Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Wednesday, October 20, 2010,
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Archeology
Doom mongers and scientists who have been telling us about the Mayan calendar and the upcoming apocalypse in 2012 may have to cool their heels a while longer. According to a new book titled "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time In the Ancient and Medieval World", scientists used a Latin formula to convert the Mayan calendar, and that formula lost something in the translation. The book's author reveals that the Latin and Mayan calendars are a bit out of sync, which means that our calcu... Continue reading ...
Tokyo Hotel Seeking World Record Price
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Wednesday, October 13, 2010,
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Business
Tokyo's Mandarin Oriental hotel is trying to set a new world record price by offering the highest price ever for a hotel in a deal to commemorate its fifth anniversary. The offer will allow use of the entire hotel, including its nine restaurants and all 178 rooms for $671,000 a night, each period going from three in the afternoon to noon the next day, and the hotel will apply for the record as soon as a night is booked at this price. The catch? You can only rent it on a day when there are ... Continue reading ...
Oracle Paul Retires
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Monday, July 12, 2010,
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Sports
World famous oracle Paul is retiring from the prediction game in spite of a perfect record. As you should know, Paul is an octopus at the Oberhausen Sea Life aquarium, and he correctly picked the results of Germany's World Cup team games by eating food from one of two containers bearing the German flag and those of ts opponents. He capped this feat off by choosing Spain over Holland in the World Cup final game on July 11. Officials at the aquarium failed to say if this decision had anythin... Continue reading ...