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Thursday, August 24, 2000

Scottish Stones of Wonder
This site is dedicated to prehistoric observatories in Scotland. It has detailed diagrams, and provides the best dates to see the various alignments with the sun, moon and stars.
Stones of Wonder
"This is a Web guidebook to prehistoric monuments in Scotland (dating to the Neolithic or the Bronze Age) which have orientations to the sun, moon or stars. It gives the background to the archaeology of the sites, to archaeoastronomy and to the previous work which has been done. The main part of the guidebook is a listing of the monuments which can be visited, and the best time of year to see them and observe for yourself the sunrises, sunsets, moon rises and moon sets. The work is based on original surveys, of which full details are given."
posted at 8/24/2000 07:45:22 PM

Russian Megaliths
This is a website devoted to ancient Russian stone structures. They appear to be even more extensive than those in western Europe, and of quite different forms.
Dolmen Path - Russian Megaliths
"What are the Russian megaliths? The great number of them are located at the North - Western part of Caucasus mountains. Most of them are represented by rectangular structures made of stone slabs or cut in rocks with holes cut in their facade.
The marked megalithic sites consist of dolmens standing alone or grouped. The largest group consist of up to 580 megaliths. The number of known megaliths is up to 3000 dolmens and other structures. But every year gives us new megaliths and artifacts. Caucasus isn't a well known place. "
posted at 8/24/2000 07:00:13 PM

Saturday, August 19, 2000

Actual Photographic Evidence of Elephants Underneath NYC
It's true ! No alligators, but actual Live Elephants in the tunnels under NYC.
Atlas 6 | Bob Sacha | Under New York 9
"Elephants march through the Queens-Midtown Tunnel"
posted at 8/19/2000 11:35:22 PM

North Pole Icecap is Melting
Here is some striking evidence of global warming.
Ages-Old Polar Icecap Is Melting, Scientists Find"...an ice-free patch of ocean about a mile wide has opened at the very top of the world, something that has presumably never before been seen by humans and is more evidence that global warming may be real and already affecting climate."
posted at 8/19/2000 11:59:56 AM

Thursday, August 10, 2000

NASA Weather Movies
Here are several time lapse Quicktime and MPEG movies of satellite views of different hurricanes, and some large groups of thunderstorms. Most of them are enhanced in various ways, including some red-green stereo movies.
Movie Catalog
posted at 8/10/2000 10:04:41 PM

Friday, August 04, 2000

EARLY AUGUST UPDATED FORECAST OF ATLANTIC BASIN SEASONAL HURRICANE ACTIVITY AND LANDFALL PROBABILITIES FOR 2000
Dr. Gray has slghtly downgraded the hurricane numbers since his June forecast. Still, he is expecting an above average year.
EARLY AUGUST UPDATED FORECAST OF ATLANTIC
"A year of above average hurricane activity and landfall probability as anticipated in our 8 December and 7 April forecasts- though somewhat less active than anticipated in our 6 June forecast."
posted at 8/4/2000 03:07:10 PM

Record Wildfires
Information and maps of currently burning US wildfires. To date this year there have been 62,374 wildfires, burning a record 3,854,637 acres in the continental US. At this moment, there are 70 large fires, burning on about 3/4 of a million acres.
Current Wildland Fire Information
posted at 8/4/2000 02:57:17 PM