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You might call it an act of God. A severe drought in Venezuela has exposed a church—pictured in 2008 (left) and on February 21, 2010—that had been inundated when a hydroelectric dam was built in 1985.
The 82-foot-tall (25-meter-tall) church and the Andean town of Potosi (see map) were flooded to establish the Uribante-Caparo water reservoir to power the plant, which is currently operating at just 7 percent of its capacity, according to the Reuters service.
Photographs by Diario La Nacion, Reuters (left) and Jorge Silva, Reuters (right)
The church is now an ominous symbol of energy shortages in the country, which gets around 68 percent of its power from hydroelectricity, Reuters reported. The droughts spurred Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to declare an energy emergency in February.
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National Geographic: Before-and-After Pictures: Underwater Church Reappears
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Stephen Wagner from About.com has written this excellent article on theories behind the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon.
IN AN AREA that stretches from the Florida coast to Bermuda to Puerto Rico, the infamous Bermuda Triangle – also known as the Deadly Triangle or Devil’s Triangle – has been blamed for hundreds of shipwrecks, plane crashes, mysterious disappearances, craft instrument malfunctions and other unexplained phenomena. Author Vincent Gaddis is credited for coining the term “Bermuda Triangle” back in 1964 in an article he wrote for Argosy magazine, in which he catalogued many of the anomalous events in the area, and several other authors, including Charles Berlitz and Ivan Sanderson, have added to their number.
Whether or not phenomena of a paranormal nature are taking place there has been a matter of debate. Those who are convinced something odd is happening, as well as researchers who take a scientific view, have offered a number of explanations for the mystery.
MAGNETIC VORTICES
Fortean researcher Ivan Sanderson suspected that the strange sea and sky phenomena, mechanical and instrument malfunctions, and mysterious disappearances were the result of what he called “vile vortices” where, he said, “tremendous hot and cold currents crossing the most active zones might create the electromagnetic gymnastics affecting instruments and vehicles.” And the Bermuda Triangle wasn’t the only place on earth where this occurred. Sanderson drew out elaborate charts on which he identified 10 such locations precisely distributed around the globe, five above, and five below at equal distances from the equator.
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about.paranormal.com: Top Theories for the Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle
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In a picturesque corner of the Lake District a strange phenomenon has left dozens of drivers baffled.
When they come to unlock their cars with their key fobs, they can’t.
And no-one is quite sure why.
The anomaly seems to be occurring along a short stretch of a street in Windermere, which lies close to the famous lake, and has led to it being dubbed the ‘Windermere Triangle’.
However it must be said the fate of those affected is not as bleak as the more famous ‘Bermuda Triangle’, where people have disappeared never to be seen again.
In the northern English holiday spot, specifically in a stretch of Crescent Road, the drivers find they cannot use central locking remotes to unlock their car.
Resident Judith Ainsworth has experienced the Windermere Triangle effect several times.
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Daily Mail: Riddle of the ‘Windermere Triangle’, where cars mysteriously refuse to unlock
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Letters that lay undiscovered in national archives for more than 230 years suggest that Silbury Hill, the enigmatic man-made mound that stands between Marlborough and Beckhampton, may have originally be constructed around some sort of totem pole.
Historians have uncovered in the British Library in London letters written in 1776 that describe a 40ft-high pole which once stood at the centre of Silbury Hill. Europe’s largest man-made mound.
The letters detail an 18th century excavation into the centre of the man-made mound, where archaeologists discovered a long, thin cavity six inches wide and about 40ft deep.
A separate excavation found fragments of oak timber within the cavity leading historians to believe that the mound was built around the pole dating from around 2,400 BC.
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Gazette and Herald: Long lost theory on Silbury Hill is uncovered
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