No joke: South Carolina now requires ’subversives’ to register

Terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina’s Secretary of State and declare their intentions — or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison.

The state’s “Subversive Activities Registration Act,” passed last year and now officially on the books, states that “every member of a subversive organization, or an organization subject to foreign control, every foreign agent and every person who advocates, teaches, advises or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States … shall register with the Secretary of State.”

Egil Skallagrimsson Keeps his Head

Egil Skallagrimsson Keeps his Head is a first theatrical commission for York Archaeological Trust to mark its anniversary JORVIK Viking Festival. The new comedy drama has been written and will be performed by award winning North Country Theatre on 17th and 18th February as part of the week’s celebratory Viking Festival.

LABOUR ATTACK THE FORCES THAT HAVE MADE BRITAIN GREAT

IN A political climate where Labour would far rather spend money on welfare and state bureaucracy than on the country’s defences, the RAF is now in the frontline for butchery, even abolition. This week military chiefs have openly speculated about the end of the air-force, declaring that within a decade it could be merged with either the Army or the Navy.

Search for Columba’s monastery

ARCHAEOLOGISTS are hoping to find the exact location of the original monastery built by St Columba when he arrived in Scotland in AD563.

Bronze brooch rises from the ashes

A 1,400-YEAR-OLD brooch dating from the early Christian period has been discovered in the remnants of a turf fire in a range in north Kerry.

Army may patrol streets to confront terror threat

Britain’s armed forces could be used on a regular basis on the streets of Britain to confront the threat of terrorism, under the terms of a strategic defence review announced yesterday.

Aviation archaeologists’ Londonderry Spitfire search

Two aviation archaeologists are to come to Northern Ireland to search for a lost WWII Spitfire.

Roman skeleton unearthed in Sleaford

Buried deep under the ground for centuries, a long-forgotten Roman skeleton has been unearthed in Lincolnshire.

Greece: New Underwater Archaeological Site Designated Off Polyaigos Island

A shipwreck located off the small uninhabited Cycladic island of Polyaigos in the central Aegean will be designated as an “underwater archaeological site” by Greece’s Culture Ministry, the institution’s representatives announced recently.

Long lost theory on Silbury Hill is uncovered

Letters that lay undiscovered in national archives for more than 230 years suggest that Silbury Hill, the enigmatic man-made mound that stands between Marlborough and Beckhampton, may have originally be constructed around some sort of totem pole.