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There’s new evidence that Vikings landed in North America long before Columbus. First, Texas engineer Richard Nielsen, who has spent 17 years studying the controversial Runestone, says it’s definitely a genuine Viking artifact. And Lauren Taylor writes in the May issue of Fate Magazine that Maine Coon Cats are related to the feisty casts brought by the Vikings to the Americas.

Joe Albert of echopress.com quotes Runestone Museum director LuAnn Patton as saying, “Basically, he has found documentation showing that every rune and word on the Runestone can be found in 14th century documents.” She’s talking about newly-discovered early Scandinavian documents, or land deeds, that show the same kind of writing as on the Runestone.
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We just got through having a record tornado season, and now NOAA forecasters say there’s a “high likelihood” that we’ll have a record number of hurricanes this year as well. The hurricane season begins June 1st and ends November 30. Author Henry Willis has some insights about the upcoming weather. NOAA predicts between 11 and 15 tropical storms this season, and 6 to 9 of these are expected to become hurricanes, with two to four of them “major storms” of Category 2 or higher. Category 2 storms have winds of 96 to 110 mph. Category 5 is the worst, with winds exceeding 155 mph. The average hurricane season has 10 storms.
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We’ve heard about Iraqis looting some of their country’s ancient treasures and how U.S. troops either didn’t try?or were unable?to stop them. Now there’s news that our troops have been doing some of the looting themselves and have vandalized one the world’s most ancient cities?6,000-year-old Ur in southern Iraq?by spray painting graffiti on the ruins.
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In her new Diary, Anne Strieber writes, “There have been few times in the human past when there wasn’t a war going on…Our history is the history of war…We now know that al-Qaeda has been around for a long time. They hated us in the past just as much as they hate us now, but the difference was, we didn’t know it. Perhaps freedom from worry is only possible for the innocent. Once we realize how precarious life is, we can no longer laugh and enjoy ourselves quite so much.”

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