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Petrified giant ancient trees found in Thailand

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The Watchers - 28 March, 2013- BY HEISENBERG

In 2003, a small section of a large petrified log was found in a reserve forest at Ban Tak District, Tak Province, Thailand, by a villager. This lead to investigation in this area by officials of the National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department and many such logs were discovered, leading to a name change of this forest to Petrified Forest Park, in 2006. The region where these fossils were discovered could be traced 1,000,000 years ago from the fossils and stone tools found in Northern Thailand, giving insights to not only prehistoric trees but also the prehistoric man, Homo erectus....

 

In 2003, a small section of a large petrified log was found in a reserve forest at Ban Tak District, Tak Province, Thailand, by a villager. This lead to investigation in this area by officials of the National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department and many such logs were discovered, leading to a name change of this forest to Petrified Forest Park, in 2006. The region where these fossils were discovered could be traced 1,000,000 years ago from the fossils and stone tools found in Northern Thailand, giving insights to not only prehistoric trees but also the prehistoric man, Homo erectus.

Inside the Biggest Cyberattack in History

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Mashable.com - Alex Fitzpatrick, 3/27/13

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A cyberattack originally targeting a single company is now being described by experts as one of the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in Internet history. The assault, which recently began impacting elements of the Internet's physical infrastructure, has been dragging down Internet speeds in Europe — but what makes this type of attack different from all other attacks?

First, some background: The attacks originally targeted a European anti-spam company called Spamhaus, which blacklists what it considers sources of email spam and sells those blacklists to Internet Service Providers. The attack began early last week as waves of large but typical DDoS assaults shortly after Spamhaus blacklisted Cyberbunker, a controversial web hosting company. Cyberbunker has not directly taken responsibility for the attacks against Spamhaus.

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Mandela Back in Hospital With Lung Infection

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The New York Times - 3/28/13, Lydia Polgreen

Nelson Mandela in 2008. Jon Hrusa/European Pressphoto Agency

JOHANNESBURG – Former President Nelson Mandela was admitted to the hospital to be treated for a recurring lung infection, South Africa’s current president, Jacob Zuma, said in a statement from his office on Thursday, appealing for people around the world to pray for him.

It was the third time that Mr. Mandela, 94, South Africa’s first black president and former leader of the dominant African National Congress, had been hospitalized in the past four months.

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Massive landslide threatens Washington state homes

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Fox6Now.com - 3/27/13, Trisha Bee

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(CNN) — A massive landslide in Washington has destroyed one home and threatens more than a dozen others, CNN affiliates in the Seattle area reported Wednesday.

One home has only about 10 feet of its backyard left after the slide on Whidbey Island, north of Seattle, CNN affiliate KIRO reported. That home along with others were being evacuated.

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Pope Francis considers closing scandal-riven bank

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The Australian The Times March 25, 2013 12:00AM

  • POPE Francis is to consider abolishing the Vatican Bank - which has been beset by a scandal over allegations of money-laundering - in a drive for greater transparency at the heart of the Catholic Church.
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  • Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, who has been tipped as a possible secretary of state, or "Vatican prime minister", said Francis would weigh up appeals made by two cardinals on the eve of his election for the bank - formally known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR) - to be scrapped.

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