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To: danjo who wrote (1337)	8/18/1999 3:59:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 1615

I'll see what else I have in my bag of tricks...

To: danjo who wrote (1337)	8/19/1999 12:38:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 1615

CONGO DINOSAUR SEARCH The idea of dinosaurs surviving millions of years into the present in remote jungle regions has had universal appeal since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fooled the Society of American Magicians in 1922 with some test animation sequences for the very first movie of The Lost World (1925). Since then, movies like The Valley of the Gwangi (1968), Baby (1985) and Jurassic Park (1993) have made box-office capital of the idea. But three Manchester lads – Adam Davies, Andy Sanderson and John McDonald – have taken that idea seriously enough to arrange an expedition to go to the Congo next October. Adam – a project manager for Cable & Wireless in Cheshire who says he "needs the buzz of adventure" – has not long returned from Sumatra where he failed to track down the orang pendek, a mysterious ape-like creature. His quarry this time is the Mokele-mbembe, a shy, vegetarian, brontosaur-like sauropod that could be up to 10m (30ft) long, thought to live in the Likouala swamps of northern Congo. forteantimes.com

To: danjo who wrote (1337)	8/19/1999 12:43:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 1615

Spontaneous Human Combustion -- Again! An 82-year-old australian woman has possibly become the latest victim of the mysterious spontaneous human combustion (SHC). On 24 August 1998, Jackie Park picked up her mother, Agnes Phillips, from the Chesalon nursing home in the Wollongong suburb of Woonona, near Sydney, Australia. Mrs Park liked to take her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, out for the day. About an hour later, she drew up by the 4 Square Store in Balgownie Road and left her mother in the car as she was asleep. Minutes later, she saw smoke coming from the car, followed by an explosion of flames. Passerby Bradley Silva managed to drag Mrs Phillips from the car and put out the flames. The old lady was remarkably calm throughout the ordeal, only muttering "It's too hot, it's too hot" as her daughter held her at the side of the road. She suffered "severe and extreme" burns to her chest, abdomen, neck, arms and legs. She was taken to hospital where she died just over a week later. At the inquest this April, NSW Fire Brigade Inspector Donald Walshe said he could not determine where the fire originated. The car was not running; there was no trace of liquid accelerants and no faulty wiring. Neither Mrs Phillips nor Mrs Park were smokers and the maximum temperature in Wollongong on the day of the fire was 16º Celsius. The coroner, recorded an open verdict. Walshe said obscurely that spontaneous human combustion was ruled out "because of evidence from previous cases and experience over the years. This fire took place over a very short period of time and it does take a lot of time for that scenario (SHC) to take place." Without witnessing an SHC case, how on earth can he know how long it takes? Sydney Daily Telegraph, Courier Mail (Brisbane), 9 April, South China Morning Post, 10 April 1999.

To: danjo who wrote (1337)	8/19/1999 12:53:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 1615

LOST CONTINENT DISCOVERED... Remnants of a lost continent have been discovered beneath the ocean floor about 2,500 miles (4,000km) southwest of Perth. Australia's Heard and McDonald Islands sit on the sunken land mass, which was probably once covered in lush Cretaceous ferns, lizards and small dinosaurs. The lost world, a third the size of Australia, rose out of the Indian Ocean between 115 million and 90 million years ago through a series of eruptions centred on a magma hotspot, and slipped below the surface some time in the last 20 million years after it drifted away from the hotspot and contracted.