Omnibyte

A view of Earth from Mars.
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Lions and sharks and bears and rhinos, slithering jungle snakes, chomping alligators and crocodiles, and even jumping fanged spiders are to be avoided at all costs.
Yet thousands of people lose their lives every year to harmless-looking animals that can kill or paralyze a human in a matter of moments. These are the secret killers that [...]

Not really sure what to make of this?
Begin wildly conspiring: Australian ABC‘s Karen Barlow, who is traveling to Antarctica on the Aurora Australis to study glacial ice, has spotted this rectangular block of wood perched prominently atop an iceberg within the no compass region around the magnetic south pole.
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After reading about the translation error of that infamous statement: ” … Let them eat cake.”, it was Brioche (not cake), curiosity got the better of me and I delved into the subject.  Here’s what I came up with.
An interview which paints a picture of Marie Antoinette as: A devoted wife and loving mother [...]

Issik Kul is a remote deep-water lake located in the northern Tian Shan Mountains, in the Transiliysk
Ala Tau area of Kyrgyzstan (Central Asia). The name means “warm water”; the lake is surrounded by snow-capped peaks but it never freezes.
According to a well-informed Ukrainian writer V. Krapiva, in the late 1930s a Russian researcher of the [...]

The Julian calendar, named and established by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, structured the calendar year in 365 days and the added a day every 4 years (leap year), in order to compensate for the lack of balance of almost 6 hours between the calendar year and the solar one; on the basis of that [...]

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I imagine it to taste like the Guinness Dark beer or there abouts…
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Lake Vostok, which has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years, is about to be penetrated by a Russian drill bit.
The lake, which lies four kilometres below the icy surface of Antarctica, is unique in that it’s been completely isolated from the other 150 subglacial lakes on the continent for such a [...]

A backpack frame rested on the platform, trapped by a protruding rock. Clumps of human and animal hair, plant fragments, splinters of arrow shafts and an ax lay nearby.
Remains of a grass mat, regarded as an overcoat by many investigators, were found near Ötzi’s body. Vanzetti’s group suspects the mat was part of a funeral [...]