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# Seahenge gives up its secrets. (BBC) A circle of waterlogged wooden posts
found on a remote beach in Norfolk, England, is transforming our knowledge
of Bronze Age culture 4,000 years ago. 55 posts around an up-turned oak
stump: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_388000/388988.stm
@ Links: Flag Fen: http://www.flagfen.freeserve.co.uk/
@ Council for British Archaeology: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/
@ English Heritage: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/
@ Norfolk Archaeological Unit:
http://wwwwnorfolk.gov.uk/tourism/museums/arch_unt.htm
@ 'Woodhenge News', The Order of Druids:
http://druidry.org/obod/text/news/woodhenge.html
: Do you prefer wood-post circles, stone-monolith circles, flat-stones-in-
the-desert circles, crop circles, traffic circles, donuts, Cheerios, me? Are
all circles sigils of ritual worship, alien artifacts, mind-control devices?
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# Religious sect's trip common. CARTAGENA (AP) Colombian cops say there's no
reason to fear for the members of a religious sect whose mountain retreat
has sparked wild media speculation about a possible mass suicide. "There's
nothing... irregular or criminal," in the sect's trip to Colombia's Sierra
Nevada mountains from the Caribbean port city of Cartagena, top cop Col.
Armando Silva said. As a precaution, police were trying to determine the
location of about 20 members of the Stella Maris Gnostic Church, who trav-
eled over the weekend into the rugged northern range east of Cartagena.
Other reports have placed the number of worshippers as high as 60. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560229121-5e5
: Should/can/do police track your cult? Is Stella Maris a typical doomsday
cult? Is yours? Do you track cults? Are they easily harvested by Reptoids?
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# Vatican in the black for 6th year. VATICAN CITY (AP) Crediting the genero-
sity of believers worldwide as well as profits on investments and really,
the Vatican reported its sixth straight profitable year. But the cushion
was far from plump. The 1998 surplus, just over US$1.5 mln, was paltry
compared to the nearly $11 million surplus recorded in 1997. The Vatican
went through 23 money-losing years until 1993. In the last few years, the
Holy See has explored new ways to make money, such as marketing papal CDs
and merchandising ventures linked to its museums, post office and mint.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560231102-0f6
: Does your belief system turn a profit? What part of your sect generates
the greatest revenues? Do you invest in other sects to diversify your port-
folio? Are your ties with organized crime profitable? How does a heaven/hell
doctrine differ from a "protection racket?" Does your theology have muscle?
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# Special Reports: Threat From the Net! Yes, there's a lot of junk on the
Net. In less than two hours, CNET found out how to make bombs from house-
hold chemicals, where to buy illegal weapons online, and recipes for more
than 200 hallucinogens. Should this material be censored? Is filter soft-
ware the solution? Can lawmakers stop the threat? Should they even try?
See our Special Report: http://www.cnet.com/Digdispatch/dispatch463.html
: Do you access/provide special/illegal/unethical material online? Where? Is
it fun? Can/should/will it be controlled? Does the Net route around censors?
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SkeptiLinks:
- Planetary alignment / doomsday predictions:
@ Wierd survivalist types: http://zyz.com/survivalcenter/echange.html
@ Raymond Ratkowski: http://rnoone.com/book%20review.html
@ Edmond Wollmann: http://www.astrology.net/guest/8002.html
# MRS. CLINTON: JERUSALEM IS ISRAEL'S 'ETERNAL, INDIVISIBLE' CAPITAL:
http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/07/08/senate.2000/hrc.israel.ap/
# Suicide Said A Serious Option For 44,000 Canadian Children - girls
twice as likely as boys: http://www.sightings.com/health3/sui.htm
# U.S. not ready for nuclear/biological/chemical terrorist threat:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560228589-766
# Military NAFTA - US war college urges joint command with Canada, Mexico:
http://thestar.com/back_issues/ED19990707/news/990707NEW01b_FO-ARMY7.html
# Hominid Ancestors Saw Nearby Supernova As Second Sun:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_388000/388291.stm
# METEOR BLASTS NEW ZEALAND WITH SONIC BOOM - Mars attacks!
http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9907/08/new.zeland.meteor/index.html
# APOLLO 12 ASTRONAUT PETE CONRAD KILLED IN ACCIDENT - 3rd man to walk on
moon: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9907/09/conrad.obit.02/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_389000/389909.stm
@ "Trying to Make a Case for Faith Healing:"
http://www.americanatheist.org/spr97/T2/faithhealing.html
# Giant Prehistoric 'Eggs' Seized - Elephant Bird illegal in France:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990707/10/odd-crime-eggs
# U. Texas site includes links with info on anal sex, plagiarism:
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990706/odd-30
@ Great Secrets Of The 20th Century - Part One
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/20th.htm
@ sex matters: http://www.examiner.com/sexmatters/
@ making cyber whoopie - cyberspace means the enda genda - we are all just
ones and zeroes - http://examiner.com/990707/0707bernie.html
# Pill & promiscuity 'not linked' - teens with easy access to emergency
contraceptives do not indulge in more sex, sez a Finnish study:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_389000/389509.stm
# Former British spy appeals to Swiss - wants to remain in country:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560231318-fe8
# Iraq receives smuggled Mesopotamian artifacts - 1st large-scale handover:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560228420-320
# YELL awards - UK pecking order on the Net:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_389000/389041.stm
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