will miracles never cease?

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-- When the mythical island of Atlantis submerged into the ocean, it took all of its orichalcum with it. The legendary cast metal was reputedly second only to gold in value. Now, a team of divers say they’ve recovered 39 blocks of orichalcum in a sixth-century shipwreck on the seafloor near Sicily, Discovery News reports. The 2,600-year-old ship, likely from Greece or somewhere in Asia Minor, was carrying the metal to Gela in southern Sicily when it was caught in a storm and sank around 300 meters (1,000 feet) from the port.
"Nothing similar has ever been found," Sebastiano Tusa of Sicily's Sea Office says. "We knew orichalcum from ancient texts and a few ornamental objects." According to Plato’s Critias, the metal was mined only on Atlantis, where it was used to cover the inside of Poseidon’s temple.

-- More astounding still, perhaps, Fox News, a network rightly accused of inaccurate insinuations and misstatements in its 'newscasting,' apologized four times on-air Saturday for its anti-Islamic statements. Talk about "when pigs fly!" If Fox News cleans up its right-wing act, how will Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show and gadfly of the left, find sufficient material for his skewerings?