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Spacecraft transforms Mars knowledge The probe is providing a new understanding about the composition of Mars' surface rocks, geological history, radiation levels and potential landing sites for rovers.

Texas sheriff warns of unidentified troops For a long time one of the popular New World Order conspiracy theories was that there were UN troops or possibly Russian troops training in Mexico. The plan was that eventually they would invade the United States and impose a one world government over the country. It never struck me as seeming that believable, but, who knows.

'Lost City' (Machu Picchu) Yielding Its Secrets Working with new evidence and a trove of re-examined relics, many of them recovered from the basement of a Yale museum here, archaeologists have revised their thinking about the significance of Machu Picchu, the most famous "lost city" of the Incas.

Revealing Ohio's Buried Treasure Seventeen centuries ago, North America's Midwest was covered with hundreds of precisely aligned astronomical markers. Built out of 7 million cubic feet of earth, the structures sprawled for miles across the countryside and rose to a height of 15 feet.