Sasquatch spotted in the remote mountains of Mission BC!

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Benedict Cumberbatch: Here's how Sherlock survived his fall (Entertaiment Weekly)

They couldn’t be on stage in person. But they made a hilarious video. Heavily in-demand Sherlock stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman taped a greeting to fans attending the show’s first-ever San Diego Comic-Con panel, where the producers dished about the upcoming third season.

In the video below, Martin has a brief bit from The Hobbit set. While Cumberbatch says he’s tired of keeping secrets for all his big screen roles like Khan in Star Trek: Into Darkness and Smaug in The Hobbit and decides to solve the cliffhanger that has everybody guessing — how Sherlock Holmes survived his rooftop plummet at the end of season 2. Stuffed animals and a helicopters are involved.

“It’s been so much fun, the scripts are just a delight,” Cumberbatch says of Sherlock‘s upcoming season. “F–k it, I’m going to tell you how Sherlock survived … I know you guys like your spoilers and I feel so much better telling you. Freedom!”

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Russia Lied About How The First Man In Space Died (Jalopnik)

On March 27, 1968, the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, died. He was in a MiG-15 on a routine training flight with his instructor when his plane crashed. The official explanation has been that he had to avoid a "foreign" object, but new information from Cosmonaut Alexi Leonov tells a different story.P

Leonov was the first man to walk in space, and much later was also on the committee that investigated Gagarin's crash. Leonov has been trying to reveal the truth of what happened for over 20 years, and the information has only now been de-classified, prompting Leonov to explain the truth of what happened in an interview with Russia Today.P

Of the official "foreign object" explanation — which could mean a goose, a hot air balloon, a squirrel in a home-made bark ultralight — Leonov says “That conclusion is believable to a civilian – not to a professional,” and reveals that the truth is that another fighter jet, a Sukhoi Su-15, flew much too close to Gagarin's MiG.P

The issue was that the Su-15 was flying far lower than it was supposed to. As Leonov tells RT:P

“We knew that a Su-15 was scheduled to be tested that day, but it was supposed to be flying at the altitude of 10,000 meters or higher, not 450-500 meters. It was a violation of the flight procedure.”P

When the Su-15 flew so close to Gagarin's plane, the passage caused the MiG to go into an uncontrollable spin, similar to that scene in Top Gun I bet at least half of you are picturing right now. Leonov explains to Russia Today:
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“While afterburning the aircraft reduced its echelon at a distance of 10-15 meters in the clouds, passing close to Gagarin, turning his plane and thus sending it into a tailspin – a deep spiral, to be precise – at a speed of 750 kilometers per hour,"P

The involved and intense 40+ year cover up was mostly to hide that such a lapse in air-traffic logistics could have happened so close to Moscow and to someone so important. In fact, Gagarin was deemed too valuable a public relations tool to ever be sent into space again, especially after the death of Vladimir Komarov in Soyuz 1, a mission Gagarin himself felt was launched prematurely.P

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Gagarin had proven to be a PR handful after his flight, behaving in ways the Soviet leadership found problematic, such as diving out of a second-story window when his wife caught him with another woman. Because of the Soviets' desire to keep Gagarin as a pure propaganda tool, there has been much speculation that the accident that took his life was planned by the KGB, along with many other conspiracy theories.P

The truth is more mundane, but no less tragic. P

One of the conditions of finally allowing Leonov to reveal the truth is that the Su-15's pilot remains anonymous. As Leonov wisely points out,P

I was asked not to disclose the pilot’s name. He is a good test pilot…It will fix nothing,”

source - jalopnik.com 

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Heydrichova smrt je opředena sítí teorií a domněnek (CT)

Praha – Okolo příčiny úmrtí zastupujícího říšského protektora vzniklo mnoho teorií. Dle první úmrtní zprávy zemřel Reinhard Heydrich na celkovou sepsi organismu v nemocnici Na Bulovce. Sám autor ale nakonec její závěr pozměnil a tvrdil, že se jednalo o anemický šok. Další teorie mluví o arteriální formě embolie, související s drobným poraněním plíce, které se mohlo u pacienta přehlédnout. Jedna z populárních teorií také tvrdí, že Heydricha zavraždil sám K. H. Frank, protože v něm viděl velkou konkurenci. Žádná z nich se nepotvrdila, historik Vojtěch Šustek teď ale v Ústředním státním archivu našel pitevní protokol Heydricha, o němž se vědci desetiletí domnívali, že se ztratil anebo byl záměrně zlikvidován. Mýty kolem Heydrichovy smrti jsou podle něj vyřešeny.

Ze zprávy o pitvě zastupujícího říšského protektora Heydricha provedené dne 4. června 1942 ve 12 hodin v městské nemocnici Bulovka vyplývá, že nečistota, kterou do těla vnesla plechová střepina ze sedadla Heydrichova auta, vyvolala sepsi. Chirurgové navíc vyjmuli zraněnému roztrženou slezinu, což jeho imunitu výrazně snížilo. Význam unikátního pitevního protokolu spočívá podle Šustka v tom, že se definitivně vyvrací zažitá tvrzení o podílu šéfa německé rozvědky admirála Wilhelma Canarise či druhého muže nacistického Německa Henricha Himmlera na Heydrichově smrti. Canaris či Himmler podle těchto spekulací nařídili lékařům, aby šéfa gestapa špatně léčili, čímž by se zbavili konkurenta v boji o moc.  

Z informací, které uvedl pořad České televize "Heydrich – konečné řešení: Souboj na Bulovce", vyplývá, že u operace zastupujícího říšského protektora byly tři klíčové osoby. Profesor Walther Dick, přednosta chirurgie na Bulovce, profesor Josef Hohlbaum, přednosta německé univerzitní chirurgické kliniky na Karlově náměstí, a doktor Alois Honěk, chirurg narkotizér.

V době operace se celá nemocnice změnila v pevnost, okolí chirugického pavilonu bylo obklopeno jednotkami SS a nechyběla ani kulometná hnízda. Sám Heydrich ležel v kanceláři přednosty chirurgické kliniky, kterou nacisté předělali na nemocniční pokoj.

V pořadu je popsán celý průběh Heydrichovy operace, při které byla ve finální fázi odstraněna slezina. I přes operaci ale Heydrich zemřel, pitva jeho těla byla podle dokumentu provedena atypicky. Jednalo se totiž jen o částečnou pitvu, nepitvala se třeba hlava nebo krční orgány. Při pitvě se tedy nepodařilo najít zřetelnou příčinu smrti, pravděpodobně k ní proto došlo šokem, popisuje dokument ČT.

Někteří jsou přesvědčeni o Heydrichově otravě, jiní ji vyvracejí

Mikrobioložka Věra Fraňková z Ústavu pro lékařskou mikrobiologii a imunologii 1. lékařské fakulty Univerzity Karlovy v Praze ale uvedla, že sepse nebyla možná. Otrava botulotoxinem způsobem, že by tento jed vyprodukovaly bakterie údajně obsažené ve střepinách granátu, které Reinharda Heydricha zasáhly při pokusu o atentát, je podle ní zcela vyloučena. Na otravu tímto jedem mohl říšský protektor zemřít prý pouze tehdy, pokud ho snědl s potravou.

Jedy botulotoxiny jsou podle Fraňkové produktem anaerobních bakterií, což znamená, že kyslík je pro ně jedovatý. Množit se a produkovat botulotoxin mohou pouze v prostředí bez přístupu vzduchu. Jinak přežívají pouze ve formě spor. Ty se běžně dostávají do lidského organismu s potravou, otravu však způsobit nemohou, sdělila mikrobioložka. Zprávy o tomto způsobu použití granátu nemá ani zástupce ředitele Historického ústavu Armády ČR Jiří Dvořan. Podle jeho slov se však domněnky, že Heydrich nezemřel na přímé následky zranění střepinami, objevily již dávno.

Tělo Reinharda Heydricha převezli už druhý den po protektorově smrti z Bulovky na Pražský hrad, ulice tehdy lemovali příslušnící SS s pochodněmi.  Po celém protektorátu proběhla organizována smuteční shromáždění. Po pompézním pohřbu čekal Heydricha ještě jeden v Berlíně. V tu chvíli už měly Lidice za sebou první zatýkání a do úplné likvidace jim zbývalo šest dní.

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SUBMERGED STRUCTURE STUMPS ISRAELI ARCHAEOLOGISTS (AP)

"TIBERIAS, Israel (AP) — The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated.

It's thousands of years old — a conical, manmade behemoth weighing hundreds of tons, practically begging to be explored.

The problem is — it's at the bottom of the biblical Sea of Galilee. For now, at least, Israeli researchers are left stranded on dry land, wondering what finds lurk below.

The monumental structure, made of boulders and stones with a diameter of 70 meters (230 feet), emerged from a routine sonar scan in 2003. Now archaeologists are trying to raise money to allow them access to the submerged stones.

"It's very enigmatic, it's very interesting, but the bottom line is we don't know when it's from, we don't know what it's connected to, we don't know its function," said Dani Nadel, an archaeologist at the University of Haifa who is one of several researchers studying the discovery. "We only know it is there, it is huge and it is unusual."

Archaeologists said the only way they can properly assess the structure is through an underwater excavation, a painstakingly slow process that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. And if an excavation were to take place, archaeologists said they believed it would be the first in the Sea of Galilee, an ancient lake that boasts historical remnants spanning thousands of years and is the setting of many Bible scenes."

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The mystery forest near the Hukvaldy castle

The fifty shades of green. Misty forest - a great place for the May 1st walk. No filters!

Májově tajemná obora na Hukvaldech.

Is 'Siberian Stonehenge' really the birthplace of astronomy? (Daily Mail)

- Sunduki in Siberia may be oldest human observatory in history

- Russian scientist claims to have found evidence of crude solar calendars

- Ancients 'used landscape to record time'

A Russian scientist believes a remote Siberian rock formation may be the first place that humanity began to follow the movements of the heavens.

Sunduki, known as the Siberian Stonehenge, is a series of eight sandstone outcrops on a remote flood plain on the bank of the Bely Iyus river in the republic of Khakassia.

Professor Vitaly Larichev, of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, claims that the 16,000-year-old site was not only a place of huge religious significance in the ancient world, but also its stargazing capital.

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Shakespeare: Hoarder, Playwright, Fake? (Popular Science)

"In the absence of solid evidence, statistics can help you decide for yourself.

Shakespeare was a grain hoarder and a flagrant tax evader, according to a new study that explores the Bard of Avon’s financials. It’s kind of surprising, and it means, weirdly, that he may have starred in a real-life version of one of his own tragedies. But that's OK. Another piece of research, in the form of a new book, suggests he couldn't have been a singular jerk: He might not have been a singular person at all.

To be clear, the idea that Shakespeare is not Shakespeare, or at least the man named William Shakespeare did not write the works attributed to him, is neither a new nor a popular theory. But it's getting new treatment from a scientist who has long been known for a very different field: Astrophysics.

When he isn’t studying the sun or distant pulsars, Stanford emeritus physicist Peter Sturrock reads and writes poetry, which he said got him interested in the so-called authorship question. In short, there’s a school of thought that holds the person who wrote Shakespeare's poems and plays was not a guy named William from Stratford-upon-Avon, but rather some other famous writer using a pen name. Sturrock (and a few others) think the real writer of works like “Romeo and Juliet” and “Coriolanus” (that’s the grain-hoarding one) could really be Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford."

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New study says Turin Shroud dates back to Jesus’ era. (Daily News)

"Scientists from Padua University have placed Turin Shroud between the 280 B.C. and A.D. 220. The cloth is prized by many Catholics as Jesus’ burial shroud.

The famed burial shroud that many Catholics say bears the face of Jesus has been dated back to Christ’s time, a new study says, which raises questions about whether the relic is more than a medieval hoax.

Scientists have never been able to explain exactly how the Turin Shroud, kept in Italy, was imprinted with the face, torso, and legs of a crucified man. But researchers have made several attempts to figure out when the linen cloth was produced. A 1988 test placed the shroud firmly in the Middle Ages, between A.D. 1260 and A.D. 1390. But a recent report from Italy’s Padua University dates the shroud between 280 B.C. and A.D. 220, much closer to the time that Christians believe Jesus walked the Earth."

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