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It’s older than the pyramids of Egypt and England’s Stonehenge, and it’s an astronomical wonder as well. Yet the passage grave at Newgrange, in Ireland’s County Meath, is often ignored in package tours of the Emerald Isle.
That’s a pity, because the megalithic tomb at Newgrange provides a fascinating primer on how Ireland’s people lived - […]

I once did a column on the origin of Easter.
Easter descended from a Pagan holiday. In that column I made some disparaging remarks about Pagans, which didn’t go over very well with the local Pagans.
Are there local Pagans? Yes there are. Trust me on this one.
Anyway, I apologize again to any and all Pagans for […]

ROSSVILLE ? Christians and Wiccans gathered in the former Rossville-Alvin High School gymnasium Wednesday night to hear a Lincoln Christian College professor talk about the Wicca religion.
“Our battle is not with people,” said Robert Kurka, professor of theology and church in culture at Lincoln Christian College in Lincoln. “We are talking about competing belief systems, […]

ROUND ROCK, Texas ? If he wins his bid for the White House, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson may be just the man to get to the bottom of the 60-year-old Roswell UFO mystery.
Answering questions at a townhall meeting Friday, a Dell employee asked Richardson about the 1947 incident in which many people still believe […]

Some Neanderthals were probably redheads, a DNA study has shown.
Writing in Science journal, a team of researchers extracted DNA from remains of two Neanderthals and retrieved part of an important gene called MC1R.
In modern people, a change - or mutation - in this gene causes red hair, but, until now, no one knew what hair […]

A Catholic pastor at a Massachusetts parochial school has made all the Harry Potter books there disappear, saying they are spiritually dangerous for children and could encourage them to engage in witchcraft.
The Rev. Ron Barker of St. Joseph’s School in Wakefield, Mass., said he stripped the library there of the fantasy series by British author […]

Evidence of witchcraft - or merely a brisk wind?
Whatever may be the explanation, an out-of-control playground swing has got families and police in Argentina spooked.
The swing apparently rocks back and forwards without being touched - and anxious parents have decided the playground must be haunted.
 
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When South Walton High School students signed up to take part in a drama production this fall, they probably had no idea just how ?dramatic? the production would be. Earlier this month, the South Walton drama department ceased rehearsals for the play, ?Blithe Spirit,? due to a formal complaint lodged by the group Concerned Walton […]

The mystery behind the sudden death of Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, may have been finally solved by scientists who believe that he fell from a fast-moving chariot while out hunting in the desert.
Speculation surrounding Tutankhamun’s death has been rife since his tomb was broken into in 1922 […]

North East Wales has been something of a hot-spot for UFO sightings in recent years, we take a look at some of the best known encounters.
A UFO ENTHUSIAST is appealing for information from anyone who was watching the skies over Wrexham on one particular night in 1974 and who may have witnessed a very strange […]