OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

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Merry Christmas everyone.
On this day in 1968 Apollo 8 re-entered the Earth’s gravitational field and set a trajectory back to earth. This is also the day that, in 2003, contact was lost with Britain’s Beagle 2 probe, a project that had been built almost entirely on money acquired from non-governmental sources and hoped to establish the presence of life on Mars. Had the project worked it would have probably ushered in a new era of space exploration and experimentation not funded by nation states and at much lower costs.
And now, the news:

Dog's close squeak after swallowing rubber duck
Carsten Höller: deer of perception
Mummified forest discovered in Arctic Circle
Dog in Germany gives birth to 17 puppies
Newly Discovered Tree Looks Like Darth Vader
Blood vessel looks like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rein...

OK, just because it's Christmas I hunted out the Max Fleischer Rudolph the red nosed reindeer cartoon for you all to watch, hope you all have a good Christmas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvaO7SvUU9w

A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM KARL SHUKER

http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2010/12/aptness-of-angels-happy-christmas.html

ANOTHER PIECE OF POTENTIALLT EXCITING NEWS FROM THE INDIA EXPEDITION

I have been saving this nice little titbit for Christmas Eve. Whilst in India the team examined the pelt of a red panda shot in the Garo Hills during the 1960s. This is particularly interesting because there are none of these animals known nearer than Bhutan. At the very least this is evidence for a marked extension of their known range.

However, it may be even more interesting. Compare the tail with the animals pictured here. This may of course be due to bleaching from the sun or a similar cause but samples have been sent to Lars Thomas, who is working through quite a backlog of CFZ related stuff at the moment.



Watch this space.

ODDS AND SODS FROM CHAD ARMENT

Markus Hemmler notes a collaborative bibliographic database for cryptozoological publications and articles by two sites, Kryptozoologie-Online and Kryptozoologie.net. The database can be viewed in German at:

http://www.kryptozoologie-online.de/bibliographie/index.php
Or, in English at:http://www.kryptozoologie-online.de/bibliography/


Young female chimpanzees appear to treat sticks as dolls
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-12/hu-yfc122010.php
Meat-eating dinosaurs not so carnivorous after all
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-12/fm-mdn121410.php
Infant mammoths kept on mom's milk longer to stay safe: Study
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Infant+mammoths+kept+milk+longer+stay+safe+Study/4010009/story.htmlColorado ski group wary of possible reintroduction of wolverines with protected status
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_16907832

ABSOLUTELY DREADFUL NEWS

The charity Booktrust is to lose all its government funding for schemes that promote reading by providing free books to children in England. The charity said it was "immensely surprised and disappointed" to hear it would lose £13m of annual Department for Education funding from April 2011.

Read the full story

NIGEL HERWIN: Enquiry Unlimited

Attached is the comic strip Enquiry Unlimited from the TV Express Annual 1962 (London: TV Publications, 1961), with art by Cecil Orr. It's a rather charming skim through the realms of Forteana, with some interesting conclusions. A bit of research has revealed that Enquiry Unlimited was an actual TV series, which ran for a couple of series between July 1960 and April 1961, where children's questions were answered with the aid of guest experts. Interesting that the strip in the annual opts for "the world's great mysteries and legends". Makes me wonder what other Fortean features could be lurking in children's annuals. I'm sure I have an old Eagle annual with a piece about UFOs. By the way, Howard Williams from the Enquiry Unlimited strip apparently later went on to partner British TV's anthropomorphic superstar, Basil Brush! Anyway, I hope you enjoy the strip.

Hope you're well, and best wishes to all at the CFZ.

As Redvers and Howard say at the end of the strip:

Cheerio!

Nigel Herwin

THE CFZ IN WINTER: Frozen chicken (well nearly)

Whilst Prudence spends most of her day asleep in front of the Rayburn.... Graham comes in with the chicken's water dish frozen solid..
Frozen so solid that Graham has to bring it into the kitchen to thaw out