"Fairy circles" in the Namibian desert

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): "Fairy circles" in the Namibian desert: As reported in PLoS One - In Namibia of southwestern Africa, the sparse grasslands that develop on deep sandy soils under rainfall be...

Ginseng theft

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Ginseng theft: Theft (and destruction) of wild ginseng is an increasing problem in Wisconsin and other midwestern states: Cody Adams, a DNR warden in C...

the King's nipples

are gross

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): The importance of the King's nipples: Seven years ago, not far from Dublin in the town of Clonycavan, County Meath, and near Croghan Hill, County Offaly, two bog bodies were ...

A shaman's "aarnguat"

 sympathetic surgery

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): A shaman's "aarnguat": This artifact of ancient Inuit culture was excavated in the Hudson Bay area during a repatriation. The first unusual thing we noticed we...

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): "When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffer...

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): "When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffer...: RECOVERING: Rahaf, left, from Syria; Khetam, center, from Iraq; and Kamar, right, from Syria, attended a psychological therapy session i...

"Gateway to the Viking empire"

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): "Gateway to the Viking empire" discovered in Denma...:

orig:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,714235,00.html

advised by the ghost of William McKinley in a dream to avenge his death

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Teddy Roosevelt's chest xray: While Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on October 14, 1912, a saloonkeeper named John Schrank shot him, but the bullet ...

Floating caskets

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Floating caskets: A seldom-discussed complication of hurricanes and flooding.  Photo from Facebook , via Paul Douglas on Weather .

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): An elderly man remembers "when the sky fell"

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): An elderly man remembers "when the sky fell": The photo is a portrait of Ka-Be-Nah-Gwey-Wence, a Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian from Cass Lake, a town just north of Leech Lake where I used ...

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): This is a "pendulite"

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): This is a "pendulite": Cave formations are fascinating.  This is one I've never heard of or seen before.  It's interesting to ponder the dynamics of how a growi...

The Treasure of Lima

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): The Treasure of Lima: As reported in The Telegraph: Shaun Whitehead is leading an archaeological expedition to Cocos Island, the supposed hiding place of...

travelling "preacher-scientist"

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): George Speake - a travelling "preacher-scientist": Electricity flashes from the thimble-topped fingers of traveling “preacher-scientist” George Speake. From the 1940s into the ’60s, he wa...

Shoes made from human skin

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Shoes made from human skin: The skin of Big Nose George, to be precise.  The Oddment Emporium has the story: In 1878, [Big Nose George] Parrott and his gang murd...

A Paleolithic "Lion Man" statuette

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): A Paleolithic "Lion Man" statuette: "On August 25, 1939, archaeologists working at a Paleolithic site called Stadelhole (“stable cave”) at Hohlenstein (“hollow rock”) in sou...

A recent sighting of "Nessie"

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): A recent sighting of "Nessie": Nessie hunter George Edwards has waited 26 years for this sight, and he now believes he has the best picture ever taken of the Loch Ness...

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): It's a log

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): It's a log: A 13-meter (40-foot) log was dug up in Cambodia.  Thousands of people have flocked to see it.  And... "They believe the log has ma...

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Huge treasure hoard found in Jersey

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Huge treasure hoard found in Jersey: YouTube link .  Thirty years ago, a farmer found a few Iron Age silver coins while working on his land in the island of Jersey, off the...

Are Mermaids in Chicago's Future? | Josh Mogerman's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

Are Mermaids in Chicago's Future? | Josh Mogerman's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

how does this relate to mermaids?

SALT LAKE CITY —

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man spotted dressed in a goat suit among a herd of wild goats in the mountains of northern Utah has been identified as a hunter preparing for a Canadian archery season.

After a hiker spotted the so-called goat man on July 15 in the mountains above Ogden, about 40 miles north of Salt Lake City, wildlife officials said they wanted to talk to the person to be certain he was aware of the dangers as hunting season approaches.
They speculated he might have been an extreme wildlife enthusiast who just wanted to get as close as possible to the goats. A few days after the spotting, state wildlife authorities received an anonymous call from an "agitated man" who simply said, "Leave goat man alone. He's done nothing wrong."
This week, however, the mystery was solved.
Phil Douglass of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources said he received a call Monday from a 57-year-old Southern California hunter who explained he was merely trying out his goat suit in preparation for a mountain goat hunt in Canada next year.
"He gave me enough details about the area and the situation that it made me feel confident this was him," Douglass said Tuesday.
"In talking to him, I felt he was very knowledgeable, a very experienced hunter. He's hunted internationally," Douglass added. "My concern all along was that this person needed to understand the risks, and certainly after talking to him, I felt he was doing the best he could to understand and mitigate those risks ... He was simply preparing for a hunt."
The man did not identify himself, Douglass said, noting the hunter was concerned for his safety after widespread media coverage of the sighting, first reported by the Standard-Examiner of Ogden.
Coty Creighton, 33, spotted the goat man July 15 during his hike. He said he came across a herd, but noticed something odd about one goat that was trailing behind the rest.
"I thought maybe it was injured," Creighton said last week. "It just looked odd."
He said he pulled out binoculars to get a closer look at the goats about 200 yards away and was shocked. The man appeared to be acting like a goat while wearing a crudely made costume, which had fake horns and a cloth mask with cut-out eye holes, Creighton said.
"We were the only ones around for miles," he said. "It was real creepy."
Douglass said 60 permits will be issued for goat hunting season in that area, which begins in September, and he had worried the man in the goat suit might be accidentally shot or could be attacked by a real goat.
He said the hunter described the goat costume as merely a hooded painter's uniform and a fleece.
Douglass said wildlife officials encourage archery hunters to practice their skills and to "get themselves in a position where they make a clean and humane shot."
"That's exactly what he was doing," Douglass said. "There are laws that require people to wear hunter orange during rifle hunts, but people do wear camo during archery hunts."
And while it's not illegal to dress up like the animal you're trying to kill, Douglass said it's still dangerous.
"It's unwise," he said. "It's just a bad idea all the way around to do that kind of thing."

Uhm, holy crap?

http://www.greatdreams.com/alignment.htm

Eichelberger! Art! Go!: TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): How to clear $...

Eichelberger! Art! Go!: TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): How to clear $...: TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): How to clear $60,000 per week : YouTube link .   Deal drugs in New York City.  An interesting 20-minut...

Eichelberger! Art! Go!: EndrTimes: Witchcraft is growing threat to childre...

Eichelberger! Art! Go!: EndrTimes: Witchcraft is growing threat to childre...: Witchcraft is growing threat to children in Britai... : A boy accused of being 'child witch' is exorcised in a church in Kinshasa Photo: Gwe...

Eichelberger! Art! Go!: TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Mars now thoug...

Eichelberger! Art! Go!: TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Mars now thoug...: TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Mars now thought to have LOTS of water : Excerpts from an article at Smithsonian : Despite claims in t...

Eichelberger! Art! Go!: nice scam and cool clue:

Eichelberger! Art! Go!: nice scam and cool clue::  the suspect has a pocket full of old hotel keys... TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): An argument for paying cash on vacation : This isn...

more time travel stuff

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Woman buried with cow: As reported by the BBC : Archaeologists excavating an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Cambridgeshire say the discovery of a woman buried with a...

Nice scam

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Defrauding the IRS with fake tax returns: I had heard about the scams earlier this year: With nothing more than ledgers of stolen identity information — Social Security numbers an...

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): White camel sacrificed to end suicide epidemic

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): White camel sacrificed to end suicide epidemic: In rural Kazakhstan: The white camel was slaughtered on advice from the village elders some time after two middle school students hang...

The Lovecraft Mythos Bestiary by K.L. Turner: Deep One

The Lovecraft Mythos Bestiary by K.L. Turner: Deep One: Click image for a larger view "I think their predominant color was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny...

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Fighting with a sword pommel

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Fighting with a sword pommel: While researching "hammerhead" for the embroidery post, I encountered this interesting bit in the Victoria and Albert 's description of a...

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Has the Queen of Sheba's gold mine been found?

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Has the Queen of Sheba's gold mine been found?: From a story in The Guardian : Almost 3,000 years ago, the ruler of Sheba, which spanned modern-day Ethiopia and Yemen, arrived in Jer...

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Immense hoard of Roman coins found in England

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Immense hoard of Roman coins found in England: From Discovery News : One of the largest collections of Roman coins -- over 30,000 silver pieces -- has been recovered in England from...

cyber kangaroo

http://www.cyberpunk2020.de/2008/02/20/cyberpunk-art-2/

New faerietale

A young prince lost his way in the forest and came to a cave. He passed the night there, and when he awoke there stood next to him an old woman with a bear and a dog. The old witch seemed very beautiful and wished that the prince would stay with her and marry her. He could not endure her, yet could not leave that place.

One day, the bear was alone with him and spoke to the prince: "Pull the rusty nail from the wall, so that I shall be delivered, and place it beneath a turnip in the field, and in this way you shall have a beautiful wife." The prince seized the nail so strongly that the cave shook and the nail cracked loudly like a clap of thunder.
Behind him a bear stood up from the ground like a man, bearded and with a crown on his head.

"Now I shall find a beautiful maiden," cried the prince and went forth nimbly. He came to a field of turnips and was about to place the nail beneath one of them when there appeared above him a monster, so that he dropped the nail, pricked his finger on a hedge and bled until he fell down senseless. When he awoke he saw that he was elsewhere and that he had long slumbered, for his smooth chin was now frizzy with a blond beard.

He arose and set off across field and forest and searched through every turnip field but nowhere found what he was looking for. Day passed and night, too, and one evening, he sat down on a ridge beneath a bush, a flowering blackthorn with red blossoms on one branch. He broke off the branch, and because there was before him, amongst the other things on the ground, a large, white turnip, he stuck the blackthorn branch into the turnip and fell asleep.

When he awoke on the morrow, the turnip beside him looked like a large, open shell in which lay the nail, and the wall of the turnip resembled a nut-shell, whose kernel seemed to shape his picture. He saw there the little foot, the thin hand, the whole body, even the fine hair so delicately imprinted, just as the most beautiful girl would have.

The prince stood up and began his search, and came at last to the old cave in the forest, but no one was there. He took out the nail and struck it into the wall of the cave, and at once the old woman and the bear were also there. "Tell me, for you know for certain," snarled the prince fiercely at the old woman, "where have you put the beautiful girl from the parlour?" The old woman giggled to hear this: "You have me, so why do you scorn me?"

The bear nodded, too, and looked for the nail in the wall. "You are honest, to be sure," said the prince, "but I shall not be the old woman's fool again." "Just pull out the nail," growled the bear. The prince reached for it and pulled it half out, looked about him and saw the bear as already half man, and the odious old woman almost as a beautiful and kind girl. Thereupon he drew out the nail entirely and flew into her arms for she had been delivered from the spell laid upon her and the nail burnt up like fire, and the young bridal pair travelled with his father, the king, to his kingdom

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TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Was there a "monster of Glamis?"

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Was there a "monster of Glamis?": Excerpts from a story at the Smithsonian : “If you could even guess the nature of this castle’s secret,” said Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th E...

Spiderlings have brains in their legs

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Spiderlings have brains in their legs: Not separate brains, of course, but extensions (arrows in image above) of the main mass of their cerebral tissue. The reasons are explai...

Vintage Photography: Helene Shelda 1931

Vintage Photography: Helene Shelda 1931: via

http://www.buycostumes.com/browse/Kids-Costumes/Superheroes/_/N-3lZ17/results2.aspx

Map of Oz

Archery - Fast Shooting (Murmansk)

haunted houses sample