Sunday 5 June 2016
lead ingot found by novice
a novice treasure hunter found a -2 ft long ..84 lb block -known as a pig on a farm in wells,somerset .it could be worth a lot of money as dated back to about 164 ad and has a stamped on it -emperor marcus aurelius ,romans mined lead then cast in blocks then sent them to rome.
Device used in Nazi coding machine found for sale on eBay
For codebreakers with the allied forces, it was more important a discovery than the Enigma machine, offering encryption for the Nazi command that, when cracked, would hasten the end of the second world war and lead to huge breakthroughs in modern computing.
Less than 80 years later, for a thrifty woman in Essex, the “telegram machine” was little more than a dusty old gadget languishing in the garden shed.
But after an eagle-eyed volunteer with the National Museum of Computing (NMC) spotted an ad on eBay this week, the extremely rare, military-issue Lorenz teleprinter has been saved and provides the latest piece in international efforts to rebuild Hitler’s complete encoding device.
After finding the component on the online auction site, and receiving a long-term loan of the Lorenz SZ42 cipher machine from the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum in Oslo, the NMC is now looking for the final parts to restore the encoder to working order.
“To do that we have to replace some missing components, in particular the drive motor – and it’s the drive motor that’s our next quest,” said John Whetter, a volunteer engineer with the NMC.
Whetter and his colleagues are calling for people across the country to search -read more
Why Was Harambe the Gorilla in a Zoo in the First Place?
Harambe, a 17-year-old male western lowland gorilla, was killed at the Cincinnati Zoo to save the life of a four-year-old child who fell into his cage. Opinions vary as to whether the boy was really in danger and who was to blame, the zoo (why was the boy able to get into the enclosure and why wasn’t Harambe tranquilized?) his mother, or both? Playing the blame game will not bring Harambe back and for me the real question, while also considering why Harambe was killed, is “Why was Harambe in the zoo in the first place?”
As I watched footage of the event I was reminded of an incident that happened in 1996 at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo in which a female western lowland gorilla named Binta Jua rescued a three-year-old boy who fell into her enclosure. She became a worldwide celebrity. I also thought about the movie King Kong.-read more
People worldwide are outraged by Harambe’s death. This global interest is all part of a heightened awareness about the nature of human-animal relationships, the focus of a rapidly growing field called anthrozoology.
Saturday 4 June 2016
Family "abducted by aliens" in Stanford in the Vale feature in new book The Veiled Vale by Mike White
WHAT really happened to the family who encountered a UFO in Stanford in the Vale?
What tragedy made a young Wallingford girl daub a wall with her own tears?
And what does the Uffington White Horse get up to once every hundred years?
An amateur paranormal investigator from Grove has answered these and dozens more questions in a new book of unexplained mysteries from southern Oxfordshire.
Father-of-two Mike White has spent two decades compiling his collection of spooky stories while working in the civil service and in IT.
Now he has published the collection in a tome called The Veiled Vale.
The 55-year-old said: "The Vale of the White Horse and the beautiful countryside of South Oxfordshire is a landscape steeped in thousands of years of legends, history and mystery: there are witches, monsters and ghosts; old legends and modern-day tales of strange encounters with the unknown."
Among the unexplained anecdotes is the story of a family who thought they were abducted by aliens while driving through Stanford in the Vale near Wantage.
In 1978, John Mann, wife Gloria, and his sister Frances were driving home to Gloucestershire through the village with their children, Natasha, five, and Tanya, three, at 10pm.
They saw a bright white light in the sky up ahead, pulled over and got out the car, staring at it.
The light became a "vast circular shape, more than 100 feet up" moving very slowly over -read more
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