With depths of more than a mile, the 25-million-year-old Lake Baikal is the most voluminous freshwater lake on the planet — and it’s home to a variety of unique and mysterious creatures.Located in Siberia, Lake Baikal is natural wonder known for its crystalline-colored waters. It is the largest freshwater lake on the planet by volume, containing approximately 20 percent of the Earth’s freshwater, and it is the oldest lake in the world at about 25 million years old. Read More...
It's one of 54 chapters from a transcription of The Tale of Genji, written in the 11th century.Kyodo NewsMotofuyu Okochi’s family had held onto the missing manuscript for nearly 300 years.
Nerdy book lovers might be familiar with The Tale Of Genji, an ancient Japanese tale considered to be the world’s first novel. But the story’s original manuscript, written by an 11th-century noblewoman named Murasaki Shikibu, no longer exists.
It was later discovered that the contents of the tale were preserved by the poet Fujiwara no Teika in a 54-chapter manuscript published later on, known as Ao-byoshi-bon (in English, “blue blook cover version”). Read More...
"After all this time and the suspicions, looking and trying to locate him after nearly 60 years, the family can now rest assured that we can give him a proper burial and memorial."ABC NewsThe home where the missing Long Island father’s bones were found.
A Long Island man was not entirely surprised when he found human bones buried in the basement of his home. After a six-decade search, he believes that those bones belong to his own father. Read More...
