Souces for Alternate Bibles and Christianities

http://forbiddengospels.blogspot.com/
http://www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/
http://papyrology.blogspot.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Testament_papyri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantine_papyri

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relics_attributed_to_Jesus

Mini-Stonehenge Found: Crematorium on Stonehenge Road?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091005-mini-stonehenge-bluestonehenge-bluehenge.html

Perhaps a prehistoric crematorium, 33-foot-wide (10-meter-wide) "Bluestonehenge" was discovered just over a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the original Stonehenge in Salisbury, United Kingdom, scientists announced today.
The 5,000-year-old ceremonial site is thought to have been a key stop along an ancient route between a land of the living, several miles away, and a domain of the dead—Stonehenge.
Named for the color of its long-gone stones, Bluestonehenge, or Bluehenge, was dismantled thousands of years ago, and many of its standing stones were integrated into Stonehenge during a rebuilding of the larger monument, according to the archaeologists.

30 Aristocrats

http://strolen.com/viewing/2977

30 Aristocrats

By: Ria Hawk

A list of thirty aristocrats, ready to be dropped in the king’s court, the ball, or what have you.

Eyeless Creature Discovered in Undersea Tunnel

A previously unknown species of an eyeless crustacean was discovered lurking inside a lava tube beneath the seafloor.
The creature, named Speleonectes atlantida, lives in the Tunnel de la Atlantida, the world's longest submarine lava tube on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands off the western coast of northern Africa. The discovery, which has implications for the evolution of an ancient group of crustaceans, will be detailed in September in a special issue of the journal Marine Biodiversity.
While in the cave, the international team of scientists and cave divers also discovered two previously unknown species of annelid worms.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090825/sc_livescience/eyelesscreaturediscoveredinunderseatunnel

Both the creatures and the tubes under the sea are interesting from an RPG point of view.

Giant 'meat-eating' plant found

A new species of giant carnivorous plant has been discovered in the highlands of the central Philippines.

The pitcher plant is among the largest of all pitchers and is so big that it can catch rats as well as insects in its leafy trap.

During the same expedition, botanists also came across strange pink ferns and blue mushrooms they could not identify.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8195000/8195029.stm

Two Worlds Collide in Deep Space

Two distant planets orbiting a young star apparently smashed into each other at high speeds thousands of years ago in a cosmic pileup of cataclysmic proportions, astronomers announced Monday.

Telltale plumes of vaporized rock and lava leftover from the collision revealed its existence to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which picked up signatures from the impact in recent observations.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090810-planet-smash.html

Northwest dirt seeking giant worm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090711/ap_on_sc/us_giant_palouse_earthworm

MOSCOW, Idaho – The giant Palouse earthworm has taken on mythic qualities in this vast agricultural region that stretches from eastern Washington into the Idaho panhandle — its very name evoking the fictional sandworms from "Dune" or those vicious creatures from the movie "Tremors."

The worm is said to secrete a lily-like smell when handled, spit at predators, and live in burrows 15 feet deep. There have been only a handful of sightings.

But scientists hope to change that this summer with researchers scouring the Palouse region in hopes of finding more of the giant earthworms. Conservationists also want the Obama administration to protect the worm as an endangered species, even though little research has been done on it.