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Had the following unexplained incident occurred today, even in the slightly relaxed atmosphere of the post-Cold War, it would have probably triggered World War Three. Fortunately, the greatest hammer blow from space to hit our Earth since prehistoric times happened when the 20th century was barely eight years old. Even today, scientists are still at loggerheads as regards to the nature of the extraterrestrial object which shook the world after exploding in the skies of pre-Revolutionary Russia.

The momentous event happened at 7.15 a.m. local time on the last day of June 1908. At that precise moment, an object brighter than the morning sun ripped through......

The Gilbert Islands lie in the PacificOcean to the north-west of Australia.There are 24 islands in the chain, and the most northerly is Makin-Meang.The islanders regard Makin-Meang as a half-way house between the living and the dead. When an islander dies, his ghost has to make it's way up the chain of islands to Makin- Meang, to land on the southern beach and walk upto the northern end, known as the Place of Dread, where the Watcher at the Gate, Nakaa, sits in wait with a net in his hand to strangle the ghosts to prevent them passing through the Gate to Paradise. The only assistance the ghost can get is from his relatives performing certain rituals over his dead body, which should help prevent Nakaa from trapping the ghost,so enabling the soul to travel to Paradise. Depending on which island the person died on, the route from the south to the north takes either the west side of the island for the dead from the other islands, or the eastern side for native Makin-Meang islanders.As there......