The World has been interested in Time since they were barbarians(?)
The Civilizations of The World have devised calendars.
http://www.funonthenet.in/articles/ancient-calendars.html
Some of them are:
Tag: intersting
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Meet The Forest Boy, Photo
Forest Boy? Sounds Fishy!
“BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police on Wednesday released photos an English-speaking teenage boy who wandered into the city nine months ago saying he had been living for the last five years in the forest with his father. Police spokesman Thomas Neuendorf said all attempts to identify the boy since he emerged in the German capital on Sept. 5 have been unsuccessful, and they are now hoping the release of his photo may produce some leads. “We have checked his DNA against all missing person reports, sent the data to Interpol so that they could check it internationally, but unfortunately without any success,” Neuendorf said. The boy has told authorities his father called him “Ray” and that he was born June 20, 1994, but claims not to know his last name or where he’s from. He said his mother, Doreen, died in a car accident when he was 12 and after that he and his father, Ryan, took to the forest. He said they wandered using maps and a compass, staying in tents or caves overnight. He told authorities that after his father died in August, 2011, he buried him in the forest and then walked five days north before ending up in Berlin, and showed up at city hall. Investigators have been unable to confirm any details about a fatal car accident that matches up with Ray’s story, however, and haven’t been able to find the body of the father — raising “serious doubts” about the story. “There are many question marks,” Neuendorf said. He is now being taken care of by youth services, and is going to school. When he first appeared, Ray spoke English and a few words of German, but has picked up more German fast, Neuendorf said. He has also quickly adapted to city life and technology, using a laptop and his cell phone with no problems. [Related: Mother, son separated, begin 25-year search] “Everything gives the impression that he was not far away from civilization for years,” Neuendorf said.
http://digg.com/newsbar/worldnews/berlin_police_release_photo_of_forest_boy_1
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Man-Ape Hybrid Caught on Video.
A woman of Spokane, Washington out for a hike with friends two weekends, says they can have captured video of the legendary Bigfoot, the elusive man-ape hybrid, which has excessive body hair, walks upright, and seems impervious to focus photography.
http://byteplanet.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/bigfoot-video-tops-half-million-hits-on-youtube/
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Haunted Campus Buildings.My experience with the Paranormal.
One can not dismiss these things totally untrue.
I have two experiences .
It was in 1968 -69 in Chennai,India where I completed my Graduation and i was a hostel student.
One of my friends, who had a house near by vacated his house and joined the hostel.
On being asked why he replied that his house was haunted and that his parents have shifted to Bangalore and to continue his studies he had joined the hostel.
About four of us went to the said House along with the one who said his house was haunted after watching a late night movie.
Around 1 am, (Ido not recollect the exact time), we had all the glass panes of the windows closed and had the doors of the house locked( we were in the first floor room of the house).
After about 15-30 minutes Jasmine Scent wafted through the air.
It was followed by the figure of a lady floating through the glass pane.
Needless to say we ran to the hostel for cover and one my friends had an attack of Fever for several days.
Another instance.
I went to Sabarimala,Kerala, as a Pilgrimage.
This place is revered to be Abode of Lord Ayyappa and one has to undergo strict Discipline( non-Hindus also visit the place) before embarking on the pilgrimage.(1970)
We stayed in a place ,Pampa.After morning rituals we noticed that an elderly man of about Eighty in a small temporary shelter( every one has to make one) ,sitting in front of the photo of Lord Ayyappa,exhorting and crying that he be allowed to visit the sanctum sanctorum(which is about 2 km up the hill) for he was informed in the dream that he need not come to the sanctum sanctorum.
After about 15 – 20 minutes, a man from the people around us stood up and stood in front of the crying man and informed him “I shall give my Vision here for you’
The crying man asked him as to who he was and what authority he had to speak to him thus.
The man straightened and said”if it is true I am God ,I shall show my Vision in my true form here this evening at 6-40( the time the Vision in the form of a Light appears every year).
Then he started running through the river up-stream towards the sanctum.
We were instructed by our Guru to chase him.
Five or six of us(those who followed him were by no means ardently devout or deeply religious and are practical men from fields like marketing,Accountancy),chased him and found it difficult to catch up with the man who was around fifty years and we were in the age group of 20 -30.
Eventually we caught up with him, caught his hands and asked him to come with us to meet our Guru.
He straightened and said ‘Who can call Me?”-
Next ,
Our hands were clutching thin air and the man simply vanished.
I am qualified in Philosophy and Psychology and a hard-core Management Professional with a Skeptic outlook on Spirituality.(only of late I have become an Advaitin by conviction)
Till date I am unable to comprehend what took place around 40 years ago with all my Analytical Skills and logic)
Story:
Plenty of college campuses have creepy spots. Desolate library stacks, bathrooms that no one uses, and dark pathways have been giving college kids the willies for years. But there are some spots that are bona fide haunted, with a history to prove it. Read on to learn about 10 campus buildings that are more than just a little creepy.
- Jennings Hall, Bennington College: This building now houses the music department of Bennington college, and students have often witnessed paranormal activity. It was the inspiration for The Haunting of Hill House, a Shirley Jackson novel. Strange voices, footsteps, and instruments that play themselves have been heard. The area Bennington College is located in is known as “Bennington Triangle” where many people went missing between 1920 and 1950.
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- Strayer College: The Strayer College building in Bensalem, Pennsylvania is the former site of Eastern State School and Hospital. The building is rumored to be haunted by patients who were killed or treated unfairly. Figures follow people, doors slam shut to trap people inside, and the former morgue is cold and breezy even without windows. The 4th floor is believed to be especially treacherous, so much so that it’s life threatening.
- Pemberton Hall, Eastern Illinois University: At Pemberton Hall, a girl was brutally murdered and raped by a psychotic janitor. The hall is now haunted, with doors mysteriously locking after young girls enter, bloody footprints, and clocks that turn back in time. Music plays from the piano the victim played on, even though the entire floor is boarded up.
- Alpha Theta House, Dartmouth College: The Alpha Theta fraternity house experienced a boiler explosion and fire, killing fraternity brothers and their female companions. These spirits are said to haunt the house, particularly in the house basement, which is the remaining original structure.
- Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority House, Ohio University: This sorority house was once a private residence and a stop on the Underground Railroad. It was stormed when locals found out that the owner was harboring fugitive slaves, and a slave named Nicodemus was shot there. He has since haunted the house, which has passed hands among several Greek groups in the university, presumably due to the disturbances.
- Sage College of Albany Fine Arts/Graphic Design Building: Sage College of Albany’s Graphic Design building is located in a former children’s orphanage, and has ghosts from the children who died in a fire set by the caretaker. Numerous ghosts can still be heard in the building.
- Baylor University Library: Baylor University’s library has some original works from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with a statue in her likeness in front of the building. The statue’s arms are said to move, and she has been seen peering inside the top floor window. She may also be seen walking the halls at night in a white gown holding a candle.
- Graceland House, Davis & Elkins College: In the Graceland House, a slave was beaten to death and buried in the dirt floor basement, and may still be there. This house has noises and feelings of being watched or followed, so badly that a prom held there had to be shut down.
- Shelton Hall, Boston University: This dorm was once a Sheraton Hotel overlooking the Charles River and Fenway Park. Before it became a dorm, playwright Eugene O’Neill lived and subsequently died in room 401. He now haunts that floor, which the school reserves for writing students.
- Texas Tech University Water Tower: On the coldest night of the year in Lubbock, 5-6 young men can be seen on the top catwalk going around the water tank. They will stay up all night as if spending the night. This sighting has happened each year from around 1949 on.
http://www.matchacollege.com/blog/2011/10-campus-buildings-that-are-totally-haunted/
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What happens to your Head in a particle Accelerator?
Astonishing.
But those who should have died by Physical Laws do not;those who ought not, Die.
That’s Reality,Call it God,Nature.
Here’s the fascinating story of Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski, the only person to have stuck his head into a particle accelerator. His head accidentally strayed into the path of the proton beam at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino in 1978, and the beam bored a hole through his brain and out his nose. The radiation absorbed by his head was in the region of 1000 gray. 5 gray worth of X-rays is generally considered fatal, but Bugorski survived and went on to complete his PhD (a proton beam moving near the speed of light has different characteristics from an X-ray!). The side of his face that was burned by the beam’s exit has not visibly aged in the years since the accident.
I attended the Clarion science fiction writing workshop at Michigan State University in 1992, and we were privileged to tour the university’s Cyclotron. Of course, the first thing we asked was, “How do you kill someone with one of these?” (we’d been working on plotting). The scientist’s answer was very disappointing — he insisted that it was all very safe, with too many checks and balances to be a useful murder weapon. As I recall, he suggested that you could pry loose a brick from the wall and hit someone in the head with it.
As you can see from the picture, the beam entered the back of Bugorski’s head and came out around his nose. Shortly after this happened, Bugorski’s left half of his face swelled up beyond recognition. He was taken to the hospital and studied as this was something that had never been seen before and so they closely monitored him thereafter, fully expecting him to die within a few days at most.
Although the skin on the part of his face and back of his head where the beam hit eventually peeled off over the next few days, Bugorski did not die as they thought he would. The beam also burned through his skull and brain tissue along with the afore mentioned skin. However, ultimately he came through it all surprisingly well.
Despite the beam going through his brain, his intellectual capacity remained the same as before. The few negative health drawbacks he did experience were not life threatening either. He lost the hearing in his left ear and experienced a constant unpleasant noise in that ear from then on. The left half of his face slowly became paralyzed over the course of the next two years. He also gets significantly more fatigued with mental work, though he did go on to get his PhD after this incident. The remaining side effects were occasional absence seizures and later tonic-clonic seizures, though these didn’t show up right away.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2Dl3Rz/www.boingboing.net/2011/02/22/what-happens-when-yo-6.html
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