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Wednesday, December 1
December 1, 2010

Heavy rains triggered the collapse of two ancient walls at Pompeii this morning. Archaeologists are still looking for evidence of cannibalism among the travelers of the infamous Donner Party. The Donner Party was traveling west when snow storms trapped them at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846.   Here’s more information on the […]

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Tuesday, November 30
November 30, 2010

Heavy rains have triggered another collapse at Pompeii. This time it was parts of the rebuilt garden wall surrounding the House of the Moralist. Rock art in Nevada’s Red Rock Canyon has been spray-painted with graffiti. “We can get them restored but it will be very, very expensive to remove the paint without damaging the […]

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