NASA is using both satellite technology, and photographic observations from the International Space Station to try and help solve the mystery.
Devorise Dixon claims to have ordered some fried chicken and bit into, what appears to be, a fried rat. Is it true?
No really, and before anyone from the UK gets their knickers in a twist, you folks called it that first when you invented it.
On this date in 1871, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City opened to the public.
The soap bars are grey in color, rectangular in shape, and bear the letter markings “RJF”, which as the stories are told, stands for “Rein Juden Fett”, or “pure Jewish fat”.
The oldest known piece of polyphonic music was recently found inked at the bottom of a 10th century manuscript in the British Library. Giovanni Varelli, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge was an intern at the library when he discovered the unusual notation of the music and then realized that he was looking at music written for two parts.
The capsule was buried in a cornerstone of the Massachusetts State house in 1795 and discovered by workers in the present day as they were repairing a water leak.
The results were surprising, probably especially for Shakespearean actors; the king’s skeleton showed no signs of a hunch- he instead had scoliosis, and not a particularly disfiguring case of it.
A Canadian team has just announced that they have found one of the two ships from the lost Franklin Arctic Expedition of 1845.
While watching a television show about mining for gold, I learned that one of their many techniques for collecting gold is to wash the mats they work with using clean water, for it sometimes reveals fleck of gold among the sifted dirt. That’s a pretty good analogy for our cutting room floor each week. Here are some of the gold flecks we would have enjoyed covering in episode 475: