Blackbeard’s Anchor

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Blackbeard’s Anchor was reported to be recovered. Look out Jack Sparrow!

If you have not yet  seen the new  Doomsday section of our site (includes some movie suggestions) check it out here!

Thanksgiving America

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Hope your Thanksgiving  was great!

There are many food donations set up for the Thanksgiving holiday, but there are lots of  hungry people every day in the United States that need food.

Visit  http://feedingamerica.org to find out how you can help out.  More charities

Shopping

Save yourself some money! Look for free shipping coupons at http://freeshipping.org

Get some tips to get the most of “Cyber Monday” over at Wallet Pop!

Oil spill disaster. Lighter news- See Darius.

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 View this interactive map on the BP oil spill disaster.  Video and More on thisMore needs to be done to protect our environment, marine and wildlife. If companies can not be trusted to do it on their own, then the government must make them do it.  Our natural resources must not be compromised for one companys profit. Such a disaster affects more than just one spot in the ocean or one company. It could contaminate our food supply, cost fisherman loss of jobs and kill wildlife. It has already contaminated our ocean, birds, and will likely damage land on the coast. I hope those whales get moved out of the area fast. BP needs to fix all the negative impact this disaster caused. Unfortunately some of the damage can never be fixable. See what the EPA is doing.

On to lighter news:

SEE The worlds bigest Rabbit Darius.  

Eyjafjallajökull ash cloud and Katla

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Some more video on all the volcanic ash that has stopped European air travel over the last couple of days. View the live cam of Eyjafjallajökull.  Live cam for nearby major volcano Katla, which is said to erupt with Eyjafjallajökull historically[1] . Katla erupts in 40-80 year cycles, with the last major eruption in 1918[2] . See the previous post below for more.

 Archaeology

If you want to keep up on the latest in archaeology in Egypt,

 visit Dr. Zahi Hawass online.

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References

1. msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp=36606997
2.  iceland.vefur.is

Discovery Space Shuttle & International Space Station

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Members of the Discovery Space Shuttle crew were welcomed on Board the International Space Station today. See video of it here. Find the lateset Space Shuttle news here. Not to be missed- view Live Space Station Video  front row and cENTEr.

Iceland Volcano, Archaeology Bits, Spaceflight

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 This is a neat interactive map of Alaska Volcanos.  Brought to you because of  recent activity at Redoubt.

Check out this video on the recent Iceland Volcano eruption.

More video here.  View unconfirmed live webcam.

See this arial shot of the volcano.   See how many volcanoes are there.

 New  prehistoric Human species discovered.

See video of the worlds oldest known best preserved mummy.

See these photos of the first captive carry test flight of the space tour plane. See our original archived post on this.

Time Change and Earth Hour!

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D0n’t forget about the time change.
Spring Forward and fall behind! For further DST info check out Wikipedia.

Also turn those lights out for for Earth Hour!

This Years Earth Hour is On Saturday March 27th at 8:30 PM to 9:30PM. Turn off those lights and VOTE EARTH! 3 links.

Another Earthquake

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 Update March 16, 2010- Los Angeles area 4.4 moderate earthquake.

Read more on the 4.4 LA quake at CNN

March 14, 2010- Another earthquake occurred, this time in Japan but overall reports did not seem too bad this time. There has been a lot of earthquake activity, including the recent one in Chile that had generated a Pacific wide Tsunami warning, (that was less damaging than feared).

 Here is a nice overview on what causes earthquakes from MSNBC. I suggest to also click the earthquake tab before checking out the other maps. Check out the interactive  Earthquake map here

Another informative exhibit on earthquakes here

You can see recent earthquake activity at the USGS  

For Earthquake safety see Femas Earthquake section.

For some earthquake history and videos  http://www.history.com/topics/earthquake

They also have a few photos from Recent earthquakes