,with videoclip one of the 3 surviving children with this rare condition.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

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Updated on MFS - Strange But True - People 6 .The Green children of Woolpit reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, in the 12th century, during the reign of King Stephen. The only nearly contemporary accounts are given in the chronicle of Ralph of Coggeshall and William of Newburgh's Historia rerum anglicarum, book I, xxvii, De viridibus pueris.
The children, brother and sister, were of generally normal appearance except for the green colour of their skin. They spoke in a strange language, and initially the only food they would eat was green beans.

Read more about these children on MFS.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

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Priest Bérenger Saunière was a priest in the French village of Rennes-le-Château, in the Aude region, officially from 1885 to 1909 (when he was transferred to another village by his bishop, that he declined and subsequently resigned) and after 1909, until his death in 1917, in the role of Free Priest (a priest working independently without a parish). Supporters of the various conspiracy theories of Rennes-le-Château believe that while renovating his parish church in 1891, Saunière found ancient documents relating to a great historical secret.Read more about it on MFS,
with videoclip.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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The Coelacanth is is the common name for an order of fish that includes the oldest living lineage of gnathostomata known to date. The coelacanths, which are related to lungfishes and tetrapods, were believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period, until the first Latimeria specimen was found off the east coast of South Africa, off the Chalumna River in 1938.

Read more about this amazing living fossil on MFS,with videoclip.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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The Saiga Antelope is an antelope which originally inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe zone from the foothils of the Carpathians and Caucasus into Dzungaria and Mongolia. Today they are found only in a few areas in Kalmykia (Russia), Kazakhstan, and western Mongolia.

Read more about it on MFS,with videoclip.

Monday, August 17, 2009

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Polycephaly is a condition of having more than one head. The term is derived from the stems poly- meaning 'many' and kephal- meaning "head", and encompasses bicephaly and dicephaly (both referring to two-headedness). A variation is an animal born with two faces on a single head, a condition known as diprosopus. In medical terms these are all congenital cephalic disorders.

Read moreabout it on MFS,with videoclip.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

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The Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone The mystery stone from Lake Winnipesaukee is an alleged out-of-place artifact (OOPArt), reportedly found in 1872 while workers were digging a hole for a fence post. It is a carved stone about 4 inches long and 2 1/2 inches thick, dark and egg-shaped, bearing a variety of symbols. The stone's age, purpose, and origin are unknown.Read more about it on MFS.

Friday, August 14, 2009

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Updated this week on MFS .

On the Classic Reggae page :

The Harder They Come by Jimmy Cliff and (I Can't Help)Falling In Love by UB 40.


How to Choose Components for Building a Computer.

Have A Great Weekend !

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Kabwe skull or Broken Hill skull is a hominin fossil that was frequently classified as belonging to Homo rhodesiensis. The cranium was found in an iron and zinc mine in Broken Hill Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) in 1921 by Tom Zwiglaar, a Swiss miner.Some claim the skull shows a bullet impact others say the skull isn't an ancient skull.
Read more about it on MFS.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

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The Coso Artifact is a spark plug found encased in a lump of hard clay or rock on February 13, 1961 by Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey, and Mike Mikesell while they were prospecting for geodes near the town of Olancha, California and long claimed as an example of an out-of-place artifact.Read more about it on MFS,with videoclip.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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Updated on MFS - Strange But true - Things / Other 6 ,The Istanbul Rocket ship Zecharia Sitchin (a scholar of Sumerian history and language)located this object in the archives of the Museum of Archaeology in Istanbul. Read more about it on MFS,with videoclip about ancient flying machines.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

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Updated on MFS - Strange But True - Things / Other 6.

The Crystal Skulls are a number of human skull models fashioned from blocks of clear or milky quartz crystal rock, claimed to be pre-Columbian Mesoamerican artifacts by their alleged finders.Read more about them on MFS.

With 3 different videoclips about them.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

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Updated on The Resource Center - auto :
Some of the most expensive cars in the world.
On the MFS main page we put a new poll : Wich car brand would you buy ?
Have a Great Weekend !

Friday, August 7, 2009

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Curious locals gathered to the home of owner Feng Changlin after news of the piglet spread in Fengzhang village, Xiping township.
Read more about it on MFS.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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The World War 2 best sniper : Simo Häyhä .
He's considered the best sniper of any major conflict with 542 confirmed kills.
Read more about it on MFS,with videoclip of Russian snipers.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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Yellowstone "Super Volcano" sits on top of three overlapping calderas. (USGS)
The loosely defined term 'supervolcano' has been used to describe volcanic fields that produce exceptionally big volcanic eruptions. Thus defined, the Yellowstone Supervolcano is the volcanic field which produced the latest three supereruptions from the Yellowstone hotspot.
Read more about it on MFS,with videoclip.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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Mount Tambora is known now as the volcano that produced the "year without summer" because of the effect on North American and European weather.
Read more about it on MFS,with videoclip about super volcanos.

Monday, August 3, 2009

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The Volcanic explosion of Krakatau in 1883.
The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa began in May 1883 culminating with the destruction of Krakatoa in August 1883. Minor seismic activity continued to be reported until February 1884, though reports after October 1883 were later dismissed by Rogier Verbeek's (a Dutch geologist and nature scientist) investigation.
Read more about it on MFS,with videoclip.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

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Added in the month of July to MFS :
The Other News a witty look at news stories that escape the headlines.
We gave The Resource Center a new look and added a topic to "home and Gardening" the rainmakers.
Have A Great Weekend !
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