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  • [Catholic Caucus] Francis Warns Madagascar Bishops Of Young "Rigid" Priests

    09/08/2019 3:19:11 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 11 replies
    Gloria TV ^ | September 7, 2019 | Gloria TV
    [Catholic Caucus] Francis Warns Madagascar Bishops Of Young "Rigid" Priests Pope Francis spoke on September 7 in the Antananarivo Cathedral, Madagascar, to the local bishops about screening seminarians. In this context, he warned them of young priests who are “too rigid” [meaning: pious and serious]. Francis insinuated that behind this there are “grave problems.” However, Francis failed to mention the enormous evil produced by rigid liberals like Francis himself who pour gallons of Modernist wastewater into the sparkling wine of the Gospel.
  • A Legendary Ship Vanished With $138 Million in Treasure. Two Explorers Say They Found It.

    07/17/2025 1:04:13 PM PDT · by Twotone · 12 replies
    Popular Mechanics ^ | July 16, 2025 | Tim Newcomb
    When famed pirates overtook a Portuguese ship in 1721 once laden with treasure (now valued over $138 million), the battle went well for the pirates, who eventually sank the ship off the coast of Madagascar. A pair of American archaeologists now claim they’ve discovered the final site of the lost vessel. Known as the Nossa Senhora do Cabo—translated as Our Lady of the Cape—the ship left India with a Portuguese viceroy and the Archbishop of Goa, 200 slaves, and treasure aplenty. Pirates were ready and Olivier “The Buzzard” Levasseur led an ambush of the ship near Reunion Island in the...
  • Divers Discover Portuguese Shipwreck Off Madagascar

    07/13/2025 7:45:18 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 12 replies
    Archaeology Magazine ^ | July 7, 2025 | editors / unattributed
    According to a Live Science report, archaeologists from the Center for Historic Shipwreck Preservation believe they have identified the wreck of a treasure-laden eighteenth-century Portuguese ship that was famously attacked by pirates off the coast of Madagascar. In 1721, the Nossa Senhora do Cabo departed India en route to Portugal with a cargo of gold, silver, and precious gems. It was also transporting the outgoing Portuguese viceroy and the Archbishop of Goa when it was captured by a group of pirates that included Olivier Levasseur (La Buse) and John Taylor. Divers located the ship's remains on the seafloor near the...
  • Engage! Newly Discovered Frogs that Sound Like Star Trek Sound Effects Named After Series’ Iconic Captains

    10/17/2024 11:02:57 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 16 replies
    The Debrief ^ | October 15, 2024 | Christopher Plain
    Scientists working in the remote rainforests of Madagascar say they’ve discovered seven new frog species whose calls sound similar to Star Trek sound effects, which are often heard on the iconic TV franchise’s various series. Due to these auditory similarities, the researchers have named the newly discovered amphibians after seven of the franchise’s most iconic captains. “Not only do these frogs sound like sound effects from Star Trek, but it seems also fitting that to find them, you often have to do quite a bit of trekking!” quipped senior study author, Assistant Professor Mark D. Scherz from the Natural History...
  • Who Cut Niches Into the Cliffs at Madagascar's Isalo National Park?

    09/30/2024 8:35:57 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 13 replies
    Archaeology Magazine ^ | September 24, 2024 | editors / unattributed
    According to a Phys.org report, Guido Schreurs of the University of Bern and his colleagues suggest that rock-cut terraces and chambers at the remote archaeological site of Teniky in southern Madagascar were carved some 1,000 years ago by a Zoroastrian community. High-resolution satellite images revealed that Teniky was much larger than previously thought. Schreurs and his colleagues then identified dozens of circular and rectangular stone niches carved into the cliffs. Circular recesses in these niches may have been used to close the spaces with wooden or stone slabs, he explained. Charcoal and pottery recovered during the investigation have been dated...
  • New Species Of Incredibly Tiny Chameleon Discovered In Madagascar...It may only be the size of your fingertip, but this thing’s got attitude.

    09/18/2024 9:42:30 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 17 replies
    IFL Science ^ | September 18, 2024 | Rachael Funnell
    A first-of-its-kind for habitat selection. Image courtesy of Miguel Vences Rejoice! There’s a new tiny chameleon on the block. Hailing from Madagascar, it joins other miniature chameleons in the Brookesia genus, subgenus Evoluticauda. At little bigger than the end of your forefinger, it was a remarkable spot in what’s presently a highly threatened habitat in Madagascar. The new-to-science species has been named Brookesia nofy after the forest it was found in, known as Ankanin’ny Nofy. Sitting at about sea level, it’s a littoral forest making this the first of the mini chameleons to be found in this kind of habitat....
  • Nashville Zoo welcomes rare fanaloka birth

    03/20/2024 12:49:22 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 13 replies
    UPI ^ | MARCH 20, 2024 / 3:03 PM | By Ben Hooper
    VIDEO AT LINK................... March 20 (UPI) -- The Nashville Zoo announced the birth of a rare spotted fanaloka, a Mdagascar-native species also known as the Malagasy civet. The zoo, which is the only facility in the United States to keep fanalokas, said the male pup was born March 10 and does not yet have a name. The zoo previously welcomed the birth of a female fanaloka, named Pepite, about two years ago. She was the first of her species to be born at the zoo and among the first to be born in the country. The new arrival is being...
  • Did Early Humans Ride the Waves to Australia?

    02/05/2012 5:09:30 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 42 replies
    Mind & Matter 'blog (WSJ) ^ | Saturday, February 4, 2012 | Matt Ridley
    For a long time, scientists had assumed a gradual expansion of African people through Sinai into both Europe and Asia. Then, bizarrely, it became clear from both genetics and archaeology that Europe was peopled later (after 40,000 years ago) than Australia (before 50,000 years ago). Meanwhile, the geneticists were beginning to insist that many Africans and all non-Africans shared closely related DNA sequences that originated only after about 70,000-60,000 years ago in Africa. So a new idea was born, sometimes called the "beachcomber express," in which the first ex-Africans were seashore dwellers who spread rapidly around the coast of the...
  • An Ancient Link To Africa Lives On In Bay Of Bengal

    12/10/2002 1:09:21 PM PST · by blam · 48 replies · 1,000+ views
    The New York Times ^ | 12-10-2002 | Nicholas Wade
    An Ancient Link to Africa Lives on in Bay of Bengal By NICHOLAS WADE Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands, a remote archipelago east of India, are direct descendants of the first modern humans to have inhabited Asia, geneticists conclude in a new study. But the islanders lack a distinctive genetic feature found among Australian aborigines, another early group to leave Africa, suggesting they were part of a separate exodus. The Andaman Islanders are "arguably the most enigmatic people on our planet," a team of geneticists led by Dr. Erika Hagelberg of the University of Oslo write in the journal Current...
  • Secrets of 9-Foot Tall, 1,500-Pound Elephant Birds Revealed by Ancient Eggshells

    03/09/2023 9:43:58 AM PST · by Red Badger · 34 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | MARCH 9, 2023 | By UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER
    Elephant Bird Egg What a whole Aepyornis egg would have looked like when freshly laid, seen in a market near the town of Toliara on the southwest coast of Madagascar. Credit: Gifford Miller More than 1,200 years ago, flightless elephant birds roamed the island of Madagascar and laid eggs bigger than footballs. While these ostrich-like giants are now extinct, new research from the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder) and Curtin University in Australia reveals that their eggshell remnants hold valuable clues about their time on Earth. Published on February 28 in the journal Nature Communications, the study describes...
  • Scientists Find Evidence of Largest Earthquake in Human History 3,800 Years Ago

    04/19/2022 4:12:43 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 54 replies
    UPI ^ | APRIL 19, 2022 | Sommer Brokaw
    Scientists have found evidence that an earthquake 3,800 years ago in Northern Chile is the largest in human history, according to a new study. The quake had a magnitude of around 9.5, prompting tsunamis that struck countries as far away as New Zealand and boulders the size of cars to be carried inland by the waves, according to researchers at the University of Southampton. Since earthquakes occur when two tectonic plates rub together and rupture, a longer rupture indicates a bigger earthquake, they said. "It had been thought there could not be an event of that size in the north...
  • Tropical Cyclone "Batsirai" expected to deliver catastrophic blow to Madagascar

    02/02/2022 7:07:28 PM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 8 replies
    Watchers.News ^ | 2/2/22 | Teo Blaskovic
    Tropical Cyclone "Batsirai" formed well east of Madagascar on January 27, 2022, at a time Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi were still assessing severe damage caused by the passage of Tropical Cyclone "Ana." Environmental conditions favor further intensification, leading to a possible catastrophic landfall in Madagascar on February 5. Up to 600 mm (24 inches) of rain is possible in some areas. Batsirai is the second named storm of the 2021/22 Southwest Indian Ocean cyclone season. At 06:00 UTC on February 2, Batsirai was an Intense Tropical Cyclone located approximately 246 km (153 miles) NNE of Port Louis, Mauritius. Its maximum...
  • Largest Underwater Eruption Ever Recorded Gives Birth to Massive New Volcano

    09/30/2021 7:21:14 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 46 replies
    SciAlert ^ | 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 | MICHELLE STARR
    A huge seismic event that started in May of 2018 and was felt across the entire globe has officially given birth to a new underwater volcano. Off the eastern coast of the island of Mayotte, a gigantic new feature rises 820 meters (2,690 feet) from the seafloor, a prominence that hadn't been there prior to an earthquake that rocked the island in May 2018. French governmental institutions sent a research team to check it out; there, sure enough, was an undersea mountain that hadn't been there before. Led by geophysicist Nathalie Feuillet of the University of Paris in France, the...
  • Zebras Are Running Loose Around D.C. and That Is Not the Weird Part

    09/11/2021 11:45:07 AM PDT · by Norski · 43 replies
    Red State ^ | September 10, 2021 | Brad Slager
    When you deny involvement when there is no crime, you sound suspect. Things have become completely unhinged in the nation’s capital, so why not add to the mayhem? For a few days now, it has been a story of mild interest in the area that five zebras have escaped from a compound where they had been kept. They have reportedly splintered to evade capture, with one trio running off and the remaining duo taking a different escape plan. It’s the kind of nonsensical story that is basically welcomed, what with the world in complete disarray from the border, to the...
  • Tanzania Kicks Out WHO After Goat & Papaya Samples Came COVID-19 Positive

    07/19/2020 10:20:04 AM PDT · by ransomnote · 16 replies
    greatgameindia.com ^ | May 11, 2020 | GreatGameIndia
    With the rise in false Coronavirus cases, the Tanzanian President John Magufuli growing suspicious of the World Health Organization (WHO), decided to investigate the claims himself. He sent the WHO samples of a goat, a papaya and a quail for testing. After all 3 samples came COVID-19 positive, the President is reported to have kicked out the WHO from the country. UPDATE: Days after Tanzanian move, now Burundi kicks out WHO Coronavirus Team from the country for interference in internal matters. Meanwhile, in yet another African nation Nigeria, Bill Gates has been caught bribing forced Coronavirus program. Just couple of...
  • W.H.O Offered $20 million Bribe To Poison COVID-19 Cure Made by Madagascar – President Andry Rajoelina Claims

    05/18/2020 6:57:38 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 36 replies
    In a shocking claim the President of Madagascar has said that the WHO offered $20m bribe to poison COVID-19 cure. The herbal remedy called COVID-19 Organics made from Artemisia can cure COVID-19 patients within ten days said the President. He also raised the question that if it was a European country that had actually discovered this remedy, would there be so much doubt? The President of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina has accused the World Health Organisation of a plot to have its COVID-19 Organics, the local African ‘cure’ for the virus poisoned. Rajoelina claims WHO offered a $20 million bribe to...
  • Madagascar Unveils Herbal Tea for Coronavirus That ‘Gives Results in Seven Days’

    04/23/2020 11:15:44 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 26 replies
    Face2Face Africa ^ | FULL BIOCLOSEFacebook Twitter LinkedIn EmailApril 22, 2020 | Mildred Europa Taylor
    The president of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina, has officially launched a local herbal remedy he claims can prevent and cure coronavirus in seven days. The beverage, called COVID-Organics and developed by the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research (IMRA), contains Artemisia, a plant used to treat malaria. “Tests have been carried out – two people have now been cured by this treatment,” Rajoelina told ministers, diplomats and the media at the IMRA on Monday. “This herbal tea gives results in seven days,” he said. Drinking a bottle of COVID-Organics, he said: “I will be the first to drink this today, in front...
  • The World Is Facing A Natural Vanilla Shortage. This Guy Says He Will Fix That By Producing Vanilla From Corn Fiber

    04/18/2020 2:14:44 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 46 replies
    Forbes ^ | Apr 15, 2020 | Igor Bosilkovski
    The legend says that vanilla was introduced to Europe by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, who had seen the Aztec Emperor Montezuma drink his xocolatl (sort of a chocolate drink) with a bit of vanilla. The Mesoamerican flavoring gained massively in popularity in the 19th century, when botanists found a way to hand-pollinate it, which allowed for it to be grown around the world. Today, the vast majority of vanilla (some 60%-80%) comes from the African island of Madagascar, and it is the second most expensive spice (only behind saffron) in the world, mostly because it’s difficult to produce. However, at...
  • Strange waves rippled around the world, and nobody knows why

    11/29/2018 4:08:29 PM PST · by ETL · 70 replies
    National Geographic ^ | Nov 28, 2018 | Maya Wei-Haas
    On the morning of November 11, just before 9:30 UT, a mysterious rumble rolled around the world. The seismic waves began roughly 15 miles off the shores of Mayotte, a French island sandwiched between Africa and the northern tip of Madagascar. The waves buzzed across Africa, ringing sensors in Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. They traversed vast oceans, humming across Chile, New Zealand, Canada, and even Hawaii nearly 11,000 miles away. These waves didn't just zip by; they rang for more than 20 minutes. And yet, it seems, no human felt them. Only one person noticed the odd signal on the...
  • The mystery of the 'rumble in the Indian Ocean': Strange seismic waves that shook the world...

    11/29/2018 3:05:58 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 32 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 11/29/2018 | CHeyenn Macdonald and Harry Pettitt
    Full Title: "The mystery of the 'rumble in the Indian Ocean': Strange seismic waves that shook the world on November 11 baffle researchers" Mysterious seismic waves in the Indian Ocean that were picked up by monitoring stations from Madagascar to Canada three weeks ago have baffled scientists. Researchers and earthquake enthusiasts who spotted the signals have narrowed down the origin to a region just off the coast of the island Mayotte. The slow waves detected on November 11 rumbled for more than 20 minutes, unbeknownst to most people. They are similar to those typically seen after large earthquakes, which are...