Nothing is quite as cool as a super-secret submarine hunt ...

Quoted: The man who located the wreck of the Titanic has revealed that the discovery was a cover story to camouflage the real mission of inspecting the wrecks of two Cold War nuclear submarines.

Congrats Kobe!!

Quoted: Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers is the winner of the Maurice Podoloff Trophy as the 2007-08 NBA Most Valuable Player presented by Kia Motors, the NBA announced today.

It's kind of sad to have this historical mystery solved once and for all. It was more fun to imagine a secret royal blood line out there. I guess I'll just have to stick to reading historical fiction.

Quoted: DNA tests carried out by a U.S. laboratory prove that remains exhumed last year belong to two children of Czar Nicholas II, putting to rest questions about what happened to Russia's last royal family, a regional governor said Wednesday.

Today is the anniversary of the San Francisco quake of 1906. I guess that's why the Midwest celebrated with a quake of their own.

Quoted: The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco and the coast of northern California at 5:12 A.M. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906.[1] The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.8; however, other values have been proposed from 7.7 to as high as 8.3.[2] The mainshock epicenter occurred offshore about 2 miles (3 km) from the city, near Mussel Rock. It ruptured along the San Andreas Fault both northward and southward for a total length of 296 miles (477 km).[3] Shaking was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles, and inland as far as central Nevada. The earthquake and resulting fire is remembered as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States. The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire represents the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history.

Awesome. darwin-online.org.uk

Quoted: The first draft of Charles Darwin's "On The Origin Of Species" is among a wealth of papers belonging to the intensely private man who changed science being published on the Internet on Thursday for the first time.

... and speaking of nazis ...

Quoted: Digging has resumed at a site in the southeastern German town of Deutschneudorf, where treasure hunters believe there are almost 2 tons of Nazi gold and possibly clues to the whereabouts of the legendary Amber Room, a prize taken from a Russian castle during World War II.

How terrible. Luckily they can just track his ebay seller's history and find all of the transactions.

Quoted: A New York state employee who had access to government-owned archives has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of historic documents, many of which he sold on eBay, authorities said on Monday.

Must find this road ...

Quoted: Address: 196th Avenue NE between Union Hill Road & Redmond-Fall City Road, vicinity of Redmond.

This is really interesting, especially the part about trying to get crabs to lead the team to human bones by providing them with pig bones. I wonder how you come up with that idea.

Quoted: The conditions during the search will be punishing, with the explorers forced to contend with dense jungle vegetation, 100-degree heat, sharks that reside in a lagoon in the middle of the island and voracious crabs that make it necessary to wear shoes at all times.