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  • German silver find is evidence of 1,200-year-old global trade route Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 7:57AMAnklam, Germany - German archeologists have discovered 1,200-year-old silver coins of Arabic origin buried in a northern German field, bearing evidence that the Slavs who inhabited the land were part of an ancient global trade route, academics said on Sunday.
  • London Stone shrouded in mystery and myths Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 10:28PMThe ancient and storied relic, now a gray lump that's all but ignored, might have been an altar to the goddess Diana or part of a monument erected by the Romans. It isn't much to look at: a gray lump of rock behind an ugly metal grill, attached to an even uglier building. You have to crouch down to see it, and its admittedly modest (or maybe nonexistent) charm can seem trifling compared with the ...
  • Regarding Plaxico Burress, Justice Remains Blind Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 9:40PMOver in a Baltimore training facility, receiver Donte’ Stallworth preps for a return from surgery on his fractured left foot. Injured in a preseason game over the weekend against the New York Giants, Stallworth is targeting late October for a return to the field.
  • Feasts at a Funeral Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 12:56PMAncient Israeli burial site suggests that feasts were important to building first communities
  • Asher Smith: Regarding Plaxico Burress, Justice Remains Blind Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 10:16AMDonte' Stallworth killed a man; Plaxico Burress committed a brazen act of criminal stupidity. The question is, does the latter truly merit 704 days more of incarceration than the former?
  • Matt Leinart: Ranking the Best Fits for QB To Resurrect His Career Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 9:33AMArizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart might not have that team name in front of his own name for too much longer. The former star at USC, Heisman trophy winner, and first-round draft pick has had a falling out of sorts in the desert. Despite completing 19 of his 23 pass attempts in three regular season games, Leinart has been passed over for former Brown Derek Anderson. And don't think he's ...
  • Denver Broncos Vs. Minnesota Vikings: 5 Things to Watch This Thursday Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 7:31PMThe Denver Broncos and Minnesota Vikings square off this Thursday in what will be a final tuneup for each team before the regular season begins. Each team has some concerns and will be monitored closely by their coaches and fans. So what does each team have to keep an eye on during week 4 of the preseason, a week which normally features second and third string players? Let's take a look. Begin ...
  • NFL Capsules - NFC: Redskins go long to play a friendly, visit Arizona Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 5:56AMASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Like many of his Washington Redskins teammates, Derrick Dockery shook his head when asked about this week's game. "Why," Dockery said, "couldn't they come here?"
  • Boys soccer: Milford, Fairfield play to 3-3 tie Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 12:45AMBOYS SOCCER MILFORD 3, FAIRFIELD 3: The Indians remain winless after tying Milford on Tuesday, Aug.
  • Favre going where few QBs have gone before Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 11:10PMEDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – The aches and pains simply never go away for Brett Favre anymore. Nineteen NFL seasons have taken their toll, and when he gets out of bed in the morning he feels every one of the hits he’s taken. His ankle barks at him as soon as his foot hits the floor, his knees creak as he stands up and his back groans as he stretches to get loosened up for another day as a 40-year-old ...
  • Receive our daily news briefing or weekly bulletin Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 3:59PM“I hear those voices that will not be drowned”. These words from Peter Grimes are pierced through the four metre high sculpture by Maggi Hambling which stands on the beach at Aldeburgh in celebration of the life and work of Benjamin Britten.
  • Why can't our Texas border fence have some nice turrets? Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 11:40PMWhy can't our Texas border fence have some nice turrets?
  • Lie back and think of Genghis: Conn Iggulden reveals the inspirations behind his historical fiction Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 6:23PMBy anybody's standards, Conn Iggulden is a staggeringly prolific author. Since his The Gates of Rome appeared in 2003, he has produced a 400-page-plus historical novel every year – that's four of his "Emperor" books (about Julius Caesar) and three in his "Conqueror" series about Genghis Khan – totalling three million in sales. The fourth instalment of the latter series, Empire of Silver, is out ...
  • Archaeologists discover gateway to the Viking Empire in Germany Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 5:48AMBerlin, Aug 28 : Archaeologists have found a gateway to the Viking Empire, which they believe was built to protect an important trading route.
  • 'Sensational' Discovery - Archaeologists Find Gateway To Viking Empire Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 3:45PMFor a century, archaeologists have been looking for a gate through a wall built by the Vikings in northern Europe. This summer, it was found. Researchers now believe the extensive barrier was built to protect an important trading route.
  • Viking Pride Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 4:07AMSHAWN GUST/Press Barbara and Asbjorn Rostad stand near a Scandinavian display of an ancient Viking king Wednesday at the Museum of North Idaho. The Sons of Norway will be gathering locally for an international convention that runs Friday through Wednesday.
  • KRIKORIAN: Alexander ready to pull out LBSU welcome mat Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 1:42AMAs around 2,200 freshmen move into the dormitories Saturday morning at Long Beach State, they will be helped by many members of the school's athletic teams as well as campus police officers, administrators, librarians, secretaries, professors, maintenance personnel, student leaders, etc.
  • NFL Preseason: 10 Storylines You Need To Follow This Weekend Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 5:38PMAh, preseason football. It's the time of year when NFL teams routinely play in odd places (Canada, Mexico), with odd players (the only time of year when the McCowns can be seen NOT holding a clipboard).  Just because the games don't count doesn't mean there aren't plenty of juicy storylines to get your NFL fix. Here are 10 of the biggest storylines in the NFL heading into this weekend's games ...
  • The Thief's Gamble by Juliet Mckenna Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 8:33AMThe Thief’s Gamble offers a multitude of amusing characters, original manifestations of magic, a mixture of politics and intrigue, as well as a vast world yet to be discovered... Politics - Shopping - Entertainment - Directories - United States
  • Best from the past 24 hours Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 9:41PMNo description available
  • Love 'em or hate 'em, cats are fascinating Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 6:50PMThere are about 600 million house cats in the world. Two of them live at our house in Troy. Recent DNA research indicates they've been around for more than 6 million years. Not our two cats, ...
  • Oracle vs Google: Triple Damage! Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 12:46PMOSS Watch team blog: "The complaint concerns the use of Java-related technologies in Google's Android mobile Linux platform, and the details are ugly indeed."
  • Thomas Alter: Egotistical Favre Is in for a Rude Awakening Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 12:08PMSome call him "the old gunslinger" or just say "Brett's being Brett," and that's wrong. Favre is without question, the most narcissistic athlete in the history of professional sports.
  • History-Making Mars Mission Launched 35 Years Ago Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 11:53AMThrust from a Titan 3/Centaur rocket launched NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft on a 505-million-mile journey to Mars on Aug. 20, 1975. Viking 2 followed three weeks later.
  • Invaders and Settlers Plans and Resources Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 10:16AMThis is a set of plans for an Invaders and Settlers History unit. It's taught in Year 4 at our school. It focuses on the Celts and the Romans rather than the Vikings.
  • Community Calendar Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 5:23AMFranklin Park Herald-Journal with news of Northlake welcomes items for the Community Calendar as well as items for Business Briefs, Campus News, Community Briefs, School Digest and Newsmakers. Items must be received a minimum of 14 days prior to publication, but earlier is better. E-mail
  • Community Calendar Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 4:05AMOak Leaves and Forest Leaves welcome items for the Community Calendar, as well as items for Business Briefs, Campus News, Community Briefs, School Digest and Your Page. Items must be received minimum of 10 days prior to publication. Fax (708) 383-3678; e-mail oakpark@pioneerlocal.com; or mail to Pioneer Press, 1010 W. Lake St., Suite 104, Oak Park, IL 60301.
  • Vikings are here among us Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 7:34PMThe many faces of Christina Reid and other real live Vikings can be seen at the MSA Museum’s Nordic Spirit Festival on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Trethewey Heritage House in Abbotsford.
  • The skeleton key to putting meat on the bones... Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 5:59AMDR ROGER JEWSBURY head of department of chemical and biological sciences, University of Huddersfield, reveals how decay can tell us a lot more than how long something has been dead...
  • A-Rod takes a hit while greeting Joe Buck Thursday, August 12, 2010 @ 11:10PMBuck's A-Rod incident was freak occurrence.
  • Dragons soar while wizards bore, as studios seek the Potter penny Thursday, August 12, 2010 @ 4:15PMThere's a bit in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," Disney's shameless attempt to siphon off some of that "Harry Potter" cash flow, where a wizard played by Nicholas Cage is lecturing his young protege on how to conjure magic. The trick to sorcery, says Cage, is to tap all one's mental faculties; most people, he explains, "use only 10 percent of their brains." That's the most candid admission I've ...
  • "Thor's Hammer" Found in Viking Graves Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 4:41PMSeen as lightning repellent, "thunderstones" resembling the Norse god Thor's hammerhead were put in graves for good luck, experts say. Thor - Norse mythology - Mjöllnir - Weather Phenomena - Meteorology
  • When in doubt, punt Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 12:54AMFor years, I’ve been pumping out boastfully innacurate Major League Baseball previews. (They’re so bad I can actually boast about the stastical anomoly involved in such a poor success rate). What to do when you’ve proven you’re no prognasticator? Make more predictions, obviously.
  • Orkney's archaeological treasures Monday, August 9, 2010 @ 5:11AMScotland's Orkney Islands provide a rare glimpse of Stone Age life, says Paul Humphreys.
  • Fantasy Football Underrateds: Worth a First But These Guys Won't Cost It Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 7:05PMFantasy football has turned into a game of preseason value assessments. All of the safe picks in the world and clinging to draft strategy won't do your team any good; the big winners last year took chances. Imagine a team that had drafted Chris Johnson in the 2nd round, Matt Schaub in the 5th round, and Miles Austin in the 10th last season. Then throw in a Free Agent acquisition of Vernon Davis ...
  • Will Favre call it quits after 19 seasons? Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 12:16AMWill Brett Favre truly retire, and remain on the sidelines, for good this time around?That's one of the biggest questions on the minds of most avid NFL fans at this time of year.What will Favre do?
  • Boxing survivors Freeman Barr, Steve Canton to fight again on Aug. 31 Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 9:46PMAt its current rate, it shouldn’t be more than 10 years before historians begin telling the tale of the ancient sport of boxing.
  • When in doubt, punt Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 6:39PMFor years, I’ve been pumping out boastfully innacurate Major League Baseball previews. (They’re so bad I can actually boast about the stastical anomoly involved in such a poor success rate). What to do when you’ve proven you’re no prognasticator? Make more predictions, obviously.
  • Chris Jericho's Rock Band Fozzy Too Legit To Quit Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 4:37PMThe road to artistic hell is paved with the good intentions of actors and athletes moonlighting as musicians. So let's be clear: Fozzy , pro wrestler Chris Jericho 's heavy metal band, are neither a side gig nor a fun way to kick back and enjoy his precious little time off from his WWE day job.
  • Fozzy | CHARTattack Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 4:37PMFozzy may have lost some of their metal edge when they stopped doing cover songs and singer (and WWE wrestler) Chris Jericho trimmed his hair, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
  • Favre is right at home in the ancient NFC North Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 6:21AM   Seven weeks and counting until the 2010 NFL season kicks off. This week, we’re going to take a look at the frigid NFC North. The mighty ‘Frostbite Division’.     There are two guarantees I can make about this season’s NFC North.
  • Vikings look like your Super Bowl champion Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 9:40PMVikings look like your Super Bowl champion
  • Column: This loaded Vikings team should end season on top Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 9:24AMEDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - Brad Childress has gone from six victoriesin 2006 to eight, 10 and 12 in the seasons that followed. Anothertwo-victory increase in 2010 would be a vault more than a step, butit's not out of the question with the talent the Minnesota Vikingshave due to arrive in Mankato on Thursday afternoon.
  • Community Calendar Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 5:30AMFranklin Park Herald-Journal with news of Northlake welcomes items for the Community Calendar as well as items for Business Briefs, Campus News, Community Briefs, School Digest and Newsmakers. Items must be received a minimum of 14 days prior to publication, but earlier is better. E-mail items to oakpark@pioneerlocal.com; fax to (708) 383-3678 or by mail to: Pioneer ...
  • Community Calendar Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:05AMOak Leaves and Forest Leaves welcome items for the Community Calendar, as well as items for Business Briefs, Campus News, Community Briefs, School Digest and Your Page. Items must be received minimum of 10 days prior to publication. Fax (708) 383-3678; e-mail oakpark@pioneerlocal.com; or mail to Pioneer Press, 1010 W. Lake St., Suite 104, Oak Park, IL 60301.
  • Appalachian Trail to leap abroad Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 2:06AMFirst, there was the Appalachian Trail, which winds 3500km along the mountainous spine of the eastern United States.
  • Tom Powers: Backups need to be big-time players for aging Vikings Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 6:04PMIf you're headed to Mankato this week to watch the Vikings grunt and sweat, you're in luck! There is a Welcome Tent on site at which you can buy official souvenir jerseys, T-shirts and hats.
  • Beauty amid the ruins Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 1:21PMSHANNONBRIDGE, Ireland — Not far off the main road between Galway and Dublin is the ancient monastic settlement of Clonmacnoise. First settled by St. Ciaran about 545 AD, the site was destroyed by fire 13 times and was attacked over 40 times by Vikings, Anglo-Normans, and the Irish before being reduced to rubble by the English in the mid-16th century. ... Ireland - Dublin - Galway - English ...
  • in the NEWS Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 7:04PMANCIENT TOMB FOUND A well-preserved tomb of an ancient Maya king has been discovered in Guatemala by a team of archaeologists led by Brown University's Stephen Houston.[...]
  • Discover beautiful Northumberland: From the North Pennines and Northumberland Coast there’s something here for everyone Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 10:56AMWith one of the hottest summers on record predicted, Enjoy England and Actimel have teamed up to bring you a fantastic week by week guide to exploring our beautiful country.