Stannous Flouride's Book of Truthiness

English archaeologists have discovered “demon traps” under the floorboards of Knole, one of Britain’s most important historic houses. The estate is shown here in the year 1800.
Acquired by the Archbishops of Canterbury in the 15th century, gifted to Henry VIII and remodeled in the 17th century by the Sackville family, the house was the birthplace of poet and gardener Vita Sackville-West and the setting for Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando.

The carvings included criss-crossed lines, interlocking V-shapes to invoke the protection of the Virgin Mary, and scorch marks made by directly burning the timber with a candle.
They were intended to trap demons and witches at work.

The marks date to early 1606 and the reign of King James I, a period when superstition and paranoia gripped England just after the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
At that time, a handful of English Roman Catholic dissenters planned to blow up King James I of England and both Houses of Parliament.
Government propaganda, orchestrated by James I, blamed the Catholic conspirators as being in service to Satan, paving the way to widespread accusations of demonic forces and witches at work.

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/demon-traps-found-in-17th-century-english-house-141106.htm

According to a first assessment, the one and a half metre (five feet) high basalt stele which was used as a buttress in the wall of a monastery shows a fertility or agricultural god.

Classical scholar and excavation director Prof. Dr. Engelbert Winter and archaeologist Dr. Michael Blömer said: “The image is remarkably well preserved. It provides valuable insights into the beliefs of the Romans and into the continued existence of ancient Near Eastern traditions.
“However, extensive research is necessary before we will be able to accurately identify the deity.”
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Religion-und-Politik/en/aktuelles/2014/nov/PM_Unbekannte_Goetterdarstellung_entdeckt.html

Footprints thought to have been left by fishermen 5,000 years ago have been found by archaeologists working ahead of the planned construction of the Femern Belt Tunnel, which will connect Denmark and Germany.

“We normally find historical clues in the form of human waste, but here we have found an entirely different clue and a first in Danish archaeology: a physical print left behind by a human,” archaeologist Terje Stafseth of the Museum Lolland-Falster told The Copenhagen Post. The prints are thought to have been made by two individuals who waded out into a silted seabed to repair and eventually move their weirs from the flooding. “We can follow the footprints, sense the importance of these weirs and know they would have been an important source of nutrition for the coastal community,”

NORTH UIST, SCOTLAND—Recent storms have exposed a woven reed basket containing worked quartz and animal bones on an island in the Outer Hebrides. “It’s rare to find well-preserved organic material. It indicates that this basket must have been kept under water from the day that it was placed, or lost, there.

The basket, about half a metre in length, contains a handful of worked quartz stones, and a handful of diverse animal bones.

http://www.islandnewsandadvertiser.co.uk/2014/11/rare-pre-historic-basket-found-in-north-uist-set-for-imminent-excavation/

The Protoplanetary Disk of HL Tauri from ALMA 
Image Credit: ESO, NSF

Explanation: Why does this giant disk have gaps? The exciting and probable answer is: planets. A mystery is how planets massive enough to create these gaps formed so quickly, since the HL Tauri star system is only about one million years old. The picture on which the gaps were discovered was taken with the new Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) of telescopes in Chile. ALMA imaged the protoplanetary disk, which spans about 1,500 light-minutes across, in unprecedented detail, resolving features as small as 40 light minutes. The low energy light used by ALMA was also able to peer through an intervening haze of gas and dust. The HL Tauri system lies about 450 light years from Earth. Studying HL Tauri will likely give insight into how our own Solar System formed and evolved.

“The aim of this study was to provide a better understanding of why people engage with sad music,” said Liila Taruffi and Stephan Koelsch, creators of the survey.

Discussing the results, the authors said that, surprisingly, “nostalgia rather than sadness is the most frequent emotion evoked by sad music. Correspondingly, memory was rated as the most important principle through which sadness is evoked. Finally, the trait empathy contributes to the evocation of sadness via contagion, appraisal, and by engaging social functions. The present findings indicate that emotional responses to sad music are multifaceted, are modulated by empathy, and are linked with a multidimensional experience of pleasure revealing that listening to sad music can lead to beneficial emotional effects such as regulation of negative emotion and mood as well as consolation. Such beneficial emotional effects constitute the prime motivations for engaging with sad music in everyday life.”
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-sad-music-positive-emotional-rewards.html 

Initial surveys of the seafloor of these areas of huge oil reserves revealed some unusual surface features, which were subsequently investigated using underwater robots. In the area of seabed investigated, which was around the size of the Isle of Wight, a total of 2254 mounds were identified by side-scan sonar, covering a total area of 3.7 square kilometres of seafloor, about the area of Golden Gate Park.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-11-scientists-mysterious-tar-mounds-west.html#jCp

A fascinating collection of 30 photos by various photographers of the 2 months in 1989 that marked the sudden collapse of the Wall leading to the reunification of Deutschland.
http://www.vintag.es/2014/11/30-amazing-photos-of-fall-of-berlin.html#more

By order of our Dark Lord you MUST watch this hilarious video commentary on religion by Whitney Avalon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40uyvImgsQ0